Re: lockdep-related warning in kernel/sched/deadline.c::find_lock_later_rq()

[Wanpeng Li]

On 10/21/15 9:20 PM, Luca Abeni wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> after fixing task migrations for SCHED_DEADLINE, I started to see some
> lockdep-related warnings that look like this:
> [  794.428081] WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at 
> /home/luca/Src/GRUB/linux-reclaiming/kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3407 
> lock_release+0x3f4/0x440()
> [  794.428439] releasing a pinned lock
> [  794.428439] Modules linked in:
> [  794.428439] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.3.0-rc5+ #32
> [  794.428439] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), 
> BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
> [  794.428439]  ffffffff81c946d0 ffff880007b03cc8 ffffffff8135abd2 
> ffff880007b03d10
> [  794.428439]  ffff880007b03d00 ffffffff810546f1 ffff880007b159d8 
> ffffffff81096663
> [  794.428439]  ffff88000754c558 0000000000000001 ffff88000754bd80 
> ffff880007b03d60
> [  794.428439] Call Trace:
> [  794.428439]  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff8135abd2>] dump_stack+0x4b/0x69
> [  794.428439]  [<ffffffff810546f1>] warn_slowpath_common+0x81/0xc0
> [  794.428439]  [<ffffffff81096663>] ? find_lock_later_rq+0x103/0x180
> [  794.428439]  [<ffffffff81054777>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x47/0x50
> [  794.428439]  [<ffffffff8109feb4>] lock_release+0x3f4/0x440
> [  794.428439]  [<ffffffff8194215a>] _raw_spin_unlock+0x1a/0x30
> [  794.428439]  [<ffffffff81096663>] find_lock_later_rq+0x103/0x180
> [  794.428439]  [<ffffffff81096741>] push_dl_task.part.33+0x61/0x190
> [  794.428439]  [<ffffffff81096a94>] dl_task_timer+0x194/0x2e0
> [  794.428439]  [<ffffffff81096900>] ? task_woken_dl+0x60/0x60
> [  794.428439]  [<ffffffff810c3a87>] __hrtimer_run_queues+0x107/0x470
> [  794.428439]  [<ffffffff810c3f82>] ? hrtimer_interrupt+0x82/0x1b0
> [  794.428439]  [<ffffffff810c3fa6>] hrtimer_interrupt+0xa6/0x1b0
> [  794.428439]  [<ffffffff81039570>] local_apic_timer_interrupt+0x30/0x60
> [  794.428439]  [<ffffffff81039ee8>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x38/0x50
> [  794.428439]  [<ffffffff819436c4>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x84/0x90
> [  794.428439]  <EOI>  [<ffffffff8100ea3b>] ? default_idle+0x1b/0x140
> [  794.428439]  [<ffffffff8100ea39>] ? default_idle+0x19/0x140
> [  794.428439]  [<ffffffff8100f25a>] arch_cpu_idle+0xa/0x10
> [  794.428439]  [<ffffffff81097e45>] default_idle_call+0x25/0x40
> [  794.428439]  [<ffffffff810981d0>] cpu_startup_entry+0x310/0x390
> [  794.428439]  [<ffffffff810380c3>] start_secondary+0xf3/0x100
> [  794.428439] ---[ end trace 1d35bf076299f814 ]---
> (this happended on KVM, but I can trigger similar warnings on real 
> hardware too).
>
> This was not happening before my last patch, because push_dl_task() 
> never migrated
> any task, and always returned before calling find_lock_later_rq()...
>
> Now, if I understand correctly the issue is that dl_task_timer() does:
>     rq = task_rq_lock(p, &flags);
> [...]
>     if (has_pushable_dl_tasks(rq))
>         push_dl_task(rq);
> with task_rq_lock() that pins rq->lock and push_tl_task() that invokes
> find_lock_later_rq() that unlocks rq->lock() while it is pinned.
>
> I am not sure about how to fix this issue: as a first try, I did
> diff --git a/kernel/sched/deadline.c b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> index 142df26..5b1ba95 100644
> --- a/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> +++ b/kernel/sched/deadline.c
> @@ -668,8 +668,11 @@ static enum hrtimer_restart dl_task_timer(struct 
> hrtimer *timer)
>       * Queueing this task back might have overloaded rq, check if we 
> need
>       * to kick someone away.
>       */
> -    if (has_pushable_dl_tasks(rq))
> +    if (has_pushable_dl_tasks(rq)) {
> +        lockdep_unpin_lock(&rq->lock);
>          push_dl_task(rq);
> +        lockdep_pin_lock(&rq->lock);
> +    }
>  #endif
>
>  unlock:
>
> This removes the warning, but I am not sure if it is the correct fix 
> (is it
> valid to unpin rq->lock, here?).
>
> If someone can confirm that this is the correct approach, I'll test 
> the patch a
> little bit more and then I'll send a properly signed-off patch; 
> otherwise, if
> someone can suggest the correct approach I'll try it.

wake_up_new_task()
  -> __task_rq_lock()
  -> task_woken()
    -> push_dl/rt_tasks()
      -> push_dl/rt_task()

I think you also should consider the lockdep pin_lock in this path.

Regards,
Wanpeng Li
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