Re: [PATCHv7 6/8] printk: use printk_safe buffers in printk

[Jan Kara]

On Tue 31-01-17 10:27:53, Ross Zwisler wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 7:16 AM, Sergey Senozhatsky
> <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Use printk_safe per-CPU buffers in printk recursion-prone blocks:
> > -- around logbuf_lock protected sections in vprintk_emit() and
> >    console_unlock()
> > -- around down_trylock_console_sem() and up_console_sem()
> >
> > Note that this solution addresses deadlocks caused by printk()
> > recursive calls only. That is vprintk_emit() and console_unlock().
> > The rest will be converted in a followup patch.
> >
> > Another thing to note is that we now keep lockdep enabled in printk,
> > because we are protected against the printk recursion caused by
> > lockdep in vprintk_emit() by the printk-safe mechanism - we first
> > switch to per-CPU buffers and only then access the deadlock-prone
> > locks.
> 
> When booting v4.10-rc5-mmots-2017-01-26-15-49 from the mmots tree, I
> sometimes see the following lockdep splat which I think may be related
> to this commit?

I don't think it is really related. Look at the backtrace:

> [   13.090684]  printk+0x52/0x6e
> [   13.090685]  ? update_load_avg+0x85b/0xb80
> [   13.090685]  __warn+0x39/0xf0
> [   13.090685]  warn_slowpath_fmt+0x5f/0x80
> [   13.090686]  update_load_avg+0x85b/0xb80
> [   13.090686]  ? debug_smp_processor_id+0x17/0x20
> [   13.090686]  detach_task_cfs_rq+0x3f/0x210
> [   13.090687]  task_change_group_fair+0x24/0x100
> [   13.090687]  sched_change_group+0x5f/0x110
> [   13.090687]  sched_move_task+0x53/0x160
> [   13.090687]  cpu_cgroup_attach+0x36/0x70
> [   13.090688]  cgroup_migrate_execute+0x230/0x3f0
> [   13.090688]  cgroup_migrate+0xce/0x140
> [   13.090688]  ? cgroup_migrate+0x5/0x140
> [   13.090689]  cgroup_attach_task+0x27f/0x3e0
> [   13.090689]  ? cgroup_attach_task+0x9b/0x3e0
> [   13.090689]  __cgroup_procs_write+0x30e/0x510
> [   13.090690]  ? __cgroup_procs_write+0x70/0x510
> [   13.090690]  cgroup_procs_write+0x14/0x20
> [   13.090690]  cgroup_file_write+0x44/0x1e0
> [   13.090690]  kernfs_fop_write+0x13c/0x1c0
> [   13.090691]  __vfs_write+0x37/0x160
> [   13.090691]  ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x4a/0x80
> [   13.090691]  ? rcu_sync_lockdep_assert+0x2f/0x60
> [   13.090692]  ? __sb_start_write+0x10d/0x220
> [   13.090692]  ? vfs_write+0x19b/0x1f0
> [   13.090692]  ? security_file_permission+0x3b/0xc0
> [   13.090693]  vfs_write+0xcb/0x1f0
> [   13.090693]  SyS_write+0x58/0xc0

Clearly scheduler code (update_load_avg) calls WARN_ON from scheduler while
holding rq_lock which has been always forbidden. Sergey and Petr were doing
some work to prevent similar deadlocks but I'm not sure how far they
went...

								Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR