[gcov_enable_events] WARNING: bad unlock balance detected!

[Fengguang Wu]

Hi,

Here is a warning in v4.14-rc8 -- it's not necessarily a new bug.

[   29.314270] rcu-perf: rcu_perf_writer task started
[   29.329146] audit: initializing netlink subsys (disabled)
[   29.337989] audit: type=2000 audit(1510004207.289:1): state=initialized audit_enabled=0 res=1
[   39.708008] 
[   39.710234] =====================================
[   39.710234] WARNING: bad unlock balance detected!
[   39.710234] 4.14.0-rc8 #1 Not tainted
[   39.710234] -------------------------------------
[   39.710234] swapper/0/1 is trying to release lock (rcu_preempt_state) at:
[   39.710234] [<cb4992e3>] rcu_read_unlock_special+0x6e3/0x800
[   39.710234] but there are no more locks to release!
[   39.710234] 
[   39.710234] other info that might help us debug this:
[   39.710234] 4 locks held by swapper/0/1:
[   39.710234]  #0:  (gcov_lock){+.+.}, at: [<cb5176b3>] gcov_enable_events+0x23/0xc0
[   39.710234]  #1:  (node_lock){+.+.}, at: [<cb518cef>] gcov_event+0x2f/0x7a0
[   39.710234]  #2:  (&sb->s_type->i_mutex_key#3){+.+.}, at: [<cb7d645d>] start_creating+0xcd/0x240
[   39.710234]  #3:  (rcu_read_lock){....}, at: [<cb6e3b20>] __d_lookup+0x0/0x520
[   39.710234] 
[   39.710234] stack backtrace:
[   39.710234] CPU: 1 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.14.0-rc8 #1
[   39.710234] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.10.2-1 04/01/2014
[   39.710234] Call Trace:
[   39.710234]  dump_stack+0x146/0x1e6
[   39.710234]  ? rcu_read_unlock_special+0x6e3/0x800
[   39.710234]  print_unlock_imbalance_bug+0x1cc/0x1f0
[   39.710234]  ? rcu_read_unlock_special+0x6e3/0x800
[   39.710234]  lock_release+0x41b/0xa90
[   39.710234]  ? mark_held_locks+0xd7/0x120
[   39.710234]  ? rcu_read_unlock_special+0x6e3/0x800
[   39.710234]  rt_mutex_unlock+0x3f/0x170
[   39.710234]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x133/0x170
[   39.710234]  rcu_read_unlock_special+0x6e3/0x800
[   39.710234]  ? __lock_is_held+0x58/0xe0
[   39.710234]  __rcu_read_unlock+0xbc/0x180
[   39.710234]  __d_lookup+0x4de/0x520
[   39.710234]  ? __d_lookup_rcu+0x420/0x420
[   39.710234]  ? d_lookup+0x11b/0x240
[   39.710234]  ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x2d2/0x430
[   39.710234]  d_lookup+0x1b7/0x240
[   39.710234]  ? lookup_dcache+0x2f/0x170
[   39.710234]  lookup_dcache+0x2f/0x170
[   39.710234]  __lookup_hash+0x2e/0x1c0
[   39.710234]  lookup_one_len+0x282/0x2a0
[   39.710234]  start_creating+0xfb/0x240
[   39.710234]  __debugfs_create_file+0xc7/0x2f0
[   39.710234]  debugfs_create_file+0x50/0x70
[   39.710234]  new_node+0x1b5/0x350
[   39.710234]  gcov_event+0x344/0x7a0
[   39.710234]  ? gcov_persist_setup+0x90/0x90
[   39.710234]  gcov_enable_events+0x57/0xc0
[   39.710234]  gcov_fs_init+0xf3/0x13d
[   39.710234]  do_one_initcall+0x113/0x2b1
[   39.710234]  ? kernel_init_freeable+0x236/0x3b4
[   39.710234]  kernel_init_freeable+0x260/0x3b4
[   39.710234]  ? rest_init+0x440/0x440
[   39.710234]  kernel_init+0x1e/0x290
[   39.710234]  ? schedule_tail_wrapper+0x9/0xc
[   39.710234]  ret_from_fork+0x19/0x24
[   40.559851] rcu-perf: rcu_perf_writer 1 has 100 measurements
[   40.567049] rcu-perf: rcu_perf_writer 0 has 100 measurements
[   40.617286] Dumping ftrace buffer:
[   40.620255]    (ftrace buffer empty)
[   40.628854] rcu-perf: Test complete

Thanks,
Fengguang