Re: [PATCH] jump_label: invoke jump_label_test() via early_initcall()

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 04:48:47PM -0500, Jason Baron wrote:
> Fengguang Wu reported that running the rcuperf test during boot can cause
> the jump_label_test() to hit a WARN_ON(). The issue is that the core jump
> label code relies on kernel_text_address() to detect when it can no longer
> update branches that may be contained in __init sections. The
> kernel_text_address() in turn assumes that if the system_state variable is
> greter than or equal to SYSTEM_RUNNING then __init sections are no longer
> valid (since the assumption is that they have been freed). However, when
> rcuperf is setup to run in early boot it can call kernel_power_off() which
> sets the system_state to SYSTEM_POWER_OFF.
> 
> Since rcuperf initialization is invoked via a module_init(), we can make
> the dependency of jump_label_test() needing to complete before rcuperf
> explicit by calling it via early_initcall().
> 
> Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@xxxxxxxxxx>

Looks way simpler than handling this three times in rcuperf, rcutorture,
and locktorture!

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  kernel/jump_label.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/jump_label.c b/kernel/jump_label.c
> index 0bf2e8f5..7c3774a 100644
> --- a/kernel/jump_label.c
> +++ b/kernel/jump_label.c
> @@ -769,7 +769,7 @@ static __init int jump_label_test(void)
> 
>  	return 0;
>  }
> -late_initcall(jump_label_test);
> +early_initcall(jump_label_test);
>  #endif /* STATIC_KEYS_SELFTEST */
> 
>  #endif /* HAVE_JUMP_LABEL */
> -- 
> 2.6.1
>