Re: BUG: Invalid wait context with 5.7-rc2?

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 09:40:47AM -0700, John Stultz wrote:
> Hey Folks,
> 
> Recently, I've seen some occasional hangs earlyish in boot on my
> HiKey960 board with 5.7-rc1/rc2. The kernel isn't totally wedged as I
> will see some kernel messages (firmware loading failures, etc) much
> later if I leave it.  But oddly sysrq doesn't respond.
> 
> Figuring it must be some sort of deadlock, I added LOCKDEP and a bunch
> of other debug options and started booting in a loop. So far I've not
> been able to trigger the original problem, but I do see the following
> every boot:
> 
> Curious if this was already on anyone's radar?

Looks like __queue_work() is attempting to acquire a normal spinlock_t
with interrupts disabled, which -rt doesn't like much.  And I believe
that lockdep has been upgraded to check for this.

Adding Sebastian for his thoughts.

							Thanx, Paul

> thanks
> -john
> 
> [    2.111212] =============================
> [    2.115256] [ BUG: Invalid wait context ]
> [    2.119303] 5.7.0-rc2-00070-g4160a2ecd371 #247 Not tainted
> [    2.124842] -----------------------------
> [    2.128886] swapper/5/0 is trying to lock:
> [    2.133019] ffffff8219c33258 (&pool->lock){..-.}-{3:3}, at:
> __queue_work+0x108/0x7c8
> [    2.140856] other info that might help us debug this:
> [    2.145954] context-{2:2}
> [    2.148593] 1 lock held by swapper/5/0:
> [    2.152461]  #0: ffffffc011d749c8 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:3}, at:
> __queue_work+0x48/0x7c8
> [    2.160814] stack backtrace:
> [    2.163719] CPU: 5 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/5 Not tainted
> 5.7.0-rc2-00070-g4160a2ecd371 #247
> [    2.171891] Hardware name: HiKey960 (DT)
> [    2.175847] Call trace:
> [    2.178315]  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1a8
> [    2.182009]  show_stack+0x18/0x28
> [    2.185354]  dump_stack+0xdc/0x148
> [    2.188786]  __lock_acquire+0x5c0/0x1568
> [    2.192744]  lock_acquire+0x100/0x378
> [    2.196441]  _raw_spin_lock+0x64/0x108
> [    2.200225]  __queue_work+0x108/0x7c8
> [    2.203918]  queue_work_on+0xd0/0xf0
> [    2.207526]  timers_update_nohz+0x28/0x38
> [    2.211572]  tick_setup_sched_timer+0x110/0x178
> [    2.216144]  hrtimer_run_queues+0x114/0x170
> [    2.220365]  run_local_timers+0x30/0x70
> [    2.224234]  update_process_times+0x28/0x58
> [    2.228457]  tick_periodic+0x48/0x148
> [    2.232151]  tick_handle_periodic+0x28/0xc8
> [    2.236375]  arch_timer_handler_phys+0x2c/0x50
> [    2.238026] VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.6.0
> [    2.240862]  handle_percpu_devid_irq+0xe0/0x460
> [    2.240866]  generic_handle_irq+0x30/0x48
> [    2.240868]  __handle_domain_irq+0x88/0xf8
> [    2.240873]  gic_handle_irq+0x5c/0xb0
> [    2.240877]  el1_irq+0xf4/0x1c0
> [    2.240882]  arch_cpu_idle+0x2c/0x230
> [    2.244918] VFS: Dquot-cache hash table entries: 512 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
> [    2.249406]  default_idle_call+0x20/0x44
> [    2.249409]  do_idle+0x1ec/0x2d0
> [    2.249411]  cpu_startup_entry+0x24/0x48
> [    2.249416]  secondary_start_kernel+0x160/0x210