[PATCH] tracing: Have osnoise_main() add a quiescent state for task rcu
From: Steven Rostedt
Date: Mon Jun 28 2021 - 11:50:02 EST
From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
ftracetest triggered:
INFO: rcu_tasks detected stalls on tasks:
00000000b92b832d: .. nvcsw: 1/1 holdout: 1 idle_cpu: -1/7
task:osnoise/7 state:R running task stack: 0 pid: 2133 ppid: 2 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20
? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20
? trace_hardirqs_on+0x2b/0xe0
? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20
? trace_clock_local+0xc/0x20
? osnoise_main+0x10e/0x450
? trace_softirq_entry_callback+0x50/0x50
? kthread+0x153/0x170
? __kthread_bind_mask+0x60/0x60
? ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
While running osnoise tracer with other tracers that rely on
synchronize_rcu_tasks(), where that just hung.
The reason is that osnoise_main() never schedules out if the interval
is less than 1, and this will cause synchronize_rcu_tasks() to never
return.
Fixes: bce29ac9ce0bb ("trace: Add osnoise tracer")
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
index 38aa5e208ffd..556d530af805 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
@@ -1216,8 +1216,11 @@ static int osnoise_main(void *data)
* differently from hwlat_detector, the osnoise tracer can run
* without a pause because preemption is on.
*/
- if (interval < 1)
+ if (interval < 1) {
+ /* Let synchronize_rcu_tasks() make progress */
+ cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs();
continue;
+ }
if (msleep_interruptible(interval))
break;
--
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