Re: [PATCH 1/2] printk: Add new pr_*_deferred_once() variants

[Qais Yousef]

On 01/11/22 15:40, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 12:04:01PM +0106, John Ogness wrote:
> > On 2021-01-25, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 23, 2021 at 11:37:40PM +0000, Qais Yousef wrote:
> 
> ...
> 
> > > We should be very close to printk not needing this anymore, printk
> > > people?
> > 
> > It will disappear once console printing threads are introduced. We
> > probably still have a few kernel releases until we see that. First we
> > need to finish merging full lockless access, remove the safe buffers,
> > and merge the atomic consoles.
> 
> Where are we now at this?

I think this answer from Peter then the summarizes the problem

	https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/YBBCDw8tBpgMSY3L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/

"""
Note that this is CONFIG_PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING=y which specifically
checks for this.

On current (mainline) kernel configs this is not yet a problem, but the
moment we do land PREEMPT_RT this order will be problematic.
"""

PREEMPT_RT patchset has fixes that should land on mainline eventually and AFAIU
this is a red herring on mainline. Although this might be a new call site that
breaks the rule for PREEMPT_RT and they'd want to know about it.

I wonder if CONFIG_PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING should depend on PREEMPT_RT until the
fixes land - assuming they haven't, I'm not following its state.

HTH.

Cheers

--
Qais Yousef

> 
> I almost easily can reproduce the below at boot time for last several releases
> 
>  cblist_init_generic: Setting adjustable number of callback queues.
> 
>  =============================
>  [ BUG: Invalid wait context ]
>  5.16.0-next-20220111-00101-gb3e9f395c6f1 #28 Not tainted
>  -----------------------------
>  swapper/0/1 is trying to lock:
>  ffffffffb3dce758 (&port_lock_key){....}-{3:3}, at: serial8250_console_write+0x3a8/0x480
>  other info that might help us debug this:
>  context-{5:5}
>  3 locks held by swapper/0/1:
>   #0: ffffffffb2955e08 (rcu_tasks.cbs_gbl_lock){....}-{2:2}, at: cblist_init_generic.constprop.0+0x14/0x1e0
>   #1: ffffffffb2953ec0 (console_lock){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: _printk+0x53/0x6a
>   #2: ffffffffb2873ca0 (console_owner){....}-{0:0}, at: console_unlock+0x157/0x580
>  stack backtrace:
>  CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.16.0-next-20220111-00101-gb3e9f395c6f1 #28
>  Hardware name: Intel Corporation CHERRYVIEW D0 PLATFORM/Braswell CRB, BIOS BRAS.X64.B082.R00.1507270557 07/27/2015
>  Call Trace:
>   <TASK>
>   dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x7d
>   __lock_acquire.cold+0xca/0x2e8
>   ? stack_trace_save+0x46/0x70
>   lock_acquire+0xd2/0x300
>   ? serial8250_console_write+0x3a8/0x480
>   _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x39/0x50
>   ? serial8250_console_write+0x3a8/0x480
>   serial8250_console_write+0x3a8/0x480
>   console_unlock+0x397/0x580
>   vprintk_emit+0x99/0x2e0
>   _printk+0x53/0x6a
>   cblist_init_generic.constprop.0.cold+0x24/0x31
>   rcu_init_tasks_generic+0x5/0xd9
>   kernel_init_freeable+0x14d/0x294
>   ? rest_init+0x250/0x250
>   kernel_init+0x11/0x110
>   ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
>   </TASK>
>  cblist_init_generic: Setting shift to 2 and lim to 1.
> 
> -- 
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko
> 
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