Re: [PATCH rcu 04/32] rcu-tasks: Drive synchronous grace periods from calling task

[Sascha Hauer]

Hi Paul,

On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 03:53:43PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> This commit causes synchronous grace periods to be driven from the task
> invoking synchronize_rcu_*(), allowing these functions to be invoked from
> the mid-boot dead zone extending from when the scheduler was initialized
> to to point that the various RCU tasks grace-period kthreads are spawned.
> This change will allow the self-tests to run in a consistent manner.
> 
> Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>

This commit (appeared in mainline as 4a8cc433b8bf) breaks booting my
ARMv7 based i.MX6ul board when CONFIG_PROVE_RCU is enabled. Reverting
this patch on v6.0-rc3 makes my board boot again. See below for a boot
log. The last message is "Running RCU-tasks wait API self tests", after
that the board hangs. Any idea what goes wrong here?

Sascha

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[    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0
[    0.000000] Linux version 5.19.0-rc3-00004-g4a8cc433b8bf (sha@dude02) (arm-v7a-linux-gnueabihf-gcc (OSELAS.Toolchain-2021.07.0 11-20210703) 11.1.1 20210703, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.36.1) #229 SMP Thu Sep 1 12:00:07 CEST 2022
[    0.000000] CPU: ARMv7 Processor [410fc075] revision 5 (ARMv7), cr=10c5387d
[    0.000000] CPU: div instructions available: patching division code
[    0.000000] CPU: PIPT / VIPT nonaliasing data cache, VIPT aliasing instruction cache
[    0.000000] OF: fdt: Machine model: IDS CU33X
[    0.000000] earlycon: ec_imx6q0 at MMIO 0x02020000 (options '')
[    0.000000] printk: bootconsole [ec_imx6q0] enabled
[    0.000000] Memory policy: Data cache writealloc
[    0.000000] cma: Reserved 64 MiB at 0x8c000000
[    0.000000] Zone ranges:
[    0.000000]   Normal   [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x000000008fffffff]
[    0.000000]   HighMem  empty
[    0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[    0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x000000008fffffff]
[    0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x000000008fffffff]
[    0.000000] percpu: Embedded 17 pages/cpu s38068 r8192 d23372 u69632
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 65024
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: console=ttymxc0,115200n8 earlycon ip=dhcp root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.8.12:/hom
e/sha/nfsroot/cu33x,v3,tcp
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes, linear)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes, linear)
[    0.000000] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
[    0.000000] Memory: 162600K/262144K available (15360K kernel code, 2146K rwdata, 5472K rodata, 1024K init, 6681K b
ss, 34008K reserved, 65536K cma-reserved, 0K highmem)
[    0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[    0.000000] trace event string verifier disabled
[    0.000000] Running RCU self tests
[    0.000000] rcu: Hierarchical RCU implementation.
[    0.000000] rcu:     RCU event tracing is enabled.
[    0.000000] rcu:     RCU lockdep checking is enabled.
[    0.000000] rcu:     RCU restricting CPUs from NR_CPUS=4 to nr_cpu_ids=1.
[    0.000000]  Tracing variant of Tasks RCU enabled.
[    0.000000] rcu: RCU calculated value of scheduler-enlistment delay is 10 jiffies.
[    0.000000] rcu: Adjusting geometry for rcu_fanout_leaf=16, nr_cpu_ids=1
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS: 16, nr_irqs: 16, preallocated irqs: 16
[    0.000000] rcu: srcu_init: Setting srcu_struct sizes based on contention.
[    0.000000] Switching to timer-based delay loop, resolution 41ns
[    0.000003] sched_clock: 32 bits at 24MHz, resolution 41ns, wraps every 89478484971ns
[    0.007810] clocksource: mxc_timer1: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 79635851949 ns
[    0.021748] Console: colour dummy device 80x30
[    0.023488] Lock dependency validator: Copyright (c) 2006 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar
[    0.032009] ... MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES:  8
[    0.035282] ... MAX_LOCK_DEPTH:          48
[    0.039445] ... MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS:        8192
[    0.043886] ... CLASSHASH_SIZE:          4096
[    0.048127] ... MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES:     32768
[    0.052552] ... MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS:      65536
[    0.057069] ... CHAINHASH_SIZE:          32768
[    0.061405]  memory used by lock dependency info: 4061 kB
[    0.066788]  memory used for stack traces: 2112 kB
[    0.071645]  per task-struct memory footprint: 1536 bytes
[    0.077138] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 48.00 BogoMIPS (lpj=240000)
[    0.087384] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[    0.093527] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[    0.099327] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
[    0.116798] CPU: Testing write buffer coherency: ok
[    0.122036] CPU0: update cpu_capacity 1024
[    0.123381] CPU0: thread -1, cpu 0, socket 0, mpidr 80000000
[    0.137390] cblist_init_generic: Setting adjustable number of callback queues.
[    0.142282] cblist_init_generic: Setting shift to 0 and lim to 1.
[    0.149333] Running RCU-tasks wait API self tests

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