Re: Linux 6.3-rc2

[Guenter Roeck]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 11:21:44AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 13, 2023 at 8:53 AM Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Warning backtraces in calls from ct_nmi_enter(),
> > seen randomly.
> 
> Hmm.
> 
> I suspect this one is a bug in the warning, not in the kernel,
> although I have no idea why it would have started happening now.
> 
> This happens from an irq event, but that check is not *supposed* to
> happen at all from interrupts:
> 
>          * We dont accurately track softirq state in e.g.
>          * hardirq contexts (such as on 4KSTACKS), so only
>          * check if not in hardirq contexts:
> 
> but I think that the ct_nmi_enter() function was called before the
> hardirq count had even been incremented.
> 
> > Sample decoded stack trace:
> 
> Hmm. That WARNING backtrace doesn't actually seem to follow the stack
> chain, so it only shows the irq stack, not where the irq happened.
> 
> > Seen if CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y and CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_IDLE=y.
> > It seems that rcu_read_lock_sched_held() can be true when entering an interrupt.
> >
> > The problem is not seen in v6.2, but occurs randomly on ToT with various
> > arm emulations.
> 
> Strange. I must be wrong about this being a race on the warning
> itself, because that warning has been there for a long long time.
> 
> Adding in some people who might have more of a clue. I'm thinking
> Frederic and Paul might know what's up with the context tracking, but
> I don't see why this would be arm-related or have started recently.
> But I do note that PeterZ did some rcuidle tracing cleanups that do
> end up affecting arm too.
> 
> So adding PeterZ too.
> 
> Original email with full details at
> 
>    https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/d915df60-d06b-47d4-8b47-8aa1bbc2aac7@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
> 
> for added peeps.
> 
> Anybody?
> 

It gets weird. Bisect log below. Reverting the identified patch does
indeed seem to fix the problem, only I have no clue why this might
be the case. The patch looks completely innocent to me. Yet, I can
reliably reproduce the problem with v6.3-rc2, but at least so far I
have not been able to reproduce it with commit f3dd0c53370 reverted
(and I am trying on five different servers in parallel).

Guenter

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