Re: [PATCH] ACPI: PPTT: Fix to avoid sleep in the atomic context when PPTT is absent

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 2:34 PM Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Tested-by: Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@xxxxxxx>
>
> On 3/8/23 12:26, Sudeep Holla wrote:
> > Commit 0c80f9e165f8 ("ACPI: PPTT: Leave the table mapped for the runtime usage")
> > enabled to map PPTT once on the first invocation of acpi_get_pptt() and
> > never unmapped the same allowing it to be used at runtime with out the
> > hassle of mapping and unmapping the table. This was needed to fetch LLC
> > information from the PPTT in the cpuhotplug path which is executed in
> > the atomic context as the acpi_get_table() might sleep waiting for a
> > mutex.
> >
> > However it missed to handle the case when there is no PPTT on the system
> > which results in acpi_get_pptt() being called from all the secondary
> > CPUs attempting to fetch the LLC information in the atomic context
> > without knowing the absence of PPTT resulting in the splat like below:
> >
> >   | BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/semaphore.c:164
> >   | in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 0, name: swapper/1
> >   | preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
> >   | RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
> >   | no locks held by swapper/1/0.
> >   | irq event stamp: 0
> >   | hardirqs last  enabled at (0): 0x0
> >   | hardirqs last disabled at (0): copy_process+0x61c/0x1b40
> >   | softirqs last  enabled at (0): copy_process+0x61c/0x1b40
> >   | softirqs last disabled at (0): 0x0
> >   | CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 6.3.0-rc1 #1
> >   | Call trace:
> >   |  dump_backtrace+0xac/0x138
> >   |  show_stack+0x30/0x48
> >   |  dump_stack_lvl+0x60/0xb0
> >   |  dump_stack+0x18/0x28
> >   |  __might_resched+0x160/0x270
> >   |  __might_sleep+0x58/0xb0
> >   |  down_timeout+0x34/0x98
> >   |  acpi_os_wait_semaphore+0x7c/0xc0
> >   |  acpi_ut_acquire_mutex+0x58/0x108
> >   |  acpi_get_table+0x40/0xe8
> >   |  acpi_get_pptt+0x48/0xa0
> >   |  acpi_get_cache_info+0x38/0x140
> >   |  init_cache_level+0xf4/0x118
> >   |  detect_cache_attributes+0x2e4/0x640
> >   |  update_siblings_masks+0x3c/0x330
> >   |  store_cpu_topology+0x88/0xf0
> >   |  secondary_start_kernel+0xd0/0x168
> >   |  __secondary_switched+0xb8/0xc0
> >
> > Update acpi_get_pptt() to consider the fact that PPTT is once checked and
> > is not available on the system and return NULL avoiding any attempts to
> > fetch PPTT and thereby avoiding any possible sleep waiting for a mutex
> > in the atomic context.
> >
> > Fixes: 0c80f9e165f8 ("ACPI: PPTT: Leave the table mapped for the runtime usage")
> > Reported-by: Aishwarya TCV <aishwarya.tcv@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Pierre Gondois <pierre.gondois@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Sudeep Holla <sudeep.holla@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >   drivers/acpi/pptt.c | 5 ++++-
> >   1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/pptt.c b/drivers/acpi/pptt.c
> > index 10975bb603fb..a35dd0e41c27 100644
> > --- a/drivers/acpi/pptt.c
> > +++ b/drivers/acpi/pptt.c
> > @@ -536,16 +536,19 @@ static int topology_get_acpi_cpu_tag(struct acpi_table_header *table,
> >   static struct acpi_table_header *acpi_get_pptt(void)
> >   {
> >       static struct acpi_table_header *pptt;
> > +     static bool is_pptt_checked;
> >       acpi_status status;
> >
> >       /*
> >        * PPTT will be used at runtime on every CPU hotplug in path, so we
> >        * don't need to call acpi_put_table() to release the table mapping.
> >        */
> > -     if (!pptt) {
> > +     if (!pptt && !is_pptt_checked) {
> >               status = acpi_get_table(ACPI_SIG_PPTT, 0, &pptt);
> >               if (ACPI_FAILURE(status))
> >                       acpi_pptt_warn_missing();
> > +
> > +             is_pptt_checked = true;
> >       }
> >
> >       return pptt;

Applied as 6.3-rc material, thanks!