[PATCH 5/5] rcutorture: Add atomic SRCU cross-CPU IRQ context mismatch test

From: Kunwu Chan

Date: Mon Sep 14 2026 - 05:56:17 EST


Add testtype 7 to verify that lockdep detects an IRQ-context
mismatch when an atomic SRCU read-side critical section is held
with IRQs enabled on one CPU and synchronize_srcu_atomic() is
called from an IPI handler on another CPU.

This covers the cross-CPU case that cannot be detected by
checking the current task's held locks.

Co-developed-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@xxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 27 +++++++++++++-
.../selftests/rcutorture/bin/srcu_lockdep.sh | 36 +++++++++++++++++++
2 files changed, 62 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
index ac9c726cb391..6f5a1d635f94 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
@@ -4695,6 +4695,8 @@ DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU_ATOMIC(srcu7_atomic);
DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU_ATOMIC(srcu8_atomic);
DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU_ATOMIC(srcu9_atomic);

+DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU_ATOMIC(srcu_irq);
+
static int srcu_lockdep_next(const char *f, const char *fl, const char *fs, const char *fu, int i,
int cyclelen, int deadlock)
{
@@ -4709,6 +4711,11 @@ static int srcu_lockdep_next(const char *f, const char *fl, const char *fs, cons
return j;
}

+static void srcu_sync_irq(void *unused)
+{
+ synchronize_srcu_atomic(&srcu_irq);
+}
+
// Test lockdep on SRCU-based deadlock scenarios.
static void rcu_torture_init_srcu_lockdep(void)
{
@@ -4892,13 +4899,31 @@ static void rcu_torture_init_srcu_lockdep(void)
return;
}

+ if (testtype == 7) {
+ int cpu;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < cyclelen; i++) {
+ idx = srcu_read_lock_atomic(&srcu_irq);
+ cpu = cpumask_any_but(cpu_online_mask,
+ smp_processor_id());
+ if (cpu < nr_cpu_ids) {
+ pr_info("%s: CPU%d sending IPI to CPU%d\n",
+ __func__, smp_processor_id(), cpu);
+ smp_call_function_single(cpu, srcu_sync_irq,
+ NULL, 1);
+ }
+ srcu_read_unlock_atomic(&srcu_irq, idx);
+ }
+ return;
+ }
+
err_out:
pr_info("%s: test_srcu_lockdep = %05d does nothing.\n", __func__, test_srcu_lockdep);
pr_info("%s: test_srcu_lockdep = DNNL.\n", __func__);
pr_info("%s: D: Deadlock if nonzero.\n", __func__);
pr_info("%s: NN: Test number, 0=SRCU, 1=SRCU/mutex, 2=SRCU/rwsem, 3=SRCU/Tasks Trace RCU, 4=SRCU_ATOMIC, ",
__func__);
- pr_cont("5=SRCU_ATOMIC/raw_spinlock, 6=synchronize_srcu_atomic inside rcu_read_lock.\n");
+ pr_cont("5=SRCU_ATOMIC/raw_spinlock, 6=synchronize_srcu_atomic inside rcu_read_lock, 7=atomic SRCU cross-CPU IRQ context mismatch.\n");
pr_info("%s: L: Cycle length.\n", __func__);
if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU))
pr_info("%s: NN=3 disallowed because kernel is built with CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU=n\n", __func__);
diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/srcu_lockdep.sh b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/srcu_lockdep.sh
index 3acaffe52c78..c29a39f7d891 100755
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/srcu_lockdep.sh
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/srcu_lockdep.sh
@@ -115,6 +115,42 @@ do
fi
done

+# Verify that synchronize_srcu_atomic() detects IRQ context mismatch
+# when SRCU reader previously ran with IRQs enabled.
+for c in 1 2 3
+do
+ err=
+ val=$((1000+7*10+c))
+ tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh --allcpus --duration 5s \
+ --configs "SRCU-P" \
+ --kconfig "CONFIG_FORCE_NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE=y" \
+ --bootargs "rcutorture.test_srcu_lockdep=$val" \
+ --trust-make --datestamp "$ds/$val" > "$T/kvm.sh.out" 2>&1
+ ret=$?
+ mv "$T/kvm.sh.out" "$RCUTORTURE/res/$ds/$val"
+ if ! grep -q '^CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y' .config
+ then
+ echo "rcu_torture_init_srcu_lockdep:Error: CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING" \
+ "disabled in rcutorture SRCU-P scenario"
+ err=1
+ fi
+ if test "$ret" -eq 0
+ then
+ err=1
+ echo -n Missing lockdep warning for > "$RCUTORTURE/res/$ds/$val/kvm.sh.err"
+ elif ! grep -q "inconsistent {HARDIRQ-ON-R}" "$RCUTORTURE/res/$ds/$val/SRCU-P/console.log"
+ then
+ err=1
+ echo -n Missing lockdep warning for > "$RCUTORTURE/res/$ds/$val/kvm.sh.err"
+ fi
+ if test -n "$err"
+ then
+ grep "rcu_torture_init_srcu_lockdep: test_srcu_lockdep = " "$RCUTORTURE/res/$ds/$val/SRCU-P/console.log" | sed -e 's/^.*rcu_torture_init_srcu_lockdep://' >> "$RCUTORTURE/res/$ds/$val/kvm.sh.err"
+ cat "$RCUTORTURE/res/$ds/$val/kvm.sh.err"
+ nerrs=$((nerrs+1))
+ fi
+done
+
# Test lockdep-enabled testing of mixed SRCU readers.
for val in 0x1 0xf
do
--
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