powerpc 5.10-rcN boot failures with RCU_SCALE_TEST=m
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Thu Dec 3 17:22:20 AEDT 2020
Uladzislau Rezki <urezki at gmail.com> writes:
> On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 01:03:32AM +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
...
>>
>> The SMP bringup stalls because _cpu_up() is blocked trying to take
>> cpu_hotplug_lock for writing:
>>
>> [ 401.403132][ T0] task:swapper/0 state:D stack:12512 pid: 1 ppid: 0 flags:0x00000800
>> [ 401.403502][ T0] Call Trace:
>> [ 401.403907][ T0] [c0000000062c37d0] [c0000000062c3830] 0xc0000000062c3830 (unreliable)
>> [ 401.404068][ T0] [c0000000062c39b0] [c000000000019d70] __switch_to+0x2e0/0x4a0
>> [ 401.404189][ T0] [c0000000062c3a10] [c000000000b87228] __schedule+0x288/0x9b0
>> [ 401.404257][ T0] [c0000000062c3ad0] [c000000000b879b8] schedule+0x68/0x120
>> [ 401.404324][ T0] [c0000000062c3b00] [c000000000184ad4] percpu_down_write+0x164/0x170
>> [ 401.404390][ T0] [c0000000062c3b50] [c000000000116b68] _cpu_up+0x68/0x280
>> [ 401.404475][ T0] [c0000000062c3bb0] [c000000000116e70] cpu_up+0xf0/0x140
>> [ 401.404546][ T0] [c0000000062c3c30] [c00000000011776c] bringup_nonboot_cpus+0xac/0xf0
>> [ 401.404643][ T0] [c0000000062c3c80] [c000000000eea1b8] smp_init+0x40/0xcc
>> [ 401.404727][ T0] [c0000000062c3ce0] [c000000000ec43dc] kernel_init_freeable+0x1e0/0x3a0
>> [ 401.404799][ T0] [c0000000062c3db0] [c000000000011ec4] kernel_init+0x24/0x150
>> [ 401.404958][ T0] [c0000000062c3e20] [c00000000000daf0] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x6c
>>
>> It can't get it because kprobe_optimizer() has taken it for read and is now
>> blocked waiting for synchronize_rcu_tasks():
>>
>> [ 401.418808][ T0] task:kworker/0:1 state:D stack:13392 pid: 12 ppid: 2 flags:0x00000800
>> [ 401.418951][ T0] Workqueue: events kprobe_optimizer
>> [ 401.419078][ T0] Call Trace:
>> [ 401.419121][ T0] [c0000000062ef650] [c0000000062ef710] 0xc0000000062ef710 (unreliable)
>> [ 401.419213][ T0] [c0000000062ef830] [c000000000019d70] __switch_to+0x2e0/0x4a0
>> [ 401.419281][ T0] [c0000000062ef890] [c000000000b87228] __schedule+0x288/0x9b0
>> [ 401.419347][ T0] [c0000000062ef950] [c000000000b879b8] schedule+0x68/0x120
>> [ 401.419415][ T0] [c0000000062ef980] [c000000000b8e664] schedule_timeout+0x2a4/0x340
>> [ 401.419484][ T0] [c0000000062efa80] [c000000000b894ec] wait_for_completion+0x9c/0x170
>> [ 401.419552][ T0] [c0000000062efae0] [c0000000001ac85c] __wait_rcu_gp+0x19c/0x210
>> [ 401.419619][ T0] [c0000000062efb40] [c0000000001ac90c] synchronize_rcu_tasks_generic+0x3c/0x70
>> [ 401.419690][ T0] [c0000000062efbe0] [c00000000022a3dc] kprobe_optimizer+0x1dc/0x470
>> [ 401.419757][ T0] [c0000000062efc60] [c000000000136684] process_one_work+0x2f4/0x530
>> [ 401.419823][ T0] [c0000000062efd20] [c000000000138d28] worker_thread+0x78/0x570
>> [ 401.419891][ T0] [c0000000062efdb0] [c000000000142424] kthread+0x194/0x1a0
>> [ 401.419976][ T0] [c0000000062efe20] [c00000000000daf0] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x6c
>>
>> But why is the synchronize_rcu_tasks() not completing?
>>
> I think that it is because RCU is not fully initialized by that time.
Yeah that would explain it :)
> The 36dadef23fcc ("kprobes: Init kprobes in early_initcall") patch
> switches to early_initcall() that has a higher priority sequence than
> core_initcall() that is used to complete an RCU setup in the rcu_set_runtime_mode().
I was looking at debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled(), which is:
noinstr int notrace debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled(void)
{
return rcu_scheduler_active != RCU_SCHEDULER_INACTIVE && debug_locks &&
current->lockdep_recursion == 0;
}
That is not firing any warnings for me because rcu_scheduler_active is:
(gdb) p/x rcu_scheduler_active
$1 = 0x1
Which is:
#define RCU_SCHEDULER_INIT 1
But that's different to RCU_SCHEDULER_RUNNING, which is set in
rcu_set_runtime_mode() as you mentioned:
static int __init rcu_set_runtime_mode(void)
{
rcu_test_sync_prims();
rcu_scheduler_active = RCU_SCHEDULER_RUNNING;
kfree_rcu_scheduler_running();
rcu_test_sync_prims();
return 0;
}
The comment on rcu_scheduler_active implies that once we're at
RCU_SCHEDULER_INIT things should work:
/*
* The rcu_scheduler_active variable is initialized to the value
* RCU_SCHEDULER_INACTIVE and transitions RCU_SCHEDULER_INIT just before the
* first task is spawned. So when this variable is RCU_SCHEDULER_INACTIVE,
* RCU can assume that there is but one task, allowing RCU to (for example)
* optimize synchronize_rcu() to a simple barrier(). When this variable
* is RCU_SCHEDULER_INIT, RCU must actually do all the hard work required
* to detect real grace periods. This variable is also used to suppress
* boot-time false positives from lockdep-RCU error checking. Finally, it
* transitions from RCU_SCHEDULER_INIT to RCU_SCHEDULER_RUNNING after RCU
* is fully initialized, including all of its kthreads having been spawned.
*/
So I'm not sure, the comments and the debug checks imply that it is OK
for kprobes to be using RCU this early.
I guess I'll keep digging.
cheers
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