Re: Regression with suspicious RCU usage splats with cpu_pm change

[Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>]

On 07/13/2017 08:43 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 01:50:26PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 11:43 AM, Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 07/13/2017 03:07 PM, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Looks like next-20170713 gives me a bunch of "suspicious RCU usage"
>>>> splats with cpuidle_coupled on duovero, see below. I bisected it down
>>>> to commit 2f027e003d05 ("cpu_pm: replace raw_notifier with
>>>> atomic_notifier").
>>
>> OK, so I'm dropping this commit.
> 
> You can surround idle-loop RCU-reading code with RCU_NONIDLE().
> This will tell RCU to pay attention even though the CPU is otherwise
> idle.
> 
> 							Thanx, Paul
> 


Thanks a lot, Paul! :)
I reused the rcu_irq_enter_irqson() from RCU_NONIDLE to avoid this issue. 
It works fine.

Tony, Could you like to give a tested-by if this patch works for you.

Sebastian,
May I keep your acked-by with new fixed patch, since the main thing remained? :)


Thanks everyone!

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>From c8ec81808d46a78e58267f6a23f2b58b48ed5725 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 21:49:23 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] cpu_pm: replace raw_notifier to atomic_notifier

This patch replace a rwlock and raw notifier by atomic notifier which
protected by spin_lock and rcu.

The first to reason to have this replace is due to a 'scheduling while
 atomic' bug of RT kernel on arm/arm64 platform. On arm/arm64, rwlock
cpu_pm_notifier_lock in cpu_pm cause a potential schedule after irq
disable in idle call chain:

cpu_startup_entry
  cpu_idle_loop
    local_irq_disable()
    cpuidle_idle_call
      call_cpuidle
        cpuidle_enter
          cpuidle_enter_state
            ->enter :arm_enter_idle_state
              cpu_pm_enter/exit
                CPU_PM_CPU_IDLE_ENTER
                  read_lock(&cpu_pm_notifier_lock); <-- sleep in idle
                     __rt_spin_lock();
                        schedule();

The kernel panic is here:
[    4.609601] BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/1/0/0x00000002
[    4.609608] [<ffff0000086fae70>] arm_enter_idle_state+0x18/0x70
[    4.609614] Modules linked in:
[    4.609615] [<ffff0000086f9298>] cpuidle_enter_state+0xf0/0x218
[    4.609620] [<ffff0000086f93f8>] cpuidle_enter+0x18/0x20
[    4.609626] Preemption disabled at:
[    4.609627] [<ffff0000080fa234>] call_cpuidle+0x24/0x40
[    4.609635] [<ffff000008882fa4>] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x1c/0x28
[    4.609639] [<ffff0000080fa49c>] cpu_startup_entry+0x154/0x1f8
[    4.609645] [<ffff00000808e004>] secondary_start_kernel+0x15c/0x1a0

Daniel Lezcano said this notification is needed on arm/arm64 platforms.
Sebastian suggested using atomic_notifier instead of rwlock, which is not
only removing the sleeping in idle, but also getting better latency
improvement.

Tony Lezcano found a miss use that rcu_read_lock used after rcu_idle_enter
Paul E. McKenney suggested trying RCU_NONIDLE.

Thanks everyone! :)

This patch passed Fengguang's 0day testing.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@linaro.org>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael@kernel.org>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
---
 kernel/cpu_pm.c | 50 +++++++++++++-------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/cpu_pm.c b/kernel/cpu_pm.c
index 009cc9a..67b02e1 100644
--- a/kernel/cpu_pm.c
+++ b/kernel/cpu_pm.c
@@ -22,15 +22,21 @@
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <linux/syscore_ops.h>
 
-static DEFINE_RWLOCK(cpu_pm_notifier_lock);
-static RAW_NOTIFIER_HEAD(cpu_pm_notifier_chain);
+static ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(cpu_pm_notifier_chain);
 
 static int cpu_pm_notify(enum cpu_pm_event event, int nr_to_call, int *nr_calls)
 {
 	int ret;
 
-	ret = __raw_notifier_call_chain(&cpu_pm_notifier_chain, event, NULL,
+	/*
+	 * __atomic_notifier_call_chain has a RCU read critical section, which
+	 * could be disfunctional in cpu idle. Copy RCU_NONIDLE code to let
+	 * RCU know this.
+	 */
+	rcu_irq_enter_irqson();
+	ret = __atomic_notifier_call_chain(&cpu_pm_notifier_chain, event, NULL,
 		nr_to_call, nr_calls);
+	rcu_irq_exit_irqson();
 
 	return notifier_to_errno(ret);
 }
@@ -47,14 +53,7 @@ static int cpu_pm_notify(enum cpu_pm_event event, int nr_to_call, int *nr_calls)
  */
 int cpu_pm_register_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
 {
-	unsigned long flags;
-	int ret;
-
-	write_lock_irqsave(&cpu_pm_notifier_lock, flags);
-	ret = raw_notifier_chain_register(&cpu_pm_notifier_chain, nb);
-	write_unlock_irqrestore(&cpu_pm_notifier_lock, flags);
-
-	return ret;
+	return atomic_notifier_chain_register(&cpu_pm_notifier_chain, nb);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_pm_register_notifier);
 
@@ -69,14 +68,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_pm_register_notifier);
  */
 int cpu_pm_unregister_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
 {
-	unsigned long flags;
-	int ret;
-
-	write_lock_irqsave(&cpu_pm_notifier_lock, flags);
-	ret = raw_notifier_chain_unregister(&cpu_pm_notifier_chain, nb);
-	write_unlock_irqrestore(&cpu_pm_notifier_lock, flags);
-
-	return ret;
+	return atomic_notifier_chain_unregister(&cpu_pm_notifier_chain, nb);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_pm_unregister_notifier);
 
@@ -100,7 +92,6 @@ int cpu_pm_enter(void)
 	int nr_calls;
 	int ret = 0;
 
-	read_lock(&cpu_pm_notifier_lock);
 	ret = cpu_pm_notify(CPU_PM_ENTER, -1, &nr_calls);
 	if (ret)
 		/*
@@ -108,7 +99,6 @@ int cpu_pm_enter(void)
 		 * PM entry who are notified earlier to prepare for it.
 		 */
 		cpu_pm_notify(CPU_PM_ENTER_FAILED, nr_calls - 1, NULL);
-	read_unlock(&cpu_pm_notifier_lock);
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -128,13 +118,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_pm_enter);
  */
 int cpu_pm_exit(void)
 {
-	int ret;
-
-	read_lock(&cpu_pm_notifier_lock);
-	ret = cpu_pm_notify(CPU_PM_EXIT, -1, NULL);
-	read_unlock(&cpu_pm_notifier_lock);
-
-	return ret;
+	return cpu_pm_notify(CPU_PM_EXIT, -1, NULL);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_pm_exit);
 
@@ -159,7 +143,6 @@ int cpu_cluster_pm_enter(void)
 	int nr_calls;
 	int ret = 0;
 
-	read_lock(&cpu_pm_notifier_lock);
 	ret = cpu_pm_notify(CPU_CLUSTER_PM_ENTER, -1, &nr_calls);
 	if (ret)
 		/*
@@ -167,7 +150,6 @@ int cpu_cluster_pm_enter(void)
 		 * PM entry who are notified earlier to prepare for it.
 		 */
 		cpu_pm_notify(CPU_CLUSTER_PM_ENTER_FAILED, nr_calls - 1, NULL);
-	read_unlock(&cpu_pm_notifier_lock);
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -190,13 +172,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_cluster_pm_enter);
  */
 int cpu_cluster_pm_exit(void)
 {
-	int ret;
-
-	read_lock(&cpu_pm_notifier_lock);
-	ret = cpu_pm_notify(CPU_CLUSTER_PM_EXIT, -1, NULL);
-	read_unlock(&cpu_pm_notifier_lock);
-
-	return ret;
+	return cpu_pm_notify(CPU_CLUSTER_PM_EXIT, -1, NULL);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_cluster_pm_exit);
 
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