[PATCH] cpuidle: psci: Fix suspicious RCU usage

Paul E. McKenney paulmck at kernel.org
Fri Sep 4 10:13:04 EDT 2020


On Fri, Sep 04, 2020 at 08:47:05AM +0200, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> The commit eb1f00237aca ("lockdep,trace: Expose tracepoints"), started to
> expose us for tracepoints. This lead to the following RCU splat on an ARM64
> Qcom board.
> 
> [    5.529634] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
> [    5.537307] sdhci-pltfm: SDHCI platform and OF driver helper
> [    5.541092] 5.9.0-rc3 #86 Not tainted
> [    5.541098] -----------------------------
> [    5.541105] ../include/trace/events/lock.h:37 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
> [    5.541110]
> [    5.541110] other info that might help us debug this:
> [    5.541110]
> [    5.541116]
> [    5.541116] rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
> [    5.541122] RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state!
> [    5.541129] no locks held by swapper/0/0.
> [    5.541134]
> [    5.541134] stack backtrace:
> [    5.541143] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.9.0-rc3 #86
> [    5.541149] Hardware name: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. APQ 8016 SBC (DT)
> [    5.541157] Call trace:
> [    5.568185] sdhci_msm 7864900.sdhci: Got CD GPIO
> [    5.574186]  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1c8
> [    5.574206]  show_stack+0x14/0x20
> [    5.574229]  dump_stack+0xe8/0x154
> [    5.574250]  lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xd4/0xf8
> [    5.574269]  lock_acquire+0x3f0/0x460
> [    5.574292]  _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x80/0xb0
> [    5.574314]  __pm_runtime_suspend+0x4c/0x188
> [    5.574341]  psci_enter_domain_idle_state+0x40/0xa0
> [    5.574362]  cpuidle_enter_state+0xc0/0x610
> [    5.646487]  cpuidle_enter+0x38/0x50
> [    5.650651]  call_cpuidle+0x18/0x40
> [    5.654467]  do_idle+0x228/0x278
> [    5.657678]  cpu_startup_entry+0x24/0x70
> [    5.661153]  rest_init+0x1a4/0x278
> [    5.665061]  arch_call_rest_init+0xc/0x14
> [    5.668272]  start_kernel+0x508/0x540
> 
> Following the path in pm_runtime_put_sync_suspend() from
> psci_enter_domain_idle_state(), it seems like we end up using the RCU.
> Therefore, let's simply silence the splat by informing the RCU about it
> with RCU_NONIDLE.
> 
> Note that, this is a temporary solution. Instead we should strive to avoid
> using RCU_NONIDLE (and similar), but rather push rcu_idle_enter|exit()
> further down, closer to the arch specific code. However, as the CPU PM
> notifiers are also using the RCU, additional rework is needed.
> 
> Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju at linaro.org>
> Signed-off-by: Ulf Hansson <ulf.hansson at linaro.org>

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck at kernel.org>

> ---
>  drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-psci.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-psci.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-psci.c
> index 74463841805f..d928b37718bd 100644
> --- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-psci.c
> +++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-psci.c
> @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ static int psci_enter_domain_idle_state(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
>  		return -1;
>  
>  	/* Do runtime PM to manage a hierarchical CPU toplogy. */
> -	pm_runtime_put_sync_suspend(pd_dev);
> +	RCU_NONIDLE(pm_runtime_put_sync_suspend(pd_dev));
>  
>  	state = psci_get_domain_state();
>  	if (!state)
> @@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ static int psci_enter_domain_idle_state(struct cpuidle_device *dev,
>  
>  	ret = psci_cpu_suspend_enter(state) ? -1 : idx;
>  
> -	pm_runtime_get_sync(pd_dev);
> +	RCU_NONIDLE(pm_runtime_get_sync(pd_dev));
>  
>  	cpu_pm_exit();
>  
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 



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