[BUG] rockpro64 board hangs in console_init() after commit 10e14073107d

Alexandru Elisei alexandru.elisei at arm.com
Tue Jun 14 06:23:42 PDT 2022


Hi Petr,

Thank you for having a look.

On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 02:23:32PM +0200, Petr Mladek wrote:
> On Mon 2022-06-13 17:54:35, Alexandru Elisei wrote:
> > [..]
> 
> It is strange. I can't see how consoles are related to filesystem
> writeback.

I am in the same boat.

> 
> Anyway, the commit 10e14073107d ("writeback: Fix inode->i_io_list not
> be protected by inode->i_lock error") modifies some locking and
> might be source of possible deadlocks.
> 
> I am not familiar with the fs code. But I noticed the following.
> The patch adds:
> 
> +               if (!was_dirty) {
> +                       wb = locked_inode_to_wb_and_lock_list(inode);
> +                       spin_lock(&inode->i_lock);
> 
> And locked_inode_to_wb_and_lock_list() is defined this way:
> 
> /**
>  * locked_inode_to_wb_and_lock_list - determine a locked inode's wb and lock it
>  * @inode: inode of interest with i_lock held
>  *
>  * Returns @inode's wb with its list_lock held.  @inode->i_lock must be
>  * held on entry and is released on return.  The returned wb is guaranteed
>  * to stay @inode's associated wb until its list_lock is released.
>  */
> static struct bdi_writeback *
> locked_inode_to_wb_and_lock_list(struct inode *inode)
> 	__releases(&inode->i_lock)
> 	__acquires(&wb->list_lock)
> {
> 	while (true) {
> 		struct bdi_writeback *wb = inode_to_wb(inode);
> 
> 		/*
> 		 * inode_to_wb() association is protected by both
> 		 * @inode->i_lock and @wb->list_lock but list_lock nests
> 		 * outside i_lock.  Drop i_lock and verify that the
> 		 * association hasn't changed after acquiring list_lock.
> 		 */
> 		wb_get(wb);
> 		spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);
> 
> It expects that inode->i_lock is taken before. But the problematic
> commit takes it later. It might mess the lock and cause a deadlock.
> 
> Jack?
> 
> 
> > I tried to do some investigating, it seems that the kernel is stuck at
> > printk.c::console_init() -> drivers/tty/vt/vt.c::con_init() ->
> > printk.c::register_console() -> unregister_console() -> console_lock().
> > This has been determined by adding pr_info statements.
> 
> So, you tried something like:
> 
> int unregister_console(struct console *console)
> {
> 	struct task_struct *thd;
> 	struct console *con;
> 	int res;
> 
> 	con_printk(KERN_INFO, console, "disabled\n");
> [...]
> 
> +	pr_info("Stage 1\n");
> 	console_lock();
> +	pr_info("Stage 2\n");
> 
> [...]
> 
> 	console_unlock();
> +	pr_info("Stage 3\n");
> [...]
> }
> 
> And "Stage 1" was the last message on the console ?

With this change:

diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
index 0ee39cdcfcac..a245982eb8a2 100644
--- a/init/main.c
+++ b/init/main.c
@@ -1057,6 +1057,8 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init __no_sanitize_address start_kernel(void)

        kmem_cache_init_late();

+       lockdep_init();
+
        /*
         * HACK ALERT! This is early. We're enabling the console before
         * we've done PCI setups etc, and console_init() must be aware of
@@ -1067,8 +1069,6 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init __no_sanitize_address start_kernel(void)
                panic("Too many boot %s vars at `%s'", panic_later,
                      panic_param);

-       lockdep_init();
-
        /*
         * Need to run this when irqs are enabled, because it wants
         * to self-test [hard/soft]-irqs on/off lock inversion bugs
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index ea3dd55709e7..aa7684c6745d 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -2705,7 +2705,10 @@ static int console_cpu_notify(unsigned int cpu)
  */
 void console_lock(void)
 {
+       pr_info("before might_sleep()");
        might_sleep();
+       pr_info("before down_console_sem()");
+       pr_info("before down_console_sem()");

        down_console_sem();
        if (console_suspended)
@@ -3508,12 +3511,18 @@ int unregister_console(struct console *console)
        if (console->exit)
                res = console->exit(console);

+       pr_info("Exiting from unregister_console(), res = %d", res);
+       pr_info("Exiting from unregister_console(), res = %d", res);
+
        return res;

 out_disable_unlock:
        console->flags &= ~CON_ENABLED;
        console_unlock();

+       pr_info("Exiting from unregister_console(), res = %d", res);
+       pr_info("Exiting from unregister_console(), res = %d", res);
+
        return res;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_console);

Some of the pr_info statements are duplicated to see the output just before
the console hangs (I assume they're needed to force a buffer flush).

This is what I got:

[    0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x0000000000 [0x410fd034]
[    0.000000] Linux version 5.19.0-rc2-dirty (alex at monolith) (aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 12.1.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.38) #106 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 14 14:03:30 BST 2022
[    0.000000] Machine model: Pine64 RockPro64 v2.0
[    0.000000] efi: UEFI not found.
[    0.000000] earlycon: uart0 at MMIO32 0x00000000ff1a0000 (options '1500000n8')
[    0.000000] printk: before might_sleep()
[    0.000000] printk: before down_console_sem()
[    0.000000] printk: before down_console_sem()
[    0.000000] printk: bootconsole [uart0] enabled
[    0.000000] NUMA: No NUMA configuration found
[    0.000000] NUMA: Faking a node at [mem 0x0000000000200000-0x00000000f7ffffff]
[    0.000000] NUMA: NODE_DATA [mem 0xf77cef40-0xf77d0fff]
[    0.000000] Zone ranges:
[    0.000000]   DMA      [mem 0x0000000000200000-0x00000000f7ffffff]
[    0.000000]   DMA32    empty
[    0.000000]   Normal   empty
[    0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[    0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x0000000000200000-0x00000000f7ffffff]
[    0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000200000-0x00000000f7ffffff]
[    0.000000] On node 0, zone DMA: 512 pages in unavailable ranges
[    0.000000] cma: Reserved 32 MiB at 0x00000000f0000000
[    0.000000] psci: probing for conduit method from DT.
[    0.000000] psci: PSCIv1.1 detected in firmware.
[    0.000000] psci: Using standard PSCI v0.2 function IDs
[    0.000000] psci: MIGRATE_INFO_TYPE not supported.
[    0.000000] psci: SMC Calling Convention v1.2
[    0.000000] percpu: Embedded 30 pages/cpu s82272 r8192 d32416 u122880
[    0.000000] Detected VIPT I-cache on CPU0
[    0.000000] CPU features: detected: GIC system register CPU interface
[    0.000000] CPU features: detected: ARM erratum 845719
[    0.000000] Fallback order for Node 0: 0
[    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 999432
[    0.000000] Policy zone: DMA
[    0.000000] Kernel command line: root=PARTUUID=7f4aab92-69d8-47f3-be10-624da40a71f9 rw earlycon rootwait
[    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes, linear)
[    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes, linear)
[    0.000000] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
[    0.000000] Memory: 3899372K/4061184K available (17600K kernel code, 3994K rwdata, 9648K rodata, 7488K init, 11297K bss, 129044K reserved, 32768K cma-reserved)
[    0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=6, Nodes=1
[    0.000000] trace event string verifier disabled
[    0.000000] Running RCU self tests
[    0.000000] rcu: Preemptible hierarchical RCU implementation.
[    0.000000] rcu: 	RCU event tracing is enabled.
[    0.000000] rcu: 	RCU lockdep checking is enabled.
[    0.000000] rcu: 	RCU restricting CPUs from NR_CPUS=256 to nr_cpu_ids=6.
[    0.000000] 	Trampoline variant of Tasks RCU enabled.
[    0.000000] rcu: RCU calculated value of scheduler-enlistment delay is 25 jiffies.
[    0.000000] rcu: Adjusting geometry for rcu_fanout_leaf=16, nr_cpu_ids=6
[    0.000000] NR_IRQS: 64, nr_irqs: 64, preallocated irqs: 0
[    0.000000] GICv3: GIC: Using split EOI/Deactivate mode
[    0.000000] GICv3: 256 SPIs implemented
[    0.000000] GICv3: 0 Extended SPIs implemented
[    0.000000] Root IRQ handler: gic_handle_irq
[    0.000000] GICv3: GICv3 features: 16 PPIs
[    0.000000] GICv3: CPU0: found redistributor 0 region 0:0x00000000fef00000
[    0.000000] ITS [mem 0xfee20000-0xfee3ffff]
[    0.000000] ITS at 0x00000000fee20000: allocated 65536 Devices @500000 (flat, esz 8, psz 64K, shr 0)
[    0.000000] ITS: using cache flushing for cmd queue
[    0.000000] GICv3: using LPI property table @0x00000000004e0000
[    0.000000] GIC: using cache flushing for LPI property table
[    0.000000] GICv3: CPU0: using allocated LPI pending table @0x00000000004f0000
[    0.000000] GICv3: GIC: PPI partition interrupt-partition-0[0] { /cpus/cpu at 0[0] /cpus/cpu at 1[1] /cpus/cpu at 2[2] /cpus/cpu at 3[3] }
[    0.000000] GICv3: GIC: PPI partition interrupt-partition-1[1] { /cpus/cpu at 100[4] /cpus/cpu at 101[5] }
[    0.000000] rcu: srcu_init: Setting srcu_struct sizes based on contention.
[    0.000000] arch_timer: cp15 timer(s) running at 24.00MHz (phys).
[    0.000000] clocksource: arch_sys_counter: mask: 0xffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x588fe9dc0, max_idle_ns: 440795202592 ns
[    0.000001] sched_clock: 56 bits at 24MHz, resolution 41ns, wraps every 4398046511097ns
[    0.005602] Lock dependency validator: Copyright (c) 2006 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar
[    0.006373] ... MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES:  8
[    0.006789] ... MAX_LOCK_DEPTH:          48
[    0.007212] ... MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS:        8192
[    0.007651] ... CLASSHASH_SIZE:          4096
[    0.008088] ... MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES:     32768
[    0.008535] ... MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS:      65536
[    0.008981] ... CHAINHASH_SIZE:          32768
[    0.009428]  memory used by lock dependency info: 6365 kB
[    0.010018]  memory used for stack traces: 4224 kB
[    0.010500]  per task-struct memory footprint: 1920 bytes
[    0.011059] printk: before might_sleep()
[    0.011079] printk: before down_console_sem()
[    0.011477] printk: before down_console_sem()
[    0.012112] Console: colour dummy device 80x25
[    0.012984] printk: before might_sleep()
[    0.013003] printk: before down_console_sem()
[    0.013399] printk: before down_console_sem()
[    0.013860] printk: console [tty0] enabled
[    0.014986] printk: bootconsole [uart0] disabled
[    0.015564] printk: before might_sleep()
[    0.015582] printk: before down_console_sem()

> 
> Does the system boot when you avoid "earlycon" parameter?

It doesn't boot, it hangs and I don't get any output.

> 
> 
> > I've booted a kernel compiled with CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y, as the offending
> > commit fiddles with locks, but no splat was produced that would explain the
> > hang. I've also tried to boot a v5,19-rc2 kernel on my odroid-c4, the board
> > is booting just fine, so I'm guessing it only affects of subset of arm64
> > boards.
> 
> You might try to switch the order of console_init() and lockdep_init()
> in start_kernel() in init/main.c

Did so above.

Thanks,
Alex



More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list