[PATCH v2 1/2] coresight: trbe: Fix TRBE potential sleep in atomic context

[Suzuki K Poulose]

On 17/08/2023 08:13, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Hello Junhao,
> 
> On 8/16/23 19:40, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
>> From: Junhao He <hejunhao3 at huawei.com>
>>
>> smp_call_function_single() will allocate an IPI interrupt vector to
>> the target processor and send a function call request to the interrupt
>> vector. After the target processor receives the IPI interrupt, it will
>> execute arm_trbe_remove_coresight_cpu() call request in the interrupt
>> handler.
>>
>> According to the device_unregister() stack information, if other process
>> is useing the device, the down_write() may sleep, and trigger deadlocks
>> or unexpected errors.
>>
>>    arm_trbe_remove_coresight_cpu
>>      coresight_unregister
>>        device_unregister
>>          device_del
>>            kobject_del
>>              __kobject_del
>>                sysfs_remove_dir
>>                  kernfs_remove
>>                    down_write ---------> it may sleep
> 
> But how did you really detect this problem ? Does this show up as an warning when
> you enable lockdep debug ? OR it really happened during a real workload execution
> followed by TRBE module unload. Although the problem seems plausible (which needs
> fixing), just wondering how did we trigger this.

I was able to trigger this with just :

modprobe coresight-trbe; modprobe -r coresight-trbe;

With all the bells and whistles enabled in the kernel.

Suzuki