On 02/13/2015 06:27 AM, Sam Bobroff wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm receiving this while booting a vanilla 3.19 kernel on a Power 8 machine:
Does the below patch fix the issue ?
From: Preeti U Murthy <pre...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[PATCH] tick/hrtimer-broadcast: Fix a suspicious RCU usage in the tick
broadcast path
---
kernel/time/tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c
b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c
index eb682d5..57b8e32 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast-hrtimer.c
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ static int bc_set_next(ktime_t expires, struct
clock_event_device *bc)
* HRTIMER_RESTART.
*/
if (hrtimer_try_to_cancel(&bctimer) >= 0) {
- hrtimer_start(&bctimer, expires, HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED);
+ RCU_NONIDLE(hrtimer_start(&bctimer, expires,
HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_PINNED));
/* Bind the "device" to the cpu */
bc->bound_on = smp_processor_id();
} else if (bc->bound_on == smp_processor_id()) {
--
Regards
Preeti U Murthy
>
> [ 2.522179] device-mapper: uevent: version 1.0.3
> [ 2.522741] device-mapper: ioctl: 4.29.0-ioctl (2014-10-28)
> initialised: dm-de...@redhat.com
> [ 2.543590]
> [ 2.543630] ===============================
> [ 2.543709] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
> [ 2.543758] 3.19.0samb #2 Not tainted
> [ 2.543802] -------------------------------
> [ 2.543847] include/trace/events/timer.h:186 suspicious
> rcu_dereference_check() usage!
> [ 2.543940]
> [ 2.543940] other info that might help us debug this:
> [ 2.543940]
> [ 2.544035]
> [ 2.544035] RCU used illegally from idle CPU!
> [ 2.544035] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
> [ 2.544154] RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state!
> [ 2.544234] 3 locks held by swapper/1/0:
> [ 2.544284] #0: (clockevents_lock){-.....}, at:
> [<c0000000001a45cc>] .clockevents_notify+0x5c/0x320
> [ 2.544464] #1: (tick_broadcast_lock){-.-...}, at:
> [<c0000000001a7ac4>] .tick_broadcast_oneshot_control+0xe4/0x530
> [ 2.544654] #2: (hrtimer_bases.lock#2){-.-...}, at:
> [<c000000000192694>] .__hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x124/0x6e0
> [ 2.544843]
> [ 2.544843] stack backtrace:
> [ 2.544904] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 3.19.0samb #2
> [ 2.544986] Call Trace:
> [ 2.545023] [c000000fdf6f7770] [c000000000faf118]
> .dump_stack+0x98/0xd4 (unreliable)
> [ 2.545124] [c000000fdf6f77f0] [c000000000152b78]
> .lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x138/0x180
> [ 2.545225] [c000000fdf6f7880] [c000000000191374]
> .enqueue_hrtimer+0x1c4/0x300
> [ 2.545325] [c000000fdf6f7910] [c00000000019276c]
> .__hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x1fc/0x6e0
> [ 2.545425] [c000000fdf6f7a10] [c0000000001a8e90] .bc_set_next+0xc0/0xf0
> [ 2.545510] [c000000fdf6f7aa0] [c0000000001a51f0]
> .clockevents_program_event+0x100/0x1f0
> [ 2.545607] [c000000fdf6f7b40] [c0000000001a6bac]
> .tick_broadcast_set_event+0x6c/0x120
> [ 2.545705] [c000000fdf6f7bd0] [c0000000001a7c94]
> .tick_broadcast_oneshot_control+0x2b4/0x530
> [ 2.545802] [c000000fdf6f7ca0] [c0000000001a4818]
> .clockevents_notify+0x2a8/0x320
> [ 2.545898] [c000000fdf6f7d70] [c0000000001484f4]
> .cpu_startup_entry+0x404/0x730
> [ 2.545995] [c000000fdf6f7ec0] [c000000000044314]
> .start_secondary+0x3a4/0x460
> [ 2.546092] [c000000fdf6f7f90] [c000000000008bfc]
> start_secondary_prolog+0x10/0x14
> [ 2.546555] Registering IBM Power 842 compression driver
>
> Cheers,
> Sam.
>
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