From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752324Ab2DBNhO (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Apr 2012 09:37:14 -0400 Received: from e39.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.160]:60791 "EHLO e39.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751669Ab2DBNhM (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Apr 2012 09:37:12 -0400 Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 06:09:36 -0700 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: Sergey Senozhatsky Cc: Catalin Marinas , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kmemleak: illegal RCU use assertion error Message-ID: <20120402130936.GF2450@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reply-To: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com References: <20120402070911.GB3464@swordfish> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120402070911.GB3464@swordfish> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 12040213-4242-0000-0000-000001395F66 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 10:09:11AM +0300, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > Hello, > > commit e5601400081651060a59bd1f45f2821bb8e97f95 > Author: Paul E. McKenney > Date: Sat Jan 7 11:03:57 2012 -0800 > > rcu: Simplify offline processing > > Move ->qsmaskinit and blkd_tasks[] manipulation to the CPU_DYING > notifier. This simplifies the code by eliminating a potential > deadlock and by reducing the responsibilities of force_quiescent_state(). > Also rename functions to make their connection to the CPU-hotplug > stages explicit. > > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney > > > introduced WARN_ON_ONCE(cpu_is_offline(smp_processor_id())); to __call_rcu() > function, Paul also added cpu_offline checks to other routines (e.g. callbacks) > in later commits. It happens that kmemleak() triggers one of them. > > During cpu core offline, kfree()->kmemleak_free()->put_object()-->__call_rcu() chain > for struct intel_shared_regs * is executed when no struct users left on this core -- > all CPUs are dead or dying. > > > [ 4703.342462] CPU 3 is now offline > [ 4705.588116] ------------[ cut here ]------------ > [ 4705.588129] WARNING: at kernel/rcutree.c:1823 __call_rcu+0x9d/0x1d2() > [..] > [ 4705.588196] Call Trace: > [ 4705.588207] [] ? synchronize_srcu+0x6/0x17 > [ 4705.588215] [] warn_slowpath_common+0x83/0x9c > [ 4705.588223] [] ? get_object+0x31/0x31 > [ 4705.588229] [] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x1c > [ 4705.588235] [] __call_rcu+0x9d/0x1d2 > [ 4705.588243] [] ? intel_pmu_cpu_dying+0x3b/0x5d > [ 4705.588249] [] call_rcu_sched+0x17/0x19 > [ 4705.588255] [] put_object+0x47/0x4b > [ 4705.588261] [] delete_object_full+0x2a/0x2e > [ 4705.588269] [] kmemleak_free+0x26/0x45 > [ 4705.588274] [] kfree+0x130/0x221 > [ 4705.588280] [] intel_pmu_cpu_dying+0x3b/0x5d > [ 4705.588287] [] x86_pmu_notifier+0xaf/0xb9 > [ 4705.588296] [] notifier_call_chain+0xac/0xd9 > [ 4705.588303] [] __raw_notifier_call_chain+0xe/0x10 > [ 4705.588309] [] __cpu_notify+0x20/0x37 > [ 4705.588314] [] cpu_notify+0x13/0x15 > [ 4705.588320] [] take_cpu_down+0x28/0x2e > [ 4705.588326] [] stop_machine_cpu_stop+0x96/0xf1 > [ 4705.588332] [] cpu_stopper_thread+0xe3/0x183 > [ 4705.588338] [] ? queue_stop_cpus_work+0xd0/0xd0 > [ 4705.588344] [] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x47/0x65 > [ 4705.588353] [] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x119/0x175 > [ 4705.588358] [] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0xf > [ 4705.588364] [] ? cpu_stop_signal_done+0x2c/0x2c > [ 4705.588370] [] kthread+0x8b/0x93 > [ 4705.588378] [] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10 > [ 4705.588385] [] ? retint_restore_args+0x13/0x13 > [ 4705.588391] [] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x5a/0x5a > [ 4705.588397] [] ? gs_change+0x13/0x13 > [ 4705.588400] ---[ end trace 720328982e35a713 ]--- > [ 4705.588507] CPU 2 is now offline > > > My first solution was to return from delete_object() if object deallocation > performed on cpu_is_offline(smp_processor_id()), marking object with special > flag, say OBJECT_ORPHAN. And issue real object_delete() during scan (for example) > when we see OBJECT_ORPHAN object. > That, however, requires to handle special case when cpu core offlined > for small period of time, leading to object insertion error in > create_object(), which either may be handled in 2 possible ways (assuming > that lookup_object() returned OBJECT_ORPHAN): > #1 delete orphaned object and retry with insertion (*) > #2 re-set existing orphan object > > > (*) performing delete_object() from within create_object() requires releasing > of held kmemleak and object locks, which is racy with other create_object() and > any possible scan() activities. > > Yet I'm not exactly sure that option #2 is the correct one. > (I've kind of a patch [not properly tested, etc.] for #2 option). Alternatively, I can make RCU tolerate __call_rcu() from late in the CPU_DYING notifiers without too much trouble. Thanx, Paul