Re: Current mainline git (24e700e291d52bd2) hangs when building e.g. perf

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2017 at 09:27:38AM +0200, Markus Trippelsdorf wrote:
> Current mainline git (24e700e291d52bd2) hangs when building software
> concurrently (for example perf).
> The issue is not 100% reproducible (sometimes building perf succeeds),
> so bisecting will not work.

Sadly I cannot reproduce, I had:

  while :; do make clean; make; done

running on tools/perf for a while, and now have:

  while :; do make O=defconfig-build clean; make O=defconfig-build -j80; done

running, all smooth sailing, although there's the hope that the moment I
hit send on this email the box comes unstuck.

> Magic SysRq key doesn't work and there is nothing in the logs.
> Enabling CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING makes the issue go away.

SysRq not working is suspicious.. and I take it the NMI watchdog also
isn't firing?

> Any ideas on how to debug this further?

So you have a (real) serial line on that box?

Could you try something like:

  debug ignore_loglevel sysrq_always_enabled earlyprintk=serial,ttyS0,115200 force_early_printk

with the below patch applied? That always gives me the most reliable
output.

---
 kernel/printk/printk.c | 119 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 1 file changed, 86 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index fc47863f629c..b17099fbc7ce 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -365,6 +365,75 @@ __packed __aligned(4)
 #endif
 ;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK
+struct console *early_console;
+
+static bool __read_mostly force_early_printk;
+
+static int __init force_early_printk_setup(char *str)
+{
+	force_early_printk = true;
+	return 0;
+}
+early_param("force_early_printk", force_early_printk_setup);
+
+static int early_printk_cpu = -1;
+
+static int early_vprintk(const char *fmt, va_list args)
+{
+	int n, cpu, old;
+	char buf[512];
+
+	cpu = get_cpu();
+	/*
+	 * Test-and-Set inter-cpu spinlock with recursion.
+	 */
+	for (;;) {
+		/*
+		 * c-cas to avoid the exclusive bouncing on spin.
+		 * Depends on the memory barrier implied by cmpxchg
+		 * for ACQUIRE semantics.
+		 */
+		old = READ_ONCE(early_printk_cpu);
+		if (old == -1) {
+			old = cmpxchg(&early_printk_cpu, -1, cpu);
+			if (old == -1)
+				break;
+		}
+		/*
+		 * Allow recursion for interrupts and the like.
+		 */
+		if (old == cpu)
+			break;
+
+		cpu_relax();
+	}
+
+	n = vscnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, args);
+	early_console->write(early_console, buf, n);
+
+	/*
+	 * Unlock -- in case @old == @cpu, this is a no-op.
+	 */
+	smp_store_release(&early_printk_cpu, old);
+	put_cpu();
+
+	return n;
+}
+
+asmlinkage __visible void early_printk(const char *fmt, ...)
+{
+	va_list ap;
+
+	if (!early_console)
+		return;
+
+	va_start(ap, fmt);
+	early_vprintk(fmt, ap);
+	va_end(ap);
+}
+#endif
+
 /*
  * The logbuf_lock protects kmsg buffer, indices, counters.  This can be taken
  * within the scheduler's rq lock. It must be released before calling
@@ -1704,6 +1773,16 @@ asmlinkage int vprintk_emit(int facility, int level,
 	int printed_len = 0;
 	bool in_sched = false;
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_KGDB_KDB
+	if (unlikely(kdb_trap_printk && kdb_printf_cpu < 0))
+		return vkdb_printf(KDB_MSGSRC_PRINTK, fmt, args);
+#endif
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK
+	if (force_early_printk && early_console)
+		return early_vprintk(fmt, args);
+#endif
+
 	if (level == LOGLEVEL_SCHED) {
 		level = LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT;
 		in_sched = true;
@@ -1796,18 +1875,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(printk_emit);
 
 int vprintk_default(const char *fmt, va_list args)
 {
-	int r;
-
-#ifdef CONFIG_KGDB_KDB
-	/* Allow to pass printk() to kdb but avoid a recursion. */
-	if (unlikely(kdb_trap_printk && kdb_printf_cpu < 0)) {
-		r = vkdb_printf(KDB_MSGSRC_PRINTK, fmt, args);
-		return r;
-	}
-#endif
-	r = vprintk_emit(0, LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT, NULL, 0, fmt, args);
-
-	return r;
+	return vprintk_emit(0, LOGLEVEL_DEFAULT, NULL, 0, fmt, args);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vprintk_default);
 
@@ -1838,7 +1906,12 @@ asmlinkage __visible int printk(const char *fmt, ...)
 	int r;
 
 	va_start(args, fmt);
-	r = vprintk_func(fmt, args);
+#ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK
+	if (force_early_printk && early_console)
+		r = vprintk_default(fmt, args);
+	else
+#endif
+		r = vprintk_func(fmt, args);
 	va_end(args);
 
 	return r;
@@ -1875,26 +1948,6 @@ static bool suppress_message_printing(int level) { return false; }
 
 #endif /* CONFIG_PRINTK */
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_EARLY_PRINTK
-struct console *early_console;
-
-asmlinkage __visible void early_printk(const char *fmt, ...)
-{
-	va_list ap;
-	char buf[512];
-	int n;
-
-	if (!early_console)
-		return;
-
-	va_start(ap, fmt);
-	n = vscnprintf(buf, sizeof(buf), fmt, ap);
-	va_end(ap);
-
-	early_console->write(early_console, buf, n);
-}
-#endif
-
 static int __add_preferred_console(char *name, int idx, char *options,
 				   char *brl_options)
 {