From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_MUTT autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97F57C433F5 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:22:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EE2520658 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:22:11 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 4EE2520658 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=arm.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=none smtp.mailfrom=linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1728228AbeH3NXV (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:23:21 -0400 Received: from foss.arm.com ([217.140.101.70]:38208 "EHLO foss.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1728039AbeH3NXV (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2018 09:23:21 -0400 Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.72.51.249]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D2B547A9; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 02:22:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from edgewater-inn.cambridge.arm.com (usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com [10.72.51.249]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id A3DC43F721; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 02:22:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: by edgewater-inn.cambridge.arm.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D02CE1AE3490; Thu, 30 Aug 2018 10:22:20 +0100 (BST) Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2018 10:22:20 +0100 From: Will Deacon To: Jia He Cc: Andrew Morton , broonie@kernel.org, mhocko@suse.cz, sfr@canb.auug.org.au, linux-next@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org, Catalin Marinas , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: mmotm 2018-08-23-17-26 uploaded Message-ID: <20180830092219.GA5352@arm.com> References: <20180824002731.XMNCl%akpm@linux-foundation.org> <049c3fa9-f888-6a2d-413b-872992b269f9@gmail.com> <20180829162213.fa1c7c54c801a036e64bacd2@linux-foundation.org> <7ae81ca1-46ca-af47-8260-c52736aa4453@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 02:26:51PM +0800, Jia He wrote: > On 8/30/2018 9:00 AM, Jia He Wrote: > > On 8/30/2018 7:22 AM, Andrew Morton Wrote: > >> On Tue, 28 Aug 2018 12:20:46 +0800 Jia He wrote: > >>> FYI,I watched a lockdep warning based on your mmotm master branch[1] > >> > >> Thanks. We'll need help from ARM peeps on this please. > >> > >>> [ 6.692731] ------------[ cut here ]------------ > >>> [ 6.696391] DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!current->hardirqs_enabled) [...] > >>> I thought the root cause might be at [2] which seems not in your branch yet. > >>> > >>> [1] http://git.cmpxchg.org/cgit.cgi/linux-mmotm.git > >>> [2] > >>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=efd112 > >> > >> I agree, that doesn't look like the culprit. But something may well > >> have gone wrong in "the recent conversion of the syscall entry/exit > >> code to C". > > Sorry for my unclearly previously description. > > 1. no such lockdep warning in latest mainline kernel git tree. > > 2. there is a 100% producible warning based on your latest mmotm tree > > 3. after applying the commit efd112 based on your mmotm tree, the warning > > disappearred > > > > I will do some further digging to answer your question if no other experts' help > > > 1. in el0_svc->el0_svc_common, without commit efd112 > local_daif_mask(); //disable the irq and trace irq off > flags = current_thread_info()->flags; > if (!has_syscall_work(flags)) > ------------ //1 > return; > If el0_svc_common enters the logic at line 1, the irq is disabled and > current->hardirqs_enabled is 0. > > 2. then it goes to el0_da > in el0_da, it enables the irq without changing current->hardirqs_enabled to 1 > > 3. goes to el0_da->do_mem_abort->... the lockdep warning happens > > The commit efd112 fixes it by invoking trace_hardirqs_off at line 1. > It closes the inconsistency window. Right, we fixed this last month in commit efd112353bf7 ("arm64: svc: Ensure hardirq tracing is updated before return"). Is there anything more you need from us on the Arm side? Will