Commit 058ebd0e authored Jul 12, 2013 by Peter Zijlstra Committed by Ingo Molnar Jul 12, 2013

perf: Fix perf_lock_task_context() vs RCU



Jiri managed to trigger this warning:

 [] ======================================================
 [] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
 [] 3.10.0+ #228 Tainted: G        W
 [] -------------------------------------------------------
 [] p/6613 is trying to acquire lock:
 []  (rcu_node_0){..-...}, at: [<ffffffff810ca797>] rcu_read_unlock_special+0xa7/0x250
 []
 [] but task is already holding lock:
 []  (&ctx->lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff810f2879>] perf_lock_task_context+0xd9/0x2c0
 []
 [] which lock already depends on the new lock.
 []
 [] the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
 []
 [] -> #4 (&ctx->lock){-.-...}:
 [] -> #3 (&rq->lock){-.-.-.}:
 [] -> #2 (&p->pi_lock){-.-.-.}:
 [] -> #1 (&rnp->nocb_gp_wq[1]){......}:
 [] -> #0 (rcu_node_0){..-...}:

Paul was quick to explain that due to preemptible RCU we cannot call
rcu_read_unlock() while holding scheduler (or nested) locks when part
of the read side critical section was preemptible.

Therefore solve it by making the entire RCU read side non-preemptible.

Also pull out the retry from under the non-preempt to play nice with RT.

Reported-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Helped-out-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

parent 06f41796

kernel/events/core.c

+14 −1

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -947,8 +947,18 @@ perf_lock_task_context(struct task_struct task, int ctxn, unsigned long flags)
		{
		struct perf_event_context *ctx;

		rcu_read_lock();
		retry:
		/*
		* One of the few rules of preemptible RCU is that one cannot do
		* rcu_read_unlock() while holding a scheduler (or nested) lock when
		* part of the read side critical section was preemptible -- see
		* rcu_read_unlock_special().
		*
		* Since ctx->lock nests under rq->lock we must ensure the entire read
		* side critical section is non-preemptible.
		*/
		preempt_disable();
		rcu_read_lock();
		ctx = rcu_dereference(task->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn]);
		if (ctx) {
		/*
		@@ -964,6 +974,8 @@ retry:
		raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&ctx->lock, *flags);
		if (ctx != rcu_dereference(task->perf_event_ctxp[ctxn])) {
		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ctx->lock, *flags);
		rcu_read_unlock();
		preempt_enable();
		goto retry;
		}

		@@ -973,6 +985,7 @@ retry:
		}
		}
		rcu_read_unlock();
		preempt_enable();
		return ctx;
		}

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