Bjørn Mork reported the following warning when running powertop.
[ 49.289034] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 49.289055] WARNING: at kernel/rcutree.c:502 rcu_eqs_exit_common.isra.48+0x3d/0x125()
[ 49.289244] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.10.0-bisect-rcu-warn+ #107
[ 49.289251] ffffffff8157d8c8 ffffffff81801e28 ffffffff8137e4e3 ffffffff81801e68
[ 49.289260] ffffffff8103094f ffffffff81801e68 0000000000000000 ffff88023afcd9b0
[ 49.289268] 0000000000000000 0140000000000000 ffff88023bee7700 ffffffff81801e78
[ 49.289276] Call Trace:
[ 49.289285] [<ffffffff8137e4e3>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
[ 49.289293] [<ffffffff8103094f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x62/0x7b
[ 49.289300] [<ffffffff8103097d>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x17
[ 49.289306] [<ffffffff810a9006>] rcu_eqs_exit_common.isra.48+0x3d/0x125
[ 49.289314] [<ffffffff81079b49>] ? trace_hardirqs_off_caller+0x37/0xa6
[ 49.289320] [<ffffffff810a9692>] rcu_idle_exit+0x85/0xa8
[ 49.289327] [<ffffffff8107076e>] trace_cpu_idle_rcuidle+0xae/0xff
[ 49.289334] [<ffffffff810708b1>] cpu_startup_entry+0x72/0x115
[ 49.289341] [<ffffffff813689e5>] rest_init+0x149/0x150
[ 49.289347] [<ffffffff8136889c>] ? csum_partial_copy_generic+0x16c/0x16c
[ 49.289355] [<ffffffff81a82d34>] start_kernel+0x3f0/0x3fd
[ 49.289362] [<ffffffff81a8274c>] ? repair_env_string+0x5a/0x5a
[ 49.289368] [<ffffffff81a82481>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c
[ 49.289375] [<ffffffff81a82550>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xcd/0xd1
[ 49.289379] ---[ end trace 07a1cc95e29e9036 ]---
The warning is that 'rdtp->dynticks' has an unexpected value, which roughly
translates to - the calls to rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() were not
made in the correct order, or otherwise messed up.
And Bjørn's painstaking debugging indicated that this happens when the idle
loop enters the poll mode. Looking at the poll function cpu_idle_poll(), and
the implementation of trace_cpu_idle_rcuidle(), the problem becomes very clear:
cpu_idle_poll() lacks calls to rcu_idle_enter/exit(), and trace_cpu_idle_rcuidle()
calls them in the reverse order - first rcu_idle_exit(), and then rcu_idle_enter().
Hence the even/odd alternative sequencing of rdtp->dynticks goes for a toss.
And powertop readily triggers this because powertop uses the idle-tracing
infrastructure extensively.
So, to fix this, wrap the code in cpu_idle_poll() within rcu_idle_enter/exit(),
so that it blends properly with the calls inside trace_cpu_idle_rcuidle() and
thus get the function ordering right.
Reported-and-tested-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/519169BF.4080208@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Pull core timer updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle's merge are:
- Implement shadow timekeeper to shorten in kernel reader side
blocking, by Thomas Gleixner.
- Posix timers enhancements by Pavel Emelyanov:
- allocate timer ID per process, so that exact timer ID allocations
can be re-created be checkpoint/restore code.
- debuggability and tooling (/proc/PID/timers, etc.) improvements.
- suspend/resume enhancements by Feng Tang: on certain new Intel Atom
processors (Penwell and Cloverview), there is a feature that the
TSC won't stop in S3 state, so the TSC value won't be reset to 0
after resume. This can be taken advantage of by the generic via
the CLOCK_SOURCE_SUSPEND_NONSTOP flag: instead of using the RTC to
recover/approximate sleep time, the main (and precise) clocksource
can be used.
- Fix /proc/timer_list for 4096 CPUs by Nathan Zimmer: on so many
CPUs the file goes beyond 4MB of size and thus the current
simplistic seqfile approach fails. Convert /proc/timer_list to a
proper seq_file with its own iterator.
- Cleanups and refactorings of the core timekeeping code by John
Stultz.
- International Atomic Clock time is managed by the NTP code
internally currently but not exposed externally. Separate the TAI
code out and add CLOCK_TAI support and TAI support to the hrtimer
and posix-timer code, by John Stultz.
- Add deep idle support enhacement to the broadcast clockevents core
timer code, by Daniel Lezcano: add an opt-in CLOCK_EVT_FEAT_DYNIRQ
clockevents feature (which will be utilized by future clockevents
driver updates), which allows the use of IRQ affinities to avoid
spurious wakeups of idle CPUs - the right CPU with an expiring
timer will be woken.
- Add new ARM bcm281xx clocksource driver, by Christian Daudt
- ... various other fixes and cleanups"
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
clockevents: Set dummy handler on CPU_DEAD shutdown
timekeeping: Update tk->cycle_last in resume
posix-timers: Remove unused variable
clockevents: Switch into oneshot mode even if broadcast registered late
timer_list: Convert timer list to be a proper seq_file
timer_list: Split timer_list_show_tickdevices
posix-timers: Show sigevent info in proc file
posix-timers: Introduce /proc/PID/timers file
posix timers: Allocate timer id per process (v2)
timekeeping: Make sure to notify hrtimers when TAI offset changes
hrtimer: Fix ktime_add_ns() overflow on 32bit architectures
hrtimer: Add expiry time overflow check in hrtimer_interrupt
timekeeping: Shorten seq_count region
timekeeping: Implement a shadow timekeeper
timekeeping: Delay update of clock->cycle_last
timekeeping: Store cycle_last value in timekeeper struct as well
ntp: Remove ntp_lock, using the timekeeping locks to protect ntp state
timekeeping: Simplify tai updating from do_adjtimex
timekeeping: Hold timekeepering locks in do_adjtimex and hardpps
timekeeping: Move ADJ_SETOFFSET to top level do_adjtimex()
...
All idle functions in arch/* are more or less the same, plus minus a
few bugs and extra instrumentation, tickless support and other
optional items.
Implement a generic idle function which resembles the functionality
found in arch/. Provide weak arch_cpu_idle_* functions which can be
overridden by the architecture code if needed.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130321215233.646635455@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
For now this calls cpu_idle(), but in the long run we want to move the
cpu bringup code to the core and therefor we add a state argument.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130321215233.583190032@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Srivatsa S. Bhat