This fixes two bugs:
- The first one is a side effect caused by using SRCU for rcuidle
tracepoints. It seems that the perf was depending on the rcuidle
tracepoints to make RCU watch when it wasn't. The real fix will
bet to have perf use SRCU instead of depending on RCU watching,
but that can't be done until SRCU is safe to use in NMI context
(Paul's working on that).
- The second bug fix is for a bug that's been periodically making
my tests fail randomly for some time. I haven't had time to track
it down, but finally have. It has to do with stressing NMIs (via perf)
while enabling or disabling ftrace function handling with lockdep
enabled. If an interrupt happens and just as it returns, it sets
lockdep back to "interrupts enabled" but before it returns an NMI
is triggered, and if this happens while printk_nmi_enter has a
breakpoint attached to it (because ftrace is converting it to or from
nop to call fentry), the breakpoint trap also calls into lockdep,
and since returning from the NMI to a interrupt handler, interrupts
were disabled when the NMI went off, lockdep keeps its state as
interrupts disabled when it returns back from the interrupt handler
where interrupts are enabled. This causes lockdep_assert_irqs_enabled()
to trigger a false positive.
printk/tracing: Do not trace printk_nmi_enter()
I hit the following splat in my tests:
------------[ cut here ]------------
IRQs not enabled as expected
WARNING: CPU: 3 PID: 0 at kernel/time/tick-sched.c:982 tick_nohz_idle_enter+0x44/0x8c
Modules linked in: ip6t_REJECT nf_reject_ipv6 ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipv6
CPU: 3 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/3 Not tainted 4.19.0-rc2-test+ #2
Hardware name: MSI MS-7823/CSM-H87M-G43 (MS-7823), BIOS V1.6 02/22/2014
EIP: tick_nohz_idle_enter+0x44/0x8c
Code: ec 05 00 00 00 75 26 83 b8 c0 05 00 00 00 75 1d 80 3d d0 36 3e c1 00
75 14 68 94 63 12 c1 c6 05 d0 36 3e c1 01 e8 04 ee f8 ff <0f> 0b 58 fa bb a0
e5 66 c1 e8 25 0f 04 00 64 03 1d 28 31 52 c1 8b
EAX: 0000001c EBX: f26e7f8c ECX: 00000006 EDX: 00000007
ESI: f26dd1c0 EDI: 00000000 EBP: f26e7f40 ESP: f26e7f38
DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 EFLAGS: 00010296
CR0: 80050033 CR2: 0813c6b0 CR3: 2f342000 CR4: 001406f0
Call Trace:
do_idle+0x33/0x202
cpu_startup_entry+0x61/0x63
start_secondary+0x18e/0x1ed
startup_32_smp+0x164/0x168
irq event stamp: 18773830
hardirqs last enabled at (18773829): [<c040150c>] trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0xc/0x10
hardirqs last disabled at (18773830): [<c040151c>] trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0xc/0x10
softirqs last enabled at (18773824): [<c0ddaa6f>] __do_softirq+0x25f/0x2bf
softirqs last disabled at (18773767): [<c0416bbe>] call_on_stack+0x45/0x4b
---[ end trace b7c64aa79e17954a ]---
After a bit of debugging, I found what was happening. This would trigger
when performing "perf" with a high NMI interrupt rate, while enabling and
disabling function tracer. Ftrace uses breakpoints to convert the nops at
the start of functions to calls to the function trampolines. The breakpoint
traps disable interrupts and this makes calls into lockdep via the
trace_hardirqs_off_thunk in the entry.S code. What happens is the following:
do_idle {
[interrupts enabled]
<interrupt> [interrupts disabled]
TRACE_IRQS_OFF [lockdep says irqs off]
[...]
TRACE_IRQS_IRET
test if pt_regs say return to interrupts enabled [yes]
TRACE_IRQS_ON [lockdep says irqs are on]
<nmi>
nmi_enter() {
printk_nmi_enter() [traced by ftrace]
[ hit ftrace breakpoint ]
<breakpoint exception>
TRACE_IRQS_OFF [lockdep says irqs off]
[...]
TRACE_IRQS_IRET [return from breakpoint]
test if pt_regs say interrupts enabled [no]
[iret back to interrupt]
[iret back to code]
tick_nohz_idle_enter() {
lockdep_assert_irqs_enabled() [lockdep say no!]
Although interrupts are indeed enabled, lockdep thinks it is not, and since
we now do asserts via lockdep, it gives a false warning. The issue here is
that printk_nmi_enter() is called before lockdep_off(), which disables
lockdep (for this reason) in NMIs. By simply not allowing ftrace to see
printk_nmi_enter() (via notrace annotation) we keep lockdep from getting
confused.
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 42a0bb3f71383 ("printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI")
Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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