On Wednesday, July 12, 2017 08:48:18 AM Alex Shi wrote:

This patch replace a rwlock and raw notifier by atomic notifier which
protected by spin_lock and rcu.

The first to reason to have this replace is due to a 'scheduling while
 atomic' bug of RT kernel on arm/arm64 platform. On arm/arm64, rwlock
cpu_pm_notifier_lock in cpu_pm cause a potential schedule after irq
disable in idle call chain:

cpu_startup_entry
  cpu_idle_loop
    local_irq_disable()
    cpuidle_idle_call
      call_cpuidle
        cpuidle_enter
          cpuidle_enter_state
            ->enter :arm_enter_idle_state
              cpu_pm_enter/exit
                CPU_PM_CPU_IDLE_ENTER
                  read_lock(&cpu_pm_notifier_lock); <-- sleep in idle
                     __rt_spin_lock();
                        schedule();

The kernel panic is here:
[    4.609601] BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/1/0/0x00000002
[    4.609608] [<ffff0000086fae70>] arm_enter_idle_state+0x18/0x70
[    4.609614] Modules linked in:
[    4.609615] [<ffff0000086f9298>] cpuidle_enter_state+0xf0/0x218
[    4.609620] [<ffff0000086f93f8>] cpuidle_enter+0x18/0x20
[    4.609626] Preemption disabled at:
[    4.609627] [<ffff0000080fa234>] call_cpuidle+0x24/0x40
[    4.609635] [<ffff000008882fa4>] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x1c/0x28
[    4.609639] [<ffff0000080fa49c>] cpu_startup_entry+0x154/0x1f8
[    4.609645] [<ffff00000808e004>] secondary_start_kernel+0x15c/0x1a0

Daniel Lezcano said this notification is needed on arm/arm64 platforms.
Sebastian suggested using atomic_notifier instead of rwlock, which is not
only removing the sleeping in idle, but also getting better latency
improvement.

This patch passed Fengguang's 0day testing.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <redacted>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <redacted>
Cc: Anders Roxell <redacted>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <redacted>
Cc: linux-rt-users <redacted>
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>

Applied (although you have forgotten to CC me actually).

Thanks,
Rafael