Thread (27 messages) 27 messages, 5 authors, 2023-01-28

Re: [PATCH 3/6] ftrace/x86: Warn and ignore graph tracing when RCU is disabled

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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Date: 2023-01-28 19:12:08
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On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 10:28:51AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 10:46:58AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
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Ofc. Paul might have an opinion on this glorious bodge ;-)
For some definition of the word "glorious", to be sure.  ;-)

Am I correct that you have two things happening here?  (1) Preventing
trace recursion and (2) forcing RCU to pay attention when needed.
Mostly just (1), we're in an error situation, I'm not too worried about
(2).
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I cannot resist pointing out that you have re-invented RCU_NONIDLE(),
though avoiding much of the overhead when not needed.  ;-)
Yeah, this was the absolute minimal bodge I could come up with that
shuts up the rcu_derefence warning thing.
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I would have objections if this ever leaks out onto a non-error code path.
Agreed.
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There are things that need doing when RCU starts and stops watching,
and this approach omits those things.  Which again is OK in this case,
where this code is only ever executed when something is already broken,
but definitely *not* OK when things are not already broken.
And agreed.

Current version of the bodge looks like so (will repost the whole series
a little later today).

I managed to tickle the recursion so that it was a test-case for the
stack guard...

With this on, it prints just the one WARN and lives.

---
Subject: bug: Disable rcu_is_watching() during WARN/BUG
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Wed Jan 25 13:57:49 CET 2023

In order to avoid WARN/BUG from generating nested or even recursive
warnings, force rcu_is_watching() true during
WARN/lockdep_rcu_suspicious().

Notably things like unwinding the stack can trigger rcu_dereference()
warnings, which then triggers more unwinding which then triggers more
warnings etc..

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
From an RCU perspective:

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
---
 include/linux/context_tracking.h |   27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 kernel/locking/lockdep.c         |    3 +++
 kernel/panic.c                   |    5 +++++
 lib/bug.c                        |   15 ++++++++++++++-
 4 files changed, 49 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/linux/context_tracking.h
+++ b/include/linux/context_tracking.h
@@ -130,9 +130,36 @@ static __always_inline unsigned long ct_
 	return arch_atomic_add_return(incby, this_cpu_ptr(&context_tracking.state));
 }
 
+static __always_inline bool warn_rcu_enter(void)
+{
+	bool ret = false;
+
+	/*
+	 * Horrible hack to shut up recursive RCU isn't watching fail since
+	 * lots of the actual reporting also relies on RCU.
+	 */
+	preempt_disable_notrace();
+	if (rcu_dynticks_curr_cpu_in_eqs()) {
+		ret = true;
+		ct_state_inc(RCU_DYNTICKS_IDX);
+	}
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
+static __always_inline void warn_rcu_exit(bool rcu)
+{
+	if (rcu)
+		ct_state_inc(RCU_DYNTICKS_IDX);
+	preempt_enable_notrace();
+}
+
 #else
 static inline void ct_idle_enter(void) { }
 static inline void ct_idle_exit(void) { }
+
+static __always_inline bool warn_rcu_enter(void) { return false; }
+static __always_inline void warn_rcu_exit(bool rcu) { }
 #endif /* !CONFIG_CONTEXT_TRACKING_IDLE */
 
 #endif
--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@
 #include <linux/rcupdate.h>
 #include <linux/kprobes.h>
 #include <linux/lockdep.h>
+#include <linux/context_tracking.h>
 
 #include <asm/sections.h>
 
@@ -6555,6 +6556,7 @@ void lockdep_rcu_suspicious(const char *
 {
 	struct task_struct *curr = current;
 	int dl = READ_ONCE(debug_locks);
+	bool rcu = warn_rcu_enter();
 
 	/* Note: the following can be executed concurrently, so be careful. */
 	pr_warn("\n");
@@ -6595,5 +6597,6 @@ void lockdep_rcu_suspicious(const char *
 	lockdep_print_held_locks(curr);
 	pr_warn("\nstack backtrace:\n");
 	dump_stack();
+	warn_rcu_exit(rcu);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(lockdep_rcu_suspicious);
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 #include <linux/ratelimit.h>
 #include <linux/debugfs.h>
 #include <linux/sysfs.h>
+#include <linux/context_tracking.h>
 #include <trace/events/error_report.h>
 #include <asm/sections.h>
 
@@ -679,6 +680,7 @@ void __warn(const char *file, int line,
 void warn_slowpath_fmt(const char *file, int line, unsigned taint,
 		       const char *fmt, ...)
 {
+	bool rcu = warn_rcu_enter();
 	struct warn_args args;
 
 	pr_warn(CUT_HERE);
@@ -693,11 +695,13 @@ void warn_slowpath_fmt(const char *file,
 	va_start(args.args, fmt);
 	__warn(file, line, __builtin_return_address(0), taint, NULL, &args);
 	va_end(args.args);
+	warn_rcu_exit(rcu);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(warn_slowpath_fmt);
 #else
 void __warn_printk(const char *fmt, ...)
 {
+	bool rcu = warn_rcu_enter();
 	va_list args;
 
 	pr_warn(CUT_HERE);
@@ -705,6 +709,7 @@ void __warn_printk(const char *fmt, ...)
 	va_start(args, fmt);
 	vprintk(fmt, args);
 	va_end(args);
+	warn_rcu_exit(rcu);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(__warn_printk);
 #endif
--- a/lib/bug.c
+++ b/lib/bug.c
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/rculist.h>
 #include <linux/ftrace.h>
+#include <linux/context_tracking.h>
 
 extern struct bug_entry __start___bug_table[], __stop___bug_table[];
 
@@ -153,7 +154,7 @@ struct bug_entry *find_bug(unsigned long
 	return module_find_bug(bugaddr);
 }
 
-enum bug_trap_type report_bug(unsigned long bugaddr, struct pt_regs *regs)
+static enum bug_trap_type __report_bug(unsigned long bugaddr, struct pt_regs *regs)
 {
 	struct bug_entry *bug;
 	const char *file;
@@ -209,6 +210,18 @@ enum bug_trap_type report_bug(unsigned l
 	return BUG_TRAP_TYPE_BUG;
 }
 
+enum bug_trap_type report_bug(unsigned long bugaddr, struct pt_regs *regs)
+{
+	enum bug_trap_type ret;
+	bool rcu = false;
+
+	rcu = warn_rcu_enter();
+	ret = __report_bug(bugaddr, regs);
+	warn_rcu_exit(rcu);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
 static void clear_once_table(struct bug_entry *start, struct bug_entry *end)
 {
 	struct bug_entry *bug;
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