From f8a79d5c7ef47c62d97a30e16064caf2ef91f648 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2018 12:17:50 -0400 Subject: tracepoints: Free early tracepoints after RCU is initialized When enabling trace events via the kernel command line, I hit this warning: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 13 at kernel/rcu/srcutree.c:236 check_init_srcu_struct+0xe/0x61 Modules linked in: CPU: 0 PID: 13 Comm: watchdog/0 Not tainted 4.18.0-rc6-test+ #6 Hardware name: MSI MS-7823/CSM-H87M-G43 (MS-7823), BIOS V1.6 02/22/2014 RIP: 0010:check_init_srcu_struct+0xe/0x61 Code: 48 c7 c6 ec 8a 65 b4 e8 ff 79 fe ff 48 89 df 31 f6 e8 f2 fa ff ff 5a 5b 41 5c 5d c3 0f 1f 44 00 00 83 3d 68 94 b8 01 01 75 02 <0f> 0b 48 8b 87 f0 0a 00 00 a8 03 74 45 55 48 89 e5 41 55 41 54 4c RSP: 0000:ffff96eb9ea03e68 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: ffff96eb962b5b01 RBX: ffffffffb4a87420 RCX: 0000000000000001 RDX: ffffffffb3107969 RSI: ffff96eb962b5b40 RDI: ffffffffb4a87420 RBP: ffff96eb9ea03eb0 R08: ffffabbd00cd7f48 R09: 0000000000000000 R10: ffff96eb9ea03e68 R11: ffffffffb4a6eec0 R12: ffff96eb962b5b40 R13: ffff96eb9ea03ef8 R14: ffffffffb3107969 R15: ffffffffb3107948 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff96eb9ea00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: ffff96eb13ab2000 CR3: 0000000192a1e001 CR4: 00000000001606f0 Call Trace: ? __call_srcu+0x2d/0x290 ? rcu_process_callbacks+0x26e/0x448 ? allocate_probes+0x2b/0x2b call_srcu+0x13/0x15 rcu_free_old_probes+0x1f/0x21 rcu_process_callbacks+0x2ed/0x448 __do_softirq+0x172/0x336 irq_exit+0x62/0xb2 smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x161/0x19e apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20 The problem is that the enabling of trace events before RCU is set up will cause SRCU to give this warning. To avoid this, add a list to store probes that need to be freed till after RCU is initialized, and then free them then. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180810113554.1df28050@gandalf.local.home Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180810123517.5e9714ad@gandalf.local.home Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) Fixes: e6753f23d961d ("tracepoint: Make rcuidle tracepoint callers use SRCU") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) --- kernel/tracepoint.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/tracepoint.c') diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c index 955148d91b74..96db841bf0fc 100644 --- a/kernel/tracepoint.c +++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c @@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ static LIST_HEAD(tracepoint_module_list); */ static DEFINE_MUTEX(tracepoints_mutex); +static struct rcu_head *early_probes; +static bool ok_to_free_tracepoints; + /* * Note about RCU : * It is used to delay the free of multiple probes array until a quiescent @@ -80,11 +83,40 @@ static void rcu_free_old_probes(struct rcu_head *head) call_srcu(&tracepoint_srcu, head, srcu_free_old_probes); } +static __init int release_early_probes(void) +{ + struct rcu_head *tmp; + + ok_to_free_tracepoints = true; + + while (early_probes) { + tmp = early_probes; + early_probes = tmp->next; + call_rcu_sched(tmp, rcu_free_old_probes); + } + + return 0; +} + +/* SRCU is initialized at core_initcall */ +postcore_initcall(release_early_probes); + static inline void release_probes(struct tracepoint_func *old) { if (old) { struct tp_probes *tp_probes = container_of(old, struct tp_probes, probes[0]); + + /* + * We can't free probes if SRCU is not initialized yet. + * Postpone the freeing till after SRCU is initialized. + */ + if (unlikely(!ok_to_free_tracepoints)) { + tp_probes->rcu.next = early_probes; + early_probes = &tp_probes->rcu; + return; + } + /* * Tracepoint probes are protected by both sched RCU and SRCU, * by calling the SRCU callback in the sched RCU callback we -- cgit v1.2.3