Commit 0981124b authored by Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)'s avatar Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) Committed by Kamal Mostafa

tracepoints: Do not trace when cpu is offline

commit f3775549 upstream.

The tracepoint infrastructure uses RCU sched protection to enable and
disable tracepoints safely. There are some instances where tracepoints are
used in infrastructure code (like kfree()) that get called after a CPU is
going offline, and perhaps when it is coming back online but hasn't been
registered yet.

This can probuce the following warning:

 [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
 4.4.0-00006-g0fe53e8-dirty #34 Tainted: G S
 -------------------------------
 include/trace/events/kmem.h:141 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!

 other info that might help us debug this:

 RCU used illegally from offline CPU!  rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
 no locks held by swapper/8/0.

 stack backtrace:
  CPU: 8 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/8 Tainted: G S              4.4.0-00006-g0fe53e8-dirty #34
  Call Trace:
  [c0000005b76c78d0] [c0000000008b9540] .dump_stack+0x98/0xd4 (unreliable)
  [c0000005b76c7950] [c00000000010c898] .lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x108/0x170
  [c0000005b76c79e0] [c00000000029adc0] .kfree+0x390/0x440
  [c0000005b76c7a80] [c000000000055f74] .destroy_context+0x44/0x100
  [c0000005b76c7b00] [c0000000000934a0] .__mmdrop+0x60/0x150
  [c0000005b76c7b90] [c0000000000e3ff0] .idle_task_exit+0x130/0x140
  [c0000005b76c7c20] [c000000000075804] .pseries_mach_cpu_die+0x64/0x310
  [c0000005b76c7cd0] [c000000000043e7c] .cpu_die+0x3c/0x60
  [c0000005b76c7d40] [c0000000000188d8] .arch_cpu_idle_dead+0x28/0x40
  [c0000005b76c7db0] [c000000000101e6c] .cpu_startup_entry+0x50c/0x560
  [c0000005b76c7ed0] [c000000000043bd8] .start_secondary+0x328/0x360
  [c0000005b76c7f90] [c000000000008a6c] start_secondary_prolog+0x10/0x14

This warning is not a false positive either. RCU is not protecting code that
is being executed while the CPU is offline.

Instead of playing "whack-a-mole(TM)" and adding conditional statements to
the tracepoints we find that are used in this instance, simply add a
cpu_online() test to the tracepoint code where the tracepoint will be
ignored if the CPU is offline.

Use of raw_smp_processor_id() is fine, as there should never be a case where
the tracepoint code goes from running on a CPU that is online and suddenly
gets migrated to a CPU that is offline.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455387773-4245-1-git-send-email-kda@linux-powerpc.orgReported-by: default avatarDenis Kirjanov <kda@linux-powerpc.org>
Fixes: 97e1c18e ("tracing: Kernel Tracepoints")
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
parent 3820d7e0
......@@ -14,8 +14,10 @@
* See the file COPYING for more details.
*/
#include <linux/smp.h>
#include <linux/errno.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
#include <linux/cpumask.h>
#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
#include <linux/static_key.h>
......@@ -129,6 +131,9 @@ extern void syscall_unregfunc(void);
void *it_func; \
void *__data; \
\
if (!cpu_online(raw_smp_processor_id())) \
return; \
\
if (!(cond)) \
return; \
prercu; \
......
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