Re: rcu_read_lock() used illegally while idle!

From: Dave Jones
Date: Sat May 25 2013 - 10:23:20 EST


On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 03:23:40PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-05-24 at 10:23 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
>
> > .config: http://paste.fedoraproject.org/14281/94052971/raw/
> >
> > trace shows the problem process was 'cc1', so I was likely building a kernel
> > at the time. There was also a trinity run going on in the background.
> >
> > cmdline: nothing special..
> >
> > BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.10.0-rc2+ root=UUID=bee21cd9-1852-4d1d-9e9d-2e44332b8df1 ro rd.md=0 rd.lvm=0 rd.dm=0 vconsole.keymap=us rd.luks=0 vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 consoleblank=0 console=ttyUSB0,115200 console=tty0 pause_on_oops=30 audit=0
> >
>
> OK, I'm able to reproduce this. Looks like the same issue happens from
> other ways from userspace into the kernel (the next way was tracing
> system calls).
>
> Forget the other patch. Here's a new patch that is more specific to
> tracing and context tracking.
>
> Can you try this one out, please.

Took a lot longer to hit this..

[53693.297516] ===============================
[53693.298109] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
[53693.298562] 3.10.0-rc2+ #38 Not tainted
[53693.299017] -------------------------------
[53693.299474] include/linux/rcupdate.h:771 rcu_read_lock() used illegally while idle!
[53693.299959]
other info that might help us debug this:

[53693.301420]
RCU used illegally from idle CPU!
rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
[53693.302918] RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state!
[53693.303462] 1 lock held by trinity-child1/18786:
[53693.303966] #0: (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8113dd48>] __perf_event_overflow+0x108/0x310
[53693.304557]
stack backtrace:
[53693.305608] CPU: 3 PID: 18786 Comm: trinity-child1 Not tainted 3.10.0-rc2+ #38
[53693.306790] 0000000000000000 ffff88020767bac8 ffffffff816e2f6b ffff88020767baf8
[53693.307408] ffffffff810b5897 ffff88021de92520 0000000000000000 ffff88020767bbf8
[53693.308035] 0000000000000000 ffff88020767bb78 ffffffff8113ded4 ffffffff8113dd48
[53693.308671] Call Trace:
[53693.309301] [<ffffffff816e2f6b>] dump_stack+0x19/0x1b
[53693.309943] [<ffffffff810b5897>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xe7/0x120
[53693.310596] [<ffffffff8113ded4>] __perf_event_overflow+0x294/0x310
[53693.311256] [<ffffffff8113dd48>] ? __perf_event_overflow+0x108/0x310
[53693.311923] [<ffffffff81309289>] ? __const_udelay+0x29/0x30
[53693.312596] [<ffffffff81076054>] ? __rcu_read_unlock+0x54/0xa0
[53693.313275] [<ffffffff816f4000>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x2f
[53693.313958] [<ffffffff8113dfa1>] perf_swevent_overflow+0x51/0xe0
[53693.314650] [<ffffffff8113e08f>] perf_swevent_event+0x5f/0x90
[53693.315347] [<ffffffff8113e1c9>] perf_tp_event+0x109/0x4f0
[53693.316059] [<ffffffff8113e36f>] ? perf_tp_event+0x2af/0x4f0
[53693.316773] [<ffffffff81074630>] ? __rcu_read_lock+0x20/0x20
[53693.317485] [<ffffffff8112d79f>] perf_ftrace_function_call+0xbf/0xd0
[53693.318207] [<ffffffff8110e1e1>] ? ftrace_ops_control_func+0x181/0x210
[53693.318921] [<ffffffff81074630>] ? __rcu_read_lock+0x20/0x20
[53693.319621] [<ffffffff81100cae>] ? rcu_eqs_enter_common+0x5e/0x470
[53693.320330] [<ffffffff8110e1e1>] ftrace_ops_control_func+0x181/0x210
[53693.321046] [<ffffffff816f4000>] ftrace_call+0x5/0x2f
[53693.321763] [<ffffffff8110e229>] ? ftrace_ops_control_func+0x1c9/0x210
[53693.322490] [<ffffffff816f4000>] ? ftrace_call+0x5/0x2f
[53693.323221] [<ffffffff81074635>] ? debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled+0x5/0x40
[53693.323988] [<ffffffff81074635>] ? debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled+0x5/0x40
[53693.324728] [<ffffffff81100cae>] ? rcu_eqs_enter_common+0x5e/0x470
[53693.325489] [<ffffffff8110112a>] rcu_eqs_enter+0x6a/0xb0
[53693.326273] [<ffffffff81103673>] rcu_user_enter+0x13/0x20
[53693.327025] [<ffffffff8114541a>] user_enter+0x6a/0xd0
[53693.327783] [<ffffffff8100f6d8>] syscall_trace_leave+0x78/0x140
[53693.328551] [<ffffffff816f46af>] int_check_syscall_exit_work+0x34/0x3d


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