Re: do_softirq() vs __do_softirq() in irq_exit() and stack overflow

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Thu, 2013-09-05 at 07:39 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> That means that we end up stacking the normal stack, the actually HW
> interrupt stack frame (which can be pretty big on ppc) + do_IRQ's own,
> then the softirq (networks stack can create HUGE stack frames) and ...
> we are in softirq, so HW irqs are enable, we can thus can another irq
> stack frame piled up on top of that (or a perf stack).

Omg ... obviously I wasn't fully woken up when I wrote the above :-)

I assume you still understood the gist of it.

Cheers,
Ben.

> We are observing actual overflows, here's an example blowing up our 16k
> stack on ppc64, you notice that it's all on the normal kernel stack:
> 
> [ 1002.364577] do_IRQ: stack overflow: 1920
> [ 1002.364653] CPU: 0 PID: 1602 Comm: qemu-system-ppc Not tainted 3.10.4-300.1.fc19.ppc64p7 #1
> [ 1002.364734] Call Trace:
> [ 1002.364770] [c0000000050a8740] [c0000000000157c0] .show_stack+0x130/0x200 (unreliable)
> [ 1002.364872] [c0000000050a8810] [c00000000082f6d0] .dump_stack+0x28/0x3c
> [ 1002.364955] [c0000000050a8880] [c000000000010b98] .do_IRQ+0x2b8/0x2c0
> [ 1002.365039] [c0000000050a8930] [c0000000000026d4] hardware_interrupt_common+0x154/0x180
> [ 1002.365148] --- Exception: 501 at .cp_start_xmit+0x3a4/0x820 [8139cp]
> [ 1002.365148]     LR = .cp_start_xmit+0x390/0x820 [8139cp]
> [ 1002.365359] [c0000000050a8d40] [c0000000006d7f14] .dev_hard_start_xmit+0x394/0x640
> [ 1002.365433] [c0000000050a8e00] [c0000000007028c0] .sch_direct_xmit+0x110/0x260
> [ 1002.365499] [c0000000050a8ea0] [c0000000006d8420] .dev_queue_xmit+0x260/0x630
> [ 1002.365571] [c0000000050a8f40] [d0000000027d30d4] .br_dev_queue_push_xmit+0xc4/0x130 [bridge]
> [ 1002.365641] [c0000000050a8fc0] [d0000000027d01f8] .br_dev_xmit+0x198/0x270 [bridge]
> [ 1002.365707] [c0000000050a9070] [c0000000006d7f14] .dev_hard_start_xmit+0x394/0x640
> [ 1002.365774] [c0000000050a9130] [c0000000006d85e8] .dev_queue_xmit+0x428/0x630
> [ 1002.365834] [c0000000050a91d0] [c000000000729764] .ip_finish_output+0x2a4/0x550
> [ 1002.365902] [c0000000050a9290] [c00000000072aaf0] .ip_local_out+0x50/0x70
> [ 1002.365960] [c0000000050a9310] [c00000000072aed8] .ip_queue_xmit+0x148/0x420
> [ 1002.366018] [c0000000050a93b0] [c000000000749524] .tcp_transmit_skb+0x4e4/0xaf0
> [ 1002.366085] [c0000000050a94a0] [c00000000073de9c] .__tcp_ack_snd_check+0x7c/0xf0
> [ 1002.366152] [c0000000050a9520] [c0000000007451d8] .tcp_rcv_established+0x1e8/0x930
> [ 1002.366217] [c0000000050a95f0] [c00000000075326c] .tcp_v4_do_rcv+0x21c/0x570
> [ 1002.366274] [c0000000050a96c0] [c000000000754a44] .tcp_v4_rcv+0x734/0x930
> [ 1002.366332] [c0000000050a97a0] [c000000000724144] .ip_local_deliver_finish+0x184/0x360
> [ 1002.366398] [c0000000050a9840] [c000000000724468] .ip_rcv_finish+0x148/0x400
> [ 1002.366457] [c0000000050a98d0] [c0000000006d3248] .__netif_receive_skb_core+0x4f8/0xb00
> [ 1002.366523] [c0000000050a99d0] [c0000000006d5414] .netif_receive_skb+0x44/0x110
> [ 1002.366594] [c0000000050a9a70] [d0000000027d4e2c] .br_handle_frame_finish+0x2bc/0x3f0 [bridge]
> [ 1002.366674] [c0000000050a9b20] [d0000000027de5ac] .br_nf_pre_routing_finish+0x2ac/0x420 [bridge]
> [ 1002.366754] [c0000000050a9bd0] [d0000000027df5ec] .br_nf_pre_routing+0x4dc/0x7d0 [bridge]
> [ 1002.366820] [c0000000050a9c70] [c000000000717aa4] .nf_iterate+0x114/0x130
> [ 1002.366877] [c0000000050a9d30] [c000000000717b74] .nf_hook_slow+0xb4/0x1e0
> [ 1002.366938] [c0000000050a9e00] [d0000000027d51f0] .br_handle_frame+0x290/0x330 [bridge]
> [ 1002.367005] [c0000000050a9ea0] [c0000000006d309c] .__netif_receive_skb_core+0x34c/0xb00
> [ 1002.367072] [c0000000050a9fa0] [c0000000006d5414] .netif_receive_skb+0x44/0x110
> [ 1002.367138] [c0000000050aa040] [c0000000006d6218] .napi_gro_receive+0xe8/0x120
> [ 1002.367210] [c0000000050aa0c0] [d00000000208536c] .cp_rx_poll+0x31c/0x590 [8139cp]
> [ 1002.367276] [c0000000050aa1d0] [c0000000006d59cc] .net_rx_action+0x1dc/0x310
> [ 1002.367335] [c0000000050aa2b0] [c0000000000a0568] .__do_softirq+0x158/0x330
> [ 1002.367394] [c0000000050aa3b0] [c0000000000a0978] .irq_exit+0xc8/0x110
> [ 1002.367452] [c0000000050aa430] [c0000000000109bc] .do_IRQ+0xdc/0x2c0
> [ 1002.367510] [c0000000050aa4e0] [c0000000000026d4] hardware_interrupt_common+0x154/0x180
> [ 1002.367580] --- Exception: 501 at .bad_range+0x1c/0x110
> [ 1002.367580]     LR = .get_page_from_freelist+0x908/0xbb0
> [ 1002.367658] [c0000000050aa7d0] [c00000000041d758] .list_del+0x18/0x50 (unreliable)
> [ 1002.367725] [c0000000050aa850] [c0000000001bfa98] .get_page_from_freelist+0x908/0xbb0
> [ 1002.367792] [c0000000050aa9e0] [c0000000001bff5c] .__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x21c/0xae0
> [ 1002.367860] [c0000000050aaba0] [c0000000002126d0] .alloc_pages_vma+0xd0/0x210
> [ 1002.367918] [c0000000050aac60] [c0000000001e93f4] .handle_pte_fault+0x814/0xb70
> [ 1002.367985] [c0000000050aad50] [c0000000001eade4] .__get_user_pages+0x1a4/0x640
> [ 1002.368052] [c0000000050aae60] [c00000000004606c] .get_user_pages_fast+0xec/0x160
> [ 1002.368130] [c0000000050aaf10] [d000000001f73930] .__gfn_to_pfn_memslot+0x3b0/0x430 [kvm]
> [ 1002.368205] [c0000000050aafd0] [d000000001f7e214] .kvmppc_gfn_to_pfn+0x64/0x130 [kvm]
> [ 1002.368280] [c0000000050ab070] [d000000001f8a824] .kvmppc_mmu_map_page+0x94/0x530 [kvm]
> [ 1002.368354] [c0000000050ab190] [d000000001f85064] .kvmppc_handle_pagefault+0x174/0x610 [kvm]
> [ 1002.368429] [c0000000050ab270] [d000000001f85b74] .kvmppc_handle_exit_pr+0x464/0x9b0 [kvm]
> [ 1002.368504] [c0000000050ab320] [d000000001f88ec4] kvm_start_lightweight+0x1ec/0x1fc [kvm]
> [ 1002.368578] [c0000000050ab4f0] [d000000001f86a58] .kvmppc_vcpu_run_pr+0x168/0x3b0 [kvm]
> [ 1002.368652] [c0000000050ab9c0] [d000000001f7f218] .kvmppc_vcpu_run+0xc8/0xf0 [kvm]
> [ 1002.368725] [c0000000050aba50] [d000000001f7bdac] .kvm_arch_vcpu_ioctl_run+0x5c/0x1a0 [kvm]
> [ 1002.368797] [c0000000050abae0] [d000000001f74618] .kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x478/0x730 [kvm]
> [ 1002.368865] [c0000000050abc90] [c00000000025302c] .do_vfs_ioctl+0x4ec/0x7c0
> [ 1002.368923] [c0000000050abd80] [c0000000002533d4] .SyS_ioctl+0xd4/0xf0
> [ 1002.368981] [c0000000050abe30] [c000000000009ed4] syscall_exit+0x0/0x98
> [ 1002.369117] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben.
> 


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