Re: [PATCH 1/2] drivers: base: power: main: Use built-in RCU list checking

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Sun Mar 01 2020 - 16:23:20 EST


On Sun, Mar 1, 2020 at 9:53 PM <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On March 1, 2020 3:12:53 PM EST, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 6:47 PM <madhuparnabhowmik10@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> >> From: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@xxxxxxxxx>
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> >> This patch passes the cond argument to list_for_each_entry_rcu()
> >> to fix the following false-positive lockdep warnings:
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> >> [ 330.302784] =============================
> >> [ 330.302789] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
> >> [ 330.302796] 5.6.0-rc1+ #5 Not tainted
> >> [ 330.302801] -----------------------------
> >> [ 330.302808] drivers/base/power/main.c:326 RCU-list traversed in
> >non-reader section!!
> >>
> >> [ 330.303303] =============================
> >> [ 330.303307] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
> >> [ 330.303311] 5.6.0-rc1+ #5 Not tainted
> >> [ 330.303315] -----------------------------
> >> [ 330.303319] drivers/base/power/main.c:1698 RCU-list traversed in
> >non-reader section!!
> >>
> >> [ 331.934969] =============================
> >> [ 331.934971] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
> >> [ 331.934973] 5.6.0-rc1+ #5 Not tainted
> >> [ 331.934975] -----------------------------
> >> [ 331.934977] drivers/base/power/main.c:1238 RCU-list traversed in
> >non-reader section!!
> >>
> >> [ 332.467772] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
> >> [ 332.467775] 5.6.0-rc1+ #5 Not tainted
> >> [ 332.467775] -----------------------------
> >> [ 332.467778] drivers/base/power/main.c:269 RCU-list traversed in
> >non-reader section!!
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> >I don't see these warnings in the kernels run locally here.
> >
> >What do you do to get them?
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> >Joel, any comments here?
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> You have to enable lockdep in your config. Does your setup have that?

CONFIG_LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y
CONFIG_LOCKDEP=y

Anything else?