Re: [PATCH v3] firmware: arm_sdei: Fix sleep from invalid context BUG

From: Pierre Gondois
Date: Thu Feb 16 2023 - 03:51:54 EST




On 2/15/23 19:13, James Morse wrote:
Hi Pierre, Will,

On 15/02/2023 16:09, Pierre Gondois wrote:
Running a preemp_rt kernel based on vv6.2-rc3-rt1 based kernel on an
Ampere Altra triggers:
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:46
in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 128, non_block: 0, pid: 24, name: cpuhp/0
preempt_count: 0, expected: 0
RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
3 locks held by cpuhp/0/24:
#0: ffffda30217c70d0 (cpu_hotplug_lock){++++}-{0:0}, at: cpuhp_thread_fun+0x5c/0x248
#1: ffffda30217c7120 (cpuhp_state-up){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: cpuhp_thread_fun+0x5c/0x248
#2: ffffda3021c711f0 (sdei_list_lock){....}-{3:3}, at: sdei_cpuhp_up+0x3c/0x130
irq event stamp: 36
hardirqs last enabled at (35): [<ffffda301e85b7bc>] finish_task_switch+0xb4/0x2b0
hardirqs last disabled at (36): [<ffffda301e812fec>] cpuhp_thread_fun+0x21c/0x248
softirqs last enabled at (0): [<ffffda301e80b184>] copy_process+0x63c/0x1ac0
softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
CPU: 0 PID: 24 Comm: cpuhp/0 Not tainted 5.19.0-rc3-rt5-[...]
Hardware name: WIWYNN Mt.Jade Server [...]
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x114/0x120
show_stack+0x20/0x70
dump_stack_lvl+0x9c/0xd8
dump_stack+0x18/0x34
__might_resched+0x188/0x228
rt_spin_lock+0x70/0x120
sdei_cpuhp_up+0x3c/0x130
cpuhp_invoke_callback+0x250/0xf08
cpuhp_thread_fun+0x120/0x248
smpboot_thread_fn+0x280/0x320
kthread+0x130/0x140
ret_from_fork+0x10/0x20

sdei_cpuhp_up() is called in the STARTING hotplug section,
which runs whith interrupts disabled. Use a CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN entry

Typo: with

instead to execute the cpuhp cb later, with preemption enabled.

SDEI originaly got its own cpuhp slot because to allow interracting

Typo: originally
Typo: interacting

with perf. It got superseded by pNMI and this early slot is not
relevant anymore. [1]

(Please add a spell checker to your workflow. 'codespell' knows which bits of
a diff it should check)

"because to allow interacting" isn't easy to parse, "to allow an interaction with"?


Some SDEI calls (e.g. SDEI_1_0_FN_SDEI_PE_MASK) take actions on the
calling CPU. It is checked that preemption is disabled for them.
_ONLINE cpuhp cb are executed in the 'per CPU hotplug thread'.
Preemption is enabled in those threads, but their cpumask is limited
to 1 CPU.
Move 'WARN_ON_ONCE(preemptible())' statements so that SDEI cpuhp cb
don't trigger them.

Also add a check for the SDEI_1_0_FN_SDEI_PRIVATE_RESET SDEI call
which acts on the calling CPU.

Thanks for sticking with this,

Reviewed-by: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>


Will, are you happy to pick this up and fix the typos, or would you prefer a clean version
to be posted?

I re-posted the patch with the typos corrected at:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230216084920.144064-1-pierre.gondois@xxxxxxx/

sorry for those,
Regards,
Pierre



Thanks,

James