perf: Disable IRQs across RCU RS CS that acquires scheduler lock
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 4 Nov 2015 13:48:38 +0000 (05:48 -0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Mon, 9 Nov 2015 15:13:11 +0000 (16:13 +0100)
commit2fd59077755c44dbbd9b2fa89cf988235a3a6a2b
treeb9a35f6555ce5dbebcbb4c1fd50760a221123b7a
parentbad9bc2d466445b0398b78a452b7706a05ebc182
perf: Disable IRQs across RCU RS CS that acquires scheduler lock

The perf_lock_task_context() function disables preemption across its
RCU read-side critical section because that critical section acquires
a scheduler lock.  If there was a preemption during that RCU read-side
critical section, the rcu_read_unlock() could attempt to acquire scheduler
locks, resulting in deadlock.

However, recent optimizations to expedited grace periods mean that IPI
handlers that execute during preemptible RCU read-side critical sections
can now cause the subsequent rcu_read_unlock() to acquire scheduler locks.
Disabling preemption does nothiing to prevent these IPI handlers from
executing, so these optimizations introduced a deadlock.  In theory,
this deadlock could be avoided by pulling all wakeups and printk()s out
from rnp->lock critical sections, but in practice this would re-introduce
some RCU CPU stall warning bugs.

Given that acquiring scheduler locks entails disabling interrupts, these
deadlocks can be avoided by disabling interrupts (instead of disabling
preemption) across any RCU read-side critical that acquires scheduler
locks and holds them across the rcu_read_unlock().  This commit therefore
makes this change for perf_lock_task_context().

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stephane Eranian <eranian@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20151104134838.GR29027@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/events/core.c