On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 02:14:24PM -0700, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I see the following log message when running a qemu test for 'beagle'
> with omap2plus_defconfig.
>
> ===============================
> [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
> 4.6.0-rc4-next-20160422 #1 Not tainted
> -------------------------------
> include/trace/events/power.h:328 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
>
> other info that might help us debug this:
>
> RCU used illegally from idle CPU!
> rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
> RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state!
> no locks held by swapper/0/0.
>
> stack backtrace:
> CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.6.0-rc4-next-20160422 #1
> Hardware name: Generic OMAP3-GP (Flattened Device Tree)
> [<c010f55c>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c010b64c>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
> [<c010b64c>] (show_stack) from [<c047acbc>] (dump_stack+0xa8/0xe0)
> [<c047acbc>] (dump_stack) from [<c012bc10>] (pwrdm_set_next_pwrst+0xf8/0x1cc)
> [<c012bc10>] (pwrdm_set_next_pwrst) from [<c01269fc>]
> (omap3_enter_idle_bm+0x1b8/0x1e8)
> [<c01269fc>] (omap3_enter_idle_bm) from [<c05fa0b8>]
> (cpuidle_enter_state+0x84/0x408)
> [<c05fa0b8>] (cpuidle_enter_state) from [<c0182c1c>]
> (cpu_startup_entry+0x1c8/0x3f0)
> [<c0182c1c>] (cpu_startup_entry) from [<c0b00c20>] (start_kernel+0x354/0x3cc)
>
> bisect points to commit 'rcu: Remove superfluous versions of
> rcu_read_lock_sched_held()'. Bisect log is attached.
I believe that the real fix is not a revert of that commit, but rather
that some of the tracing statements need an "_rcuidle" suffix.
Something like the following (untested, probably does not build) patch.
Thanx, Paul
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commit ca91304178e1cf53ee391236a0ac3969cc814e5f
Author: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Sun Apr 24 14:30:16 2016 -0700
arm: Use _rcuidle tracepoint to allow use from idle
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/powerdomain.c
b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/powerdomain.c
index 78af6d8cf2e2..12b66b5bcc55 100644
--- a/arch/arm/mach-omap2/powerdomain.c
+++ b/arch/arm/mach-omap2/powerdomain.c
@@ -523,8 +523,8 @@ int pwrdm_set_next_pwrst(struct powerdomain *pwrdm, u8
pwrst)
if (arch_pwrdm && arch_pwrdm->pwrdm_set_next_pwrst) {
/* Trace the pwrdm desired target state */
- trace_power_domain_target(pwrdm->name, pwrst,
- smp_processor_id());
+ trace_power_domain_target_rcuidle(pwrdm->name, pwrst,
+ smp_processor_id());
/* Program the pwrdm desired target state */
ret = arch_pwrdm->pwrdm_set_next_pwrst(pwrdm, pwrst);
}
