Currently, once an RCU CPU stall warning decides to dump the stalling CPUs' stacks, the rcu_dump_cpu_stacks() function persists until it has gone through the full list. Unfortunately, if the stalled grace periods ends midway through, this function will be dumping stacks of innocent-bystander CPUs that happen to be blocking not the old grace period, but instead the new one. This can cause serious confusion.
This commit therefore stops dumping stacks if and when the stalled grace period ends. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@kernel.org> --- kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h | 17 +++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h index ed065e3ce5c33..9c8eb4b8dfb33 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h @@ -334,13 +334,17 @@ static int rcu_print_task_stall(struct rcu_node *rnp, unsigned long flags) * that don't support NMI-based stack dumps. The NMI-triggered stack * traces are more accurate because they are printed by the target CPU. */ -static void rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(void) +static void rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(unsigned long gp_seq) { int cpu; unsigned long flags; struct rcu_node *rnp; rcu_for_each_leaf_node(rnp) { + if (gp_seq != rcu_state.gp_seq) { + pr_err("INFO: Stall ended during stack backtracing.\n"); + return; + } printk_deferred_enter(); raw_spin_lock_irqsave_rcu_node(rnp, flags); for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu(rnp, cpu) @@ -605,7 +609,7 @@ static void print_other_cpu_stall(unsigned long gp_seq, unsigned long gps) (long)rcu_seq_current(&rcu_state.gp_seq), totqlen, data_race(rcu_state.n_online_cpus)); // Diagnostic read if (ndetected) { - rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(); + rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(gp_seq); /* Complain about tasks blocking the grace period. */ rcu_for_each_leaf_node(rnp) @@ -635,7 +639,7 @@ static void print_other_cpu_stall(unsigned long gp_seq, unsigned long gps) rcu_force_quiescent_state(); /* Kick them all. */ } -static void print_cpu_stall(unsigned long gps) +static void print_cpu_stall(unsigned long gp_seq, unsigned long gps) { int cpu; unsigned long flags; @@ -670,7 +674,7 @@ static void print_cpu_stall(unsigned long gps) rcu_check_gp_kthread_expired_fqs_timer(); rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation(); - rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(); + rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(gp_seq); raw_spin_lock_irqsave_rcu_node(rnp, flags); /* Rewrite if needed in case of slow consoles. */ @@ -750,7 +754,8 @@ static void check_cpu_stall(struct rcu_data *rdp) gs2 = READ_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_seq); if (gs1 != gs2 || ULONG_CMP_LT(j, js) || - ULONG_CMP_GE(gps, js)) + ULONG_CMP_GE(gps, js) || + !rcu_seq_state(gs2)) return; /* No stall or GP completed since entering function. */ rnp = rdp->mynode; jn = jiffies + ULONG_MAX / 2; @@ -771,7 +776,7 @@ static void check_cpu_stall(struct rcu_data *rdp) pr_err("INFO: %s detected stall, but suppressed full report due to a stuck CSD-lock.\n", rcu_state.name); } else if (self_detected) { /* We haven't checked in, so go dump stack. */ - print_cpu_stall(gps); + print_cpu_stall(gs2, gps); } else { /* They had a few time units to dump stack, so complain. */ print_other_cpu_stall(gs2, gps); -- 2.40.1