On 6/28/21 5:49 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> From: "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <[email protected]>
>
> ftracetest triggered:
>
> INFO: rcu_tasks detected stalls on tasks:
> 00000000b92b832d: .. nvcsw: 1/1 holdout: 1 idle_cpu: -1/7
> task:osnoise/7 state:R running task stack: 0 pid: 2133 ppid: 2 flags:0x00004000
> Call Trace:
> ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20
> ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20
> ? trace_hardirqs_on+0x2b/0xe0
> ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20
> ? trace_clock_local+0xc/0x20
> ? osnoise_main+0x10e/0x450
> ? trace_softirq_entry_callback+0x50/0x50
> ? kthread+0x153/0x170
> ? __kthread_bind_mask+0x60/0x60
> ? ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
>
> While running osnoise tracer with other tracers that rely on
> synchronize_rcu_tasks(), where that just hung.
>
> The reason is that osnoise_main() never schedules out if the interval
> is less than 1,
and there is no other task setting need resched (it has a regular cond_resched()
on the run_osnoise() loop).
and this will cause synchronize_rcu_tasks() to never
> return.
>
> Fixes: bce29ac9ce0bb ("trace: Add osnoise tracer")
> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <[email protected]>
Thanks!
-- Daniel
> ---
> kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
> index 38aa5e208ffd..556d530af805 100644
> --- a/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
> +++ b/kernel/trace/trace_osnoise.c
> @@ -1216,8 +1216,11 @@ static int osnoise_main(void *data)
> * differently from hwlat_detector, the osnoise tracer can run
> * without a pause because preemption is on.
> */
> - if (interval < 1)
> + if (interval < 1) {
> + /* Let synchronize_rcu_tasks() make progress */
> + cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs();
> continue;
> + }
>
> if (msleep_interruptible(interval))
> break;
>