Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758183Ab2KVWPY (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2012 17:15:24 -0500 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.19.201]:49368 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754577Ab2KVSie (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Nov 2012 13:38:34 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Mojiong Qiu , Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Subject: [ 038/171] xen/events: fix RCU warning, or Call idle notifier after irq_enter() Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 16:39:44 -0800 Message-Id: <20121122004037.192527025@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.0.197.g5a90748 In-Reply-To: <20121122004033.298367941@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20121122004033.298367941@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-2.1.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2804 Lines: 81 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Mojiong Qiu commit 772aebcefeff310f80e32b874988af0076cb799d upstream. exit_idle() should be called after irq_enter(), otherwise it throws: [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ] 3.6.5 #1 Not tainted ------------------------------- include/linux/rcupdate.h:725 rcu_read_lock() used illegally while idle! other info that might help us debug this: RCU used illegally from idle CPU! rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1 RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state! 1 lock held by swapper/0/0: #0: (rcu_read_lock){......}, at: [] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x0/0x140 stack backtrace: Pid: 0, comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 3.6.5 #1 Call Trace: [] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xe2/0x130 [] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x12c/0x140 [] ? atomic_notifier_chain_unregister+0x90/0x90 [] ? trace_hardirqs_off+0xd/0x10 [] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x16/0x20 [] exit_idle+0x43/0x50 [] xen_evtchn_do_upcall+0x25/0x50 [] xen_do_hypervisor_callback+0x1e/0x30 [] ? hypercall_page+0x3aa/0x1000 [] ? hypercall_page+0x3aa/0x1000 [] ? xen_safe_halt+0x10/0x20 [] ? default_idle+0xba/0x570 [] ? cpu_idle+0xdf/0x140 [] ? rest_init+0x135/0x144 [] ? csum_partial_copy_generic+0x16c/0x16c [] ? start_kernel+0x3db/0x3e8 [] ? repair_env_string+0x5a/0x5a [] ? x86_64_start_reservations+0x131/0x135 [] ? xen_start_kernel+0x465/0x46 Git commit 98ad1cc14a5c4fd658f9d72c6ba5c86dfd3ce0d5 Author: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Fri Oct 7 18:22:09 2011 +0200 x86: Call idle notifier after irq_enter() did this, but it missed the Xen code. Signed-off-by: Mojiong Qiu Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/xen/events.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/xen/events.c +++ b/drivers/xen/events.c @@ -1365,8 +1365,8 @@ void xen_evtchn_do_upcall(struct pt_regs { struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs); - exit_idle(); irq_enter(); + exit_idle(); __xen_evtchn_do_upcall(); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/