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From:   Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Date:   Sat, 17 Aug 2019 18:09:54 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] mm, notifier: Catch sleeping/blocking for !blockable
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On Sat, Aug 17, 2019 at 5:26 PM Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 09:02:49AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 09:00:29PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 10:20:25PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > > > We need to make sure implementations don't cheat and don't have a
> > > > possible schedule/blocking point deeply burried where review can't
> > > > catch it.
> > > >
> > > > I'm not sure whether this is the best way to make sure all the
> > > > might_sleep() callsites trigger, and it's a bit ugly in the code flow.
> > > > But it gets the job done.
> > > >
> > > > Inspired by an i915 patch series which did exactly that, because the
> > > > rules haven't been entirely clear to us.
> > >
> > > I thought lockdep already was able to detect:
> > >
> > >  spin_lock()
> > >  might_sleep();
> > >  spin_unlock()
> > >
> > > Am I mistaken? If yes, couldn't this patch just inject a dummy lockdep
> > > spinlock?
> >
> > Hm ... assuming I didn't get lost in the maze I think might_sleep (well
> > ___might_sleep) doesn't do any lockdep checking at all. And we want
> > might_sleep, since that catches a lot more than lockdep.
>
> Don't know how it works, but it sure looks like it does:
>
> This:
>         spin_lock(&file->uobjects_lock);
>         down_read(&file->hw_destroy_rwsem);
>         up_read(&file->hw_destroy_rwsem);
>         spin_unlock(&file->uobjects_lock);
>
> Causes:
>
> [   33.324729] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1444
> [   33.325599] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 247, name: ibv_devinfo
> [   33.326115] 3 locks held by ibv_devinfo/247:
> [   33.326556]  #0: 000000009edf8379 (&uverbs_dev->disassociate_srcu){....}, at: ib_uverbs_open+0xff/0x5f0 [ib_uverbs]
> [   33.327657]  #1: 000000005e0eddf1 (&uverbs_dev->lists_mutex){+.+.}, at: ib_uverbs_open+0x16c/0x5f0 [ib_uverbs]
> [   33.328682]  #2: 00000000505f509e (&(&file->uobjects_lock)->rlock){+.+.}, at: ib_uverbs_open+0x31a/0x5f0 [ib_uverbs]
>
> And this:
>
>         spin_lock(&file->uobjects_lock);
>         might_sleep();
>         spin_unlock(&file->uobjects_lock);
>
> Causes:
>
> [   16.867211] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at drivers/infiniband/core/uverbs_main.c:1095
> [   16.867776] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 245, name: ibv_devinfo
> [   16.868098] 3 locks held by ibv_devinfo/245:
> [   16.868383]  #0: 000000004c5954ff (&uverbs_dev->disassociate_srcu){....}, at: ib_uverbs_open+0xf8/0x600 [ib_uverbs]
> [   16.868938]  #1: 0000000020a6fae2 (&uverbs_dev->lists_mutex){+.+.}, at: ib_uverbs_open+0x16c/0x600 [ib_uverbs]
> [   16.869568]  #2: 00000000036e6a97 (&(&file->uobjects_lock)->rlock){+.+.}, at: ib_uverbs_open+0x317/0x600 [ib_uverbs]
>
> I think this is done in some very expensive way, so it probably only
> works when lockdep is enabled..

This is the might_sleep debug infrastructure (both of them), not
lockdep. Disable CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING and you should still get these.
-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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