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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sched/core: fix illegal RCU from offline CPUs
From:   Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
In-Reply-To: <87369mt9kf.fsf@mpe.ellerman.id.au>
Date:   Fri, 17 Apr 2020 09:26:56 -0400
Cc:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, juri.lelli@redhat.com,
        dietmar.eggemann@arm.com, vincent.guittot@linaro.org,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>, bsegall@google.com,
        mgorman@suse.de, paulmck@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de,
        "James.Bottomley@hansenpartnership.com" 
        <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>, deller@gmx.de,
        linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
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To:     Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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> On Apr 2, 2020, at 7:24 AM, Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> =
wrote:
>=20
> Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> writes:
>> From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
>>=20
>> In the CPU-offline process, it calls mmdrop() after idle entry and =
the
>> subsequent call to cpuhp_report_idle_dead(). Once execution passes =
the
>> call to rcu_report_dead(), RCU is ignoring the CPU, which results in
>> lockdep complaining when mmdrop() uses RCU from either memcg or
>> debugobjects below.
>>=20
>> Fix it by cleaning up the active_mm state from BP instead. Every arch
>> which has CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU should have already called =
idle_task_exit()
>> from AP. The only exception is parisc because it switches them to
>> &init_mm unconditionally (see smp_boot_one_cpu() and smp_cpu_init()),
>> but the patch will still work there because it calls mmgrab(&init_mm) =
in
>> smp_cpu_init() and then should call mmdrop(&init_mm) in finish_cpu().
>=20
> Thanks for debugging this. How did you hit it in the first place?
>=20
> A link to the original thread would have helped me:
>=20
>  https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200113190331.12788-1-cai@lca.pw/
>=20
>> WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
>> -----------------------------
>> kernel/workqueue.c:710 RCU or wq_pool_mutex should be held!
>>=20
>> other info that might help us debug this:
>>=20
>> RCU used illegally from offline CPU!
>> Call Trace:
>> dump_stack+0xf4/0x164 (unreliable)
>> lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x140/0x164
>> get_work_pool+0x110/0x150
>> __queue_work+0x1bc/0xca0
>> queue_work_on+0x114/0x120
>> css_release+0x9c/0xc0
>> percpu_ref_put_many+0x204/0x230
>> free_pcp_prepare+0x264/0x570
>> free_unref_page+0x38/0xf0
>> __mmdrop+0x21c/0x2c0
>> idle_task_exit+0x170/0x1b0
>> pnv_smp_cpu_kill_self+0x38/0x2e0
>> cpu_die+0x48/0x64
>> arch_cpu_idle_dead+0x30/0x50
>> do_idle+0x2f4/0x470
>> cpu_startup_entry+0x38/0x40
>> start_secondary+0x7a8/0xa80
>> start_secondary_resume+0x10/0x14
>=20
> Do we know when this started happening? ie. can we determine a Fixes
> tag?
>=20
>> <Peter to sign off here>
>> Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
>> ---
>> arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/smp.c |  1 -
>> include/linux/sched/mm.h             |  2 ++
>> kernel/cpu.c                         | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
>> kernel/sched/core.c                  |  5 +++--
>> 4 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>=20
>> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/smp.c =
b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/smp.c
>> index 13e251699346..b2ba3e95bda7 100644
>> --- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/smp.c
>> +++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/powernv/smp.c
>> @@ -167,7 +167,6 @@ static void pnv_smp_cpu_kill_self(void)
>> 	/* Standard hot unplug procedure */
>>=20
>> 	idle_task_exit();
>> -	current->active_mm =3D NULL; /* for sanity */
>=20
> If I'm reading it right, we'll now be running with active_mm =3D=3D =
init_mm
> in the offline loop.
>=20
> I guess that's fine, I can't think of any reason it would matter, and =
it
> seems like we were NULL'ing it out just for paranoia's sake not =
because
> of any actual problem.
>=20
> Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> (powerpc)

Peter, can you take a look at this patch when you have a chance?

>=20
>=20
> cheers
>=20
>> diff --git a/include/linux/sched/mm.h b/include/linux/sched/mm.h
>> index c49257a3b510..a132d875d351 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/sched/mm.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/sched/mm.h
>> @@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ static inline void mmdrop(struct mm_struct *mm)
>> 		__mmdrop(mm);
>> }
>>=20
>> +void mmdrop(struct mm_struct *mm);
>> +
>> /*
>>  * This has to be called after a get_task_mm()/mmget_not_zero()
>>  * followed by taking the mmap_sem for writing before modifying the
>> diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
>> index 2371292f30b0..244d30544377 100644
>> --- a/kernel/cpu.c
>> +++ b/kernel/cpu.c
>> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
>>  *
>>  * This code is licenced under the GPL.
>>  */
>> +#include <linux/sched/mm.h>
>> #include <linux/proc_fs.h>
>> #include <linux/smp.h>
>> #include <linux/init.h>
>> @@ -564,6 +565,21 @@ static int bringup_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
>> 	return bringup_wait_for_ap(cpu);
>> }
>>=20
>> +static int finish_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
>> +{
>> +	struct task_struct *idle =3D idle_thread_get(cpu);
>> +	struct mm_struct *mm =3D idle->active_mm;
>> +
>> +	/*
>> +	 * idle_task_exit() will have switched to &init_mm, now
>> +	 * clean up any remaining active_mm state.
>> +	 */
>> +	if (mm !=3D &init_mm)
>> +		idle->active_mm =3D &init_mm;
>> +	mmdrop(mm);
>> +	return 0;
>> +}
>> +
>> /*
>>  * Hotplug state machine related functions
>>  */
>> @@ -1549,7 +1565,7 @@ static struct cpuhp_step cpuhp_hp_states[] =3D =
{
>> 	[CPUHP_BRINGUP_CPU] =3D {
>> 		.name			=3D "cpu:bringup",
>> 		.startup.single		=3D bringup_cpu,
>> -		.teardown.single	=3D NULL,
>> +		.teardown.single	=3D finish_cpu,
>> 		.cant_stop		=3D true,
>> 	},
>> 	/* Final state before CPU kills itself */
>> diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
>> index a2694ba82874..8787958339d5 100644
>> --- a/kernel/sched/core.c
>> +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
>> @@ -6200,13 +6200,14 @@ void idle_task_exit(void)
>> 	struct mm_struct *mm =3D current->active_mm;
>>=20
>> 	BUG_ON(cpu_online(smp_processor_id()));
>> +	BUG_ON(current !=3D this_rq()->idle);
>>=20
>> 	if (mm !=3D &init_mm) {
>> 		switch_mm(mm, &init_mm, current);
>> -		current->active_mm =3D &init_mm;
>> 		finish_arch_post_lock_switch();
>> 	}
>> -	mmdrop(mm);
>> +
>> +	/* finish_cpu(), as ran on the BP, will clean up the active_mm =
state */
>> }
>>=20
>> /*
>> --=20
>> 2.21.0 (Apple Git-122.2)