Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759257AbZFQBGR (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:06:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751949AbZFQBGB (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:06:01 -0400 Received: from tomts28-srv.bellnexxia.net ([209.226.175.102]:34499 "EHLO tomts28-srv.bellnexxia.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751403AbZFQBF7 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:05:59 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhAJAO7cN0pMROLw/2dsb2JhbACBUIEw0CeCNIFXBQ Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:05:40 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: "Pallipadi, Venkatesh" Cc: Simon Holm =?iso-8859-1?Q?Th=F8gersen?= , Dave Jones , Pekka Enberg , Dave Young , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Kernel Testers List , "cpufreq@vger.kernel.org" , Rusty Russell , "trenn@suse.de" , "sven.wegener@stealer.net" Subject: Re: [Bug #13475] suspend/hibernate lockdep warning Message-ID: <20090617010540.GA27432@Krystal> References: <84144f020906070621r1f480eaeief026d23662df380@mail.gmail.com> <1244447366.13471.4.camel@penberg-laptop> <20090608124844.GA17588@Krystal> <20090608143220.GC2516@redhat.com> <1244727561.5350.32.camel@odie.local> <20090611152329.GB28099@Krystal> <20090617003925.GA3900@linux-os.sc.intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT In-Reply-To: <20090617003925.GA3900@linux-os.sc.intel.com> X-Editor: vi X-Info: http://krystal.dyndns.org:8080 X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.21.3-grsec (i686) X-Uptime: 21:05:10 up 108 days, 21:31, 3 users, load average: 0.14, 0.32, 0.27 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 9754 Lines: 234 * Pallipadi, Venkatesh (venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com) wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 08:23:29AM -0700, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > * Simon Holm Th?gersen (odie@cs.aau.dk) wrote: > > > man, 08 06 2009 kl. 10:32 -0400, skrev Dave Jones: > > > > On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 08:48:45AM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > >> Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13475 > > > > > > > >> Subject : suspend/hibernate lockdep warning > > > > > > > >> References : http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124393723321241&w=4 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I suspect the following commit, after revert this patch I test 5 times > > > > > > > without lockdep warnings. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > commit b14893a62c73af0eca414cfed505b8c09efc613c > > > > > > > Author: Mathieu Desnoyers > > > > > > > Date: Sun May 17 10:30:45 2009 -0400 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > [CPUFREQ] fix timer teardown in ondemand governor > > > > > > > > > > > > The patch is probably not at fault here. I suspect it's some latent bug > > > > > > that simply got exposed by the change to cancel_delayed_work_sync(). In > > > > > > any case, Mathieu, can you take a look at this please? > > > > > > > > > > Yes, it's been looked at and discussed on the cpufreq ML. The short > > > > > answer is that they plan to re-engineer cpufreq and remove the policy > > > > > rwlock taken around almost every operations at the cpufreq level. > > > > > > > > > > The short-term solution, which is recognised as ugly, would be do to the > > > > > following before doing the cancel_delayed_work_sync() : > > > > > > > > > > unlock policy rwlock write lock > > > > > > > > > > lock policy rwlock write lock > > > > > > > > > > It basically works because this rwlock is unneeded for teardown, hence > > > > > the future re-work planned. > > > > > > > > > > I'm sorry I cannot prepare a patch current... I've got quite a few pages > > > > > of Ph.D. thesis due for the beginning of July. > > > > > > > > I'm kinda scared to touch this code at all for .30 due to the number of > > > > unexpected gotchas we seem to run into every time we touch something > > > > locking related. So I'm inclined to just live with the lockdep warning > > > > for .30, and see how the real fixes look for .31, and push them back > > > > as -stable updates if they work out. > > > > > > Unfortunately I don't think it is just theoretical, I've actually hit > > > the following (that haven't got anything to do with suspend/hibernate) > > > > > > INFO: task cpufreqd:4676 blocked for more than 120 seconds. > > > "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. > > > cpufreqd D eee2ac60 0 4676 1 > > > ee01bd68 00000086 eee2aad0 eee2ac60 00000533 eee2aad0 eee2ac60 0002b16f > > > 00000000 eee2ac60 7fffffff 7fffffff eee2ac60 7fffffff 7fffffff 00000000 > > > ee01bd70 c03117ee ee01bdbc c0311c0c eee2aad0 eecf6900 eee2aad0 eecf6900 > > > Call Trace: > > > [] schedule+0x12/0x24 > > > [] schedule_timeout+0x17/0x170 > > > [] ? __wake_up+0x2b/0x51 > > > [] wait_for_common+0xc4/0x135 > > > [] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0xd > > > [] wait_for_completion+0x12/0x14 > > > [] __cancel_work_timer+0xfe/0x129 > > > [] ? wq_barrier_func+0x0/0xd > > > [] cancel_delayed_work_sync+0xb/0xd > > > [] cpufreq_governor_dbs+0x22e/0x291 [cpufreq_ondemand] > > > [] __cpufreq_governor+0x65/0x9d > > > [] __cpufreq_set_policy+0xd1/0x11f > > > [] store_scaling_governor+0x18a/0x1b2 > > > [] ? handle_update+0x0/0xd > > > [] ? store_scaling_governor+0x0/0x1b2 > > > [] store+0x48/0x61 > > > [] sysfs_write_file+0xb4/0xdf > > > [] ? sysfs_write_file+0x0/0xdf > > > [] vfs_write+0x8a/0x104 > > > [] sys_write+0x3b/0x60 > > > [] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x2c > > > INFO: task kondemand/0:4956 blocked for more than 120 seconds. > > > "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message. > > > kondemand/0 D 00000533 0 4956 2 > > > ee1d9efc 00000046 c011815f 00000533 071148de ee1e0080 ee1e0210 00000000 > > > c03ff478 9189e633 00000082 c03ff478 ee1e0210 c04159f4 c04159f0 00000000 > > > ee1d9f04 c03117ee ee1d9f28 c0313104 ee1d9f30 c04159f4 ee1e0080 c01183be > > > Call Trace: > > > [] ? update_curr+0x6c/0x14b > > > [] schedule+0x12/0x24 > > > [] rwsem_down_failed_common+0x150/0x16e > > > [] ? dequeue_task_fair+0x51/0x56 > > > [] rwsem_down_write_failed+0x1b/0x23 > > > [] call_rwsem_down_write_failed+0x6/0x8 > > > [] ? down_write+0x14/0x16 > > > [] lock_policy_rwsem_write+0x1d/0x33 > > > [] do_dbs_timer+0x45/0x266 [cpufreq_ondemand] > > > [] worker_thread+0x165/0x212 > > > [] ? do_dbs_timer+0x0/0x266 [cpufreq_ondemand] > > > [] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x33 > > > [] ? worker_thread+0x0/0x212 > > > [] kthread+0x42/0x67 > > > [] ? kthread+0x0/0x67 > > > [] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10 > > > > > > I've only seen it once in 5 boots and CONFIG_PROVELOCKING does not give any > > > warnings about this, though it does yell when switching governor as reported > > > by others in bug #13493. > > > > > > Let's hope Mathieu nails it, though I know he's busy with his thesis. > > > > > > > Thanks for the lockdep reports, > > > > I'm currently looking into it, and it's not pretty. Basically we have : > > > > A > > B > > (means B nested in A) > > > > work > > read rwlock policy > > > > dbs_mutex > > work > > read rwlock policy > > > > write rwlock policy > > dbs_mutex > > > > So the added dbs_mutex <- work <- rwlock policy dependency (for proper > > teardown) is firing the reverse dependency between policy rwlock and > > dbs_mutex. > > > > The real way to fix this is to do not take the rwlock policy around > > non-policy-related actions, like governor START/STOP doing worker > > creation/teardown. > > > > One simple short-term solution would be to take a mutex outside of the > > policy rwlock write lock in cpufreq.c. This mutex would be the > > equivalent of dbs_mutex "lifted" outside of the rwlock write lock. For > > teardown, we only need to hold this mutex, not the rwlock write lock. > > Then we can remove the dbs_mutex from the governors. > > > > But looking at cpufreq.c's cpufreq_add_dev() is very much like kicking a > > wasp nest: a lot of error paths are not handled properly, and I fear > > someone will have to go through the code, fix the currently incorrect > > code paths, and then add the lifted mutex. > > > > I currently have no time for implementation due to my thesis, but I'll > > be happy to review a patch. > > > > How about below patch on top of Mathieu's patch here > http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124448150529838&w=2 > > [PATCH] cpufreq: Eliminate lockdep issue with dbs_mutex and policy_rwsem > > This removes the unneeded dependency of > write rwlock policy > dbs_mutex > > dbs_mutex does not have anything to do with timer_init and timer_exit. It > is just to protect dbs tunables in sysfs cpufreq/ondemand and is not > needed to be held during timer init, exit as well as during governor limit > changes. > If this works, then it will likely need to be ported to the conservative governor too. Thanks, Mathieu > Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi > --- > drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c | 8 +++----- > 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c > index e741c33..1c94ff5 100644 > --- a/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c > +++ b/drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq_ondemand.c > @@ -352,8 +352,8 @@ static ssize_t store_powersave_bias(struct cpufreq_policy *unused, > > mutex_lock(&dbs_mutex); > dbs_tuners_ins.powersave_bias = input; > - ondemand_powersave_bias_init(); > mutex_unlock(&dbs_mutex); > + ondemand_powersave_bias_init(); > > return count; > } > @@ -626,14 +626,14 @@ static int cpufreq_governor_dbs(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, > > dbs_tuners_ins.sampling_rate = def_sampling_rate; > } > + mutex_unlock(&dbs_mutex); > dbs_timer_init(this_dbs_info); > > - mutex_unlock(&dbs_mutex); > break; > > case CPUFREQ_GOV_STOP: > - mutex_lock(&dbs_mutex); > dbs_timer_exit(this_dbs_info); > + mutex_lock(&dbs_mutex); > sysfs_remove_group(&policy->kobj, &dbs_attr_group); > dbs_enable--; > mutex_unlock(&dbs_mutex); > @@ -641,14 +641,12 @@ static int cpufreq_governor_dbs(struct cpufreq_policy *policy, > break; > > case CPUFREQ_GOV_LIMITS: > - mutex_lock(&dbs_mutex); > if (policy->max < this_dbs_info->cur_policy->cur) > __cpufreq_driver_target(this_dbs_info->cur_policy, > policy->max, CPUFREQ_RELATION_H); > else if (policy->min > this_dbs_info->cur_policy->cur) > __cpufreq_driver_target(this_dbs_info->cur_policy, > policy->min, CPUFREQ_RELATION_L); > - mutex_unlock(&dbs_mutex); > break; > } > return 0; > -- > 1.6.0.6 > -- Mathieu Desnoyers OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68 -- 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/