The TASKS03 and TREE04 rcutorture scenarios produce the following lockdep complaint:
================================ WARNING: inconsistent lock state 5.2.0-rc1+ #513 Not tainted -------------------------------- inconsistent {IN-HARDIRQ-W} -> {HARDIRQ-ON-W} usage. migration/1/14 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes: (____ptrval____) (tick_broadcast_lock){?...}, at: tick_broadcast_offline+0xf/0x70 {IN-HARDIRQ-W} state was registered at: lock_acquire+0xb0/0x1c0 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3c/0x50 tick_broadcast_switch_to_oneshot+0xd/0x40 tick_switch_to_oneshot+0x4f/0xd0 hrtimer_run_queues+0xf3/0x130 run_local_timers+0x1c/0x50 update_process_times+0x1c/0x50 tick_periodic+0x26/0xc0 tick_handle_periodic+0x1a/0x60 smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x80/0x2a0 apic_timer_interrupt+0xf/0x20 _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4e/0x60 rcu_nocb_gp_kthread+0x15d/0x590 kthread+0xf3/0x130 ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50 irq event stamp: 171 hardirqs last enabled at (171): [<ffffffff8a201a37>] trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x1a/0x1c hardirqs last disabled at (170): [<ffffffff8a201a53>] trace_hardirqs_off_thunk+0x1a/0x1c softirqs last enabled at (0): [<ffffffff8a264ee0>] copy_process.part.56+0x650/0x1cb0 softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0 other info that might help us debug this: Possible unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 ---- lock(tick_broadcast_lock); <Interrupt> lock(tick_broadcast_lock); *** DEADLOCK *** 1 lock held by migration/1/14: #0: (____ptrval____) (clockevents_lock){+.+.}, at: tick_offline_cpu+0xf/0x30 stack backtrace: CPU: 1 PID: 14 Comm: migration/1 Not tainted 5.2.0-rc1+ #513 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x5e/0x8b print_usage_bug+0x1fc/0x216 ? print_shortest_lock_dependencies+0x1b0/0x1b0 mark_lock+0x1f2/0x280 __lock_acquire+0x1e0/0x18f0 ? __lock_acquire+0x21b/0x18f0 ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4e/0x60 lock_acquire+0xb0/0x1c0 ? tick_broadcast_offline+0xf/0x70 _raw_spin_lock+0x33/0x40 ? tick_broadcast_offline+0xf/0x70 tick_broadcast_offline+0xf/0x70 tick_offline_cpu+0x16/0x30 take_cpu_down+0x7d/0xa0 multi_cpu_stop+0xa2/0xe0 ? cpu_stop_queue_work+0xc0/0xc0 cpu_stopper_thread+0x6d/0x100 smpboot_thread_fn+0x169/0x240 kthread+0xf3/0x130 ? sort_range+0x20/0x20 ? kthread_cancel_delayed_work_sync+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50 It turns out that tick_broadcast_offline() can be invoked with interrupts enabled, so this commit fixes this issue by replacing the raw_spin_lock() with raw_spin_lock_irqsave(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c index e51778c312f1..1daf77020230 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-broadcast.c @@ -454,12 +454,14 @@ static void tick_shutdown_broadcast(void) */ void tick_broadcast_offline(unsigned int cpu) { - raw_spin_lock(&tick_broadcast_lock); + unsigned long flags; + + raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&tick_broadcast_lock, flags); cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, tick_broadcast_mask); cpumask_clear_cpu(cpu, tick_broadcast_on); tick_broadcast_oneshot_offline(cpu); tick_shutdown_broadcast(); - raw_spin_unlock(&tick_broadcast_lock); + raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tick_broadcast_lock, flags); } #endif