One "hung task" error was reported during the test, and i figured out
the deadlock scenario is as follows:

T1 [BP]               | T2 [AP]                     | T3 [hwlatd/1]             
     | T4
work_for_cpu_fn()     | cpuhp_thread_fun()          | kthread_fn()              
     | hwlat_hotplug_workfn()
  _cpu_down()         |   stop_cpu_kthread()        |                           
     |   mutex_lock(&hwlat_data.lock)
    cpus_write_lock() |     kthread_stop(hwlatd/1)  |   
mutex_lock(&hwlat_data.lock) |
    __cpuhp_kick_ap() |       wait_for_completion() |                           
     |   cpus_read_lock()

It constitutes ABBA deadlock indirectly between "cpu_hotplug_lock" and
"hwlat_data.lock", remove the mutex_lock in kthread_fn() to fix this.

Fixes: ba998f7d9531 ("trace/hwlat: Support hotplug operations")
Signed-off-by: Wei Li <liwei...@huawei.com>
---
 kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c | 15 +++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c b/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c
index 3bd6071441ad..7d50b5ea999a 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_hwlat.c
@@ -108,6 +108,7 @@ static struct hwlat_data {
 
        u64     sample_window;          /* total sampling window (on+off) */
        u64     sample_width;           /* active sampling portion of window */
+       u64     sample_interval;        /* sample_window - sample_width */
 
        int     thread_mode;            /* thread mode */
 
@@ -370,10 +371,7 @@ static int kthread_fn(void *data)
                get_sample();
                local_irq_enable();
 
-               mutex_lock(&hwlat_data.lock);
-               interval = hwlat_data.sample_window - hwlat_data.sample_width;
-               mutex_unlock(&hwlat_data.lock);
-
+               interval = READ_ONCE(hwlat_data.sample_interval);
                do_div(interval, USEC_PER_MSEC); /* modifies interval value */
 
                /* Always sleep for at least 1ms */
@@ -729,6 +727,13 @@ static ssize_t hwlat_mode_write(struct file *filp, const 
char __user *ubuf,
        return ret;
 }
 
+static void hwlat_width_window_write(u64 *val, u64 data)
+{
+       *val = data;
+       WRITE_ONCE(hwlat_data.sample_interval,
+                  hwlat_data.sample_window - hwlat_data.sample_width);
+}
+
 /*
  * The width parameter is read/write using the generic trace_min_max_param
  * method. The *val is protected by the hwlat_data lock and is upper
@@ -737,6 +742,7 @@ static ssize_t hwlat_mode_write(struct file *filp, const 
char __user *ubuf,
 static struct trace_min_max_param hwlat_width = {
        .lock           = &hwlat_data.lock,
        .val            = &hwlat_data.sample_width,
+       .write          = &hwlat_width_window_write,
        .max            = &hwlat_data.sample_window,
        .min            = NULL,
 };
@@ -749,6 +755,7 @@ static struct trace_min_max_param hwlat_width = {
 static struct trace_min_max_param hwlat_window = {
        .lock           = &hwlat_data.lock,
        .val            = &hwlat_data.sample_window,
+       .write          = &hwlat_width_window_write,
        .max            = NULL,
        .min            = &hwlat_data.sample_width,
 };
-- 
2.25.1


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