From eda8dca519269c92a0771668b3d5678792de7b78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Josh Poimboeuf Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2016 02:32:09 -0500 Subject: sched/debug: Fix deadlock when enabling sched events I see a hang when enabling sched events: echo 1 > /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/events/sched/enable The printk buffer shows: BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#1, swapper/1/0 lock: 0xffff88007d5d8c00, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: swapper/1/0, .owner_cpu: 1 CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.7.0-rc2+ #1 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.8.1-20150318_183358- 04/01/2014 ... Call Trace: [] dump_stack+0x85/0xc2 [] spin_dump+0x78/0xc0 [] do_raw_spin_lock+0x11a/0x150 [] _raw_spin_lock+0x61/0x80 [] ? try_to_wake_up+0x256/0x4e0 [] try_to_wake_up+0x256/0x4e0 [] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x4a/0x80 [] wake_up_process+0x15/0x20 [] insert_work+0x84/0xc0 [] __queue_work+0x18f/0x660 [] queue_work_on+0x46/0x90 [] drm_fb_helper_dirty.isra.11+0xcb/0xe0 [drm_kms_helper] [] drm_fb_helper_sys_imageblit+0x30/0x40 [drm_kms_helper] [] soft_cursor+0x1ad/0x230 [] bit_cursor+0x649/0x680 [] ? update_attr.isra.2+0x90/0x90 [] fbcon_cursor+0x14a/0x1c0 [] hide_cursor+0x28/0x90 [] vt_console_print+0x3bf/0x3f0 [] call_console_drivers.constprop.24+0x183/0x200 [] console_unlock+0x3d4/0x610 [] vprintk_emit+0x3c5/0x610 [] vprintk_default+0x29/0x40 [] printk+0x57/0x73 [] enqueue_entity+0xc2e/0xc70 [] enqueue_task_fair+0x59/0xab0 [] ? kvm_sched_clock_read+0x9/0x20 [] ? sched_clock+0x9/0x10 [] activate_task+0x5c/0xa0 [] ttwu_do_activate+0x54/0xb0 [] sched_ttwu_pending+0x7a/0xb0 [] scheduler_ipi+0x61/0x170 [] smp_trace_reschedule_interrupt+0x4f/0x2a0 [] trace_reschedule_interrupt+0x96/0xa0 [] ? native_safe_halt+0x6/0x10 [] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10 [] default_idle+0x20/0x1a0 [] arch_cpu_idle+0xf/0x20 [] default_idle_call+0x2f/0x50 [] cpu_startup_entry+0x37e/0x450 [] start_secondary+0x160/0x1a0 Note the hang only occurs when echoing the above from a physical serial console, not from an ssh session. The bug is caused by a deadlock where the task is trying to grab the rq lock twice because printk()'s aren't safe in sched code. Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Matt Fleming Cc: Mel Gorman Cc: Mike Galbraith Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Srikar Dronamraju Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: cb2517653fcc ("sched/debug: Make schedstats a runtime tunable that is disabled by default") Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160613073209.gdvdybiruljbkn3p@treble Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched/fair.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/sched/fair.c b/kernel/sched/fair.c index 4e33ad12bb68..a2348deab7a3 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/fair.c +++ b/kernel/sched/fair.c @@ -3246,7 +3246,7 @@ static inline void check_schedstat_required(void) trace_sched_stat_iowait_enabled() || trace_sched_stat_blocked_enabled() || trace_sched_stat_runtime_enabled()) { - pr_warn_once("Scheduler tracepoints stat_sleep, stat_iowait, " + printk_deferred_once("Scheduler tracepoints stat_sleep, stat_iowait, " "stat_blocked and stat_runtime require the " "kernel parameter schedstats=enabled or " "kernel.sched_schedstats=1\n"); -- cgit v1.2.1