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<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<title>rcu: Add lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled() to rcu_sched_clock_irq() and callees</title>
<updated>2021-09-15T07:50:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-19T18:13:06+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a649d25dcc671a33b9cc3176411920fdc5fbd98e ]

This commit adds a number of lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled() calls
to rcu_sched_clock_irq() and a number of the functions that it calls.
The point of this is to help track down a situation where lockdep appears
to be insisting that interrupts are enabled within these functions, which
should only ever be invoked from the scheduling-clock interrupt handler.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201111133813.GA81547@elver.google.com/
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a649d25dcc671a33b9cc3176411920fdc5fbd98e ]

This commit adds a number of lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled() calls
to rcu_sched_clock_irq() and a number of the functions that it calls.
The point of this is to help track down a situation where lockdep appears
to be insisting that interrupts are enabled within these functions, which
should only ever be invoked from the scheduling-clock interrupt handler.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20201111133813.GA81547@elver.google.com/
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>srcu: Fix broken node geometry after early ssp init</title>
<updated>2021-07-20T14:05:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-17T13:16:49+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b5befe842e6612cf894cf4a199924ee872d8b7d8 ]

An srcu_struct structure that is initialized before rcu_init_geometry()
will have its srcu_node hierarchy based on CONFIG_NR_CPUS.  Once
rcu_init_geometry() is called, this hierarchy is compressed as needed
for the actual maximum number of CPUs for this system.

Later on, that srcu_struct structure is confused, sometimes referring
to its initial CONFIG_NR_CPUS-based hierarchy, and sometimes instead
to the new num_possible_cpus() hierarchy.  For example, each of its
-&gt;mynode fields continues to reference the original leaf rcu_node
structures, some of which might no longer exist.  On the other hand,
srcu_for_each_node_breadth_first() traverses to the new node hierarchy.

There are at least two bad possible outcomes to this:

1) a) A callback enqueued early on an srcu_data structure (call it
      *sdp) is recorded pending on sdp-&gt;mynode-&gt;srcu_data_have_cbs in
      srcu_funnel_gp_start() with sdp-&gt;mynode pointing to a deep leaf
      (say 3 levels).

   b) The grace period ends after rcu_init_geometry() shrinks the
      nodes level to a single one.  srcu_gp_end() walks through the new
      srcu_node hierarchy without ever reaching the old leaves so the
      callback is never executed.

   This is easily reproduced on an 8 CPUs machine with CONFIG_NR_CPUS &gt;= 32
   and "rcupdate.rcu_self_test=1". The srcu_barrier() after early tests
   verification never completes and the boot hangs:

	[ 5413.141029] INFO: task swapper/0:1 blocked for more than 4915 seconds.
	[ 5413.147564]       Not tainted 5.12.0-rc4+ #28
	[ 5413.151927] "echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
	[ 5413.159753] task:swapper/0       state:D stack:    0 pid:    1 ppid:     0 flags:0x00004000
	[ 5413.168099] Call Trace:
	[ 5413.170555]  __schedule+0x36c/0x930
	[ 5413.174057]  ? wait_for_completion+0x88/0x110
	[ 5413.178423]  schedule+0x46/0xf0
	[ 5413.181575]  schedule_timeout+0x284/0x380
	[ 5413.185591]  ? wait_for_completion+0x88/0x110
	[ 5413.189957]  ? mark_held_locks+0x61/0x80
	[ 5413.193882]  ? mark_held_locks+0x61/0x80
	[ 5413.197809]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x24/0x50
	[ 5413.202173]  ? wait_for_completion+0x88/0x110
	[ 5413.206535]  wait_for_completion+0xb4/0x110
	[ 5413.210724]  ? srcu_torture_stats_print+0x110/0x110
	[ 5413.215610]  srcu_barrier+0x187/0x200
	[ 5413.219277]  ? rcu_tasks_verify_self_tests+0x50/0x50
	[ 5413.224244]  ? rdinit_setup+0x2b/0x2b
	[ 5413.227907]  rcu_verify_early_boot_tests+0x2d/0x40
	[ 5413.232700]  do_one_initcall+0x63/0x310
	[ 5413.236541]  ? rdinit_setup+0x2b/0x2b
	[ 5413.240207]  ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x52/0x80
	[ 5413.244912]  kernel_init_freeable+0x253/0x28f
	[ 5413.249273]  ? rest_init+0x250/0x250
	[ 5413.252846]  kernel_init+0xa/0x110
	[ 5413.256257]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

2) An srcu_struct structure that is initialized before rcu_init_geometry()
   and used afterward will always have stale rdp-&gt;mynode references,
   resulting in callbacks to be missed in srcu_gp_end(), just like in
   the previous scenario.

This commit therefore causes init_srcu_struct_nodes to initialize the
geometry, if needed.  This ensures that the srcu_node hierarchy is
properly built and distributed from the get-go.

Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;jiangshanlai@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraju@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit b5befe842e6612cf894cf4a199924ee872d8b7d8 ]

An srcu_struct structure that is initialized before rcu_init_geometry()
will have its srcu_node hierarchy based on CONFIG_NR_CPUS.  Once
rcu_init_geometry() is called, this hierarchy is compressed as needed
for the actual maximum number of CPUs for this system.

Later on, that srcu_struct structure is confused, sometimes referring
to its initial CONFIG_NR_CPUS-based hierarchy, and sometimes instead
to the new num_possible_cpus() hierarchy.  For example, each of its
-&gt;mynode fields continues to reference the original leaf rcu_node
structures, some of which might no longer exist.  On the other hand,
srcu_for_each_node_breadth_first() traverses to the new node hierarchy.

There are at least two bad possible outcomes to this:

1) a) A callback enqueued early on an srcu_data structure (call it
      *sdp) is recorded pending on sdp-&gt;mynode-&gt;srcu_data_have_cbs in
      srcu_funnel_gp_start() with sdp-&gt;mynode pointing to a deep leaf
      (say 3 levels).

   b) The grace period ends after rcu_init_geometry() shrinks the
      nodes level to a single one.  srcu_gp_end() walks through the new
      srcu_node hierarchy without ever reaching the old leaves so the
      callback is never executed.

   This is easily reproduced on an 8 CPUs machine with CONFIG_NR_CPUS &gt;= 32
   and "rcupdate.rcu_self_test=1". The srcu_barrier() after early tests
   verification never completes and the boot hangs:

	[ 5413.141029] INFO: task swapper/0:1 blocked for more than 4915 seconds.
	[ 5413.147564]       Not tainted 5.12.0-rc4+ #28
	[ 5413.151927] "echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
	[ 5413.159753] task:swapper/0       state:D stack:    0 pid:    1 ppid:     0 flags:0x00004000
	[ 5413.168099] Call Trace:
	[ 5413.170555]  __schedule+0x36c/0x930
	[ 5413.174057]  ? wait_for_completion+0x88/0x110
	[ 5413.178423]  schedule+0x46/0xf0
	[ 5413.181575]  schedule_timeout+0x284/0x380
	[ 5413.185591]  ? wait_for_completion+0x88/0x110
	[ 5413.189957]  ? mark_held_locks+0x61/0x80
	[ 5413.193882]  ? mark_held_locks+0x61/0x80
	[ 5413.197809]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x24/0x50
	[ 5413.202173]  ? wait_for_completion+0x88/0x110
	[ 5413.206535]  wait_for_completion+0xb4/0x110
	[ 5413.210724]  ? srcu_torture_stats_print+0x110/0x110
	[ 5413.215610]  srcu_barrier+0x187/0x200
	[ 5413.219277]  ? rcu_tasks_verify_self_tests+0x50/0x50
	[ 5413.224244]  ? rdinit_setup+0x2b/0x2b
	[ 5413.227907]  rcu_verify_early_boot_tests+0x2d/0x40
	[ 5413.232700]  do_one_initcall+0x63/0x310
	[ 5413.236541]  ? rdinit_setup+0x2b/0x2b
	[ 5413.240207]  ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x52/0x80
	[ 5413.244912]  kernel_init_freeable+0x253/0x28f
	[ 5413.249273]  ? rest_init+0x250/0x250
	[ 5413.252846]  kernel_init+0xa/0x110
	[ 5413.256257]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

2) An srcu_struct structure that is initialized before rcu_init_geometry()
   and used afterward will always have stale rdp-&gt;mynode references,
   resulting in callbacks to be missed in srcu_gp_end(), just like in
   the previous scenario.

This commit therefore causes init_srcu_struct_nodes to initialize the
geometry, if needed.  This ensures that the srcu_node hierarchy is
properly built and distributed from the get-go.

Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;jiangshanlai@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraju@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Invoke rcu_spawn_core_kthreads() from rcu_spawn_gp_kthread()</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T14:56:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-31T17:59:05+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 8e4b1d2bc198e34b48fc7cc3a3c5a2fcb269e271 ]

Currently, rcu_spawn_core_kthreads() is invoked via an early_initcall(),
which works, except that rcu_spawn_gp_kthread() is also invoked via an
early_initcall() and rcu_spawn_core_kthreads() relies on adjustments to
kthread_prio that are carried out by rcu_spawn_gp_kthread().  There is
no guaranttee of ordering among early_initcall() handlers, and thus no
guarantee that kthread_prio will be properly checked and range-limited
at the time that rcu_spawn_core_kthreads() needs it.

In most cases, this bug is harmless.  After all, the only reason that
rcu_spawn_gp_kthread() adjusts the value of kthread_prio is if the user
specified a nonsensical value for this boot parameter, which experience
indicates is rare.

Nevertheless, a bug is a bug.  This commit therefore causes the
rcu_spawn_core_kthreads() function to be invoked directly from
rcu_spawn_gp_kthread() after any needed adjustments to kthread_prio have
been carried out.

Fixes: 48d07c04b4cc ("rcu: Enable elimination of Tree-RCU softirq processing")
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8e4b1d2bc198e34b48fc7cc3a3c5a2fcb269e271 ]

Currently, rcu_spawn_core_kthreads() is invoked via an early_initcall(),
which works, except that rcu_spawn_gp_kthread() is also invoked via an
early_initcall() and rcu_spawn_core_kthreads() relies on adjustments to
kthread_prio that are carried out by rcu_spawn_gp_kthread().  There is
no guaranttee of ordering among early_initcall() handlers, and thus no
guarantee that kthread_prio will be properly checked and range-limited
at the time that rcu_spawn_core_kthreads() needs it.

In most cases, this bug is harmless.  After all, the only reason that
rcu_spawn_gp_kthread() adjusts the value of kthread_prio is if the user
specified a nonsensical value for this boot parameter, which experience
indicates is rare.

Nevertheless, a bug is a bug.  This commit therefore causes the
rcu_spawn_core_kthreads() function to be invoked directly from
rcu_spawn_gp_kthread() after any needed adjustments to kthread_prio have
been carried out.

Fixes: 48d07c04b4cc ("rcu: Enable elimination of Tree-RCU softirq processing")
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Remove spurious instrumentation_end() in rcu_nmi_enter()</title>
<updated>2021-05-14T07:50:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhouyi Zhou</name>
<email>zhouzhouyi@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-11T01:08:59+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 6494ccb93271bee596a12db32ff44867d5be2321 ]

In rcu_nmi_enter(), there is an erroneous instrumentation_end() in the
second branch of the "if" statement.  Oddly enough, "objtool check -f
vmlinux.o" fails to complain because it is unable to correctly cover
all cases.  Instead, objtool visits the third branch first, which marks
following trace_rcu_dyntick() as visited.  This commit therefore removes
the spurious instrumentation_end().

Fixes: 04b25a495bd6 ("rcu: Mark rcu_nmi_enter() call to rcu_cleanup_after_idle() noinstr")
Reported-by Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraju@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou &lt;zhouzhouyi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6494ccb93271bee596a12db32ff44867d5be2321 ]

In rcu_nmi_enter(), there is an erroneous instrumentation_end() in the
second branch of the "if" statement.  Oddly enough, "objtool check -f
vmlinux.o" fails to complain because it is unable to correctly cover
all cases.  Instead, objtool visits the third branch first, which marks
following trace_rcu_dyntick() as visited.  This commit therefore removes
the spurious instrumentation_end().

Fixes: 04b25a495bd6 ("rcu: Mark rcu_nmi_enter() call to rcu_cleanup_after_idle() noinstr")
Reported-by Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraju@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou &lt;zhouzhouyi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kvfree_rcu: Use same set of GFP flags as does single-argument</title>
<updated>2021-05-11T12:47:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)</name>
<email>urezki@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-29T20:05:05+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ee6ddf58475cce8a3d3697614679cd8cb4a6f583 ]

Running an rcuscale stress-suite can lead to "Out of memory" of a
system. This can happen under high memory pressure with a small amount
of physical memory.

For example, a KVM test configuration with 64 CPUs and 512 megabytes
can result in OOM when running rcuscale with below parameters:

../kvm.sh --torture rcuscale --allcpus --duration 10 --kconfig CONFIG_NR_CPUS=64 \
--bootargs "rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test=1 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads=16 rcuscale.holdoff=20 \
  rcuscale.kfree_loops=10000 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot" --trust-make

&lt;snip&gt;
[   12.054448] kworker/1:1H invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x2cc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN), order=0, oom_score_adj=0
[   12.055303] CPU: 1 PID: 377 Comm: kworker/1:1H Not tainted 5.11.0-rc3+ #510
[   12.055416] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014
[   12.056485] Workqueue: events_highpri fill_page_cache_func
[   12.056485] Call Trace:
[   12.056485]  dump_stack+0x57/0x6a
[   12.056485]  dump_header+0x4c/0x30a
[   12.056485]  ? del_timer_sync+0x20/0x30
[   12.056485]  out_of_memory.cold.47+0xa/0x7e
[   12.056485]  __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.123+0x82f/0xc00
[   12.056485]  __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x289/0x2c0
[   12.056485]  __get_free_pages+0x8/0x30
[   12.056485]  fill_page_cache_func+0x39/0xb0
[   12.056485]  process_one_work+0x1ed/0x3b0
[   12.056485]  ? process_one_work+0x3b0/0x3b0
[   12.060485]  worker_thread+0x28/0x3c0
[   12.060485]  ? process_one_work+0x3b0/0x3b0
[   12.060485]  kthread+0x138/0x160
[   12.060485]  ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80
[   12.060485]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[   12.062156] Mem-Info:
[   12.062350] active_anon:0 inactive_anon:0 isolated_anon:0
[   12.062350]  active_file:0 inactive_file:0 isolated_file:0
[   12.062350]  unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0
[   12.062350]  slab_reclaimable:2797 slab_unreclaimable:80920
[   12.062350]  mapped:1 shmem:2 pagetables:8 bounce:0
[   12.062350]  free:10488 free_pcp:1227 free_cma:0
...
[   12.101610] Out of memory and no killable processes...
[   12.102042] Kernel panic - not syncing: System is deadlocked on memory
[   12.102583] CPU: 1 PID: 377 Comm: kworker/1:1H Not tainted 5.11.0-rc3+ #510
[   12.102600] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014
&lt;snip&gt;

Because kvfree_rcu() has a fallback path, memory allocation failure is
not the end of the world.  Furthermore, the added overhead of aggressive
GFP settings must be balanced against the overhead of the fallback path,
which is a cache miss for double-argument kvfree_rcu() and a call to
synchronize_rcu() for single-argument kvfree_rcu().  The current choice
of GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN can result in longer latencies than a call
to synchronize_rcu(), so less-tenacious GFP flags would be helpful.

Here is the tradeoff that must be balanced:
    a) Minimize use of the fallback path,
    b) Avoid pushing the system into OOM,
    c) Bound allocation latency to that of synchronize_rcu(), and
    d) Leave the emergency reserves to use cases lacking fallbacks.

This commit therefore changes GFP flags from GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN to
GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_NOWARN.  This combination
leaves the emergency reserves alone and can initiate reclaim, but will
not invoke the OOM killer.

Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ee6ddf58475cce8a3d3697614679cd8cb4a6f583 ]

Running an rcuscale stress-suite can lead to "Out of memory" of a
system. This can happen under high memory pressure with a small amount
of physical memory.

For example, a KVM test configuration with 64 CPUs and 512 megabytes
can result in OOM when running rcuscale with below parameters:

../kvm.sh --torture rcuscale --allcpus --duration 10 --kconfig CONFIG_NR_CPUS=64 \
--bootargs "rcuscale.kfree_rcu_test=1 rcuscale.kfree_nthreads=16 rcuscale.holdoff=20 \
  rcuscale.kfree_loops=10000 torture.disable_onoff_at_boot" --trust-make

&lt;snip&gt;
[   12.054448] kworker/1:1H invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0x2cc0(GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN), order=0, oom_score_adj=0
[   12.055303] CPU: 1 PID: 377 Comm: kworker/1:1H Not tainted 5.11.0-rc3+ #510
[   12.055416] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014
[   12.056485] Workqueue: events_highpri fill_page_cache_func
[   12.056485] Call Trace:
[   12.056485]  dump_stack+0x57/0x6a
[   12.056485]  dump_header+0x4c/0x30a
[   12.056485]  ? del_timer_sync+0x20/0x30
[   12.056485]  out_of_memory.cold.47+0xa/0x7e
[   12.056485]  __alloc_pages_slowpath.constprop.123+0x82f/0xc00
[   12.056485]  __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x289/0x2c0
[   12.056485]  __get_free_pages+0x8/0x30
[   12.056485]  fill_page_cache_func+0x39/0xb0
[   12.056485]  process_one_work+0x1ed/0x3b0
[   12.056485]  ? process_one_work+0x3b0/0x3b0
[   12.060485]  worker_thread+0x28/0x3c0
[   12.060485]  ? process_one_work+0x3b0/0x3b0
[   12.060485]  kthread+0x138/0x160
[   12.060485]  ? kthread_park+0x80/0x80
[   12.060485]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[   12.062156] Mem-Info:
[   12.062350] active_anon:0 inactive_anon:0 isolated_anon:0
[   12.062350]  active_file:0 inactive_file:0 isolated_file:0
[   12.062350]  unevictable:0 dirty:0 writeback:0
[   12.062350]  slab_reclaimable:2797 slab_unreclaimable:80920
[   12.062350]  mapped:1 shmem:2 pagetables:8 bounce:0
[   12.062350]  free:10488 free_pcp:1227 free_cma:0
...
[   12.101610] Out of memory and no killable processes...
[   12.102042] Kernel panic - not syncing: System is deadlocked on memory
[   12.102583] CPU: 1 PID: 377 Comm: kworker/1:1H Not tainted 5.11.0-rc3+ #510
[   12.102600] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014
&lt;snip&gt;

Because kvfree_rcu() has a fallback path, memory allocation failure is
not the end of the world.  Furthermore, the added overhead of aggressive
GFP settings must be balanced against the overhead of the fallback path,
which is a cache miss for double-argument kvfree_rcu() and a call to
synchronize_rcu() for single-argument kvfree_rcu().  The current choice
of GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN can result in longer latencies than a call
to synchronize_rcu(), so less-tenacious GFP flags would be helpful.

Here is the tradeoff that must be balanced:
    a) Minimize use of the fallback path,
    b) Avoid pushing the system into OOM,
    c) Bound allocation latency to that of synchronize_rcu(), and
    d) Leave the emergency reserves to use cases lacking fallbacks.

This commit therefore changes GFP flags from GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NOWARN to
GFP_KERNEL|__GFP_NORETRY|__GFP_NOMEMALLOC|__GFP_NOWARN.  This combination
leaves the emergency reserves alone and can initiate reclaim, but will
not invoke the OOM killer.

Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu/nocb: Perform deferred wake up before last idle's need_resched() check</title>
<updated>2021-03-04T10:38:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-31T23:05:45+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=e713bdd791ba9d11980fc52e080ed68c4b7527a5'/>
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commit 43789ef3f7d61aa7bed0cb2764e588fc990c30ef upstream.

Entering RCU idle mode may cause a deferred wake up of an RCU NOCB_GP
kthread (rcuog) to be serviced.

Usually a local wake up happening while running the idle task is handled
in one of the need_resched() checks carefully placed within the idle
loop that can break to the scheduler.

Unfortunately the call to rcu_idle_enter() is already beyond the last
generic need_resched() check and we may halt the CPU with a resched
request unhandled, leaving the task hanging.

Fix this with splitting the rcuog wakeup handling from rcu_idle_enter()
and place it before the last generic need_resched() check in the idle
loop. It is then assumed that no call to call_rcu() will be performed
after that in the idle loop until the CPU is put in low power mode.

Fixes: 96d3fd0d315a (rcu: Break call_rcu() deadlock involving scheduler and perf)
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210131230548.32970-3-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 43789ef3f7d61aa7bed0cb2764e588fc990c30ef upstream.

Entering RCU idle mode may cause a deferred wake up of an RCU NOCB_GP
kthread (rcuog) to be serviced.

Usually a local wake up happening while running the idle task is handled
in one of the need_resched() checks carefully placed within the idle
loop that can break to the scheduler.

Unfortunately the call to rcu_idle_enter() is already beyond the last
generic need_resched() check and we may halt the CPU with a resched
request unhandled, leaving the task hanging.

Fix this with splitting the rcuog wakeup handling from rcu_idle_enter()
and place it before the last generic need_resched() check in the idle
loop. It is then assumed that no call to call_rcu() will be performed
after that in the idle loop until the CPU is put in low power mode.

Fixes: 96d3fd0d315a (rcu: Break call_rcu() deadlock involving scheduler and perf)
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210131230548.32970-3-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Pull deferred rcuog wake up to rcu_eqs_enter() callers</title>
<updated>2021-03-04T10:38:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-31T23:05:44+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=20b7669fa3f0511c2985f9483d87a65bcb13eb47'/>
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commit 54b7429efffc99e845ba9381bee3244f012a06c2 upstream.

Deferred wakeup of rcuog kthreads upon RCU idle mode entry is going to
be handled differently whether initiated by idle, user or guest. Prepare
with pulling that control up to rcu_eqs_enter() callers.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210131230548.32970-2-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
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commit 54b7429efffc99e845ba9381bee3244f012a06c2 upstream.

Deferred wakeup of rcuog kthreads upon RCU idle mode entry is going to
be handled differently whether initiated by idle, user or guest. Prepare
with pulling that control up to rcu_eqs_enter() callers.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210131230548.32970-2-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu/tree: Defer kvfree_rcu() allocation to a clean context</title>
<updated>2020-12-30T10:53:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)</name>
<email>urezki@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2020-10-29T16:50:04+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 56292e8609e39537297a7468dda4d87b9bd81d6a ]

The current memmory-allocation interface causes the following difficulties
for kvfree_rcu():

a) If built with CONFIG_PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING, the lockdep will
   complain about violation of the nesting rules, as in "BUG: Invalid
   wait context".  This Kconfig option checks for proper raw_spinlock
   vs. spinlock nesting, in particular, it is not legal to acquire a
   spinlock_t while holding a raw_spinlock_t.

   This is a problem because kfree_rcu() uses raw_spinlock_t whereas the
   "page allocator" internally deals with spinlock_t to access to its
   zones. The code also can be broken from higher level of view:
   &lt;snip&gt;
       raw_spin_lock(&amp;some_lock);
       kfree_rcu(some_pointer, some_field_offset);
   &lt;snip&gt;

b) If built with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT, spinlock_t is converted into
   sleeplock.  This means that invoking the page allocator from atomic
   contexts results in "BUG: scheduling while atomic".

c) Please note that call_rcu() is already invoked from raw atomic context,
   so it is only reasonable to expaect that kfree_rcu() and kvfree_rcu()
   will also be called from atomic raw context.

This commit therefore defers page allocation to a clean context using the
combination of an hrtimer and a workqueue.  The hrtimer stage is required
in order to avoid deadlocks with the scheduler.  This deferred allocation
is required only when kvfree_rcu()'s per-CPU page cache is empty.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200630164543.4mdcf6zb4zfclhln@linutronix.de/
Fixes: 3042f83f19be ("rcu: Support reclaim for head-less object")
Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 56292e8609e39537297a7468dda4d87b9bd81d6a ]

The current memmory-allocation interface causes the following difficulties
for kvfree_rcu():

a) If built with CONFIG_PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING, the lockdep will
   complain about violation of the nesting rules, as in "BUG: Invalid
   wait context".  This Kconfig option checks for proper raw_spinlock
   vs. spinlock nesting, in particular, it is not legal to acquire a
   spinlock_t while holding a raw_spinlock_t.

   This is a problem because kfree_rcu() uses raw_spinlock_t whereas the
   "page allocator" internally deals with spinlock_t to access to its
   zones. The code also can be broken from higher level of view:
   &lt;snip&gt;
       raw_spin_lock(&amp;some_lock);
       kfree_rcu(some_pointer, some_field_offset);
   &lt;snip&gt;

b) If built with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT, spinlock_t is converted into
   sleeplock.  This means that invoking the page allocator from atomic
   contexts results in "BUG: scheduling while atomic".

c) Please note that call_rcu() is already invoked from raw atomic context,
   so it is only reasonable to expaect that kfree_rcu() and kvfree_rcu()
   will also be called from atomic raw context.

This commit therefore defers page allocation to a clean context using the
combination of an hrtimer and a workqueue.  The hrtimer stage is required
in order to avoid deadlocks with the scheduler.  This deferred allocation
is required only when kvfree_rcu()'s per-CPU page cache is empty.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200630164543.4mdcf6zb4zfclhln@linutronix.de/
Fixes: 3042f83f19be ("rcu: Support reclaim for head-less object")
Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu,ftrace: Fix ftrace recursion</title>
<updated>2020-12-30T10:53:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-29T11:33:40+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=5cacd18c52073ea1c5419bd192309befc345c2ea'/>
<id>5cacd18c52073ea1c5419bd192309befc345c2ea</id>
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[ Upstream commit d2098b4440981705e844c50254540ba7b5f82795 ]

Kim reported that perf-ftrace made his box unhappy. It turns out that
commit:

  ff5c4f5cad33 ("rcu/tree: Mark the idle relevant functions noinstr")

removed one too many notrace qualifiers, probably due to there not being
a helpful comment.

This commit therefore reinstates the notrace and adds a comment to avoid
losing it again.

[ paulmck: Apply Steven Rostedt's feedback on the comment. ]
Fixes: ff5c4f5cad33 ("rcu/tree: Mark the idle relevant functions noinstr")
Reported-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit d2098b4440981705e844c50254540ba7b5f82795 ]

Kim reported that perf-ftrace made his box unhappy. It turns out that
commit:

  ff5c4f5cad33 ("rcu/tree: Mark the idle relevant functions noinstr")

removed one too many notrace qualifiers, probably due to there not being
a helpful comment.

This commit therefore reinstates the notrace and adds a comment to avoid
losing it again.

[ paulmck: Apply Steven Rostedt's feedback on the comment. ]
Fixes: ff5c4f5cad33 ("rcu/tree: Mark the idle relevant functions noinstr")
Reported-by: Kim Phillips &lt;kim.phillips@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Allow rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() from NMI</title>
<updated>2020-12-30T10:53:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Peter Zijlstra</name>
<email>peterz@infradead.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-11-16T12:10:12+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=4540e84bd8a97b1d79f556edd692fdb15c431604'/>
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[ Upstream commit 6dbce04d8417ae706596366e16841d77c454ba52 ]

Eugenio managed to tickle #PF from NMI context which resulted in
hitting a WARN in RCU through irqentry_enter() -&gt;
__rcu_irq_enter_check_tick().

However, this situation is perfectly sane and does not warrant an
WARN. The #PF will (necessarily) be atomic and not require messing
with the tick state, so early return is correct.  This commit
therefore removes the WARN.

Fixes: aaf2bc50df1f ("rcu: Abstract out rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() from rcu_nmi_enter()")
Reported-by: "Eugenio Pérez" &lt;eupm90@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 6dbce04d8417ae706596366e16841d77c454ba52 ]

Eugenio managed to tickle #PF from NMI context which resulted in
hitting a WARN in RCU through irqentry_enter() -&gt;
__rcu_irq_enter_check_tick().

However, this situation is perfectly sane and does not warrant an
WARN. The #PF will (necessarily) be atomic and not require messing
with the tick state, so early return is correct.  This commit
therefore removes the WARN.

Fixes: aaf2bc50df1f ("rcu: Abstract out rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() from rcu_nmi_enter()")
Reported-by: "Eugenio Pérez" &lt;eupm90@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski &lt;luto@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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