kernel_optimize_test/kernel
Heiko Carstens 27c379f7f8 generic-ipi: Fix deadlock in __smp_call_function_single
Just got my 6 way machine to a state where cpu 0 is in an
endless loop within __smp_call_function_single.
All other cpus are idle.

The call trace on cpu 0 looks like this:

 __smp_call_function_single
 scheduler_tick
 update_process_times
 tick_sched_timer
 __run_hrtimer
 hrtimer_interrupt
 clock_comparator_work
 do_extint
 ext_int_handler
 ----> timer irq
 cpu_idle

__smp_call_function_single() got called from nohz_balancer_kick()
(inlined) with the remote cpu being 1, wait being 0 and the per
cpu variable remote_sched_softirq_cb (call_single_data) of the
current cpu (0).

Then it loops forever when it tries to grab the lock of the
call_single_data, since it is already locked and enqueued on cpu 0.

My theory how this could have happened: for some reason the
scheduler decided to call __smp_call_function_single() on it's own
cpu, and sends an IPI to itself. The interrupt stays pending
since IRQs are disabled. If then the hypervisor schedules the
cpu away it might happen that upon rescheduling both the IPI and
the timer IRQ are pending. If then interrupts are enabled again
it depends which one gets scheduled first.
If the timer interrupt gets delivered first we end up with the
local deadlock as seen in the calltrace above.

Let's make __smp_call_function_single() check if the target cpu is
the current cpu and execute the function immediately just like
smp_call_function_single does. That should prevent at least the
scenario described here.

It might also be that the scheduler is not supposed to call
__smp_call_function_single with the remote cpu being the current
cpu, but that is a different issue.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
LKML-Reference: <20100910114729.GB2827@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-09-10 16:48:40 +02:00
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debug Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-09-08 11:13:42 -07:00
gcov gcov: fix null-pointer dereference for certain module types 2010-09-09 18:57:23 -07:00
irq irq: Add new IRQ flag IRQF_NO_SUSPEND 2010-07-29 13:24:57 +02:00
power swap: revert special hibernation allocation 2010-09-09 18:57:25 -07:00
time time: Workaround gcc loop optimization that causes 64bit div errors 2010-08-13 12:03:24 -07:00
trace Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-09-08 11:13:42 -07:00
.gitignore
acct.c pass a struct path to vfs_statfs 2010-08-09 16:48:42 -04:00
async.c async: use workqueue for worker pool 2010-07-14 11:29:46 +02:00
audit_tree.c fanotify: use both marks when possible 2010-07-28 10:18:55 -04:00
audit_watch.c Revert "fsnotify: store struct file not struct path" 2010-08-12 14:23:04 -07:00
audit.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify 2010-08-10 11:39:13 -07:00
audit.h Audit: split audit watch Kconfig 2010-07-28 09:58:19 -04:00
auditfilter.c audit: do not get and put just to free a watch 2010-07-28 09:58:17 -04:00
auditsc.c vfs: add helpers to get root and pwd 2010-08-11 00:28:20 -04:00
backtracetest.c
bounds.c
capability.c
cgroup_freezer.c Freezer / cgroup freezer: Update stale locking comments 2010-05-10 23:18:47 +02:00
cgroup.c cgroups: fix API thinko 2010-09-09 18:57:23 -07:00
compat.c rlimits: switch more rlimit syscalls to do_prlimit 2010-07-16 09:48:48 +02:00
configs.c
cpu.c sched: adjust when cpu_active and cpuset configurations are updated during cpu on/offlining 2010-06-08 21:40:36 +02:00
cpuset.c Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-08-06 09:39:22 -07:00
cred.c Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printks 2010-08-12 09:51:35 -07:00
delayacct.c
dma.c
early_res.c kmemleak: Add support for NO_BOOTMEM configurations 2010-07-19 11:54:15 +01:00
elfcore.c
exec_domain.c sys_personality: remove the bogus checks in sys_personality()->__set_personality() path 2010-08-09 20:45:05 -07:00
exit.c Fix unprotected access to task credentials in waitid() 2010-08-17 18:07:43 -07:00
extable.c
fork.c mm: make the vma list be doubly linked 2010-08-21 08:49:21 -07:00
freezer.c
futex_compat.c
futex.c futex: futex_find_get_task remove credentails check 2010-06-30 15:43:44 -07:00
groups.c kernel/groups.c: fix integer overflow in groups_search 2010-09-09 18:57:24 -07:00
hrtimer.c gcc-4.6: kernel/*: Fix unused but set warnings 2010-09-05 14:36:58 +02:00
hung_task.c
hw_breakpoint.c Merge branch 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2010-08-06 09:30:52 -07:00
itimer.c
kallsyms.c kdb: core for kgdb back end (2 of 2) 2010-05-20 21:04:21 -05:00
Kconfig.freezer
Kconfig.hz
Kconfig.locks
Kconfig.preempt
kexec.c kexec: return -EFAULT on copy_to_user() failures 2010-08-11 08:59:22 -07:00
kfifo.c kfifo: implement missing __kfifo_skip_r() 2010-08-20 09:34:54 -07:00
kmod.c Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer 2010-08-17 18:07:43 -07:00
kprobes.c kprobes: Move enable/disable_kprobe() out from debugfs code 2010-05-08 18:08:30 +02:00
ksysfs.c sysfs: add struct file* to bin_attr callbacks 2010-05-21 09:37:31 -07:00
kthread.c kthread: implement kthread_data() 2010-06-29 10:07:09 +02:00
latencytop.c
lockdep_internals.h lockdep: No need to disable preemption in debug atomic ops 2010-05-04 05:38:16 +02:00
lockdep_proc.c
lockdep_states.h
lockdep.c sched_clock: Add local_clock() API and improve documentation 2010-06-09 10:34:49 +02:00
Makefile Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.infradead.org/users/eparis/notify 2010-08-10 11:39:13 -07:00
module.c module: cleanup comments, remove noinline 2010-08-05 12:59:13 +09:30
mutex-debug.c
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c mutex: Fix annotations to include it in kernel-locking docbook 2010-09-03 08:19:51 +02:00
mutex.h
notifier.c
ns_cgroup.c
nsproxy.c
padata.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6 2010-08-04 15:23:14 -07:00
panic.c lib/bug.c: add oops end marker to WARN implementation 2010-08-11 08:59:22 -07:00
params.c param: locking for kernel parameters 2010-08-11 23:04:20 +09:30
perf_event.c perf_events: Fix time tracking for events with pid != -1 and cpu != -1 2010-08-30 12:16:55 +02:00
pid_namespace.c
pid.c pids: alloc_pidmap: remove the unnecessary boundary checks 2010-08-11 08:59:20 -07:00
pm_qos_params.c PM QoS: Fix inline documentation. 2010-08-26 20:18:43 +02:00
posix-cpu-timers.c Merge branch 'writable_limits' of git://decibel.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/linux 2010-08-10 12:07:51 -07:00
posix-timers.c posix_timer: Move copy_to_user(created_timer_id) down in timer_create() 2010-07-23 15:08:12 +02:00
printk.c gcc-4.6: printk: use stable variable to dump kmsg buffer 2010-08-09 20:45:06 -07:00
profile.c numa: in-kernel profiling: use cpu_to_mem() for per cpu allocations 2010-05-27 09:12:57 -07:00
ptrace.c ptrace: optimize exit_ptrace() for the likely case 2010-08-11 08:59:19 -07:00
range.c kernel/range: remove unused definition of ARRAY_SIZE() 2010-08-09 20:45:06 -07:00
rcupdate.c tree/tiny rcu: Add debug RCU head objects 2010-06-14 16:37:26 -07:00
rcutiny_plugin.h rcu: slim down rcutiny by removing rcu_scheduler_active and friends 2010-05-10 11:08:34 -07:00
rcutiny.c tree/tiny rcu: Add debug RCU head objects 2010-06-14 16:37:26 -07:00
rcutorture.c sched_clock: Add local_clock() API and improve documentation 2010-06-09 10:34:49 +02:00
rcutree_plugin.h rcu: remove all rcu head initializations, except on_stack initializations 2010-05-11 16:10:47 -07:00
rcutree_trace.c rcu: reduce the number of spurious RCU_SOFTIRQ invocations 2010-05-10 11:08:35 -07:00
rcutree.c tree/tiny rcu: Add debug RCU head objects 2010-06-14 16:37:26 -07:00
rcutree.h rcu: reduce the number of spurious RCU_SOFTIRQ invocations 2010-05-10 11:08:35 -07:00
relay.c kernel/: convert cpu notifier to return encapsulate errno value 2010-05-27 09:12:48 -07:00
res_counter.c
resource.c resource: shared I/O region support 2010-05-11 12:01:10 -07:00
rtmutex_common.h
rtmutex-debug.c
rtmutex-debug.h
rtmutex-tester.c
rtmutex.c
rtmutex.h
rwsem.c
sched_clock.c sched_clock: Add local_clock() API and improve documentation 2010-06-09 10:34:49 +02:00
sched_cpupri.c sched: No need for bootmem special cases 2010-07-17 12:06:22 +02:00
sched_cpupri.h sched: No need for bootmem special cases 2010-07-17 12:06:22 +02:00
sched_debug.c sched: Use correct macro to display sched_child_runs_first in /proc/sched_debug 2010-07-21 21:46:12 +02:00
sched_fair.c gcc-4.6: kernel/*: Fix unused but set warnings 2010-09-05 14:36:58 +02:00
sched_features.h
sched_idletask.c
sched_rt.c sched: task_tick_rt: Remove the obsolete ->signal != NULL check 2010-06-18 10:46:56 +02:00
sched_stats.h sched: Remove the obsolete exit_state/signal hacks 2010-06-18 10:46:56 +02:00
sched.c mutex: Improve the scalability of optimistic spinning 2010-08-23 10:56:27 +02:00
seccomp.c
semaphore.c
signal.c CRED: Fix RCU warning due to previous patch fixing __task_cred()'s checks 2010-08-04 11:17:10 -07:00
smp.c generic-ipi: Fix deadlock in __smp_call_function_single 2010-09-10 16:48:40 +02:00
softirq.c kernel/: fix BUG_ON checks for cpu notifier callbacks direct call 2010-06-04 15:21:45 -07:00
spinlock.c
srcu.c
stacktrace.c
stop_machine.c stop_machine: struct cpu_stopper, remove alignment padding on 64 bits 2010-08-09 20:45:06 -07:00
sys_ni.c fanotify: sys_fanotify_mark declartion 2010-07-28 09:58:55 -04:00
sys.c pid: make setpgid() system call use RCU read-side critical section 2010-08-31 17:00:18 -07:00
sysctl_binary.c sysctl: don't use own implementation of hex_to_bin() 2010-05-25 08:07:05 -07:00
sysctl_check.c
sysctl.c gcc-4.6: kernel/*: Fix unused but set warnings 2010-09-05 14:36:58 +02:00
taskstats.c
test_kprobes.c
time.c time: Kill off CONFIG_GENERIC_TIME 2010-07-27 12:40:54 +02:00
timeconst.pl
timer.c kernel/timer.c: fix kernel-doc function parameter warning 2010-08-10 15:33:09 -07:00
tracepoint.c tracing: Let tracepoints have data passed to tracepoint callbacks 2010-05-14 09:50:34 -04:00
tsacct.c
uid16.c
up.c
user_namespace.c user_ns: Introduce user_nsmap_uid and user_ns_map_gid. 2010-06-16 14:55:34 -07:00
user-return-notifier.c
user.c sched: Remove a stale comment 2010-05-10 08:48:39 +02:00
utsname_sysctl.c
utsname.c
wait.c
watchdog.c lockup_detector: Sync touch_*_watchdog back to old semantics 2010-09-01 10:02:28 +02:00
workqueue_sched.h workqueue: implement concurrency managed dynamic worker pool 2010-06-29 10:07:14 +02:00
workqueue.c Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq 2010-09-07 14:08:17 -07:00