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John Sperbeck 198790d9a3 percpu: remove spurious lock dependency between percpu and sched
In free_percpu() we sometimes call pcpu_schedule_balance_work() to
queue a work item (which does a wakeup) while holding pcpu_lock.
This creates an unnecessary lock dependency between pcpu_lock and
the scheduler's pi_lock.  There are other places where we call
pcpu_schedule_balance_work() without hold pcpu_lock, and this case
doesn't need to be different.

Moving the call outside the lock prevents the following lockdep splat
when running tools/testing/selftests/bpf/{test_maps,test_progs} in
sequence with lockdep enabled:

======================================================
WARNING: possible circular locking dependency detected
5.1.0-dbg-DEV #1 Not tainted
------------------------------------------------------
kworker/23:255/18872 is trying to acquire lock:
000000000bc79290 (&(&pool->lock)->rlock){-.-.}, at: __queue_work+0xb2/0x520

but task is already holding lock:
00000000e3e7a6aa (pcpu_lock){..-.}, at: free_percpu+0x36/0x260

which lock already depends on the new lock.

the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:

-> #4 (pcpu_lock){..-.}:
       lock_acquire+0x9e/0x180
       _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3a/0x50
       pcpu_alloc+0xfa/0x780
       __alloc_percpu_gfp+0x12/0x20
       alloc_htab_elem+0x184/0x2b0
       __htab_percpu_map_update_elem+0x252/0x290
       bpf_percpu_hash_update+0x7c/0x130
       __do_sys_bpf+0x1912/0x1be0
       __x64_sys_bpf+0x1a/0x20
       do_syscall_64+0x59/0x400
       entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe

-> #3 (&htab->buckets[i].lock){....}:
       lock_acquire+0x9e/0x180
       _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3a/0x50
       htab_map_update_elem+0x1af/0x3a0

-> #2 (&rq->lock){-.-.}:
       lock_acquire+0x9e/0x180
       _raw_spin_lock+0x2f/0x40
       task_fork_fair+0x37/0x160
       sched_fork+0x211/0x310
       copy_process.part.43+0x7b1/0x2160
       _do_fork+0xda/0x6b0
       kernel_thread+0x29/0x30
       rest_init+0x22/0x260
       arch_call_rest_init+0xe/0x10
       start_kernel+0x4fd/0x520
       x86_64_start_reservations+0x24/0x26
       x86_64_start_kernel+0x6f/0x72
       secondary_startup_64+0xa4/0xb0

-> #1 (&p->pi_lock){-.-.}:
       lock_acquire+0x9e/0x180
       _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x3a/0x50
       try_to_wake_up+0x41/0x600
       wake_up_process+0x15/0x20
       create_worker+0x16b/0x1e0
       workqueue_init+0x279/0x2ee
       kernel_init_freeable+0xf7/0x288
       kernel_init+0xf/0x180
       ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30

-> #0 (&(&pool->lock)->rlock){-.-.}:
       __lock_acquire+0x101f/0x12a0
       lock_acquire+0x9e/0x180
       _raw_spin_lock+0x2f/0x40
       __queue_work+0xb2/0x520
       queue_work_on+0x38/0x80
       free_percpu+0x221/0x260
       pcpu_freelist_destroy+0x11/0x20
       stack_map_free+0x2a/0x40
       bpf_map_free_deferred+0x3c/0x50
       process_one_work+0x1f7/0x580
       worker_thread+0x54/0x410
       kthread+0x10f/0x150
       ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30

other info that might help us debug this:

Chain exists of:
  &(&pool->lock)->rlock --> &htab->buckets[i].lock --> pcpu_lock

 Possible unsafe locking scenario:

       CPU0                    CPU1
       ----                    ----
  lock(pcpu_lock);
                               lock(&htab->buckets[i].lock);
                               lock(pcpu_lock);
  lock(&(&pool->lock)->rlock);

 *** DEADLOCK ***

3 locks held by kworker/23:255/18872:
 #0: 00000000b36a6e16 ((wq_completion)events){+.+.},
     at: process_one_work+0x17a/0x580
 #1: 00000000dfd966f0 ((work_completion)(&map->work)){+.+.},
     at: process_one_work+0x17a/0x580
 #2: 00000000e3e7a6aa (pcpu_lock){..-.},
     at: free_percpu+0x36/0x260

stack backtrace:
CPU: 23 PID: 18872 Comm: kworker/23:255 Not tainted 5.1.0-dbg-DEV #1
Hardware name: ...
Workqueue: events bpf_map_free_deferred
Call Trace:
 dump_stack+0x67/0x95
 print_circular_bug.isra.38+0x1c6/0x220
 check_prev_add.constprop.50+0x9f6/0xd20
 __lock_acquire+0x101f/0x12a0
 lock_acquire+0x9e/0x180
 _raw_spin_lock+0x2f/0x40
 __queue_work+0xb2/0x520
 queue_work_on+0x38/0x80
 free_percpu+0x221/0x260
 pcpu_freelist_destroy+0x11/0x20
 stack_map_free+0x2a/0x40
 bpf_map_free_deferred+0x3c/0x50
 process_one_work+0x1f7/0x580
 worker_thread+0x54/0x410
 kthread+0x10f/0x150
 ret_from_fork+0x24/0x30

Signed-off-by: John Sperbeck <jsperbeck@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
2019-05-08 12:08:48 -07:00
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