At times when I'm using kgdb I see a splat on my console about
suspicious RCU usage. I managed to come up with a case that could
reproduce this that looked like this:
WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
5.7.0-rc4+ #609 Not tainted
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kernel/pid.c:395 find_task_by_pid_ns() needs rcu_read_lock() protection!
other info that might help us debug this:
rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
3 locks held by swapper/0/1:
#0: ffffff81b6b8e988 (&dev->mutex){....}-{3:3}, at: __device_attach+0x40/0x13c
#1: ffffffd01109e9e8 (dbg_master_lock){....}-{2:2}, at: kgdb_cpu_enter+0x20c/0x7ac
#2: ffffffd01109ea90 (dbg_slave_lock){....}-{2:2}, at: kgdb_cpu_enter+0x3ec/0x7ac
stack backtrace:
CPU: 7 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.7.0-rc4+ #609
Hardware name: Google Cheza (rev3+) (DT)
Call trace:
dump_backtrace+0x0/0x1b8
show_stack+0x1c/0x24
dump_stack+0xd4/0x134
lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xf0/0x100
find_task_by_pid_ns+0x5c/0x80
getthread+0x8c/0xb0
gdb_serial_stub+0x9d4/0xd04
kgdb_cpu_enter+0x284/0x7ac
kgdb_handle_exception+0x174/0x20c
kgdb_brk_fn+0x24/0x30
call_break_hook+0x6c/0x7c
brk_handler+0x20/0x5c
do_debug_exception+0x1c8/0x22c
el1_sync_handler+0x3c/0xe4
el1_sync+0x7c/0x100
rpmh_rsc_probe+0x38/0x420
platform_drv_probe+0x94/0xb4
really_probe+0x134/0x300
driver_probe_device+0x68/0x100
__device_attach_driver+0x90/0xa8
bus_for_each_drv+0x84/0xcc
__device_attach+0xb4/0x13c
device_initial_probe+0x18/0x20
bus_probe_device+0x38/0x98
device_add+0x38c/0x420
If I understand properly we should just be able to blanket kgdb under
one big RCU read lock and the problem should go away. We'll add it to
the beast-of-a-function known as kgdb_cpu_enter().
With this I no longer get any splats and things seem to work fine.
Signed-off-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200602154729.v2.1.I70e0d4fd46d5ed2aaf0c98a355e8e1b7a5bb7e4e@changeid
Signed-off-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
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