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Masami Hiramatsu d8bb6718c4 arm64: Make debug exception handlers visible from RCU
Make debug exceptions visible from RCU so that synchronize_rcu()
correctly track the debug exception handler.

This also introduces sanity checks for user-mode exceptions as same
as x86's ist_enter()/ist_exit().

The debug exception can interrupt in idle task. For example, it warns
if we put a kprobe on a function called from idle task as below.
The warning message showed that the rcu_read_lock() caused this
problem. But actually, this means the RCU is lost the context which
is already in NMI/IRQ.

  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo p default_idle_call >> kprobe_events
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # echo 1 > events/kprobes/enable
  /sys/kernel/debug/tracing # [  135.122237]
  [  135.125035] =============================
  [  135.125310] WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
  [  135.125581] 5.2.0-08445-g9187c508bdc7 #20 Not tainted
  [  135.125904] -----------------------------
  [  135.126205] include/linux/rcupdate.h:594 rcu_read_lock() used illegally while idle!
  [  135.126839]
  [  135.126839] other info that might help us debug this:
  [  135.126839]
  [  135.127410]
  [  135.127410] RCU used illegally from idle CPU!
  [  135.127410] rcu_scheduler_active = 2, debug_locks = 1
  [  135.128114] RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state!
  [  135.128555] 1 lock held by swapper/0/0:
  [  135.128944]  #0: (____ptrval____) (rcu_read_lock){....}, at: call_break_hook+0x0/0x178
  [  135.130499]
  [  135.130499] stack backtrace:
  [  135.131192] CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.2.0-08445-g9187c508bdc7 #20
  [  135.131841] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT)
  [  135.132224] Call trace:
  [  135.132491]  dump_backtrace+0x0/0x140
  [  135.132806]  show_stack+0x24/0x30
  [  135.133133]  dump_stack+0xc4/0x10c
  [  135.133726]  lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xf8/0x108
  [  135.134171]  call_break_hook+0x170/0x178
  [  135.134486]  brk_handler+0x28/0x68
  [  135.134792]  do_debug_exception+0x90/0x150
  [  135.135051]  el1_dbg+0x18/0x8c
  [  135.135260]  default_idle_call+0x0/0x44
  [  135.135516]  cpu_startup_entry+0x2c/0x30
  [  135.135815]  rest_init+0x1b0/0x280
  [  135.136044]  arch_call_rest_init+0x14/0x1c
  [  135.136305]  start_kernel+0x4d4/0x500
  [  135.136597]

So make debug exception visible to RCU can fix this warning.

Reported-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
2019-08-02 11:56:01 +01:00
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