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sched: Mark RCU reader in sched_show_task() 

When sched_show_task() is invoked from try_to_freeze_tasks(), there is
no RCU read-side critical section, resulting in the following splat:

[  125.780730] ===============================
[  125.780766] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
[  125.780804] 3.7.0-rc3+ #988 Not tainted
[  125.780838] -------------------------------
[  125.780875] /home/rafael/src/linux/kernel/sched/core.c:4497 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
[  125.780946]
[  125.780946] other info that might help us debug this:
[  125.780946]
[  125.781031]
[  125.781031] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
[  125.781087] 4 locks held by s2ram/4211:
[  125.781120]  #0:  (&buffer->mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff811e2acf>] sysfs_write_file+0x3f/0x160
[  125.781233]  #1:  (s_active#94){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff811e2b58>] sysfs_write_file+0xc8/0x160
[  125.781339]  #2:  (pm_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81090a81>] pm_suspend+0x81/0x230
[  125.781439]  #3:  (tasklist_lock){.?.?..}, at: [<ffffffff8108feed>] try_to_freeze_tasks+0x2cd/0x3f0
[  125.781543]
[  125.781543] stack backtrace:
[  125.781584] Pid: 4211, comm: s2ram Not tainted 3.7.0-rc3+ #988
[  125.781632] Call Trace:
[  125.781662]  [<ffffffff810a3c73>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x103/0x140
[  125.781719]  [<ffffffff8107cf21>] sched_show_task+0x121/0x180
[  125.781770]  [<ffffffff8108ffb4>] try_to_freeze_tasks+0x394/0x3f0
[  125.781823]  [<ffffffff810903b5>] freeze_kernel_threads+0x25/0x80
[  125.781876]  [<ffffffff81090b65>] pm_suspend+0x165/0x230
[  125.781924]  [<ffffffff8108fa29>] state_store+0x99/0x100
[  125.781975]  [<ffffffff812f5867>] kobj_attr_store+0x17/0x20
[  125.782038]  [<ffffffff811e2b71>] sysfs_write_file+0xe1/0x160
[  125.782091]  [<ffffffff811667a6>] vfs_write+0xc6/0x180
[  125.782138]  [<ffffffff81166ada>] sys_write+0x5a/0xa0
[  125.782185]  [<ffffffff812ff6ae>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0x3a/0x3f
[  125.782242]  [<ffffffff81669dd2>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

This commit therefore adds the needed RCU read-side critical section.

Reported-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Paul E. McKenney 2012-11-07 13:35:32 -08:00
parent c635a4e1c2
commit 4e79752c25
1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions
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@ -4474,6 +4474,7 @@ static const char stat_nam[] = TASK_STATE_TO_CHAR_STR;
void sched_show_task(struct task_struct *p)
{
unsigned long free = 0;
int ppid;
unsigned state;
state = p->state ? __ffs(p->state) + 1 : 0;
@ -4493,8 +4494,11 @@ void sched_show_task(struct task_struct *p)
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
free = stack_not_used(p);
#endif
rcu_read_lock();
ppid = task_pid_nr(rcu_dereference(p->real_parent));
rcu_read_unlock();
printk(KERN_CONT "%5lu %5d %6d 0x%08lx\n", free,
task_pid_nr(p), task_pid_nr(rcu_dereference(p->real_parent)),
task_pid_nr(p), ppid,
(unsigned long)task_thread_info(p)->flags);
show_stack(p, NULL);