Further testing with false negatives suppressed by commit 293e2421fe
("rcu: Remove superfluous versions of rcu_read_lock_sched_held()")
identified another unprotected use of RCU from the idle loop. Because RCU
actively ignores idle-loop code (for energy-efficiency reasons, among
other things), using RCU from the idle loop can result in too-short
grace periods, in turn resulting in arbitrary misbehavior.
The resulting lockdep-RCU splat is as follows:
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[ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
4.6.0-rc5-next-20160426+ #1112 Not tainted
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include/trace/events/ipi.h:35 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
other info that might help us debug this:
RCU used illegally from idle CPU!
rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state!
no locks held by swapper/0/0.
stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 4.6.0-rc5-next-20160426+ #1112
Hardware name: Generic OMAP4 (Flattened Device Tree)
[<c0110308>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c010c3a8>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
[<c010c3a8>] (show_stack) from [<c047fec8>] (dump_stack+0xb0/0xe4)
[<c047fec8>] (dump_stack) from [<c010dcfc>] (smp_cross_call+0xbc/0x188)
[<c010dcfc>] (smp_cross_call) from [<c01c9e28>] (generic_exec_single+0x9c/0x15c)
[<c01c9e28>] (generic_exec_single) from [<c01ca0a0>] (smp_call_function_single_async+0 x38/0x9c)
[<c01ca0a0>] (smp_call_function_single_async) from [<c0603728>] (cpuidle_coupled_poke_others+0x8c/0xa8)
[<c0603728>] (cpuidle_coupled_poke_others) from [<c0603c10>] (cpuidle_enter_state_coupled+0x26c/0x390)
[<c0603c10>] (cpuidle_enter_state_coupled) from [<c0183c74>] (cpu_startup_entry+0x198/0x3a0)
[<c0183c74>] (cpu_startup_entry) from [<c0b00c0c>] (start_kernel+0x354/0x3c8)
[<c0b00c0c>] (start_kernel) from [<8000807c>] (0x8000807c)
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Reported-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: <linux-omap@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>
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