From: Wander Lairson Costa wander@redhat.com
[ Upstream commit d243b34459cea30cfe5f3a9b2feb44e7daff9938 ]
Under PREEMPT_RT, __put_task_struct() indirectly acquires sleeping locks. Therefore, it can't be called from an non-preemptible context.
One practical example is splat inside inactive_task_timer(), which is called in a interrupt context:
CPU: 1 PID: 2848 Comm: life Kdump: loaded Tainted: G W --------- Hardware name: HP ProLiant DL388p Gen8, BIOS P70 07/15/2012 Call Trace: dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x7d mark_lock_irq.cold+0x33/0xba mark_lock+0x1e7/0x400 mark_usage+0x11d/0x140 __lock_acquire+0x30d/0x930 lock_acquire.part.0+0x9c/0x210 rt_spin_lock+0x27/0xe0 refill_obj_stock+0x3d/0x3a0 kmem_cache_free+0x357/0x560 inactive_task_timer+0x1ad/0x340 __run_hrtimer+0x8a/0x1a0 __hrtimer_run_queues+0x91/0x130 hrtimer_interrupt+0x10f/0x220 __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x7b/0xd0 sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x4f/0xd0 asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x12/0x20 RIP: 0033:0x7fff196bf6f5
Instead of calling __put_task_struct() directly, we defer it using call_rcu(). A more natural approach would use a workqueue, but since in PREEMPT_RT, we can't allocate dynamic memory from atomic context, the code would become more complex because we would need to put the work_struct instance in the task_struct and initialize it when we allocate a new task_struct.
The issue is reproducible with stress-ng:
while true; do stress-ng --sched deadline --sched-period 1000000000 \ --sched-runtime 800000000 --sched-deadline \ 1000000000 --mmapfork 23 -t 20 done
Reported-by: Hu Chunyu chuhu@redhat.com Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov oleg@redhat.com Suggested-by: Valentin Schneider vschneid@redhat.com Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa wander@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) peterz@infradead.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230614122323.37957-2-wander@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- include/linux/sched/task.h | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++- kernel/fork.c | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/sched/task.h b/include/linux/sched/task.h index e0f5ac90a228b..d20de91e3b957 100644 --- a/include/linux/sched/task.h +++ b/include/linux/sched/task.h @@ -118,10 +118,36 @@ static inline struct task_struct *get_task_struct(struct task_struct *t) }
extern void __put_task_struct(struct task_struct *t); +extern void __put_task_struct_rcu_cb(struct rcu_head *rhp);
static inline void put_task_struct(struct task_struct *t) { - if (refcount_dec_and_test(&t->usage)) + if (!refcount_dec_and_test(&t->usage)) + return; + + /* + * under PREEMPT_RT, we can't call put_task_struct + * in atomic context because it will indirectly + * acquire sleeping locks. + * + * call_rcu() will schedule delayed_put_task_struct_rcu() + * to be called in process context. + * + * __put_task_struct() is called when + * refcount_dec_and_test(&t->usage) succeeds. + * + * This means that it can't "conflict" with + * put_task_struct_rcu_user() which abuses ->rcu the same + * way; rcu_users has a reference so task->usage can't be + * zero after rcu_users 1 -> 0 transition. + * + * delayed_free_task() also uses ->rcu, but it is only called + * when it fails to fork a process. Therefore, there is no + * way it can conflict with put_task_struct(). + */ + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) && !preemptible()) + call_rcu(&t->rcu, __put_task_struct_rcu_cb); + else __put_task_struct(t); }
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c index 8103ffd217e97..38cfcfbd8b489 100644 --- a/kernel/fork.c +++ b/kernel/fork.c @@ -989,6 +989,14 @@ void __put_task_struct(struct task_struct *tsk) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__put_task_struct);
+void __put_task_struct_rcu_cb(struct rcu_head *rhp) +{ + struct task_struct *task = container_of(rhp, struct task_struct, rcu); + + __put_task_struct(task); +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__put_task_struct_rcu_cb); + void __init __weak arch_task_cache_init(void) { }
/*