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SubjectRe: [RFC PATCH] Fix abnormal rcu dynticks_nesting values related to async page fault
On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 03:38:14PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 2012/11/27 Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>:
> > I noticed some warnings complaining about dynticks_nesting value, like
> >
> > [ 267.545032] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > [ 267.545032] WARNING: at kernel/rcutree.c:382 rcu_eqs_enter+0xab/0xc0()
> > [ 267.545032] Hardware name: Bochs
> > [ 267.545032] Modules linked in:
> > [ 267.545032] Pid: 0, comm: swapper/2 Not tainted 3.7.0-rc5-next-20121115 #8
> > [ 267.545032] Call Trace:
> > [ 267.545032] [<ffffffff8104714f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
> > [ 267.545032] [<ffffffff810471aa>] warn_slowpath_null+0x1a/0x20
> > [ 267.545032] [<ffffffff810e607b>] rcu_eqs_enter+0xab/0xc0
> > [ 267.545032] [<ffffffff810e60bb>] rcu_idle_enter+0x2b/0x70
> > [ 267.545032] [<ffffffff8100d44f>] cpu_idle+0x6f/0x100
> > [ 267.545032] [<ffffffff814bf055>] start_secondary+0x205/0x20c
> > [ 267.545032] ---[ end trace 924ae80da035028d ]---
> >
> > After enabling rcu-dyntick tracing, I got following abnormal
> > dynticks_nesting values (13fffffffffffff, ff00000000000001,etc):
> > ...
> > 1 <idle>-0 [002] dN.2 18739.518567: rcu_dyntick: End 0 140000000000000 rcu_idle_exit
> > 2 sshd-696 [002] d..1 18739.518675: rcu_dyntick: ++= 140000000000000 140000000000001 rcu_irq_enter - apf (not present)
>
> How did that happen? When I look at do_async_page_fault(),
> KVM_PV_REASON_PAGE_NOT_PRESENT doesn't do rcu_irq_enter().
>
> >
> > 3 <idle>-0 [002] d..2 18739.518705: rcu_dyntick: Start 140000000000001 0 rcu_idle_enter
> > 4 <idle>-0 [002] d..2 18739.521252: rcu_dyntick: End 0 1 rcu_irq_enter - apf (page ready)
> > 5 <idle>-0 [002] dN.2 18739.521261: rcu_dyntick: Start 1 0 rcu_irq_exit - apf (page ready)
> > 6 <idle>-0 [002] dN.2 18739.521263: rcu_dyntick: End 0 140000000000000 rcu_idle_exit
> >
> > 7 sshd-696 [002] d..1 18739.521299: rcu_dyntick: --= 140000000000000 13fffffffffffff rcu_irq_exit - apf (not present)
>
> I'm confused for the same reason here.
>
> > 8 sshd-696 [002] d..1 18739.521302: rcu_dyntick: Start 13fffffffffffff 0 rcu_user_enter
> > 9 sshd-696 [002] d..1 18739.521330: rcu_dyntick: End 0 1 rcu_irq_enter - apf (not present)
>
> Same. Now we certainly need to add some rcu_user_exit() on
> do_async_page_fault(). Although I'm not quite sure when this function
> is called. Is it an exception or an irq?
>
For KVM_PV_REASON_PAGE_NOT_PRESENT it behaves like an exception.

--
Gleb.


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