pci_get_subsys: GFP_KERNEL allocations with IRQs disabled

From: Fengguang Wu
Date: Tue Jul 31 2012 - 20:43:19 EST


On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 05:18:11PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 08:09:38PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 16:57 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >
> > > > What was the next lines? I bet you it was "PASSED". Which means it did
> > > > not fail. This is the second bug you found that has to do with RCU being
> > > > called in 'idle'. The one that Paul posted a patch for.
> > >
> > > Though it needs another patch to actually use it in the right place...
> >
> > Right. Something like this:
>
> Looks good to me!

With all 3 patches applied, the warning on __update_max_tr finally
goes away. Thanks!

However, this unrelated warning still reliably remains (the same config).
I think it's pci_get_subsys() triggered this assert:

/*
* Oi! Can't be having __GFP_FS allocations with IRQs disabled.
*/
if (DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(irqs_disabled_flags(flags)))
return;

[ 91.282131] machine restart
[ 91.283895] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 91.284731] WARNING: at /c/wfg/linux/kernel/lockdep.c:2739 lockdep_trace_alloc+0x1fb/0x210()
[ 91.286132] Modules linked in:
[ 91.286703] Pid: 697, comm: reboot Not tainted 3.5.0-00024-g01ff5db-dirty #4
[ 91.287859] Call Trace:
[ 91.288289] [<81050148>] warn_slowpath_common+0xb8/0x100
[ 91.289338] [<8110acdb>] ? lockdep_trace_alloc+0x1fb/0x210
[ 91.290264] [<8110acdb>] ? lockdep_trace_alloc+0x1fb/0x210
[ 91.291161] [<810501ce>] warn_slowpath_null+0x3e/0x50
[ 91.292042] [<8110acdb>] lockdep_trace_alloc+0x1fb/0x210
[ 91.292934] [<81228e25>] kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x55/0x600
[ 91.292934] [<813025ca>] ? kobject_put+0x9a/0x160
[ 91.292934] [<814e95e0>] ? klist_iter_exit+0x30/0x50
[ 91.292934] [<81405881>] ? bus_find_device+0xf1/0x120
[ 91.292934] [<81361a3c>] ? pci_get_subsys+0x11c/0x1b0
[ 91.292934] [<81361a3c>] pci_get_subsys+0x11c/0x1b0
[ 91.292934] [<81361afe>] pci_get_device+0x2e/0x40
[ 91.292934] [<81033e25>] mach_reboot_fixups+0xa5/0xd0
[ 91.292934] [<81027611>] native_machine_emergency_restart+0x1f1/0x590
[ 91.292934] [<814f2e00>] ? printk+0x4b/0x5b
[ 91.292934] [<810269ef>] native_machine_restart+0x6f/0x80
[ 91.292934] [<810271cc>] machine_restart+0x1c/0x30
[ 91.292934] [<810886e0>] kernel_restart+0x70/0xc0
[ 91.292934] [<81088a85>] sys_reboot+0x325/0x380
[ 91.292934] [<811f796c>] ? handle_pte_fault+0xdc/0x1740
[ 91.292934] [<811f93e7>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x417/0x4a0
[ 91.292934] [<8103e07b>] ? do_page_fault+0x7fb/0xb30
[ 91.292934] [<810b33e7>] ? up_read+0x37/0x70
[ 91.292934] [<8103e07b>] ? do_page_fault+0x7fb/0xb30
[ 91.292934] [<8123c063>] ? do_sys_open+0x3a3/0x3f0
[ 91.292934] [<8123c063>] ? do_sys_open+0x3a3/0x3f0
[ 91.292934] [<810b0270>] ? update_rmtp+0xe0/0xe0
[ 91.292934] [<8150376e>] ? restore_all+0xf/0xf
[ 91.292934] [<8103d880>] ? vmalloc_sync_all+0x320/0x320
[ 91.292934] [<81109fca>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x28a/0x380
[ 91.292934] [<81311594>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0xc/0x10
[ 91.292934] [<81503735>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Thanks,
Fengguang
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