Re: [BUG] drivers: staging: comedi: do not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING; state=1

From: Piotr Gregor
Date: Mon Jul 17 2017 - 14:18:07 EST


Hi Ian,

I am afraid I have more problems with running Comedi on rt-patched kernel than
only that. I am still trying to figure out the specific reason - hopefully it is
my fault and I scrued up my own code, but so far it seems pcie215
support doesn't work at least in the same way on rt-patched kernel
as it was on non-rt. I will dig it a little bit harder, likely coming with another
bug reports shoud they be observed.

Do you know about other experience other people may have using Comedi
for pcie215 on rt-patched kernels, specifically 4.4.70?

Has Comedi been tested on rt kernels by yourself?

cheers,
Piotr

On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 05:02:45PM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote:
> On 17/07/17 15:48, Piotr Gregor wrote:
> >Calling blocking operations from wrong context.
> >Kernel:
> >
> >Linux piotrpc 4.4.70-rt83 #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Thu Jul 13 08:42:02 BST 2017 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >
> >[ 80.542018] NOHZ: local_softirq_pending 80
> >[ 125.175471] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> >[ 125.175491] WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 1497 at kernel/sched/core.c:7833 __might_sleep+0x9f/0xb0()
> >[ 125.175728] do not call blocking ops when !TASK_RUNNING; state=1 set at [<ffffffffc0575741>] comedi_read+0x1a1/0x610 [comedi]
> >[ 125.175735] Modules linked in: cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_userspace cfg80211 nfsd auth_rpcgss oid_registry nfs_acl nfs lockd grace fscache sunrpc nls_ascii nls_cp437 vfat fat snd_hda_codec_hdmi snd_hda_codec_realtek snd_hda_codec_generic intel_rapl joydev intel_powerclamp coretemp kvm drbg efi_pstore ansi_cprng irqbypass crct10dif_pclmul crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel aesni_intel aes_x86_64 lrw gf128mul glue_helper ablk_helper cryptd i915 serio_raw pcspkr efivars snd_hda_intel amplc_dio200_pci(C) amplc_dio200_common(C) snd_hda_codec iTCO_wdt comedi_8254(C) comedi_pci(C) iTCO_vendor_support comedi(C) snd_hda_core snd_hwdep snd_pcm drm_kms_helper snd_timer drm snd mei_me soundcore mei i2c_algo_bit shpchp eeepc_wmi asus_wmi sparse_keymap mxm_wmi battery hci_uart btbcm btqca btintel
> >[ 125.175824] bluetooth
> >[ 125.175825] wmi
> >[ 125.175826] rfkill
> >[ 125.175827] video
> >[ 125.175828] intel_lpss_acpi
> >[ 125.175830] intel_lpss
> >[ 125.175831] evdev
> >[ 125.175832] mfd_core
> >[ 125.175833] acpi_als
> >[ 125.175834] acpi_pad
> >[ 125.175835] kfifo_buf
> >[ 125.175836] button
> >[ 125.175838] industrialio
> >[ 125.175839] fuse
> >[ 125.175840] parport_pc
> >[ 125.175841] ppdev
> >[ 125.175842] lp
> >[ 125.175843] parport
> >[ 125.175844] autofs4
> >[ 125.175845] ext4
> >[ 125.175846] crc16
> >[ 125.175847] mbcache
> >[ 125.175848] jbd2
> >[ 125.175849] hid_generic
> >[ 125.175851] usbhid
> >[ 125.175852] sg
> >[ 125.175853] sr_mod
> >[ 125.175854] cdrom
> >[ 125.175855] sd_mod
> >[ 125.175856] crc32c_intel
> >[ 125.175857] ahci
> >[ 125.175858] libahci
> >[ 125.175859] psmouse
> >[ 125.175860] xhci_pci
> >[ 125.175861] libata
> >[ 125.175862] r8169
> >[ 125.175864] i2c_i801
> >[ 125.175865] mii
> >[ 125.175866] xhci_hcd
> >[ 125.175867] tg3
> >[ 125.175868] ptp
> >[ 125.175869] scsi_mod
> >[ 125.175870] usbcore
> >[ 125.175871] pps_core
> >[ 125.175872] libphy
> >[ 125.175873] usb_common
> >[ 125.175874] fan
> >[ 125.175875] thermal
> >[ 125.175876] i2c_hid
> >[ 125.175877] hid
> >[ 125.175878] fjes
> >
> >[ 125.175926] CPU: 0 PID: 1497 Comm: txrx Tainted: G WC 4.4.70-rt83 #1
> >[ 125.175928] Hardware name: NOVATECH LTD PC-XB04472/H110M-C, BIOS 3019 01/06/2017
> >[ 125.175935] 0000000000000000 ffff8802205b3cb0 ffffffff81387160 ffff8802205b3cf8
> >[ 125.175940] 0000000000000009 ffff8802205b3ce8 ffffffff81089766 ffffffffc057ca60
> >[ 125.175944] 00000000000002dc 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 0000000000000001
> >[ 125.175945] Call Trace:
> >[ 125.175955] [<ffffffff81387160>] dump_stack+0x85/0xc5
> >[ 125.175963] [<ffffffff81089766>] warn_slowpath_common+0x86/0xe0
> >[ 125.175971] [<ffffffff8108980c>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x4c/0x50
> >[ 125.175980] [<ffffffff81185577>] ? trace_preempt_on+0x1a7/0x2b0
> >[ 125.175985] [<ffffffff8168ca95>] ? schedule+0x55/0xe0
> >[ 125.175994] [<ffffffffc0575741>] ? comedi_read+0x1a1/0x610 [comedi]
> >[ 125.176001] [<ffffffffc0575741>] ? comedi_read+0x1a1/0x610 [comedi]
> >[ 125.176005] [<ffffffff810b6d0f>] __might_sleep+0x9f/0xb0
> >[ 125.176012] [<ffffffff811f54cb>] __might_fault+0x3b/0xb0
> >[ 125.176020] [<ffffffffc057597f>] comedi_read+0x3df/0x610 [comedi]
> >[ 125.176034] [<ffffffff810bebf0>] ? wake_up_process+0x20/0x20
> >[ 125.176044] [<ffffffff812406d8>] __vfs_read+0x28/0xe0
> >[ 125.176053] [<ffffffff812f1f06>] ? security_file_permission+0xa6/0xc0
> >[ 125.176060] [<ffffffff81240c53>] ? rw_verify_area+0x53/0xf0
> >[ 125.176066] [<ffffffff81240d79>] vfs_read+0x89/0x130
> >[ 125.176074] [<ffffffff81241b79>] SyS_read+0x49/0xb0
> >[ 125.176084] [<ffffffff81691876>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x16/0x7a
> >[ 125.176095] ---[ end trace 0000000000000003 ]---
> >
> >
> >cheers,
> >Piotr
>
> Thanks for the bug report. I think comedi_read() in
> "drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c" needs a call to
> set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING) just before the call to copy_to_user(...).
>
> Similarly, comedi_write() needs a call to set_current_task(TASK_RUNNING)
> just before the call to copy_from_user(...), and another call to
> set_current_task(TASK_RUNNING) before the call to mutex_lock().
>
> I'll work on a patch.
>
> --
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