Re: kvm+nouveau induced lockdep gripe

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Tue Oct 27 2020 - 05:00:25 EST


On 2020-10-27 07:03:38 [+0100], Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-10-26 at 20:53 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> >
> > Could you try this, please?
>
> Nogo, first call of sched_setscheduler() is via kthread_create(). I
> confirmed that nuking that (gratuitous user foot saving override) call
> on top of moving sched_set_fifo() does shut it up, but that won't fly.

mkay. but this then, too. Let me try if I can figure out when this
broke.

diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index 3edaa380dc7b4..64d6afb127239 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -244,6 +244,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kthread_parkme);
static int kthread(void *_create)
{
/* Copy data: it's on kthread's stack */
+ static const struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 0 };
struct kthread_create_info *create = _create;
int (*threadfn)(void *data) = create->threadfn;
void *data = create->data;
@@ -273,6 +274,13 @@ static int kthread(void *_create)
init_completion(&self->parked);
current->vfork_done = &self->exited;

+ /*
+ * root may have changed our (kthreadd's) priority or CPU mask.
+ * The kernel thread should not inherit these properties.
+ */
+ sched_setscheduler_nocheck(current, SCHED_NORMAL, &param);
+ set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, housekeeping_cpumask(HK_FLAG_KTHREAD));
+
/* OK, tell user we're spawned, wait for stop or wakeup */
__set_current_state(TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE);
create->result = current;
@@ -370,7 +378,6 @@ struct task_struct *__kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
}
task = create->result;
if (!IS_ERR(task)) {
- static const struct sched_param param = { .sched_priority = 0 };
char name[TASK_COMM_LEN];

/*
@@ -379,13 +386,6 @@ struct task_struct *__kthread_create_on_node(int (*threadfn)(void *data),
*/
vsnprintf(name, sizeof(name), namefmt, args);
set_task_comm(task, name);
- /*
- * root may have changed our (kthreadd's) priority or CPU mask.
- * The kernel thread should not inherit these properties.
- */
- sched_setscheduler_nocheck(task, SCHED_NORMAL, &param);
- set_cpus_allowed_ptr(task,
- housekeeping_cpumask(HK_FLAG_KTHREAD));
}
kfree(create);
return task;

Sebastian