Re: CONFIG_PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING false positive?

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Thu, Nov 23, 2023 at 09:00:41AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> Is this telling me that I'm no longer allowed to take a read_lock() in
> a callback for an HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_HARD timer? Is that intentional?
> 
> If I must, I can probably cope with this by using read_trylock()
> instead. The object being locked is a cache, and we opportunistically
> try to use it from the fast path but fall back to a slow path in
> process context which will revalidate and try again. So if someone
> *has* taken the write lock, it's a fairly safe bet that the cache is
> going to be invalidated and we were going to take the slow path anyway.
> 
> [   62.336965] =============================
> [   62.336973] [ BUG: Invalid wait context ]
> [   62.336992] 6.7.0-rc1+ #1437 Tainted: G          I       
> [   62.337001] -----------------------------
> [   62.337008] qemu-system-x86/1935 is trying to lock:
> [   62.337017] ffffc900018fecc0 (&gpc->lock){....}-{3:3}, at: kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast+0xe7/0x460 [kvm]
> [   62.337133] other info that might help us debug this:
> [   62.337142] context-{2:2}
> [   62.337148] 2 locks held by qemu-system-x86/1935:
> [   62.337156]  #0: ffff888108f780b0 (&vcpu->mutex){+.+.}-{4:4}, at: kvm_vcpu_ioctl+0x7f/0x730 [kvm]
> [   62.337239]  #1: ffffc900018ff2d8 (&kvm->srcu){.?.+}-{0:0}, at: kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast+0xcd/0x460 [kvm]
> [   62.337339] stack backtrace:
> [   62.337346] CPU: 7 PID: 1935 Comm: qemu-system-x86 Tainted: G          I        6.7.0-rc1+ #1437
> [   62.337370] Hardware name: Intel Corporation S2600CW/S2600CW, BIOS SE5C610.86B.01.01.0008.021120151325 02/11/2015
> [   62.337384] Call Trace:
> [   62.337390]  <IRQ>
> [   62.337395]  dump_stack_lvl+0x57/0x90
> [   62.337407]  __lock_acquire+0x7bb/0xbb0
> [   62.337416]  ? __lock_acquire+0x4f0/0xbb0
> [   62.337425]  lock_acquire.part.0+0xad/0x240
> [   62.337433]  ? kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast+0xe7/0x460 [kvm]
> [   62.337512]  ? rcu_is_watching+0xd/0x40
> [   62.337520]  ? lock_acquire+0xf2/0x110
> [   62.337529]  __raw_read_lock_irqsave+0x4e/0xa0
> [   62.337538]  ? kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast+0xe7/0x460 [kvm]
> [   62.337604]  kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast+0xe7/0x460 [kvm]
> [   62.337669]  ? kvm_xen_set_evtchn_fast+0xcd/0x460 [kvm]
> [   62.337734]  xen_timer_callback+0x86/0xc0 [kvm]

xen_timer_callback is HRTIMER_MODE_ABS_HARD, which means it will still
run in IRQ context for PREEMPT_RT.

OTOH read_lock_irqsave() is not a raw spinlock and will be turned into a
blocking lock.

This then gives scheduling from IRQ context, which is somewhat frowned
upon.

Warning is real and valid.