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Re: bug: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code in rr_select_path()

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On 08/05/2016 09:27 AM, Mike Snitzer wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 03 2016 at 11:35am -0400,
> Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> Hej Mike,
>>
>> when running a debug-kernel today with several multipath-devices using
>> the round-robin path selector I noticed that the kernel throws these
>> warnings here:
>>
>> BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: kdmwork-252:0/881
>> caller is rr_select_path+0x36/0x108 [dm_round_robin]
>> CPU: 1 PID: 881 Comm: kdmwork-252:0 Not tainted 4.7.0-debug #4
>>        00000000617679b8 0000000061767a48 0000000000000002 0000000000000000
>>        0000000061767ae8 0000000061767a60 0000000061767a60 00000000001145d0
>>        0000000000000000 0000000000b962ae 0000000000bb291e 000000000000000b
>>        0000000061767aa8 0000000061767a48 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
>>        0700000000b962ae 00000000001145d0 0000000061767a48 0000000061767aa8
>> Call Trace:
>> ([<00000000001144a2>] show_trace+0x8a/0xe0)
>> ([<0000000000114586>] show_stack+0x8e/0xf0)
>> ([<00000000006c7fdc>] dump_stack+0x9c/0xe0)
>> ([<00000000006fbbc0>] check_preemption_disabled+0x108/0x130)
>> ([<000003ff80268646>] rr_select_path+0x36/0x108 [dm_round_robin])
>> ([<000003ff80259a42>] choose_path_in_pg+0x42/0xc8 [dm_multipath])
>> ([<000003ff80259b62>] choose_pgpath+0x9a/0x1a0 [dm_multipath])
>> ([<000003ff8025b51a>] __multipath_map.isra.5+0x72/0x228 [dm_multipath])
>> ([<000003ff8025b75e>] multipath_map+0x3e/0x50 [dm_multipath])
>> ([<000003ff80225eb6>] map_request+0x66/0x458 [dm_mod])
>> ([<000003ff802262ec>] map_tio_request+0x44/0x70 [dm_mod])
>> ([<000000000016835a>] kthread_worker_fn+0xf2/0x1d8)
>> ([<00000000001681da>] kthread+0x112/0x120)
>> ([<000000000098378a>] kernel_thread_starter+0x6/0xc)
>> ([<0000000000983784>] kernel_thread_starter+0x0/0xc)
>> no locks held by kdmwork-252:0/881.
>>
>>
>> There are several more of these warnings, but all have the same
>> stack-trace (this is on s390x, but this looks like its only common code)
>> - sometimes the process-context is multipath.
>>
>> Looking at the changes in this function, it rather looks like this is
>> caused by changes made in commit
>> b0b477c7e0dd93f8916d106018ded1331b81bf61 (dm round robin: use percpu
>> 'repeat_count' and 'current_path').
>>
>> The kernel is a stock v4.7 with some debug options enabled (prominently
>> DEBUG_PREEMPT). Need any more info?
>
> As you can see from commit b0b477c7e0dd9 the round-robin path selector
> is now using percpu data (pointer) and a percpu_counter.
>
> I'm really not sure how else to access this percpu data.
>
> Cc'ing LKML, linux-block, Jens and hch to cast a wider net in the hopes
> of getting an answer to how to fix this.

 From a quick look, looks like you are using this_cpu_ptr() without
having preemption disabled.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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Re: bug: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code in  rr_select_path() Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> - 2016-08-05 17:30 +0200
  Re: bug: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code in  rr_select_path() Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> - 2016-08-05 17:40 +0200
    Re: bug: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code in  rr_select_path() Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> - 2016-08-05 17:50 +0200
      Re: bug: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code in  rr_select_path() Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> - 2016-08-05 18:00 +0200
        Re: bug: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code in  rr_select_path() Mike Snitzer <snitzer@redhat.com> - 2016-08-05 18:10 +0200
          Re: bug: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code in  rr_select_path() Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> - 2016-08-05 18:20 +0200
          Re: bug: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code in  rr_select_path() Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-08-07 17:50 +0200
          Re: [dm-devel] bug: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code in  rr_select_path() Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> - 2016-08-08 18:40 +0200
            Re: [dm-devel] bug: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code in  rr_select_path() Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-08-08 19:10 +0200
          Re: [dm-devel] bug: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible code in  rr_select_path() Benjamin Block <bblock@linux.vnet.ibm.com> - 2016-08-08 18:40 +0200

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