Alexei reported that send_signal test may fail with nested CONFIG_PARAVIRT configs. In this particular case, the base vm is AMD with 166 cpus, and I run selftests with regular qemu on top of that and indeed send_signal test failed. I also tried with an intel box with 80 cpus and there is no issue. The main qemu command line includes -enable-kvm -smp 16 -cpu host The failure log looks like: $ ./test_progs -t send_signal [ 48.501588] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#9 stuck for 26s! [test_progs:2225] [ 48.503622] Modules linked in: bpf_testmod(O) [ 48.503622] CPU: 9 PID: 2225 Comm: test_progs Tainted: G O 6.9.0-08561-g2c1713a8f1c9-dirty #69 [ 48.507629] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.15.0-0-g2dd4b9b3f840-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014 [ 48.511635] RIP: 0010:handle_softirqs+0x71/0x290 [ 48.511635] Code: 0f b7 25 f2 f4 fa 7e 65 81 05 cf f4 fa 7e 00 01 00 00 c7 44 24 10 0a 00 00 00 31 c0 65 66 89 05 d5 f4 fa 7e fb bb ff ff ff ff <49> c7 c2 cb [ 48.518527] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000310fa0 EFLAGS: 00000246 [ 48.519579] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 00000000ffffffff RCX: 00000000000006e0 [ 48.522526] RDX: 0000000000000006 RSI: ffff88810791ae80 RDI: 0000000000000000 [ 48.523587] RBP: ffffc90000fabc88 R08: 00000005a0af4f7f R09: 0000000000000000 [ 48.525525] R10: 0000000561d2f29c R11: 0000000000006534 R12: 0000000000000280 [ 48.528525] R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000000 [ 48.528525] FS: 00007f2f2885cd00(0000) GS:ffff888237c40000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 [ 48.531600] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 [ 48.535520] CR2: 00007f2f287059f0 CR3: 0000000106a28002 CR4: 00000000003706f0 [ 48.537538] Call Trace: [ 48.537538] <IRQ> [ 48.537538] ? watchdog_timer_fn+0x1cd/0x250 [ 48.539590] ? lockup_detector_update_enable+0x50/0x50 [ 48.539590] ? __hrtimer_run_queues+0xff/0x280 [ 48.542520] ? hrtimer_interrupt+0x103/0x230 [ 48.544524] ? __sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x4f/0x140 [ 48.545522] ? sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x3a/0x90 [ 48.547612] ? asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 [ 48.547612] ? handle_softirqs+0x71/0x290 [ 48.547612] irq_exit_rcu+0x63/0x80 [ 48.551585] sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x75/0x90 [ 48.552521] </IRQ> [ 48.553529] <TASK> [ 48.553529] asm_sysvec_apic_timer_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 [ 48.555609] RIP: 0010:finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x90/0x260 [ 48.556526] Code: 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 41 c7 44 24 34 00 00 00 00 49 8b 9f 58 0a 00 00 48 85 db 0f 85 89 01 00 00 4c 89 ff e8 53 d9 bd 00 fb 66 90 <4d> 85 ed 74 [ 48.562524] RSP: 0018:ffffc90000fabd38 EFLAGS: 00000282 [ 48.563589] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000000 RCX: ffffffff83385620 [ 48.563589] RDX: ffff888237c73ae4 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff888237c6fd00 [ 48.568521] RBP: ffffc90000fabd68 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 48.569528] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8881009d0000 [ 48.573525] R13: ffff8881024e5400 R14: ffff88810791ae80 R15: ffff888237c6fd00 [ 48.575614] ? finish_task_switch.isra.0+0x8d/0x260 [ 48.576523] __schedule+0x364/0xac0 [ 48.577535] schedule+0x2e/0x110 [ 48.578555] pipe_read+0x301/0x400 [ 48.579589] ? destroy_sched_domains_rcu+0x30/0x30 [ 48.579589] vfs_read+0x2b3/0x2f0 [ 48.579589] ksys_read+0x8b/0xc0 [ 48.583590] do_syscall_64+0x3d/0xc0 [ 48.583590] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x4b/0x53 [ 48.586525] RIP: 0033:0x7f2f28703fa1 [ 48.587592] Code: ff ff eb c3 67 e8 2f c9 01 00 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 44 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 80 3d c5 23 14 00 00 74 13 31 c0 0f 05 <48> 3d 00 f0 [ 48.593534] RSP: 002b:00007ffd90f8cf88 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000000 [ 48.595589] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffd90f8d5e8 RCX: 00007f2f28703fa1 [ 48.595589] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: 00007ffd90f8cfb0 RDI: 0000000000000006 [ 48.599592] RBP: 00007ffd90f8d2f0 R08: 0000000000000064 R09: 0000000000000000 [ 48.602527] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000 [ 48.603589] R13: 00007ffd90f8d608 R14: 00007f2f288d8000 R15: 0000000000f6bdb0 [ 48.605527] </TASK> In the test, two processes are communicated through pipe. Furhter debugging with strace found that the above splat is triggered as read() syscall could not receive the data even if the corresponding write() syscall in another process successfully wrote data into the pipe. The failed subtest is "send_signal_perf". The corresponding perf event has sample_period 1 and config PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK. sample_period 1 means every overflow event will trigger a call to bpf program. So I suspect this may overwhelm the system. So I increased the sample_period to 100000 and the test passed. The sample_period 10000 still has the test failed. In other parts of selftest, e.g., [1], sample_freq is used instead. So I decided to use sample_freq = 1000 since the test can pass as well. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20240604070700.3032142-1-song@xxxxxxxxxx/ Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@xxxxxxxxx> --- tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/send_signal.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/send_signal.c b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/send_signal.c index 920aee41bd58..6cc69900b310 100644 --- a/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/send_signal.c +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/send_signal.c @@ -156,7 +156,8 @@ static void test_send_signal_tracepoint(bool signal_thread) static void test_send_signal_perf(bool signal_thread) { struct perf_event_attr attr = { - .sample_period = 1, + .freq = 1, + .sample_freq = 1000, .type = PERF_TYPE_SOFTWARE, .config = PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK, }; -- 2.43.0
