On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 05:44:48PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've got a warning with the latest Linus tree like below:
>
>[ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
>3.18.0-rc2-test2+ #70 Not tainted
>-------------------------------
>include/linux/kvm_host.h:474 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
>
>other info that might help us debug this:
>
>rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
>1 lock held by qemu-system-x86/2371:
> #0: (&vcpu->mutex){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffffa037d800>] vcpu_load+0x20/0xd0 [kvm]
>
>stack backtrace:
>CPU: 4 PID: 2371 Comm: qemu-system-x86 Not tainted 3.18.0-rc2-test2+ #70
>Hardware name: Dell Inc. OptiPlex 9010/0M9KCM, BIOS A12 01/10/2013
> 0000000000000001 ffff880209983ca8 ffffffff816f514f 0000000000000000
> ffff8802099b8990 ffff880209983cd8 ffffffff810bd687 00000000000fee00
> ffff880208a2c000 ffff880208a10000 ffff88020ef50040 ffff880209983d08
>Call Trace:
> [<ffffffff816f514f>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x71
> [<ffffffff810bd687>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xe7/0x120
> [<ffffffffa037d055>] gfn_to_memslot+0xd5/0xe0 [kvm]
> [<ffffffffa03807d3>] __gfn_to_pfn+0x33/0x60 [kvm]
> [<ffffffffa0380885>] gfn_to_page+0x25/0x90 [kvm]
> [<ffffffffa038aeec>] kvm_vcpu_reload_apic_access_page+0x3c/0x80 [kvm]
The srcu read lock must be held while accessing memslots (e.g. when
using gfn_to_* functions, however, kvm_vcpu_reload_apic_access_page()
doesn't do this. I will send a patch to fix it after reproducibe.
Regards,
Wanpeng Li
> [<ffffffffa08f0a9c>] vmx_vcpu_reset+0x20c/0x460 [kvm_intel]
> [<ffffffffa039ab8e>] kvm_vcpu_reset+0x15e/0x1b0 [kvm]
> [<ffffffffa039ac0c>] kvm_arch_vcpu_setup+0x2c/0x50 [kvm]
> [<ffffffffa037f7e0>] kvm_vm_ioctl+0x1d0/0x780 [kvm]
> [<ffffffff810bc664>] ? __lock_is_held+0x54/0x80
> [<ffffffff812231f0>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x300/0x520
> [<ffffffff8122ee45>] ? __fget+0x5/0x250
> [<ffffffff8122f0fa>] ? __fget_light+0x2a/0xe0
> [<ffffffff81223491>] SyS_ioctl+0x81/0xa0
> [<ffffffff816fed6d>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
>kvm: zapping shadow pages for mmio generation wraparound
>kvm [2369]: vcpu0 disabled perfctr wrmsr: 0xc1 data 0xffff
>
>
>The machine itself and KVM work fine even after this warning. I'm not
>sure whether this is new, maybe it's triggered now since I changed my
>Kconfig to cover more RCU testing recently. The warning is
>reproducible, I can see it at the first invocation of kvm after each
>fresh boot.
>
>Does this ring a bell to anyone?
>
>
>thanks,
>
>Takashi
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