On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 07:47:30PM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 12:09:08AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 08:57:07AM +0800, Fengguang Wu wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 02:54:42PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Jul 08, 2012 at 01:18:03AM +0800, wfg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > > Hi Paul,
> > > > >
> > > > > Kernel build failed on
> > > > >
> > > > > tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git fixes.2012.07.06a
> > > > > head: cfca927972e31a5b3da49bf641c525732ff3c357
> > > > > commit: 62fde6edf12b60fddb13a3f0a779c8be0bb7447e [12/19] rcu: Make __call_rcu() handle invocation from idle
> > > > > config: x86_64-randconfig-tip4 (attached as .config)
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > kernel/built-in.o: In function `rcu_read_lock_bh_held': (.text+0x167d1): undefined reference to `rcu_is_cpu_idle'
> > > > > kernel/built-in.o: In function `lockdep_rcu_suspicious': (.text+0x367e8): undefined reference to `rcu_is_cpu_idle'
> > > > > kernel/built-in.o: In function `lockdep_rcu_suspicious': (.text+0x36815): undefined reference to `rcu_is_cpu_idle'
> > > > > kernel/built-in.o: In function `css_get_next': (.text+0x40f5a): undefined reference to `rcu_is_cpu_idle'
> > > > > drivers/built-in.o: In function `dst_link_failure': isdn_net.c:(.text+0x13950a): undefined reference to `rcu_is_cpu_idle'
> > > > > net/built-in.o:sock.c:(.text+0x3cec): more undefined references to `rcu_is_cpu_idle' follow
> > > > >
> > > > > There are more similar errors in the other randconfigs.
> > > >
> > > > Hmmm... So you are building TINY_RCU without CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC,
> > > > but with some checking enabled. I -thought- I was testing that...
> > > >
> > > > But, wait. You do have CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC defined. That really
> > > > should cause rcu_is_cpu_idle() to be compiled into kernel/rcupdate.o.
> > > > And your config builds on my system with no errors.
> > >
> > > I can reproduce the errors in a clean build. And I find the root cause to be
> > > the below line in rcutiny.c:
> > >
> > > ==> #ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_RCU
> > >
> > > /*
> > > * Test whether RCU thinks that the current CPU is idle.
> > > */
> > > int rcu_is_cpu_idle(void)
> >
> > Ah! Fixed by d7118175 in -next, -tip, and -rcu. The bug was introduced
> > by 9b2e4f1880 in v3.3, but apparently the commit you found was the one
> > that actually exposed the bug.
> >
> > What error were you bisecting for?
>
> It's probably a different error..
>
> When you say "builds on my system w/o errors", you are talking about
> the git head of this branch? That's true: the bug is introduced in
> commit 62fde6e and then fixed by d711817:
Check the patch. The bug was introduced by 9b2e4f1880, which used
CONFIG_PROVE_RCU rather than the correct CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC.
Commit 62fde6e exposed the bug.
> $ git log --oneline rcu/fixes.2012.07.06a
> cfca927 rcu: Introduce check for callback list/count mismatch
> cf01537 rcu: Add check for CPUs going offline with callbacks queued
> 95f0c1d rcu: Disable preemption in rcu_blocking_is_gp()
> 1c17e4d rcu: Prevent uninitialized string in RCU CPU stall info
> fixed ==> d711817 rcu: Fix rcu_is_cpu_idle() #ifdef in TINY_RCU
> 29154c5 rcu: Split RCU core processing out of __call_rcu()
> a16b7a6 rcu: Prevent __call_rcu() from invoking RCU core on offline CPUs
> error ==> 62fde6e rcu: Make __call_rcu() handle invocation from idle
> 28f5c69 rcu: Remove function versions of __kfree_rcu and __is_kfree_rcu_offset
> 2a3fa84 rcu: Consolidate tree/tiny __rcu_read_{,un}lock() implementations
> e9023c4 rcu: Remove return value from rcu_assign_pointer()
> e5c1f44 key: Remove extraneous parentheses from rcu_assign_keypointer()
> d1b88eb rcu: Remove return value from RCU_INIT_POINTER()
> d36cc70 rcu: Use new RCU_POINTER_INITIALIZER for gcc-style initializations
> 172708d rcu: Add a gcc-style structure initializer for RCU pointers
> 1d1fb39 rcu: Add ACCESS_ONCE() to ->qlen accesses
> 3f5d3ea rcu: Consolidate duplicate callback-list initialization
> 285fe29 rcu: Fix detection of abruptly-ending stall
> cba6d0d Revert "rcu: Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation"
> 6887a41 Linux 3.5-rc5
>
> The bad commit 62fde6e is actually committed on Jul 2, so it obviously
> presents some new work:
>
> commit 62fde6edf12b60fddb13a3f0a779c8be0bb7447e
> Author: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@xxxxxxxxxx>
> AuthorDate: Tue May 22 22:10:24 2012 -0700
> Commit: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ==> CommitDate: Mon Jul 2 12:34:24 2012 -0700
>
> rcu: Make __call_rcu() handle invocation from idle
I agree that it would have been better if I had ordered d711817
before 62fde6e, but both commits are already in -tip. :-(
Thanx, Paul
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