Dear Paul I think the key to the problem lies in your attached console.log (pasted below), at times 0.014987 and 0.015995, I see there are two locks (cpu_hotplug_lock and jump_label_mutex) holded while kmem_cache_alloc calls __might_resched (0.023356). I guess PowerPC's map_patch_area should temporary release above two locks before invoking map_kernel_page (which will call kmem_cache_alloc): static int map_patch_area(void *addr, unsigned long text_poke_addr) { unsigned long pfn; int err; if (is_vmalloc_or_module_addr(addr)) pfn = vmalloc_to_pfn(addr); else pfn = __pa_symbol(addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT; err = map_kernel_page(text_poke_addr, (pfn << PAGE_SHIFT), PAGE_KERNEL); pr_devel("Mapped addr %lx with pfn %lx:%d\n", text_poke_addr, pfn, err); if (err) return -1; return 0; } I will try to think it over in the coming days. [ 0.012154][ T1] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/sched/mm.h:256 [ 0.013128][ T1] in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 1, name: swapper/0 [ 0.014015][ T1] preempt_count: 0, expected: 0 [ 0.014505][ T1] 2 locks held by swapper/0/1: [ 0.014987][ T1] #0: c0000000026108a0 (cpu_hotplug_lock){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: static_key_enable+0x24/0x50 [ 0.015995][ T1] #1: c0000000027416c8 (jump_label_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: static_key_enable_cpuslocked+0x88/0x120 [ 0.017107][ T1] irq event stamp: 46 [ 0.017507][ T1] hardirqs last enabled at (45): [<c0000000010c1054>] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x94/0xd0 [ 0.018549][ T1] hardirqs last disabled at (46): [<c0000000000a9bc4>] do_patch_instruction+0x3b4/0x4a0 [ 0.019549][ T1] softirqs last enabled at (0): [<c000000000149540>] copy_process+0x8d0/0x1df0 [ 0.020474][ T1] softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0 [ 0.021200][ T1] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.17.0-rc3-00349-gd3a9fd9fed88 #34 [ 0.022115][ T1] Call Trace: [ 0.022443][ T1] [c0000000084837d0] [c000000000961aac] dump_stack_lvl+0xa0/0xec (unreliable) [ 0.023356][ T1] [c000000008483820] [c00000000019b314] __might_resched+0x2f4/0x310 [ 0.024174][ T1] [c0000000084838b0] [c0000000004c0c70] kmem_cache_alloc+0x220/0x4b0 [ 0.025000][ T1] [c000000008483920] [c000000000448af4] __pud_alloc+0x74/0x1d0 [ 0.025772][ T1] [c000000008483970] [c00000000008fe3c] hash__map_kernel_page+0x2cc/0x390 [ 0.026643][ T1] [c000000008483a20] [c0000000000a9944] do_patch_instruction+0x134/0x4a0 [ 0.027511][ T1] [c000000008483a70] [c0000000000559d4] arch_jump_label_transform+0x64/0x78 [ 0.028401][ T1] [c000000008483a90] [c0000000003d6288] __jump_label_update+0x148/0x180 [ 0.029254][ T1] [c000000008483b30] [c0000000003d6800] static_key_enable_cpuslocked+0xd0/0x120 [ 0.030179][ T1] [c000000008483ba0] [c0000000003d6880] static_key_enable+0x30/0x50 [ 0.030996][ T1] [c000000008483bd0] [c00000000200a8f4] check_kvm_guest+0x60/0x88 [ 0.031799][ T1] [c000000008483c00] [c000000002027744] pSeries_smp_probe+0x54/0xb0 [ 0.032617][ T1] [c000000008483c30] [c000000002011db8] smp_prepare_cpus+0x3e0/0x430 [ 0.033444][ T1] [c000000008483cd0] [c000000002004908] kernel_init_freeable+0x20c/0x43c [ 0.034307][ T1] [c000000008483db0] [c000000000012c00] kernel_init+0x30/0x1a0 [ 0.035078][ T1] [c000000008483e10] [c00000000000cd64] ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64 Thanks for your trust in me! Cheers Zhouyi On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 7:05 AM Paul Menzel <pmenzel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Dear Linux folks, > > > Running rcutorture on the POWER8 system IBM S822LC with Ubuntu 20.10, it > found the bug below. I more or less used rcu/dev (0ba8896d2fd7 > (lib/irq_poll: Declare IRQ_POLL softirq vector as ksoftirqd-parking > safe)) [1]. The bug manifested for the four configurations below. > > 1. results-rcutorture-kasan/SRCU-T > 2. results-rcutorture-kasan/TINY02 > 3. results-rcutorture/SRCU-T > 4. results-rcutorture/TINY02 > > For example, the attached > > > /dev/shm/linux/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/res/2022.02.11-22.00.51-torture/results-rcutorture-kasan/SRCU-T/console.log > > contains: > > ``` > [ 0.012154][ T1] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid > context at include/linux/sched/mm.h:256 > [ 0.013128][ T1] in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, > pid: 1, name: swapper/0 > [ 0.014015][ T1] preempt_count: 0, expected: 0 > [ 0.014505][ T1] 2 locks held by swapper/0/1: > [ 0.014987][ T1] #0: c0000000026108a0 > (cpu_hotplug_lock){.+.+}-{0:0}, at: static_key_enable+0x24/0x50 > [ 0.015995][ T1] #1: c0000000027416c8 > (jump_label_mutex){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: static_key_enable_cpuslocked+0x88/0x120 > [ 0.017107][ T1] irq event stamp: 46 > [ 0.017507][ T1] hardirqs last enabled at (45): > [<c0000000010c1054>] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x94/0xd0 > [ 0.018549][ T1] hardirqs last disabled at (46): > [<c0000000000a9bc4>] do_patch_instruction+0x3b4/0x4a0 > [ 0.019549][ T1] softirqs last enabled at (0): > [<c000000000149540>] copy_process+0x8d0/0x1df0 > [ 0.020474][ T1] softirqs last disabled at (0): > [<0000000000000000>] 0x0 > [ 0.021200][ T1] CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted > 5.17.0-rc3-00349-gd3a9fd9fed88 #34 > [ 0.022115][ T1] Call Trace: > [ 0.022443][ T1] [c0000000084837d0] [c000000000961aac] > dump_stack_lvl+0xa0/0xec (unreliable) > [ 0.023356][ T1] [c000000008483820] [c00000000019b314] > __might_resched+0x2f4/0x310 > [ 0.024174][ T1] [c0000000084838b0] [c0000000004c0c70] > kmem_cache_alloc+0x220/0x4b0 > [ 0.025000][ T1] [c000000008483920] [c000000000448af4] > __pud_alloc+0x74/0x1d0 > [ 0.025772][ T1] [c000000008483970] [c00000000008fe3c] > hash__map_kernel_page+0x2cc/0x390 > [ 0.026643][ T1] [c000000008483a20] [c0000000000a9944] > do_patch_instruction+0x134/0x4a0 > [ 0.027511][ T1] [c000000008483a70] [c0000000000559d4] > arch_jump_label_transform+0x64/0x78 > [ 0.028401][ T1] [c000000008483a90] [c0000000003d6288] > __jump_label_update+0x148/0x180 > [ 0.029254][ T1] [c000000008483b30] [c0000000003d6800] > static_key_enable_cpuslocked+0xd0/0x120 > [ 0.030179][ T1] [c000000008483ba0] [c0000000003d6880] > static_key_enable+0x30/0x50 > [ 0.030996][ T1] [c000000008483bd0] [c00000000200a8f4] > check_kvm_guest+0x60/0x88 > [ 0.031799][ T1] [c000000008483c00] [c000000002027744] > pSeries_smp_probe+0x54/0xb0 > [ 0.032617][ T1] [c000000008483c30] [c000000002011db8] > smp_prepare_cpus+0x3e0/0x430 > [ 0.033444][ T1] [c000000008483cd0] [c000000002004908] > kernel_init_freeable+0x20c/0x43c > [ 0.034307][ T1] [c000000008483db0] [c000000000012c00] > kernel_init+0x30/0x1a0 > [ 0.035078][ T1] [c000000008483e10] [c00000000000cd64] > ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0x64 > ``` > > > Kind regards, > > Paul > > > [1]: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git