On 2021-08-04 09:39:30 [-0600], Jens Axboe wrote: > I'm confused, the waitqueue locks are always IRQ disabling. spin_lock_irq() does not disable interrupts on -RT. The patch above produces: | BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:35 | in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 2020, name: iou-wrk-2018 | 1 lock held by iou-wrk-2018/2020: | #0: ffff888111a47de8 (&hash->wait){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: io_worker_handle_work+0x443/0x630 | irq event stamp: 10 | hardirqs last enabled at (9): [<ffffffff81c47818>] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x28/0x70 | hardirqs last disabled at (10): [<ffffffff81c4769e>] _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x3e/0x40 | softirqs last enabled at (0): [<ffffffff81077238>] copy_process+0x8f8/0x2020 | softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0 | CPU: 5 PID: 2020 Comm: iou-wrk-2018 Tainted: G W 5.14.0-rc4-rt4+ #97 | Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014 | Call Trace: | dump_stack_lvl+0x45/0x59 | ___might_sleep.cold+0xa6/0xb6 | rt_spin_lock+0x35/0xc0 | ? io_worker_handle_work+0x443/0x630 | io_worker_handle_work+0x443/0x630 | io_wqe_worker+0xb4/0x340 | ? lockdep_hardirqs_on_prepare+0xd4/0x170 | ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x28/0x70 | ? _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x28/0x70 | ? io_worker_handle_work+0x630/0x630 | ? rt_mutex_slowunlock+0x2ba/0x310 | ? io_worker_handle_work+0x630/0x630 | ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30 But indeed, you are right, my snippet breaks non-RT. So this then maybe: diff --git a/fs/io-wq.c b/fs/io-wq.c index 57d3cdddcdb3e..0b931ac3c83e6 100644 --- a/fs/io-wq.c +++ b/fs/io-wq.c @@ -384,7 +384,7 @@ static void io_wait_on_hash(struct io_wqe *wqe, unsigned int hash) { struct io_wq *wq = wqe->wq; - spin_lock(&wq->hash->wait.lock); + spin_lock_irq(&wq->hash->wait.lock); if (list_empty(&wqe->wait.entry)) { __add_wait_queue(&wq->hash->wait, &wqe->wait); if (!test_bit(hash, &wq->hash->map)) { @@ -392,7 +392,7 @@ static void io_wait_on_hash(struct io_wqe *wqe, unsigned int hash) list_del_init(&wqe->wait.entry); } } - spin_unlock(&wq->hash->wait.lock); + spin_unlock_irq(&wq->hash->wait.lock); } static struct io_wq_work *io_get_next_work(struct io_wqe *wqe) @@ -430,9 +430,9 @@ static struct io_wq_work *io_get_next_work(struct io_wqe *wqe) } if (stall_hash != -1U) { - raw_spin_unlock(&wqe->lock); + raw_spin_unlock_irq(&wqe->lock); io_wait_on_hash(wqe, stall_hash); - raw_spin_lock(&wqe->lock); + raw_spin_lock_irq(&wqe->lock); } return NULL; (this is on-top of the patch you sent earlier and Daniel Cc: me on after I checked that the problem/warning still exists). Sebastian