Booting a recent PREEMPT_RT kernel (v5.14-rc5-rt8 with the previous version of this fix reverted) on my arm4 Juno leads to the idle task blocking on a sleeping spinlock down some notifier path: [ 5.163034] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:35 [ 5.163042] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 128, non_block: 0, pid: 0, name: swapper/1 [ 5.163049] 1 lock held by swapper/1/0: [ 5.163053] #0: ffff8000120950e8 (cpu_pm_notifier_chain.lock){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: atomic_notifier_call_chain_robust (kernel/notifier.c:186) [ 5.163133] Preemption disabled at: [ 5.163136] rt_mutex_slowunlock (kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1242) [ 5.163148] CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 5.14.0-rc5-rt8-00001-ga7cd9160688d #202 [ 5.163158] Hardware name: ARM Juno development board (r0) (DT) [ 5.163162] Call trace: [ 5.163165] dump_backtrace (arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:161) [ 5.163177] show_stack (arch/arm64/kernel/stacktrace.c:217) [ 5.163187] dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:106) [ 5.163195] dump_stack (lib/dump_stack.c:113) [ 5.163202] ___might_sleep (kernel/sched/core.c:9286) [ 5.163210] rt_spin_lock (kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:1668 (discriminator 4) kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:30 (discriminator 4) kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:36 (discriminator 4) kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:44 (discriminator 4)) [ 5.163216] atomic_notifier_call_chain_robust (kernel/notifier.c:186) [ 5.163225] cpu_pm_notify_robust (kernel/cpu_pm.c:39) [ 5.163233] cpu_pm_enter (kernel/cpu_pm.c:94) [ 5.163239] psci_enter_idle_state (drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-psci.c:53 drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle-psci.c:154) [ 5.163250] cpuidle_enter_state (drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c:238) [ 5.163258] cpuidle_enter (drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c:353) [ 5.163266] call_cpuidle (kernel/sched/idle.c:159) [ 5.163272] do_idle (kernel/sched/idle.c:243 kernel/sched/idle.c:306) [ 5.163277] cpu_startup_entry (kernel/sched/idle.c:402 (discriminator 1)) [ 5.163285] secondary_start_kernel (arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c:266) [ 5.163294] __secondary_switched (arch/arm64/kernel/head.S:661) Making *all* atomic_notifiers use a raw_spinlock is too big of a hammer, as only notifications issued by the idle task are problematic. Special-case cpu_pm_notifier_chain by kludging a raw_notifier and raw_spinlock together, matching the atomic_notifier behavior with a raw_spinlock. Fixes: 70d932985757 ("notifier: Fix broken error handling pattern") Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@xxxxxxx> --- v1 -> v2: Dropped the treewide change of atomic_notifier and special-cased cpu_pm_notifier_chain. This is done in cpu_pm itself rather than as a new notifier interface since this is caused by the idle task being "special", and AFAIA we don't want to encourage more widespread use. --- kernel/cpu_pm.c | 49 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/cpu_pm.c b/kernel/cpu_pm.c index f7e1d0eccdbc..707b8ace9fc7 100644 --- a/kernel/cpu_pm.c +++ b/kernel/cpu_pm.c @@ -13,19 +13,31 @@ #include <linux/spinlock.h> #include <linux/syscore_ops.h> -static ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD(cpu_pm_notifier_chain); +/* + * atomic_notifiers use a regular spinlock, but notifications for this chain + * will be issued by the idle task which cannot block. + */ +static struct { + struct raw_notifier_head chain; + raw_spinlock_t lock; +} cpu_pm_notifier = { + .chain = RAW_NOTIFIER_INIT(cpu_pm_notifier.chain), + .lock = __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(cpu_pm_notifier.lock), +}; static int cpu_pm_notify(enum cpu_pm_event event) { int ret; /* - * atomic_notifier_call_chain has a RCU read critical section, which - * could be disfunctional in cpu idle. Copy RCU_NONIDLE code to let - * RCU know this. + * This introduces a RCU read critical section, which could be + * disfunctional in cpu idle. Copy RCU_NONIDLE code to let RCU know + * this. */ rcu_irq_enter_irqson(); - ret = atomic_notifier_call_chain(&cpu_pm_notifier_chain, event, NULL); + rcu_read_lock(); + ret = raw_notifier_call_chain(&cpu_pm_notifier.chain, event, NULL); + rcu_read_unlock(); rcu_irq_exit_irqson(); return notifier_to_errno(ret); @@ -33,10 +45,13 @@ static int cpu_pm_notify(enum cpu_pm_event event) static int cpu_pm_notify_robust(enum cpu_pm_event event_up, enum cpu_pm_event event_down) { + unsigned long flags; int ret; rcu_irq_enter_irqson(); - ret = atomic_notifier_call_chain_robust(&cpu_pm_notifier_chain, event_up, event_down, NULL); + raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&cpu_pm_notifier.lock, flags); + ret = raw_notifier_call_chain_robust(&cpu_pm_notifier.chain, event_up, event_down, NULL); + raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpu_pm_notifier.lock, flags); rcu_irq_exit_irqson(); return notifier_to_errno(ret); @@ -49,12 +64,17 @@ static int cpu_pm_notify_robust(enum cpu_pm_event event_up, enum cpu_pm_event ev * Add a driver to a list of drivers that are notified about * CPU and CPU cluster low power entry and exit. * - * This function may sleep, and has the same return conditions as - * raw_notifier_chain_register. + * This function has the same return conditions as raw_notifier_chain_register. */ int cpu_pm_register_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb) { - return atomic_notifier_chain_register(&cpu_pm_notifier_chain, nb); + unsigned long flags; + int ret; + + raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&cpu_pm_notifier.lock, flags); + ret = raw_notifier_chain_register(&cpu_pm_notifier.chain, nb); + raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpu_pm_notifier.lock, flags); + return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_pm_register_notifier); @@ -64,12 +84,17 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_pm_register_notifier); * * Remove a driver from the CPU PM notifier list. * - * This function may sleep, and has the same return conditions as - * raw_notifier_chain_unregister. + * This function has the same return conditions as raw_notifier_chain_unregister. */ int cpu_pm_unregister_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb) { - return atomic_notifier_chain_unregister(&cpu_pm_notifier_chain, nb); + unsigned long flags; + int ret; + + raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&cpu_pm_notifier.lock, flags); + ret = raw_notifier_chain_unregister(&cpu_pm_notifier.chain, nb); + raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&cpu_pm_notifier.lock, flags); + return ret; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpu_pm_unregister_notifier); -- 2.25.1