The patch titled Subject: tracing/mm: don't trace kmem_cache_free on offline cpus has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is tracing-mm-dont-trace-kmem_cache_free-on-offline-cpus.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/tracing-mm-dont-trace-kmem_cache_free-on-offline-cpus.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/tracing-mm-dont-trace-kmem_cache_free-on-offline-cpus.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: "Shreyas B. Prabhu" <shreyas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: tracing/mm: don't trace kmem_cache_free on offline cpus Since tracepoints use RCU for protection, they must not be called on offline cpus. trace_kmem_cache_free can be called on an offline cpu in this scenario caught by LOCKDEP: =============================== [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ] 4.1.0-rc1+ #9 Not tainted ------------------------------- include/trace/events/kmem.h:148 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage! other info that might help us debug this: RCU used illegally from offline CPU! rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1 no locks held by swapper/1/0. stack backtrace: CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.1.0-rc1+ #9 Call Trace: [c000001fed2f78f0] [c0000000009dee8c] .dump_stack+0x98/0xd4 (unreliable) [c000001fed2f7970] [c000000000128d88] .lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x108/0x170 [c000001fed2f7a00] [c00000000026f924] .kmem_cache_free+0x344/0x4b0 [c000001fed2f7ab0] [c0000000000bd1cc] .__mmdrop+0x4c/0x160 [c000001fed2f7b40] [c0000000001068e0] .idle_task_exit+0xf0/0x100 [c000001fed2f7bc0] [c000000000066948] .pnv_smp_cpu_kill_self+0x58/0x2c0 [c000001fed2f7ca0] [c00000000003ce34] .cpu_die+0x34/0x50 [c000001fed2f7d10] [c0000000000176d0] .arch_cpu_idle_dead+0x20/0x40 [c000001fed2f7d80] [c00000000011f9a8] .cpu_startup_entry+0x708/0x7a0 [c000001fed2f7ec0] [c00000000003cb6c] .start_secondary+0x36c/0x3a0 [c000001fed2f7f90] [c000000000008b6c] start_secondary_prolog+0x10/0x14 Fix this by converting kmem_cache_free trace point into TRACE_EVENT_CONDITION where condition is cpu_online(smp_processor_id()) Signed-off-by: Shreyas B. Prabhu <shreyas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/trace/events/kmem.h | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN include/trace/events/kmem.h~tracing-mm-dont-trace-kmem_cache_free-on-offline-cpus include/trace/events/kmem.h --- a/include/trace/events/kmem.h~tracing-mm-dont-trace-kmem_cache_free-on-offline-cpus +++ a/include/trace/events/kmem.h @@ -140,11 +140,13 @@ DEFINE_EVENT(kmem_free, kfree, TP_ARGS(call_site, ptr) ); -DEFINE_EVENT(kmem_free, kmem_cache_free, +DEFINE_EVENT_CONDITION(kmem_free, kmem_cache_free, TP_PROTO(unsigned long call_site, const void *ptr), - TP_ARGS(call_site, ptr) + TP_ARGS(call_site, ptr), + + TP_CONDITION(cpu_online(smp_processor_id())) ); TRACE_EVENT(mm_page_free, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from shreyas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are tracing-mm-dont-trace-kmem_cache_free-on-offline-cpus.patch tracing-mm-dont-trace-mm_page_free-on-offline-cpus.patch tracing-mm-dont-trace-mm_page_pcpu_drain-on-offline-cpus.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html