The patch titled Subject: tracing/mm: don't trace mm_page_pcpu_drain on offline cpus has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is tracing-mm-dont-trace-mm_page_pcpu_drain-on-offline-cpus.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/tracing-mm-dont-trace-mm_page_pcpu_drain-on-offline-cpus.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/tracing-mm-dont-trace-mm_page_pcpu_drain-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 mm_page_pcpu_drain on offline cpus Since tracepoints use RCU for protection, they must not be called on offline cpus. trace_mm_page_pcpu_drain 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:265 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 1 lock held by swapper/5/0: #0: (&(&zone->lock)->rlock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000002073b0>] .free_pcppages_bulk+0x70/0x920 stack backtrace: CPU: 5 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/5 Not tainted 4.1.0-rc1+ #9 Call Trace: [c000001fed2e7720] [c0000000009dee8c] .dump_stack+0x98/0xd4 (unreliable) [c000001fed2e77a0] [c000000000128d88] .lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x108/0x170 [c000001fed2e7830] [c00000000020794c] .free_pcppages_bulk+0x60c/0x920 [c000001fed2e7980] [c000000000208188] .free_hot_cold_page+0x208/0x280 [c000001fed2e7a30] [c00000000004d000] .destroy_context+0x90/0xd0 [c000001fed2e7ab0] [c0000000000bd1d8] .__mmdrop+0x58/0x160 [c000001fed2e7b40] [c0000000001068e0] .idle_task_exit+0xf0/0x100 [c000001fed2e7bc0] [c000000000066948] .pnv_smp_cpu_kill_self+0x58/0x2c0 [c000001fed2e7ca0] [c00000000003ce34] .cpu_die+0x34/0x50 [c000001fed2e7d10] [c0000000000176d0] .arch_cpu_idle_dead+0x20/0x40 [c000001fed2e7d80] [c00000000011f9a8] .cpu_startup_entry+0x708/0x7a0 [c000001fed2e7ec0] [c00000000003cb6c] .start_secondary+0x36c/0x3a0 [c000001fed2e7f90] [c000000000008b6c] start_secondary_prolog+0x10/0x14 Fix this by converting mm_page_pcpu_drain trace point into TRACE_EVENT_CONDITION where condition is cpu_online(smp_processor_id()) Signed-off-by: Shreyas B. Prabhu <shreyas@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 | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN include/trace/events/kmem.h~tracing-mm-dont-trace-mm_page_pcpu_drain-on-offline-cpus include/trace/events/kmem.h --- a/include/trace/events/kmem.h~tracing-mm-dont-trace-mm_page_pcpu_drain-on-offline-cpus +++ a/include/trace/events/kmem.h @@ -257,12 +257,26 @@ DEFINE_EVENT(mm_page, mm_page_alloc_zone TP_ARGS(page, order, migratetype) ); -DEFINE_EVENT_PRINT(mm_page, mm_page_pcpu_drain, +TRACE_EVENT_CONDITION(mm_page_pcpu_drain, TP_PROTO(struct page *page, unsigned int order, int migratetype), TP_ARGS(page, order, migratetype), + TP_CONDITION(cpu_online(smp_processor_id())), + + TP_STRUCT__entry( + __field( unsigned long, pfn ) + __field( unsigned int, order ) + __field( int, migratetype ) + ), + + TP_fast_assign( + __entry->pfn = page ? page_to_pfn(page) : -1UL; + __entry->order = order; + __entry->migratetype = migratetype; + ), + TP_printk("page=%p pfn=%lu order=%d migratetype=%d", pfn_to_page(__entry->pfn), __entry->pfn, __entry->order, __entry->migratetype) _ 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