On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 10:34:55AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jun 2019 10:24:36 -0400 > Joel Fernandes <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > What am I missing here? > > > > This issue I think is > > > > (in normal process context) > > spin_lock_irqsave(rq_lock); // which disables both preemption and interrupt > > // but this was done in normal process context, > > // not from IRQ handler > > rcu_read_lock(); > > <---------- IPI comes in and sets exp_hint > > How would an IPI come in here with interrupts disabled? > > -- Steve This is true, could it be rcu_read_unlock_special() got called for some *other* reason other than the IPI then? Per Sebastian's stack trace of the recursive lock scenario, it is happening during cpu_acct_charge() which is called with the rq_lock held. The only other reasons I know off to call rcu_read_unlock_special() are if 1. the tick indicated that the CPU has to report a QS 2. an IPI in the middle of the reader section for expedited GPs 3. preemption in the middle of a preemptible RCU reader section 1. and 2. are not possible because interrupts are disabled, that's why the wakeup_softirq even happened. 3. is not possible because we are holding rq_lock in the RCU reader section. So I am at a bit of a loss how this can happen :-( Spurious call to rcu_read_unlock_special() may be when it should not have been called? thanks, - Joel
