> > > My concern is that running the channels separately might mean more grace
> > > periods (and thus more energy draw) on nearly idle devices, such devices
> > > usually being the ones for which energy efficiency matters most.
> > >
> > > But perhaps Vlad, Neeraj, or Joel has some insight on this, given
> > > that they are the ones working on battery-powered devices.
> > >
> > > > > Either way, this fixes only one bug of two. The second bug is in the
> > > > > kfree_rcu() tests, which should have caught this bug. Thoughts on a good fix
> > > > > for those tests?
> > > >
> > > > I inserted a msleep() between "rcu_read_lock(), get pointer via rcu_dereference()"
> > > > and "reference pointer, using the member", at the rcu scenario, then we can
> > > > reproduce this issue very soon in stress test. Can kfree_rcu() tests insert msleep()?
> > >
> > > Another approach is to separate concerns, so that readers interact with
> > > grace periods in the rcutorture.c tests, and to add the interaction
> > > of to-be-freed memory with grace periods in the rcuscale kvfree tests.
> > > I took a step in this direction with this commit on the -rcu tree's
> > > "dev" branch:
> > >
> > > efbe7927f479 ("rcu/kvfree: Add debug to check grace periods")
> > >
> > > Given this, might it be possible to make rcuscale.c's kfree_rcu()
> > > testing create patterns of usage of the three channels so as to
> > > catch this bug that way?
> > >
> >
> > I can try it on my k5.15 device, and need some time.
> > I have a question. Do you mean add code in tree.c to create pattern
> > while channel data is being freed?
> > If so, both rcuscales.c and tree.c need to be modified for the test case.
>
> My thought is to run the test on a system where very little else is
> happening, and then creating the temporal pattern only in rcuscale.c.
> One way would be to modify kfree_scale_thread(), perhaps using an
> additional module parameter using torture_param().
>
> But just out of curiosity, what changes were you thinking of making
> in tree.c?
>
OK. I can reproduce it on latest rcu-dev:
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[ 75.302795] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ 75.302801] WARNING: CPU: 50 PID: 721 at kernel/rcu/tree.c:3043 kfree_rcu_work+0x157/0x1a0
[ 75.302808] Modules linked in: test_vmalloc(E+) bochs(E) drm_vram_helper(E) snd_pcm(E) drm_ttm_helper(E) ppdev(E) snd_timer(E) joydev(E) ttm(E) drm_kms_helper(E) snd(E) parport_pc(E) soundcore(E) evdev(E) pcspkr(E) sg(E) serio_raw(E) parport(E) drm(E) qemu_fw_cfg(E) button(E) ip_tables(E) x_tables(E) autofs4(E) ext4(E) crc32c_generic(E) crc16(E) mbcache(E) jbd2(E) sd_mod(E) t10_pi(E) crc64_rocksoft(E) crc64(E) crc_t10dif(E) crct10dif_generic(E) sr_mod(E) cdrom(E) crct10dif_common(E) ata_generic(E) ata_piix(E) libata(E) scsi_mod(E) psmouse(E) e1000(E) scsi_common(E) i2c_piix4(E) floppy(E)
[ 75.302865] CPU: 50 PID: 721 Comm: kworker/50:1 Kdump: loaded Tainted: G E 6.3.0-rc1+ #58
[ 75.302868] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-2 04/01/2014
[ 75.302870] Workqueue: events kfree_rcu_work
[ 75.302905] RIP: 0010:kfree_rcu_work+0x157/0x1a0
[ 75.302907] Code: 8b 05 75 f9 37 01 4c 29 e8 48 83 f8 f8 76 40 48 8b 4c 24 08 48 83 f9 01 74 35 48 8b 05 ca b4 44 01 48 29 c8 48 83 f8 f8 76 25 <0f> 0b 48 8b 44 24 38 65 48 2b 04 25 28 00 00 00 75 23 48 83 c4 40
[ 75.302910] RSP: 0018:ffffbd4642d8bde8 EFLAGS: 00010202
[ 75.302913] RAX: fffffffffffffffc RBX: ffff9f693d5dd140 RCX: 000000000000003c
[ 75.302914] RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: ffffbd4642d8be08 RDI: ffff9f5a4d608000
[ 75.302916] RBP: ffffbd4642d8be08 R08: 0000001188654ff5 R09: 0000000000000000
[ 75.302918] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffffbd46812d7000
[ 75.302919] R13: 0000000000000260 R14: ffffbd4642d8bdf8 R15: ffff9f5a47637000
[ 75.302922] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff9f693e200000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 75.302924] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 75.302926] CR2: 0000562dfe4307d0 CR3: 000000054ba26000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
[ 75.302930] Call Trace:
[ 75.302937] <TASK>
[ 75.302942] ? lock_acquire+0xc8/0x1a0
[ 75.302949] process_one_work+0x29d/0x560
[ 75.302957] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
[ 75.302960] worker_thread+0x52/0x3a0
[ 75.302964] ? __pfx_worker_thread+0x10/0x10
[ 75.302967] kthread+0xe7/0x110
[ 75.302970] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[ 75.302973] ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x50
[ 75.302984] </TASK>
[ 75.302986] ---[ end trace 0000000000000000 ]---
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This is with:
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commit 8f6414680a0d539ca0e7fde80556c71b7b3da88a (HEAD -> dev)
Author: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Apr 4 15:51:56 2023 +0200
rcu/kvfree: Add debug check of GP ready for ptrs in a list
commit efbe7927f47958a6805da5560d9a5f469ba51e73 (origin/dev)
Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon Apr 3 16:49:14 2023 -0700
rcu/kvfree: Add debug to check grace periods
+ below revert
commit 6b4fef6ec689b1dda9c63be77e9a81a52cc39dc1
Author: Ziwei Dai <ziwei.dai@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Mar 31 20:42:09 2023 +0800
rcu/kvfree: Avoid freeing new kfree_rcu() memory after old grace period
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The test is "sudo ./test_vmalloc.sh run_test_mask=768 nr_threads=64&"
it runs single argument and double argument to free vmalloc ptrs.,
number of threads are 64:
without revert(with a patch that is in question), i am not able to
reproduce it anymore.
--
Uladzislau Rezki
