This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled s390/smp: move rcu_cpu_starting() earlier to the 5.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: s390-smp-move-rcu_cpu_starting-earlier.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 90ae06bd083cc66f3dd1b7d91c4d636ac1ee881d Author: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed Oct 28 14:27:42 2020 -0400 s390/smp: move rcu_cpu_starting() earlier [ Upstream commit de5d9dae150ca1c1b5c7676711a9ca139d1a8dec ] The call to rcu_cpu_starting() in smp_init_secondary() is not early enough in the CPU-hotplug onlining process, which results in lockdep splats as follows: WARNING: suspicious RCU usage ----------------------------- kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3497 RCU-list traversed in non-reader section!! 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. Call Trace: show_stack+0x158/0x1f0 dump_stack+0x1f2/0x238 __lock_acquire+0x2640/0x4dd0 lock_acquire+0x3a8/0xd08 _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0xc0/0xf0 clockevents_register_device+0xa8/0x528 init_cpu_timer+0x33e/0x468 smp_init_secondary+0x11a/0x328 smp_start_secondary+0x82/0x88 This is avoided by moving the call to rcu_cpu_starting up near the beginning of the smp_init_secondary() function. Note that the raw_smp_processor_id() is required in order to avoid calling into lockdep before RCU has declared the CPU to be watched for readers. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/160223032121.7002.1269740091547117869.tip-bot2@tip-bot2/ Signed-off-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <hca@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/smp.c b/arch/s390/kernel/smp.c index 85700bd85f98d..3b4c3140c18e7 100644 --- a/arch/s390/kernel/smp.c +++ b/arch/s390/kernel/smp.c @@ -855,13 +855,14 @@ void __init smp_detect_cpus(void) static void smp_init_secondary(void) { - int cpu = smp_processor_id(); + int cpu = raw_smp_processor_id(); S390_lowcore.last_update_clock = get_tod_clock(); restore_access_regs(S390_lowcore.access_regs_save_area); set_cpu_flag(CIF_ASCE_PRIMARY); set_cpu_flag(CIF_ASCE_SECONDARY); cpu_init(); + rcu_cpu_starting(cpu); preempt_disable(); init_cpu_timer(); vtime_init();