This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled x86/smpboot: Move rcu_cpu_starting() earlier to the 5.10-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: x86-smpboot-move-rcu_cpu_starting-earlier.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 29368e09392123800e5e2bf0f3eda91f16972e52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2020 21:13:55 -0700 Subject: x86/smpboot: Move rcu_cpu_starting() earlier From: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 29368e09392123800e5e2bf0f3eda91f16972e52 upstream. The call to rcu_cpu_starting() in mtrr_ap_init() is not early enough in the CPU-hotplug onlining process, which results in lockdep splats as follows: ============================= WARNING: suspicious RCU usage 5.9.0+ #268 Not tainted ----------------------------- kernel/kprobes.c:300 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. stack backtrace: CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 5.9.0+ #268 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.10.2-1ubuntu1 04/01/2014 Call Trace: dump_stack+0x77/0x97 __is_insn_slot_addr+0x15d/0x170 kernel_text_address+0xba/0xe0 ? get_stack_info+0x22/0xa0 __kernel_text_address+0x9/0x30 show_trace_log_lvl+0x17d/0x380 ? dump_stack+0x77/0x97 dump_stack+0x77/0x97 __lock_acquire+0xdf7/0x1bf0 lock_acquire+0x258/0x3d0 ? vprintk_emit+0x6d/0x2c0 _raw_spin_lock+0x27/0x40 ? vprintk_emit+0x6d/0x2c0 vprintk_emit+0x6d/0x2c0 printk+0x4d/0x69 start_secondary+0x1c/0x100 secondary_startup_64_no_verify+0xb8/0xbb This is avoided by moving the call to rcu_cpu_starting up near the beginning of the start_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/ Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@xxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.c | 2 -- arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mtrr/mtrr.c @@ -794,8 +794,6 @@ void mtrr_ap_init(void) if (!use_intel() || mtrr_aps_delayed_init) return; - rcu_cpu_starting(smp_processor_id()); - /* * Ideally we should hold mtrr_mutex here to avoid mtrr entries * changed, but this routine will be called in cpu boot time, --- a/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/smpboot.c @@ -229,6 +229,7 @@ static void notrace start_secondary(void #endif cpu_init_exception_handling(); cpu_init(); + rcu_cpu_starting(raw_smp_processor_id()); x86_cpuinit.early_percpu_clock_init(); smp_callin(); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.10/x86-smpboot-move-rcu_cpu_starting-earlier.patch