Re: request to merge commit 3302caddf10ad50710dbb7a94ccbdb3ad5bf1412

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On Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 06:13:01PM -0400, Murali Karicheri wrote:
> Hi Maintainer,
> 
> The below commit fixes the Warning shown in the trace below when debug
> options are enabled in the kernel build. Could you please merge this to
> address the issue for v4.1.9?
> 
> Thanks
> ============================================================================
> commit 3302caddf10ad50710dbb7a94ccbdb3ad5bf1412
> Author: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Thu Aug 20 16:13:37 2015 +0100
> 
>     ARM: entry: efficiency cleanups
> 
>     Make the "fast" syscall return path fast again.  The addition of IRQ
>     tracing and context tracking has made this path grossly inefficient.
>     We can do much better if these options are enabled if we save the
>     syscall return code on the stack - we then don't need to save a bunch
>     of registers around every single callout to C code.
> 
>     Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ================================================================================
> 
> Warning log below which is addressed by above commit.

How does the above git commit id, solve the warning you show here:

> 
> 
> [   17.401337] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [   17.405991] WARNING: CPU: 2 PID: 1201 at kernel/locking/lockdep.c:3557
> check_flags.part.37+0x224/0x228()
> [   17.415508] DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(current->hardirqs_enabled)
> [   17.420836] Modules linked in:
> [   17.424087] CPU: 2 PID: 1201 Comm: udevd Tainted: G        W
> 4.1.6-01270-gcdac6fd #1
> [   17.432379] Hardware name: Keystone
> [   17.435894] [<c00178e4>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c0013cbc>]
> (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
> [   17.443673] [<c0013cbc>] (show_stack) from [<c05ff398>]
> (dump_stack+0x84/0xc4)
> [   17.450926] [<c05ff398>] (dump_stack) from [<c0028990>]
> (warn_slowpath_common+0x84/0xb4)
> [   17.459048] [<c0028990>] (warn_slowpath_common) from [<c00289f0>]
> (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x30/0x40)
> [   17.467781] [<c00289f0>] (warn_slowpath_fmt) from [<c006c37c>]
> (check_flags.part.37+0x224/0x228)
> [   17.476601] [<c006c37c>] (check_flags.part.37) from [<c006ce48>]
> (lock_is_held+0x88/0x94)
> [   17.484811] [<c006ce48>] (lock_is_held) from [<c008eb9c>]
> (rcu_note_context_switch+0x854/0x8c0)
> [   17.493545] [<c008eb9c>] (rcu_note_context_switch) from [<c0600b54>]
> (__schedule+0x40/0x844)
> [   17.502017] [<c0600b54>] (__schedule) from [<c0601398>]
> (schedule+0x40/0x98)
> [   17.509097] [<c0601398>] (schedule) from [<c001364c>]
> (do_work_pending+0x24/0xb0)
> [   17.516610] [<c001364c>] (do_work_pending) from [<c000ffc4>]
> (work_pending+0xc/0x20)
> [   17.524380] ---[ end trace fe0042166f5d3227 ]---
> [   17.529009] possible reason: unannotated irqs-off.
> [   17.533813] irq event stamp: 331979
> [   17.537308] hardirqs last  enabled at (331979): [<c000fffc>]
> no_work_pending+0x8/0x30
> [   17.545172] hardirqs last disabled at (331978): [<c000ffe4>]
> ret_slow_syscall+0xc/0x10
> [   17.553123] softirqs last  enabled at (327182): [<c002ca90>]
> __do_softirq+0x4dc/0x6cc
> [   17.560987] softirqs last disabled at (327177): [<c002cf88>]
> irq_exit+0x98/0xcc


???

The commit you reference is for a speedup, not a "fix a warning" issue.

Also, I can't take stuff in 4.1 that is not also in 4.2-stable, please
test it there as well.

thanks,

greg k-h
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