The patch below does not apply to the 3.10-stable tree. If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>. thanks, greg k-h ------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------ >From f37755490fe9bf76f6ba1d8c6591745d3574a6a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)" <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 12:36:14 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] tracepoints: Do not trace when cpu is offline The tracepoint infrastructure uses RCU sched protection to enable and disable tracepoints safely. There are some instances where tracepoints are used in infrastructure code (like kfree()) that get called after a CPU is going offline, and perhaps when it is coming back online but hasn't been registered yet. This can probuce the following warning: [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ] 4.4.0-00006-g0fe53e8-dirty #34 Tainted: G S ------------------------------- include/trace/events/kmem.h:141 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage! 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/8/0. stack backtrace: CPU: 8 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/8 Tainted: G S 4.4.0-00006-g0fe53e8-dirty #34 Call Trace: [c0000005b76c78d0] [c0000000008b9540] .dump_stack+0x98/0xd4 (unreliable) [c0000005b76c7950] [c00000000010c898] .lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x108/0x170 [c0000005b76c79e0] [c00000000029adc0] .kfree+0x390/0x440 [c0000005b76c7a80] [c000000000055f74] .destroy_context+0x44/0x100 [c0000005b76c7b00] [c0000000000934a0] .__mmdrop+0x60/0x150 [c0000005b76c7b90] [c0000000000e3ff0] .idle_task_exit+0x130/0x140 [c0000005b76c7c20] [c000000000075804] .pseries_mach_cpu_die+0x64/0x310 [c0000005b76c7cd0] [c000000000043e7c] .cpu_die+0x3c/0x60 [c0000005b76c7d40] [c0000000000188d8] .arch_cpu_idle_dead+0x28/0x40 [c0000005b76c7db0] [c000000000101e6c] .cpu_startup_entry+0x50c/0x560 [c0000005b76c7ed0] [c000000000043bd8] .start_secondary+0x328/0x360 [c0000005b76c7f90] [c000000000008a6c] start_secondary_prolog+0x10/0x14 This warning is not a false positive either. RCU is not protecting code that is being executed while the CPU is offline. Instead of playing "whack-a-mole(TM)" and adding conditional statements to the tracepoints we find that are used in this instance, simply add a cpu_online() test to the tracepoint code where the tracepoint will be ignored if the CPU is offline. Use of raw_smp_processor_id() is fine, as there should never be a case where the tracepoint code goes from running on a CPU that is online and suddenly gets migrated to a CPU that is offline. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455387773-4245-1-git-send-email-kda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: Denis Kirjanov <kda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 97e1c18e8d17b ("tracing: Kernel Tracepoints") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # v2.6.28+ Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/include/linux/tracepoint.h b/include/linux/tracepoint.h index acd522a91539..acfdbf353a0b 100644 --- a/include/linux/tracepoint.h +++ b/include/linux/tracepoint.h @@ -14,8 +14,10 @@ * See the file COPYING for more details. */ +#include <linux/smp.h> #include <linux/errno.h> #include <linux/types.h> +#include <linux/cpumask.h> #include <linux/rcupdate.h> #include <linux/tracepoint-defs.h> @@ -132,6 +134,9 @@ extern void syscall_unregfunc(void); void *it_func; \ void *__data; \ \ + if (!cpu_online(raw_smp_processor_id())) \ + return; \ + \ if (!(cond)) \ return; \ prercu; \ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html