This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled arm64: replace read_lock to rcu lock in call_step_hook to the 4.5-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: arm64-replace-read_lock-to-rcu-lock-in-call_step_hook.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.5 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From cf0a25436f05753aca5151891aea4fd130556e2a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 14:49:24 -0800 Subject: arm64: replace read_lock to rcu lock in call_step_hook From: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxx> commit cf0a25436f05753aca5151891aea4fd130556e2a upstream. BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/rtmutex.c:917 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 128, pid: 383, name: sh Preemption disabled at:[<ffff800000124c18>] kgdb_cpu_enter+0x158/0x6b8 CPU: 3 PID: 383 Comm: sh Tainted: G W 4.1.13-rt13 #2 Hardware name: Freescale Layerscape 2085a RDB Board (DT) Call trace: [<ffff8000000885e8>] dump_backtrace+0x0/0x128 [<ffff800000088734>] show_stack+0x24/0x30 [<ffff80000079a7c4>] dump_stack+0x80/0xa0 [<ffff8000000bd324>] ___might_sleep+0x18c/0x1a0 [<ffff8000007a20ac>] __rt_spin_lock+0x2c/0x40 [<ffff8000007a2268>] rt_read_lock+0x40/0x58 [<ffff800000085328>] single_step_handler+0x38/0xd8 [<ffff800000082368>] do_debug_exception+0x58/0xb8 Exception stack(0xffff80834a1e7c80 to 0xffff80834a1e7da0) 7c80: ffffff9c ffffffff 92c23ba0 0000ffff 4a1e7e40 ffff8083 001bfcc4 ffff8000 7ca0: f2000400 00000000 00000000 00000000 4a1e7d80 ffff8083 0049501c ffff8000 7cc0: 00005402 00000000 00aaa210 ffff8000 4a1e7ea0 ffff8083 000833f4 ffff8000 7ce0: ffffff9c ffffffff 92c23ba0 0000ffff 4a1e7ea0 ffff8083 001bfcc0 ffff8000 7d00: 4a0fc400 ffff8083 00005402 00000000 4a1e7d40 ffff8083 00490324 ffff8000 7d20: ffffff9c 00000000 92c23ba0 0000ffff 000a0000 00000000 00000000 00000000 7d40: 00000008 00000000 00080000 00000000 92c23b8b 0000ffff 92c23b8e 0000ffff 7d60: 00000038 00000000 00001cb2 00000000 00000005 00000000 92d7b498 0000ffff 7d80: 01010101 01010101 92be9000 0000ffff 00000000 00000000 00000030 00000000 [<ffff8000000833f4>] el1_dbg+0x18/0x6c This issue is similar with 62c6c61("arm64: replace read_lock to rcu lock in call_break_hook"), but comes to single_step_handler. This also solves kgdbts boot test silent hang issue on 4.4 -rt kernel. Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c | 21 +++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/debug-monitors.c @@ -186,20 +186,21 @@ static void clear_regs_spsr_ss(struct pt /* EL1 Single Step Handler hooks */ static LIST_HEAD(step_hook); -static DEFINE_RWLOCK(step_hook_lock); +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(step_hook_lock); void register_step_hook(struct step_hook *hook) { - write_lock(&step_hook_lock); - list_add(&hook->node, &step_hook); - write_unlock(&step_hook_lock); + spin_lock(&step_hook_lock); + list_add_rcu(&hook->node, &step_hook); + spin_unlock(&step_hook_lock); } void unregister_step_hook(struct step_hook *hook) { - write_lock(&step_hook_lock); - list_del(&hook->node); - write_unlock(&step_hook_lock); + spin_lock(&step_hook_lock); + list_del_rcu(&hook->node); + spin_unlock(&step_hook_lock); + synchronize_rcu(); } /* @@ -213,15 +214,15 @@ static int call_step_hook(struct pt_regs struct step_hook *hook; int retval = DBG_HOOK_ERROR; - read_lock(&step_hook_lock); + rcu_read_lock(); - list_for_each_entry(hook, &step_hook, node) { + list_for_each_entry_rcu(hook, &step_hook, node) { retval = hook->fn(regs, esr); if (retval == DBG_HOOK_HANDLED) break; } - read_unlock(&step_hook_lock); + rcu_read_unlock(); return retval; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from yang.shi@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.5/arm64-replace-read_lock-to-rcu-lock-in-call_step_hook.patch -- 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