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authorJohn Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>2013-12-10 17:18:18 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2014-02-13 13:50:25 -0800
commitb6f484eae189da008d6afa7b68414bdc5d460066 (patch)
tree159927ed3e68bc5078b8c2e940b7266edf96531b /kernel
parent638d188c2444f60c9bfa24efff3e1a6e3695873b (diff)
timekeeping: Avoid possible deadlock from clock_was_set_delayed
commit 6fdda9a9c5db367130cf32df5d6618d08b89f46a upstream. As part of normal operaions, the hrtimer subsystem frequently calls into the timekeeping code, creating a locking order of hrtimer locks -> timekeeping locks clock_was_set_delayed() was suppoed to allow us to avoid deadlocks between the timekeeping the hrtimer subsystem, so that we could notify the hrtimer subsytem the time had changed while holding the timekeeping locks. This was done by scheduling delayed work that would run later once we were out of the timekeeing code. But unfortunately the lock chains are complex enoguh that in scheduling delayed work, we end up eventually trying to grab an hrtimer lock. Sasha Levin noticed this in testing when the new seqlock lockdep enablement triggered the following (somewhat abrieviated) message: [ 251.100221] ====================================================== [ 251.100221] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] [ 251.100221] 3.13.0-rc2-next-20131206-sasha-00005-g8be2375-dirty #4053 Not tainted [ 251.101967] ------------------------------------------------------- [ 251.101967] kworker/10:1/4506 is trying to acquire lock: [ 251.101967] (timekeeper_seq){----..}, at: [<ffffffff81160e96>] retrigger_next_event+0x56/0x70 [ 251.101967] [ 251.101967] but task is already holding lock: [ 251.101967] (hrtimer_bases.lock#11){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff81160e7c>] retrigger_next_event+0x3c/0x70 [ 251.101967] [ 251.101967] which lock already depends on the new lock. [ 251.101967] [ 251.101967] [ 251.101967] the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: [ 251.101967] -> #5 (hrtimer_bases.lock#11){-.-...}: [snipped] -> #4 (&rt_b->rt_runtime_lock){-.-...}: [snipped] -> #3 (&rq->lock){-.-.-.}: [snipped] -> #2 (&p->pi_lock){-.-.-.}: [snipped] -> #1 (&(&pool->lock)->rlock){-.-...}: [ 251.101967] [<ffffffff81194803>] validate_chain+0x6c3/0x7b0 [ 251.101967] [<ffffffff81194d9d>] __lock_acquire+0x4ad/0x580 [ 251.101967] [<ffffffff81194ff2>] lock_acquire+0x182/0x1d0 [ 251.101967] [<ffffffff84398500>] _raw_spin_lock+0x40/0x80 [ 251.101967] [<ffffffff81153e69>] __queue_work+0x1a9/0x3f0 [ 251.101967] [<ffffffff81154168>] queue_work_on+0x98/0x120 [ 251.101967] [<ffffffff81161351>] clock_was_set_delayed+0x21/0x30 [ 251.101967] [<ffffffff811c4bd1>] do_adjtimex+0x111/0x160 [ 251.101967] [<ffffffff811e2711>] compat_sys_adjtimex+0x41/0x70 [ 251.101967] [<ffffffff843a4b49>] ia32_sysret+0x0/0x5 [ 251.101967] -> #0 (timekeeper_seq){----..}: [snipped] [ 251.101967] other info that might help us debug this: [ 251.101967] [ 251.101967] Chain exists of: timekeeper_seq --> &rt_b->rt_runtime_lock --> hrtimer_bases.lock#11 [ 251.101967] Possible unsafe locking scenario: [ 251.101967] [ 251.101967] CPU0 CPU1 [ 251.101967] ---- ---- [ 251.101967] lock(hrtimer_bases.lock#11); [ 251.101967] lock(&rt_b->rt_runtime_lock); [ 251.101967] lock(hrtimer_bases.lock#11); [ 251.101967] lock(timekeeper_seq); [ 251.101967] [ 251.101967] *** DEADLOCK *** [ 251.101967] [ 251.101967] 3 locks held by kworker/10:1/4506: [ 251.101967] #0: (events){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff81154960>] process_one_work+0x200/0x530 [ 251.101967] #1: (hrtimer_work){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffff81154960>] process_one_work+0x200/0x530 [ 251.101967] #2: (hrtimer_bases.lock#11){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff81160e7c>] retrigger_next_event+0x3c/0x70 [ 251.101967] [ 251.101967] stack backtrace: [ 251.101967] CPU: 10 PID: 4506 Comm: kworker/10:1 Not tainted 3.13.0-rc2-next-20131206-sasha-00005-g8be2375-dirty #4053 [ 251.101967] Workqueue: events clock_was_set_work So the best solution is to avoid calling clock_was_set_delayed() while holding the timekeeping lock, and instead using a flag variable to decide if we should call clock_was_set() once we've released the locks. This works for the case here, where the do_adjtimex() was the deadlock trigger point. Unfortuantely, in update_wall_time() we still hold the jiffies lock, which would deadlock with the ipi triggered by clock_was_set(), preventing us from calling it even after we drop the timekeeping lock. So instead call clock_was_set_delayed() at that point. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/timekeeping.c18
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
index 7b96f305dfb5..111c47e35f50 100644
--- a/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
+++ b/kernel/time/timekeeping.c
@@ -1278,7 +1278,6 @@ static inline unsigned int accumulate_nsecs_to_secs(struct timekeeper *tk)
__timekeeping_set_tai_offset(tk, tk->tai_offset - leap);
- clock_was_set_delayed();
clock_set = TK_CLOCK_WAS_SET;
}
}
@@ -1442,6 +1441,19 @@ static void update_wall_time(void)
write_seqcount_end(&timekeeper_seq);
out:
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&timekeeper_lock, flags);
+ if (clock_was_set) {
+ /*
+ * XXX - I'd rather we just call clock_was_set(), but
+ * since we're currently holding the jiffies lock, calling
+ * clock_was_set would trigger an ipi which would then grab
+ * the jiffies lock and we'd deadlock. :(
+ * The right solution should probably be droping
+ * the jiffies lock before calling update_wall_time
+ * but that requires some rework of the tick sched
+ * code.
+ */
+ clock_was_set_delayed();
+ }
}
/**
@@ -1701,11 +1713,13 @@ int do_adjtimex(struct timex *txc)
if (tai != orig_tai) {
__timekeeping_set_tai_offset(tk, tai);
timekeeping_update(tk, TK_MIRROR | TK_CLOCK_WAS_SET);
- clock_was_set_delayed();
}
write_seqcount_end(&timekeeper_seq);
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&timekeeper_lock, flags);
+ if (tai != orig_tai)
+ clock_was_set();
+
ntp_notify_cmos_timer();
return ret;