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powerpc: Fix RCU idle and hcall tracing
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Tracepoints should not be called inside an rcu_idle_enter/rcu_idle_exit
region. Since pSeries calls H_CEDE in the idle loop, we were violating
this rule.

commit a7b152d (powerpc: Tell RCU about idle after hcall tracing)
tried to work around it by delaying the rcu_idle_enter until after we
called the hcall tracepoint, but there are a number of issues with it.

The hcall tracepoint trampoline code is called conditionally when the
tracepoint is enabled. If the tracepoint is not enabled we never call
rcu_idle_enter. The idle_uses_rcu check was also done at compile time
which breaks multiplatform builds.

The simple fix is to avoid tracing H_CEDE and rely on other tracepoints
and the hypervisor dispatch trace log to work out if we called H_CEDE.

This fixes a hang during boot on pSeries.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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Anton Blanchard authored and Benjamin Herrenschmidt committed Jan 11, 2012
1 parent 7b3480f commit a5ccfee
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12 changes: 2 additions & 10 deletions arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c
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Expand Up @@ -50,12 +50,6 @@ static int __init powersave_off(char *arg)
}
__setup("powersave=off", powersave_off);

#if defined(CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES) && defined(CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS)
static const bool idle_uses_rcu = 1;
#else
static const bool idle_uses_rcu;
#endif

/*
* The body of the idle task.
*/
Expand All @@ -67,8 +61,7 @@ void cpu_idle(void)
set_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
while (1) {
tick_nohz_idle_enter();
if (!idle_uses_rcu)
rcu_idle_enter();
rcu_idle_enter();

while (!need_resched() && !cpu_should_die()) {
ppc64_runlatch_off();
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -106,8 +99,7 @@ void cpu_idle(void)

HMT_medium();
ppc64_runlatch_on();
if (!idle_uses_rcu)
rcu_idle_exit();
rcu_idle_exit();
tick_nohz_idle_exit();
preempt_enable_no_resched();
if (cpu_should_die())
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14 changes: 10 additions & 4 deletions arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
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Expand Up @@ -546,6 +546,13 @@ void __trace_hcall_entry(unsigned long opcode, unsigned long *args)
unsigned long flags;
unsigned int *depth;

/*
* We cannot call tracepoints inside RCU idle regions which
* means we must not trace H_CEDE.
*/
if (opcode == H_CEDE)
return;

local_irq_save(flags);

depth = &__get_cpu_var(hcall_trace_depth);
Expand All @@ -556,8 +563,6 @@ void __trace_hcall_entry(unsigned long opcode, unsigned long *args)
(*depth)++;
preempt_disable();
trace_hcall_entry(opcode, args);
if (opcode == H_CEDE)
rcu_idle_enter();
(*depth)--;

out:
Expand All @@ -570,6 +575,9 @@ void __trace_hcall_exit(long opcode, unsigned long retval,
unsigned long flags;
unsigned int *depth;

if (opcode == H_CEDE)
return;

local_irq_save(flags);

depth = &__get_cpu_var(hcall_trace_depth);
Expand All @@ -578,8 +586,6 @@ void __trace_hcall_exit(long opcode, unsigned long retval,
goto out;

(*depth)++;
if (opcode == H_CEDE)
rcu_idle_exit();
trace_hcall_exit(opcode, retval, retbuf);
preempt_enable();
(*depth)--;
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