From patchwork Sat Jul 8 22:51:44 2023 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Zheng Yejian X-Patchwork-Id: 13305657 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95971EB64DD for ; Sat, 8 Jul 2023 10:51:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S229462AbjGHKvP (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jul 2023 06:51:15 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:54352 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229458AbjGHKvO (ORCPT ); Sat, 8 Jul 2023 06:51:14 -0400 Received: from szxga01-in.huawei.com (szxga01-in.huawei.com [45.249.212.187]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3834C1994; Sat, 8 Jul 2023 03:51:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dggpeml500012.china.huawei.com (unknown [172.30.72.55]) by szxga01-in.huawei.com (SkyGuard) with ESMTP id 4Qyn9W2rtWzqVMd; Sat, 8 Jul 2023 18:50:39 +0800 (CST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (10.67.175.61) by dggpeml500012.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.15) with Microsoft SMTP Server (version=TLS1_2, cipher=TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256) id 15.1.2507.27; Sat, 8 Jul 2023 18:51:09 +0800 From: Zheng Yejian To: , CC: , , Subject: [PATCH] ring-buffer: Fix deadloop issue on reading trace_pipe Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2023 06:51:44 +0800 Message-ID: <20230708225144.3785600-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.25.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [10.67.175.61] X-ClientProxiedBy: dggems706-chm.china.huawei.com (10.3.19.183) To dggpeml500012.china.huawei.com (7.185.36.15) X-CFilter-Loop: Reflected Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org Soft lockup occurs when reading file 'trace_pipe': watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#6 stuck for 22s! [cat:4488] [...] RIP: 0010:ring_buffer_empty_cpu+0xed/0x170 RSP: 0018:ffff88810dd6fc48 EFLAGS: 00000246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000246 RCX: ffffffff93d1aaeb RDX: ffff88810a280040 RSI: 0000000000000008 RDI: ffff88811164b218 RBP: ffff88811164b218 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: ffff88815156600f R10: ffffed102a2acc01 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: 0000000051651901 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff888115e49500 R15: 0000000000000000 [...] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 CR2: 00007f8d853c2000 CR3: 000000010dcd8000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Call Trace: __find_next_entry+0x1a8/0x4b0 ? peek_next_entry+0x250/0x250 ? down_write+0xa5/0x120 ? down_write_killable+0x130/0x130 trace_find_next_entry_inc+0x3b/0x1d0 tracing_read_pipe+0x423/0xae0 ? tracing_splice_read_pipe+0xcb0/0xcb0 vfs_read+0x16b/0x490 ksys_read+0x105/0x210 ? __ia32_sys_pwrite64+0x200/0x200 ? switch_fpu_return+0x108/0x220 do_syscall_64+0x33/0x40 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x61/0xc6 Through the vmcore, I found it's because in tracing_read_pipe(), ring_buffer_empty_cpu() found some buffer is not empty but then it cannot read anything due to "rb_num_of_entries() == 0" always true, Then it infinitely loop the procedure due to user buffer not been filled, see following code path: tracing_read_pipe() { ... ... waitagain: tracing_wait_pipe() // 1. find non-empty buffer here trace_find_next_entry_inc() // 2. loop here try to find an entry __find_next_entry() ring_buffer_empty_cpu(); // 3. find non-empty buffer peek_next_entry() // 4. but peek always return NULL ring_buffer_peek() rb_buffer_peek() rb_get_reader_page() // 5. because rb_num_of_entries() == 0 always true here // then return NULL // 6. user buffer not been filled so goto 'waitgain' // and eventually leads to an deadloop in kernel!!! } By some analyzing, I found that when resetting ringbuffer, the 'entries' of its pages are not all cleared (see rb_reset_cpu()). Then when reducing the ringbuffer, and if some reduced pages exist dirty 'entries' data, they will be added into 'cpu_buffer->overrun' (see rb_remove_pages()), which cause wrong 'overrun' count and eventually cause the deadloop issue. To fix it, we need to clear every pages in rb_reset_cpu(). Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian --- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 24 +++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index 834b361a4a66..14d8001140c8 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -5242,28 +5242,34 @@ unsigned long ring_buffer_size(struct trace_buffer *buffer, int cpu) } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ring_buffer_size); +static void rb_clear_buffer_page(struct buffer_page *page) +{ + local_set(&page->write, 0); + local_set(&page->entries, 0); + rb_init_page(page->page); + page->read = 0; +} + static void rb_reset_cpu(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer) { + struct buffer_page *page; + rb_head_page_deactivate(cpu_buffer); cpu_buffer->head_page = list_entry(cpu_buffer->pages, struct buffer_page, list); - local_set(&cpu_buffer->head_page->write, 0); - local_set(&cpu_buffer->head_page->entries, 0); - local_set(&cpu_buffer->head_page->page->commit, 0); - - cpu_buffer->head_page->read = 0; + rb_clear_buffer_page(cpu_buffer->head_page); + list_for_each_entry(page, cpu_buffer->pages, list) { + rb_clear_buffer_page(page); + } cpu_buffer->tail_page = cpu_buffer->head_page; cpu_buffer->commit_page = cpu_buffer->head_page; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cpu_buffer->reader_page->list); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cpu_buffer->new_pages); - local_set(&cpu_buffer->reader_page->write, 0); - local_set(&cpu_buffer->reader_page->entries, 0); - local_set(&cpu_buffer->reader_page->page->commit, 0); - cpu_buffer->reader_page->read = 0; + rb_clear_buffer_page(cpu_buffer->reader_page); local_set(&cpu_buffer->entries_bytes, 0); local_set(&cpu_buffer->overrun, 0);