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David Gibson 9765ad134a powerpc/mm: Ensure IRQs are off in switch_mm() 
powerpc expects IRQs to already be (soft) disabled when switch_mm() is
called, as made clear in the commit message of 9c1e105238 ("powerpc: Allow
perf_counters to access user memory at interrupt time").

Aside from any race conditions that might exist between switch_mm() and an IRQ,
there is also an unconditional hard_irq_disable() in switch_slb(). If that isn't
followed at some point by an IRQ enable then interrupts will remain disabled
until we return to userspace.

It is true that when switch_mm() is called from the scheduler IRQs are off, but
not when it's called by use_mm(). Looking closer we see that last year in commit
f98db6013c ("sched/core: Add switch_mm_irqs_off() and use it in the scheduler")
this was made more explicit by the addition of switch_mm_irqs_off() which is now
called by the scheduler, vs switch_mm() which is used by use_mm().

Arguably it is a bug in use_mm() to call switch_mm() in a different context than
it expects, but fixing that will take time.

This was discovered recently when vhost started throwing warnings such as:

  BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/mutex.c:578
  in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 10768, name: vhost-10760
  no locks held by vhost-10760/10768.
  irq event stamp: 10
  hardirqs last  enabled at (9):  _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x40/0x80
  hardirqs last disabled at (10): switch_slb+0x2e4/0x490
  softirqs last  enabled at (0):  copy_process+0x5e8/0x1260
  softirqs last disabled at (0):  (null)
  Call Trace:
    show_stack+0x88/0x390 (unreliable)
    dump_stack+0x30/0x44
    __might_sleep+0x1c4/0x2d0
    mutex_lock_nested+0x74/0x5c0
    cgroup_attach_task_all+0x5c/0x180
    vhost_attach_cgroups_work+0x58/0x80 [vhost]
    vhost_worker+0x24c/0x3d0 [vhost]
    kthread+0xec/0x100
    ret_from_kernel_thread+0x5c/0xd4

Prior to commit 04b96e5528 ("vhost: lockless enqueuing") (Aug 2016) the
vhost_worker() would do a spin_unlock_irq() not long after calling use_mm(),
which had the effect of reenabling IRQs. Since that commit removed the locking
in vhost_worker() the body of the vhost_worker() loop now runs with interrupts
off causing the warnings.

This patch addresses the problem by making the powerpc code mirror the x86 code,
ie. we disable interrupts in switch_mm(), and optimise the scheduler case by
defining switch_mm_irqs_off().

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.7+
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
[mpe: Flesh out/rewrite change log, add stable]
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2017-04-25 00:24:59 +10:00
arch powerpc/mm: Ensure IRQs are off in switch_mm() 2017-04-25 00:24:59 +10:00
block blk-mq-sched: don't run the queue async from blk_mq_try_issue_directly() 2017-03-14 11:51:59 -06:00
certs certs: Add a secondary system keyring that can be added to dynamically 2016-04-11 22:48:09 +01:00
crypto net: Work around lockdep limitation in sockets that use sockets 2017-03-09 18:23:27 -08:00
Documentation Merge branch 'topic/kprobes' into next 2017-04-25 00:24:04 +10:00
drivers cxl: Enable PCI device IDs for future IBM CXL adapters 2017-04-19 20:00:19 +10:00
firmware WHENCE: use https://linuxtv.org for LinuxTV URLs 2015-12-04 10:35:11 -02:00
fs NFS client fixes for 4.11 2017-03-17 14:16:22 -07:00
include Merge branch 'topic/kprobes' into next 2017-04-25 00:24:04 +10:00
init Change get_random_{int,log} to use the CRNG used by /dev/urandom and 2017-03-11 09:08:47 -08:00
ipc Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
kernel powerpc/kprobes: Fix handling of function offsets on ABIv2 2017-04-20 23:18:55 +10:00
lib mm: convert generic code to 5-level paging 2017-03-09 11:48:47 -08:00
mm mm/swap: don't BUG_ON() due to uninitialized swap slot cache 2017-03-19 19:00:47 -07:00
net NFS client fixes for 4.11 2017-03-17 14:16:22 -07:00
samples Merge branch 'rebased-statx' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-03-03 11:38:56 -08:00
scripts Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2017-03-10 08:34:42 -08:00
security Merge branch 'WIP.sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2017-03-03 10:16:38 -08:00
sound scripts/spelling.txt: add "disble(d)" pattern and fix typo instances 2017-03-09 17:01:09 -08:00
tools powerpc/perf: Define big-endian version of perf_mem_data_src 2017-04-19 20:00:21 +10:00
usr kbuild: initramfs cleanup, set target from Kconfig 2017-01-05 09:40:16 -08:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: VGIC: Fix command handling while ITS being disabled 2017-03-07 15:44:08 +00:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Merge branch 'misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2016-08-02 16:48:52 -04:00
.mailmap mailmap: add codeaurora.org names for nameless email commits 2017-01-10 18:31:55 -08:00
COPYING
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove old e-mail address 2017-02-13 12:24:56 -05:00
Kbuild scripts/gdb: provide linux constants 2016-05-23 17:04:14 -07:00
Kconfig
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Add file patterns for powerpc device tree bindings 2017-03-21 22:09:27 +11:00
Makefile Linux 4.11-rc3 2017-03-19 19:09:39 -07:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.