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Commit 649b8de2 authored by Shreyas B. Prabhu's avatar Shreyas B. Prabhu Committed by Linus Torvalds
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tracing/mm: don't trace mm_page_pcpu_drain on offline cpus



Since tracepoints use RCU for protection, they must not be called on
offline cpus.  trace_mm_page_pcpu_drain can be called on an offline cpu
in this scenario caught by LOCKDEP:

     ===============================
     [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
     4.1.0-rc1+ #9 Not tainted
     -------------------------------
     include/trace/events/kmem.h:265 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!

    other info that might help us debug this:

    RCU used illegally from offline CPU!
    rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
     1 lock held by swapper/5/0:
      #0:  (&(&zone->lock)->rlock){..-...}, at: [<c0000000002073b0>] .free_pcppages_bulk+0x70/0x920

    stack backtrace:
     CPU: 5 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/5 Not tainted 4.1.0-rc1+ #9
     Call Trace:
       .dump_stack+0x98/0xd4 (unreliable)
       .lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x108/0x170
       .free_pcppages_bulk+0x60c/0x920
       .free_hot_cold_page+0x208/0x280
       .destroy_context+0x90/0xd0
       .__mmdrop+0x58/0x160
       .idle_task_exit+0xf0/0x100
       .pnv_smp_cpu_kill_self+0x58/0x2c0
       .cpu_die+0x34/0x50
       .arch_cpu_idle_dead+0x20/0x40
       .cpu_startup_entry+0x708/0x7a0
       .start_secondary+0x36c/0x3a0
       start_secondary_prolog+0x10/0x14

Fix this by converting mm_page_pcpu_drain trace point into
TRACE_EVENT_CONDITION where condition is cpu_online(smp_processor_id())

Signed-off-by: default avatarShreyas B. Prabhu <shreyas@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPreeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 1f0c27b5
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