PM / CPU: replace raw_notifier with atomic_notifier
authorAlex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Fri, 28 Jul 2017 07:09:25 +0000 (15:09 +0800)
committerRafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Mon, 31 Jul 2017 11:09:49 +0000 (13:09 +0200)
commit313c8c16ee62b32b8b40c6b00637b401dc19050e
tree392a1491c74d888594a793bcec95ea7f893167b5
parent16f73eb02d7e1765ccab3d2018e0bd98eb93d973
PM / CPU: replace raw_notifier with atomic_notifier

This patch replaces an rwlock and raw notifier by an atomic notifier
protected by a spin_lock and RCU.

The main reason for this change is due to a 'scheduling while atomic'
bug with RT kernels on ARM/ARM64. On ARM/ARM64, the rwlock
cpu_pm_notifier_lock in cpu_pm_enter/exit() causes a potential
schedule after IRQ disable in the idle call chain:

cpu_startup_entry
  cpu_idle_loop
    local_irq_disable()
    cpuidle_idle_call
      call_cpuidle
        cpuidle_enter
          cpuidle_enter_state
            ->enter :arm_enter_idle_state
              cpu_pm_enter/exit
                CPU_PM_CPU_IDLE_ENTER
                  read_lock(&cpu_pm_notifier_lock); <-- sleep in idle
                     __rt_spin_lock();
                        schedule();

The kernel panic is here:
[    4.609601] BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/1/0/0x00000002
[    4.609608] [<ffff0000086fae70>] arm_enter_idle_state+0x18/0x70
[    4.609614] Modules linked in:
[    4.609615] [<ffff0000086f9298>] cpuidle_enter_state+0xf0/0x218
[    4.609620] [<ffff0000086f93f8>] cpuidle_enter+0x18/0x20
[    4.609626] Preemption disabled at:
[    4.609627] [<ffff0000080fa234>] call_cpuidle+0x24/0x40
[    4.609635] [<ffff000008882fa4>] schedule_preempt_disabled+0x1c/0x28
[    4.609639] [<ffff0000080fa49c>] cpu_startup_entry+0x154/0x1f8
[    4.609645] [<ffff00000808e004>] secondary_start_kernel+0x15c/0x1a0

Daniel Lezcano said this notification is needed on arm/arm64 platforms.
Sebastian suggested using atomic_notifier instead of rwlock, which is not
only removing the sleeping in idle, but also improving latency.

Tony Lindgren found a miss use that rcu_read_lock used after rcu_idle_enter
Paul McKenney suggested trying RCU_NONIDLE.

Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
[ rjw: Subject & changelog ]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
kernel/cpu_pm.c