[alsa-devel] sound: deadlock involving snd_hrtimer_callback

[Takashi Iwai]

On Mon, 25 Apr 2016 10:03:34 +0200,
Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 11:31 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> > On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 19:09:48 +0200,
> > Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> >>
> >> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 6:16 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> >> > On Sun, 24 Apr 2016 17:16:32 +0200,
> >> > Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 11:02 PM, Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de> wrote:
> >> >> > On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 15:40:21 +0200,
> >> >> > Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> Hi Takashi,
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> I've incorporated your hrtimer fixes (but also updated to
> >> >> >> ddce192106e4f984123884f8e878f66ace94b573) and now I am seeing lots of
> >> >> >> the following deadlock messages:
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
> >> >> >> 4.6.0-rc4+ #351 Not tainted
> >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------
> >> >> >> swapper/0/0 is trying to acquire lock:
> >> >> >>  (&(&timer->lock)->rlock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff8537a749>]
> >> >> >> snd_timer_interrupt+0xa9/0xd30 sound/core/timer.c:701
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> but task is already holding lock:
> >> >> >>  (&(&stime->lock)->rlock){-.....}, at: [<ffffffff85383d3f>]
> >> >> >> snd_hrtimer_callback+0x4f/0x2b0 sound/core/hrtimer.c:54
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> which lock already depends on the new lock.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Oh crap, my second patch is buggy, it leads to ABBA lock, indeed.
> >> >> > The first patch is still OK, as it just adds a new behavior mode.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Could you replace the second patch with the below one?
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> I've replaced the second path with this one. The deadlocks has gone,
> >> >> but I've hit these two hangs that look related:
> >> >>
> >> >> https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dvyukov/805718ea249c49d17ae759d1b0160684/raw/20891f7e87fe9af3967565559d465d296469244b/gistfile1.txt
> >> >> https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dvyukov/7f397ea4aeb9e35596e0c8053cf35a11/raw/3fc22f24f7bab5941e47bab604f96487b5f1944d/gistfile1.txt
> >> >
> >> > Hmm, so it wasn't a good idea to call hrtimer_cancel() in the
> >> > spinlock, in anyway.  Scratch the previous one.
> >> >
> >> > OK, below is the yet revised two patches.  One is the simplified
> >> > version of the patch, and another is to call hrtimer_cancel() in a new
> >> > timer op without spinlock.  Apply these after the first patch
> >> > "ALSA: timer: Allow backend disabling start/stop from handler".
> >>
> >> Done. I will let you know if I see any failures.
> >
> > After reconsideration, I rewrote the whole patchset again.
> > Could you scratch all the previous three patches and replace with the
> > single patch below?  Sorry for inconvenience!
> 
> 
> I did not yet reapply the patch, but I hit this with over night:
> https://gist.githubusercontent.com/dvyukov/85531fe7923ebc9be4376e009d6c960a/raw/9ea4c9dda31aea9bf20538585089083d66687f74/gistfile1.txt

The previous patches still use hrtimer_cancel() and this might causes
an issue like this.  The latest revised one has no blocking behavior,
so hopefully we won't fall into that hole again.


thanks,

Takashi