[alsa-devel] sound: deadlock involving snd_hrtimer_callback

[Dmitry Vyukov]

On Mon, May 2, 2016 at 1:54 PM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov at google.com> 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!
>
> Reapplied.
> I will let you know if I see any crashes in sound.


No crashes over two nights. We can consider it as fixed.