[alsa-devel] sound: deadlock involving snd_hrtimer_callback

[Takashi Iwai]

On Wed, 04 May 2016 10:34:33 +0200,
Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> 
> 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.

Good to hear.  The patch will be included in 4.7.


thanks,

Takashi