On Mon, 2025-09-08 at 12:40 +0800, Leon Hwang wrote:
> When enable CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT, the kernel will panic when run timer
> selftests by './test_progs -t timer':
>
> [ 35.955287] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/spinlock_rt.c:48
> [ 35.955312] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, non_block: 0, pid: 120, name: test_progs
> [ 35.955315] preempt_count: 1, expected: 0
> [ 35.955316] RCU nest depth: 0, expected: 0
> [ 35.955317] 2 locks held by test_progs/120:
> [ 35.955319] #0: ffffffff8f1c3720 (rcu_read_lock_trace){....}-{0:0}, at: bpf_prog_test_run_syscall+0xc9/0x240
> [ 35.955358] #1: ffff9155fbd331c8 ((&c->lock)){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: ___slab_alloc+0xb0/0xd20
> [ 35.955388] irq event stamp: 100
> [ 35.955389] hardirqs last enabled at (99): [<ffffffff8dfcd890>] do_syscall_64+0x30/0x2d0
> [ 35.955414] hardirqs last disabled at (100): [<ffffffff8d4a9baa>] __bpf_async_init+0xca/0x310
> [ 35.955428] softirqs last enabled at (0): [<ffffffff8d296cbb>] copy_process+0x9db/0x2000
> [ 35.955449] softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
> [ 35.955482] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 120 Comm: test_progs Tainted: G OE 6.17.0-rc1-gc5f5af560d8a #30 PREEMPT_{RT,(full)}
> [ 35.955487] Tainted: [O]=OOT_MODULE, [E]=UNSIGNED_MODULE
> [ 35.955488] Hardware name: QEMU Ubuntu 24.04 PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
> [ 35.955491] Call Trace:
> [ 35.955493] <TASK>
> [ 35.955499] dump_stack_lvl+0x73/0xb0
> [ 35.955514] dump_stack+0x14/0x20
> [ 35.955518] __might_resched+0x167/0x230
> [ 35.955537] rt_spin_lock+0x66/0x180
> [ 35.955543] ? ___slab_alloc+0xb0/0xd20
> [ 35.955549] ? bpf_map_kmalloc_node+0x7c/0x200
> [ 35.955560] ___slab_alloc+0xb0/0xd20
> [ 35.955575] ? __lock_acquire+0x43d/0x2590
> [ 35.955601] __kmalloc_node_noprof+0x10b/0x410
> [ 35.955605] ? __kmalloc_node_noprof+0x10b/0x410
> [ 35.955607] ? bpf_map_kmalloc_node+0x7c/0x200
> [ 35.955616] bpf_map_kmalloc_node+0x7c/0x200
> [ 35.955624] __bpf_async_init+0xf8/0x310
The error is reported because of the kmalloc call in the __bpf_async_init, right?
Instead of disabling timers for PREEMPT_RT, would it be possible to
switch implementation to use kernel/bpf/memalloc.c:bpf_mem_alloc() instead?
> [ 35.955633] bpf_timer_init+0x37/0x40
> [ 35.955637] bpf_prog_2287350dd5909839_start_cb+0x5d/0x91
> [ 35.955642] bpf_prog_0d54653d8a74e954_start_timer+0x65/0x8a
> [ 35.955650] bpf_prog_test_run_syscall+0x111/0x240
> [ 35.955660] __sys_bpf+0x81c/0x2ab0
> [ 35.955665] ? __might_fault+0x47/0x90
> [ 35.955700] __x64_sys_bpf+0x1e/0x30
> [ 35.955703] x64_sys_call+0x171d/0x20d0
> [ 35.955715] do_syscall_64+0x6a/0x2d0
> [ 35.955722] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
> [ 35.955728] RIP: 0033:0x7fee4261225d
> [ 35.955734] Code: ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 90 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 8b 0d 8b bb 0d 00 f7 d8 64 89 01 48
> [ 35.955736] RSP: 002b:00007fee424e5bd8 EFLAGS: 00000202 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000141
> [ 35.955742] RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fee424e6cdc RCX: 00007fee4261225d
> [ 35.955744] RDX: 0000000000000050 RSI: 00007fee424e5c20 RDI: 000000000000000a
> [ 35.955745] RBP: 00007fee424e5bf0 R08: 0000000000000003 R09: 00007fee424e5c20
> [ 35.955747] R10: 00007fffc266f910 R11: 0000000000000202 R12: 00007fee424e66c0
> [ 35.955748] R13: ffffffffffffff08 R14: 0000000000000016 R15: 00007fffc266f650
> [ 35.955766] </TASK>
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