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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2009-11-02 13:52:29 -0800 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2009-12-18 14:03:01 -0800 |
| commit | c541f7c75c5d41c9a3f2c7599ee425547cc49a42 (patch) | |
| tree | e306c828f4607fb0b3500ab8a4f98fb15beb64d8 /kernel | |
| parent | 1a0d7df3352d775ae3e034b1f2658ea493055a30 (diff) | |
rcu: Fix note_new_gpnum() uses of ->gpnum
commit 9160306e6f5b68bb64630c9031c517ca1cf463db upstream.
Impose a clear locking design on the note_new_gpnum()
function's use of the ->gpnum counter. This is done by updating
rdp->gpnum only from the corresponding leaf rcu_node structure's
rnp->gpnum field, and even then only under the protection of
that same rcu_node structure's ->lock field. Performance and
scalability are maintained using a form of double-checked
locking, and excessive spinning is avoided by use of the
spin_trylock() function. The use of spin_trylock() is safe due
to the fact that CPUs who fail to acquire this lock will try
again later. The hierarchical nature of the rcu_node data
structure limits contention (which could be limited further if
need be using the RCU_FANOUT kernel parameter).
Without this patch, obscure but quite possible races could
result in a quiescent state that occurred during one grace
period to be accounted to the following grace period, causing
this following grace period to end prematurely. Not good!
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <12571987492350-git-send-email->
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcutree.c | 32 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c index b4780892de92..683c4f3b87e0 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c @@ -538,13 +538,33 @@ static void check_cpu_stall(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_data *rdp) /* * Update CPU-local rcu_data state to record the newly noticed grace period. * This is used both when we started the grace period and when we notice - * that someone else started the grace period. + * that someone else started the grace period. The caller must hold the + * ->lock of the leaf rcu_node structure corresponding to the current CPU, + * and must have irqs disabled. */ +static void __note_new_gpnum(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_node *rnp, struct rcu_data *rdp) +{ + if (rdp->gpnum != rnp->gpnum) { + rdp->qs_pending = 1; + rdp->passed_quiesc = 0; + rdp->gpnum = rnp->gpnum; + } +} + static void note_new_gpnum(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_data *rdp) { - rdp->qs_pending = 1; - rdp->passed_quiesc = 0; - rdp->gpnum = rsp->gpnum; + unsigned long flags; + struct rcu_node *rnp; + + local_irq_save(flags); + rnp = rdp->mynode; + if (rdp->gpnum == ACCESS_ONCE(rnp->gpnum) || /* outside lock. */ + !spin_trylock(&rnp->lock)) { /* irqs already off, retry later. */ + local_irq_restore(flags); + return; + } + __note_new_gpnum(rsp, rnp, rdp); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags); } /* @@ -635,6 +655,9 @@ rcu_start_gp_per_cpu(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_node *rnp, struct rcu_dat */ rdp->nxttail[RCU_NEXT_READY_TAIL] = rdp->nxttail[RCU_NEXT_TAIL]; rdp->nxttail[RCU_WAIT_TAIL] = rdp->nxttail[RCU_NEXT_TAIL]; + + /* Set state so that this CPU will detect the next quiescent state. */ + __note_new_gpnum(rsp, rnp, rdp); } /* @@ -662,7 +685,6 @@ rcu_start_gp(struct rcu_state *rsp, unsigned long flags) rsp->jiffies_force_qs = jiffies + RCU_JIFFIES_TILL_FORCE_QS; record_gp_stall_check_time(rsp); dyntick_record_completed(rsp, rsp->completed - 1); - note_new_gpnum(rsp, rdp); /* Special-case the common single-level case. */ if (NUM_RCU_NODES == 1) { |