From 6ab2ed419bd62318e2c535f2b5e5203e56718f97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2011 11:45:18 -0700 Subject: rcu: Make ksoftirqd do RCU quiescent states Implementing RCU-bh in terms of RCU-preempt makes the system vulnerable to network-based denial-of-service attacks. This patch therefore makes __do_softirq() invoke rcu_bh_qs(), but only when __do_softirq() is running in ksoftirqd context. A wrapper layer in interposed so that other calls to __do_softirq() avoid invoking rcu_bh_qs(). The underlying function __do_softirq_common() does the actual work. The reason that rcu_bh_qs() is bad in these non-ksoftirqd contexts is that there might be a local_bh_enable() inside an RCU-preempt read-side critical section. This local_bh_enable() can invoke __do_softirq() directly, so if __do_softirq() were to invoke rcu_bh_qs() (which just calls rcu_preempt_qs() in the PREEMPT_RT_FULL case), there would be an illegal RCU-preempt quiescent state in the middle of an RCU-preempt read-side critical section. Therefore, quiescent states can only happen in cases where __do_softirq() is invoked directly from ksoftirqd. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111005184518.GA21601@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner --- include/linux/rcupdate.h | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h index 7c31d86a792d..0e6fb5c9dce4 100644 --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h +++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h @@ -185,13 +185,7 @@ static inline int rcu_preempt_depth(void) /* Internal to kernel */ extern void rcu_sched_qs(int cpu); - -#ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL extern void rcu_bh_qs(int cpu); -#else -static inline void rcu_bh_qs(int cpu) { } -#endif - extern void rcu_check_callbacks(int cpu, int user); struct notifier_block; -- cgit v1.2.3