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authorNeeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org>2019-11-19 03:17:07 +0000
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2019-12-09 12:24:57 -0800
commitfd6bc19d7676a060a171d1cf3dcbf6fd797eb05f (patch)
treefcaea4bbbcc79b6a077a66acf44f35814e09063f /kernel/rcu
parentaca2991a25da03ca96127b1d21e1f4aba41f81a6 (diff)
rcu: Fix missed wakeup of exp_wq waiters
Tasks waiting within exp_funnel_lock() for an expedited grace period to elapse can be starved due to the following sequence of events: 1. Tasks A and B both attempt to start an expedited grace period at about the same time. This grace period will have completed when the lower four bits of the rcu_state structure's ->expedited_sequence field are 0b'0100', for example, when the initial value of this counter is zero. Task A wins, and thus does the actual work of starting the grace period, including acquiring the rcu_state structure's .exp_mutex and sets the counter to 0b'0001'. 2. Because task B lost the race to start the grace period, it waits on ->expedited_sequence to reach 0b'0100' inside of exp_funnel_lock(). This task therefore blocks on the rcu_node structure's ->exp_wq[1] field, keeping in mind that the end-of-grace-period value of ->expedited_sequence (0b'0100') is shifted down two bits before indexing the ->exp_wq[] field. 3. Task C attempts to start another expedited grace period, but blocks on ->exp_mutex, which is still held by Task A. 4. The aforementioned expedited grace period completes, so that ->expedited_sequence now has the value 0b'0100'. A kworker task therefore acquires the rcu_state structure's ->exp_wake_mutex and starts awakening any tasks waiting for this grace period. 5. One of the first tasks awakened happens to be Task A. Task A therefore releases the rcu_state structure's ->exp_mutex, which allows Task C to start the next expedited grace period, which causes the lower four bits of the rcu_state structure's ->expedited_sequence field to become 0b'0101'. 6. Task C's expedited grace period completes, so that the lower four bits of the rcu_state structure's ->expedited_sequence field now become 0b'1000'. 7. The kworker task from step 4 above continues its wakeups. Unfortunately, the wake_up_all() refetches the rcu_state structure's .expedited_sequence field: wake_up_all(&rnp->exp_wq[rcu_seq_ctr(rcu_state.expedited_sequence) & 0x3]); This results in the wakeup being applied to the rcu_node structure's ->exp_wq[2] field, which is unfortunate given that Task B is instead waiting on ->exp_wq[1]. On a busy system, no harm is done (or at least no permanent harm is done). Some later expedited grace period will redo the wakeup. But on a quiet system, such as many embedded systems, it might be a good long time before there was another expedited grace period. On such embedded systems, this situation could therefore result in a system hang. This issue manifested as DPM device timeout during suspend (which usually qualifies as a quiet time) due to a SCSI device being stuck in _synchronize_rcu_expedited(), with the following stack trace: schedule() synchronize_rcu_expedited() synchronize_rcu() scsi_device_quiesce() scsi_bus_suspend() dpm_run_callback() __device_suspend() This commit therefore prevents such delays, timeouts, and hangs by making rcu_exp_wait_wake() use its "s" argument consistently instead of refetching from rcu_state.expedited_sequence. Fixes: 3b5f668e715b ("rcu: Overlap wakeups with next expedited grace period") Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h
index 3b59c3ee42e5..fa143e40cd93 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h
@@ -557,7 +557,7 @@ static void rcu_exp_wait_wake(unsigned long s)
spin_unlock(&rnp->exp_lock);
}
smp_mb(); /* All above changes before wakeup. */
- wake_up_all(&rnp->exp_wq[rcu_seq_ctr(rcu_state.expedited_sequence) & 0x3]);
+ wake_up_all(&rnp->exp_wq[rcu_seq_ctr(s) & 0x3]);
}
trace_rcu_exp_grace_period(rcu_state.name, s, TPS("endwake"));
mutex_unlock(&rcu_state.exp_wake_mutex);