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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-07-05 13:30:21 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-07-27 15:53:04 -0700 |
| commit | 35732cf9dd38b1efb0f2f22c91c61b51337d1ac3 (patch) | |
| tree | 891e471ae7b9834a969dcac165722757dd9a2ca8 /kernel | |
| parent | 0d8a1e831e21d955af68f4ae5658b58b7ec25557 (diff) | |
srcu: Provide ordering for CPU not involved in grace period
Tree RCU guarantees that every online CPU has a memory barrier between
any given grace period and any of that CPU's RCU read-side sections that
must be ordered against that grace period. Since RCU doesn't always
know where read-side critical sections are, the actual implementation
guarantees order against prior and subsequent non-idle non-offline code,
whether in an RCU read-side critical section or not. As a result, there
does not need to be a memory barrier at the end of synchronize_rcu()
and friends because the ordering internal to the grace period has
ordered every CPU's post-grace-period execution against each CPU's
pre-grace-period execution, again for all non-idle online CPUs.
In contrast, SRCU can have non-idle online CPUs that are completely
uninvolved in a given SRCU grace period, for example, a CPU that
never runs any SRCU read-side critical sections and took no part in
the grace-period processing. It is in theory possible for a given
synchronize_srcu()'s wakeup to be delivered to a CPU that was completely
uninvolved in the prior SRCU grace period, which could mean that the
code following that synchronize_srcu() would end up being unordered with
respect to both the grace period and any pre-existing SRCU read-side
critical sections.
This commit therefore adds an smp_mb() to the end of __synchronize_srcu(),
which prevents this scenario from occurring.
Reported-by: Lance Roy <ldr709@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Lance Roy <ldr709@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.12.x
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcu/srcutree.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c index 94bd6ed43ea3..c1c0ee3cce3b 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c @@ -897,6 +897,15 @@ static void __synchronize_srcu(struct srcu_struct *sp, bool do_norm) __call_srcu(sp, &rcu.head, wakeme_after_rcu, do_norm); wait_for_completion(&rcu.completion); destroy_rcu_head_on_stack(&rcu.head); + + /* + * Make sure that later code is ordered after the SRCU grace + * period. This pairs with the raw_spin_lock_irq_rcu_node() + * in srcu_invoke_callbacks(). Unlike Tree RCU, this is needed + * because the current CPU might have been totally uninvolved with + * (and thus unordered against) that grace period. + */ + smp_mb(); } /** |