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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu/srcu.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcu/srcu.c | 122 |
1 files changed, 44 insertions, 78 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/srcu.c b/kernel/rcu/srcu.c index 9b9cdd549caa..c9a0015e1c2e 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/srcu.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/srcu.c @@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ static int init_srcu_struct_fields(struct srcu_struct *sp) rcu_batch_init(&sp->batch_check1); rcu_batch_init(&sp->batch_done); INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&sp->work, process_srcu); - sp->per_cpu_ref = alloc_percpu(struct srcu_struct_array); + sp->per_cpu_ref = alloc_percpu(struct srcu_array); return sp->per_cpu_ref ? 0 : -ENOMEM; } @@ -141,114 +141,77 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_srcu_struct); #endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC */ /* - * Returns approximate total of the readers' ->seq[] values for the + * Returns approximate total of the readers' ->lock_count[] values for the * rank of per-CPU counters specified by idx. */ -static unsigned long srcu_readers_seq_idx(struct srcu_struct *sp, int idx) +static unsigned long srcu_readers_lock_idx(struct srcu_struct *sp, int idx) { int cpu; unsigned long sum = 0; - unsigned long t; for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) { - t = READ_ONCE(per_cpu_ptr(sp->per_cpu_ref, cpu)->seq[idx]); - sum += t; + struct srcu_array *cpuc = per_cpu_ptr(sp->per_cpu_ref, cpu); + + sum += READ_ONCE(cpuc->lock_count[idx]); } return sum; } /* - * Returns approximate number of readers active on the specified rank - * of the per-CPU ->c[] counters. + * Returns approximate total of the readers' ->unlock_count[] values for the + * rank of per-CPU counters specified by idx. */ -static unsigned long srcu_readers_active_idx(struct srcu_struct *sp, int idx) +static unsigned long srcu_readers_unlock_idx(struct srcu_struct *sp, int idx) { int cpu; unsigned long sum = 0; - unsigned long t; for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) { - t = READ_ONCE(per_cpu_ptr(sp->per_cpu_ref, cpu)->c[idx]); - sum += t; + struct srcu_array *cpuc = per_cpu_ptr(sp->per_cpu_ref, cpu); + + sum += READ_ONCE(cpuc->unlock_count[idx]); } return sum; } /* * Return true if the number of pre-existing readers is determined to - * be stably zero. An example unstable zero can occur if the call - * to srcu_readers_active_idx() misses an __srcu_read_lock() increment, - * but due to task migration, sees the corresponding __srcu_read_unlock() - * decrement. This can happen because srcu_readers_active_idx() takes - * time to sum the array, and might in fact be interrupted or preempted - * partway through the summation. + * be zero. */ static bool srcu_readers_active_idx_check(struct srcu_struct *sp, int idx) { - unsigned long seq; + unsigned long unlocks; - seq = srcu_readers_seq_idx(sp, idx); + unlocks = srcu_readers_unlock_idx(sp, idx); /* - * The following smp_mb() A pairs with the smp_mb() B located in - * __srcu_read_lock(). This pairing ensures that if an - * __srcu_read_lock() increments its counter after the summation - * in srcu_readers_active_idx(), then the corresponding SRCU read-side - * critical section will see any changes made prior to the start - * of the current SRCU grace period. + * Make sure that a lock is always counted if the corresponding unlock + * is counted. Needs to be a smp_mb() as the read side may contain a + * read from a variable that is written to before the synchronize_srcu() + * in the write side. In this case smp_mb()s A and B act like the store + * buffering pattern. * - * Also, if the above call to srcu_readers_seq_idx() saw the - * increment of ->seq[], then the call to srcu_readers_active_idx() - * must see the increment of ->c[]. + * This smp_mb() also pairs with smp_mb() C to prevent accesses after the + * synchronize_srcu() from being executed before the grace period ends. */ smp_mb(); /* A */ /* - * Note that srcu_readers_active_idx() can incorrectly return - * zero even though there is a pre-existing reader throughout. - * To see this, suppose that task A is in a very long SRCU - * read-side critical section that started on CPU 0, and that - * no other reader exists, so that the sum of the counters - * is equal to one. Then suppose that task B starts executing - * srcu_readers_active_idx(), summing up to CPU 1, and then that - * task C starts reading on CPU 0, so that its increment is not - * summed, but finishes reading on CPU 2, so that its decrement - * -is- summed. Then when task B completes its sum, it will - * incorrectly get zero, despite the fact that task A has been - * in its SRCU read-side critical section the whole time. + * If the locks are the same as the unlocks, then there must have + * been no readers on this index at some time in between. This does not + * mean that there are no more readers, as one could have read the + * current index but not have incremented the lock counter yet. * - * We therefore do a validation step should srcu_readers_active_idx() - * return zero. + * Possible bug: There is no guarantee that there haven't been ULONG_MAX + * increments of ->lock_count[] since the unlocks were counted, meaning + * that this could return true even if there are still active readers. + * Since there are no memory barriers around srcu_flip(), the CPU is not + * required to increment ->completed before running + * srcu_readers_unlock_idx(), which means that there could be an + * arbitrarily large number of critical sections that execute after + * srcu_readers_unlock_idx() but use the old value of ->completed. */ - if (srcu_readers_active_idx(sp, idx) != 0) - return false; - - /* - * The remainder of this function is the validation step. - * The following smp_mb() D pairs with the smp_mb() C in - * __srcu_read_unlock(). If the __srcu_read_unlock() was seen - * by srcu_readers_active_idx() above, then any destructive - * operation performed after the grace period will happen after - * the corresponding SRCU read-side critical section. - * - * Note that there can be at most NR_CPUS worth of readers using - * the old index, which is not enough to overflow even a 32-bit - * integer. (Yes, this does mean that systems having more than - * a billion or so CPUs need to be 64-bit systems.) Therefore, - * the sum of the ->seq[] counters cannot possibly overflow. - * Therefore, the only way that the return values of the two - * calls to srcu_readers_seq_idx() can be equal is if there were - * no increments of the corresponding rank of ->seq[] counts - * in the interim. But the missed-increment scenario laid out - * above includes an increment of the ->seq[] counter by - * the corresponding __srcu_read_lock(). Therefore, if this - * scenario occurs, the return values from the two calls to - * srcu_readers_seq_idx() will differ, and thus the validation - * step below suffices. - */ - smp_mb(); /* D */ - - return srcu_readers_seq_idx(sp, idx) == seq; + return srcu_readers_lock_idx(sp, idx) == unlocks; } /** @@ -266,8 +229,12 @@ static bool srcu_readers_active(struct srcu_struct *sp) unsigned long sum = 0; for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) { - sum += READ_ONCE(per_cpu_ptr(sp->per_cpu_ref, cpu)->c[0]); - sum += READ_ONCE(per_cpu_ptr(sp->per_cpu_ref, cpu)->c[1]); + struct srcu_array *cpuc = per_cpu_ptr(sp->per_cpu_ref, cpu); + + sum += READ_ONCE(cpuc->lock_count[0]); + sum += READ_ONCE(cpuc->lock_count[1]); + sum -= READ_ONCE(cpuc->unlock_count[0]); + sum -= READ_ONCE(cpuc->unlock_count[1]); } return sum; } @@ -298,9 +265,8 @@ int __srcu_read_lock(struct srcu_struct *sp) int idx; idx = READ_ONCE(sp->completed) & 0x1; - __this_cpu_inc(sp->per_cpu_ref->c[idx]); + __this_cpu_inc(sp->per_cpu_ref->lock_count[idx]); smp_mb(); /* B */ /* Avoid leaking the critical section. */ - __this_cpu_inc(sp->per_cpu_ref->seq[idx]); return idx; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__srcu_read_lock); @@ -314,7 +280,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__srcu_read_lock); void __srcu_read_unlock(struct srcu_struct *sp, int idx) { smp_mb(); /* C */ /* Avoid leaking the critical section. */ - this_cpu_dec(sp->per_cpu_ref->c[idx]); + this_cpu_inc(sp->per_cpu_ref->unlock_count[idx]); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__srcu_read_unlock); @@ -349,7 +315,7 @@ static bool try_check_zero(struct srcu_struct *sp, int idx, int trycount) /* * Increment the ->completed counter so that future SRCU readers will - * use the other rank of the ->c[] and ->seq[] arrays. This allows + * use the other rank of the ->(un)lock_count[] arrays. This allows * us to wait for pre-existing readers in a starvation-free manner. */ static void srcu_flip(struct srcu_struct *sp) |