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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcu/srcutree.c | 31 |
1 files changed, 29 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c index 5602042856b1..9fab9ac36996 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c @@ -1244,10 +1244,37 @@ static unsigned long srcu_gp_start_if_needed(struct srcu_struct *ssp, spin_lock_irqsave_sdp_contention(sdp, &flags); if (rhp) rcu_segcblist_enqueue(&sdp->srcu_cblist, rhp); + /* + * The snapshot for acceleration must be taken _before_ the read of the + * current gp sequence used for advancing, otherwise advancing may fail + * and acceleration may then fail too. + * + * This could happen if: + * + * 1) The RCU_WAIT_TAIL segment has callbacks (gp_num = X + 4) and the + * RCU_NEXT_READY_TAIL also has callbacks (gp_num = X + 8). + * + * 2) The grace period for RCU_WAIT_TAIL is seen as started but not + * completed so rcu_seq_current() returns X + SRCU_STATE_SCAN1. + * + * 3) This value is passed to rcu_segcblist_advance() which can't move + * any segment forward and fails. + * + * 4) srcu_gp_start_if_needed() still proceeds with callback acceleration. + * But then the call to rcu_seq_snap() observes the grace period for the + * RCU_WAIT_TAIL segment as completed and the subsequent one for the + * RCU_NEXT_READY_TAIL segment as started (ie: X + 4 + SRCU_STATE_SCAN1) + * so it returns a snapshot of the next grace period, which is X + 12. + * + * 5) The value of X + 12 is passed to rcu_segcblist_accelerate() but the + * freshly enqueued callback in RCU_NEXT_TAIL can't move to + * RCU_NEXT_READY_TAIL which already has callbacks for a previous grace + * period (gp_num = X + 8). So acceleration fails. + */ + s = rcu_seq_snap(&ssp->srcu_sup->srcu_gp_seq); rcu_segcblist_advance(&sdp->srcu_cblist, rcu_seq_current(&ssp->srcu_sup->srcu_gp_seq)); - s = rcu_seq_snap(&ssp->srcu_sup->srcu_gp_seq); - (void)rcu_segcblist_accelerate(&sdp->srcu_cblist, s); + WARN_ON_ONCE(!rcu_segcblist_accelerate(&sdp->srcu_cblist, s) && rhp); if (ULONG_CMP_LT(sdp->srcu_gp_seq_needed, s)) { sdp->srcu_gp_seq_needed = s; needgp = true; |