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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2009-11-22 08:53:48 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-11-22 18:58:15 +0100
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rcu: Fix grace-period-stall bug on large systems with CPU hotplug
When the last CPU of a given leaf rcu_node structure goes offline, all of the tasks queued on that leaf rcu_node structure (due to having blocked in their current RCU read-side critical sections) are requeued onto the root rcu_node structure. This requeuing is carried out by rcu_preempt_offline_tasks(). However, it is possible that these queued tasks are the only thing preventing the leaf rcu_node structure from reporting a quiescent state up the rcu_node hierarchy. Unfortunately, the old code would fail to do this reporting, resulting in a grace-period stall given the following sequence of events: 1. Kernel built for more than 32 CPUs on 32-bit systems or for more than 64 CPUs on 64-bit systems, so that there is more than one rcu_node structure. (Or CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT is artificially set to a number smaller than CONFIG_NR_CPUS.) 2. The kernel is built with CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU. 3. A task running on a CPU associated with a given leaf rcu_node structure blocks while in an RCU read-side critical section -and- that CPU has not yet passed through a quiescent state for the current RCU grace period. This will cause the task to be queued on the leaf rcu_node's blocked_tasks[] array, in particular, on the element of this array corresponding to the current grace period. 4. Each of the remaining CPUs corresponding to this same leaf rcu_node structure pass through a quiescent state. However, the task is still in its RCU read-side critical section, so these quiescent states cannot be reported further up the rcu_node hierarchy. Nevertheless, all bits in the leaf rcu_node structure's ->qsmask field are now zero. 5. Each of the remaining CPUs go offline. (The events in step #4 and #5 can happen in any order as long as each CPU passes through a quiescent state before going offline.) 6. When the last CPU goes offline, __rcu_offline_cpu() will invoke rcu_preempt_offline_tasks(), which will move the task to the root rcu_node structure, but without reporting a quiescent state up the rcu_node hierarchy (and this failure to report a quiescent state is the bug). But because this leaf rcu_node structure's ->qsmask field is already zero and its ->block_tasks[] entries are all empty, force_quiescent_state() will skip this rcu_node structure. Therefore, grace periods are now hung. This patch abstracts some code out of rcu_read_unlock_special(), calling the result task_quiet() by analogy with cpu_quiet(), and invokes task_quiet() from both rcu_read_lock_special() and __rcu_offline_cpu(). Invoking task_quiet() from __rcu_offline_cpu() reports the quiescent state up the rcu_node hierarchy, fixing the bug. This ends up requiring a separate lock_class_key per level of the rcu_node hierarchy, which this patch also provides. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <12589088301770-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcutree_plugin.h')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcutree_plugin.h85
1 files changed, 61 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
index 5ca2d26c5971..0bdb592eee66 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
@@ -160,11 +160,51 @@ static int rcu_preempted_readers(struct rcu_node *rnp)
return !list_empty(&rnp->blocked_tasks[rnp->gpnum & 0x1]);
}
+/*
+ * Record a quiescent state for all tasks that were previously queued
+ * on the specified rcu_node structure and that were blocking the current
+ * RCU grace period. The caller must hold the specified rnp->lock with
+ * irqs disabled, and this lock is released upon return, but irqs remain
+ * disabled.
+ */
+static void task_quiet(struct rcu_node *rnp, unsigned long flags)
+ __releases(rnp->lock)
+{
+ unsigned long mask;
+ struct rcu_node *rnp_p;
+
+ if (rnp->qsmask != 0 || rcu_preempted_readers(rnp)) {
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags);
+ return; /* Still need more quiescent states! */
+ }
+
+ rnp_p = rnp->parent;
+ if (rnp_p == NULL) {
+ /*
+ * Either there is only one rcu_node in the tree,
+ * or tasks were kicked up to root rcu_node due to
+ * CPUs going offline.
+ */
+ cpu_quiet_msk_finish(&rcu_preempt_state, flags);
+ return;
+ }
+
+ /* Report up the rest of the hierarchy. */
+ mask = rnp->grpmask;
+ spin_unlock(&rnp->lock); /* irqs remain disabled. */
+ spin_lock(&rnp_p->lock); /* irqs already disabled. */
+ cpu_quiet_msk(mask, &rcu_preempt_state, rnp_p, flags);
+}
+
+/*
+ * Handle special cases during rcu_read_unlock(), such as needing to
+ * notify RCU core processing or task having blocked during the RCU
+ * read-side critical section.
+ */
static void rcu_read_unlock_special(struct task_struct *t)
{
int empty;
unsigned long flags;
- unsigned long mask;
struct rcu_node *rnp;
int special;
@@ -213,30 +253,15 @@ static void rcu_read_unlock_special(struct task_struct *t)
/*
* If this was the last task on the current list, and if
* we aren't waiting on any CPUs, report the quiescent state.
- * Note that both cpu_quiet_msk_finish() and cpu_quiet_msk()
- * drop rnp->lock and restore irq.
+ * Note that task_quiet() releases rnp->lock.
*/
- if (!empty && rnp->qsmask == 0 &&
- !rcu_preempted_readers(rnp)) {
- struct rcu_node *rnp_p;
-
- if (rnp->parent == NULL) {
- /* Only one rcu_node in the tree. */
- cpu_quiet_msk_finish(&rcu_preempt_state, flags);
- return;
- }
- /* Report up the rest of the hierarchy. */
- mask = rnp->grpmask;
+ if (empty)
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags);
- rnp_p = rnp->parent;
- spin_lock_irqsave(&rnp_p->lock, flags);
- WARN_ON_ONCE(rnp->qsmask);
- cpu_quiet_msk(mask, &rcu_preempt_state, rnp_p, flags);
- return;
- }
- spin_unlock(&rnp->lock);
+ else
+ task_quiet(rnp, flags);
+ } else {
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
}
- local_irq_restore(flags);
}
/*
@@ -303,6 +328,8 @@ static void rcu_preempt_check_blocked_tasks(struct rcu_node *rnp)
* rcu_node. The reason for not just moving them to the immediate
* parent is to remove the need for rcu_read_unlock_special() to
* make more than two attempts to acquire the target rcu_node's lock.
+ * Returns true if there were tasks blocking the current RCU grace
+ * period.
*
* Returns 1 if there was previously a task blocking the current grace
* period on the specified rcu_node structure.
@@ -316,7 +343,7 @@ static int rcu_preempt_offline_tasks(struct rcu_state *rsp,
int i;
struct list_head *lp;
struct list_head *lp_root;
- int retval = rcu_preempted_readers(rnp);
+ int retval;
struct rcu_node *rnp_root = rcu_get_root(rsp);
struct task_struct *tp;
@@ -334,6 +361,7 @@ static int rcu_preempt_offline_tasks(struct rcu_state *rsp,
* rcu_nodes in terms of gp_num value. This fact allows us to
* move the blocked_tasks[] array directly, element by element.
*/
+ retval = rcu_preempted_readers(rnp);
for (i = 0; i < 2; i++) {
lp = &rnp->blocked_tasks[i];
lp_root = &rnp_root->blocked_tasks[i];
@@ -346,7 +374,6 @@ static int rcu_preempt_offline_tasks(struct rcu_state *rsp,
spin_unlock(&rnp_root->lock); /* irqs remain disabled */
}
}
-
return retval;
}
@@ -512,6 +539,16 @@ static int rcu_preempted_readers(struct rcu_node *rnp)
return 0;
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
+
+/* Because preemptible RCU does not exist, no quieting of tasks. */
+static void task_quiet(struct rcu_node *rnp, unsigned long flags)
+{
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags);
+}
+
+#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */
+
#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR
/*