From dd56af42bd829c6e770ed69812bd65a04eaeb1e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 20:25:06 -0700 Subject: rcu: Eliminate deadlock between CPU hotplug and expedited grace periods Currently, the expedited grace-period primitives do get_online_cpus(). This greatly simplifies their implementation, but means that calls to them holding locks that are acquired by CPU-hotplug notifiers (to say nothing of calls to these primitives from CPU-hotplug notifiers) can deadlock. But this is starting to become inconvenient, as can be seen here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/5/754. The problem in this case is that some developers need to acquire a mutex from a CPU-hotplug notifier, but also need to hold it across a synchronize_rcu_expedited(). As noted above, this currently results in deadlock. This commit avoids the deadlock and retains the simplicity by creating a try_get_online_cpus(), which returns false if the get_online_cpus() reference count could not immediately be incremented. If a call to try_get_online_cpus() returns true, the expedited primitives operate as before. If a call returns false, the expedited primitives fall back to normal grace-period operations. This falling back of course results in increased grace-period latency, but only during times when CPU hotplug operations are actually in flight. The effect should therefore be negligible during normal operation. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Josh Triplett Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Tested-by: Lan Tianyu --- kernel/cpu.c | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/cpu.c') diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c index 81e2a388a0f6..356450f09c1f 100644 --- a/kernel/cpu.c +++ b/kernel/cpu.c @@ -79,6 +79,8 @@ static struct { /* Lockdep annotations for get/put_online_cpus() and cpu_hotplug_begin/end() */ #define cpuhp_lock_acquire_read() lock_map_acquire_read(&cpu_hotplug.dep_map) +#define cpuhp_lock_acquire_tryread() \ + lock_map_acquire_tryread(&cpu_hotplug.dep_map) #define cpuhp_lock_acquire() lock_map_acquire(&cpu_hotplug.dep_map) #define cpuhp_lock_release() lock_map_release(&cpu_hotplug.dep_map) @@ -91,10 +93,22 @@ void get_online_cpus(void) mutex_lock(&cpu_hotplug.lock); cpu_hotplug.refcount++; mutex_unlock(&cpu_hotplug.lock); - } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_online_cpus); +bool try_get_online_cpus(void) +{ + if (cpu_hotplug.active_writer == current) + return true; + if (!mutex_trylock(&cpu_hotplug.lock)) + return false; + cpuhp_lock_acquire_tryread(); + cpu_hotplug.refcount++; + mutex_unlock(&cpu_hotplug.lock); + return true; +} +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(try_get_online_cpus); + void put_online_cpus(void) { if (cpu_hotplug.active_writer == current) -- cgit v1.2.3