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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
commitb668c9cf3e58739dac54a1d6f42f2b4bdd980b3e (patch)
treec0165d39532a2314f8187d765f3c8ddf88b72831 /kernel/rcutree.c
parent2f51f9884f6a36b0fe9636d5a1937e5cbd25723b (diff)
downloadlinux-next-b668c9cf3e58739dac54a1d6f42f2b4bdd980b3e.tar.gz
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.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcutree.c40
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index 9b36d6d7fb97..b79bfcd28e95 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
/* Data structures. */
-static struct lock_class_key rcu_root_class;
+static struct lock_class_key rcu_node_class[NUM_RCU_LVLS];
#define RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER(name) { \
.level = { &name.node[0] }, \
@@ -936,6 +936,7 @@ static void __rcu_offline_cpu(int cpu, struct rcu_state *rsp)
{
unsigned long flags;
unsigned long mask;
+ int need_quiet = 0;
struct rcu_data *rdp = rsp->rda[cpu];
struct rcu_node *rnp;
@@ -949,29 +950,30 @@ static void __rcu_offline_cpu(int cpu, struct rcu_state *rsp)
spin_lock(&rnp->lock); /* irqs already disabled. */
rnp->qsmaskinit &= ~mask;
if (rnp->qsmaskinit != 0) {
- spin_unlock(&rnp->lock); /* irqs remain disabled. */
+ if (rnp != rdp->mynode)
+ spin_unlock(&rnp->lock); /* irqs remain disabled. */
break;
}
-
- /*
- * If there was a task blocking the current grace period,
- * and if all CPUs have checked in, we need to propagate
- * the quiescent state up the rcu_node hierarchy. But that
- * is inconvenient at the moment due to deadlock issues if
- * this should end the current grace period. So set the
- * offlined CPU's bit in ->qsmask in order to force the
- * next force_quiescent_state() invocation to clean up this
- * mess in a deadlock-free manner.
- */
- if (rcu_preempt_offline_tasks(rsp, rnp, rdp) && !rnp->qsmask)
- rnp->qsmask |= mask;
-
+ if (rnp == rdp->mynode)
+ need_quiet = rcu_preempt_offline_tasks(rsp, rnp, rdp);
+ else
+ spin_unlock(&rnp->lock); /* irqs remain disabled. */
mask = rnp->grpmask;
- spin_unlock(&rnp->lock); /* irqs remain disabled. */
rnp = rnp->parent;
} while (rnp != NULL);
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rsp->onofflock, flags);
+ /*
+ * We still hold the leaf rcu_node structure lock here, and
+ * irqs are still disabled. The reason for this subterfuge is
+ * because invoking task_quiet() with ->onofflock held leads
+ * to deadlock.
+ */
+ spin_unlock(&rsp->onofflock); /* irqs remain disabled. */
+ rnp = rdp->mynode;
+ if (need_quiet)
+ task_quiet(rnp, flags);
+ else
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags);
rcu_adopt_orphan_cbs(rsp);
}
@@ -1731,6 +1733,7 @@ static void __init rcu_init_one(struct rcu_state *rsp)
rnp = rsp->level[i];
for (j = 0; j < rsp->levelcnt[i]; j++, rnp++) {
spin_lock_init(&rnp->lock);
+ lockdep_set_class(&rnp->lock, &rcu_node_class[i]);
rnp->gpnum = 0;
rnp->qsmask = 0;
rnp->qsmaskinit = 0;
@@ -1753,7 +1756,6 @@ static void __init rcu_init_one(struct rcu_state *rsp)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rnp->blocked_tasks[1]);
}
}
- lockdep_set_class(&rcu_get_root(rsp)->lock, &rcu_root_class);
}
/*