From 20ab65e33f469c35f3dabde3445b668aa9c943ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:26:37 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] rcu: Exit RCU extended QS on user preemption When exceptions or irq are about to resume userspace, if the task needs to be rescheduled, the arch low level code calls schedule() directly. If we call it, it is because we have the TIF_RESCHED flag: - It can be set after random local calls to set_need_resched() (RCU, drm, ...) - A wake up happened and the CPU needs preemption. This can happen in several ways: * Remotely: the remote waking CPU has set TIF_RESCHED and send the wakee an IPI to schedule the new task. * Remotely enqueued: the remote waking CPU sends an IPI to the target and the wake up is made by the target. * Locally: waking CPU == wakee CPU and the wakeup is done locally. set_need_resched() is called without IPI. In the case of local and remotely enqueued wake ups, the tick can be restarted when we enqueue the new task and RCU can exit the extended quiescent state at the same time. Then by the time we reach irq exit path and we call schedule, we are not in RCU user mode. But if we call schedule() only because something called set_need_resched(), RCU may still be in user mode when we reach schedule. Also if a wake up is done remotely, the CPU might see the TIF_RESCHED flag and call schedule while the IPI has not yet happen to restart the tick and exit RCU user mode. We need to manually protect against these corner cases. Create a new API schedule_user() that calls schedule() inside rcu_user_exit()-rcu_user_enter() in order to protect it. Archs will need to rely on it now to implement user preemption safely. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Avi Kivity Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Geoff Levand Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef Cc: Hakan Akkan Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Josh Triplett Cc: Kevin Hilman Cc: Max Krasnyansky Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett --- kernel/sched/core.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c index 4adcd237c545..3c4dec0594d6 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/core.c +++ b/kernel/sched/core.c @@ -3469,6 +3469,21 @@ asmlinkage void __sched schedule(void) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(schedule); +#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS +asmlinkage void __sched schedule_user(void) +{ + /* + * If we come here after a random call to set_need_resched(), + * or we have been woken up remotely but the IPI has not yet arrived, + * we haven't yet exited the RCU idle mode. Do it here manually until + * we find a better solution. + */ + rcu_user_exit(); + schedule(); + rcu_user_enter(); +} +#endif + /** * schedule_preempt_disabled - called with preemption disabled * -- 2.20.1