From 35a2897c2a306cca344ca5c0b43416707018f434 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Boqun Feng Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 12:18:28 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] sched/wait: Remove the lockless swait_active() check in swake_up*() Steven Rostedt reported a potential race in RCU core because of swake_up(): CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- __call_rcu_core() { spin_lock(rnp_root) need_wake = __rcu_start_gp() { rcu_start_gp_advanced() { gp_flags = FLAG_INIT } } rcu_gp_kthread() { swait_event_interruptible(wq, gp_flags & FLAG_INIT) { spin_lock(q->lock) *fetch wq->task_list here! * list_add(wq->task_list, q->task_list) spin_unlock(q->lock); *fetch old value of gp_flags here * spin_unlock(rnp_root) rcu_gp_kthread_wake() { swake_up(wq) { swait_active(wq) { list_empty(wq->task_list) } * return false * if (condition) * false * schedule(); In this case, a wakeup is missed, which could cause the rcu_gp_kthread waits for a long time. The reason of this is that we do a lockless swait_active() check in swake_up(). To fix this, we can either 1) add a smp_mb() in swake_up() before swait_active() to provide the proper order or 2) simply remove the swait_active() in swake_up(). The solution 2 not only fixes this problem but also keeps the swait and wait API as close as possible, as wake_up() doesn't provide a full barrier and doesn't do a lockless check of the wait queue either. Moreover, there are users already using swait_active() to do their quick checks for the wait queues, so it make less sense that swake_up() and swake_up_all() do this on their own. This patch then removes the lockless swait_active() check in swake_up() and swake_up_all(). Reported-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) Cc: Krister Johansen Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170615041828.zk3a3sfyudm5p6nl@tardis Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/sched/swait.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched/swait.c b/kernel/sched/swait.c index 3d5610dcce11..2227e183e202 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/swait.c +++ b/kernel/sched/swait.c @@ -33,9 +33,6 @@ void swake_up(struct swait_queue_head *q) { unsigned long flags; - if (!swait_active(q)) - return; - raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags); swake_up_locked(q); raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags); @@ -51,9 +48,6 @@ void swake_up_all(struct swait_queue_head *q) struct swait_queue *curr; LIST_HEAD(tmp); - if (!swait_active(q)) - return; - raw_spin_lock_irq(&q->lock); list_splice_init(&q->task_list, &tmp); while (!list_empty(&tmp)) { -- 2.20.1