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author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2014-08-25 20:25:06 -0700 |
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committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2014-09-18 16:22:27 -0700 |
commit | dd56af42bd829c6e770ed69812bd65a04eaeb1e4 (patch) | |
tree | 6d510ac693c3dfb05dcc383cb60acd3e1e8cab6c /kernel/cpu.c | |
parent | ec4518aad8329364af373f4bf7f4eff25a01a339 (diff) | |
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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 <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Tested-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/cpu.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/cpu.c | 16 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c index 81e2a38..356450f 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) |