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Date:   Tue, 31 Jul 2018 10:45:45 +1000
From:   NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com>
To:     paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/5] rhashtable: don't hold lock on first table throughout insertion.

On Fri, Jul 27 2018, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 08:18:15PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 11:04:37AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
>> > On Wed, Jul 25 2018, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>> > >> 
>> > >> Looks good ... except ... naming is hard.
>> > >> 
>> > >>  is_after_call_rcu_init()  asserts where in the lifecycle we are,
>> > >>  is_after_call_rcu() tests where in the lifecycle we are.
>> > >> 
>> > >>  The names are similar but the purpose is quite different.
>> > >>  Maybe s/is_after_call_rcu_init/call_rcu_init/ ??
>> > >
>> > > How about rcu_head_init() and rcu_head_after_call_rcu()?
>> 
>> Very well, I will pull this change in on my next rebase.
>
> Like this?

Hard to say - unwinding white-space damage in my head is too challenging
when newlines have been deleted :-(

Thanks,
NeilBrown

>
> 							Thanx, Paul
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> commit 45dfdcaee39bf6dd1785253c78e4805122ee8d93
> Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Date:   Tue Jul 24 15:28:09 2018 -0700
>
>     rcu: Provide functions for determining if call_rcu() has been invoked
>
>     This commit adds rcu_head_init() and rcu_head_after_call_rcu()
>     functions to help RCU users detect when another CPU has passed
>     the specified rcu_head structure and function to call_rcu().
>     The rcu_head_init() should be invoked before making the structure
>     visible to RCU readers, and then the rcu_head_after_call_rcu()
>     may be invoked from within an RCU read-side critical section on an
>     rcu_head structure that was obtained during a traversal of the data
>     structure in question.  The rcu_head_after_call_rcu() function will
>     return true if the rcu_head structure has already been passed (with
>     the specified function) to call_rcu(), otherwise it will return false.
>
>     If rcu_head_init() has not been invoked on the rcu_head structure
>     or if the rcu_head (AKA callback) has already been invoked, then
>     rcu_head_after_call_rcu() will do WARN_ON_ONCE().
>
>     Reported-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...e.com> Signed-off-by: Paul
>     E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Apply neilb
>     feedback on naming. ]
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h index
> e4f821165d0b..4db8bcacc51a 100644 --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h +++
> b/include/linux/rcupdate.h @@ -857,6 +857,46 @@ static inline notrace
> void rcu_read_unlock_sched_notrace(void)
>  #endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE */
>
>
> +/* Has the specified rcu_head structure been handed to call_rcu()? */ +
> +/* + * rcu_head_init - Initialize rcu_head for rcu_head_after_call_rcu()
> + * @rhp: The rcu_head structure to initialize.  + * + * If you intend
> to invoke rcu_head_after_call_rcu() to test whether a + * given rcu_head
> structure has already been passed to call_rcu(), then + * you must also
> invoke this rcu_head_init() function on it just after + * allocating
> that structure.  Calls to this function must not race with + * calls
> to call_rcu(), rcu_head_after_call_rcu(), or callback invocation.
> + */ +static inline void rcu_head_init(struct rcu_head *rhp) +{ +
> rhp->func = (rcu_callback_t)~0L; +} + +/* + * rcu_head_after_call_rcu -
> Has this rcu_head been passed to call_rcu()?  + * @rhp: The rcu_head
> structure to test.  + * @func: The function passed to call_rcu()
> along with @rhp.  + * + * Returns @true if the @rhp has been passed to
> call_rcu() with @func, + * and @false otherwise.  Emits a warning in any
> other case, including + * the case where @rhp has already been invoked
> after a grace period.  + * Calls to this function must not race with
> callback invocation.  One way + * to avoid such races is to enclose the
> call to rcu_head_after_call_rcu() + * in an RCU read-side critical section
> that includes a read-side fetch + * of the pointer to the structure
> containing @rhp.  + */ +static inline bool +rcu_head_after_call_rcu(struct
> rcu_head *rhp, rcu_callback_t f) +{ +	    if (READ_ONCE(rhp->func) == f)
> +		return true; +	     WARN_ON_ONCE(READ_ONCE(rhp->func) !=
> (rcu_callback_t)~0L); +       return false; +} + +
>  /* Transitional pre-consolidation compatibility definitions. */
>
>  static inline void synchronize_rcu_bh(void)
> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcu.h b/kernel/rcu/rcu.h index
> 5dec94509a7e..4c56c1d98fb3 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/rcu.h +++
> b/kernel/rcu/rcu.h @@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ void kfree(const void *);
>   */
>  static inline bool __rcu_reclaim(const char *rn, struct rcu_head *head) {
> +	rcu_callback_t f;
> 	unsigned long offset = (unsigned long)head->func;
>
> 	rcu_lock_acquire(&rcu_callback_map);
> @@ -234,7 +235,9 @@ static inline bool __rcu_reclaim(const char *rn,
> struct rcu_head *head)
> 		return true;
> 	} else {
> 		RCU_TRACE(trace_rcu_invoke_callback(rn, head);)
> -		head->func(head); +		  f = head->func; +
> WRITE_ONCE(head->func, (rcu_callback_t)0L); +		    f(head);
> 		rcu_lock_release(&rcu_callback_map); return false;
> 	}

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