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Message-ID: <20080613075317.GF8331@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 00:53:17 -0700
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>
Cc: akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] radix-tree: fix small lockless radix-tree bug
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 05:03:45AM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Although this doesn't seem like cause for alarm (as per the analysis),
> it may still be a good 2.6.26 candidate as we should have a few more
> weeks of testing left.
>
> It should definitely go in -mm with the lockless pagecache patch.
Good catch!!!
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Thanks,
> Nick
> When shrinking a radix-tree, we do it in a lockless manner by atomically
> switching the root pointer away from the redundant node (one that only
> has a single entry in the left most slot), and switching it over to its
> lone child.
>
> Because a lockless lookup may have got a reference to the parent and be
> in the middle of deciding what to do with it while it is being swapped
> away for its child. For this reason, we also have to keep it around and
> in a valid state for the lookup to proceed and give a valid result, for
> at least an RCU grace period. So we need to keep the child in the left
> most slot there in case that is requested by the lookup.
>
> This is all pretty standard RCU stuff. It is worth repeating because
> in my eagerness to obey the radix tree node constructor scheme, I had
> broken this by zeroing the radix tree node before the grace period.
>
> Fix it by clearing those fields in the RCU callback. I would normally
> want to rip out the constructor entirely, but radix tree nodes are one
> of those places where they make sense (only few cachelines will be
> touched soon after allocation).
>
>
> This was never actually observed in any lockless pagecache testing or
> using the test harness, but as a rare problem testing my scalable vmap
> rewrite.
>
> Fortunately, it is not a problem anywhere lockless pagecache is used in
> mainline kernels (pagecache probe is not a guarantee, and brd does not
> have concurrent lookups and deletes).
>
> However, it would eventually pop up for someone using lockless pagecache :P
>
> Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
> ---
> Index: linux-2.6/lib/radix-tree.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/lib/radix-tree.c 2008-06-13 04:26:31.000000000 +1000
> +++ linux-2.6/lib/radix-tree.c 2008-06-13 04:31:38.000000000 +1000
> @@ -88,6 +88,57 @@ static inline gfp_t root_gfp_mask(struct
> return root->gfp_mask & __GFP_BITS_MASK;
> }
>
> +static inline void tag_set(struct radix_tree_node *node, unsigned int tag,
> + int offset)
> +{
> + __set_bit(offset, node->tags[tag]);
> +}
> +
> +static inline void tag_clear(struct radix_tree_node *node, unsigned int tag,
> + int offset)
> +{
> + __clear_bit(offset, node->tags[tag]);
> +}
> +
> +static inline int tag_get(struct radix_tree_node *node, unsigned int tag,
> + int offset)
> +{
> + return test_bit(offset, node->tags[tag]);
> +}
> +
> +static inline void root_tag_set(struct radix_tree_root *root, unsigned int tag)
> +{
> + root->gfp_mask |= (__force gfp_t)(1 << (tag + __GFP_BITS_SHIFT));
> +}
> +
> +static inline void root_tag_clear(struct radix_tree_root *root, unsigned int tag)
> +{
> + root->gfp_mask &= (__force gfp_t)~(1 << (tag + __GFP_BITS_SHIFT));
> +}
> +
> +static inline void root_tag_clear_all(struct radix_tree_root *root)
> +{
> + root->gfp_mask &= __GFP_BITS_MASK;
> +}
> +
> +static inline int root_tag_get(struct radix_tree_root *root, unsigned int tag)
> +{
> + return (__force unsigned)root->gfp_mask & (1 << (tag + __GFP_BITS_SHIFT));
> +}
> +
> +/*
> + * Returns 1 if any slot in the node has this tag set.
> + * Otherwise returns 0.
> + */
> +static inline int any_tag_set(struct radix_tree_node *node, unsigned int tag)
> +{
> + int idx;
> + for (idx = 0; idx < RADIX_TREE_TAG_LONGS; idx++) {
> + if (node->tags[tag][idx])
> + return 1;
> + }
> + return 0;
> +}
> /*
> * This assumes that the caller has performed appropriate preallocation, and
> * that the caller has pinned this thread of control to the current CPU.
> @@ -124,6 +175,17 @@ static void radix_tree_node_rcu_free(str
> {
> struct radix_tree_node *node =
> container_of(head, struct radix_tree_node, rcu_head);
> +
> + /*
> + * must only free zeroed nodes into the slab. radix_tree_shrink
> + * can leave us with a non-NULL entry in the first slot, so clear
> + * that here to make sure.
> + */
> + tag_clear(node, 0, 0);
> + tag_clear(node, 1, 0);
> + node->slots[0] = NULL;
> + node->count = 0;
> +
> kmem_cache_free(radix_tree_node_cachep, node);
> }
>
> @@ -165,59 +227,6 @@ out:
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL(radix_tree_preload);
>
> -static inline void tag_set(struct radix_tree_node *node, unsigned int tag,
> - int offset)
> -{
> - __set_bit(offset, node->tags[tag]);
> -}
> -
> -static inline void tag_clear(struct radix_tree_node *node, unsigned int tag,
> - int offset)
> -{
> - __clear_bit(offset, node->tags[tag]);
> -}
> -
> -static inline int tag_get(struct radix_tree_node *node, unsigned int tag,
> - int offset)
> -{
> - return test_bit(offset, node->tags[tag]);
> -}
> -
> -static inline void root_tag_set(struct radix_tree_root *root, unsigned int tag)
> -{
> - root->gfp_mask |= (__force gfp_t)(1 << (tag + __GFP_BITS_SHIFT));
> -}
> -
> -
> -static inline void root_tag_clear(struct radix_tree_root *root, unsigned int tag)
> -{
> - root->gfp_mask &= (__force gfp_t)~(1 << (tag + __GFP_BITS_SHIFT));
> -}
> -
> -static inline void root_tag_clear_all(struct radix_tree_root *root)
> -{
> - root->gfp_mask &= __GFP_BITS_MASK;
> -}
> -
> -static inline int root_tag_get(struct radix_tree_root *root, unsigned int tag)
> -{
> - return (__force unsigned)root->gfp_mask & (1 << (tag + __GFP_BITS_SHIFT));
> -}
> -
> -/*
> - * Returns 1 if any slot in the node has this tag set.
> - * Otherwise returns 0.
> - */
> -static inline int any_tag_set(struct radix_tree_node *node, unsigned int tag)
> -{
> - int idx;
> - for (idx = 0; idx < RADIX_TREE_TAG_LONGS; idx++) {
> - if (node->tags[tag][idx])
> - return 1;
> - }
> - return 0;
> -}
> -
> /*
> * Return the maximum key which can be store into a
> * radix tree with height HEIGHT.
> @@ -930,11 +939,6 @@ static inline void radix_tree_shrink(str
> newptr = radix_tree_ptr_to_indirect(newptr);
> root->rnode = newptr;
> root->height--;
> - /* must only free zeroed nodes into the slab */
> - tag_clear(to_free, 0, 0);
> - tag_clear(to_free, 1, 0);
> - to_free->slots[0] = NULL;
> - to_free->count = 0;
> radix_tree_node_free(to_free);
> }
> }
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