linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 12/13] stop

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Date:	Tue, 23 Jun 2015 18:20:24 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, tj@...nel.org, mingo@...hat.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, der.herr@...r.at, dave@...olabs.net,
	riel@...hat.com, viro@...IV.linux.org.uk,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 12/13] stop_machine: Remove lglock

On 06/23, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 12:21:52AM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> > Suppose that stop_two_cpus(cpu1 => 0, cpu2 => 1) races with stop_machine().
> >
> > 	- stop_machine takes the lock on CPU 0, adds the work
> > 	  and drops the lock
> >
> > 	- cpu_stop_queue_work() queues both works
>
> cpu_stop_queue_work() only ever queues _1_ work.
>
> > 	- stop_machine takes the lock on CPU 1, etc
> >
> > In this case both CPU 0 and 1 will run multi_cpu_stop() but they will
> > use different multi_stop_data's, so they will wait for each other
> > forever?
>
> So what you're saying is:
>
> 	queue_stop_cpus_work()		stop_two_cpus()
>
> 	cpu_stop_queue_work(0,..);
> 					spin_lock(0);
> 					spin_lock(1);
>
> 					__cpu_stop_queue_work(0,..);
> 					__cpu_stop_queue_work(1,..);
>
> 					spin_unlock(1);
> 					spin_unlock(0);
> 	cpu_stop_queue_work(1,..);

Yes, sorry for confusion.

> We can of course slap a percpu-rwsem in, but I wonder if there's
> anything smarter we can do here.

I am wondering too if we can make this multi_cpu_stop() more clever.
Or at least add some deadlock detection...

Until then you can probably just uglify queue_stop_cpus_work() and
avoid the race,

	static void queue_stop_cpus_work(const struct cpumask *cpumask,
					 cpu_stop_fn_t fn, void *arg,
					 struct cpu_stop_done *done)
	{
		struct cpu_stopper *stopper;
		struct cpu_stop_work *work;
		unsigned long flags;
		unsigned int cpu;

		local_irq_save(flags);
		for_each_cpu(cpu, cpumask) {
			stopper = &per_cpu(cpu_stopper, cpu);
			spin_lock(&stopper->lock);

			work = &per_cpu(stop_cpus_work, cpu);
			work->fn = fn;
			work->arg = arg;
			work->done = done;
		}

		for_each_cpu(cpu, cpumask)
			__cpu_stop_queue_work(cpu, &per_cpu(stop_cpus_work, cpu));

		for_each_cpu(cpu, cpumask) {
			stopper = &per_cpu(cpu_stopper, cpu);
			spin_unlock(&stopper->lock);
		}
		local_irq_restore(flags);
	}

ignoring lockdep problems.

It would be nice to remove stop_cpus_mutex, it actually protects
stop_cpus_work... Then probably stop_two_cpus() can just use
stop_cpus(). We could simply make stop_cpus_mutex per-cpu too,
but this doesn't look nice.

Oleg.

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