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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 19:56:07 +0530
From: Prateek Sood <prsood@...eaurora.org>
To: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@...e.de>
Cc: peterz@...radead.org, mingo@...hat.com,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, sramana@...eaurora.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] percpu_rwsem: fix missed wakeup due to reordering of load
On 12/04/2018 01:06 AM, Prateek Sood wrote:
> On 12/03/2018 12:08 PM, Davidlohr Bueso wrote:
>> On 2018-11-30 07:10, Prateek Sood wrote:
>>> In a scenario where cpu_hotplug_lock percpu_rw_semaphore is already
>>> acquired for read operation by P1 using percpu_down_read().
>>>
>>> Now we have P1 in the path of releaseing the cpu_hotplug_lock and P2
>>> is in the process of acquiring cpu_hotplug_lock.
>>>
>>> P1 P2
>>> percpu_up_read() path percpu_down_write() path
>>>
>>> rcu_sync_enter() //gp_state=GP_PASSED
>>>
>>> rcu_sync_is_idle() //returns false down_write(rw_sem)
>>>
>>> __percpu_up_read()
>>>
>>> [L] task = rcu_dereference(w->task) //NULL
>>>
>>> smp_rmb() [S] w->task = current
>>>
>>> smp_mb()
>>>
>>> [L] readers_active_check() //fails
>>> schedule()
>>>
>>> [S] __this_cpu_dec(read_count)
>>>
>>> Since load of task can result in NULL. This can lead to missed wakeup
>>> in rcuwait_wake_up(). Above sequence violated the following constraint
>>> in rcuwait_wake_up():
>>>
>>> WAIT WAKE
>>> [S] tsk = current [S] cond = true
>>> MB (A) MB (B)
>>> [L] cond [L] tsk
>>>
>>
>> Hmm yeah we don't want rcu_wake_up() to get hoisted over the __this_cpu_dec(read_count). The smp_rmb() does not make sense to me here in the first place. Did you run into this scenario by code inspection or you actually it the issue?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Davidlohr
>
> I have checked one issue where it seems that cpu hotplug code
> path is not able to get cpu_hotplug_lock in write mode and there
> is a reader pending for cpu hotplug path to release
> percpu_rw_semaphore->rwsem to acquire cpu_hotplug_lock.
> This caused a deadlock.
>
> From code inspection also it seems to be not adhering to arm64
> smp_rmb() constraint of load/load-store ordering guarantee.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Prateek
>
Folks,
Please confirm if the suspicion of smp_rmb is correct.
IMO, it should be smp_mb() translating to dmb ish.
Thanks
Prateek
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