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Date:   Thu, 30 May 2019 07:52:27 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org,
        jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
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        rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com, joel@...lfernandes.org,
        byungchul.park@....com, kernel-team@...roid.com,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 10/12] rcu: Add checks for dynticks counters in rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle()

From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>

It would be good to combine the dynticks and dynticks_nesting counters
in order to simplify the code.  Unfortunately, there are concerns
about usermode upcalls appearing to RCU as half of an interrupt, as
Byungchul learned [1].  The "half" in "half interrupt" is due to an
unpaired rcu_irq_enter(): Normally, each rcu_irq_enter() has a later
call to rcu_irq_exit().

Out of an abundance of caution, Paul added warnings [2] in the RCU
code which if not fired by 2021 will be interpreted as meaning that
this half-interrupt scenario cannot happen any more, thus permitting
simplification of this code.

In the meantime, this commit makes the following changes:

(1) Combining these two counters requires that rcu_rrupt_from_idle()
    is invoked only from hard-interrupt contexts as discussed here [3].
    This commit therefore adds the required lockdep_assert_in_irq()
    to check this constraint.

(2) Furthermore, rcu_rrupt_from_idle() is not explicit about how it
    is using the counters which can lead to weird future bugs. This
    commit therefore adds comments indicating the meaning and use of
    each counter.

(3) Lastly, this commit checks for counter underflows as another check
    that half interrupts don't occur.  (Previously, the function would
    simply return true upon underflow.)

All these checks checks are NOOPs if PROVE_LOCKING (and thus PROVE_RCU)
are disabled.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/952349/
[2] Commit e11ec65cc8d6 ("rcu: Add warning to detect half-interrupts")
[3] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190312150514.GB249405@google.com/

Cc: byungchul.park@....com
Cc: kernel-team@...roid.com
Cc: rcu@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 7822a2e1370d..b9629cf08f94 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -376,16 +376,29 @@ static void __maybe_unused rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle(void)
 }
 
 /**
- * rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle - see if idle or immediately interrupted from idle
+ * rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle - see if interrupted from idle
  *
- * If the current CPU is idle or running at a first-level (not nested)
+ * If the current CPU is idle and running at a first-level (not nested)
  * interrupt from idle, return true.  The caller must have at least
  * disabled preemption.
  */
 static int rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle(void)
 {
-	return __this_cpu_read(rcu_data.dynticks_nesting) <= 0 &&
-	       __this_cpu_read(rcu_data.dynticks_nmi_nesting) <= 1;
+	/* Called only from within the scheduling-clock interrupt */
+	lockdep_assert_in_irq();
+
+	/* Check for counter underflows */
+	RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(__this_cpu_read(rcu_data.dynticks_nesting) < 0,
+			 "RCU dynticks_nesting counter underflow!");
+	RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(__this_cpu_read(rcu_data.dynticks_nmi_nesting) <= 0,
+			 "RCU dynticks_nmi_nesting counter underflow/zero!");
+
+	/* Are we at first interrupt nesting level? */
+	if (__this_cpu_read(rcu_data.dynticks_nmi_nesting) != 1)
+		return false;
+
+	/* Does CPU appear to be idle from an RCU standpoint? */
+	return __this_cpu_read(rcu_data.dynticks_nesting) == 0;
 }
 
 #define DEFAULT_RCU_BLIMIT 10     /* Maximum callbacks per rcu_do_batch. */
-- 
2.17.1