linux-kernel - [patch V3 01/23] rcu: Dont acquire lock in NMI handler in rcu_nmi_enter

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Message-Id: <20200320180032.523372590@linutronix.de>
Date:   Fri, 20 Mar 2020 18:59:57 +0100
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:     x86@...nel.org, Paul McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@...hat.com>,
        "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        "Steven Rostedt (VMware)" <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@...nel.org>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Brian Gerst <brgerst@...il.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@...cle.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Tom Lendacky <thomas.lendacky@....com>,
        Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch V3 01/23] rcu: Dont acquire lock in NMI handler in
 rcu_nmi_enter_common()

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>

The rcu_nmi_enter_common() function can be invoked both in interrupt
and NMI handlers.  If it is invoked from process context (as opposed
to userspace or idle context) on a nohz_full CPU, it might acquire the
CPU's leaf rcu_node structure's ->lock.  Because this lock is held only
with interrupts disabled, this is safe from an interrupt handler, but
doing so from an NMI handler can result in self-deadlock.

This commit therefore adds "irq" to the "if" condition so as to only
acquire the ->lock from irq handlers or process context, never from
an NMI handler.

Fixes: 5b14557b073c ("rcu: Avoid tick_dep_set_cpu() misordering")
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200313024046.27622-1-paulmck@kernel.org

---
 kernel/rcu/tree.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -816,7 +816,7 @@ static __always_inline void rcu_nmi_ente
 			rcu_cleanup_after_idle();

 		incby = 1;
-	} else if (tick_nohz_full_cpu(rdp->cpu) &&
+	} else if (irq && tick_nohz_full_cpu(rdp->cpu) &&
 		   rdp->dynticks_nmi_nesting == DYNTICK_IRQ_NONIDLE &&
 		   READ_ONCE(rdp->rcu_urgent_qs) && !rdp->rcu_forced_tick) {
 		raw_spin_lock_rcu_node(rdp->mynode);