6.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Paul E. McKenney paulmck@kernel.org
[ Upstream commit e62d8ae4620865411d1b2347980aa28ccf891a3d ]
The rcu_tasks_need_gpcb() samples ->percpu_dequeue_lim as part of the condition clause of a "for" loop, which is a bit confusing. This commit therefore hoists this sampling out of the loop, using the result loaded in the condition clause.
So why does this work in the face of a concurrent switch from single-CPU queueing to per-CPU queueing?
o The call_rcu_tasks_generic() that makes the change has already enqueued its callback, which means that all of the other CPU's callback queues are empty.
o For the call_rcu_tasks_generic() that first notices the switch to per-CPU queues, the smp_store_release() used to update ->percpu_enqueue_lim pairs with the raw_spin_trylock_rcu_node()'s full barrier that is between the READ_ONCE(rtp->percpu_enqueue_shift) and the rcu_segcblist_enqueue() that enqueues the callback.
o Because this CPU's queue is empty (unless it happens to be the original single queue, in which case there is no need for synchronization), this call_rcu_tasks_generic() will do an irq_work_queue() to schedule a handler for the needed rcuwait_wake_up() call. This call will be ordered after the first call_rcu_tasks_generic() function's change to ->percpu_dequeue_lim.
o This rcuwait_wake_up() will either happen before or after the set_current_state() in rcuwait_wait_event(). If it happens before, the "condition" argument's call to rcu_tasks_need_gpcb() will be ordered after the original change, and all callbacks on all CPUs will be visible. Otherwise, if it happens after, then the grace-period kthread's state will be set back to running, which will result in a later call to rcuwait_wait_event() and thus to rcu_tasks_need_gpcb(), which will again see the change.
So it all works out.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney paulmck@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker frederic@kernel.org Stable-dep-of: fd70e9f1d85f ("rcu-tasks: Fix access non-existent percpu rtpcp variable in rcu_tasks_need_gpcb()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- kernel/rcu/tasks.h | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h index df81506cf2bde..90425d0ec09cf 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h @@ -432,6 +432,7 @@ static void rcu_barrier_tasks_generic(struct rcu_tasks *rtp) static int rcu_tasks_need_gpcb(struct rcu_tasks *rtp) { int cpu; + int dequeue_limit; unsigned long flags; bool gpdone = poll_state_synchronize_rcu(rtp->percpu_dequeue_gpseq); long n; @@ -439,7 +440,8 @@ static int rcu_tasks_need_gpcb(struct rcu_tasks *rtp) long ncbsnz = 0; int needgpcb = 0;
- for (cpu = 0; cpu < smp_load_acquire(&rtp->percpu_dequeue_lim); cpu++) { + dequeue_limit = smp_load_acquire(&rtp->percpu_dequeue_lim); + for (cpu = 0; cpu < dequeue_limit; cpu++) { struct rcu_tasks_percpu *rtpcp = per_cpu_ptr(rtp->rtpcpu, cpu);
/* Advance and accelerate any new callbacks. */