On 07/27/2016 07:30 AM, Wanpeng Li wrote:
From: Wanpeng Li<wanpeng...@hotmail.com>When the lock holder vCPU is racing with the queue head vCPU: lock holder vCPU queue head vCPU ===================== ================== node->locked = 1; <preemption> READ_ONCE(node->locked) ... pv_wait_head_or_lock(): SPIN_THRESHOLD loop; pv_hash(); lock->locked = _Q_SLOW_VAL; node->state = vcpu_hashed; pv_kick_node(): cmpxchg(node->state, vcpu_halted, vcpu_hashed); lock->locked = _Q_SLOW_VAL; pv_hash(); With preemption at the right moment, it is possible that both the lock holder and queue head vCPUs can be racing to set node->state which can result in hash entry race. Making sure the state is never set to vcpu_halted will prevent this racing from happening. This patch fix it by setting vcpu_hashed after we did all hash thing. Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso<d...@stgolabs.net> Reviewed-by: Pan Xinhui<xinhui....@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)<pet...@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar<mi...@kernel.org> Cc: Waiman Long<waiman.l...@hpe.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso<d...@stgolabs.net> Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li<wanpeng...@hotmail.com> --- v3 -> v4: * update patch subject * add code comments v2 -> v3: * fix typo in patch description v1 -> v2: * adjust patch description kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h index 21ede57..ca96db4 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h +++ b/kernel/locking/qspinlock_paravirt.h @@ -450,7 +450,28 @@ pv_wait_head_or_lock(struct qspinlock *lock, struct mcs_spinlock *node) goto gotlock; } } - WRITE_ONCE(pn->state, vcpu_halted); + /* + * lock holder vCPU queue head vCPU + * ---------------- --------------- + * node->locked = 1; + *<preemption> READ_ONCE(node->locked) + * ... pv_wait_head_or_lock(): + * SPIN_THRESHOLD loop; + * pv_hash(); + * lock->locked = _Q_SLOW_VAL; + * node->state = vcpu_hashed; + * pv_kick_node(): + * cmpxchg(node->state, + * vcpu_halted, vcpu_hashed); + * lock->locked = _Q_SLOW_VAL; + * pv_hash(); + * + * With preemption at the right moment, it is possible that both the + * lock holder and queue head vCPUs can be racing to set node->state. + * Making sure the state is never set to vcpu_halted will prevent this + * racing from happening. + */ + WRITE_ONCE(pn->state, vcpu_hashed); qstat_inc(qstat_pv_wait_head, true); qstat_inc(qstat_pv_wait_again, waitcnt); pv_wait(&l->locked, _Q_SLOW_VAL);
Acked-by: Waiman Long <waiman.l...@hpe.com> Cheers, Longman
