From: Frederic Weisbecker <frede...@kernel.org> When a NOCB CPU fails to create a nocb kthread on bringup, the CPU is then deoffloaded. The barrier mutex is locked at this stage. It is typically used to protect against concurrent (de-)offloading and/or concurrent rcu_barrier() that would otherwise risk a nocb locking imbalance. However:
* rcu_barrier() can't run concurrently if it's the boot CPU on early boot-up. * rcu_barrier() can run concurrently if it's a secondary CPU but it is expected to see 0 callbacks on this target because it's the first time it boots. * (de-)offloading can't happen concurrently with smp_init(), as rcutorture is initialized later, at least not before device_initcall(), and userspace isn't available yet. * (de-)offloading can't happen concurrently with cpu_up(), courtesy of cpu_hotplug_lock. But: * The lazy shrinker might run concurrently with cpu_up(). It shouldn't try to grab the nocb_lock and risk an imbalance due to lazy_len supposed to be 0 but be extra cautious. * Also be cautious against resume from hibernation potential subtleties. So keep the locking and add some assertions and comments. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frede...@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.upadh...@kernel.org> --- kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h | 14 +++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h index f4112fc663a7..fdd0616f2fd1 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h @@ -1442,7 +1442,7 @@ static void rcu_spawn_cpu_nocb_kthread(int cpu) "rcuog/%d", rdp_gp->cpu); if (WARN_ONCE(IS_ERR(t), "%s: Could not start rcuo GP kthread, OOM is now expected behavior\n", __func__)) { mutex_unlock(&rdp_gp->nocb_gp_kthread_mutex); - goto end; + goto err; } WRITE_ONCE(rdp_gp->nocb_gp_kthread, t); if (kthread_prio) @@ -1454,7 +1454,7 @@ static void rcu_spawn_cpu_nocb_kthread(int cpu) t = kthread_create(rcu_nocb_cb_kthread, rdp, "rcuo%c/%d", rcu_state.abbr, cpu); if (WARN_ONCE(IS_ERR(t), "%s: Could not start rcuo CB kthread, OOM is now expected behavior\n", __func__)) - goto end; + goto err; if (rcu_rdp_is_offloaded(rdp)) wake_up_process(t); @@ -1467,7 +1467,15 @@ static void rcu_spawn_cpu_nocb_kthread(int cpu) WRITE_ONCE(rdp->nocb_cb_kthread, t); WRITE_ONCE(rdp->nocb_gp_kthread, rdp_gp->nocb_gp_kthread); return; -end: + +err: + /* + * No need to protect against concurrent rcu_barrier() + * because the number of callbacks should be 0 for a non-boot CPU, + * therefore rcu_barrier() shouldn't even try to grab the nocb_lock. + * But hold barrier_mutex to avoid nocb_lock imbalance from shrinker. + */ + WARN_ON_ONCE(system_state > SYSTEM_BOOTING && rcu_segcblist_n_cbs(&rdp->cblist)); mutex_lock(&rcu_state.barrier_mutex); if (rcu_rdp_is_offloaded(rdp)) { rcu_nocb_rdp_deoffload(rdp); -- 2.40.1