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authorPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>2011-07-10 15:57:35 -0700
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2011-07-13 08:17:56 -0700
commitb0d304172f49061b4ff78f9e2b02719ac69c8a7e (patch)
tree882123e565ced895910490514f6e676c708b5001
parent620917de59eeb934b9f8cf35cc2d95c1ac8ed0fc (diff)
downloadlinux-b0d304172f49061b4ff78f9e2b02719ac69c8a7e.tar.bz2
rcu: Prevent RCU callbacks from executing before scheduler initialized
Under some rare but real combinations of configuration parameters, RCU callbacks are posted during early boot that use kernel facilities that are not yet initialized. Therefore, when these callbacks are invoked, hard hangs and crashes ensue. This commit therefore prevents RCU callbacks from being invoked until after the scheduler is fully up and running, as in after multiple tasks have been spawned. It might well turn out that a better approach is to identify the specific RCU callbacks that are causing this problem, but that discussion will wait until such time as someone really needs an RCU callback to be invoked (as opposed to merely registered) during early boot. Reported-by: julie Sullivan <kernelmail.jms@gmail.com> Reported-by: RKK <kulkarni.ravi4@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Tested-by: julie Sullivan <kernelmail.jms@gmail.com> Tested-by: RKK <kulkarni.ravi4@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcutree.c26
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcutree_plugin.h15
2 files changed, 36 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index 7e59ffb3d0ba..ba06207b1dd3 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -84,9 +84,32 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rcu_data, rcu_bh_data);
static struct rcu_state *rcu_state;
+/*
+ * The rcu_scheduler_active variable transitions from zero to one just
+ * before the first task is spawned. So when this variable is zero, RCU
+ * can assume that there is but one task, allowing RCU to (for example)
+ * optimized synchronize_sched() to a simple barrier(). When this variable
+ * is one, RCU must actually do all the hard work required to detect real
+ * grace periods. This variable is also used to suppress boot-time false
+ * positives from lockdep-RCU error checking.
+ */
int rcu_scheduler_active __read_mostly;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_scheduler_active);
+/*
+ * The rcu_scheduler_fully_active variable transitions from zero to one
+ * during the early_initcall() processing, which is after the scheduler
+ * is capable of creating new tasks. So RCU processing (for example,
+ * creating tasks for RCU priority boosting) must be delayed until after
+ * rcu_scheduler_fully_active transitions from zero to one. We also
+ * currently delay invocation of any RCU callbacks until after this point.
+ *
+ * It might later prove better for people registering RCU callbacks during
+ * early boot to take responsibility for these callbacks, but one step at
+ * a time.
+ */
+static int rcu_scheduler_fully_active __read_mostly;
+
#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST
/*
@@ -98,7 +121,6 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, rcu_cpu_kthread_status);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, rcu_cpu_kthread_cpu);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, rcu_cpu_kthread_loops);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(char, rcu_cpu_has_work);
-static char rcu_kthreads_spawnable;
#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST */
@@ -1467,6 +1489,8 @@ static void rcu_process_callbacks(struct softirq_action *unused)
*/
static void invoke_rcu_callbacks(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_data *rdp)
{
+ if (unlikely(!ACCESS_ONCE(rcu_scheduler_fully_active)))
+ return;
if (likely(!rsp->boost)) {
rcu_do_batch(rsp, rdp);
return;
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
index 14dc7dd00902..75113cb7c4fb 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
@@ -1532,7 +1532,7 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_spawn_one_cpu_kthread(int cpu)
struct sched_param sp;
struct task_struct *t;
- if (!rcu_kthreads_spawnable ||
+ if (!rcu_scheduler_fully_active ||
per_cpu(rcu_cpu_kthread_task, cpu) != NULL)
return 0;
t = kthread_create(rcu_cpu_kthread, (void *)(long)cpu, "rcuc%d", cpu);
@@ -1639,7 +1639,7 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_spawn_one_node_kthread(struct rcu_state *rsp,
struct sched_param sp;
struct task_struct *t;
- if (!rcu_kthreads_spawnable ||
+ if (!rcu_scheduler_fully_active ||
rnp->qsmaskinit == 0)
return 0;
if (rnp->node_kthread_task == NULL) {
@@ -1665,7 +1665,7 @@ static int __init rcu_spawn_kthreads(void)
int cpu;
struct rcu_node *rnp;
- rcu_kthreads_spawnable = 1;
+ rcu_scheduler_fully_active = 1;
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
per_cpu(rcu_cpu_has_work, cpu) = 0;
if (cpu_online(cpu))
@@ -1687,7 +1687,7 @@ static void __cpuinit rcu_prepare_kthreads(int cpu)
struct rcu_node *rnp = rdp->mynode;
/* Fire up the incoming CPU's kthread and leaf rcu_node kthread. */
- if (rcu_kthreads_spawnable) {
+ if (rcu_scheduler_fully_active) {
(void)rcu_spawn_one_cpu_kthread(cpu);
if (rnp->node_kthread_task == NULL)
(void)rcu_spawn_one_node_kthread(rcu_state, rnp);
@@ -1726,6 +1726,13 @@ static void rcu_cpu_kthread_setrt(int cpu, int to_rt)
{
}
+static int __init rcu_scheduler_really_started(void)
+{
+ rcu_scheduler_fully_active = 1;
+ return 0;
+}
+early_initcall(rcu_scheduler_really_started);
+
static void __cpuinit rcu_prepare_kthreads(int cpu)
{
}