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authorLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>2013-10-30 04:13:22 -0700
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2013-12-12 12:34:00 -0800
commit79a62f957e0b37c59610a96d018cc341aebb48f4 (patch)
treeade9134ca3e64d87f7debbb102e9d1902763ac6b /kernel/rcu
parent24ef659a857c3cba40b64ea51ea4fce8d2fb7bbc (diff)
downloadlinux-79a62f957e0b37c59610a96d018cc341aebb48f4.tar.bz2
rcu: Warn on allegedly impossible rcu_read_unlock_special() from irq
After commit #10f39bb1b2c1 (rcu: protect __rcu_read_unlock() against scheduler-using irq handlers), it is no longer possible to enter the main body of rcu_read_lock_special() from an NMI, interrupt, or softirq handler. In theory, this implies that the check for "in_irq() || in_serving_softirq()" must always fail, so that in theory this check could be removed entirely. In practice, this commit wraps this condition with a WARN_ON_ONCE(). If this warning never triggers, then the condition will be removed entirely. [ paulmck: And one way of triggering the WARN_ON() is if a scheduling clock interrupt occurs in an RCU read-side critical section, setting RCU_READ_UNLOCK_NEED_QS, which is handled by rcu_read_unlock_special(). Updated this commit to return if only that bit was set. ] Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
index 752ffaa0d681..fa7a18b62253 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
@@ -361,10 +361,14 @@ void rcu_read_unlock_special(struct task_struct *t)
special = t->rcu_read_unlock_special;
if (special & RCU_READ_UNLOCK_NEED_QS) {
rcu_preempt_qs(smp_processor_id());
+ if (!t->rcu_read_unlock_special) {
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
+ return;
+ }
}
- /* Hardware IRQ handlers cannot block. */
- if (in_irq() || in_serving_softirq()) {
+ /* Hardware IRQ handlers cannot block, complain if they get here. */
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(in_irq() || in_serving_softirq())) {
local_irq_restore(flags);
return;
}