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authorPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>2012-07-02 14:42:01 -0700
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-09-23 07:42:49 -0700
commite3ebfb96f396731ca2d0b108785d5da31b53ab00 (patch)
tree7bac429c3cad5f00894746270322d5a4119cea47 /kernel/rcupdate.c
parenta10d206ef1a83121ab7430cb196e0376a7145b22 (diff)
downloadlinux-e3ebfb96f396731ca2d0b108785d5da31b53ab00.tar.bz2
rcu: Add PROVE_RCU_DELAY to provoke difficult races
There have been some recent bugs that were triggered only when preemptible RCU's __rcu_read_unlock() was preempted just after setting ->rcu_read_lock_nesting to INT_MIN, which is a low-probability event. Therefore, reproducing those bugs (to say nothing of gaining confidence in alleged fixes) was quite difficult. This commit therefore creates a new debug-only RCU kernel config option that forces a short delay in __rcu_read_unlock() to increase the probability of those sorts of bugs occurring. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcupdate.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcupdate.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcupdate.c b/kernel/rcupdate.c
index 4e6a61b15e86..29ca1c6da594 100644
--- a/kernel/rcupdate.c
+++ b/kernel/rcupdate.c
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/hardirq.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
#include <trace/events/rcu.h>
@@ -81,6 +82,9 @@ void __rcu_read_unlock(void)
} else {
barrier(); /* critical section before exit code. */
t->rcu_read_lock_nesting = INT_MIN;
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAY
+ udelay(10); /* Make preemption more probable. */
+#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAY */
barrier(); /* assign before ->rcu_read_unlock_special load */
if (unlikely(ACCESS_ONCE(t->rcu_read_unlock_special)))
rcu_read_unlock_special(t);