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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2024-02-05 13:10:19 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2024-11-08 16:28:22 +0100
commit7679283e61a8b8378850e302deb5e64497b6dfbe (patch)
treea90c683643515ef067606b033068f1e7d9918cc5
parentdc5d4d4c12246b802177742e965fcf81691d2da8 (diff)
rcu-tasks: Initialize data to eliminate RCU-tasks/do_exit() deadlocks
[ Upstream commit 46faf9d8e1d52e4a91c382c6c72da6bd8e68297b ] Holding a mutex across synchronize_rcu_tasks() and acquiring that same mutex in code called from do_exit() after its call to exit_tasks_rcu_start() but before its call to exit_tasks_rcu_stop() results in deadlock. This is by design, because tasks that are far enough into do_exit() are no longer present on the tasks list, making it a bit difficult for RCU Tasks to find them, let alone wait on them to do a voluntary context switch. However, such deadlocks are becoming more frequent. In addition, lockdep currently does not detect such deadlocks and they can be difficult to reproduce. In addition, if a task voluntarily context switches during that time (for example, if it blocks acquiring a mutex), then this task is in an RCU Tasks quiescent state. And with some adjustments, RCU Tasks could just as well take advantage of that fact. This commit therefore initializes the data structures that will be needed to rely on these quiescent states and to eliminate these deadlocks. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240118021842.290665-1-chenzhongjin@huawei.com/ Reported-by: Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@huawei.com> Reported-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Tested-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com> Tested-by: Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Stable-dep-of: fd70e9f1d85f ("rcu-tasks: Fix access non-existent percpu rtpcp variable in rcu_tasks_need_gpcb()") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
-rw-r--r--init/init_task.c1
-rw-r--r--kernel/fork.c1
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/tasks.h2
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/init/init_task.c b/init/init_task.c
index ff6c4b9bfe6b..fd9e27185e23 100644
--- a/init/init_task.c
+++ b/init/init_task.c
@@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ struct task_struct init_task
.rcu_tasks_holdout = false,
.rcu_tasks_holdout_list = LIST_HEAD_INIT(init_task.rcu_tasks_holdout_list),
.rcu_tasks_idle_cpu = -1,
+ .rcu_tasks_exit_list = LIST_HEAD_INIT(init_task.rcu_tasks_exit_list),
#endif
#ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU
.trc_reader_nesting = 0,
diff --git a/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 32ffbc1c96ba..9098284720e3 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -1973,6 +1973,7 @@ static inline void rcu_copy_process(struct task_struct *p)
p->rcu_tasks_holdout = false;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->rcu_tasks_holdout_list);
p->rcu_tasks_idle_cpu = -1;
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->rcu_tasks_exit_list);
#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_RCU */
#ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU
p->trc_reader_nesting = 0;
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
index 7ac3c8af075f..4eae3b1bda70 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
@@ -277,6 +277,8 @@ static void cblist_init_generic(struct rcu_tasks *rtp)
rtpcp->rtpp = rtp;
if (!rtpcp->rtp_blkd_tasks.next)
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rtpcp->rtp_blkd_tasks);
+ if (!rtpcp->rtp_exit_list.next)
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&rtpcp->rtp_exit_list);
}
pr_info("%s: Setting shift to %d and lim to %d rcu_task_cb_adjust=%d.\n", rtp->name,