softirq,rcu: Inform RCU of irq_exit() activity
The rcu_read_unlock_special() function relies on in_irq() to exclude
scheduler activity from interrupt level. This fails because exit_irq()
can invoke the scheduler after clearing the preempt_count() bits that
in_irq() uses to determine that it is at interrupt level. This situation
can result in failures as follows:
$task IRQ SoftIRQ
rcu_read_lock()
/* do stuff */
<preempt> |= UNLOCK_BLOCKED
rcu_read_unlock()
--t->rcu_read_lock_nesting
irq_enter();
/* do stuff, don't use RCU */
irq_exit();
sub_preempt_count(IRQ_EXIT_OFFSET);
invoke_softirq()
ttwu();
spin_lock_irq(&pi->lock)
rcu_read_lock();
/* do stuff */
rcu_read_unlock();
rcu_read_unlock_special()
rcu_report_exp_rnp()
ttwu()
spin_lock_irq(&pi->lock) /* deadlock */
rcu_read_unlock_special(t);
Ed can simply trigger this 'easy' because invoke_softirq() immediately
does a ttwu() of ksoftirqd/# instead of doing the in-place softirq stuff
first, but even without that the above happens.
Cure this by also excluding softirqs from the
rcu_read_unlock_special() handler and ensuring the force_irqthreads
ksoftirqd/# wakeup is done from full softirq context.
[ Alternatively, delaying the ->rcu_read_lock_nesting decrement
until after the special handling would make the thing more robust
in the face of interrupts as well. And there is a separate patch
for that. ]
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-and-tested-by: Ed Tomlinson <edt@aei.ca>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
index d9d7a89..8aafbb8 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@
}
/* Hardware IRQ handlers cannot block. */
- if (in_irq()) {
+ if (in_irq() || in_serving_softirq()) {
local_irq_restore(flags);
return;
}
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index 40cf63d..fca82c3 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -315,16 +315,24 @@
{
if (!force_irqthreads)
__do_softirq();
- else
+ else {
+ __local_bh_disable((unsigned long)__builtin_return_address(0),
+ SOFTIRQ_OFFSET);
wakeup_softirqd();
+ __local_bh_enable(SOFTIRQ_OFFSET);
+ }
}
#else
static inline void invoke_softirq(void)
{
if (!force_irqthreads)
do_softirq();
- else
+ else {
+ __local_bh_disable((unsigned long)__builtin_return_address(0),
+ SOFTIRQ_OFFSET);
wakeup_softirqd();
+ __local_bh_enable(SOFTIRQ_OFFSET);
+ }
}
#endif
