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Frederic Weisbecker authored
TREE04 running on short iterations can produce writer stalls of the following kind: ??? Writer stall state RTWS_EXP_SYNC(4) g3968 f0x0 ->state 0x2 cpu 0 task:rcu_torture_wri state:D stack:14568 pid:83 ppid:2 flags:0x00004000 Call Trace: <TASK> __schedule+0x2de/0x850 ? trace_event_raw_event_rcu_exp_funnel_lock+0x6d/0xb0 schedule+0x4f/0x90 synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x430/0x670 ? __pfx_autoremove_wake_function+0x10/0x10 ? __pfx_synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x10/0x10 do_rtws_sync.constprop.0+0xde/0x230 rcu_torture_writer+0x4b4/0xcd0 ? __pfx_rcu_torture_writer+0x10/0x10 kthread+0xc7/0xf0 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x50 ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30 </TASK> Waiting for an expedited grace period and polling for an expedited grace period both are operations that internally rely on the same workqueue performing necessary asynchronous work. However, a dependency chain is involved between those two operations, as depicted below: ====== CPU 0 ======= ====== CPU 1 ======= synchronize_rcu_expedited() exp_funnel_lock() mutex_lock(&rcu_state.exp_mutex); start_poll_synchronize_rcu_expedited queue_work(rcu_gp_wq, &rnp->exp_poll_wq); synchronize_rcu_expedited_queue_work() queue_work(rcu_gp_wq, &rew->rew_work); wait_event() // A, wait for &rew->rew_work completion mutex_unlock() // B //======> switch to kworker sync_rcu_do_polled_gp() { synchronize_rcu_expedited() exp_funnel_lock() mutex_lock(&rcu_state.exp_mutex); // C, wait B .... } // D Since workqueues are usually implemented on top of several kworkers handling the queue concurrently, the above situation wouldn't deadlock most of the time because A then doesn't depend on D. But in case of memory stress, a single kworker may end up handling alone all the works in a serialized way. In that case the above layout becomes a problem because A then waits for D, closing a circular dependency: A -> D -> C -> B -> A This however only happens when CONFIG_RCU_EXP_KTHREAD=n. Indeed synchronize_rcu_expedited() is otherwise implemented on top of a kthread worker while polling still relies on rcu_gp_wq workqueue, breaking the above circular dependency chain. Fix this with making expedited grace period to always rely on kthread worker. The workqueue based implementation is essentially a duplicate anyway now that the per-node initialization is performed by per-node kthread workers. Meanwhile the CONFIG_RCU_EXP_KTHREAD switch is still kept around to manage the scheduler policy of these kthread workers. Reported-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de> Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Suggested-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Suggested-by: Neeraj upadhyay <Neeraj.Upadhyay@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
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