srcu: Check for tardy grace-period activity in cleanup_srcu_struct()
Users of SRCU are obliged to complete all grace-period activity before invoking cleanup_srcu_struct(). This means that all calls to either synchronize_srcu() or synchronize_srcu_expedited() must have returned, and all calls to call_srcu() must have returned, and the last call to call_srcu() must have been followed by a call to srcu_barrier(). Furthermore, the caller must have done something to prevent any further calls to synchronize_srcu(), synchronize_srcu_expedited(), and call_srcu(). Therefore, if there has ever been an invocation of call_srcu() on the srcu_struct in question, the sequence of events must be as follows: 1. Prevent any further calls to call_srcu(). 2. Wait for any pre-existing call_srcu() invocations to return. 3. Invoke srcu_barrier(). 4. It is now safe to invoke cleanup_srcu_struct(). On the other hand, if there has ever been a call to synchronize_srcu() or synchronize_srcu_expedited(), the sequence of events must be as follows: 1. Prevent any further calls to synchronize_srcu() or synchronize_srcu_expedited(). 2. Wait for any pre-existing synchronize_srcu() or synchronize_srcu_expedited() invocations to return. 3. It is now safe to invoke cleanup_srcu_struct(). If there have been calls to all both types of functions (call_srcu() and either of synchronize_srcu() and synchronize_srcu_expedited()), then the caller must do the first three steps of the call_srcu() procedure above and the first two steps of the synchronize_s*() procedure above, and only then invoke cleanup_srcu_struct(). Note that cleanup_srcu_struct() does some probabilistic checks for the caller failing to follow these procedures, in which case cleanup_srcu_struct() does WARN_ON() and avoids freeing the per-CPU structures associated with the specified srcu_struct structure. Reported-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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