Re: [PATCH bpf-next 7/7] bpf: Wait for sleepable BPF program in maybe_wait_bpf_programs()

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Hi Alexei,

On 12/10/2023 10:11 AM, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 8, 2023 at 2:22 AM Hou Tao <houtao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> +       /* Wait for any running non-sleepable and sleepable BPF programs to
>> +        * complete, so that userspace, when we return to it, knows that all
>> +        * programs that could be running use the new map value.
> which could be forever... and the user space task doing simple map update
> will never know why it got stuck in syscall waiting... forever...
> synchronous waiting for tasks_trace is never an option.

Could you please elaborate the reason why there is dead-lock problem ? 
In my naive understanding, synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace() only waits for
the end of rcu_read_lock_trace()/rcu_read_unlock_trace(), if there is no
rcu_read_lock_trace being held, there will be no dead-lock.





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