Hi Paul,
If you pick up this one from my V1, could you drop it? Since I have
rephrased the commit log and comment in the code. Sorry for the
inconvenience.
On Thu, Sep 15, 2022 at 1:58 PM Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> rcutree_online_cpu() is concurrent, so there is the following race
> scene:
>
> CPU 1 CPU2
> mask_old = rcu_rnp_online_cpus(rnp);
> ...
>
> mask_new = rcu_rnp_online_cpus(rnp);
> ...
> set_cpus_allowed_ptr(t, cm);
>
> set_cpus_allowed_ptr(t, cm);
>
> Consequently, the old mask will overwrite the new mask in the task's cpus_ptr.
>
> Since there is a mutex ->boost_kthread_mutex, using it to build an
> order, then the latest ->qsmaskinitnext will be fetched for updating cpus_ptr.
>
> But for concurrent offlining, ->qsmaskinitnext is not reilable when
> rcutree_offline_cpu(). That is another story and comes in the following
> patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: rcu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
> index 438ecae6bd7e..ef6d3ae239b9 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
> @@ -1224,7 +1224,7 @@ static void rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(struct rcu_node *rnp)
> static void rcu_boost_kthread_setaffinity(struct rcu_node *rnp, int outgoingcpu)
> {
> struct task_struct *t = rnp->boost_kthread_task;
> - unsigned long mask = rcu_rnp_online_cpus(rnp);
> + unsigned long mask;
> cpumask_var_t cm;
> int cpu;
>
> @@ -1233,6 +1233,11 @@ static void rcu_boost_kthread_setaffinity(struct rcu_node *rnp, int outgoingcpu)
> if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&cm, GFP_KERNEL))
> return;
> mutex_lock(&rnp->boost_kthread_mutex);
> + /*
> + * Relying on the lock to serialize, so when onlining, the latest
> + * qsmaskinitnext is for cpus_ptr.
> + */
In the comment, I put accent on 'onlining' which is different from V1
Thanks,
Pingfan
> + mask = rcu_rnp_online_cpus(rnp);
> for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu(rnp, cpu)
> if ((mask & leaf_node_cpu_bit(rnp, cpu)) &&
> cpu != outgoingcpu)
> --
> 2.31.1
>
