Currently, running rcutorture test with torture_type=rcu fwd_progress=8 n_barrier_cbs=8 nocbs_nthreads=8 nocbs_toggle=100 onoff_interval=60 test_boost=2, will trigger the following warning: WARNING: CPU: 19 PID: 100 at kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h:1061 rcu_nocb_rdp_deoffload+0x292/0x2a0 RIP: 0010:rcu_nocb_rdp_deoffload+0x292/0x2a0 [18839.537322] Call Trace: [18839.538006] <TASK> [18839.538596] ? __warn+0x7e/0x120 [18839.539491] ? rcu_nocb_rdp_deoffload+0x292/0x2a0 [18839.540757] ? report_bug+0x18e/0x1a0 [18839.541805] ? handle_bug+0x3d/0x70 [18839.542837] ? exc_invalid_op+0x18/0x70 [18839.543959] ? asm_exc_invalid_op+0x1a/0x20 [18839.545165] ? rcu_nocb_rdp_deoffload+0x292/0x2a0 [18839.546547] rcu_nocb_cpu_deoffload+0x70/0xa0 [18839.547814] rcu_nocb_toggle+0x136/0x1c0 [18839.548960] ? __pfx_rcu_nocb_toggle+0x10/0x10 [18839.550073] kthread+0xd1/0x100 [18839.550958] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [18839.552008] ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x50 [18839.553002] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10 [18839.553968] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 [18839.555038] </TASK> CPU0 CPU2 CPU3 //rcu_nocb_toggle //nocb_cb_wait //rcutorture // deoffload CPU1 // process CPU1's rdp rcu_barrier() rcu_segcblist_entrain() rcu_segcblist_add_len(1); // len == 2 // enqueue barrier // callback to CPU1's // rdp->cblist rcu_do_batch() // invoke CPU1's rdp->cblist // callback rcu_barrier_callback() rcu_barrier() mutex_lock(&rcu_state.barrier_mutex); // still see len == 2 // enqueue barrier callback // to CPU1's rdp->cblist rcu_segcblist_entrain() rcu_segcblist_add_len(1); // len == 3 // decrement len rcu_segcblist_add_len(-2); kthread_parkme() // CPU1's rdp->cblist len == 1 // Warn because there is // still a pending barrier // trigger warning WARN_ON_ONCE(rcu_segcblist_n_cbs(&rdp->cblist)); cpus_read_unlock(); // wait CPU1 comes online // invoke barrier callback on // CPU1 rdp's->cblist wait_for_completion(&rcu_state.barrier_completion); // deoffload CPU4 cpus_read_lock() rcu_barrier() mutex_lock(&rcu_state.barrier_mutex); // block on barrier_mutex // wait rcu_barrier() on // CPU3 to unlock barrier_mutex // but CPU3 unlock barrier_mutex // need to wait CPU1 comes online // when CPU1 going online will block on cpus_write_lock The above scenario will not only trigger WARN_ON_ONCE(), but also trigger deadlock, this commit therefore check rdp->nocb_cb_sleep flags before invoke kthread_parkme(), and the kthread_parkme() is not invoke until there are no pending callbacks and set rdp->nocb_cb_sleep is true. Fixes: 1fcb932c8b5c ("rcu/nocb: Simplify (de-)offloading state machine") Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang1211@xxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h | 13 ++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h index 8648233e1717..44c7cbe1db8e 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h @@ -908,7 +908,18 @@ static void nocb_cb_wait(struct rcu_data *rdp) swait_event_interruptible_exclusive(rdp->nocb_cb_wq, nocb_cb_wait_cond(rdp)); if (kthread_should_park()) { - kthread_parkme(); + /* + * kthread_park() must be preceded by an rcu_barrier(). + * But yet another rcu_barrier() might have sneaked in between + * the barrier callback execution and the callbacks counter + * decrement. + */ + if (rdp->nocb_cb_sleep) { + rcu_nocb_lock_irqsave(rdp, flags); + WARN_ON_ONCE(rcu_segcblist_n_cbs(&rdp->cblist)); + rcu_nocb_unlock_irqrestore(rdp, flags); + kthread_parkme(); + } } else if (READ_ONCE(rdp->nocb_cb_sleep)) { WARN_ON(signal_pending(current)); trace_rcu_nocb_wake(rcu_state.name, rdp->cpu, TPS("WokeEmpty")); -- 2.17.1