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authorPrateek Sood <prsood@codeaurora.org>2018-11-30 20:40:56 +0530
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2019-01-21 11:15:36 +0100
commit6dc080eeb2ba01973bfff0d79844d7a59e12542e (patch)
tree9deefb59370b698572b87e0c3467c87cd3a3f9bc /include
parentd7393226d15add056285c8fc86723d54d7e0c77d (diff)
downloadlinux-6dc080eeb2ba01973bfff0d79844d7a59e12542e.tar.gz
sched/wait: Fix rcuwait_wake_up() ordering
For some peculiar reason rcuwait_wake_up() has the right barrier in
the comment, but not in the code.

This mistake has been observed to cause a deadlock in the following
situation:

    P1					P2

    percpu_up_read()			percpu_down_write()
      rcu_sync_is_idle() // false
					  rcu_sync_enter()
					  ...
      __percpu_up_read()

[S] ,-  __this_cpu_dec(*sem->read_count)
    |   smp_rmb();
[L] |   task = rcu_dereference(w->task) // NULL
    |
    |				    [S]	    w->task = current
    |					    smp_mb();
    |				    [L]	    readers_active_check() // fail
    `-> <store happens here>

Where the smp_rmb() (obviously) fails to constrain the store.

[ peterz: Added changelog. ]

Signed-off-by: Prateek Sood <prsood@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 8f95c90ceb54 ("sched/wait, RCU: Introduce rcuwait machinery")
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1543590656-7157-1-git-send-email-prsood@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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