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authorMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2010-06-14 16:37:26 -0700
commit551d55a944b143ef26fbd482d1c463199d6f65cf (patch)
tree6911d3f8e8719ba5ca43c83acdf87cbc8276d7d1 /kernel/rcutree.c
parent875352c94224c88f5aa28cb77206f993bd31b7a2 (diff)
downloadlinux-551d55a944b143ef26fbd482d1c463199d6f65cf.tar.gz
tree/tiny rcu: Add debug RCU head objects
Helps finding racy users of call_rcu(), which results in hangs because list
entries are overwritten and/or skipped.

Changelog since v4:
- Bissectability is now OK
- Now generate a WARN_ON_ONCE() for non-initialized rcu_head passed to
  call_rcu(). Statically initialized objects are detected with
  object_is_static().
- Rename rcu_head_init_on_stack to init_rcu_head_on_stack.
- Remove init_rcu_head() completely.

Changelog since v3:
- Include comments from Lai Jiangshan

This new patch version is based on the debugobjects with the newly introduced
"active state" tracker.

Non-initialized entries are all considered as "statically initialized". An
activation fixup (triggered by call_rcu()) takes care of performing the debug
object initialization without issuing any warning. Since we cannot increase the
size of struct rcu_head, I don't see much room to put an identifier for
statically initialized rcu_head structures. So for now, we have to live without
"activation without explicit init" detection. But the main purpose of this debug
option is to detect double-activations (double call_rcu() use of a rcu_head
before the callback is executed), which is correctly addressed here.

This also detects potential internal RCU callback corruption, which would cause
the callbacks to be executed twice.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org
CC: mingo@elte.hu
CC: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
CC: dipankar@in.ibm.com
CC: josh@joshtriplett.org
CC: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
CC: niv@us.ibm.com
CC: tglx@linutronix.de
CC: peterz@infradead.org
CC: rostedt@goodmis.org
CC: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
CC: dhowells@redhat.com
CC: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcutree.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcutree.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index d4437345706f..d5bc43976c5a 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -1112,6 +1112,7 @@ static void rcu_do_batch(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_data *rdp)
 	while (list) {
 		next = list->next;
 		prefetch(next);
+		debug_rcu_head_unqueue(list);
 		list->func(list);
 		list = next;
 		if (++count >= rdp->blimit)
@@ -1388,6 +1389,7 @@ __call_rcu(struct rcu_head *head, void (*func)(struct rcu_head *rcu),
 	unsigned long flags;
 	struct rcu_data *rdp;
 
+	debug_rcu_head_queue(head);
 	head->func = func;
 	head->next = NULL;