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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> | 2022-09-15 14:29:07 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> | 2022-10-20 14:39:18 -0700 |
| commit | 2e83b879fb91dafe995967b46a1d38a5b0889242 (patch) | |
| tree | 1a8870ca5c7cf6031d08b98b6c221dde54bc5d30 /kernel/rcu/Kconfig | |
| parent | 5d0f5953b60f5f7a278085b55ddc73e2932f4c33 (diff) | |
srcu: Create an srcu_read_lock_nmisafe() and srcu_read_unlock_nmisafe()
On strict load-store architectures, the use of this_cpu_inc() by
srcu_read_lock() and srcu_read_unlock() is not NMI-safe in TREE SRCU.
To see this suppose that an NMI arrives in the middle of srcu_read_lock(),
just after it has read ->srcu_lock_count, but before it has written
the incremented value back to memory. If that NMI handler also does
srcu_read_lock() and srcu_read_lock() on that same srcu_struct structure,
then upon return from that NMI handler, the interrupted srcu_read_lock()
will overwrite the NMI handler's update to ->srcu_lock_count, but
leave unchanged the NMI handler's update by srcu_read_unlock() to
->srcu_unlock_count.
This can result in a too-short SRCU grace period, which can in turn
result in arbitrary memory corruption.
If the NMI handler instead interrupts the srcu_read_unlock(), this
can result in eternal SRCU grace periods, which is not much better.
This commit therefore creates a pair of new srcu_read_lock_nmisafe()
and srcu_read_unlock_nmisafe() functions, which allow SRCU readers in
both NMI handlers and in process and IRQ context. It is bad practice
to mix the existing and the new _nmisafe() primitives on the same
srcu_struct structure. Use one set or the other, not both.
Just to underline that "bad practice" point, using srcu_read_lock() at
process level and srcu_read_lock_nmisafe() in your NMI handler will not,
repeat NOT, work. If you do not immediately understand why this is the
case, please review the earlier paragraphs in this commit log.
[ paulmck: Apply kernel test robot feedback. ]
[ paulmck: Apply feedback from Randy Dunlap. ]
[ paulmck: Apply feedback from John Ogness. ]
[ paulmck: Apply feedback from Frederic Weisbecker. ]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220910221947.171557773@linutronix.de/
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> # build-tested
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcu/Kconfig | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/Kconfig b/kernel/rcu/Kconfig index d471d22a5e21..f53ad63b2bc6 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/rcu/Kconfig @@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ config TREE_SRCU help This option selects the full-fledged version of SRCU. +config NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE + def_bool HAVE_NMI && !ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS && !TINY_SRCU + config TASKS_RCU_GENERIC def_bool TASKS_RCU || TASKS_RUDE_RCU || TASKS_TRACE_RCU select SRCU |