linux-stable/kernel/rcu
Frederic Weisbecker 516315314f srcu: Fix callbacks acceleration mishandling
[ Upstream commit 4a8e65b0c3 ]

SRCU callbacks acceleration might fail if the preceding callbacks
advance also fails. This can happen when the following steps are met:

1) The RCU_WAIT_TAIL segment has callbacks (say for gp_num 8) and the
   RCU_NEXT_READY_TAIL also has callbacks (say for gp_num 12).

2) The grace period for RCU_WAIT_TAIL is observed as started but not yet
   completed so rcu_seq_current() returns 4 + SRCU_STATE_SCAN1 = 5.

3) This value is passed to rcu_segcblist_advance() which can't move
   any segment forward and fails.

4) srcu_gp_start_if_needed() still proceeds with callback acceleration.
   But then the call to rcu_seq_snap() observes the grace period for the
   RCU_WAIT_TAIL segment (gp_num 8) as completed and the subsequent one
   for the RCU_NEXT_READY_TAIL segment as started
   (ie: 8 + SRCU_STATE_SCAN1 = 9) so it returns a snapshot of the
   next grace period, which is 16.

5) The value of 16 is passed to rcu_segcblist_accelerate() but the
   freshly enqueued callback in RCU_NEXT_TAIL can't move to
   RCU_NEXT_READY_TAIL which already has callbacks for a previous grace
   period (gp_num = 12). So acceleration fails.

6) Note in all these steps, srcu_invoke_callbacks() hadn't had a chance
   to run srcu_invoke_callbacks().

Then some very bad outcome may happen if the following happens:

7) Some other CPU races and starts the grace period number 16 before the
   CPU handling previous steps had a chance. Therefore srcu_gp_start()
   isn't called on the latter sdp to fix the acceleration leak from
   previous steps with a new pair of call to advance/accelerate.

8) The grace period 16 completes and srcu_invoke_callbacks() is finally
   called. All the callbacks from previous grace periods (8 and 12) are
   correctly advanced and executed but callbacks in RCU_NEXT_READY_TAIL
   still remain. Then rcu_segcblist_accelerate() is called with a
   snaphot of 20.

9) Since nothing started the grace period number 20, callbacks stay
   unhandled.

This has been reported in real load:

	[3144162.608392] INFO: task kworker/136:12:252684 blocked for more
	than 122 seconds.
	[3144162.615986]       Tainted: G           O  K   5.4.203-1-tlinux4-0011.1 #1
	[3144162.623053] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs"
	disables this message.
	[3144162.631162] kworker/136:12  D    0 252684      2 0x90004000
	[3144162.631189] Workqueue: kvm-irqfd-cleanup irqfd_shutdown [kvm]
	[3144162.631192] Call Trace:
	[3144162.631202]  __schedule+0x2ee/0x660
	[3144162.631206]  schedule+0x33/0xa0
	[3144162.631209]  schedule_timeout+0x1c4/0x340
	[3144162.631214]  ? update_load_avg+0x82/0x660
	[3144162.631217]  ? raw_spin_rq_lock_nested+0x1f/0x30
	[3144162.631218]  wait_for_completion+0x119/0x180
	[3144162.631220]  ? wake_up_q+0x80/0x80
	[3144162.631224]  __synchronize_srcu.part.19+0x81/0xb0
	[3144162.631226]  ? __bpf_trace_rcu_utilization+0x10/0x10
	[3144162.631227]  synchronize_srcu+0x5f/0xc0
	[3144162.631236]  irqfd_shutdown+0x3c/0xb0 [kvm]
	[3144162.631239]  ? __schedule+0x2f6/0x660
	[3144162.631243]  process_one_work+0x19a/0x3a0
	[3144162.631244]  worker_thread+0x37/0x3a0
	[3144162.631247]  kthread+0x117/0x140
	[3144162.631247]  ? process_one_work+0x3a0/0x3a0
	[3144162.631248]  ? __kthread_cancel_work+0x40/0x40
	[3144162.631250]  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30

Fix this with taking the snapshot for acceleration _before_ the read
of the current grace period number.

The only side effect of this solution is that callbacks advancing happen
then _after_ the full barrier in rcu_seq_snap(). This is not a problem
because that barrier only cares about:

1) Ordering accesses of the update side before call_srcu() so they don't
   bleed.
2) See all the accesses prior to the grace period of the current gp_num

The only things callbacks advancing need to be ordered against are
carried by snp locking.

Reported-by: Yong He <alexyonghe@tencent.com>
Co-developed-by:: Yong He <alexyonghe@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Yong He <alexyonghe@tencent.com>
Co-developed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by:  Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Co-developed-by: Neeraj upadhyay <Neeraj.Upadhyay@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj upadhyay <Neeraj.Upadhyay@amd.com>
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/CANZk6aR+CqZaqmMWrC2eRRPY12qAZnDZLwLnHZbNi=xXMB401g@mail.gmail.com
Fixes: da915ad5cf ("srcu: Parallelize callback handling")
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
2023-11-20 11:58:53 +01:00
..
Kconfig rcu: Employ jiffies-based backstop to callback time limit 2023-05-11 13:42:39 -07:00
Kconfig.debug rcu: Allow up to five minutes expedited RCU CPU stall-warning timeouts 2023-01-09 12:09:52 -08:00
Makefile rcuperf: Change rcuperf to rcuscale 2020-08-24 18:39:24 -07:00
rcu.h Networking changes for 6.6. 2023-08-29 11:33:01 -07:00
rcu_segcblist.c rcu: Throttle callback invocation based on number of ready callbacks 2023-01-03 17:28:34 -08:00
rcu_segcblist.h rcu: Throttle callback invocation based on number of ready callbacks 2023-01-03 17:28:34 -08:00
rcuscale.c rcuscale: Move rcu_scale_writer() schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() to _idle() 2023-07-14 15:01:49 -07:00
rcutorture.c rcutorture: Stop right-shifting torture_random() return values 2023-08-14 15:01:08 -07:00
refscale.c refscale: Add a "jiffies" test 2023-07-14 15:01:04 -07:00
srcutiny.c rcu: Annotate SRCU's update-side lockdep dependencies 2023-03-27 11:15:59 -07:00
srcutree.c srcu: Fix callbacks acceleration mishandling 2023-11-20 11:58:53 +01:00
sync.c rcu/sync: Use call_rcu_hurry() instead of call_rcu 2022-11-29 14:04:33 -08:00
tasks.h Merge branches 'doc.2023.07.14b', 'fixes.2023.08.16a', 'rcu-tasks.2023.07.24a', 'rcuscale.2023.07.14b', 'refscale.2023.07.14b', 'torture.2023.08.14a' and 'torturescripts.2023.07.20a' into HEAD 2023-08-16 14:31:08 -07:00
tiny.c rcu: Refactor kvfree_call_rcu() and high-level helpers 2023-01-03 17:48:40 -08:00
tree.c rcu: Mark __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() ->rcu_urgent_qs load 2023-08-16 14:27:41 -07:00
tree.h rcu: Add RCU stall diagnosis information 2023-01-05 12:21:11 -08:00
tree_exp.h rcu: Mark additional concurrent load from ->cpu_no_qs.b.exp 2023-05-11 13:42:39 -07:00
tree_nocb.h rcu: Make the rcu_nocb_poll boot parameter usable via boot config 2023-08-16 14:27:41 -07:00
tree_plugin.h rcu: Mark additional concurrent load from ->cpu_no_qs.b.exp 2023-05-11 13:42:39 -07:00
tree_stall.h tty: sysrq: switch sysrq handlers from int to u8 2023-07-25 19:21:03 +02:00
update.c Merge branch 'stall.2023.01.09a' into HEAD 2023-02-02 16:40:07 -08:00