linux/include/asm-generic/rqspinlock.h

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rqspinlock: Add deadlock detection and recovery While the timeout logic provides guarantees for the waiter's forward progress, the time until a stalling waiter unblocks can still be long. The default timeout of 1/4 sec can be excessively long for some use cases. Additionally, custom timeouts may exacerbate recovery time. Introduce logic to detect common cases of deadlocks and perform quicker recovery. This is done by dividing the time from entry into the locking slow path until the timeout into intervals of 1 ms. Then, after each interval elapses, deadlock detection is performed, while also polling the lock word to ensure we can quickly break out of the detection logic and proceed with lock acquisition. A 'held_locks' table is maintained per-CPU where the entry at the bottom denotes a lock being waited for or already taken. Entries coming before it denote locks that are already held. The current CPU's table can thus be looked at to detect AA deadlocks. The tables from other CPUs can be looked at to discover ABBA situations. Finally, when a matching entry for the lock being taken on the current CPU is found on some other CPU, a deadlock situation is detected. This function can take a long time, therefore the lock word is constantly polled in each loop iteration to ensure we can preempt detection and proceed with lock acquisition, using the is_lock_released check. We set 'spin' member of rqspinlock_timeout struct to 0 to trigger deadlock checks immediately to perform faster recovery. Note: Extending lock word size by 4 bytes to record owner CPU can allow faster detection for ABBA. It is typically the owner which participates in a ABBA situation. However, to keep compatibility with existing lock words in the kernel (struct qspinlock), and given deadlocks are a rare event triggered by bugs, we choose to favor compatibility over faster detection. The release_held_lock_entry function requires an smp_wmb, while the release store on unlock will provide the necessary ordering for us. Add comments to document the subtleties of why this is correct. It is possible for stores to be reordered still, but in the context of the deadlock detection algorithm, a release barrier is sufficient and needn't be stronger for unlock's case. Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250316040541.108729-13-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-15 21:05:28 -07:00
bpf: explicitly align bpf_res_spin_lock Patch series "Align atomic storage", v7. This series adds the __aligned attribute to atomic_t and atomic64_t definitions in include/linux and include/asm-generic (respectively) to get natural alignment of both types on csky, m68k, microblaze, nios2, openrisc and sh. This series also adds Kconfig options to enable a new run-time warning to help reveal misaligned atomic accesses on platforms which don't trap that. The performance impact is expected to vary across platforms and workloads. The measurements I made on m68k show that some workloads run faster and others slower. This patch (of 4): Align bpf_res_spin_lock to avoid a BUILD_BUG_ON() when the alignment changes, as it will do on m68k when, in a subsequent patch, the minimum alignment of the atomic_t member of struct rqspinlock gets increased from 2 to 4. Drop the BUILD_BUG_ON() as it becomes redundant. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1768281748.git.fthain@linux-m68k.org Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/8a83876b07d1feacc024521e44059ae89abbb1ea.1768281748.git.fthain@linux-m68k.org Signed-off-by: Finn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org> Acked-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: "Borislav Petkov (AMD)" <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Daniel Borkman <daniel@iogearbox.net> Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org> Cc: Eduard Zingerman <eddyz87@gmail.com> Cc: Gary Guo <gary@garyguo.net> Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org> Cc: Hao Luo <haoluo@google.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: John Fastabend <john.fastabend@gmail.com> Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se> Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@kernel.org> Cc: Marc Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <martin.lau@linux.dev> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> Cc: Sasha Levin (Microsoft) <sashal@kernel.org> Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org> Cc: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com> Cc: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me> Cc: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yonghong Song <yonghong.song@linux.dev> Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2026-01-13 16:22:28 +11:00
rqspinlock: Add deadlock detection and recovery While the timeout logic provides guarantees for the waiter's forward progress, the time until a stalling waiter unblocks can still be long. The default timeout of 1/4 sec can be excessively long for some use cases. Additionally, custom timeouts may exacerbate recovery time. Introduce logic to detect common cases of deadlocks and perform quicker recovery. This is done by dividing the time from entry into the locking slow path until the timeout into intervals of 1 ms. Then, after each interval elapses, deadlock detection is performed, while also polling the lock word to ensure we can quickly break out of the detection logic and proceed with lock acquisition. A 'held_locks' table is maintained per-CPU where the entry at the bottom denotes a lock being waited for or already taken. Entries coming before it denote locks that are already held. The current CPU's table can thus be looked at to detect AA deadlocks. The tables from other CPUs can be looked at to discover ABBA situations. Finally, when a matching entry for the lock being taken on the current CPU is found on some other CPU, a deadlock situation is detected. This function can take a long time, therefore the lock word is constantly polled in each loop iteration to ensure we can preempt detection and proceed with lock acquisition, using the is_lock_released check. We set 'spin' member of rqspinlock_timeout struct to 0 to trigger deadlock checks immediately to perform faster recovery. Note: Extending lock word size by 4 bytes to record owner CPU can allow faster detection for ABBA. It is typically the owner which participates in a ABBA situation. However, to keep compatibility with existing lock words in the kernel (struct qspinlock), and given deadlocks are a rare event triggered by bugs, we choose to favor compatibility over faster detection. The release_held_lock_entry function requires an smp_wmb, while the release store on unlock will provide the necessary ordering for us. Add comments to document the subtleties of why this is correct. It is possible for stores to be reordered still, but in the context of the deadlock detection algorithm, a release barrier is sufficient and needn't be stronger for unlock's case. Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250316040541.108729-13-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-15 21:05:28 -07:00
rqspinlock: Enclose lock/unlock within lock entry acquisitions Ritesh reported that timeouts occurred frequently for rqspinlock despite reentrancy on the same lock on the same CPU in [0]. This patch closes one of the races leading to this behavior, and reduces the frequency of timeouts. We currently have a tiny window between the fast-path cmpxchg and the grabbing of the lock entry where an NMI could land, attempt the same lock that was just acquired, and end up timing out. This is not ideal. Instead, move the lock entry acquisition from the fast path to before the cmpxchg, and remove the grabbing of the lock entry in the slow path, assuming it was already taken by the fast path. The TAS fallback is invoked directly without being preceded by the typical fast path, therefore we must continue to grab the deadlock detection entry in that case. Case on lock leading to missed AA: cmpxchg lock A <NMI> ... rqspinlock acquisition of A ... timeout </NMI> grab_held_lock_entry(A) There is a similar case when unlocking the lock. If the NMI lands between the WRITE_ONCE and smp_store_release, it is possible that we end up in a situation where the NMI fails to diagnose the AA condition, leading to a timeout. Case on unlock leading to missed AA: WRITE_ONCE(rqh->locks[rqh->cnt - 1], NULL) <NMI> ... rqspinlock acquisition of A ... timeout </NMI> smp_store_release(A->locked, 0) The patch changes the order on unlock to smp_store_release() succeeded by WRITE_ONCE() of NULL. This avoids the missed AA detection described above, but may lead to a false positive if the NMI lands between these two statements, which is acceptable (and preferred over a timeout). The original intention of the reverse order on unlock was to prevent the following possible misdiagnosis of an ABBA scenario: grab entry A lock A grab entry B lock B unlock B smp_store_release(B->locked, 0) grab entry B lock B grab entry A lock A ! <detect ABBA> WRITE_ONCE(rqh->locks[rqh->cnt - 1], NULL) If the store release were is after the WRITE_ONCE, the other CPU would not observe B in the table of the CPU unlocking the lock B. However, since the threads are obviously participating in an ABBA deadlock, it is no longer appealing to use the order above since it may lead to a 250 ms timeout due to missed AA detection. [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAH6OuBTjG+N=+GGwcpOUbeDN563oz4iVcU3rbse68egp9wj9_A@mail.gmail.com Fixes: 0d80e7f951be ("rqspinlock: Choose trylock fallback for NMI waiters") Reported-by: Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma <ritesh@superluminal.eu> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251128232802.1031906-2-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-11-28 23:27:57 +00:00
rqspinlock: Add deadlock detection and recovery While the timeout logic provides guarantees for the waiter's forward progress, the time until a stalling waiter unblocks can still be long. The default timeout of 1/4 sec can be excessively long for some use cases. Additionally, custom timeouts may exacerbate recovery time. Introduce logic to detect common cases of deadlocks and perform quicker recovery. This is done by dividing the time from entry into the locking slow path until the timeout into intervals of 1 ms. Then, after each interval elapses, deadlock detection is performed, while also polling the lock word to ensure we can quickly break out of the detection logic and proceed with lock acquisition. A 'held_locks' table is maintained per-CPU where the entry at the bottom denotes a lock being waited for or already taken. Entries coming before it denote locks that are already held. The current CPU's table can thus be looked at to detect AA deadlocks. The tables from other CPUs can be looked at to discover ABBA situations. Finally, when a matching entry for the lock being taken on the current CPU is found on some other CPU, a deadlock situation is detected. This function can take a long time, therefore the lock word is constantly polled in each loop iteration to ensure we can preempt detection and proceed with lock acquisition, using the is_lock_released check. We set 'spin' member of rqspinlock_timeout struct to 0 to trigger deadlock checks immediately to perform faster recovery. Note: Extending lock word size by 4 bytes to record owner CPU can allow faster detection for ABBA. It is typically the owner which participates in a ABBA situation. However, to keep compatibility with existing lock words in the kernel (struct qspinlock), and given deadlocks are a rare event triggered by bugs, we choose to favor compatibility over faster detection. The release_held_lock_entry function requires an smp_wmb, while the release store on unlock will provide the necessary ordering for us. Add comments to document the subtleties of why this is correct. It is possible for stores to be reordered still, but in the context of the deadlock detection algorithm, a release barrier is sufficient and needn't be stronger for unlock's case. Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250316040541.108729-13-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-15 21:05:28 -07:00
rqspinlock: Enclose lock/unlock within lock entry acquisitions Ritesh reported that timeouts occurred frequently for rqspinlock despite reentrancy on the same lock on the same CPU in [0]. This patch closes one of the races leading to this behavior, and reduces the frequency of timeouts. We currently have a tiny window between the fast-path cmpxchg and the grabbing of the lock entry where an NMI could land, attempt the same lock that was just acquired, and end up timing out. This is not ideal. Instead, move the lock entry acquisition from the fast path to before the cmpxchg, and remove the grabbing of the lock entry in the slow path, assuming it was already taken by the fast path. The TAS fallback is invoked directly without being preceded by the typical fast path, therefore we must continue to grab the deadlock detection entry in that case. Case on lock leading to missed AA: cmpxchg lock A <NMI> ... rqspinlock acquisition of A ... timeout </NMI> grab_held_lock_entry(A) There is a similar case when unlocking the lock. If the NMI lands between the WRITE_ONCE and smp_store_release, it is possible that we end up in a situation where the NMI fails to diagnose the AA condition, leading to a timeout. Case on unlock leading to missed AA: WRITE_ONCE(rqh->locks[rqh->cnt - 1], NULL) <NMI> ... rqspinlock acquisition of A ... timeout </NMI> smp_store_release(A->locked, 0) The patch changes the order on unlock to smp_store_release() succeeded by WRITE_ONCE() of NULL. This avoids the missed AA detection described above, but may lead to a false positive if the NMI lands between these two statements, which is acceptable (and preferred over a timeout). The original intention of the reverse order on unlock was to prevent the following possible misdiagnosis of an ABBA scenario: grab entry A lock A grab entry B lock B unlock B smp_store_release(B->locked, 0) grab entry B lock B grab entry A lock A ! <detect ABBA> WRITE_ONCE(rqh->locks[rqh->cnt - 1], NULL) If the store release were is after the WRITE_ONCE, the other CPU would not observe B in the table of the CPU unlocking the lock B. However, since the threads are obviously participating in an ABBA deadlock, it is no longer appealing to use the order above since it may lead to a 250 ms timeout due to missed AA detection. [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAH6OuBTjG+N=+GGwcpOUbeDN563oz4iVcU3rbse68egp9wj9_A@mail.gmail.com Fixes: 0d80e7f951be ("rqspinlock: Choose trylock fallback for NMI waiters") Reported-by: Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma <ritesh@superluminal.eu> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251128232802.1031906-2-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-11-28 23:27:57 +00:00
rqspinlock: Add deadlock detection and recovery While the timeout logic provides guarantees for the waiter's forward progress, the time until a stalling waiter unblocks can still be long. The default timeout of 1/4 sec can be excessively long for some use cases. Additionally, custom timeouts may exacerbate recovery time. Introduce logic to detect common cases of deadlocks and perform quicker recovery. This is done by dividing the time from entry into the locking slow path until the timeout into intervals of 1 ms. Then, after each interval elapses, deadlock detection is performed, while also polling the lock word to ensure we can quickly break out of the detection logic and proceed with lock acquisition. A 'held_locks' table is maintained per-CPU where the entry at the bottom denotes a lock being waited for or already taken. Entries coming before it denote locks that are already held. The current CPU's table can thus be looked at to detect AA deadlocks. The tables from other CPUs can be looked at to discover ABBA situations. Finally, when a matching entry for the lock being taken on the current CPU is found on some other CPU, a deadlock situation is detected. This function can take a long time, therefore the lock word is constantly polled in each loop iteration to ensure we can preempt detection and proceed with lock acquisition, using the is_lock_released check. We set 'spin' member of rqspinlock_timeout struct to 0 to trigger deadlock checks immediately to perform faster recovery. Note: Extending lock word size by 4 bytes to record owner CPU can allow faster detection for ABBA. It is typically the owner which participates in a ABBA situation. However, to keep compatibility with existing lock words in the kernel (struct qspinlock), and given deadlocks are a rare event triggered by bugs, we choose to favor compatibility over faster detection. The release_held_lock_entry function requires an smp_wmb, while the release store on unlock will provide the necessary ordering for us. Add comments to document the subtleties of why this is correct. It is possible for stores to be reordered still, but in the context of the deadlock detection algorithm, a release barrier is sufficient and needn't be stronger for unlock's case. Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250316040541.108729-13-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-03-15 21:05:28 -07:00
rqspinlock: Enclose lock/unlock within lock entry acquisitions Ritesh reported that timeouts occurred frequently for rqspinlock despite reentrancy on the same lock on the same CPU in [0]. This patch closes one of the races leading to this behavior, and reduces the frequency of timeouts. We currently have a tiny window between the fast-path cmpxchg and the grabbing of the lock entry where an NMI could land, attempt the same lock that was just acquired, and end up timing out. This is not ideal. Instead, move the lock entry acquisition from the fast path to before the cmpxchg, and remove the grabbing of the lock entry in the slow path, assuming it was already taken by the fast path. The TAS fallback is invoked directly without being preceded by the typical fast path, therefore we must continue to grab the deadlock detection entry in that case. Case on lock leading to missed AA: cmpxchg lock A <NMI> ... rqspinlock acquisition of A ... timeout </NMI> grab_held_lock_entry(A) There is a similar case when unlocking the lock. If the NMI lands between the WRITE_ONCE and smp_store_release, it is possible that we end up in a situation where the NMI fails to diagnose the AA condition, leading to a timeout. Case on unlock leading to missed AA: WRITE_ONCE(rqh->locks[rqh->cnt - 1], NULL) <NMI> ... rqspinlock acquisition of A ... timeout </NMI> smp_store_release(A->locked, 0) The patch changes the order on unlock to smp_store_release() succeeded by WRITE_ONCE() of NULL. This avoids the missed AA detection described above, but may lead to a false positive if the NMI lands between these two statements, which is acceptable (and preferred over a timeout). The original intention of the reverse order on unlock was to prevent the following possible misdiagnosis of an ABBA scenario: grab entry A lock A grab entry B lock B unlock B smp_store_release(B->locked, 0) grab entry B lock B grab entry A lock A ! <detect ABBA> WRITE_ONCE(rqh->locks[rqh->cnt - 1], NULL) If the store release were is after the WRITE_ONCE, the other CPU would not observe B in the table of the CPU unlocking the lock B. However, since the threads are obviously participating in an ABBA deadlock, it is no longer appealing to use the order above since it may lead to a 250 ms timeout due to missed AA detection. [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAH6OuBTjG+N=+GGwcpOUbeDN563oz4iVcU3rbse68egp9wj9_A@mail.gmail.com Fixes: 0d80e7f951be ("rqspinlock: Choose trylock fallback for NMI waiters") Reported-by: Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma <ritesh@superluminal.eu> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251128232802.1031906-2-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-11-28 23:27:57 +00:00
rqspinlock: Enclose lock/unlock within lock entry acquisitions Ritesh reported that timeouts occurred frequently for rqspinlock despite reentrancy on the same lock on the same CPU in [0]. This patch closes one of the races leading to this behavior, and reduces the frequency of timeouts. We currently have a tiny window between the fast-path cmpxchg and the grabbing of the lock entry where an NMI could land, attempt the same lock that was just acquired, and end up timing out. This is not ideal. Instead, move the lock entry acquisition from the fast path to before the cmpxchg, and remove the grabbing of the lock entry in the slow path, assuming it was already taken by the fast path. The TAS fallback is invoked directly without being preceded by the typical fast path, therefore we must continue to grab the deadlock detection entry in that case. Case on lock leading to missed AA: cmpxchg lock A <NMI> ... rqspinlock acquisition of A ... timeout </NMI> grab_held_lock_entry(A) There is a similar case when unlocking the lock. If the NMI lands between the WRITE_ONCE and smp_store_release, it is possible that we end up in a situation where the NMI fails to diagnose the AA condition, leading to a timeout. Case on unlock leading to missed AA: WRITE_ONCE(rqh->locks[rqh->cnt - 1], NULL) <NMI> ... rqspinlock acquisition of A ... timeout </NMI> smp_store_release(A->locked, 0) The patch changes the order on unlock to smp_store_release() succeeded by WRITE_ONCE() of NULL. This avoids the missed AA detection described above, but may lead to a false positive if the NMI lands between these two statements, which is acceptable (and preferred over a timeout). The original intention of the reverse order on unlock was to prevent the following possible misdiagnosis of an ABBA scenario: grab entry A lock A grab entry B lock B unlock B smp_store_release(B->locked, 0) grab entry B lock B grab entry A lock A ! <detect ABBA> WRITE_ONCE(rqh->locks[rqh->cnt - 1], NULL) If the store release were is after the WRITE_ONCE, the other CPU would not observe B in the table of the CPU unlocking the lock B. However, since the threads are obviously participating in an ABBA deadlock, it is no longer appealing to use the order above since it may lead to a 250 ms timeout due to missed AA detection. [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAH6OuBTjG+N=+GGwcpOUbeDN563oz4iVcU3rbse68egp9wj9_A@mail.gmail.com Fixes: 0d80e7f951be ("rqspinlock: Choose trylock fallback for NMI waiters") Reported-by: Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma <ritesh@superluminal.eu> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251128232802.1031906-2-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-11-28 23:27:57 +00:00
rqspinlock: Enclose lock/unlock within lock entry acquisitions Ritesh reported that timeouts occurred frequently for rqspinlock despite reentrancy on the same lock on the same CPU in [0]. This patch closes one of the races leading to this behavior, and reduces the frequency of timeouts. We currently have a tiny window between the fast-path cmpxchg and the grabbing of the lock entry where an NMI could land, attempt the same lock that was just acquired, and end up timing out. This is not ideal. Instead, move the lock entry acquisition from the fast path to before the cmpxchg, and remove the grabbing of the lock entry in the slow path, assuming it was already taken by the fast path. The TAS fallback is invoked directly without being preceded by the typical fast path, therefore we must continue to grab the deadlock detection entry in that case. Case on lock leading to missed AA: cmpxchg lock A <NMI> ... rqspinlock acquisition of A ... timeout </NMI> grab_held_lock_entry(A) There is a similar case when unlocking the lock. If the NMI lands between the WRITE_ONCE and smp_store_release, it is possible that we end up in a situation where the NMI fails to diagnose the AA condition, leading to a timeout. Case on unlock leading to missed AA: WRITE_ONCE(rqh->locks[rqh->cnt - 1], NULL) <NMI> ... rqspinlock acquisition of A ... timeout </NMI> smp_store_release(A->locked, 0) The patch changes the order on unlock to smp_store_release() succeeded by WRITE_ONCE() of NULL. This avoids the missed AA detection described above, but may lead to a false positive if the NMI lands between these two statements, which is acceptable (and preferred over a timeout). The original intention of the reverse order on unlock was to prevent the following possible misdiagnosis of an ABBA scenario: grab entry A lock A grab entry B lock B unlock B smp_store_release(B->locked, 0) grab entry B lock B grab entry A lock A ! <detect ABBA> WRITE_ONCE(rqh->locks[rqh->cnt - 1], NULL) If the store release were is after the WRITE_ONCE, the other CPU would not observe B in the table of the CPU unlocking the lock B. However, since the threads are obviously participating in an ABBA deadlock, it is no longer appealing to use the order above since it may lead to a 250 ms timeout due to missed AA detection. [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAH6OuBTjG+N=+GGwcpOUbeDN563oz4iVcU3rbse68egp9wj9_A@mail.gmail.com Fixes: 0d80e7f951be ("rqspinlock: Choose trylock fallback for NMI waiters") Reported-by: Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma <ritesh@superluminal.eu> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251128232802.1031906-2-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-11-28 23:27:57 +00:00
rqspinlock: Enclose lock/unlock within lock entry acquisitions Ritesh reported that timeouts occurred frequently for rqspinlock despite reentrancy on the same lock on the same CPU in [0]. This patch closes one of the races leading to this behavior, and reduces the frequency of timeouts. We currently have a tiny window between the fast-path cmpxchg and the grabbing of the lock entry where an NMI could land, attempt the same lock that was just acquired, and end up timing out. This is not ideal. Instead, move the lock entry acquisition from the fast path to before the cmpxchg, and remove the grabbing of the lock entry in the slow path, assuming it was already taken by the fast path. The TAS fallback is invoked directly without being preceded by the typical fast path, therefore we must continue to grab the deadlock detection entry in that case. Case on lock leading to missed AA: cmpxchg lock A <NMI> ... rqspinlock acquisition of A ... timeout </NMI> grab_held_lock_entry(A) There is a similar case when unlocking the lock. If the NMI lands between the WRITE_ONCE and smp_store_release, it is possible that we end up in a situation where the NMI fails to diagnose the AA condition, leading to a timeout. Case on unlock leading to missed AA: WRITE_ONCE(rqh->locks[rqh->cnt - 1], NULL) <NMI> ... rqspinlock acquisition of A ... timeout </NMI> smp_store_release(A->locked, 0) The patch changes the order on unlock to smp_store_release() succeeded by WRITE_ONCE() of NULL. This avoids the missed AA detection described above, but may lead to a false positive if the NMI lands between these two statements, which is acceptable (and preferred over a timeout). The original intention of the reverse order on unlock was to prevent the following possible misdiagnosis of an ABBA scenario: grab entry A lock A grab entry B lock B unlock B smp_store_release(B->locked, 0) grab entry B lock B grab entry A lock A ! <detect ABBA> WRITE_ONCE(rqh->locks[rqh->cnt - 1], NULL) If the store release were is after the WRITE_ONCE, the other CPU would not observe B in the table of the CPU unlocking the lock B. However, since the threads are obviously participating in an ABBA deadlock, it is no longer appealing to use the order above since it may lead to a 250 ms timeout due to missed AA detection. [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAH6OuBTjG+N=+GGwcpOUbeDN563oz4iVcU3rbse68egp9wj9_A@mail.gmail.com Fixes: 0d80e7f951be ("rqspinlock: Choose trylock fallback for NMI waiters") Reported-by: Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma <ritesh@superluminal.eu> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251128232802.1031906-2-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
2025-11-28 23:27:57 +00:00
rqspinlock: Enclose lock/unlock within lock entry acquisitions Ritesh reported that timeouts occurred frequently for rqspinlock despite reentrancy on the same lock on the same CPU in [0]. This patch closes one of the races leading to this behavior, and reduces the frequency of timeouts. We currently have a tiny window between the fast-path cmpxchg and the grabbing of the lock entry where an NMI could land, attempt the same lock that was just acquired, and end up timing out. This is not ideal. Instead, move the lock entry acquisition from the fast path to before the cmpxchg, and remove the grabbing of the lock entry in the slow path, assuming it was already taken by the fast path. The TAS fallback is invoked directly without being preceded by the typical fast path, therefore we must continue to grab the deadlock detection entry in that case. Case on lock leading to missed AA: cmpxchg lock A <NMI> ... rqspinlock acquisition of A ... timeout </NMI> grab_held_lock_entry(A) There is a similar case when unlocking the lock. If the NMI lands between the WRITE_ONCE and smp_store_release, it is possible that we end up in a situation where the NMI fails to diagnose the AA condition, leading to a timeout. Case on unlock leading to missed AA: WRITE_ONCE(rqh->locks[rqh->cnt - 1], NULL) <NMI> ... rqspinlock acquisition of A ... timeout </NMI> smp_store_release(A->locked, 0) The patch changes the order on unlock to smp_store_release() succeeded by WRITE_ONCE() of NULL. This avoids the missed AA detection described above, but may lead to a false positive if the NMI lands between these two statements, which is acceptable (and preferred over a timeout). The original intention of the reverse order on unlock was to prevent the following possible misdiagnosis of an ABBA scenario: grab entry A lock A grab entry B lock B unlock B smp_store_release(B->locked, 0) grab entry B lock B grab entry A lock A ! <detect ABBA> WRITE_ONCE(rqh->locks[rqh->cnt - 1], NULL) If the store release were is after the WRITE_ONCE, the other CPU would not observe B in the table of the CPU unlocking the lock B. However, since the threads are obviously participating in an ABBA deadlock, it is no longer appealing to use the order above since it may lead to a 250 ms timeout due to missed AA detection. [0]: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAH6OuBTjG+N=+GGwcpOUbeDN563oz4iVcU3rbse68egp9wj9_A@mail.gmail.com Fixes: 0d80e7f951be ("rqspinlock: Choose trylock fallback for NMI waiters") Reported-by: Ritesh Oedayrajsingh Varma <ritesh@superluminal.eu> Signed-off-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251128232802.1031906-2-memxor@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
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