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TREE04 running on short iterations can produce writer stalls of the
following kind:
??? Writer stall state RTWS_EXP_SYNC(4) g3968 f0x0 ->state 0x2 cpu 0
task:rcu_torture_wri state:D stack:14568 pid:83 ppid:2 flags:0x00004000
Call Trace:
<TASK>
__schedule+0x2de/0x850
? trace_event_raw_event_rcu_exp_funnel_lock+0x6d/0xb0
schedule+0x4f/0x90
synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x430/0x670
? __pfx_autoremove_wake_function+0x10/0x10
? __pfx_synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x10/0x10
do_rtws_sync.constprop.0+0xde/0x230
rcu_torture_writer+0x4b4/0xcd0
? __pfx_rcu_torture_writer+0x10/0x10
kthread+0xc7/0xf0
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x50
? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
</TASK>
Waiting for an expedited grace period and polling for an expedited
grace period both are operations that internally rely on the same
workqueue performing necessary asynchronous work.
However, a dependency chain is involved between those two operations,
as depicted below:
====== CPU 0 ======= ====== CPU 1 =======
synchronize_rcu_expedited()
exp_funnel_lock()
mutex_lock(&rcu_state.exp_mutex);
start_poll_synchronize_rcu_expedited
queue_work(rcu_gp_wq, &rnp->exp_poll_wq);
synchronize_rcu_expedited_queue_work()
queue_work(rcu_gp_wq, &rew->rew_work);
wait_event() // A, wait for &rew->rew_work completion
mutex_unlock() // B
//======> switch to kworker
sync_rcu_do_polled_gp() {
synchronize_rcu_expedited()
exp_funnel_lock()
mutex_lock(&rcu_state.exp_mutex); // C, wait B
....
} // D
Since workqueues are usually implemented on top of several kworkers
handling the queue concurrently, the above situation wouldn't deadlock
most of the time because A then doesn't depend on D. But in case of
memory stress, a single kworker may end up handling alone all the works
in a serialized way. In that case the above layout becomes a problem
because A then waits for D, closing a circular dependency:
A -> D -> C -> B -> A
This however only happens when CONFIG_RCU_EXP_KTHREAD=n. Indeed
synchronize_rcu_expedited() is otherwise implemented on top of a kthread
worker while polling still relies on rcu_gp_wq workqueue, breaking the
above circular dependency chain.
Fix this with making expedited grace period to always rely on kthread
worker. The workqueue based implementation is essentially a duplicate
anyway now that the per-node initialization is performed by per-node
kthread workers.
Meanwhile the CONFIG_RCU_EXP_KTHREAD switch is still kept around to
manage the scheduler policy of these kthread workers.
Reported-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Suggested-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Suggested-by: Neeraj upadhyay <Neeraj.Upadhyay@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
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