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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2011-10-05 11:45:18 -0700 |
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| committer | Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com> | 2012-04-11 11:07:47 -0500 |
| commit | 7a32b4d4512252ce504949ce3bcf133df55f47f0 (patch) | |
| tree | 2f4518cc1d70a9acfc0167625204ee63b350a15a /kernel/rcutree_plugin.h | |
| parent | 292222012436fd0c23967104dd75ff27845d1a46 (diff) | |
rcu: Make ksoftirqd do RCU quiescent states
Implementing RCU-bh in terms of RCU-preempt makes the system vulnerable
to network-based denial-of-service attacks. This patch therefore
makes __do_softirq() invoke rcu_bh_qs(), but only when __do_softirq()
is running in ksoftirqd context. A wrapper layer in interposed so that
other calls to __do_softirq() avoid invoking rcu_bh_qs(). The underlying
function __do_softirq_common() does the actual work.
The reason that rcu_bh_qs() is bad in these non-ksoftirqd contexts is
that there might be a local_bh_enable() inside an RCU-preempt read-side
critical section. This local_bh_enable() can invoke __do_softirq()
directly, so if __do_softirq() were to invoke rcu_bh_qs() (which just
calls rcu_preempt_qs() in the PREEMPT_RT_FULL case), there would be
an illegal RCU-preempt quiescent state in the middle of an RCU-preempt
read-side critical section. Therefore, quiescent states can only happen
in cases where __do_softirq() is invoked directly from ksoftirqd.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111005184518.GA21601@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcutree_plugin.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcutree_plugin.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h index e4cc151a8839..14acafc496fe 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h +++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h @@ -1899,7 +1899,7 @@ static void __cpuinit rcu_prepare_kthreads(int cpu) #endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST */ -#if !defined(CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ) +#if !defined(CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ) || defined(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT_FULL) /* * Check to see if any future RCU-related work will need to be done |