From dd56af42bd829c6e770ed69812bd65a04eaeb1e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 20:25:06 -0700 Subject: rcu: Eliminate deadlock between CPU hotplug and expedited grace periods Currently, the expedited grace-period primitives do get_online_cpus(). This greatly simplifies their implementation, but means that calls to them holding locks that are acquired by CPU-hotplug notifiers (to say nothing of calls to these primitives from CPU-hotplug notifiers) can deadlock. But this is starting to become inconvenient, as can be seen here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/5/754. The problem in this case is that some developers need to acquire a mutex from a CPU-hotplug notifier, but also need to hold it across a synchronize_rcu_expedited(). As noted above, this currently results in deadlock. This commit avoids the deadlock and retains the simplicity by creating a try_get_online_cpus(), which returns false if the get_online_cpus() reference count could not immediately be incremented. If a call to try_get_online_cpus() returns true, the expedited primitives operate as before. If a call returns false, the expedited primitives fall back to normal grace-period operations. This falling back of course results in increased grace-period latency, but only during times when CPU hotplug operations are actually in flight. The effect should therefore be negligible during normal operation. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Josh Triplett Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Tested-by: Lan Tianyu --- include/linux/cpu.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/cpu.h') diff --git a/include/linux/cpu.h b/include/linux/cpu.h index 95978ad7fcdd..b2d9a43012b2 100644 --- a/include/linux/cpu.h +++ b/include/linux/cpu.h @@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ extern struct bus_type cpu_subsys; extern void cpu_hotplug_begin(void); extern void cpu_hotplug_done(void); extern void get_online_cpus(void); +extern bool try_get_online_cpus(void); extern void put_online_cpus(void); extern void cpu_hotplug_disable(void); extern void cpu_hotplug_enable(void); @@ -230,6 +231,7 @@ int cpu_down(unsigned int cpu); static inline void cpu_hotplug_begin(void) {} static inline void cpu_hotplug_done(void) {} #define get_online_cpus() do { } while (0) +#define try_get_online_cpus() true #define put_online_cpus() do { } while (0) #define cpu_hotplug_disable() do { } while (0) #define cpu_hotplug_enable() do { } while (0) -- cgit v1.2.3