From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753970AbaH1SlT (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:41:19 -0400 Received: from e38.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.159]:57261 "EHLO e38.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753677AbaH1Sig (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:38:36 -0400 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@kernel.org, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, josh@joshtriplett.org, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, dvhart@linux.intel.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com, bobby.prani@gmail.com, "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 12/14] rcu: Avoid misordering in __call_rcu_nocb_enqueue() Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 11:38:15 -0700 Message-Id: <1409251097-26734-12-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.5 In-Reply-To: <1409251097-26734-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20140828183754.GA25488@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1409251097-26734-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 14082818-1344-0000-0000-000003CA8678 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Paul E. McKenney" The NOCB leader wakeup ordering depends on the store to the header happening before the check for the leader already being awake. However, because atomic_long_add() does not return a value, it does not provide ordering guarantees, the incorrect comment in wake_nocb_leader() notwithstanding. This commit therefore adds a smp_mb__after_atomic() after the final atomic_long_add() to provide the needed ordering guarantee. Reported-by: Amit Shah Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h index a63b54e0e617..304f42c6543b 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h @@ -2042,7 +2042,7 @@ static void wake_nocb_leader(struct rcu_data *rdp, bool force) if (!ACCESS_ONCE(rdp_leader->nocb_kthread)) return; if (!ACCESS_ONCE(rdp_leader->nocb_leader_wake) || force) { - /* Prior xchg orders against prior callback enqueue. */ + /* Prior smp_mb__after_atomic() orders against prior enqueue. */ ACCESS_ONCE(rdp_leader->nocb_leader_wake) = true; wake_up(&rdp_leader->nocb_wq); } @@ -2071,6 +2071,7 @@ static void __call_rcu_nocb_enqueue(struct rcu_data *rdp, ACCESS_ONCE(*old_rhpp) = rhp; atomic_long_add(rhcount, &rdp->nocb_q_count); atomic_long_add(rhcount_lazy, &rdp->nocb_q_count_lazy); + smp_mb__after_atomic(); /* Store *old_rhpp before _wake test. */ /* If we are not being polled and there is a kthread, awaken it ... */ t = ACCESS_ONCE(rdp->nocb_kthread); -- 1.8.1.5