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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/2] rcu: more info about potential deadlocks with rcu_read_unlock()
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 23:44:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140928214421.GA17972@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140928214357.GA17874@redhat.com>

The comment above rcu_read_unlock() explains the potential deadlock
if the caller holds one of the locks taken by rt_mutex_unlock() paths,
but it is not clear from this documentation that any lock which can
be taken from interrupt can lead to deadlock as well and we need to
take rt_mutex_lock() into account too.

The problem is that rt_mutex_lock() takes wait_lock without disabling
irqs, and thus an interrupt taking some LOCK can obviously race with
rcu_read_unlock_special() called with the same LOCK held.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
---
 include/linux/rcupdate.h |    4 +++-
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index d231aa1..5abcfda 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -863,7 +863,9 @@ static inline void rcu_read_lock(void)
  * Unfortunately, this function acquires the scheduler's runqueue and
  * priority-inheritance spinlocks.  This means that deadlock could result
  * if the caller of rcu_read_unlock() already holds one of these locks or
- * any lock that is ever acquired while holding them.
+ * any lock that is ever acquired while holding them; or any lock which
+ * can be taken from interrupt context because rcu_boost()->rt_mutex_lock()
+ * does not disable irqs while taking ->wait_lock.
  *
  * That said, RCU readers are never priority boosted unless they were
  * preempted.  Therefore, one way to avoid deadlock is to make sure
-- 
1.5.5.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-09-28 21:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-22 16:44 [PATCH 0/2] signal: simplify/document lock_task_sighand() logic Oleg Nesterov
2014-09-22 16:44 ` [PATCH 1/2] signal: simplify deadlock-avoidance in lock_task_sighand() Oleg Nesterov
2014-09-22 18:58   ` Steven Rostedt
2014-09-22 19:11     ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-09-22 21:24       ` Steven Rostedt
2014-09-23 11:45         ` Rik van Riel
2014-09-23 14:20           ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-23 14:30             ` Steven Rostedt
2014-09-23 19:03         ` Oleg Nesterov
2014-09-24  8:36           ` Paul E. McKenney
2014-09-23 15:55   ` Peter Zijlstra
2014-09-22 16:44 ` [PATCH 2/2] signal: document the RCU protection of ->sighand Oleg Nesterov
2014-09-22 19:00   ` Steven Rostedt
2014-09-23 11:50   ` Rik van Riel
2014-09-28 21:43 ` [PATCH v2 0/2] document ->sighand protection, rcu_read_unlock() deadlocks Oleg Nesterov
2014-09-28 21:44   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] signal: document the RCU protection of ->sighand Oleg Nesterov
2014-09-28 21:44   ` Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2014-10-23 19:56   ` [PATCH v2 0/2] document ->sighand protection, rcu_read_unlock() deadlocks Oleg Nesterov
2014-10-23 20:29     ` Paul E. McKenney

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