From: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@gmail.com>
To: paulmck@kernel.org, jiangshanlai@gmail.com, josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
rcu@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 01/13] litmus: Add SRCU fastpath anchor-before-scan test
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2026 15:58:17 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260907075829.2073224-2-kunwu.chan@linux.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260907075829.2073224-1-kunwu.chan@linux.dev>
From: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@gmail.com>
synchronize_srcu_atomic() may end its grace period immediately when
its scan of the per-CPU lock counters finds no readers. Correctness
requires the grace-period anchor written by srcu_gp_start() to precede
the smp_mb() ordering the lock scan. This ordering ensures that any
reader whose lock increment is missed by the scan cannot have
incremented its lock counter before the grace-period anchor, and
therefore cannot be a pre-existing reader of this grace period.
This litmus test models the key ordering between the grace-period
anchor and the lock counter scan, where "seq" models the
grace-period anchor in ->srcu_gp_seq and "ctr" models the per-CPU
->srcu_ctrs[].srcu_locks counter. P0 writes the anchor before the
smp_mb() and the lock scan. P1 models the reader-side counter
increment, with the smp_mb() of __srcu_read_lock() following the
increment. P2 models an observer that sees the reader's increment
before seeing the anchor.
The outcome is forbidden by LKMM, and herd7 reports "Never". See
SRCU-fastpath-scan-before-anchor.litmus for the reversed ordering,
which permits this outcome.
Tested with herd7 7.58 using linux-kernel.cfg.
Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <kunwu.chan@gmail.com>
---
.../SRCU-fastpath-anchor-before-scan.litmus | 56 +++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 56 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/SRCU-fastpath-anchor-before-scan.litmus
diff --git a/tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/SRCU-fastpath-anchor-before-scan.litmus b/tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/SRCU-fastpath-anchor-before-scan.litmus
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..8200a75e15ef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/memory-model/litmus-tests/SRCU-fastpath-anchor-before-scan.litmus
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+C SRCU-fastpath-anchor-before-scan
+
+(*
+ * Result: Never
+ *
+ * The synchronize_srcu_atomic() fastpath may end its grace period
+ * immediately when its scan of the per-CPU lock counters finds no
+ * readers. Correctness requires the grace-period anchor written by
+ * srcu_gp_start() to precede the smp_mb() ordering the lock scan.
+ * This ordering ensures that any reader whose lock increment is missed
+ * by the scan cannot have incremented its lock counter before the
+ * grace-period anchor, and therefore cannot be a pre-existing reader
+ * of this grace period.
+ *
+ * This litmus test models the key ordering between the grace-period
+ * anchor and the lock counter scan, where "seq" models the
+ * grace-period anchor in ->srcu_gp_seq and "ctr" models the per-CPU
+ * ->srcu_ctrs[].srcu_locks counter. P0 writes the anchor before the
+ * smp_mb() and the lock scan. P1 models the reader-side counter
+ * increment, with the smp_mb() of __srcu_read_lock() following the
+ * increment. P2 models an observer that sees the reader's increment
+ * before seeing the anchor.
+ *
+ * The outcome is forbidden by LKMM, and herd7 reports "Never". See
+ * SRCU-fastpath-scan-before-anchor.litmus for the reversed ordering,
+ * which permits this outcome.
+ *)
+
+{}
+
+P0(int *seq, int *ctr)
+{
+ int r2;
+
+ WRITE_ONCE(*seq, 1);
+ smp_mb();
+ r2 = READ_ONCE(*ctr);
+}
+
+P1(int *ctr)
+{
+ WRITE_ONCE(*ctr, 1);
+ smp_mb();
+}
+
+P2(int *seq, int *ctr)
+{
+ int r3;
+ int r4;
+
+ r3 = READ_ONCE(*ctr);
+ smp_mb();
+ r4 = READ_ONCE(*seq);
+}
+
+exists (0:r2 = 0 /\ 2:r3 = 1 /\ 2:r4 = 0)
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-09-07 7:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-09-07 7:58 [PATCH 00/13] srcu: Round out atomic SRCU support Kunwu Chan
2026-09-07 7:58 ` Kunwu Chan [this message]
2026-09-08 23:58 ` [PATCH 01/13] litmus: Add SRCU fastpath anchor-before-scan test Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-09 3:02 ` Kunwu Chan
2026-09-07 7:58 ` [PATCH 02/13] litmus: Add SRCU fastpath scan-before-anchor test Kunwu Chan
2026-09-07 7:58 ` [PATCH 03/13] srcutree: Add reader-free fastpath to synchronize_srcu_atomic() Kunwu Chan
2026-09-08 20:29 ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-08 21:13 ` David Woodhouse
2026-09-08 21:54 ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-08 22:09 ` David Woodhouse
2026-09-08 22:55 ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-08 22:26 ` David Woodhouse
2026-09-08 22:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-08 22:56 ` David Woodhouse
2026-09-08 23:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-09 3:35 ` Kunwu Chan
2026-09-07 7:58 ` [PATCH 04/13] rcutorture: Add atomic-SRCU support to torture.sh Kunwu Chan
2026-09-08 23:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-09 22:35 ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-10 1:30 ` KunWu Chan
2026-09-10 3:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-10 4:31 ` KunWu Chan
2026-09-07 7:58 ` [PATCH 05/13] srcutree: Honor is_atomic in check_init_srcu_struct() Kunwu Chan
2026-09-08 20:27 ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-07 7:58 ` [PATCH 06/13] srcutree: Make init_srcu_struct_atomic() prevent transition to big Kunwu Chan
2026-09-08 23:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-09 2:34 ` Kunwu Chan
2026-09-10 0:08 ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-07 7:58 ` [PATCH 07/13] srcutree: Don't transition atomic SRCU to big in srcu_gp_end() Kunwu Chan
2026-09-08 23:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-09 2:45 ` Kunwu Chan
2026-09-10 0:13 ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-10 3:18 ` KunWu Chan
2026-09-10 3:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-10 4:27 ` KunWu Chan
2026-09-07 7:58 ` [PATCH 08/13] srcutree: Forbid srcu_expedite_current() on atomic SRCU Kunwu Chan
2026-09-08 23:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-07 7:58 ` [PATCH 09/13] rcutorture: Disable srcu_expedite_current() for " Kunwu Chan
2026-09-08 23:48 ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-07 7:58 ` [PATCH 10/13] srcutree: Skip callback scheduling for atomic SRCU grace periods Kunwu Chan
2026-09-09 0:01 ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-07 7:58 ` [PATCH 11/13] srcutree: Remove srcu_barrier() sleep for atomic SRCU Kunwu Chan
2026-09-09 0:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-07 7:58 ` [PATCH 12/13] srcutree: Remove debug pr_alert()s Kunwu Chan
2026-09-09 0:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-07 7:58 ` [PATCH 13/13] srcu: Restrict atomic-SRCU non_block annotation to task context Kunwu Chan
2026-09-09 0:11 ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-10 12:16 ` [PATCH 00/13] srcu: Round out atomic SRCU support Zqiang
2026-09-11 2:31 ` KunWu Chan
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