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rcu/nocb: Invert rcu_state.barrier_mutex VS hotplug lock locking order

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In case of failure to spawn either rcuog or rcuo[p] kthreads for a given
rdp, rcu_nocb_rdp_deoffload() needs to be called with the hotplug
lock and the barrier_mutex held. However cpus write lock is already held
while calling rcutree_prepare_cpu(). It's not possible to call
rcu_nocb_rdp_deoffload() from there with just locking the barrier_mutex
or this would result in a locking inversion against
rcu_nocb_cpu_deoffload() which holds both locks in the reverse order.

Simply solve this with inverting the locking order inside
rcu_nocb_cpu_[de]offload(). This will be a pre-requisite to toggle NOCB
states toward cpusets anyway.

Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <uladzislau.rezki@sony.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
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Zqiang 2022-04-19 14:23:19 +02:00 committed by Paul E. McKenney
parent 1598f4a476
commit 24a57affd2
1 changed files with 4 additions and 4 deletions
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kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h
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@ -1055,8 +1055,8 @@ int rcu_nocb_cpu_deoffload(int cpu)
struct rcu_data *rdp = per_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data, cpu);
int ret = 0;
mutex_lock(&rcu_state.barrier_mutex);
cpus_read_lock();
mutex_lock(&rcu_state.barrier_mutex);
if (rcu_rdp_is_offloaded(rdp)) {
if (cpu_online(cpu)) {
ret = work_on_cpu(cpu, rcu_nocb_rdp_deoffload, rdp);
@ -1067,8 +1067,8 @@ int rcu_nocb_cpu_deoffload(int cpu)
ret = -EINVAL;
}
}
cpus_read_unlock();
mutex_unlock(&rcu_state.barrier_mutex);
cpus_read_unlock();
return ret;
}
@ -1134,8 +1134,8 @@ int rcu_nocb_cpu_offload(int cpu)
struct rcu_data *rdp = per_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data, cpu);
int ret = 0;
mutex_lock(&rcu_state.barrier_mutex);
cpus_read_lock();
mutex_lock(&rcu_state.barrier_mutex);
if (!rcu_rdp_is_offloaded(rdp)) {
if (cpu_online(cpu)) {
ret = work_on_cpu(cpu, rcu_nocb_rdp_offload, rdp);
@ -1146,8 +1146,8 @@ int rcu_nocb_cpu_offload(int cpu)
ret = -EINVAL;
}
}
cpus_read_unlock();
mutex_unlock(&rcu_state.barrier_mutex);
cpus_read_unlock();
return ret;
}