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McKenney" To: rcu@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com, rostedt@goodmis.org, Frederic Weisbecker , Boqun Feng , Neeraj Upadhyay , "Paul E . McKenney" , Oleg Nesterov , Lai Jiangshan , "Eric W . Biederman" Subject: [PATCH rcu 2/6] rcu-tasks: Improve comments explaining tasks_rcu_exit_srcu purpose Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2023 16:44:51 -0800 Message-Id: <20230105004501.1771332-3-paulmck@kernel.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.31.1.189.g2e36527f23 In-Reply-To: <20230105004454.GA1771168@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1> References: <20230105004454.GA1771168@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1> MIME-Version: 1.0 Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: rcu@vger.kernel.org From: Frederic Weisbecker Make sure we don't need to look again into the depths of git blame in order not to miss a subtle part about how rcu-tasks is dealing with exiting tasks. Suggested-by: Boqun Feng Suggested-by: Neeraj Upadhyay Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Lai Jiangshan Cc: Eric W. Biederman Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- kernel/rcu/tasks.h | 37 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h index c418aa1c038a9..50d4c0ec7a89f 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h @@ -827,11 +827,21 @@ static void rcu_tasks_pertask(struct task_struct *t, struct list_head *hop) static void rcu_tasks_postscan(struct list_head *hop) { /* - * Wait for tasks that are in the process of exiting. This - * does only part of the job, ensuring that all tasks that were - * previously exiting reach the point where they have disabled - * preemption, allowing the later synchronize_rcu() to finish - * the job. + * Exiting tasks may escape the tasklist scan. Those are vulnerable + * until their final schedule() with TASK_DEAD state. To cope with + * this, divide the fragile exit path part in two intersecting + * read side critical sections: + * + * 1) An _SRCU_ read side starting before calling exit_notify(), + * which may remove the task from the tasklist, and ending after + * the final preempt_disable() call in do_exit(). + * + * 2) An _RCU_ read side starting with the final preempt_disable() + * call in do_exit() and ending with the final call to schedule() + * with TASK_DEAD state. + * + * This handles the part 1). And postgp will handle part 2) with a + * call to synchronize_rcu(). */ synchronize_srcu(&tasks_rcu_exit_srcu); } @@ -898,7 +908,10 @@ static void rcu_tasks_postgp(struct rcu_tasks *rtp) * * In addition, this synchronize_rcu() waits for exiting tasks * to complete their final preempt_disable() region of execution, - * cleaning up after the synchronize_srcu() above. + * cleaning up after synchronize_srcu(&tasks_rcu_exit_srcu), + * enforcing the whole region before tasklist removal until + * the final schedule() with TASK_DEAD state to be an RCU TASKS + * read side critical section. */ synchronize_rcu(); } @@ -988,7 +1001,11 @@ void show_rcu_tasks_classic_gp_kthread(void) EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(show_rcu_tasks_classic_gp_kthread); #endif // !defined(CONFIG_TINY_RCU) -/* Do the srcu_read_lock() for the above synchronize_srcu(). */ +/* + * Contribute to protect against tasklist scan blind spot while the + * task is exiting and may be removed from the tasklist. See + * corresponding synchronize_srcu() for further details. + */ void exit_tasks_rcu_start(void) __acquires(&tasks_rcu_exit_srcu) { preempt_disable(); @@ -996,7 +1013,11 @@ void exit_tasks_rcu_start(void) __acquires(&tasks_rcu_exit_srcu) preempt_enable(); } -/* Do the srcu_read_unlock() for the above synchronize_srcu(). */ +/* + * Contribute to protect against tasklist scan blind spot while the + * task is exiting and may be removed from the tasklist. See + * corresponding synchronize_srcu() for further details. + */ void exit_tasks_rcu_finish(void) __releases(&tasks_rcu_exit_srcu) { struct task_struct *t = current;