From abaf3f9d275b8d856ae5e47531e40c0bfeac012b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lai Jiangshan Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 16:30:01 +0800 Subject: rcu: Revert "Allow post-unlock reference for rt_mutex" to avoid priority-inversion The patch dfeb9765ce3c ("Allow post-unlock reference for rt_mutex") ensured rcu-boost safe even the rt_mutex has post-unlock reference. But rt_mutex allowing post-unlock reference is definitely a bug and it was fixed by the commit 27e35715df54 ("rtmutex: Plug slow unlock race"). This fix made the previous patch (dfeb9765ce3c) useless. And even worse, the priority-inversion introduced by the the previous patch still exists. rcu_read_unlock_special() { rt_mutex_unlock(&rnp->boost_mtx); /* Priority-Inversion: * the current task had been deboosted and preempted as a low * priority task immediately, it could wait long before reschedule in, * and the rcu-booster also waits on this low priority task and sleeps. * This priority-inversion makes rcu-booster can't work * as expected. */ complete(&rnp->boost_completion); } Just revert the patch to avoid it. Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- kernel/rcu/tree.h | 5 ----- kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 8 +------- 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.h b/kernel/rcu/tree.h index 883ebc8e2b6e..95356477d560 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.h @@ -172,11 +172,6 @@ struct rcu_node { /* queued on this rcu_node structure that */ /* are blocking the current grace period, */ /* there can be no such task. */ - struct completion boost_completion; - /* Used to ensure that the rt_mutex used */ - /* to carry out the boosting is fully */ - /* released with no future boostee accesses */ - /* before that rt_mutex is re-initialized. */ struct rt_mutex boost_mtx; /* Used only for the priority-boosting */ /* side effect, not as a lock. */ diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h index 1fac68220999..625e26040e6b 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h @@ -429,10 +429,8 @@ void rcu_read_unlock_special(struct task_struct *t) #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST /* Unboost if we were boosted. */ - if (drop_boost_mutex) { + if (drop_boost_mutex) rt_mutex_unlock(&rnp->boost_mtx); - complete(&rnp->boost_completion); - } #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST */ /* @@ -1081,15 +1079,11 @@ static int rcu_boost(struct rcu_node *rnp) */ t = container_of(tb, struct task_struct, rcu_node_entry); rt_mutex_init_proxy_locked(&rnp->boost_mtx, t); - init_completion(&rnp->boost_completion); raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags); /* Lock only for side effect: boosts task t's priority. */ rt_mutex_lock(&rnp->boost_mtx); rt_mutex_unlock(&rnp->boost_mtx); /* Then keep lockdep happy. */ - /* Wait for boostee to be done w/boost_mtx before reinitializing. */ - wait_for_completion(&rnp->boost_completion); - return ACCESS_ONCE(rnp->exp_tasks) != NULL || ACCESS_ONCE(rnp->boost_tasks) != NULL; } -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b