srcu: Provide ordering for CPU not involved in grace period
Tree RCU guarantees that every online CPU has a memory barrier between any given grace period and any of that CPU's RCU read-side sections that must be ordered against that grace period. Since RCU doesn't always know where read-side critical sections are, the actual implementation guarantees order against prior and subsequent non-idle non-offline code, whether in an RCU read-side critical section or not. As a result, there does not need to be a memory barrier at the end of synchronize_rcu() and friends because the ordering internal to the grace period has ordered every CPU's post-grace-period execution against each CPU's pre-grace-period execution, again for all non-idle online CPUs. In contrast, SRCU can have non-idle online CPUs that are completely uninvolved in a given SRCU grace period, for example, a CPU that never runs any SRCU read-side critical sections and took no part in the grace-period processing. It is in theory possible for a given synchronize_srcu()'s wakeup to be delivered to a CPU that was completely uninvolved in the prior SRCU grace period, which could mean that the code following that synchronize_srcu() would end up being unordered with respect to both the grace period and any pre-existing SRCU read-side critical sections. This commit therefore adds an smp_mb() to the end of __synchronize_srcu(), which prevents this scenario from occurring. Reported-by: Lance Roy <ldr709@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Lance Roy <ldr709@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.12.x
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@ -897,6 +897,15 @@ static void __synchronize_srcu(struct srcu_struct *sp, bool do_norm)
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__call_srcu(sp, &rcu.head, wakeme_after_rcu, do_norm);
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wait_for_completion(&rcu.completion);
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destroy_rcu_head_on_stack(&rcu.head);
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/*
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* Make sure that later code is ordered after the SRCU grace
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* period. This pairs with the raw_spin_lock_irq_rcu_node()
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* in srcu_invoke_callbacks(). Unlike Tree RCU, this is needed
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* because the current CPU might have been totally uninvolved with
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* (and thus unordered against) that grace period.
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*/
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smp_mb();
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}
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/**
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