rcu: Add PROVE_RCU_DELAY to provoke difficult races
There have been some recent bugs that were triggered only when preemptible RCU's __rcu_read_unlock() was preempted just after setting ->rcu_read_lock_nesting to INT_MIN, which is a low-probability event. Therefore, reproducing those bugs (to say nothing of gaining confidence in alleged fixes) was quite difficult. This commit therefore creates a new debug-only RCU kernel config option that forces a short delay in __rcu_read_unlock() to increase the probability of those sorts of bugs occurring. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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#include <linux/mutex.h>
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#include <linux/export.h>
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#include <linux/hardirq.h>
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#include <linux/delay.h>
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#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
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#include <trace/events/rcu.h>
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} else {
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barrier(); /* critical section before exit code. */
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t->rcu_read_lock_nesting = INT_MIN;
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#ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAY
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udelay(10); /* Make preemption more probable. */
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#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAY */
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barrier(); /* assign before ->rcu_read_unlock_special load */
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if (unlikely(ACCESS_ONCE(t->rcu_read_unlock_special)))
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rcu_read_unlock_special(t);
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@ -629,6 +629,20 @@ config PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY
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Say N if you are unsure.
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config PROVE_RCU_DELAY
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bool "RCU debugging: preemptible RCU race provocation"
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depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPT_RCU
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default n
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help
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There is a class of races that involve an unlikely preemption
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of __rcu_read_unlock() just after ->rcu_read_lock_nesting has
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been set to INT_MIN. This feature inserts a delay at that
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point to increase the probability of these races.
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Say Y to increase probability of preemption of __rcu_read_unlock().
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Say N if you are unsure.
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config SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
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bool "RCU debugging: sparse-based checks for pointer usage"
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default n
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