linux-stable.git/kernel/rcu/tiny.c, branch v3.14.78

rcu: Correctly handle non-empty Tiny RCU callback list with none ready

2015-08-03T16:29:50+00:00

commit 6e91f8cb138625be96070b778d9ba71ce520ea7e upstream.

If, at the time __rcu_process_callbacks() is invoked,  there are callbacks
in Tiny RCU's callback list, but none of them are ready to be invoked,
the current list-management code will knit the non-ready callbacks out
of the list.  This can result in hangs and possibly worse.  This commit
therefore inserts a check for there being no callbacks that can be
invoked immediately.

This bug is unlikely to occur -- you have to get a new callback between
the time rcu_sched_qs() or rcu_bh_qs() was called, but before we get to
__rcu_process_callbacks().  It was detected by the addition of RCU-bh
testing to rcutorture, which in turn was instigated by Iftekhar Ahmed's
mutation testing.  Although this bug was made much more likely by
915e8a4fe45e (rcu: Remove fastpath from __rcu_process_callbacks()), this
did not cause the bug, but rather made it much more probable.   That
said, it takes more than 40 hours of rcutorture testing, on average,
for this bug to appear, so this fix cannot be considered an emergency.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'trace-3.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

2013-11-16T20:23:18+00:00

Pull tracing update from Steven Rostedt:
 "This batch of changes is mostly clean ups and small bug fixes.  The
  only real feature that was added this release is from Namhyung Kim,
  who introduced "set_graph_notrace" filter that lets you run the
  function graph tracer and not trace particular functions and their
  call chain.

  Tom Zanussi added some updates to the ftrace multibuffer tracing that
  made it more consistent with the top level tracing.

  One of the fixes for perf function tracing required an API change in
  RCU; the addition of "rcu_is_watching()".  As Paul McKenney is pushing
  that change in this release too, he gave me a branch that included all
  the changes to get that working, and I pulled that into my tree in
  order to complete the perf function tracing fix"

* tag 'trace-3.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Add rcu annotation for syscall trace descriptors
  tracing: Do not use signed enums with unsigned long long in fgragh output
  tracing: Remove unused function ftrace_off_permanent()
  tracing: Do not assign filp->private_data to freed memory
  tracing: Add helper function tracing_is_disabled()
  tracing: Open tracer when ftrace_dump_on_oops is used
  tracing: Add support for SOFT_DISABLE to syscall events
  tracing: Make register/unregister_ftrace_command __init
  tracing: Update event filters for multibuffer
  recordmcount.pl: Add support for __fentry__
  ftrace: Have control op function callback only trace when RCU is watching
  rcu: Do not trace rcu_is_watching() functions
  ftrace/x86: skip over the breakpoint for ftrace caller
  trace/trace_stat: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
  ftrace: Add set_graph_notrace filter
  ftrace: Narrow down the protected area of graph_lock
  ftrace: Introduce struct ftrace_graph_data
  ftrace: Get rid of ftrace_graph_filter_enabled
  tracing: Fix potential out-of-bounds in trace_get_user()
  tracing: Show more exact help information about snapshot

rcu: Move RCU-related source code to kernel/rcu directory

2013-10-15T19:53:31+00:00

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar