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<title>rcu: Fix macro name CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_TRACE</title>
<updated>2021-09-18T11:42:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zhouyi Zhou</name>
<email>zhouzhouyi@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-13T00:56:45+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit fed31a4dd3adb5455df7c704de2abb639a1dc1c0 ]

This commit fixes several typos where CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_TRACE should
instead be CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU.  Among other things, these typos
could cause CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB=y kernels to suffer from
memory-ordering bugs that could result in false-positive quiescent
states and too-short grace periods.

Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou &lt;zhouzhouyi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit fed31a4dd3adb5455df7c704de2abb639a1dc1c0 ]

This commit fixes several typos where CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_TRACE should
instead be CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU.  Among other things, these typos
could cause CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB=y kernels to suffer from
memory-ordering bugs that could result in false-positive quiescent
states and too-short grace periods.

Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou &lt;zhouzhouyi@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Fix stall-warning deadlock due to non-release of rcu_node -&gt;lock</title>
<updated>2021-09-15T08:00:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yanfei Xu</name>
<email>yanfei.xu@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-16T09:50:10+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit dc87740c8a6806bd2162bfb441770e4e53be5601 ]

If rcu_print_task_stall() is invoked on an rcu_node structure that does
not contain any tasks blocking the current grace period, it takes an
early exit that fails to release that rcu_node structure's lock.  This
results in a self-deadlock, which is detected by lockdep.

To reproduce this bug:

tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh --allcpus --duration 3 --trust-make --configs "TREE03" --kconfig "CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y" --bootargs "rcutorture.stall_cpu=30 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block=1 rcutorture.fwd_progress=0 rcutorture.test_boost=0"

This will also result in other complaints, including RCU's scheduler
hook complaining about blocking rather than preemption and an rcutorture
writer stall.

Only a partial RCU CPU stall warning message will be printed because of
the self-deadlock.

This commit therefore releases the lock on the rcu_print_task_stall()
function's early exit path.

Fixes: c583bcb8f5ed ("rcu: Don't invoke try_invoke_on_locked_down_task() with irqs disabled")
Tested-by: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yanfei Xu &lt;yanfei.xu@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit dc87740c8a6806bd2162bfb441770e4e53be5601 ]

If rcu_print_task_stall() is invoked on an rcu_node structure that does
not contain any tasks blocking the current grace period, it takes an
early exit that fails to release that rcu_node structure's lock.  This
results in a self-deadlock, which is detected by lockdep.

To reproduce this bug:

tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh --allcpus --duration 3 --trust-make --configs "TREE03" --kconfig "CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y" --bootargs "rcutorture.stall_cpu=30 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block=1 rcutorture.fwd_progress=0 rcutorture.test_boost=0"

This will also result in other complaints, including RCU's scheduler
hook complaining about blocking rather than preemption and an rcutorture
writer stall.

Only a partial RCU CPU stall warning message will be printed because of
the self-deadlock.

This commit therefore releases the lock on the rcu_print_task_stall()
function's early exit path.

Fixes: c583bcb8f5ed ("rcu: Don't invoke try_invoke_on_locked_down_task() with irqs disabled")
Tested-by: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yanfei Xu &lt;yanfei.xu@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Fix to include first blocked task in stall warning</title>
<updated>2021-09-15T08:00:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yanfei Xu</name>
<email>yanfei.xu@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-15T16:45:11+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit e6a901a44f76878ed1653626c9ff4cfc5a3f58f8 ]

The for loop in rcu_print_task_stall() always omits ts[0], which points
to the first task blocking the stalled grace period.  This in turn fails
to count this first task, which means that ndetected will be equal to
zero when all CPUs have passed through their quiescent states and only
one task is blocking the stalled grace period.  This zero value for
ndetected will in turn result in an incorrect "All QSes seen" message:

rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu:    Tasks blocked on level-1 rcu_node (CPUs 12-23):
        (detected by 15, t=6504 jiffies, g=164777, q=9011209)
rcu: All QSes seen, last rcu_preempt kthread activity 1 (4295252379-4295252378), jiffies_till_next_fqs=1, root -&gt;qsmask 0x2
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/uaccess.h:156
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 70613, name: msgstress04
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
Preemption disabled at:
[&lt;ffff8000104031a4&gt;] create_object.isra.0+0x204/0x4b0
CPU: 15 PID: 70613 Comm: msgstress04 Kdump: loaded Not tainted
5.12.2-yoctodev-standard #1
Hardware name: Marvell OcteonTX CN96XX board (DT)
Call trace:
 dump_backtrace+0x0/0x2cc
 show_stack+0x24/0x30
 dump_stack+0x110/0x188
 ___might_sleep+0x214/0x2d0
 __might_sleep+0x7c/0xe0

This commit therefore fixes the loop to include ts[0].

Fixes: c583bcb8f5ed ("rcu: Don't invoke try_invoke_on_locked_down_task() with irqs disabled")
Tested-by: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yanfei Xu &lt;yanfei.xu@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit e6a901a44f76878ed1653626c9ff4cfc5a3f58f8 ]

The for loop in rcu_print_task_stall() always omits ts[0], which points
to the first task blocking the stalled grace period.  This in turn fails
to count this first task, which means that ndetected will be equal to
zero when all CPUs have passed through their quiescent states and only
one task is blocking the stalled grace period.  This zero value for
ndetected will in turn result in an incorrect "All QSes seen" message:

rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks:
rcu:    Tasks blocked on level-1 rcu_node (CPUs 12-23):
        (detected by 15, t=6504 jiffies, g=164777, q=9011209)
rcu: All QSes seen, last rcu_preempt kthread activity 1 (4295252379-4295252378), jiffies_till_next_fqs=1, root -&gt;qsmask 0x2
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/uaccess.h:156
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 70613, name: msgstress04
INFO: lockdep is turned off.
Preemption disabled at:
[&lt;ffff8000104031a4&gt;] create_object.isra.0+0x204/0x4b0
CPU: 15 PID: 70613 Comm: msgstress04 Kdump: loaded Not tainted
5.12.2-yoctodev-standard #1
Hardware name: Marvell OcteonTX CN96XX board (DT)
Call trace:
 dump_backtrace+0x0/0x2cc
 show_stack+0x24/0x30
 dump_stack+0x110/0x188
 ___might_sleep+0x214/0x2d0
 __might_sleep+0x7c/0xe0

This commit therefore fixes the loop to include ts[0].

Fixes: c583bcb8f5ed ("rcu: Don't invoke try_invoke_on_locked_down_task() with irqs disabled")
Tested-by: Qais Yousef &lt;qais.yousef@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yanfei Xu &lt;yanfei.xu@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu/tree: Handle VM stoppage in stall detection</title>
<updated>2021-09-15T08:00:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sergey Senozhatsky</name>
<email>senozhatsky@chromium.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-21T15:56:23+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit ccfc9dd6914feaa9a81f10f9cce56eb0f7712264 ]

The soft watchdog timer function checks if a virtual machine
was suspended and hence what looks like a lockup in fact
is a false positive.

This is what kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused() does: it
tests guest PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED (which is set by the host)
and if it's set then we need to touch all watchdogs and bail
out.

Watchdog timer function runs from IRQ, so PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED
check works fine.

There is, however, one more watchdog that runs from IRQ, so
watchdog timer fn races with it, and that watchdog is not aware
of PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED - RCU stall detector.

apic_timer_interrupt()
 smp_apic_timer_interrupt()
  hrtimer_interrupt()
   __hrtimer_run_queues()
    tick_sched_timer()
     tick_sched_handle()
      update_process_times()
       rcu_sched_clock_irq()

This triggers RCU stalls on our devices during VM resume.

If tick_sched_handle()-&gt;rcu_sched_clock_irq() runs on a VCPU
before watchdog_timer_fn()-&gt;kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused()
then there is nothing on this VCPU that touches watchdogs and
RCU reads stale gp stall timestamp and new jiffies value, which
makes it think that RCU has stalled.

Make RCU stall watchdog aware of PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED and
don't report RCU stalls when we resume the VM.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;senozhatsky@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit ccfc9dd6914feaa9a81f10f9cce56eb0f7712264 ]

The soft watchdog timer function checks if a virtual machine
was suspended and hence what looks like a lockup in fact
is a false positive.

This is what kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused() does: it
tests guest PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED (which is set by the host)
and if it's set then we need to touch all watchdogs and bail
out.

Watchdog timer function runs from IRQ, so PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED
check works fine.

There is, however, one more watchdog that runs from IRQ, so
watchdog timer fn races with it, and that watchdog is not aware
of PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED - RCU stall detector.

apic_timer_interrupt()
 smp_apic_timer_interrupt()
  hrtimer_interrupt()
   __hrtimer_run_queues()
    tick_sched_timer()
     tick_sched_handle()
      update_process_times()
       rcu_sched_clock_irq()

This triggers RCU stalls on our devices during VM resume.

If tick_sched_handle()-&gt;rcu_sched_clock_irq() runs on a VCPU
before watchdog_timer_fn()-&gt;kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused()
then there is nothing on this VCPU that touches watchdogs and
RCU reads stale gp stall timestamp and new jiffies value, which
makes it think that RCU has stalled.

Make RCU stall watchdog aware of PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED and
don't report RCU stalls when we resume the VM.

Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky &lt;senozhatsky@chromium.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu-tasks: Don't delete holdouts within trc_wait_for_one_reader()</title>
<updated>2021-07-31T06:13:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-25T18:28:40+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit a9ab9cce9367a2cc02a3c7eb57a004dc0b8f380d ]

Invoking trc_del_holdout() from within trc_wait_for_one_reader() is
only a performance optimization because the RCU Tasks Trace grace-period
kthread will eventually do this within check_all_holdout_tasks_trace().
But it is not a particularly important performance optimization because
it only applies to the grace-period kthread, of which there is but one.
This commit therefore removes this invocation of trc_del_holdout() in
favor of the one in check_all_holdout_tasks_trace() in the grace-period
kthread.

Reported-by: "Xu, Yanfei" &lt;yanfei.xu@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit a9ab9cce9367a2cc02a3c7eb57a004dc0b8f380d ]

Invoking trc_del_holdout() from within trc_wait_for_one_reader() is
only a performance optimization because the RCU Tasks Trace grace-period
kthread will eventually do this within check_all_holdout_tasks_trace().
But it is not a particularly important performance optimization because
it only applies to the grace-period kthread, of which there is but one.
This commit therefore removes this invocation of trc_del_holdout() in
favor of the one in check_all_holdout_tasks_trace() in the grace-period
kthread.

Reported-by: "Xu, Yanfei" &lt;yanfei.xu@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu-tasks: Don't delete holdouts within trc_inspect_reader()</title>
<updated>2021-07-31T06:13:46+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-25T17:12:45+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 1d10bf55d85d34eb73dd8263635f43fd72135d2d ]

As Yanfei pointed out, although invoking trc_del_holdout() is safe
from the viewpoint of the integrity of the holdout list itself,
the put_task_struct() invoked by trc_del_holdout() can result in
use-after-free errors due to later accesses to this task_struct structure
by the RCU Tasks Trace grace-period kthread.

This commit therefore removes this call to trc_del_holdout() from
trc_inspect_reader() in favor of the grace-period thread's existing call
to trc_del_holdout(), thus eliminating that particular class of
use-after-free errors.

Reported-by: "Xu, Yanfei" &lt;yanfei.xu@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 1d10bf55d85d34eb73dd8263635f43fd72135d2d ]

As Yanfei pointed out, although invoking trc_del_holdout() is safe
from the viewpoint of the integrity of the holdout list itself,
the put_task_struct() invoked by trc_del_holdout() can result in
use-after-free errors due to later accesses to this task_struct structure
by the RCU Tasks Trace grace-period kthread.

This commit therefore removes this call to trc_del_holdout() from
trc_inspect_reader() in favor of the grace-period thread's existing call
to trc_del_holdout(), thus eliminating that particular class of
use-after-free errors.

Reported-by: "Xu, Yanfei" &lt;yanfei.xu@windriver.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Reject RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() false positives</title>
<updated>2021-07-20T14:00:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-05T16:51:05+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 3066820034b5dd4e89bd74a7739c51c2d6f5e554 ]

If another lockdep report runs concurrently with an RCU lockdep report
from RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(), the following sequence of events can occur:

1.	debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() sees that lockdep is enabled
	when called from (say) synchronize_rcu().

2.	Lockdep is disabled by a concurrent lockdep report.

3.	debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() evaluates its lockdep-expression
	argument, for example, lock_is_held(&amp;rcu_bh_lock_map).

4.	Because lockdep is now disabled, lock_is_held() plays it safe and
	returns the constant 1.

5.	But in this case, the constant 1 is not safe, because invoking
	synchronize_rcu() under rcu_read_lock_bh() is disallowed.

6.	debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() wrongly invokes lockdep_rcu_suspicious(),
	resulting in a false-positive splat.

This commit therefore changes RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() to check
debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() after checking the lockdep expression,
so that any "safe" returns from lock_is_held() are rejected by
debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled().  This requires memory ordering, which is
supplied by READ_ONCE(debug_locks).  The resulting volatile accesses
prevent the compiler from reordering and the fact that only one variable
is being accessed prevents the underlying hardware from reordering.
The combination works for IA64, which can reorder reads to the same
location, but this is defeated by the volatile accesses, which compile
to load instructions that provide ordering.

Reported-by: syzbot+dde0cc33951735441301@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+88e4f02896967fe1ab0d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Suggested-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 3066820034b5dd4e89bd74a7739c51c2d6f5e554 ]

If another lockdep report runs concurrently with an RCU lockdep report
from RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(), the following sequence of events can occur:

1.	debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() sees that lockdep is enabled
	when called from (say) synchronize_rcu().

2.	Lockdep is disabled by a concurrent lockdep report.

3.	debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() evaluates its lockdep-expression
	argument, for example, lock_is_held(&amp;rcu_bh_lock_map).

4.	Because lockdep is now disabled, lock_is_held() plays it safe and
	returns the constant 1.

5.	But in this case, the constant 1 is not safe, because invoking
	synchronize_rcu() under rcu_read_lock_bh() is disallowed.

6.	debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() wrongly invokes lockdep_rcu_suspicious(),
	resulting in a false-positive splat.

This commit therefore changes RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() to check
debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() after checking the lockdep expression,
so that any "safe" returns from lock_is_held() are rejected by
debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled().  This requires memory ordering, which is
supplied by READ_ONCE(debug_locks).  The resulting volatile accesses
prevent the compiler from reordering and the fact that only one variable
is being accessed prevents the underlying hardware from reordering.
The combination works for IA64, which can reorder reads to the same
location, but this is defeated by the volatile accesses, which compile
to load instructions that provide ordering.

Reported-by: syzbot+dde0cc33951735441301@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: Matthew Wilcox &lt;willy@infradead.org&gt;
Reported-by: syzbot+88e4f02896967fe1ab0d@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Suggested-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>srcu: Fix broken node geometry after early ssp init</title>
<updated>2021-07-20T14:00:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-17T13:16:49+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit b5befe842e6612cf894cf4a199924ee872d8b7d8 ]

An srcu_struct structure that is initialized before rcu_init_geometry()
will have its srcu_node hierarchy based on CONFIG_NR_CPUS.  Once
rcu_init_geometry() is called, this hierarchy is compressed as needed
for the actual maximum number of CPUs for this system.

Later on, that srcu_struct structure is confused, sometimes referring
to its initial CONFIG_NR_CPUS-based hierarchy, and sometimes instead
to the new num_possible_cpus() hierarchy.  For example, each of its
-&gt;mynode fields continues to reference the original leaf rcu_node
structures, some of which might no longer exist.  On the other hand,
srcu_for_each_node_breadth_first() traverses to the new node hierarchy.

There are at least two bad possible outcomes to this:

1) a) A callback enqueued early on an srcu_data structure (call it
      *sdp) is recorded pending on sdp-&gt;mynode-&gt;srcu_data_have_cbs in
      srcu_funnel_gp_start() with sdp-&gt;mynode pointing to a deep leaf
      (say 3 levels).

   b) The grace period ends after rcu_init_geometry() shrinks the
      nodes level to a single one.  srcu_gp_end() walks through the new
      srcu_node hierarchy without ever reaching the old leaves so the
      callback is never executed.

   This is easily reproduced on an 8 CPUs machine with CONFIG_NR_CPUS &gt;= 32
   and "rcupdate.rcu_self_test=1". The srcu_barrier() after early tests
   verification never completes and the boot hangs:

	[ 5413.141029] INFO: task swapper/0:1 blocked for more than 4915 seconds.
	[ 5413.147564]       Not tainted 5.12.0-rc4+ #28
	[ 5413.151927] "echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
	[ 5413.159753] task:swapper/0       state:D stack:    0 pid:    1 ppid:     0 flags:0x00004000
	[ 5413.168099] Call Trace:
	[ 5413.170555]  __schedule+0x36c/0x930
	[ 5413.174057]  ? wait_for_completion+0x88/0x110
	[ 5413.178423]  schedule+0x46/0xf0
	[ 5413.181575]  schedule_timeout+0x284/0x380
	[ 5413.185591]  ? wait_for_completion+0x88/0x110
	[ 5413.189957]  ? mark_held_locks+0x61/0x80
	[ 5413.193882]  ? mark_held_locks+0x61/0x80
	[ 5413.197809]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x24/0x50
	[ 5413.202173]  ? wait_for_completion+0x88/0x110
	[ 5413.206535]  wait_for_completion+0xb4/0x110
	[ 5413.210724]  ? srcu_torture_stats_print+0x110/0x110
	[ 5413.215610]  srcu_barrier+0x187/0x200
	[ 5413.219277]  ? rcu_tasks_verify_self_tests+0x50/0x50
	[ 5413.224244]  ? rdinit_setup+0x2b/0x2b
	[ 5413.227907]  rcu_verify_early_boot_tests+0x2d/0x40
	[ 5413.232700]  do_one_initcall+0x63/0x310
	[ 5413.236541]  ? rdinit_setup+0x2b/0x2b
	[ 5413.240207]  ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x52/0x80
	[ 5413.244912]  kernel_init_freeable+0x253/0x28f
	[ 5413.249273]  ? rest_init+0x250/0x250
	[ 5413.252846]  kernel_init+0xa/0x110
	[ 5413.256257]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

2) An srcu_struct structure that is initialized before rcu_init_geometry()
   and used afterward will always have stale rdp-&gt;mynode references,
   resulting in callbacks to be missed in srcu_gp_end(), just like in
   the previous scenario.

This commit therefore causes init_srcu_struct_nodes to initialize the
geometry, if needed.  This ensures that the srcu_node hierarchy is
properly built and distributed from the get-go.

Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;jiangshanlai@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraju@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit b5befe842e6612cf894cf4a199924ee872d8b7d8 ]

An srcu_struct structure that is initialized before rcu_init_geometry()
will have its srcu_node hierarchy based on CONFIG_NR_CPUS.  Once
rcu_init_geometry() is called, this hierarchy is compressed as needed
for the actual maximum number of CPUs for this system.

Later on, that srcu_struct structure is confused, sometimes referring
to its initial CONFIG_NR_CPUS-based hierarchy, and sometimes instead
to the new num_possible_cpus() hierarchy.  For example, each of its
-&gt;mynode fields continues to reference the original leaf rcu_node
structures, some of which might no longer exist.  On the other hand,
srcu_for_each_node_breadth_first() traverses to the new node hierarchy.

There are at least two bad possible outcomes to this:

1) a) A callback enqueued early on an srcu_data structure (call it
      *sdp) is recorded pending on sdp-&gt;mynode-&gt;srcu_data_have_cbs in
      srcu_funnel_gp_start() with sdp-&gt;mynode pointing to a deep leaf
      (say 3 levels).

   b) The grace period ends after rcu_init_geometry() shrinks the
      nodes level to a single one.  srcu_gp_end() walks through the new
      srcu_node hierarchy without ever reaching the old leaves so the
      callback is never executed.

   This is easily reproduced on an 8 CPUs machine with CONFIG_NR_CPUS &gt;= 32
   and "rcupdate.rcu_self_test=1". The srcu_barrier() after early tests
   verification never completes and the boot hangs:

	[ 5413.141029] INFO: task swapper/0:1 blocked for more than 4915 seconds.
	[ 5413.147564]       Not tainted 5.12.0-rc4+ #28
	[ 5413.151927] "echo 0 &gt; /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
	[ 5413.159753] task:swapper/0       state:D stack:    0 pid:    1 ppid:     0 flags:0x00004000
	[ 5413.168099] Call Trace:
	[ 5413.170555]  __schedule+0x36c/0x930
	[ 5413.174057]  ? wait_for_completion+0x88/0x110
	[ 5413.178423]  schedule+0x46/0xf0
	[ 5413.181575]  schedule_timeout+0x284/0x380
	[ 5413.185591]  ? wait_for_completion+0x88/0x110
	[ 5413.189957]  ? mark_held_locks+0x61/0x80
	[ 5413.193882]  ? mark_held_locks+0x61/0x80
	[ 5413.197809]  ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x24/0x50
	[ 5413.202173]  ? wait_for_completion+0x88/0x110
	[ 5413.206535]  wait_for_completion+0xb4/0x110
	[ 5413.210724]  ? srcu_torture_stats_print+0x110/0x110
	[ 5413.215610]  srcu_barrier+0x187/0x200
	[ 5413.219277]  ? rcu_tasks_verify_self_tests+0x50/0x50
	[ 5413.224244]  ? rdinit_setup+0x2b/0x2b
	[ 5413.227907]  rcu_verify_early_boot_tests+0x2d/0x40
	[ 5413.232700]  do_one_initcall+0x63/0x310
	[ 5413.236541]  ? rdinit_setup+0x2b/0x2b
	[ 5413.240207]  ? rcu_read_lock_sched_held+0x52/0x80
	[ 5413.244912]  kernel_init_freeable+0x253/0x28f
	[ 5413.249273]  ? rest_init+0x250/0x250
	[ 5413.252846]  kernel_init+0xa/0x110
	[ 5413.256257]  ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30

2) An srcu_struct structure that is initialized before rcu_init_geometry()
   and used afterward will always have stale rdp-&gt;mynode references,
   resulting in callbacks to be missed in srcu_gp_end(), just like in
   the previous scenario.

This commit therefore causes init_srcu_struct_nodes to initialize the
geometry, if needed.  This ensures that the srcu_node hierarchy is
properly built and distributed from the get-go.

Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;jiangshanlai@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraju@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Invoke rcu_spawn_core_kthreads() from rcu_spawn_gp_kthread()</title>
<updated>2021-07-14T15:07:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-31T17:59:05+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=75f27ce5b93bdfa05ccbb8faf4dbedca0f38ea84'/>
<id>75f27ce5b93bdfa05ccbb8faf4dbedca0f38ea84</id>
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[ Upstream commit 8e4b1d2bc198e34b48fc7cc3a3c5a2fcb269e271 ]

Currently, rcu_spawn_core_kthreads() is invoked via an early_initcall(),
which works, except that rcu_spawn_gp_kthread() is also invoked via an
early_initcall() and rcu_spawn_core_kthreads() relies on adjustments to
kthread_prio that are carried out by rcu_spawn_gp_kthread().  There is
no guaranttee of ordering among early_initcall() handlers, and thus no
guarantee that kthread_prio will be properly checked and range-limited
at the time that rcu_spawn_core_kthreads() needs it.

In most cases, this bug is harmless.  After all, the only reason that
rcu_spawn_gp_kthread() adjusts the value of kthread_prio is if the user
specified a nonsensical value for this boot parameter, which experience
indicates is rare.

Nevertheless, a bug is a bug.  This commit therefore causes the
rcu_spawn_core_kthreads() function to be invoked directly from
rcu_spawn_gp_kthread() after any needed adjustments to kthread_prio have
been carried out.

Fixes: 48d07c04b4cc ("rcu: Enable elimination of Tree-RCU softirq processing")
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 8e4b1d2bc198e34b48fc7cc3a3c5a2fcb269e271 ]

Currently, rcu_spawn_core_kthreads() is invoked via an early_initcall(),
which works, except that rcu_spawn_gp_kthread() is also invoked via an
early_initcall() and rcu_spawn_core_kthreads() relies on adjustments to
kthread_prio that are carried out by rcu_spawn_gp_kthread().  There is
no guaranttee of ordering among early_initcall() handlers, and thus no
guarantee that kthread_prio will be properly checked and range-limited
at the time that rcu_spawn_core_kthreads() needs it.

In most cases, this bug is harmless.  After all, the only reason that
rcu_spawn_gp_kthread() adjusts the value of kthread_prio is if the user
specified a nonsensical value for this boot parameter, which experience
indicates is rare.

Nevertheless, a bug is a bug.  This commit therefore causes the
rcu_spawn_core_kthreads() function to be invoked directly from
rcu_spawn_gp_kthread() after any needed adjustments to kthread_prio have
been carried out.

Fixes: 48d07c04b4cc ("rcu: Enable elimination of Tree-RCU softirq processing")
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'bitmaprange.2021.03.08a', 'fixes.2021.03.15a', 'kvfree_rcu.2021.03.08a', 'mmdumpobj.2021.03.08a', 'nocb.2021.03.15a', 'poll.2021.03.24a', 'rt.2021.03.08a', 'tasks.2021.03.08a', 'torture.2021.03.08a' and 'torturescript.2021.03.22a' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2021-03-25T00:20:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-25T00:20:18+00:00</published>
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bitmaprange.2021.03.08a:  Allow 3-N for bitmap ranges.
fixes.2021.03.15a:  Miscellaneous fixes.
kvfree_rcu.2021.03.08a:  kvfree_rcu() updates.
mmdumpobj.2021.03.08a:  mem_dump_obj() updates.
nocb.2021.03.15a:  RCU NOCB CPU updates, including limited deoffloading.
poll.2021.03.24a:  Polling grace-period interfaces for RCU.
rt.2021.03.08a:  Realtime-related RCU changes.
tasks.2021.03.08a:  Tasks-RCU updates.
torture.2021.03.08a:  Torture-test updates.
torturescript.2021.03.22a:  Torture-test scripting updates.
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bitmaprange.2021.03.08a:  Allow 3-N for bitmap ranges.
fixes.2021.03.15a:  Miscellaneous fixes.
kvfree_rcu.2021.03.08a:  kvfree_rcu() updates.
mmdumpobj.2021.03.08a:  mem_dump_obj() updates.
nocb.2021.03.15a:  RCU NOCB CPU updates, including limited deoffloading.
poll.2021.03.24a:  Polling grace-period interfaces for RCU.
rt.2021.03.08a:  Realtime-related RCU changes.
tasks.2021.03.08a:  Tasks-RCU updates.
torture.2021.03.08a:  Torture-test updates.
torturescript.2021.03.22a:  Torture-test scripting updates.
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