locking/rwsem-xadd: Fix missed wakeup due to reordering of load
authorPrateek Sood <prsood@codeaurora.org>
Thu, 7 Sep 2017 14:30:58 +0000 (20:00 +0530)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Fri, 29 Sep 2017 08:10:20 +0000 (10:10 +0200)
If a spinner is present, there is a chance that the load of
rwsem_has_spinner() in rwsem_wake() can be reordered with
respect to decrement of rwsem count in __up_write() leading
to wakeup being missed:

 spinning writer                  up_write caller
 ---------------                  -----------------------
 [S] osq_unlock()                 [L] osq
  spin_lock(wait_lock)
  sem->count=0xFFFFFFFF00000001
            +0xFFFFFFFF00000000
  count=sem->count
  MB
                                   sem->count=0xFFFFFFFE00000001
                                             -0xFFFFFFFF00000001
                                   spin_trylock(wait_lock)
                                   return
 rwsem_try_write_lock(count)
 spin_unlock(wait_lock)
 schedule()

Reordering of atomic_long_sub_return_release() in __up_write()
and rwsem_has_spinner() in rwsem_wake() can cause missing of
wakeup in up_write() context. In spinning writer, sem->count
and local variable count is 0XFFFFFFFE00000001. It would result
in rwsem_try_write_lock() failing to acquire rwsem and spinning
writer going to sleep in rwsem_down_write_failed().

The smp_rmb() will make sure that the spinner state is
consulted after sem->count is updated in up_write context.

Signed-off-by: Prateek Sood <prsood@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Cc: longman@redhat.com
Cc: parri.andrea@gmail.com
Cc: sramana@codeaurora.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1504794658-15397-1-git-send-email-prsood@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c

index 02f660666ab8976ea51215427050d1fe3807326f..1fefe6dcafd7403a9b172e11ebd0f41d35332211 100644 (file)
@@ -612,6 +612,33 @@ struct rw_semaphore *rwsem_wake(struct rw_semaphore *sem)
        unsigned long flags;
        DEFINE_WAKE_Q(wake_q);
 
+       /*
+       * __rwsem_down_write_failed_common(sem)
+       *   rwsem_optimistic_spin(sem)
+       *     osq_unlock(sem->osq)
+       *   ...
+       *   atomic_long_add_return(&sem->count)
+       *
+       *      - VS -
+       *
+       *              __up_write()
+       *                if (atomic_long_sub_return_release(&sem->count) < 0)
+       *                  rwsem_wake(sem)
+       *                    osq_is_locked(&sem->osq)
+       *
+       * And __up_write() must observe !osq_is_locked() when it observes the
+       * atomic_long_add_return() in order to not miss a wakeup.
+       *
+       * This boils down to:
+       *
+       * [S.rel] X = 1                [RmW] r0 = (Y += 0)
+       *         MB                         RMB
+       * [RmW]   Y += 1               [L]   r1 = X
+       *
+       * exists (r0=1 /\ r1=0)
+       */
+       smp_rmb();
+
        /*
         * If a spinner is present, it is not necessary to do the wakeup.
         * Try to do wakeup only if the trylock succeeds to minimize