4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Prateek Sood prsood@codeaurora.org
commit 9c29c31830a4eca724e137a9339137204bbb31be upstream.
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... Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar mingo@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Amit Pundir amit.pundir@linaro.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
--- kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
--- a/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c +++ b/kernel/locking/rwsem-xadd.c @@ -511,6 +511,33 @@ struct rw_semaphore *rwsem_wake(struct r unsigned long flags;
/* + * __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 * spinlock contention which may introduce too much delay in the