[PATCH RFC LKMM 3/7] tools/memory-model: Add SRCU support

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Jan 09 2019 - 16:08:15 EST


From: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Add support for SRCU. Herd creates srcu events and linux-kernel.def
associates them with three possible annotations (srcu-lock,
srcu-unlock, and sync-srcu) corresponding to the API routines
srcu_read_lock(), srcu_read_unlock(), and synchronize_srcu().

The linux-kernel.bell file now declares the annotations
and determines matching lock/unlock pairs delimiting SRCU read-side
critical sections, and it also checks for synchronize_srcu() calls
inside an RCU critical section (which would generate a "sleeping in
atomic context" error in real kernel code). The linux-kernel.cat file
now adds SRCU-induced ordering, analogous to the existing RCU-induced
ordering, to the gp and rcu-fence relations.

Curiously enough, these small changes to the model's .cat code are all
that is needed to describe SRCU.

Portions of this patch (linux-kernel.def and the first hunk in
linux-kernel.bell) were written by Luc Maranget.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC: Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat | 18 ++++++++++++++----
tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.def | 5 +++++
3 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell b/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell
index 353c8d68e030..9c42cd9ddcb4 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell
+++ b/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.bell
@@ -33,6 +33,12 @@ enum Barriers = 'wmb (*smp_wmb*) ||
'after-unlock-lock (*smp_mb__after_unlock_lock*)
instructions F[Barriers]

+(* SRCU *)
+enum SRCU = 'srcu-lock || 'srcu-unlock || 'sync-srcu
+instructions SRCU[SRCU]
+(* All srcu events *)
+let Srcu = Srcu-lock | Srcu-unlock | Sync-srcu
+
(* Compute matching pairs of nested Rcu-lock and Rcu-unlock *)
let rcu-rscs = let rec
unmatched-locks = Rcu-lock \ domain(matched)
@@ -48,3 +54,22 @@ let rcu-rscs = let rec
(* Validate nesting *)
flag ~empty Rcu-lock \ domain(rcu-rscs) as unbalanced-rcu-locking
flag ~empty Rcu-unlock \ range(rcu-rscs) as unbalanced-rcu-locking
+
+(* Compute matching pairs of nested Srcu-lock and Srcu-unlock *)
+let srcu-rscs = let rec
+ unmatched-locks = Srcu-lock \ domain(matched)
+ and unmatched-unlocks = Srcu-unlock \ range(matched)
+ and unmatched = unmatched-locks | unmatched-unlocks
+ and unmatched-po = ([unmatched] ; po ; [unmatched]) & loc
+ and unmatched-locks-to-unlocks =
+ ([unmatched-locks] ; po ; [unmatched-unlocks]) & loc
+ and matched = matched | (unmatched-locks-to-unlocks \
+ (unmatched-po ; unmatched-po))
+ in matched
+
+(* Validate nesting *)
+flag ~empty Srcu-lock \ domain(srcu-rscs) as unbalanced-srcu-locking
+flag ~empty Srcu-unlock \ range(srcu-rscs) as unbalanced-srcu-locking
+
+(* Check for use of synchronize_srcu() inside an RCU critical section *)
+flag ~empty rcu-rscs & (po ; [Sync-srcu] ; po) as invalid-sleep
diff --git a/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat b/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat
index b8e6197f05af..8dcb37835b61 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat
+++ b/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.cat
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ let mb = ([M] ; fencerel(Mb) ; [M]) |
([M] ; po? ; [LKW] ; fencerel(After-spinlock) ; [M]) |
([M] ; po ; [UL] ; (co | po) ; [LKW] ;
fencerel(After-unlock-lock) ; [M])
-let gp = po ; [Sync-rcu] ; po?
+let gp = po ; [Sync-rcu | Sync-srcu] ; po?

let strong-fence = mb | gp

@@ -92,15 +92,18 @@ acyclic pb as propagation

(*
* Effects of read-side critical sections proceed from the rcu_read_unlock()
- * backwards on the one hand, and from the rcu_read_lock() forwards on the
- * other hand.
+ * or srcu_read_unlock() backwards on the one hand, and from the
+ * rcu_read_lock() or srcu_read_lock() forwards on the other hand.
*
* In the definition of rcu-fence below, the po term at the left-hand side
* of each disjunct and the po? term at the right-hand end have been factored
* out. They have been moved into the definitions of rcu-link and rb.
+ * This was necessary in order to apply the "& loc" tests correctly.
*)
let rcu-gp = [Sync-rcu] (* Compare with gp *)
+let srcu-gp = [Sync-srcu]
let rcu-rscsi = rcu-rscs^-1
+let srcu-rscsi = srcu-rscs^-1

(*
* The synchronize_rcu() strong fence is special in that it can order not
@@ -112,12 +115,19 @@ let rcu-link = po? ; hb* ; pb* ; prop ; po
(*
* Any sequence containing at least as many grace periods as RCU read-side
* critical sections (joined by rcu-link) acts as a generalized strong fence.
+ * Likewise for SRCU grace periods and read-side critical sections, provided
+ * the synchronize_srcu() and srcu_read_[un]lock() calls refer to the same
+ * struct srcu_struct location.
*)
-let rec rcu-fence = rcu-gp |
+let rec rcu-fence = rcu-gp | srcu-gp |
(rcu-gp ; rcu-link ; rcu-rscsi) |
+ ((srcu-gp ; rcu-link ; srcu-rscsi) & loc) |
(rcu-rscsi ; rcu-link ; rcu-gp) |
+ ((srcu-rscsi ; rcu-link ; srcu-gp) & loc) |
(rcu-gp ; rcu-link ; rcu-fence ; rcu-link ; rcu-rscsi) |
+ ((srcu-gp ; rcu-link ; rcu-fence ; rcu-link ; srcu-rscsi) & loc) |
(rcu-rscsi ; rcu-link ; rcu-fence ; rcu-link ; rcu-gp) |
+ ((srcu-rscsi ; rcu-link ; rcu-fence ; rcu-link ; srcu-gp) & loc) |
(rcu-fence ; rcu-link ; rcu-fence)

(* rb orders instructions just as pb does *)
diff --git a/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.def b/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.def
index b27911cc087d..1d6a120cde14 100644
--- a/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.def
+++ b/tools/memory-model/linux-kernel.def
@@ -47,6 +47,11 @@ rcu_read_unlock() { __fence{rcu-unlock}; }
synchronize_rcu() { __fence{sync-rcu}; }
synchronize_rcu_expedited() { __fence{sync-rcu}; }

+// SRCU
+srcu_read_lock(X) __srcu{srcu-lock}(X)
+srcu_read_unlock(X,Y) { __srcu{srcu-unlock}(X); }
+synchronize_srcu(X) { __srcu{sync-srcu}(X); }
+
// Atomic
atomic_read(X) READ_ONCE(*X)
atomic_set(X,V) { WRITE_ONCE(*X,V); }
--
2.17.1