Re: [PATCH] rcu: tree: correctly handle sparse possible CPUs

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Mon May 16 2016 - 15:19:55 EST

On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 05:48:26PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> In many cases in the RCU tree code, we iterate over the set of CPUS for
> a leaf node described by rcu_node::grplo and rcu_node::grphi, checking
> per-cpu data for each CPU in this range. However, if the set of possible
> CPUs is sparse, some CPUs described in this range are not possible, and
> thus no per-cpu region will have been allocated (or initialised) for
> them by the generic percpu code.
>
> Erroneous accesses to a per-cpu area for these !possible CPUs may fault
> or may hit other data depending on the addressed generated when the
> erroneous per cpu offset is applied. In practice, both cases have been
> observed on arm64 hardware (the former being silent, but detectable with
> additional patches).
>
> To avoid issues resulting from this, we must iterate over the set of
> *possible* cpus for a given leaf node. This patch adds new helpers to
> enable this (also unifying and simplifying some related bitmask
> manipulation logic), and moves the RCU tree code over to them.
>
> Without this patch, running reboot at a shell can result in an oops
> like:
>
> [ 3369.075979] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffff8008b21b4c
> [ 3369.083881] pgd = ffffffc3ecdda000
> [ 3369.087270] [ffffff8008b21b4c] *pgd=00000083eca48003, *pud=00000083eca48003, *pmd=0000000000000000
> [ 3369.096222] Internal error: Oops: 96000007 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
> [ 3369.101781] Modules linked in:
> [ 3369.104825] CPU: 2 PID: 1817 Comm: NetworkManager Tainted: G W 4.6.0+ #3
> [ 3369.121239] task: ffffffc0fa13e000 ti: ffffffc3eb940000 task.ti: ffffffc3eb940000
> [ 3369.128708] PC is at sync_rcu_exp_select_cpus+0x188/0x510
> [ 3369.134094] LR is at sync_rcu_exp_select_cpus+0x104/0x510
> [ 3369.139479] pc : [<ffffff80081109a8>] lr : [<ffffff8008110924>] pstate: 200001c5
> [ 3369.146860] sp : ffffffc3eb9435a0
> [ 3369.150162] x29: ffffffc3eb9435a0 x28: ffffff8008be4f88
> [ 3369.155465] x27: ffffff8008b66c80 x26: ffffffc3eceb2600
> [ 3369.160767] x25: 0000000000000001 x24: ffffff8008be4f88
> [ 3369.166070] x23: ffffff8008b51c3c x22: ffffff8008b66c80
> [ 3369.171371] x21: 0000000000000001 x20: ffffff8008b21b40
> [ 3369.176673] x19: ffffff8008b66c80 x18: 0000000000000000
> [ 3369.181975] x17: 0000007fa951a010 x16: ffffff80086a30f0
> [ 3369.187278] x15: 0000007fa9505590 x14: 0000000000000000
> [ 3369.192580] x13: ffffff8008b51000 x12: ffffffc3eb940000
> [ 3369.197882] x11: 0000000000000006 x10: ffffff8008b51b78
> [ 3369.203184] x9 : 0000000000000001 x8 : ffffff8008be4000
> [ 3369.208486] x7 : ffffff8008b21b40 x6 : 0000000000001003
> [ 3369.213788] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : ffffff8008b27280
> [ 3369.219090] x3 : ffffff8008b21b4c x2 : 0000000000000001
> [ 3369.224406] x1 : 0000000000000001 x0 : 0000000000000140
> ...
> [ 3369.972257] [<ffffff80081109a8>] sync_rcu_exp_select_cpus+0x188/0x510
> [ 3369.978685] [<ffffff80081128b4>] synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x64/0xa8
> [ 3369.985026] [<ffffff80086b987c>] synchronize_net+0x24/0x30
> [ 3369.990499] [<ffffff80086ddb54>] dev_deactivate_many+0x28c/0x298
> [ 3369.996493] [<ffffff80086b6bb8>] __dev_close_many+0x60/0xd0
> [ 3370.002052] [<ffffff80086b6d48>] __dev_close+0x28/0x40
> [ 3370.007178] [<ffffff80086bf62c>] __dev_change_flags+0x8c/0x158
> [ 3370.012999] [<ffffff80086bf718>] dev_change_flags+0x20/0x60
> [ 3370.018558] [<ffffff80086cf7f0>] do_setlink+0x288/0x918
> [ 3370.023771] [<ffffff80086d0798>] rtnl_newlink+0x398/0x6a8
> [ 3370.029158] [<ffffff80086cee84>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0xe4/0x220
> [ 3370.034891] [<ffffff80086e274c>] netlink_rcv_skb+0xc4/0xf8
> [ 3370.040364] [<ffffff80086ced8c>] rtnetlink_rcv+0x2c/0x40
> [ 3370.045663] [<ffffff80086e1fe8>] netlink_unicast+0x160/0x238
> [ 3370.051309] [<ffffff80086e24b8>] netlink_sendmsg+0x2f0/0x358
> [ 3370.056956] [<ffffff80086a0070>] sock_sendmsg+0x18/0x30
> [ 3370.062168] [<ffffff80086a21cc>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x26c/0x280
> [ 3370.067728] [<ffffff80086a30ac>] __sys_sendmsg+0x44/0x88
> [ 3370.073027] [<ffffff80086a3100>] SyS_sendmsg+0x10/0x20
> [ 3370.078153] [<ffffff8008085e70>] el0_svc_naked+0x24/0x28

Nice fix and simplification!

Could you please forward-port this to branch rcu/dev of -rcu?

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git

Thanx, Paul


> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
> Reported-by: Dennis Chen <dennis.chen@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
> kernel/rcu/tree.c | 30 +++++++++++++-----------------
> kernel/rcu/tree.h | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
> 2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> index 9a535a8..2923df3 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> @@ -1235,15 +1235,16 @@ static void rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation(struct rcu_state *rsp)
> static void rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(struct rcu_state *rsp)
> {
> int cpu;
> + unsigned long bit;
> unsigned long flags;
> struct rcu_node *rnp;
>
> rcu_for_each_leaf_node(rsp, rnp) {
> raw_spin_lock_irqsave_rcu_node(rnp, flags);
> if (rnp->qsmask != 0) {
> - for (cpu = 0; cpu <= rnp->grphi - rnp->grplo; cpu++)
> - if (rnp->qsmask & (1UL << cpu))
> - dump_cpu_task(rnp->grplo + cpu);
> + for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu_bit(rnp, cpu, bit)
> + if (rnp->qsmask & bit)
> + dump_cpu_task(cpu);
> }
> raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore_rcu_node(rnp, flags);
> }
> @@ -1252,6 +1253,7 @@ static void rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(struct rcu_state *rsp)
> static void print_other_cpu_stall(struct rcu_state *rsp, unsigned long gpnum)
> {
> int cpu;
> + unsigned long bit;
> long delta;
> unsigned long flags;
> unsigned long gpa;
> @@ -1284,10 +1286,9 @@ static void print_other_cpu_stall(struct rcu_state *rsp, unsigned long gpnum)
> raw_spin_lock_irqsave_rcu_node(rnp, flags);
> ndetected += rcu_print_task_stall(rnp);
> if (rnp->qsmask != 0) {
> - for (cpu = 0; cpu <= rnp->grphi - rnp->grplo; cpu++)
> - if (rnp->qsmask & (1UL << cpu)) {
> - print_cpu_stall_info(rsp,
> - rnp->grplo + cpu);
> + for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu_bit(rnp, cpu, bit)
> + if (rnp->qsmask & bit) {
> + print_cpu_stall_info(rsp, cpu);
> ndetected++;
> }
> }
> @@ -2823,9 +2824,7 @@ static void force_qs_rnp(struct rcu_state *rsp,
> continue;
> }
> }
> - cpu = rnp->grplo;
> - bit = 1;
> - for (; cpu <= rnp->grphi; cpu++, bit <<= 1) {
> + for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu_bit(rnp, cpu, bit) {
> if ((rnp->qsmask & bit) != 0) {
> if (f(per_cpu_ptr(rsp->rda, cpu), isidle, maxj))
> mask |= bit;
> @@ -3690,7 +3689,7 @@ static void sync_rcu_exp_select_cpus(struct rcu_state *rsp,
>
> /* Each pass checks a CPU for identity, offline, and idle. */
> mask_ofl_test = 0;
> - for (cpu = rnp->grplo; cpu <= rnp->grphi; cpu++) {
> + for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu(rnp, cpu) {
> struct rcu_data *rdp = per_cpu_ptr(rsp->rda, cpu);
> struct rcu_dynticks *rdtp = &per_cpu(rcu_dynticks, cpu);
>
> @@ -3710,8 +3709,7 @@ static void sync_rcu_exp_select_cpus(struct rcu_state *rsp,
> raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore_rcu_node(rnp, flags);
>
> /* IPI the remaining CPUs for expedited quiescent state. */
> - mask = 1;
> - for (cpu = rnp->grplo; cpu <= rnp->grphi; cpu++, mask <<= 1) {
> + for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu_bit(rnp, cpu, mask) {
> if (!(mask_ofl_ipi & mask))
> continue;
> retry_ipi:
> @@ -3774,8 +3772,7 @@ static void synchronize_sched_expedited_wait(struct rcu_state *rsp)
> ndetected = 0;
> rcu_for_each_leaf_node(rsp, rnp) {
> ndetected = rcu_print_task_exp_stall(rnp);
> - mask = 1;
> - for (cpu = rnp->grplo; cpu <= rnp->grphi; cpu++, mask <<= 1) {
> + for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu_bit(rnp, cpu, mask) {
> struct rcu_data *rdp;
>
> if (!(rnp->expmask & mask))
> @@ -3807,8 +3804,7 @@ static void synchronize_sched_expedited_wait(struct rcu_state *rsp)
> pr_cont("\n");
> }
> rcu_for_each_leaf_node(rsp, rnp) {
> - mask = 1;
> - for (cpu = rnp->grplo; cpu <= rnp->grphi; cpu++, mask <<= 1) {
> + for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu_bit(rnp, cpu, mask) {
> if (!(rnp->expmask & mask))
> continue;
> dump_cpu_task(cpu);
> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.h b/kernel/rcu/tree.h
> index df668c0..d823b8e 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.h
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.h
> @@ -283,6 +283,24 @@ struct rcu_node {
> (rnp) < &(rsp)->node[rcu_num_nodes]; (rnp)++)
>
> /*
> + * Iterate over all possible CPUs in a leaf RCU node.
> + */
> +#define for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu(rnp, cpu) \
> + for ((cpu) = rnp->grplo; \
> + cpu <= rnp->grphi; \
> + cpu = cpumask_next((cpu), cpu_possible_mask))
> +
> +/*
> + * Iterate over all possible CPUs in a leaf RCU node, at each step providing a
> + * bit for comparison against rcu_node bitmasks.
> + */
> +#define for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu_bit(rnp, cpu, bit) \
> + for ((cpu) = rnp->grplo, (bit) = 1; \
> + cpu <= rnp->grphi; \
> + cpu = cpumask_next((cpu), cpu_possible_mask), \
> + (bit) = 1UL << (cpu - rnp->grplo))
> +
> +/*
> * Union to allow "aggregate OR" operation on the need for a quiescent
> * state by the normal and expedited grace periods.
> */
> --
> 1.9.1
>