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From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: PATCH? rcu_do_batch: fix a pure theoretical memory ordering race
Date: Sun, 3 Dec 2006 00:25:17 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061202212517.GA1199@oleg> (raw)

On top of rcu-add-a-prefetch-in-rcu_do_batch.patch

rcu_do_batch:

	struct rcu_head *next, *list;

	while (list) {
		next = list->next;	<------ [1]
		list->func(list);
		list = next;
	}

We can't trust *list after list->func() call, that is why we load list->next
beforehand. However I suspect in theory this is not enough, suppose that

	- [1] is stalled

	- list->func() marks *list as unused in some way

	- another CPU re-uses this rcu_head and dirties it

	- [1] completes and gets a wrong result

This means we need a barrier in between. mb() looks more suitable, but I think
rmb() should suffice.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>

--- 19-rc6/kernel/rcupdate.c~rdp	2006-12-02 20:46:03.000000000 +0300
+++ 19-rc6/kernel/rcupdate.c	2006-12-02 21:04:12.000000000 +0300
@@ -236,6 +236,8 @@ static void rcu_do_batch(struct rcu_data
 	list = rdp->donelist;
 	while (list) {
 		next = list->next;
+		/* complete the load above before we call ->func() */
+		smp_rmb();
 		prefetch(next);
 		list->func(list);
 		list = next;


             reply	other threads:[~2006-12-02 21:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-02 21:25 Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2006-12-03 17:34 ` PATCH? rcu_do_batch: fix a pure theoretical memory ordering race Eric Dumazet
2006-12-03 20:01   ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-12-03 20:34     ` Eric Dumazet
2006-12-03 22:12       ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-12-03 23:08         ` Eric Dumazet
2006-12-03 23:46           ` Oleg Nesterov
2006-12-04 16:43 ` Paul E. McKenney

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