From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
"Paul E.McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Waiman Long <Waiman.Long@hp.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: qrwlock && read-after-read
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 15:00:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150804130053.GA22608@redhat.com> (raw)
I am working on the (off-topic) bug report which motivated me to
look at locking/qrwlock.c and it seems to me there is a problem
with the queued rwlocks.
Unless I am totally confused read-after-read is no longer valid,
write_lock() stops the new readers. And lockdep doesn't know this,
read_lock()->rwlock_acquire_read() doesn't match the reality. The
code doing
read_lock(X);
read_lock(X);
can deadlock if another CPU does write_lock(X) in between. This
was fine before rwlock_t was changed to use qrwlock.
A nested read_lock() in interrupt should be fine though, and this
is because queue_read_lock_slowpath() "ignores" _QW_WAITING if
in_interrupt().
This means that rwlock_t has the really strange semantics imho,
and again, it is not lockdep-friendly.
What do you think we can/should do? Or did I misread this code?
Oleg.
next reply other threads:[~2015-08-04 13:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-08-04 13:00 Oleg Nesterov [this message]
2015-08-04 13:10 ` qrwlock && read-after-read Peter Zijlstra
2015-08-04 13:40 ` Oleg Nesterov
2015-08-04 17:32 ` Peter Zijlstra
2015-08-04 13:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2015-08-05 13:08 ` Oleg Nesterov
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