From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756489AbbHDNmt (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2015 09:42:49 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:59166 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756447AbbHDNms (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Aug 2015 09:42:48 -0400 Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 15:40:43 +0200 From: Oleg Nesterov To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Ingo Molnar , Linus Torvalds , "Paul E.McKenney" , Waiman Long , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: qrwlock && read-after-read Message-ID: <20150804134043.GA24252@redhat.com> References: <20150804130053.GA22608@redhat.com> <20150804131036.GQ25159@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150804131036.GQ25159@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 08/04, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 04, 2015 at 03:00:53PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > > 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 Unless I am totally confused read-after-read is no longer valid, 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? > > Fix lockdep, although that's non trivial from what I remember. > > These (new) semantics were very much on purpose and suggested by Linus > IIRC. Hmm, OK. Lets fix the lockdep annotaions? Oleg. --- x/include/linux/rwlock_api_smp.h +++ x/include/linux/rwlock_api_smp.h @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ static inline int __raw_write_trylock(rw static inline void __raw_read_lock(rwlock_t *lock) { preempt_disable(); - rwlock_acquire_read(&lock->dep_map, 0, 0, _RET_IP_); + lock_acquire(..., /* read */ in_interrupt() 2 : 1, ...); LOCK_CONTENDED(lock, do_raw_read_trylock, do_raw_read_lock); }