From 5ff8e6f0535fe730e921ca347bc38dcb9e01791a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 22:11:11 +0100 Subject: rcu: Keep gpnum and completed fields synchronized When a CPU that was in an extended quiescent state wakes up and catches up with grace periods that remote CPUs completed on its behalf, we update the completed field but not the gpnum that keeps a stale value of a backward grace period ID. Later, note_new_gpnum() will interpret the shift between the local CPU and the node grace period ID as some new grace period to handle and will then start to hunt quiescent state. But if every grace periods have already been completed, this interpretation becomes broken. And we'll be stuck in clusters of spurious softirqs because rcu_report_qs_rdp() will make this broken state run into infinite loop. The solution, as suggested by Lai Jiangshan, is to ensure that the gpnum and completed fields are well synchronized when we catch up with completed grace periods on their behalf by other cpus. This way we won't start noting spurious new grace periods. Suggested-by: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt --- kernel/rcutree.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c index 916f42b39f1e..8105271fc10e 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c @@ -679,6 +679,15 @@ __rcu_process_gp_end(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_node *rnp, struct rcu_dat /* Remember that we saw this grace-period completion. */ rdp->completed = rnp->completed; + /* + * If we were in an extended quiescent state, we may have + * missed some grace periods that others CPUs took care on + * our behalf. Catch up with this state to avoid noting + * spurious new grace periods. + */ + if (rdp->completed > rdp->gpnum) + rdp->gpnum = rdp->completed; + /* * If another CPU handled our extended quiescent states and * we have no more grace period to complete yet, then stop -- cgit v1.2.3