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author | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2012-10-26 11:40:28 +0200 |
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committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2012-10-28 00:42:00 +0200 |
commit | 2c5594df344cd1ff0cc9bf007dea3235582b3acf (patch) | |
tree | c41a0f3ca974f722d517ee87b956c716b2c69a11 /Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt | |
parent | Linux 3.7-rc2 (diff) | |
download | linux-2c5594df344cd1ff0cc9bf007dea3235582b3acf.tar.xz linux-2c5594df344cd1ff0cc9bf007dea3235582b3acf.zip |
rcu: Fix unrecovered RCU user mode in syscall_trace_leave()
On x86-64 syscall exit, 3 non exclusive events may happen
looping in the following order:
1) Check if we need resched for user preemption, if so call
schedule_user()
2) Check if we have pending signals, if so call do_notify_resume()
3) Check if we do syscall tracing, if so call syscall_trace_leave()
However syscall_trace_leave() has been written assuming it directly
follows the syscall and forget about the above possible 1st and 2nd
steps.
Now schedule_user() and do_notify_resume() exit in RCU user mode
because they have most chances to resume userspace immediately and
this avoids an rcu_user_enter() call in the syscall fast path.
So by the time we call syscall_trace_leave(), we may well be in RCU
user mode. To fix this up, simply call rcu_user_exit() in the beginning
of this function.
This fixes some reported RCU uses in extended quiescent state.
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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