Re: [PATCH 2/5] rhashtable: don't hold lock on first table throughout insertion.

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Jul 31 2018 - 10:44:40 EST


On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 03:04:48PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 30 2018, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Jul 31, 2018 at 10:45:45AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> >> On Fri, Jul 27 2018, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >>
> >> > On Thu, Jul 26, 2018 at 08:18:15PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >> >> On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 11:04:37AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> >> >> > On Wed, Jul 25 2018, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> >> >> > >>
> >> >> > >> Looks good ... except ... naming is hard.
> >> >> > >>
> >> >> > >> is_after_call_rcu_init() asserts where in the lifecycle we are,
> >> >> > >> is_after_call_rcu() tests where in the lifecycle we are.
> >> >> > >>
> >> >> > >> The names are similar but the purpose is quite different.
> >> >> > >> Maybe s/is_after_call_rcu_init/call_rcu_init/ ??
> >> >> > >
> >> >> > > How about rcu_head_init() and rcu_head_after_call_rcu()?
> >> >>
> >> >> Very well, I will pull this change in on my next rebase.
> >> >
> >> > Like this?
> >>
> >> Hard to say - unwinding white-space damage in my head is too challenging
> >> when newlines have been deleted :-(
> >
> > What??? Don't you like block-structured code?
> >
> > All kidding aside, how about the following more conventionally formatted
> > version?
>
> Wow - it's like I just got new glasses!
> Yes - nice an clear and now flaws to be found. Thanks a lot.

Now that flaws are to be found, please feel free to report them. ;-)

Thanx, Paul

> NeilBrown
>
> >
> > Thanx, Paul
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > commit e3408141ed7d702995b2fdc94703af88aadd226b
> > Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Tue Jul 24 15:28:09 2018 -0700
> >
> > rcu: Provide functions for determining if call_rcu() has been invoked
> >
> > This commit adds rcu_head_init() and rcu_head_after_call_rcu() functions
> > to help RCU users detect when another CPU has passed the specified
> > rcu_head structure and function to call_rcu(). The rcu_head_init()
> > should be invoked before making the structure visible to RCU readers,
> > and then the rcu_head_after_call_rcu() may be invoked from within
> > an RCU read-side critical section on an rcu_head structure that
> > was obtained during a traversal of the data structure in question.
> > The rcu_head_after_call_rcu() function will return true if the rcu_head
> > structure has already been passed (with the specified function) to
> > call_rcu(), otherwise it will return false.
> >
> > If rcu_head_init() has not been invoked on the rcu_head structure
> > or if the rcu_head (AKA callback) has already been invoked, then
> > rcu_head_after_call_rcu() will do WARN_ON_ONCE().
> >
> > Reported-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > [ paulmck: Apply neilb naming feedback. ]
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> > index e4f821165d0b..4db8bcacc51a 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> > @@ -857,6 +857,46 @@ static inline notrace void rcu_read_unlock_sched_notrace(void)
> > #endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE */
> >
> >
> > +/* Has the specified rcu_head structure been handed to call_rcu()? */
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * rcu_head_init - Initialize rcu_head for rcu_head_after_call_rcu()
> > + * @rhp: The rcu_head structure to initialize.
> > + *
> > + * If you intend to invoke rcu_head_after_call_rcu() to test whether a
> > + * given rcu_head structure has already been passed to call_rcu(), then
> > + * you must also invoke this rcu_head_init() function on it just after
> > + * allocating that structure. Calls to this function must not race with
> > + * calls to call_rcu(), rcu_head_after_call_rcu(), or callback invocation.
> > + */
> > +static inline void rcu_head_init(struct rcu_head *rhp)
> > +{
> > + rhp->func = (rcu_callback_t)~0L;
> > +}
> > +
> > +/*
> > + * rcu_head_after_call_rcu - Has this rcu_head been passed to call_rcu()?
> > + * @rhp: The rcu_head structure to test.
> > + * @func: The function passed to call_rcu() along with @rhp.
> > + *
> > + * Returns @true if the @rhp has been passed to call_rcu() with @func,
> > + * and @false otherwise. Emits a warning in any other case, including
> > + * the case where @rhp has already been invoked after a grace period.
> > + * Calls to this function must not race with callback invocation. One way
> > + * to avoid such races is to enclose the call to rcu_head_after_call_rcu()
> > + * in an RCU read-side critical section that includes a read-side fetch
> > + * of the pointer to the structure containing @rhp.
> > + */
> > +static inline bool
> > +rcu_head_after_call_rcu(struct rcu_head *rhp, rcu_callback_t f)
> > +{
> > + if (READ_ONCE(rhp->func) == f)
> > + return true;
> > + WARN_ON_ONCE(READ_ONCE(rhp->func) != (rcu_callback_t)~0L);
> > + return false;
> > +}
> > +
> > +
> > /* Transitional pre-consolidation compatibility definitions. */
> >
> > static inline void synchronize_rcu_bh(void)
> > diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcu.h b/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
> > index 5dec94509a7e..4c56c1d98fb3 100644
> > --- a/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
> > +++ b/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
> > @@ -224,6 +224,7 @@ void kfree(const void *);
> > */
> > static inline bool __rcu_reclaim(const char *rn, struct rcu_head *head)
> > {
> > + rcu_callback_t f;
> > unsigned long offset = (unsigned long)head->func;
> >
> > rcu_lock_acquire(&rcu_callback_map);
> > @@ -234,7 +235,9 @@ static inline bool __rcu_reclaim(const char *rn, struct rcu_head *head)
> > return true;
> > } else {
> > RCU_TRACE(trace_rcu_invoke_callback(rn, head);)
> > - head->func(head);
> > + f = head->func;
> > + WRITE_ONCE(head->func, (rcu_callback_t)0L);
> > + f(head);
> > rcu_lock_release(&rcu_callback_map);
> > return false;
> > }