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authorZhaolong Zhang2020-03-05 14:56:11 -0800
committerPaul E. McKenney2020-04-27 11:01:16 -0700
commitfcbcc0e700500fcecf24b9b705825135de30415e (patch)
tree74634d1d883a87d969ca2a737c66a2b3b85dc8bc /kernel
parent1fca4d12f46371a34bf90af87f49548dd026c3ca (diff)
rcu: Fix the (t=0 jiffies) false positive
It is possible that an over-long grace period will end while the RCU CPU stall warning message is printing. In this case, the estimate of the offending grace period's duration can be erroneous due to refetching of rcu_state.gp_start, which will now be the time of the newly started grace period. Computation of this duration clearly needs to use the start time for the old over-long grace period, not the fresh new one. This commit avoids such errors by causing both print_other_cpu_stall() and print_cpu_stall() to reuse the value previously fetched by their caller. Signed-off-by: Zhaolong Zhang <zhangzl2013@126.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
index e7da1111ab0c..3a7bc99e78e3 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ static void rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation(void)
}
}
-static void print_other_cpu_stall(unsigned long gp_seq)
+static void print_other_cpu_stall(unsigned long gp_seq, unsigned long gps)
{
int cpu;
unsigned long flags;
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ static void print_other_cpu_stall(unsigned long gp_seq)
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
totqlen += rcu_get_n_cbs_cpu(cpu);
pr_cont("\t(detected by %d, t=%ld jiffies, g=%ld, q=%lu)\n",
- smp_processor_id(), (long)(jiffies - rcu_state.gp_start),
+ smp_processor_id(), (long)(jiffies - gps),
(long)rcu_seq_current(&rcu_state.gp_seq), totqlen);
if (ndetected) {
rcu_dump_cpu_stacks();
@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ static void print_other_cpu_stall(unsigned long gp_seq)
rcu_force_quiescent_state(); /* Kick them all. */
}
-static void print_cpu_stall(void)
+static void print_cpu_stall(unsigned long gps)
{
int cpu;
unsigned long flags;
@@ -467,7 +467,7 @@ static void print_cpu_stall(void)
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
totqlen += rcu_get_n_cbs_cpu(cpu);
pr_cont("\t(t=%lu jiffies g=%ld q=%lu)\n",
- jiffies - rcu_state.gp_start,
+ jiffies - gps,
(long)rcu_seq_current(&rcu_state.gp_seq), totqlen);
rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation();
@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ static void check_cpu_stall(struct rcu_data *rdp)
cmpxchg(&rcu_state.jiffies_stall, js, jn) == js) {
/* We haven't checked in, so go dump stack. */
- print_cpu_stall();
+ print_cpu_stall(gps);
if (rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump)
rcu_ftrace_dump(DUMP_ALL);
@@ -555,7 +555,7 @@ static void check_cpu_stall(struct rcu_data *rdp)
cmpxchg(&rcu_state.jiffies_stall, js, jn) == js) {
/* They had a few time units to dump stack, so complain. */
- print_other_cpu_stall(gs2);
+ print_other_cpu_stall(gs2, gps);
if (rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump)
rcu_ftrace_dump(DUMP_ALL);
}