On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 11:59:55AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2025 at 08:12:51PM +0100, Uladzislau Rezki wrote:
> > Hello, Paul!
> >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Except that I got this from overnight testing of rcu/dev on the
> > > > > > > shared
> > > > > > > RCU tree:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > WARNING: CPU: 5 PID: 14 at kernel/rcu/tree.c:1636
> > > > > > > rcu_sr_normal_complete+0x5c/0x80
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I see this only on TREE05. Which should not be too surprising,
> > > > > > > given
> > > > > > > that this is the scenario that tests it. It happened within five
> > > > > > > minutes
> > > > > > > on all 14 of the TREE05 runs.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > Hm.. This is not fun. I tested this on my system and i did not
> > > > > > manage to
> > > > > > trigger this whereas you do. Something is wrong.
> > > > >
> > > > > If you have a debug patch, I would be happy to give it a go.
> > > > >
> > > > I can trigger it. But.
> > > >
> > > > Some background. I tested those patches during many hours on the stable
> > > > kernel which is 6.13. On that kernel i was not able to trigger it.
> > > > Running
> > > > the rcutorture on the our shared "dev" tree, which i did now, triggers
> > > > this
> > > > right away.
> > >
> > > Bisection? (Hey, you knew that was coming!)
> > >
> > Looks like this: rcu: Fix get_state_synchronize_rcu_full() GP-start
> > detection
> >
> > After revert in the dev, rcutorture passes TREE05, 16 instances.
>
> Huh. We sure don't get to revert that one...
>
> Do we have a problem with the ordering in rcu_gp_init() between the calls
> to rcu_seq_start() and portions of rcu_sr_normal_gp_init()? For example,
> do we need to capture the relevant portion of the list before the call
> to rcu_seq_start(), and do the grace-period-start work afterwards?
I tried moving the call to rcu_sr_normal_gp_init() before the call to
rcu_seq_start() and got no failures in a one-hour run of 200*TREE05.
Which does not necessarily mean that this is the correct fix, but I
figured that it might at least provide food for thought.
Thanx, Paul
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diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 48384fa2eaeb8..d3efeff7740e7 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -1819,10 +1819,10 @@ static noinline_for_stack bool rcu_gp_init(void)
/* Advance to a new grace period and initialize state. */
record_gp_stall_check_time();
+ start_new_poll = rcu_sr_normal_gp_init();
/* Record GP times before starting GP, hence rcu_seq_start(). */
rcu_seq_start(&rcu_state.gp_seq);
ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_WRITER(rcu_state.gp_seq);
- start_new_poll = rcu_sr_normal_gp_init();
trace_rcu_grace_period(rcu_state.name, rcu_state.gp_seq, TPS("start"));
rcu_poll_gp_seq_start(&rcu_state.gp_seq_polled_snap);
raw_spin_unlock_irq_rcu_node(rnp);
