Hi,
Alan Stern <st...@rowland.harvard.edu> writes:
> On Fri, 2 Sep 2016, Felipe Balbi wrote:
>
>> I'm thinking we might have a race WRT our use of memory barriers; could
>> it be?
>>
>> /me goes try
>>
>> Yeah, I've converted all smp_[wr]mb() to smp_mb() and the problem went
>> away (apparently). It was failing on first iteration of my test but it
>> has now been running for over 20 iterations without a problem.
>>
>> Now we just need to figure out which of the barriers is wrong.
>
> I just noticed that the kerneldoc for wake_up_process() says that the
> caller should assume a write memory barrier if and only if any tasks
> are woken up. So if the task is already running, there is no barrier.
>
> This means that in f_mass_storage's wakeup_thread(), there may be a
> race involving wake_up_process() reading the thread's state and the
> write to common->thread_wakeup_needed.
>
> wakeup_thread():
> common->thread_wakeup_needed = 1;
> wake_up_process(common->thread_task);
> /* reads the thread's state */
>
> sleep_thread():
> set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> if (common->thread_wakeup_needed)
> break;
>
> Now, set_current_state() implicitly has a memory barrier at the end.
> But since wake_up_process() doesn't always add a barrier the start,
> we may need to do this explicitly.
>
> Without that barrier, the CPU might execute the read in
> wake_up_process() before setting thread_wakeup_needed to 1. Then
> sleep_thread() would slip through the crack, and the thread wouldn't
> run.
>
> You can try adding smp_mb() in wakeup_thread(), just before the call to
> wake_up_process().
heh, it would've taken me weeks to figure this out :-) thanks
BTW, what are those barriers protecting in g_mass_storage? Its own
internal flags or the task state?
If it's protecting own flags, then isn't the following enough?
diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_mass_storage.c
b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_mass_storage.c
index 8f3659b65f53..e3b03decdb6b 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_mass_storage.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/function/f_mass_storage.c
@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ static int fsg_set_halt(struct fsg_dev *fsg, struct usb_ep
*ep)
/* Caller must hold fsg->lock */
static void wakeup_thread(struct fsg_common *common)
{
- smp_wmb(); /* ensure the write of bh->state is complete */
+ smp_mb(); /* ensure the write of bh->state is complete */
/* Tell the main thread that something has happened */
common->thread_wakeup_needed = 1;
if (common->thread_task)
I'm probably missing some detail here :-s
--
balbi
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