rcu/nocb: Invert rcu_state.barrier_mutex VS hotplug lock locking order
authorZqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Tue, 19 Apr 2022 12:23:19 +0000 (14:23 +0200)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tue, 19 Jul 2022 18:42:55 +0000 (11:42 -0700)
commit24a57affd242566fef2935f04f062350b8275187
tree269ce158ef07284de881e3b7134eaaf77b192dc3
parent1598f4a4762be0ea6a1bcd229c2c9ff1ebb212bb
rcu/nocb: Invert rcu_state.barrier_mutex VS hotplug lock locking order

In case of failure to spawn either rcuog or rcuo[p] kthreads for a given
rdp, rcu_nocb_rdp_deoffload() needs to be called with the hotplug
lock and the barrier_mutex held. However cpus write lock is already held
while calling rcutree_prepare_cpu(). It's not possible to call
rcu_nocb_rdp_deoffload() from there with just locking the barrier_mutex
or this would result in a locking inversion against
rcu_nocb_cpu_deoffload() which holds both locks in the reverse order.

Simply solve this with inverting the locking order inside
rcu_nocb_cpu_[de]offload(). This will be a pre-requisite to toggle NOCB
states toward cpusets anyway.

Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <uladzislau.rezki@sony.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h