rcu/tree: Defer setting of jiffies during stall reset
authorJoel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Tue, 5 Sep 2023 00:02:11 +0000 (00:02 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 28 Nov 2023 17:07:11 +0000 (17:07 +0000)
commit8d837850d3ec6340245edab27a26b15789f94f66
treed3b7338de3b4d46d16ff2d0477d0d594205f1599
parent6aa3cab6be11f06cb91757c5b4e52c9ed8193cf1
rcu/tree: Defer setting of jiffies during stall reset

commit b96e7a5fa0ba9cda32888e04f8f4bac42d49a7f8 upstream.

There are instances where rcu_cpu_stall_reset() is called when jiffies
did not get a chance to update for a long time. Before jiffies is
updated, the CPU stall detector can go off triggering false-positives
where a just-started grace period appears to be ages old. In the past,
we disabled stall detection in rcu_cpu_stall_reset() however this got
changed [1]. This is resulting in false-positives in KGDB usecase [2].

Fix this by deferring the update of jiffies to the third run of the FQS
loop. This is more robust, as, even if rcu_cpu_stall_reset() is called
just before jiffies is read, we would end up pushing out the jiffies
read by 3 more FQS loops. Meanwhile the CPU stall detection will be
delayed and we will not get any false positives.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210521155624.174524-2-senozhatsky@chromium.org/
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230814020045.51950-2-chenhuacai@loongson.cn/

Tested with rcutorture.cpu_stall option as well to verify stall behavior
with/without patch.

Tested-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn>
Reported-by: Binbin Zhou <zhoubinbin@loongson.cn>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230814020045.51950-2-chenhuacai@loongson.cn/
Suggested-by: Paul McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a80be428fbc1 ("rcu: Do not disable GP stall detection in rcu_cpu_stall_reset()")
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
kernel/rcu/tree.c
kernel/rcu/tree.h
kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h