rcu: fix misplaced mb() in rcu_enter/exit_nohz()
In the process of writing up the mechanical proof of correctness for the
dynticks/preemptable-RCU interface, I noticed misplaced memory barriers in
rcu_enter_nohz() and rcu_exit_nohz().
This patch puts them in the right place and adds a comment. The key thing to
keep in mind is that rcu_enter_nohz() is -exiting- the mode that can legally
execute RCU read-side critical sections.
The memory barrier must be between any potential RCU read-side critical
sections and the increment of the per-CPU dynticks_progress_counter, and thus
must come -before- this increment. And vice versa for rcu_exit_nohz().
The locking in the scheduler is probably saving us for the moment.
Also, switch to smp_mb() - we don't need a barrier for uniprocessor kernels.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/rcupreempt.h b/include/linux/rcupreempt.h
index 01152ed..d038aa6 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupreempt.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupreempt.h
@@ -87,15 +87,15 @@
static inline void rcu_enter_nohz(void)
{
+ smp_mb(); /* CPUs seeing ++ must see prior RCU read-side crit sects */
__get_cpu_var(dynticks_progress_counter)++;
WARN_ON(__get_cpu_var(dynticks_progress_counter) & 0x1);
- mb();
}
static inline void rcu_exit_nohz(void)
{
- mb();
__get_cpu_var(dynticks_progress_counter)++;
+ smp_mb(); /* CPUs seeing ++ must see later RCU read-side crit sects */
WARN_ON(!(__get_cpu_var(dynticks_progress_counter) & 0x1));
}