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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mingo@kernel.org, jiangshanlai@gmail.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
	josh@joshtriplett.org, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com,
	fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 5/6] rcu: Add comment giving debug strategy for double call_rcu()
Date: Fri,  1 Dec 2017 11:41:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1512157320-23205-5-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171201194139.GA22722@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

The following statement has for some reason proven non-intuitive:

	WARN_ON_ONCE(rcu_segcblist_empty(&rdp->cblist) != (count == 0));

This commit therefore adds a comment that states that this warning
usually triggers in response to a double call_rcu(), which is sort
of like a double free.  The comment also suggests building with
CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD=y to track down the double call_rcu().

Reported-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 70c48c279323..a63b14ba3a44 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -2789,6 +2789,11 @@ static void rcu_do_batch(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_data *rdp)
 		rdp->n_force_qs_snap = rsp->n_force_qs;
 	} else if (count < rdp->qlen_last_fqs_check - qhimark)
 		rdp->qlen_last_fqs_check = count;
+
+	/*
+	 * The following usually indicates a double call_rcu().  To track
+	 * this down, try building with CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD=y.
+	 */
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(rcu_segcblist_empty(&rdp->cblist) != (count == 0));
 
 	local_irq_restore(flags);
-- 
2.5.2

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-12-01 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-12-01 19:41 [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/6] Miscellaneous fixes for v4.16 Paul E. McKenney
2017-12-01 19:41 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 1/6] srcu: Prohibit call_srcu() use under raw spinlocks Paul E. McKenney
2017-12-01 19:41 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 2/6] srcu: Change printk() %p to %pK Paul E. McKenney
2017-12-02  1:27   ` Lai Jiangshan
2017-12-04 18:31     ` Paul E. McKenney
2017-12-01 19:41 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 3/6] rcu: " Paul E. McKenney
2017-12-01 19:41 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 4/6] tracing, rcu: Hide trace event rcu_nocb_wake when not used Paul E. McKenney
2017-12-01 19:41 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2017-12-01 19:42 ` [PATCH tip/core/rcu 6/6] rcu: Remove have_rcu_nocb_mask from tree_plugin.h Paul E. McKenney

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