From: "Ahmed S. Darwish" <a.darwish@linutronix.de>
To: Varad Gautam <varad.gautam@suse.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org,
Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfrm: policy: Read seqcount outside of rcu-read side in xfrm_policy_lookup_bytype
Date: Fri, 28 May 2021 17:11:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YLEIEa6DLjgd5mu5@lx-t490> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210528120357.29542-1-varad.gautam@suse.com>
On Fri, May 28, 2021, Varad Gautam wrote:
...
>
> Thead 1 (xfrm_hash_resize) Thread 2 (xfrm_policy_lookup_bytype)
>
> rcu_read_lock();
> mutex_lock(&hash_resize_mutex);
> read_seqcount_begin(&xfrm_policy_hash_generation);
> mutex_lock(&hash_resize_mutex); // block
> xfrm_bydst_resize();
> synchronize_rcu(); // block
> <RCU stalls in xfrm_policy_lookup_bytype>
>
...
> Fixes: a7c44247f70 ("xfrm: policy: make xfrm_policy_lookup_bytype lockless")
Minor note: the 'Fixes' commit should be 77cc278f7b20 ("xfrm: policy:
Use sequence counters with associated lock") instead.
The reason read_seqcount_begin() is emitting a mutex_lock() on
PREEMPT_RT is because of the s/seqcount_t/seqcount_mutex_t/ change.
Kind regards,
--
Ahmed S. Darwish
Linutronix GmbH
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-28 15:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-28 12:03 [PATCH] xfrm: policy: Read seqcount outside of rcu-read side in xfrm_policy_lookup_bytype Varad Gautam
2021-05-28 15:11 ` Ahmed S. Darwish [this message]
2021-05-28 16:06 ` Varad Gautam
2021-05-28 16:04 ` [PATCH v2] " Varad Gautam
2021-05-28 16:44 ` Ahmed S. Darwish
2021-06-03 8:16 ` Steffen Klassert
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