Fix: rculfhash worker needs to unblock to SIGRCU
authorhewenliang <hewenliang4@huawei.com>
Tue, 17 Sep 2019 14:59:18 +0000 (10:59 -0400)
committerMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Wed, 18 Sep 2019 14:57:43 +0000 (10:57 -0400)
commit92fa459028138d2f36d43d57ef4321699569acd9
treea6a6726f69582fe93cc368c184ae6822afbc5bd6
parentacf42845b924c52120db489c204eb35467a30427
Fix: rculfhash worker needs to unblock to SIGRCU

In urcu-signal flavor, call_rcu_thread calls synchronize_rcu which
will send SIGRCU signal to all registed threads, and then loops to
wait need_mb to be cleared. However, the registed workqueue_thread
does not process the SIGRCU signal, and never clear the need_mb.
Based on above, call_rcu_thread and workqueue_thread will wait
forever for completion of the grace period: call_rcu_thread which holds
the rcu_registry_lock, waits for workqueue_thread to do cmm_smp_mb.
While workqueue thread never does cmm_smp_mb because of signal blocking,
and it will eventually wait to get rcu_registry_lock in do_resize_cb.

The phenomenon is as follows, which is easy to be triggered:

(gdb) t 2
[Switching to thread 2 (Thread 0xffff83c3b080 (LWP 27116))]
0  0x0000ffff845296c4 in poll () from /lib64/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
0 0x0000ffff845296c4 in poll () from /lib64/libc.so.6
1 0x0000ffff8461b93c in force_mb_all_readers () at urcu.c:241
2 0x0000ffff8461c748 in smp_mb_master () at urcu.c:249
3 urcu_signal_synchronize_rcu () at urcu.c:445
4 0x0000ffff8461d004 in call_rcu_thread  at urcu-call-rcu-impl.h:364
5 0x0000ffff845eb8bc in start_thread () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
6 0x0000ffff845335cc in thread_start () from /lib64/libc.so.6
(gdb) t 3
[Switching to thread 3 (Thread 0xffff8443c080 (LWP 27191))]
0 0x0000ffff845f51c4 in __lll_lock_wait () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
(gdb) bt
0 0x0000ffff845f51c4 in __lll_lock_wait () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
1 0x0000ffff845ee048 in pthread_mutex_lock () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
2 0x0000ffff8461b814 in mutex_lock ( <rcu_registry_lock>) at urcu.c:157
3 0x0000ffff8461b9e4 in urcu_signal_unregister_thread () at urcu.c:564
4 0x0000ffff8463e62c in do_resize_cb (work=0x11e2e790) at rculfhash.c:2042
5 0x0000ffff8463c940 in workqueue_thread (arg=0x11e1d260) at workqueue.c:228
6 0x0000ffff845eb8bc in start_thread () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
7 0x0000ffff845335cc in thread_start () from /lib64/libc.so.6

So we should not block SIGRCU in workqueue thread to avoid blocking
forever in the grace period awaiting on the worker thread when using
urcu-signal flavor.

Signed-off-by: hewenliang <hewenliang4@huawei.com>
Co-developed-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
include/Makefile.am
include/urcu/static/urcu-signal-nr.h [new file with mode: 0644]
include/urcu/static/urcu-signal.h
src/rculfhash.c
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