rcu-tasks: Eliminate deadlocks involving do_exit() and RCU tasks
Holding a mutex across synchronize_rcu_tasks() and acquiring that same mutex in code called from do_exit() after its call to exit_tasks_rcu_start() but before its call to exit_tasks_rcu_stop() results in deadlock. This is by design, because tasks that are far enough into do_exit() are no longer present on the tasks list, making it a bit difficult for RCU Tasks to find them, let alone wait on them to do a voluntary context switch. However, such deadlocks are becoming more frequent. In addition, lockdep currently does not detect such deadlocks and they can be difficult to reproduce. In addition, if a task voluntarily context switches during that time (for example, if it blocks acquiring a mutex), then this task is in an RCU Tasks quiescent state. And with some adjustments, RCU Tasks could just as well take advantage of that fact. This commit therefore eliminates these deadlock by replacing the SRCU-based wait for do_exit() completion with per-CPU lists of tasks currently exiting. A given task will be on one of these per-CPU lists for the same period of time that this task would previously have been in the previous SRCU read-side critical section. These lists enable RCU Tasks to find the tasks that have already been removed from the tasks list, but that must nevertheless be waited upon. The RCU Tasks grace period gathers any of these do_exit() tasks that it must wait on, and adds them to the list of holdouts. Per-CPU locking and get_task_struct() are used to synchronize addition to and removal from these lists. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240118021842.290665-1-chenzhongjin@huawei.com/ Reported-by: Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@huawei.com> Reported-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Tested-by: Yang Jihong <yangjihong1@huawei.com> Tested-by: Chen Zhongjin <chenzhongjin@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
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