From 3acd9eb31c5f7eb97cb2009fa41472710fb4a10f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:05:03 -0800 Subject: rcu: Fix deadlock in TREE_PREEMPT_RCU CPU stall detection Under TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, print_other_cpu_stall() invokes rcu_print_task_stall() with the root rcu_node structure's ->lock held, and rcu_print_task_stall() acquires that same lock for self-deadlock. Fix this by removing the lock acquisition from rcu_print_task_stall(), and making all callers acquire the lock instead. Tested-by: John Kacur Tested-by: Thomas Gleixner Located-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-19-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/rcutree_plugin.h | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/rcutree_plugin.h') diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h index a8b2e83..aecfe37 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h +++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h @@ -318,18 +318,15 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__rcu_read_unlock); */ static void rcu_print_task_stall(struct rcu_node *rnp) { - unsigned long flags; struct list_head *lp; int phase; struct task_struct *t; if (rcu_preempted_readers(rnp)) { - raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rnp->lock, flags); phase = rnp->gpnum & 0x1; lp = &rnp->blocked_tasks[phase]; list_for_each_entry(t, lp, rcu_node_entry) printk(" P%d", t->pid); - raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags); } } -- cgit v1.1