docs: RCU: Convert lockdep-splat.txt to ReST

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Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2020-04-21 19:04:03 +02:00
committed by Paul E. McKenney
parent 6b05dfacd7
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arrayRCU
checklist
lockdep-splat
rcubarrier
rcu_dereference
whatisRCU

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@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
=================
Lockdep-RCU Splat
=================
Lockdep-RCU was added to the Linux kernel in early 2010
(http://lwn.net/Articles/371986/). This facility checks for some common
misuses of the RCU API, most notably using one of the rcu_dereference()
@@ -12,15 +18,14 @@ overwriting or worse. There can of course be false positives, this
being the real world and all that.
So let's look at an example RCU lockdep splat from 3.0-rc5, one that
has long since been fixed:
has long since been fixed::
=============================
WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
-----------------------------
block/cfq-iosched.c:2776 suspicious rcu_dereference_protected() usage!
other info that might help us debug this:
other info that might help us debug this::
rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
3 locks held by scsi_scan_6/1552:
@@ -60,7 +65,7 @@ Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81097510>] ? __kthread_init_worker+0x70/0x70
[<ffffffff817db150>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb
Line 2776 of block/cfq-iosched.c in v3.0-rc5 is as follows:
Line 2776 of block/cfq-iosched.c in v3.0-rc5 is as follows::
if (rcu_dereference(ioc->ioc_data) == cic) {
@@ -70,7 +75,7 @@ case. Instead, we hold three locks, one of which might be RCU related.
And maybe that lock really does protect this reference. If so, the fix
is to inform RCU, perhaps by changing __cfq_exit_single_io_context() to
take the struct request_queue "q" from cfq_exit_queue() as an argument,
which would permit us to invoke rcu_dereference_protected as follows:
which would permit us to invoke rcu_dereference_protected as follows::
if (rcu_dereference_protected(ioc->ioc_data,
lockdep_is_held(&q->queue_lock)) == cic) {
@@ -85,7 +90,7 @@ On the other hand, perhaps we really do need an RCU read-side critical
section. In this case, the critical section must span the use of the
return value from rcu_dereference(), or at least until there is some
reference count incremented or some such. One way to handle this is to
add rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock() as follows:
add rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock() as follows::
rcu_read_lock();
if (rcu_dereference(ioc->ioc_data) == cic) {
@@ -102,7 +107,7 @@ above lockdep-RCU splat.
But in this particular case, we don't actually dereference the pointer
returned from rcu_dereference(). Instead, that pointer is just compared
to the cic pointer, which means that the rcu_dereference() can be replaced
by rcu_access_pointer() as follows:
by rcu_access_pointer() as follows::
if (rcu_access_pointer(ioc->ioc_data) == cic) {