rcu: Eliminate deadlock between CPU hotplug and expedited grace periods

Currently, the expedited grace-period primitives do get_online_cpus().
This greatly simplifies their implementation, but means that calls
to them holding locks that are acquired by CPU-hotplug notifiers (to
say nothing of calls to these primitives from CPU-hotplug notifiers)
can deadlock.  But this is starting to become inconvenient, as can be
seen here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/5/754.  The problem in this
case is that some developers need to acquire a mutex from a CPU-hotplug
notifier, but also need to hold it across a synchronize_rcu_expedited().
As noted above, this currently results in deadlock.

This commit avoids the deadlock and retains the simplicity by creating
a try_get_online_cpus(), which returns false if the get_online_cpus()
reference count could not immediately be incremented.  If a call to
try_get_online_cpus() returns true, the expedited primitives operate as
before.  If a call returns false, the expedited primitives fall back to
normal grace-period operations.  This falling back of course results in
increased grace-period latency, but only during times when CPU hotplug
operations are actually in flight.  The effect should therefore be
negligible during normal operation.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Tested-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/cpu.h b/include/linux/cpu.h
index 95978ad7fcdd..b2d9a43012b2 100644
--- a/include/linux/cpu.h
+++ b/include/linux/cpu.h
@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ extern struct bus_type cpu_subsys;
 extern void cpu_hotplug_begin(void);
 extern void cpu_hotplug_done(void);
 extern void get_online_cpus(void);
+extern bool try_get_online_cpus(void);
 extern void put_online_cpus(void);
 extern void cpu_hotplug_disable(void);
 extern void cpu_hotplug_enable(void);
@@ -230,6 +231,7 @@ int cpu_down(unsigned int cpu);
 static inline void cpu_hotplug_begin(void) {}
 static inline void cpu_hotplug_done(void) {}
 #define get_online_cpus()       do { } while (0)
+#define try_get_online_cpus()   true
 #define put_online_cpus()       do { } while (0)
 #define cpu_hotplug_disable()   do { } while (0)
 #define cpu_hotplug_enable()    do { } while (0)