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authorMathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>2010-04-17 08:48:42 -0400
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2010-06-14 19:37:26 -0400
commit551d55a944b143ef26fbd482d1c463199d6f65cf (patch)
tree6911d3f8e8719ba5ca43c83acdf87cbc8276d7d1 /lib
parent875352c94224c88f5aa28cb77206f993bd31b7a2 (diff)
tree/tiny rcu: Add debug RCU head objects
Helps finding racy users of call_rcu(), which results in hangs because list entries are overwritten and/or skipped. Changelog since v4: - Bissectability is now OK - Now generate a WARN_ON_ONCE() for non-initialized rcu_head passed to call_rcu(). Statically initialized objects are detected with object_is_static(). - Rename rcu_head_init_on_stack to init_rcu_head_on_stack. - Remove init_rcu_head() completely. Changelog since v3: - Include comments from Lai Jiangshan This new patch version is based on the debugobjects with the newly introduced "active state" tracker. Non-initialized entries are all considered as "statically initialized". An activation fixup (triggered by call_rcu()) takes care of performing the debug object initialization without issuing any warning. Since we cannot increase the size of struct rcu_head, I don't see much room to put an identifier for statically initialized rcu_head structures. So for now, we have to live without "activation without explicit init" detection. But the main purpose of this debug option is to detect double-activations (double call_rcu() use of a rcu_head before the callback is executed), which is correctly addressed here. This also detects potential internal RCU callback corruption, which would cause the callbacks to be executed twice. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org CC: mingo@elte.hu CC: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com CC: dipankar@in.ibm.com CC: josh@joshtriplett.org CC: dvhltc@us.ibm.com CC: niv@us.ibm.com CC: tglx@linutronix.de CC: peterz@infradead.org CC: rostedt@goodmis.org CC: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu CC: dhowells@redhat.com CC: eric.dumazet@gmail.com CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/Kconfig.debug6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index e722e9d62221..142faa2ec665 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -307,6 +307,12 @@ config DEBUG_OBJECTS_WORK
307 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and 307 work queue routines to track the life time of work objects and
308 validate the work operations. 308 validate the work operations.
309 309
310config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
311 bool "Debug RCU callbacks objects"
312 depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS && PREEMPT
313 help
314 Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage).
315
310config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT 316config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT
311 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" 317 int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)"
312 range 0 1 318 range 0 1