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authorSebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2014-06-04 15:58:24 +0200
committerTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>2014-06-04 12:12:29 -0400
commit0c36b390a546055b6815d4b93a2c9fed4d980ffb (patch)
treec0ef99ba5fa35881ba8c50ac5d2238daa7e5138a
parent5a838c3b60e3a36ade764cf7751b8f17d7c9c2da (diff)
percpu-refcount: fix usage of this_cpu_ops
The percpu-refcount infrastructure uses the underscore variants of this_cpu_ops in order to modify percpu reference counters. (e.g. __this_cpu_inc()). However the underscore variants do not atomically update the percpu variable, instead they may be implemented using read-modify-write semantics (more than one instruction). Therefore it is only safe to use the underscore variant if the context is always the same (process, softirq, or hardirq). Otherwise it is possible to lose updates. This problem is something that Sebastian has seen within the aio subsystem which uses percpu refcounters both in process and softirq context leading to reference counts that never dropped to zeroes; even though the number of "get" and "put" calls matched. Fix this by using the non-underscore this_cpu_ops variant which provides correct per cpu atomic semantics and fixes the corrupted reference counts. Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.11+ Reported-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> References: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/alpine.LFD.2.11.1406041540520.21183@denkbrett
-rw-r--r--include/linux/percpu-refcount.h6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/percpu-refcount.h b/include/linux/percpu-refcount.h
index 95961f0bf62..0afb48fd449 100644
--- a/include/linux/percpu-refcount.h
+++ b/include/linux/percpu-refcount.h
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ static inline void percpu_ref_get(struct percpu_ref *ref)
pcpu_count = ACCESS_ONCE(ref->pcpu_count);
if (likely(REF_STATUS(pcpu_count) == PCPU_REF_PTR))
- __this_cpu_inc(*pcpu_count);
+ this_cpu_inc(*pcpu_count);
else
atomic_inc(&ref->count);
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ static inline bool percpu_ref_tryget(struct percpu_ref *ref)
pcpu_count = ACCESS_ONCE(ref->pcpu_count);
if (likely(REF_STATUS(pcpu_count) == PCPU_REF_PTR)) {
- __this_cpu_inc(*pcpu_count);
+ this_cpu_inc(*pcpu_count);
ret = true;
}
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@ static inline void percpu_ref_put(struct percpu_ref *ref)
pcpu_count = ACCESS_ONCE(ref->pcpu_count);
if (likely(REF_STATUS(pcpu_count) == PCPU_REF_PTR))
- __this_cpu_dec(*pcpu_count);
+ this_cpu_dec(*pcpu_count);
else if (unlikely(atomic_dec_and_test(&ref->count)))
ref->release(ref);