linux/kernel/srcu.c
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   1/*
   2 * Sleepable Read-Copy Update mechanism for mutual exclusion.
   3 *
   4 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   5 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   6 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
   7 * (at your option) any later version.
   8 *
   9 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  10 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  11 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  12 * GNU General Public License for more details.
  13 *
  14 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  15 * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  16 * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
  17 *
  18 * Copyright (C) IBM Corporation, 2006
  19 *
  20 * Author: Paul McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
  21 *
  22 * For detailed explanation of Read-Copy Update mechanism see -
  23 *              Documentation/RCU/ *.txt
  24 *
  25 */
  26
  27#include <linux/module.h>
  28#include <linux/mutex.h>
  29#include <linux/percpu.h>
  30#include <linux/preempt.h>
  31#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
  32#include <linux/sched.h>
  33#include <linux/slab.h>
  34#include <linux/smp.h>
  35#include <linux/srcu.h>
  36
  37/**
  38 * init_srcu_struct - initialize a sleep-RCU structure
  39 * @sp: structure to initialize.
  40 *
  41 * Must invoke this on a given srcu_struct before passing that srcu_struct
  42 * to any other function.  Each srcu_struct represents a separate domain
  43 * of SRCU protection.
  44 */
  45int init_srcu_struct(struct srcu_struct *sp)
  46{
  47        sp->completed = 0;
  48        mutex_init(&sp->mutex);
  49        sp->per_cpu_ref = alloc_percpu(struct srcu_struct_array);
  50        return (sp->per_cpu_ref ? 0 : -ENOMEM);
  51}
  52
  53/*
  54 * srcu_readers_active_idx -- returns approximate number of readers
  55 *      active on the specified rank of per-CPU counters.
  56 */
  57
  58static int srcu_readers_active_idx(struct srcu_struct *sp, int idx)
  59{
  60        int cpu;
  61        int sum;
  62
  63        sum = 0;
  64        for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
  65                sum += per_cpu_ptr(sp->per_cpu_ref, cpu)->c[idx];
  66        return sum;
  67}
  68
  69/**
  70 * srcu_readers_active - returns approximate number of readers.
  71 * @sp: which srcu_struct to count active readers (holding srcu_read_lock).
  72 *
  73 * Note that this is not an atomic primitive, and can therefore suffer
  74 * severe errors when invoked on an active srcu_struct.  That said, it
  75 * can be useful as an error check at cleanup time.
  76 */
  77int srcu_readers_active(struct srcu_struct *sp)
  78{
  79        return srcu_readers_active_idx(sp, 0) + srcu_readers_active_idx(sp, 1);
  80}
  81
  82/**
  83 * cleanup_srcu_struct - deconstruct a sleep-RCU structure
  84 * @sp: structure to clean up.
  85 *
  86 * Must invoke this after you are finished using a given srcu_struct that
  87 * was initialized via init_srcu_struct(), else you leak memory.
  88 */
  89void cleanup_srcu_struct(struct srcu_struct *sp)
  90{
  91        int sum;
  92
  93        sum = srcu_readers_active(sp);
  94        WARN_ON(sum);  /* Leakage unless caller handles error. */
  95        if (sum != 0)
  96                return;
  97        free_percpu(sp->per_cpu_ref);
  98        sp->per_cpu_ref = NULL;
  99}
 100
 101/**
 102 * srcu_read_lock - register a new reader for an SRCU-protected structure.
 103 * @sp: srcu_struct in which to register the new reader.
 104 *
 105 * Counts the new reader in the appropriate per-CPU element of the
 106 * srcu_struct.  Must be called from process context.
 107 * Returns an index that must be passed to the matching srcu_read_unlock().
 108 */
 109int srcu_read_lock(struct srcu_struct *sp)
 110{
 111        int idx;
 112
 113        preempt_disable();
 114        idx = sp->completed & 0x1;
 115        barrier();  /* ensure compiler looks -once- at sp->completed. */
 116        per_cpu_ptr(sp->per_cpu_ref, smp_processor_id())->c[idx]++;
 117        srcu_barrier();  /* ensure compiler won't misorder critical section. */
 118        preempt_enable();
 119        return idx;
 120}
 121
 122/**
 123 * srcu_read_unlock - unregister a old reader from an SRCU-protected structure.
 124 * @sp: srcu_struct in which to unregister the old reader.
 125 * @idx: return value from corresponding srcu_read_lock().
 126 *
 127 * Removes the count for the old reader from the appropriate per-CPU
 128 * element of the srcu_struct.  Note that this may well be a different
 129 * CPU than that which was incremented by the corresponding srcu_read_lock().
 130 * Must be called from process context.
 131 */
 132void srcu_read_unlock(struct srcu_struct *sp, int idx)
 133{
 134        preempt_disable();
 135        srcu_barrier();  /* ensure compiler won't misorder critical section. */
 136        per_cpu_ptr(sp->per_cpu_ref, smp_processor_id())->c[idx]--;
 137        preempt_enable();
 138}
 139
 140/**
 141 * synchronize_srcu - wait for prior SRCU read-side critical-section completion
 142 * @sp: srcu_struct with which to synchronize.
 143 *
 144 * Flip the completed counter, and wait for the old count to drain to zero.
 145 * As with classic RCU, the updater must use some separate means of
 146 * synchronizing concurrent updates.  Can block; must be called from
 147 * process context.
 148 *
 149 * Note that it is illegal to call synchornize_srcu() from the corresponding
 150 * SRCU read-side critical section; doing so will result in deadlock.
 151 * However, it is perfectly legal to call synchronize_srcu() on one
 152 * srcu_struct from some other srcu_struct's read-side critical section.
 153 */
 154void synchronize_srcu(struct srcu_struct *sp)
 155{
 156        int idx;
 157
 158        idx = sp->completed;
 159        mutex_lock(&sp->mutex);
 160
 161        /*
 162         * Check to see if someone else did the work for us while we were
 163         * waiting to acquire the lock.  We need -two- advances of
 164         * the counter, not just one.  If there was but one, we might have
 165         * shown up -after- our helper's first synchronize_sched(), thus
 166         * having failed to prevent CPU-reordering races with concurrent
 167         * srcu_read_unlock()s on other CPUs (see comment below).  So we
 168         * either (1) wait for two or (2) supply the second ourselves.
 169         */
 170
 171        if ((sp->completed - idx) >= 2) {
 172                mutex_unlock(&sp->mutex);
 173                return;
 174        }
 175
 176        synchronize_sched();  /* Force memory barrier on all CPUs. */
 177
 178        /*
 179         * The preceding synchronize_sched() ensures that any CPU that
 180         * sees the new value of sp->completed will also see any preceding
 181         * changes to data structures made by this CPU.  This prevents
 182         * some other CPU from reordering the accesses in its SRCU
 183         * read-side critical section to precede the corresponding
 184         * srcu_read_lock() -- ensuring that such references will in
 185         * fact be protected.
 186         *
 187         * So it is now safe to do the flip.
 188         */
 189
 190        idx = sp->completed & 0x1;
 191        sp->completed++;
 192
 193        synchronize_sched();  /* Force memory barrier on all CPUs. */
 194
 195        /*
 196         * At this point, because of the preceding synchronize_sched(),
 197         * all srcu_read_lock() calls using the old counters have completed.
 198         * Their corresponding critical sections might well be still
 199         * executing, but the srcu_read_lock() primitives themselves
 200         * will have finished executing.
 201         */
 202
 203        while (srcu_readers_active_idx(sp, idx))
 204                schedule_timeout_interruptible(1);
 205
 206        synchronize_sched();  /* Force memory barrier on all CPUs. */
 207
 208        /*
 209         * The preceding synchronize_sched() forces all srcu_read_unlock()
 210         * primitives that were executing concurrently with the preceding
 211         * for_each_possible_cpu() loop to have completed by this point.
 212         * More importantly, it also forces the corresponding SRCU read-side
 213         * critical sections to have also completed, and the corresponding
 214         * references to SRCU-protected data items to be dropped.
 215         *
 216         * Note:
 217         *
 218         *      Despite what you might think at first glance, the
 219         *      preceding synchronize_sched() -must- be within the
 220         *      critical section ended by the following mutex_unlock().
 221         *      Otherwise, a task taking the early exit can race
 222         *      with a srcu_read_unlock(), which might have executed
 223         *      just before the preceding srcu_readers_active() check,
 224         *      and whose CPU might have reordered the srcu_read_unlock()
 225         *      with the preceding critical section.  In this case, there
 226         *      is nothing preventing the synchronize_sched() task that is
 227         *      taking the early exit from freeing a data structure that
 228         *      is still being referenced (out of order) by the task
 229         *      doing the srcu_read_unlock().
 230         *
 231         *      Alternatively, the comparison with "2" on the early exit
 232         *      could be changed to "3", but this increases synchronize_srcu()
 233         *      latency for bulk loads.  So the current code is preferred.
 234         */
 235
 236        mutex_unlock(&sp->mutex);
 237}
 238
 239/**
 240 * srcu_batches_completed - return batches completed.
 241 * @sp: srcu_struct on which to report batch completion.
 242 *
 243 * Report the number of batches, correlated with, but not necessarily
 244 * precisely the same as, the number of grace periods that have elapsed.
 245 */
 246
 247long srcu_batches_completed(struct srcu_struct *sp)
 248{
 249        return sp->completed;
 250}
 251
 252EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_srcu_struct);
 253EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cleanup_srcu_struct);
 254EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(srcu_read_lock);
 255EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(srcu_read_unlock);
 256EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(synchronize_srcu);
 257EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(srcu_batches_completed);
 258EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(srcu_readers_active);
 259