rcu: Update lockdep while in RCU read-side critical section
With Ankur's lazy-/auto-preemption patches applied and with a lazy-preemptible kernel in combination with a non-preemptible RCU, lockdep sometimes complains about context switches within RCU read-side critical sections. This is a false positive due to rcu_read_unlock() updating lockdep state too late: __release(RCU); __rcu_read_unlock(); // Context switch here results in lockdep false positive!!! rcu_lock_release(&rcu_lock_map); /* Keep acq info for rls diags. */ Although this complaint could also happen with preemptible RCU in a preemptible kernel, the odds of that happening aer quite low. In constrast, with non-preemptible RCU, a long critical section has a high probability of performing a context switch from the preempt_enable() in __rcu_read_unlock(). The fix is straightforward, just move the rcu_lock_release() within rcu_read_unlock() to obtain the reverse order from that of rcu_read_lock(): rcu_lock_release(&rcu_lock_map); /* Keep acq info for rls diags. */ __release(RCU); __rcu_read_unlock(); This commit makes this change. Co-developed-by:Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Co-developed-by:
Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by:
Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Co-developed-by:
Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Reviewed-by:
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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