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On 05/04/2018 03:49 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>> Yes just one more ;-). I am trying to write a 'probetorture' test inspired
>> by RCU torture that whacks the tracepoints in various scenarios. One of the
>> things I want to do is verify the RCU callbacks are queued and secondly,
>> they are executed. Just to verify that the garbage collect was done and
>> we're not leaking the function probe table (not that I don't have
>> confidence in the chained callback technique which you mentioned, but it
>> would be nice to assure this mechanism is working for tracepoints).
>>
>> Is there a way to detect this given a reference to srcu_struct? Mathieu and
>> we were chatting about srcu_barrier which is cool but that just tells me
>> that if there was a callback queued, it would have executed after the
>> readers were done. But not whether something was queued.
>
> Suppose that you are queuing an RCU callback that in turn queues an SRCU
> callback on my_srcu_struct, like this:
>
> void my_rcu_callback(struct rcu_head *rhp)
> {
> p = container_of(rhp, struct my_struct, my_rcu_head);
>
> free_it_up_or_down(p);
> }
>
> void my_srcu_callback(struct rcu_head *rhp)
> {
> call_rcu(rhp, my_rcu_callback);
> }
>
> call_srcu(&my_srcu_struct, &p->my_rcu_head, my_srcu_callback);
>
> Then to make sure that any previously submitted callback has been fully
> processed, you do this:
>
> rcu_barrier();
> srcu_barrier(&my_srcu_struct);
>
> Of course if you queue in the opposite order, like this:
>
> void my_srcu_callback(struct rcu_head *rhp)
> {
> p = container_of(rhp, struct my_struct, my_rcu_head);
>
> free_it_up_or_down(p);
> }
>
> void my_rcu_callback(struct rcu_head *rhp)
> {
> call_srcu(&my_srcu_struct, &p->my_rcu_head, my_srcu_callback);
> }
>
> call_rcu(rhp, my_rcu_callback);
>
> Then you must wait in the opposite order:
>
> rcu_barrier();
> srcu_barrier(&my_srcu_struct);
>
> Either way, the trick is that the first *_barrier() call cannot return
> until after all previous callbacks have executed, which means that by that
> time the callback is enqueued for the other flavor of {S,}RCU. So the
> second *_barrier() call must wait for the callback to be completely done,
> through both flavors of {S,}RCU.
>
> So after executing the pair of *_barrier() calls, you know that the
> callback is no longer queued.
>
> Does that cover it, or am I missing a turn in here somewhere?

Yes, that covers some of it. Thanks a lot. Btw, I was also thinking I
want to check that srcu received a callback queuing request as well (not
just completion but also queuing).

Say that the tracepoint code is buggy and for some reason a call_srcu
wasn't done. For example, say the hypothetical bug I'm taking about is
in tracepoint_remove_func which called the rcu_assign_pointer, but
didn't call release_probes:

diff --git a/kernel/tracepoint.c b/kernel/tracepoint.c
index d0639d917899..f54cb358f451 100644
--- a/kernel/tracepoint.c
+++ b/kernel/tracepoint.c
@@ -216,7 +216,6 @@ static int tracepoint_add_func(struct tracepoint *tp,
rcu_assign_pointer(tp->funcs, tp_funcs);
if (!static_key_enabled(&tp->key))
static_key_slow_inc(&tp->key);
- release_probes(old);
return 0;
}
---
I want to catching this from the test code. If I did the following, it
would be insufficient then:
trace_probe_register(...);
srcu_barrier(&my_srcu_struct); // only tells me any queued calls
// are done but not that something
// was queued
I was seeing if I could use my_srcu_struct::completed for that. but I'm
not sure if that'll work (or that its legal to access it directly - but
hey this is just test code! :P).

thanks,

- Joel



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