From: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]>
People running automated tests have asked for a way to make RCU minimize
grace-period duration in order to increase the probability of KASAN
detecting a pointer being improperly leaked from an RCU read-side critical
section, for example, like this:
rcu_read_lock();
p = rcu_dereference(gp);
do_something_with(p); // OK
rcu_read_unlock();
do_something_else_with(p); // BUG!!!
The rcupdate.rcu_expedited boot parameter is a start in this direction,
given that it makes calls to synchronize_rcu() instead invoke the faster
(and more wasteful) synchronize_rcu_expedited(). However, this does
nothing to shorten RCU grace periods that are instead initiated by
call_rcu(), and RCU pointer-leak bugs can involve call_rcu() just as
surely as they can synchronize_rcu().
This commit therefore adds a RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD Kconfig option
that will be used to shorten normal (non-expedited) RCU grace periods.
This commit also dumps out a message when this option is in effect.
Later commits will actually shorten grace periods.
Reported-by Jann Horn <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
---
kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug | 15 +++++++++++++++
kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 2 ++
2 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug b/kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug
index 3cf6132..cab5a4b 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/kernel/rcu/Kconfig.debug
@@ -114,4 +114,19 @@ config RCU_EQS_DEBUG
Say N here if you need ultimate kernel/user switch latencies
Say Y if you are unsure
+config RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD
+ bool "Provide debug RCU implementation with short grace periods"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RCU_EXPERT
+ default n
+ select PREEMPT_COUNT if PREEMPT=n
+ help
+ Select this option to build an RCU variant that is strict about
+ grace periods, making them as short as it can. This limits
+ scalability, destroys real-time response, degrades battery
+ lifetime and kills performance. Don't try this on large
+ machines, as in systems with more than about 10 or 20 CPUs.
+ But in conjunction with tools like KASAN, it can be helpful
+ when looking for certain types of RCU usage bugs, for example,
+ too-short RCU read-side critical sections.
+
endmenu # "RCU Debugging"
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
index cb1e8c8..5c0c580 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ static void __init rcu_bootup_announce_oddness(void)
pr_info("\tRCU dyntick-idle grace-period acceleration is
enabled.\n");
if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PROVE_RCU))
pr_info("\tRCU lockdep checking is enabled.\n");
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD))
+ pr_info("\tRCU strict (and thus non-scalable) grace periods
enabled.\n");
if (RCU_NUM_LVLS >= 4)
pr_info("\tFour(or more)-level hierarchy is enabled.\n");
if (RCU_FANOUT_LEAF != 16)
--
2.9.5
