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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  */
 45 int 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 
 58 static 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  */
 77 static int 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  */
 89 void 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  */
109 int 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  */
132 void 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  */
154 void 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 
247 long srcu_batches_completed(struct srcu_struct *sp)
248 {
249         return sp->completed;
250 }
251 
252 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(init_srcu_struct);
253 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cleanup_srcu_struct);
254 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(srcu_read_lock);
255 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(srcu_read_unlock);
256 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(synchronize_srcu);
257 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(srcu_batches_completed);
258 
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