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Date:      Thu, 09 Mar 2017 15:54:01 +0100
From:      Alexandre Martins <alexandre.martins@stormshield.eu>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: smp_rendezvous_action: Are atomics correctly used ?
Message-ID:  <6365091.VDDbDinMUz@pc-alex>
In-Reply-To: <20170309142516.GA16105@kib.kiev.ua>
References:  <2092905.6A8RAGlt18@pc-alex> <3034263.GEZH9i4V44@pc-alex> <20170309142516.GA16105@kib.kiev.ua>

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Le jeudi 9 mars 2017, 16:25:17 Konstantin Belousov a =E9crit :
> On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 02:52:09PM +0100, Alexandre Martins wrote:
> > Le jeudi 9 mars 2017, 15:07:54 Konstantin Belousov a ?crit :
> > > On Thu, Mar 09, 2017 at 10:59:27AM +0100, Alexandre Martins wrote=
:
> > > > I have the save question for the cpu_ipi_pending here:
> > > >=20
> > > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/x86/x86/mp_x86.c?view=3D=
annotat
> > > > e#l1
> > > > 080>
> > > >=20
> > > > Le jeudi 9 mars 2017, 10:43:14 Alexandre Martins a ?crit :
> > > > > Hello,
> > > > >=20
> > > > > I'm curently reading the code of the function smp_rendezvous_=
action,
> > > > > in
> > > > > kern/subr_smp.c file. In that function, i see that the variab=
le
> > > > > smp_rv_waiters is read in some while() loop in a non-atomic w=
ay.
> > > > >=20
> > > > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/kern/subr_smp.c?view=
=3Dannota
> > > > > te#l
> > > > > 412
> > > > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/kern/subr_smp.c?view=
=3Dannota
> > > > > te#l
> > > > > 458
> > > > > https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/sys/kern/subr_smp.c?view=
=3Dannota
> > > > > te#l
> > > > > 472
> > > > >=20
> > > > > I suspect one of my freeze to be due by that.
> > >=20
> > > You should provide either evidence or, at least, some reasoning
> > > supporting
> > > your claims.
> >=20
> > I curently have a software watchdog that triger and does a coredump=
. In
> > the
> > coredumps, I always see a CPU trying to write-lock a "rm lock". Eve=
ry
> > time,
> > that CPU is spinning into the smp_rendezvous_action, in the first w=
hile
> > loop) while the others are into the idle threads.
> >=20
> > The fact is that freeze is not clear and I start to search "exotic"=
 causes
> > to explain it.
>=20
> This sounds as the 'usual' deadlock, where some other thread owns rml=
ock in
> read mode.  I recommend you to follow the
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook=
/kernel
> debug-deadlocks.html

As habit, with theses options, in our test environment, it never happen=
. But=20
at customers, in production, ... :-D

The only thing I have it's the coredump. In it, the rm_lock seems free =
of=20
readers/writers. There is nothing in the pcpu->pc_rm_queue (of all CPU)=
 and=20
nothing in the rm->rm_activeReaders.

Thank you. It' s realy nice to try to help me !
=2D-=20
Alexandre Martins
STORMSHIELD


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