It appears that some SCHEDULE_USER (asm for schedule_user) callers
in arch/x86/kernel/entry_64.S are called from RCU kernel context,
and schedule_user will return in RCU user context. This causes RCU
warnings and possible failures.
This is intended to be a minimal fix suitable for 3.18.
Reported-and-tested-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Frédéric Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* or we have been woken up remotely but the IPI has not yet arrived,
* we haven't yet exited the RCU idle mode. Do it here manually until
* we find a better solution.
+ *
+ * NB: There are buggy callers of this function. Ideally we
+ * should warn if prev_state != IN_USER, but that will trigger
+ * too frequently to make sense yet.
*/
- user_exit();
+ enum ctx_state prev_state = exception_enter();
schedule();
- user_enter();
+ exception_exit(prev_state);
}
#endif