Currently, both rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu() and rcu_send_cbs_to_orphanage()
initialize the outgoing CPU's callback list. However, only
rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu() invokes rcu_send_cbs_to_orphanage(), and
it does so unconditionally, which means that only one of these
initializations is required. This commit therefore consolidates the
callback-list initialization with the rest of the callback handling in
rcu_send_cbs_to_orphanage().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Because invoke_cpu_core() checks whether the current CPU is online,
there is no need for __call_rcu_core() to redundantly check it.
There should not be any performance degradation because the called
function is visible to the compiler. This commit therefore removes
the redundant check.
Signed-off-by: Yao Dongdong <yaodongdong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The very similar functions rcu_force_quiescent_state(),
rcu_bh_force_quiescent_state(), and rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state()
are supposed to be together, but have drifted apart. This commit
restores rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state() to its rightful place.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
If an RCU read-side critical section occurs within an interrupt handler
or a softirq handler, it cannot have been preempted. Therefore, there is
a check in rcu_read_unlock_special() checking for this error. However,
when this check triggers, it lacks diagnostic information. This commit
therefore moves rcu_read_unlock()'s lockdep annotation to follow the
call to __rcu_read_unlock() and changes rcu_read_unlock_special()'s
WARN_ON_ONCE() to an lockdep_rcu_suspicious() in order to locate where
the offending RCU read-side critical section began. In addition, the
value of the ->rcu_read_unlock_special field is printed.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit uses IS_ENABLED() to remove the #ifdef from the
rcu_init_levelspread() functions. No effect on executable code.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Because callbacks can now be posted quite early in boot, move the
early boot callback tests to precede RCU initialization.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
When a CPU is first determined to be a no-CBs CPUs, this commit causes
any early boot callbacks to be moved to the no-CBs callback list,
allowing them to be invoked.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
If the RCU grace-period kthread invoking rcu_sysidle_check_cpu()
happens to be running on the tick_do_timer_cpu initially,
then rcu_bind_gp_kthread() won't bind it. This kthread might
then migrate before invoking rcu_gp_fqs(), which will trigger the
WARN_ON_ONCE() in rcu_sysidle_check_cpu(). This commit therefore makes
rcu_bind_gp_kthread() do the binding even if the kthread is currently
on the same CPU. Because this incurs added overhead, this commit also
causes each RCU grace-period kthread to invoke rcu_bind_gp_kthread()
once at boot rather than at the beginning of each grace period.
And as long as rcu_bind_gp_kthread() is being modified, this commit
eliminates its #ifdef.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The standard code path accommodates a condition when no
RCU callbacks are ready to invoke. Since size of the code
is a priority for tiny RCU, remove the fast path.
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
When the ->curtail and ->donetail pointers differ, ->rcucblist
always points to the beginning of the current list and thus
cannot be NULL. Therefore, the check ->rcucblist != NULL is
redundant and this commit removes it.
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On second and subsequent passes through quiescent-state forcing, the
isidle variable was initialized to false, which would prevent full sysidle
state from being reached if a grace period needed more than one round
of quiescent-state forcing (which most should not). However, the check
for offline CPUs in the quiescent-state forcing main loop had the wrong
sense, which could prevent CPUs from ever entering full sysidle state.
This commit fixes both of these bugs. Given that sysidle is not yet
wired up, this has no effect in old kernels, but might have proven
frustrating had anyone attempted to wire it up.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The "if" statement at the beginning of rcu_torture_writer() should
use the same set of variables. In theory, this does not matter because
the corresponding variables (gp_sync and gp_sync1) have the same value
at this point in the code, but in practice such puzzles should be
removed. This commit therefore makes the use of variables consistent.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit adds a CONFIG_RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT Kconfig parameter
that emulates a very early boot rcu_expedite_gp(). A late-boot
call to rcu_end_inkernel_boot() will provide the corresponding
rcu_unexpedite_gp(). The late-boot call to rcu_end_inkernel_boot()
should be made just before init is spawned.
According to Arjan:
> To show the boot time, I'm using the timestamp of the "Write protecting"
> line, that's pretty much the last thing we print prior to ring 3 execution.
>
> A kernel with default RCU behavior (inside KVM, only virtual devices)
> looks like this:
>
> [ 0.038724] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 10240k
>
> a kernel with expedited RCU (using the command line option, so that I
> don't have to recompile between measurements and thus am completely
> oranges-to-oranges)
>
> [ 0.031768] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 10240k
>
> which, in percentage, is an 18% improvement.
Reported-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
This commit updates open-coded tests of the rcu_expedited variable
to instead use rcu_gp_is_expedited().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, expediting of normal synchronous grace-period primitives
(synchronize_rcu() and friends) is controlled by the rcu_expedited()
boot/sysfs parameter. This works well, but does not handle nesting.
This commit therefore provides rcu_expedite_gp() to enable expediting
and rcu_unexpedite_gp() to cancel a prior rcu_expedite_gp(), both of
which support nesting.
Reported-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
When a CPU comes online, it initializes its callback list. This
is a bad thing if this is the first time that the CPU has come
online and if that CPU has early boot callbacks. This commit therefore
avoid initializing the callback list if there are callbacks present,
in which case the initial call_rcu() did the initialization for us.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Some diagnostics under CONFIG_PROVE_RCU in rcu_nocb_cpu_needs_barrier()
assume that there can be no early-boot callbacks. This commit therefore
qualifies the diagnostic with rcu_scheduler_fully_active to permit
early boot callbacks to avoid this splat.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, a call_rcu() that precedes rcu_init() will splat due to the
callback lists not having yet been initialized. This commit causes the
first such callback to initialize the boot CPU's RCU callback list.
Note that this commit does not change rcu_init()-time initialization,
which means that the callback will be discarded at rcu_init() time.
Fixing this is the job of later commits.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit wires up the rcu_state structures' ->rda pointers to the
per-CPU rcu_data structures at compile time, thus ensuring that this
linkage is present at early boot, in turn allowing posting of callbacks
before rcu_init() is executed.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
In preparation for early-boot posting of callbacks, this commit abstracts
initialization of the default (non-no-CB) callbacks list from the
init_callback_list() function into a new init_default_callback_list()
function.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
In rcu_gp_init(), rnp->completed equals to rsp->completed in THEORY,
we don't need to touch it normally. If something goes wrong,
it will complain and fixup rnp->completed and avoid oops.
This commit thus avoids the normal needless store to rnp->completed.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There are currently duplicate identical definitions of the
rcu_synchronize() structure and the wakeme_after_rcu() function.
Thie commit therefore consolidates them.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Pull rcu fix and x86 irq fix from Ingo Molnar:
- Fix a bug that caused an RCU warning splat.
- Two x86 irq related fixes: a hotplug crash fix and an ACPI IRQ
registry fix.
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
rcu: Clear need_qs flag to prevent splat
* 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/irq: Check for valid irq descriptor in check_irq_vectors_for_cpu_disable()
x86/irq: Fix regression caused by commit b568b8601f
printk and friends can now format bitmaps using '%*pb[l]'. cpumask
and nodemask also provide cpumask_pr_args() and nodemask_pr_args()
respectively which can be used to generate the two printf arguments
necessary to format the specified cpu/nodemask.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If the scheduling-clock interrupt sets the current tasks need_qs flag,
but if the current CPU passes through a quiescent state in the meantime,
then rcu_preempt_qs() will fail to clear the need_qs flag, which can fool
RCU into thinking that additional rcu_read_unlock_special() processing
is needed. This commit therefore clears the need_qs flag before checking
for additional processing.
For this problem to occur, we need rcu_preempt_data.passed_quiesce equal
to true and current->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs also equal to true.
This condition can occur as follows:
1. CPU 0 is aware of the current preemptible RCU grace period,
but has not yet passed through a quiescent state. Among other
things, this means that rcu_preempt_data.passed_quiesce is false.
2. Task A running on CPU 0 enters a preemptible RCU read-side
critical section.
3. CPU 0 takes a scheduling-clock interrupt, which notices the
RCU read-side critical section and the need for a quiescent state,
and thus sets current->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs to true.
4. Task A is preempted, enters the scheduler, eventually invoking
rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() which in turn invokes
rcu_preempt_qs().
Because rcu_preempt_data.passed_quiesce is false,
control enters the body of the "if" statement, which sets
rcu_preempt_data.passed_quiesce to true.
5. At this point, CPU 0 takes an interrupt. The interrupt
handler contains an RCU read-side critical section, and
the rcu_read_unlock() notes that current->rcu_read_unlock_special
is nonzero, and thus invokes rcu_read_unlock_special().
6. Once in rcu_read_unlock_special(), the fact that
current->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs is true becomes
apparent, so rcu_read_unlock_special() invokes rcu_preempt_qs().
Recursively, given that we interrupted out of that same
function in the preceding step.
7. Because rcu_preempt_data.passed_quiesce is now true,
rcu_preempt_qs() does nothing, and simply returns.
8. Upon return to rcu_read_unlock_special(), it is noted that
current->rcu_read_unlock_special is still nonzero (because
the interrupted rcu_preempt_qs() had not yet gotten around
to clearing current->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs).
9. Execution proceeds to the WARN_ON_ONCE(), which notes that
we are in an interrupt handler and thus duly splats.
The solution, as noted above, is to make rcu_read_unlock_special()
clear out current->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs after calling
rcu_preempt_qs(). The interrupted rcu_preempt_qs() will clear it again,
but this is harmless. The worst that happens is that we clobber another
attempt to set this field, but this is not a problem because we just
got done reporting a quiescent state.
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Fix embarrassing build bug noted by Sasha Levin. ]
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
The current tiny RCU stall-warning code assumes that the jiffies counter
starts at zero, however, it is sometimes initialized to other values,
for example, -30,000. This commit therefore changes rcu_init() to
invoke reset_cpu_stall_ticks() for both flavors of RCU to initialize
the stall-warning times properly at boot.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The tiny RCU CPU stall detection depends on *rcp->curtail not being
NULL. It is however a tail pointer and thus NULL by definition. Instead we
should check rcp->rcucblist for the presence of pending callbacks which
need to be processed. With this fix INFO about the stall is printed and
jiffies_stall (jiffies at next stall) correctly updated.
Note that the check for pending callback is necessary to avoid spurious
warnings if there are no pendings callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
[ paulmck: Fused identical "if" statements, ported to -rcu. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit adds a message that is printed if the relevant grace-period
kthread has not been able to run for the two seconds preceding the
stall warning. (The two seconds is double the maximum interval between
successive bouts of quiescent-state forcing.)
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Although cond_resched_rcu_qs() only applies to TASKS_RCU, it is used
in places where it would be useful for it to apply to the normal RCU
flavors, rcu_preempt, rcu_sched, and rcu_bh. This is especially the
case for workloads that aggressively overload the system, particularly
those that generate large numbers of RCU updates on systems running
NO_HZ_FULL CPUs. This commit therefore communicates quiescent states
from cond_resched_rcu_qs() to the normal RCU flavors.
Note that it is unfortunately necessary to leave the old ->passed_quiesce
mechanism in place to allow quiescent states that apply to only one
flavor to be recorded. (Yes, we could decrement ->rcu_qs_ctr_snap in
that case, but that is not so good for debugging of RCU internals.)
In addition, if one of the RCU flavor's grace period has stalled, this
will invoke rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle(), resulting in a heavy-weight
quiescent state visible from other CPUs.
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Merge commit from Sasha Levin fixing a bug where __this_cpu()
was used in preemptible code. ]
Recent testing has shown that under heavy load, running RCU's grace-period
kthreads at real-time priority can improve performance (according to 0day
test robot) and reduce the incidence of RCU CPU stall warnings. However,
most systems do just fine with the default non-realtime priorities for
these kthreads, and it does not make sense to expose the entire user
base to any risk stemming from this change, given that this change is
of use only to a few users running extremely heavy workloads.
Therefore, this commit allows users to specify realtime priorities
for the grace-period kthreads, but leaves them running SCHED_OTHER
by default. The realtime priority may be specified at build time
via the RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO Kconfig parameter, or at boot time via the
rcutree.kthread_prio parameter. Either way, 0 says to continue the
default SCHED_OTHER behavior and values from 1-99 specify that priority
of SCHED_FIFO behavior. Note that a value of 0 is not permitted when
the RCU_BOOST Kconfig parameter is specified.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, rcutorture's Reader Batch checks measure from the end of
the previous grace period to the end of the current one. This commit
tightens up these checks by measuring from the start and end of the same
grace period. This involves adding rcu_batches_started() and friends
corresponding to the existing rcu_batches_completed() and friends.
We leave SRCU alone for the moment, as it does not yet have a way of
tracking both ends of its grace periods.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Now that the return type of rcu_batches_completed() and friends matches
that of the rcu_torture_ops structure's ->completed field, the wrapper
functions can be deleted. This commit carries out that deletion, while
also wiring "sched"'s ->completed field to rcu_batches_completed_sched().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The counter returned by the various ->completed functions is subject to
overflow, which means that subtracting two such counters might result
in overflow, which invokes undefined behavior in the C standard. This
commit therefore changes these functions and variables to unsigned to
avoid this undefined behavior.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Long ago, the various ->completed fields were of type long, but now are
unsigned long due to signed-integer-overflow concerns. However, the
various _batches_completed() functions remained of type long, even though
their only purpose in life is to return the corresponding ->completed
field. This patch cleans this up by changing these functions' return
types to unsigned long.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subtle race conditions can result if a CPU stays in dyntick-idle mode
long enough for the ->gpnum and ->completed fields to wrap. For
example, consider the following sequence of events:
o CPU 1 encounters a quiescent state while waiting for grace period
5 to complete, but then enters dyntick-idle mode.
o While CPU 1 is in dyntick-idle mode, the grace-period counters
wrap around so that the grace period number is now 4.
o Just as CPU 1 exits dyntick-idle mode, grace period 4 completes
and grace period 5 begins.
o The quiescent state that CPU 1 passed through during the old
grace period 5 looks like it applies to the new grace period
5. Therefore, the new grace period 5 completes without CPU 1
having passed through a quiescent state.
This could clearly be a fatal surprise to any long-running RCU read-side
critical section that happened to be running on CPU 1 at the time. At one
time, this was not a problem, given that it takes significant time for
the grace-period counters to overflow even on 32-bit systems. However,
with the advent of NO_HZ_FULL and SMP embedded systems, arbitrarily long
idle periods are now becoming quite feasible. It is therefore time to
close this race.
This commit therefore avoids this race condition by having the
quiescent-state forcing code detect when a CPU is falling too far
behind, and setting a new rcu_data field ->gpwrap when this happens.
Whenever this new ->gpwrap field is set, the CPU's ->gpnum and ->completed
fields are known to be untrustworthy, and can be ignored, along with
any associated quiescent states.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The current RCU CPU stall warning code will print "Stall ended before
state dump start" any time that the stall-warning code is triggered on
a CPU that has already reported a quiescent state for the current grace
period and if all quiescent states have been reported for the current
grace period. However, a true stall can result in these symptoms, for
example, by preventing RCU's grace-period kthreads from ever running
This commit therefore checks for this condition, reporting the end of
the stall only if one of the grace-period counters has actually advanced.
Otherwise, it reports the last time that the grace-period kthread made
meaningful progress. (In normal situations, the grace-period kthread
should make meaningful progress at least every jiffies_till_next_fqs
jiffies.)
Reported-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
One way that an RCU CPU stall warning can happen is if the grace-period
kthread is not allowed to execute. One proxy for this kthread's
forward progress is the number of force-quiescent-state (fqs) scans.
This commit therefore adds the number of fqs scans to the RCU CPU stall
warning printouts when CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO=y.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
SRCU is not necessary to be compiled by default in all cases. For tinification
efforts not compiling SRCU unless necessary is desirable.
The current patch tries to make compiling SRCU optional by introducing a new
Kconfig option CONFIG_SRCU which is selected when any of the components making
use of SRCU are selected.
If we do not select CONFIG_SRCU, srcu.o will not be compiled at all.
text data bss dec hex filename
2007 0 0 2007 7d7 kernel/rcu/srcu.o
Size of arch/powerpc/boot/zImage changes from
text data bss dec hex filename
831552 64180 23944 919676 e087c arch/powerpc/boot/zImage : before
829504 64180 23952 917636 e0084 arch/powerpc/boot/zImage : after
so the savings are about ~2000 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
CC: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
CC: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: resolve conflict due to removal of arch/ia64/kvm/Kconfig. ]
When rcutorture used only the low-order 32 bits of the grace-period
number, it was not a problem for SRCU to use a 32-bit completed field.
However, rcutorture now uses the full 64 bits on 64-bit systems, so
this commit converts SRCU's ->completed field to unsigned long so as to
provide 64 bits on 64-bit systems.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The RCU callback lists are initialized in both rcu_boot_init_percpu_data()
and rcu_init_percpu_data(). The former is intended for initializing
immutable data, so this commit removes the initialization from
rcu_boot_init_percpu_data() and leaves it in rcu_init_percpu_data().
This change prepares for permitting callbacks to be queued very early
in boot.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Now that blocked tasks are no longer migrated to the root rcu_node
structure, there is no need to scan the root rcu_node structure for
blocked tasks stalling the current grace period. This commit therefore
removes this scan.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The patch dfeb9765ce ("Allow post-unlock reference for rt_mutex")
ensured rcu-boost safe even the rt_mutex has post-unlock reference.
But rt_mutex allowing post-unlock reference is definitely a bug and it was
fixed by the commit 27e35715df ("rtmutex: Plug slow unlock race").
This fix made the previous patch (dfeb9765ce) useless.
And even worse, the priority-inversion introduced by the the previous
patch still exists.
rcu_read_unlock_special() {
rt_mutex_unlock(&rnp->boost_mtx);
/* Priority-Inversion:
* the current task had been deboosted and preempted as a low
* priority task immediately, it could wait long before reschedule in,
* and the rcu-booster also waits on this low priority task and sleeps.
* This priority-inversion makes rcu-booster can't work
* as expected.
*/
complete(&rnp->boost_completion);
}
Just revert the patch to avoid it.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu() function (called after a CPU has gone
completely offline) has not reported a quiescent state because there
was probably at least one synchronize_rcu() between the time the CPU
went offline and the CPU_DEAD notifier, and this would have detected
the CPU's offline state via quiescent-state forcing. However, the plan
is for CPUs to take themselves offline, at which point it makes sense
for them to report their own quiescent state. This commit makes this
change in preparation for the new CPU-hotplug setup.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
When rcu_boost_kthread_setaffinity() sees that all CPUs for a given
rcu_node structure are now offline, it affinities the corresponding
RCU-boost ("rcub") kthread away from those CPUs. This is pointless
because the kthread cannot run on those offline CPUs in any case.
This commit therefore removes this unneeded code.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Because there is no longer any preempted tasks on the root rcu_node, and
because there is no longer ever an rcub kthread for the root rcu_node,
this commit drops the code in force_qs_rnp() that attempts to awaken
the non-existent root rcub kthread. This is strictly a performance
enhancement, removing a root rcu_node ->lock acquisition and release
along with some tests in rcu_initiate_boost(), ending with the test that
notes that there is no rcub kthread.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Now that offlining CPUs no longer moves leaf rcu_node structures'
->blkd_tasks lists to the root, there is no way for the root rcu_node
structure's ->blkd_task list to be nonempty, unless the root node is also
the sole leaf node. This commit therefore refrains from creating an rcub
kthread for the root rcu_node structure unless it is also the sole leaf.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Given that there is now arcu_preempt_has_tasks() function that checks
to see if the ->blkd_tasks list is non-empty, this commit makes use of it.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Now that we are not migrating callbacks, there is no need to hold the
->orphan_lock across the the ->qsmaskinit bit-clearing process.
This commit therefore releases ->orphan_lock immediately after adopting
the orphaned RCU callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
When the last CPU associated with a given leaf rcu_node structure
goes offline, something must be done about the tasks queued on that
rcu_node structure. Each of these tasks has been preempted on one of
the leaf rcu_node structure's CPUs while in an RCU read-side critical
section that it have not yet exited. Handling these tasks is the job of
rcu_preempt_offline_tasks(), which migrates them from the leaf rcu_node
structure to the root rcu_node structure.
Unfortunately, this migration has to be done one task at a time because
each tasks allegiance must be shifted from the original leaf rcu_node to
the root, so that future attempts to deal with these tasks will acquire
the root rcu_node structure's ->lock rather than that of the leaf.
Worse yet, this migration must be done with interrupts disabled, which
is not so good for realtime response, especially given that there is
no bound on the number of tasks on a given rcu_node structure's list.
(OK, OK, there is a bound, it is just that it is unreasonably large,
especially on 64-bit systems.) This was not considered a problem back
when rcu_preempt_offline_tasks() was first written because realtime
systems were assumed not to do CPU-hotplug operations while real-time
applications were running. This assumption has proved of dubious validity
given that people are starting to run multiple realtime applications
on a single SMP system and that it is common practice to offline then
online a CPU before starting its real-time application in order to clear
extraneous processing off of that CPU. So we now need CPU hotplug
operations to avoid undue latencies.
This commit therefore avoids migrating these tasks, instead letting
them be dequeued one by one from the original leaf rcu_node structure
by rcu_read_unlock_special(). This means that the clearing of bits
from the upper-level rcu_node structures must be deferred until the
last such task has been dequeued, because otherwise subsequent grace
periods won't wait on them. This commit has the beneficial side effect
of simplifying the CPU-hotplug code for TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, especially in
CONFIG_RCU_BOOST builds.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit causes rcu_read_unlock_special() to propagate ->qsmaskinit
bit clearing up the rcu_node tree once a given rcu_node structure's
blkd_tasks list becomes empty. This is the final commit in preparation
for the rework of RCU priority boosting: It enables preempted tasks to
remain queued on their rcu_node structure even after all of that rcu_node
structure's CPUs have gone offline.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit abstracts rcu_cleanup_dead_rnp() from rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu()
in preparation for the rework of RCU priority boosting. This new function
will be invoked from rcu_read_unlock_special() in the reworked scheme,
which is why rcu_cleanup_dead_rnp() assumes that the leaf rcu_node
structure's ->qsmaskinit field has already been updated.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit undertakes a simple variable renaming to make way for
some rework of RCU priority boosting.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit prevents random compiler optimizations by applying
ACCESS_ONCE() to lockless accesses.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The 48a7639ce8 ("rcu: Make callers awaken grace-period kthread")
removed the irq_work_queue(), so the TREE_RCU doesn't need
irq work any more. This commit therefore updates RCU's Kconfig and
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_barrier() no-callbacks check for no-CBs CPUs has race conditions.
It checks a given CPU's lists of callbacks, and if all three no-CBs lists
are empty, ignores that CPU. However, these three lists could potentially
be empty even when callbacks are present if the check executed just as
the callbacks were being moved from one list to another. It turns out
that recent versions of rcutorture can spot this race.
This commit plugs this hole by consolidating the per-list counts of
no-CBs callbacks into a single count, which is incremented before
the corresponding callback is posted and after it is invoked. Then
rcu_barrier() checks this single count to reliably determine whether
the corresponding CPU has no-CBs callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
For RCU in UP, context-switch = QS = GP, thus we can force a
context-switch when any call_rcu_[bh|sched]() is happened on idle_task.
After doing so, rcu_idle/irq_enter/exit() are useless, so we can simply
make these functions empty.
More important, this change does not change the functionality logically.
Note: raise_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ)/rcu_sched_qs() in rcu_idle_enter() and
outmost rcu_irq_exit() will have to wake up the ksoftirqd
(due to in_interrupt() == 0).
Before this patch After this patch:
call_rcu_sched() in idle; call_rcu_sched() in idle
set resched
do other stuffs; do other stuffs
outmost rcu_irq_exit() outmost rcu_irq_exit() (empty function)
(or rcu_idle_enter()) (or rcu_idle_enter(), also empty function)
start to resched. (see above)
rcu_sched_qs() rcu_sched_qs()
QS,and GP and advance cb QS,and GP and advance cb
wake up the ksoftirqd wake up the ksoftirqd
set resched
resched to ksoftirqd (or other) resched to ksoftirqd (or other)
These two code patches are almost the same.
Size changed after patched:
size kernel/rcu/tiny-old.o kernel/rcu/tiny-patched.o
text data bss dec hex filename
3449 206 8 3663 e4f kernel/rcu/tiny-old.o
2406 144 8 2558 9fe kernel/rcu/tiny-patched.o
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Despite what the comment says, it is only softirqs that are disabled,
not interrupts. This commit therefore fixes the comment.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Let's start assuming that something in the idle loop posts a callback,
and scheduling-clock interrupt occurs:
1. The system is idle and stays that way, no runnable tasks.
2. Scheduling-clock interrupt occurs, rcu_check_callbacks() is called
as result, which in turn calls rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle().
3. rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle() reports the CPU was interrupted from
idle, which results in rcu_sched_qs() call, which does a
raise_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ).
4. Upon return from interrupt, rcu_irq_exit() is invoked, which calls
rcu_idle_enter_common(), which in turn calls rcu_sched_qs() again,
which does another raise_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ).
5. The softirq happens shortly and invokes rcu_process_callbacks(),
which invokes __rcu_process_callbacks().
6. So now callbacks can be invoked. At least they can be if
->donetail has been updated. Which it will have been because
rcu_sched_qs() invokes rcu_qsctr_help().
In the described scenario rcu_sched_qs() and raise_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ)
get called twice in steps 3 and 4. This redundancy could be eliminated
by removing rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle() function.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The x86 architecture has multiple types of NMI-like interrupts: real
NMIs, machine checks, and, for some values of NMI-like, debugging
and breakpoint interrupts. These interrupts can nest inside each
other. Andy Lutomirski is adding RCU support to these interrupts,
so rcu_nmi_enter() and rcu_nmi_exit() must now correctly handle nesting.
This commit therefore introduces nesting, using a clever NMI-coordination
algorithm suggested by Andy. The trick is to atomically increment
->dynticks (if needed) before manipulating ->dynticks_nmi_nesting on entry
(and, accordingly, after on exit). In addition, ->dynticks_nmi_nesting
is incremented by one if ->dynticks was incremented and by two otherwise.
This means that when rcu_nmi_exit() sees ->dynticks_nmi_nesting equal
to one, it knows that ->dynticks must be atomically incremented.
This NMI-coordination algorithms has been validated by the following
Promela model:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
/*
* Promela model for Andy Lutomirski's suggested change to rcu_nmi_enter()
* that allows nesting.
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
* it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
* the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
* (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, you can access it online at
* http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html.
*
* Copyright IBM Corporation, 2014
*
* Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
*/
byte dynticks_nmi_nesting = 0;
byte dynticks = 0;
/*
* Promela verision of rcu_nmi_enter().
*/
inline rcu_nmi_enter()
{
byte incby;
byte tmp;
incby = BUSY_INCBY;
assert(dynticks_nmi_nesting >= 0);
if
:: (dynticks & 1) == 0 ->
atomic {
dynticks = dynticks + 1;
}
assert((dynticks & 1) == 1);
incby = 1;
:: else ->
skip;
fi;
tmp = dynticks_nmi_nesting;
tmp = tmp + incby;
dynticks_nmi_nesting = tmp;
assert(dynticks_nmi_nesting >= 1);
}
/*
* Promela verision of rcu_nmi_exit().
*/
inline rcu_nmi_exit()
{
byte tmp;
assert(dynticks_nmi_nesting > 0);
assert((dynticks & 1) != 0);
if
:: dynticks_nmi_nesting != 1 ->
tmp = dynticks_nmi_nesting;
tmp = tmp - BUSY_INCBY;
dynticks_nmi_nesting = tmp;
:: else ->
dynticks_nmi_nesting = 0;
atomic {
dynticks = dynticks + 1;
}
assert((dynticks & 1) == 0);
fi;
}
/*
* Base-level NMI runs non-atomically. Crudely emulates process-level
* dynticks-idle entry/exit.
*/
proctype base_NMI()
{
byte busy;
busy = 0;
do
:: /* Emulate base-level dynticks and not. */
if
:: 1 -> atomic {
dynticks = dynticks + 1;
}
busy = 1;
:: 1 -> skip;
fi;
/* Verify that we only sometimes have base-level dynticks. */
if
:: busy == 0 -> skip;
:: busy == 1 -> skip;
fi;
/* Model RCU's NMI entry and exit actions. */
rcu_nmi_enter();
assert((dynticks & 1) == 1);
rcu_nmi_exit();
/* Emulated re-entering base-level dynticks and not. */
if
:: !busy -> skip;
:: busy ->
atomic {
dynticks = dynticks + 1;
}
busy = 0;
fi;
/* We had better now be in dyntick-idle mode. */
assert((dynticks & 1) == 0);
od;
}
/*
* Nested NMI runs atomically to emulate interrupting base_level().
*/
proctype nested_NMI()
{
do
:: /*
* Use an atomic section to model a nested NMI. This is
* guaranteed to interleave into base_NMI() between a pair
* of base_NMI() statements, just as a nested NMI would.
*/
atomic {
/* Verify that we only sometimes are in dynticks. */
if
:: (dynticks & 1) == 0 -> skip;
:: (dynticks & 1) == 1 -> skip;
fi;
/* Model RCU's NMI entry and exit actions. */
rcu_nmi_enter();
assert((dynticks & 1) == 1);
rcu_nmi_exit();
}
od;
}
init {
run base_NMI();
run nested_NMI();
}
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The following script can be used to run this model if placed in
rcu_nmi.spin:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
if ! spin -a rcu_nmi.spin
then
echo Spin errors!!!
exit 1
fi
if ! cc -DSAFETY -o pan pan.c
then
echo Compilation errors!!!
exit 1
fi
./pan -m100000
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
This commit affines rcu_tasks_kthread() to the housekeeping CPUs
in CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL builds. This is just a default, so systems
administrators are free to put this kthread somewhere else if they wish.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Commit 38706bc5a2 (rcutorture: Add callback-flood test) vmalloc()ed
a bunch of RCU callbacks, but failed to free them. This commit fixes
that oversight.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Add early boot self tests for RCU under CONFIG_PROVE_RCU.
Currently the only test is adding a dummy callback which increments a counter
which we then later verify after calling rcu_barrier*().
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The "cpu" argument to rcu_cleanup_after_idle() is always the current
CPU, so drop it. This moves the smp_processor_id() from the caller to
rcu_cleanup_after_idle(), saving argument-passing overhead. Again,
the anticipated cross-CPU uses of these functions has been replaced
by NO_HZ_FULL.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
The "cpu" argument to rcu_prepare_for_idle() is always the current
CPU, so drop it. This in turn allows two of the uses of "cpu" in
this function to be replaced with a this_cpu_ptr() and the third by
smp_processor_id(), replacing that of the call to rcu_prepare_for_idle().
Again, the anticipated cross-CPU uses of these functions has been replaced
by NO_HZ_FULL.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
The "cpu" argument to rcu_needs_cpu() is always the current CPU, so drop
it. This in turn allows the "cpu" argument to rcu_cpu_has_callbacks()
to be removed, which allows the uses of "cpu" in both functions to be
replaced with a this_cpu_ptr(). Again, the anticipated cross-CPU uses
of these functions has been replaced by NO_HZ_FULL.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
The "cpu" argument to rcu_note_context_switch() is always the current
CPU, so drop it. This in turn allows the "cpu" argument to
rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() to be removed, which allows the sole
use of "cpu" in both functions to be replaced with a this_cpu_ptr().
Again, the anticipated cross-CPU uses of these functions has been
replaced by NO_HZ_FULL.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Because rcu_preempt_check_callbacks()'s argument is guaranteed to
always be the current CPU, drop the argument and replace per_cpu()
with __this_cpu_read().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Because rcu_pending()'s argument is guaranteed to always be the current
CPU, drop the argument and replace per_cpu_ptr() with this_cpu_ptr().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
The "cpu" argument was kept around on the off-chance that RCU might
offload scheduler-clock interrupts. However, this offload approach
has been replaced by NO_HZ_FULL, which offloads -all- RCU processing
from qualifying CPUs. It is therefore time to remove the "cpu" argument
to rcu_check_callbacks(), which this commit does.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
The rcu_data per-CPU variable has a number of fields that are atomically
manipulated, potentially by any CPU. This situation can result in false
sharing with per-CPU variables that have the misfortune of being allocated
adjacent to rcu_data in memory. This commit therefore changes the
DEFINE_PER_CPU() to DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED() in order to avoid
this false sharing.
Reported-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
For some functions in kernel/rcu/tree* the rdtp parameter is always
this_cpu_ptr(rdtp). Remove the parameter if constant and calculate the
pointer in function.
This will have the advantage that it is obvious that the address are
all per cpu offsets and thus it will enable the use of this_cpu_ops in
the future.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
[ paulmck: Forward-ported to rcu/dev, whitespace adjustment. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Commit 35ce7f29a4 (rcu: Create rcuo kthreads only for onlined CPUs)
contains checks for the case where CPUs are brought online out of
order, re-wiring the rcuo leader-follower relationships as needed.
Unfortunately, this rewiring was broken. This apparently went undetected
due to the tendency of systems to bring CPUs online in order. This commit
nevertheless fixes the rewiring.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
If a no-CBs CPU were to post an RCU callback with interrupts disabled
after it entered the idle loop for the last time, there might be no
deferred wakeup for the corresponding rcuo kthreads. This commit
therefore adds a set of calls to do_nocb_deferred_wakeup() after the
CPU has gone completely offline.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
PREEMPT_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU serve the same function after
TINY_PREEMPT_RCU has been removed. This patch removes TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
and uses PREEMPT_RCU config option in its place.
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Rename CONFIG_RCU_BOOST_PRIO to CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO and use this
value for both the per-CPU kthreads (rcuc/N) and the rcu boosting
threads (rcub/n).
Also, create the module_parameter rcutree.kthread_prio to be used on
the kernel command line at boot to set a new value (rcutree.kthread_prio=N).
Signed-off-by: Clark Williams <clark.williams@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Ported to rcu/dev, applied Paul Bolle and Peter Zijlstra feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, synchronize_sched_expedited() sends IPIs to all online CPUs,
even those that are idle or executing in nohz_full= userspace. Because
idle CPUs and nohz_full= userspace CPUs are in extended quiescent states,
there is no need to IPI them in the first place. This commit therefore
avoids IPIing CPUs that are already in extended quiescent states.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There are some RCU_BOOST-specific per-CPU variable declarations that
are needlessly defined under #ifdef in kernel/rcu/tree.c. This commit
therefore moves these declarations into a pre-existing #ifdef in
kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE Kconfig parameter causes preemptible
RCU's CPU stall warnings to dump out any preempted tasks that are blocking
the current RCU grace period. This information is useful, and the default
has been CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE=y for some years. It is therefore
time for this commit to remove this Kconfig parameter, so that future
kernel builds will always act as if CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE=y.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Commit 35ce7f29a4 (rcu: Create rcuo kthreads only for onlined CPUs)
avoids creating rcuo kthreads for CPUs that never come online. This
fixes a bug in many instances of firmware: Instead of lying about their
age, these systems instead lie about the number of CPUs that they have.
Before commit 35ce7f29a4, this could result in huge numbers of useless
rcuo kthreads being created.
It appears that experience indicates that I should have told the
people suffering from this problem to fix their broken firmware, but
I instead produced what turned out to be a partial fix. The missing
piece supplied by this commit makes sure that rcu_barrier() knows not to
post callbacks for no-CBs CPUs that have not yet come online, because
otherwise rcu_barrier() will hang on systems having firmware that lies
about the number of CPUs.
It is tempting to simply have rcu_barrier() refuse to post a callback on
any no-CBs CPU that does not have an rcuo kthread. This unfortunately
does not work because rcu_barrier() is required to wait for all pending
callbacks. It is therefore required to wait even for those callbacks
that cannot possibly be invoked. Even if doing so hangs the system.
Given that posting a callback to a no-CBs CPU that does not yet have an
rcuo kthread can hang rcu_barrier(), It is tempting to report an error
in this case. Unfortunately, this will result in false positives at
boot time, when it is perfectly legal to post callbacks to the boot CPU
before the scheduler has started, in other words, before it is legal
to invoke rcu_barrier().
So this commit instead has rcu_barrier() avoid posting callbacks to
CPUs having neither rcuo kthread nor pending callbacks, and has it
complain bitterly if it finds CPUs having no rcuo kthread but some
pending callbacks. And when rcu_barrier() does find CPUs having no rcuo
kthread but pending callbacks, as noted earlier, it has no choice but
to hang indefinitely.
Reported-by: Yanko Kaneti <yaneti@declera.com>
Reported-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Reported-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com>
Tested-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Yanko Kaneti <yaneti@declera.com>
Tested-by: Kevin Fenzi <kevin@scrye.com>
Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Currently, the expedited grace-period primitives do get_online_cpus().
This greatly simplifies their implementation, but means that calls
to them holding locks that are acquired by CPU-hotplug notifiers (to
say nothing of calls to these primitives from CPU-hotplug notifiers)
can deadlock. But this is starting to become inconvenient, as can be
seen here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/5/754. The problem in this
case is that some developers need to acquire a mutex from a CPU-hotplug
notifier, but also need to hold it across a synchronize_rcu_expedited().
As noted above, this currently results in deadlock.
This commit avoids the deadlock and retains the simplicity by creating
a try_get_online_cpus(), which returns false if the get_online_cpus()
reference count could not immediately be incremented. If a call to
try_get_online_cpus() returns true, the expedited primitives operate as
before. If a call returns false, the expedited primitives fall back to
normal grace-period operations. This falling back of course results in
increased grace-period latency, but only during times when CPU hotplug
operations are actually in flight. The effect should therefore be
negligible during normal operation.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Tested-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
This commit changes rcutorture_runnable to torture_runnable, which is
consistent with the names of the other parameters and is a bit shorter
as well.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
When performing module cleanups by calling torture_cleanup() the
'torture_type' string in nullified However, callers are not necessarily
done, and might still need to reference the variable. This impacts
both rcutorture and locktorture, causing printing things like:
[ 94.226618] (null)-torture: Stopping lock_torture_writer task
[ 94.226624] (null)-torture: Stopping lock_torture_stats task
Thus delay this operation until the very end of the cleanup process.
The consequence (which shouldn't matter for this kid of program) is,
of course, that we delay the window between rmmod and modprobing,
for instance in module_torture_begin().
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The NOCB follower wakeup ordering depends on the store to the tail
pointer happening before the wakeup. However, because atomic_long_add()
does not return a value, it does not provide ordering guarantees, and
the locking in wake_up() only guarantees that the store will happen
before the unlock, which might be too late. Even though this is only a
theoretical issue, this commit adds a smp_mb__after_atomic() after the
final atomic_long_add() to provide the needed ordering guarantee.
Reported-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
If an RCU callback is queued on a no-CBs CPU from idle code with irqs
disabled, and if that CPU stays idle forever after, the callback will
never be invoked. This commit therefore adds a check for this situation
in ____call_rcu_nocb(), invoking the RCU core solely for the purpose
of the ensuing return-to-idle transition. (If the CPU doesn't return
to idle, the next scheduling-clock interrupt will fix things up.)
Reported-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
The NOCB leader wakeup ordering depends on the store to the header
happening before the check for the leader already being awake. However,
because atomic_long_add() does not return a value, it does not provide
ordering guarantees, the incorrect comment in wake_nocb_leader()
notwithstanding. This commit therefore adds a smp_mb__after_atomic()
after the final atomic_long_add() to provide the needed ordering
guarantee.
Reported-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
If there are no nohz_full= CPUs, then there is currently no reason to
track sysidle state. This commit therefore short-circuits this state
tracking if !tick_nohz_full_enabled().
Note that these checks will need to be revisited if nohz_full= state
can ever be changed at runtime.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Now that we have rcu_state_p, which references rcu_preempt_state for
TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and rcu_sched_state for TREE_RCU, we don't need a
separate rcu_sysidle_state variable. This commit therefore eliminates
rcu_preempt_state in favor of rcu_state_p.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
If we configure a kernel with CONFIG_NOCB_CPU=y, CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE=y and
CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=n and do not pass in a rcu_nocb= boot parameter, the
cpumask rcu_nocb_mask can be garbage instead of NULL.
Hence this commit replaces checks for rcu_nocb_mask == NULL with a check for
have_rcu_nocb_mask.
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
RCU currently uses for_each_possible_cpu() to spawn rcuo kthreads,
which can result in more rcuo kthreads than one would expect, for
example, derRichard reported 64 CPUs worth of rcuo kthreads on an
8-CPU image. This commit therefore creates rcuo kthreads only for
those CPUs that actually come online.
This was reported by derRichard on the OFTC IRC network.
Reported-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Currently, RCU spawns kthreads from several different early_initcall()
functions. Although this has served RCU well for quite some time,
as more kthreads are added a more deterministic approach is required.
This commit therefore causes all of RCU's early-boot kthreads to be
spawned from a single early_initcall() function.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Return false instead of 0 in rcu_nocb_adopt_orphan_cbs() as this has
bool as return type.
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Return false instead of 0 in __call_rcu_nocb() as this has bool as
return type.
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Return true/false in rcu_nocb_adopt_orphan_cbs() instead of 0/1 as
this function has return type of bool.
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Return true/false instead of 0/1 in __call_rcu_nocb() as this returns a
bool type.
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
This commit checks the return value of the zalloc_cpumask_var() used for
allocating cpumask for rcu_nocb_mask.
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Commit b58cc46c5f (rcu: Don't offload callbacks unless specifically
requested) failed to adjust the callback lists of the CPUs that are
known to be no-CBs CPUs only because they are also nohz_full= CPUs.
This failure can result in callbacks that are posted during early boot
getting stranded on nxtlist for CPUs whose no-CBs property becomes
apparent late, and there can also be spurious warnings about offline
CPUs posting callbacks.
This commit fixes these problems by adding an early-boot rcu_init_nohz()
that properly initializes the no-CBs CPUs.
Note that kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y or with
CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=n do not exhibit this bug. Neither do kernels
booted without the nohz_full= boot parameter.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
The rcu_bh_qs(), rcu_preempt_qs(), and rcu_sched_qs() functions use
old-style per-CPU variable access and write to ->passed_quiesce even
if it is already set. This commit therefore updates to use the new-style
per-CPU variable access functions and avoids the spurious writes.
This commit also eliminates the "cpu" argument to these functions because
they are always invoked on the indicated CPU.
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() function is on a scheduling fast
path, so it would be good to avoid disabling irqs. The reason that irqs
are disabled is to synchronize process-level and irq-handler access to
the task_struct ->rcu_read_unlock_special bitmask. This commit therefore
makes ->rcu_read_unlock_special instead be a union of bools with a short
allowing single-access checks in RCU's __rcu_read_unlock(). This results
in the process-level and irq-handler accesses being simple loads and
stores, so that irqs need no longer be disabled. This commit therefore
removes the irq disabling from rcu_preempt_note_context_switch().
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The grace-period-wait loop in rcu_tasks_kthread() is under (unnecessary)
RCU protection, and therefore has no preemption points in a PREEMPT=n
kernel. This commit therefore removes the RCU protection and inserts
cond_resched().
Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently TASKS_RCU would ignore a CPU running a task in nohz_full=
usermode execution. There would be neither a context switch nor a
scheduling-clock interrupt to tell TASKS_RCU that the task in question
had passed through a quiescent state. The grace period would therefore
extend indefinitely. This commit therefore makes RCU's dyntick-idle
subsystem record the task_struct structure of the task that is running
in dyntick-idle mode on each CPU. The TASKS_RCU grace period can
then access this information and record a quiescent state on
behalf of any CPU running in dyntick-idle usermode.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
It is expected that many sites will have CONFIG_TASKS_RCU=y, but
will never actually invoke call_rcu_tasks(). For such sites, creating
rcu_tasks_kthread() at boot is wasteful. This commit therefore defers
creation of this kthread until the time of the first call_rcu_tasks().
This of course means that the first call_rcu_tasks() must be invoked
from process context after the scheduler is fully operational.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The current RCU-tasks implementation uses strict polling to detect
callback arrivals. This works quite well, but is not so good for
energy efficiency. This commit therefore replaces the strict polling
with a wait queue.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit adds a ten-minute RCU-tasks stall warning. The actual
time is controlled by the boot/sysfs parameter rcu_task_stall_timeout,
with values less than or equal to zero disabling the stall warnings.
The default value is ten minutes, which means that the tasks that have
not yet responded will get their stacks dumped every ten minutes, until
they pass through a voluntary context switch.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit adds torture tests for RCU-tasks. It also fixes a bug that
would segfault for an RCU flavor lacking a callback-barrier function.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit exports the RCU-tasks synchronous APIs,
synchronize_rcu_tasks() and rcu_barrier_tasks(), to
GPL-licensed kernel modules.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Once a task has passed exit_notify() in the do_exit() code path, it
is no longer on the task lists, and is therefore no longer visible
to rcu_tasks_kthread(). This means that an almost-exited task might
be preempted while within a trampoline, and this task won't be waited
on by rcu_tasks_kthread(). This commit fixes this bug by adding an
srcu_struct. An exiting task does srcu_read_lock() just before calling
exit_notify(), and does the corresponding srcu_read_unlock() after
doing the final preempt_disable(). This means that rcu_tasks_kthread()
can do synchronize_srcu() to wait for all mostly-exited tasks to reach
their final preempt_disable() region, and then use synchronize_sched()
to wait for those tasks to finish exiting.
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
It turns out to be easier to add the synchronous grace-period waiting
functions to RCU-tasks than to work around their absense in rcutorture,
so this commit adds them. The key point is that the existence of
call_rcu_tasks() means that rcutorture needs an rcu_barrier_tasks().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
RCU-tasks requires the occasional voluntary context switch
from CPU-bound in-kernel tasks. In some cases, this requires
instrumenting cond_resched(). However, there is some reluctance
to countenance unconditionally instrumenting cond_resched() (see
http://lwn.net/Articles/603252/), so this commit creates a separate
cond_resched_rcu_qs() that may be used in place of cond_resched() in
locations prone to long-duration in-kernel looping.
This commit currently instruments only RCU-tasks. Future possibilities
include also instrumenting RCU, RCU-bh, and RCU-sched in order to reduce
IPI usage.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit adds a new RCU-tasks flavor of RCU, which provides
call_rcu_tasks(). This RCU flavor's quiescent states are voluntary
context switch (not preemption!) and userspace execution (not the idle
loop -- use some sort of schedule_on_each_cpu() if you need to handle the
idle tasks. Note that unlike other RCU flavors, these quiescent states
occur in tasks, not necessarily CPUs. Includes fixes from Steven Rostedt.
This RCU flavor is assumed to have very infrequent latency-tolerant
updaters. This assumption permits significant simplifications, including
a single global callback list protected by a single global lock, along
with a single task-private linked list containing all tasks that have not
yet passed through a quiescent state. If experience shows this assumption
to be incorrect, the required additional complexity will be added.
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Although RCU is designed to handle arbitrary floods of callbacks, this
capability is not routinely tested. This commit therefore adds a
cbflood capability in which kthreads repeatedly registers large numbers
of callbacks. One such kthread is created for each four CPUs (rounding
up), and the test may be controlled by several cbflood_* kernel boot
parameters, which control the number of bursts per flood, the number
of callbacks per burst, the time between bursts, and the time between
floods. The default values are large enough to exercise RCU's emergency
responses to callback flooding.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
User pr_alert/pr_cont for printing the logs from rcutorture module directly
instead of writing it to a buffer and then printing it. This allows us from not
having to allocate such buffers. Also remove a resulting empty function.
I tested this using the parse-torture.sh script as follows:
$ dmesg | grep torture > log.txt
$ bash parse-torture.sh log.txt test
$
There were no warnings which means that parsing went fine.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit fixes the following sparse warning by marking boost_mutex
static:
kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c:185:1: warning: symbol 'boost_mutex' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Currently, when RCU awakens from a wait_event_interruptible() that
might have awakened prematurely, it does a flush_signals(). This is
done on the off-chance that someone figured out how to deliver a signal
to a kthread, which is supposed to be impossible. Given that this
is supposed to be impossible, this commit changes the flush_signals()
calls into WARN_ON(signal_pending()).
Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_gp_kthread_wake() function checks for three conditions before
waking up grace period kthreads:
* Is the thread we are trying to wake up the current thread?
* Are the gp_flags zero? (all threads wait on non-zero gp_flags condition)
* Is there no thread created for this flavour, hence nothing to wake up?
If any one of these condition is true, we do not call wake_up().
It was found that there are quite a few avoidable wake ups both during
idle time and under stress induced by rcutorture.
Idle:
Total:66000, unnecessary:66000, case1:61827, case2:66000, case3:0
Total:68000, unnecessary:68000, case1:63696, case2:68000, case3:0
rcutorture:
Total:254000, unnecessary:254000, case1:199913, case2:254000, case3:0
Total:256000, unnecessary:256000, case1:201784, case2:256000, case3:0
Here case{1-3} are the cases listed above. We can avoid these wake
ups by using rcu_gp_kthread_wake() to conditionally wake up the grace
period kthreads.
There is a comment about an implied barrier supplied by the wake_up()
logic. This barrier is necessary for the awakened thread to see the
updated ->gp_flags. This flag is always being updated with the root node
lock held. Also, the awakened thread tries to acquire the root node lock
before reading ->gp_flags because of which there is proper ordering.
Hence this commit tries to avoid calling wake_up() whenever we can by
using rcu_gp_kthread_wake() function.
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
CC: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_idle_enter_common() and rcu_idle_exit_common() functions contain
error checks that have to the best of my knowledge have never triggered
over the past several years. These are nevertheless valuable when
creating new architectures or doing other low-level changes, so the
checks should not be deleted. This commit instead places these checks
under #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TRACE so that they are executed only when
specifically requested.
The savings are significant:
Before:
text data bss dec hex filename
1749 39 0 1788 6fc /tmp/b/kernel/rcu/tiny.o
632 152 0 784 310 /tmp/b/kernel/rcu/update.o
----
2572
After:
text data bss dec hex filename
1281 37 0 1318 526 /tmp/b/kernel/rcu/tiny.o
632 152 0 784 310 /tmp/b/kernel/rcu/update.o
----
2102
This amounts to 470 bytes, or 18% of the original.
Switched from #ifdef to IS_ENABLED() on Josh Triplett's advice.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Commit 96d3fd0d31 (rcu: Break call_rcu() deadlock involving scheduler
and perf) covered the case where __call_rcu_nocb_enqueue() needs to wake
the rcuo kthread due to the queue being initially empty, but did not
do anything for the case where the queue was overflowing. This commit
therefore also defers wakeup for the overflow case.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit removes a stale comment in rcu/tree.c which was left
out when some code was moved around previously in commit 2036d94a7b
("rcu: Rework detection of use of RCU by offline CPUs") For reference,
the following updated comment exists a few lines below this which means
the same:
/* Remove the outgoing CPU from the masks in the rcu_node hierarchy. */
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit updates the references to rcutree.c which is now rcu/tree.c
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Commit f7f7bac9cb ("rcu: Have the RCU tracepoints use the tracepoint_string
infrastructure") unconditionally populates the __tracepoint_str input section,
but this section is not assigned an output section if CONFIG_TRACING is not set.
This results in the __tracepoint_str turning up in unexpected places, i.e.,
after _edata.
Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit uninlines rcu_read_lock_held(). According to "size vmlinux"
this saves 28549 in .text:
- 5541731 3014560 14757888 23314179
+ 5513182 3026848 14757888 23297918
Note: it looks as if the data grows by 12288 bytes but this is not true,
it does not actually grow. But .data starts with ALIGN(THREAD_SIZE) and
since .text shrinks the padding grows, and thus .data grows too as it
seen by /bin/size. diff System.map:
- ffffffff81510000 D _sdata
- ffffffff81510000 D init_thread_union
+ ffffffff81509000 D _sdata
+ ffffffff8150c000 D init_thread_union
Perhaps we can change vmlinux.lds.S to .data itself, so that /bin/size
can't "wrongly" report that .data grows if .text shinks.
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit uses true/false instead of 1/0 for bool types in rcu_gp_fqs()
and force_qs_rnp().
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Return a bool type instead of 0 in rcu_try_advance_all_cbs().
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Use a bool type for return in rcu_is_watching().
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
fix sparse warning about rcu_batches_completed_preempt() being non-static by
marking it as static
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Change the remaining uses of ACCESS_ONCE() so that each ACCESS_ONCE() either does a load or a store, but not both.
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The nocb callbacks generated before the nocb kthreads are spawned are
enqueued in the nocb queue for later processing. Commit fbce7497ee ("rcu:
Parallelize and economize NOCB kthread wakeups") introduced nocb leader kthreads
which checked the nocb_leader_wake flag to see if there were any such pending
callbacks. A case was reported in which newly spawned leader kthreads were not
processing the pending callbacks as this flag was not set, which led to a boot
hang.
The following commit ensures that the newly spawned nocb kthreads process the
pending callbacks by allowing the kthreads to run immediately after spawning
instead of waiting. This is done by inverting the logic of nocb_leader_wake
tests to nocb_leader_sleep which allows us to use the default initialization of
this flag to 0 to let the kthreads run.
Reported-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Link: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1802899.html
[ paulmck: Backported to v3.17-rc2. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molar:
"The main changes:
- torture-test updates
- callback-offloading changes
- maintainership changes
- update RCU documentation
- miscellaneous fixes"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
rcu: Allow for NULL tick_nohz_full_mask when nohz_full= missing
rcu: Fix a sparse warning in rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp()
rcu: Fix a sparse warning in rcu_initiate_boost()
rcu: Fix __rcu_reclaim() to use true/false for bool
rcu: Remove CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAY
rcu: Use __this_cpu_read() instead of per_cpu_ptr()
rcu: Don't use NMIs to dump other CPUs' stacks
rcu: Bind grace-period kthreads to non-NO_HZ_FULL CPUs
rcu: Simplify priority boosting by putting rt_mutex in rcu_node
rcu: Check both root and current rcu_node when setting up future grace period
rcu: Allow post-unlock reference for rt_mutex
rcu: Loosen __call_rcu()'s rcu_head alignment constraint
rcu: Eliminate read-modify-write ACCESS_ONCE() calls
rcu: Remove redundant ACCESS_ONCE() from tick_do_timer_cpu
rcu: Make rcu node arrays static const char * const
signal: Explain local_irq_save() call
rcu: Handle obsolete references to TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
rcu: Document deadlock-avoidance information for rcu_read_unlock()
scripts: Teach get_maintainer.pl about the new "R:" tag
rcu: Update rcu torture maintainership filename patterns
...
My IBM email addresses haven't worked for years; also map some
old-but-functional forwarding addresses to my canonical address.
Update my GPG key fingerprint; I moved to 4096R a long time ago.
Update description.
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
If there isn't a nohz_full= kernel parameter specified, then
tick_nohz_full_mask can legitimately be NULL. This can cause
problems when RCU's boot code tries to cpumask_or() this value into
rcu_nocb_mask. In addition, if NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y, there is no point
in doing the cpumask_or() in the first place because this will cause
RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y, which in turn will have all bits already set in
rcu_nocb_mask.
This commit therefore avoids the cpumask_or() if NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y
and checks for !tick_nohz_full_running otherwise, this latter check
catching cases when there was no nohz_full= kernel parameter specified.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit annotates rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() in order to fix the
following sparse warning:
kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:990:13: warning: context imbalance in 'rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp' - unexpected unlock
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
This commit annotates rcu_initiate_boost() fixes the following sparse
warning:
kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:1494:13: warning: context imbalance in 'rcu_initiate_boost' - unexpected unlock
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
The __rcu_reclaim() function returned 0/1, which is not proper for a
function of type bool. This commit therefore converts to false/true.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
The CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAY Kconfig parameter doesn't appear to be very
effective at finding race conditions, so this commit removes it.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
[ paulmck: Remove definition and uses as noted by Paul Bolle. ]
Although NMI-based stack dumps are in principle more accurate, they are
also more likely to trigger deadlocks. This commit therefore replaces
all uses of trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() with rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(), so
that the CPU detecting an RCU CPU stall does the stack dumping.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Binding the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping CPU resulted in
significant performance decreases for some workloads. For more detail,
see:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/3/395 for benchmark numbers
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/4/218 for CPU statistics
It turns out that it is necessary to bind the grace-period kthreads
to the timekeeping CPU only when all but CPU 0 is a nohz_full CPU
on the one hand or if CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=y on the other.
In other cases, it suffices to bind the grace-period kthreads to the
set of non-nohz_full CPUs.
This commit therefore creates a tick_nohz_not_full_mask that is the
complement of tick_nohz_full_mask, and then binds the grace-period
kthread to the set of CPUs indicated by this new mask, which covers
the CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=n case. The CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=y
case still binds the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping CPU.
This commit also includes the tick_nohz_full_enabled() check suggested
by Frederic Weisbecker.
Reported-by: Jet Chen <jet.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Created housekeeping_affine() and housekeeping_mask per
fweisbec feedback. ]
RCU priority boosting currently checks for boosting via a pointer in
task_struct. However, this is not needed: As Oleg noted, if the
rt_mutex is placed in the rcu_node instead of on the booster's stack,
the boostee can simply check it see if it owns the lock. This commit
makes this change, shrinking task_struct by one pointer and the kernel
by thirteen lines.
Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_start_future_gp() function checks the current rcu_node's ->gpnum
and ->completed twice, once without ACCESS_ONCE() and once with it.
Which is pointless because we hold that rcu_node's ->lock at that point.
The intent was to check the current rcu_node structure and the root
rcu_node structure, the latter locklessly with ACCESS_ONCE(). This
commit therefore makes that change.
The reason that it is safe to locklessly check the root rcu_nodes's
->gpnum and ->completed fields is that we hold the current rcu_node's
->lock, which constrains the root rcu_node's ability to change its
->gpnum and ->completed fields. Of course, if there is a single rcu_node
structure, then rnp_root==rnp, and holding the lock prevents all changes.
If there is more than one rcu_node structure, then the code updates the
fields in the following order:
1. Increment rnp_root->gpnum to start new grace period.
2. Increment rnp->gpnum to initialize the current rcu_node,
continuing initialization for the new grace period.
3. Increment rnp_root->completed to end the current grace period.
4. Increment rnp->completed to continue cleaning up after the
old grace period.
So there are four possible combinations of relative values of these
four fields:
N N N N: RCU idle, new grace period must be initiated.
Although rnp_root->gpnum might be incremented immediately
after we check, that will just result in unnecessary work.
The grace period already started, and we try to start it.
N+1 N N N: RCU grace period just started. No further change is
possible because we hold rnp->lock, so the checks of
rnp_root->gpnum and rnp_root->completed are stable.
We know that our request for a future grace period will
be seen during grace-period cleanup.
N+1 N N+1 N: RCU grace period is ongoing. Because rnp->gpnum is
different than rnp->completed, we won't even look at
rnp_root->gpnum and rnp_root->completed, so the possible
concurrent change to rnp_root->completed does not matter.
We know that our request for a future grace period will
be seen during grace-period cleanup, which cannot pass
this rcu_node because we hold its ->lock.
N+1 N+1 N+1 N: RCU grace period has ended, but not yet been cleaned up.
Because rnp->gpnum is different than rnp->completed, we
won't look at rnp_root->gpnum and rnp_root->completed, so
the possible concurrent change to rnp_root->completed does
not matter. We know that our request for a future grace
period will be seen during grace-period cleanup, which
cannot pass this rcu_node because we hold its ->lock.
Therefore, despite initial appearances, the lockless check is safe.
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Update comment to say why the lockless check is safe. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The current approach to RCU priority boosting uses an rt_mutex strictly
for its priority-boosting side effects. The rt_mutex_init_proxy_locked()
function is used by the booster to initialize the lock as held by the
boostee. The booster then uses rt_mutex_lock() to acquire this rt_mutex,
which priority-boosts the boostee. When the boostee reaches the end
of its outermost RCU read-side critical section, it checks a field in
its task structure to see whether it has been boosted, and, if so, uses
rt_mutex_unlock() to release the rt_mutex. The booster can then go on
to boost the next task that is blocking the current RCU grace period.
But reasonable implementations of rt_mutex_unlock() might result in the
boostee referencing the rt_mutex's data after releasing it. But the
booster might have re-initialized the rt_mutex between the time that the
boostee released it and the time that it later referenced it. This is
clearly asking for trouble, so this commit introduces a completion that
forces the booster to wait until the boostee has completely finished with
the rt_mutex, thus avoiding the case where the booster is re-initializing
the rt_mutex before the last boostee's last reference to that rt_mutex.
This of course does introduce some overhead, but the priority-boosting
code paths are miles from any possible fastpath, and the overhead of
executing the completion will normally be quite small compared to the
overhead of priority boosting and deboosting, so this should be OK.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The m68k architecture aligns only to 16-bit boundaries, which can cause
the align-to-32-bits check in __call_rcu() to trigger. Because there is
currently no known potential need for more than one low-order bit, this
commit loosens the check to 16-bit boundaries.
Reported-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
RCU contains code of the following forms:
ACCESS_ONCE(x)++;
ACCESS_ONCE(x) += y;
ACCESS_ONCE(x) -= y;
Now these constructs do operate correctly, but they really result in a
pair of volatile accesses, one to do the load and another to do the store.
This can be confusing, as the casual reader might well assume that (for
example) gcc might generate a memory-to-memory add instruction for each
of these three cases. In fact, gcc will do no such thing. Also, there
is a good chance that the kernel will move to separate load and store
variants of ACCESS_ONCE(), and constructs like the above could easily
confuse both people and scripts attempting to make that sort of change.
Finally, most of RCU's read-modify-write uses of ACCESS_ONCE() really
only need the store to be volatile, so that the read-modify-write form
might be misleading.
This commit therefore changes the above forms in RCU so that each instance
of ACCESS_ONCE() either does a load or a store, but not both. In a few
cases, ACCESS_ONCE() was not critical, for example, for maintaining
statisitics. In these cases, ACCESS_ONCE() has been dispensed with
entirely.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL, tick_do_timer_cpu is constant
once boot completes. Thus, there is no need to wrap it in ACCESS_ONCE()
in code that is built only when CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL. This commit therefore
removes the redundant ACCESS_ONCE().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Those two arrays are being passed to lockdep_init_map(), which expects
const char *, and are stored in lockdep_map the same way.
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Enabling NO_HZ_FULL currently has the side effect of enabling callback
offloading on all CPUs. This results in lots of additional rcuo kthreads,
and can also increase context switching and wakeups, even in cases where
callback offloading is neither needed nor particularly desirable. This
commit therefore enables callback offloading on a given CPU only if
specifically requested at build time or boot time, or if that CPU has
been specifically designated (again, either at build time or boot time)
as a nohz_full CPU.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
An 80-CPU system with a context-switch-heavy workload can require so
many NOCB kthread wakeups that the RCU grace-period kthreads spend several
tens of percent of a CPU just awakening things. This clearly will not
scale well: If you add enough CPUs, the RCU grace-period kthreads would
get behind, increasing grace-period latency.
To avoid this problem, this commit divides the NOCB kthreads into leaders
and followers, where the grace-period kthreads awaken the leaders each of
whom in turn awakens its followers. By default, the number of groups of
kthreads is the square root of the number of CPUs, but this default may
be overridden using the rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride boot parameter.
This reduces the number of wakeups done per grace period by the RCU
grace-period kthread by the square root of the number of CPUs, but of
course by shifting those wakeups to the leaders. In addition, because
the leaders do grace periods on behalf of their respective followers,
the number of wakeups of the followers decreases by up to a factor of two.
Instead of being awakened once when new callbacks arrive and again
at the end of the grace period, the followers are awakened only at
the end of the grace period.
For a numerical example, in a 4096-CPU system, the grace-period kthread
would awaken 64 leaders, each of which would awaken its 63 followers
at the end of the grace period. This compares favorably with the 79
wakeups for the grace-period kthread on an 80-CPU system.
Reported-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Commit ac1bea8578 (Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent states)
fixed a problem where a CPU looping in the kernel with but one runnable
task would give RCU CPU stall warnings, even if the in-kernel loop
contained cond_resched() calls. Unfortunately, in so doing, it introduced
performance regressions in Anton Blanchard's will-it-scale "open1" test.
The problem appears to be not so much the increased cond_resched() path
length as an increase in the rate at which grace periods complete, which
increased per-update grace-period overhead.
This commit takes a different approach to fixing this bug, mainly by
moving the RCU-visible quiescent state from cond_resched() to
rcu_note_context_switch(), and by further reducing the check to a
simple non-zero test of a single per-CPU variable. However, this
approach requires that the force-quiescent-state processing send
resched IPIs to the offending CPUs. These will be sent only once
the grace period has reached an age specified by the boot/sysfs
parameter rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs, or once the grace period
reaches an age halfway to the point at which RCU CPU stall warnings
will be emitted, whichever comes first.
Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
[ paulmck: Made rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle() as suggested by the
ktest build robot. Also fixed smp_mb() comment as noted by
Oleg Nesterov. ]
Merge with e552592e (Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU)
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, call_rcu() relies on implicit allocation and initialization
for the debug-objects handling of RCU callbacks. If you hammer the
kernel hard enough with Sasha's modified version of trinity, you can end
up with the sl*b allocators recursing into themselves via this implicit
call_rcu() allocation.
This commit therefore exports the debug_init_rcu_head() and
debug_rcu_head_free() functions, which permits the allocators to allocated
and pre-initialize the debug-objects information, so that there no longer
any need for call_rcu() to do that initialization, which in turn prevents
the recursion into the memory allocators.
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Looks-good-to: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Some sysrq handlers can run for a long time, because they dump a lot
of data onto a serial console. Having RCU stall warnings pop up in
the middle of them only makes the problem worse.
This commit provides rcu_sysrq_start() and rcu_sysrq_end() APIs to
temporarily suppress RCU CPU stall warnings while a sysrq request is
handled.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
[ paulmck: Fix TINY_RCU build error. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The variable and struct both having the name "rcu_state" confuses
sparse in some situations, so this commit changes the variable to
"rcu_state_p" in order to avoid this confusion. This also makes
things easier for human readers.
Signed-off-by: Uma Sharma <uma.sharma523@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Changed the declaration and several additional uses. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The torture tests are designed to run in isolation, but do not enforce
this isolation. This commit therefore checks for concurrent torture
tests, and refuses to start new tests while old tests are running.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
There are usually lots of readers and only one writer, so if there has
to be a choice, we would want rcu_torture_writer to win. This commit
therefore removes the set_user_nice() from rcu_torture_writer().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The rcu_torture_reader() function uses an on-stack timer_list structure
which it initializes with setup_timer_on_stack(). However, it fails to
use destroy_timer_on_stack() before exiting, which results in leaking a
tracking object if DEBUG_OBJECTS is enabled. This commit therefore
invokes destroy_timer_on_stack() to avoid this leakage.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The original rcu_torture_writer() avoided testing the synchronous
grace-period primitives because they were simply wrappers around
call_rcu() invocations. The testing of these synchronous primitives
was delegated to the fake writers. However, there really is no excuse
not to test them, especially in the case of SRCU, where the wrappering
is somewhat more elaborate. This commit therefore makes the default
rcutorture parameters cause rcu_torture_writer() to include synchronous
grace-period primitives in its testing.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit adds rcutorture testing for get_state_synchronize_rcu()
and cond_synchronize_rcu().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The return value from torture_create_kthread() is currently ignored
when creating the rcu_torture_fqs kthread. This commit therefore
captures the return value so that it can be tested for errors.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The rcu_torture_reader() function currently uses schedule(). This commit
therefore speeds things up a bit by substituting cond_resched().
This change makes rcu_torture_reader() more CPU-bound, so this commit
also adjusts the number of readers (the "nreaders" module parameter,
which feeds into the "nrealreaders" variable) to allow one CPU to be
free of readers on SMP systems. The point of this is to increase the
probability that readers will be watching while an updater makes a change.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Given a CPU running a loop containing cond_resched(), with no
other tasks runnable on that CPU, RCU will eventually report RCU
CPU stall warnings due to lack of quiescent states. Fortunately,
every call to cond_resched() is a perfectly good quiescent state.
Unfortunately, invoking rcu_note_context_switch() is a bit heavyweight
for cond_resched(), especially given the need to disable preemption,
and, for RCU-preempt, interrupts as well.
This commit therefore maintains a per-CPU counter that causes
cond_resched(), cond_resched_lock(), and cond_resched_softirq() to call
rcu_note_context_switch(), but only about once per 256 invocations.
This ratio was chosen in keeping with the relative time constants of
RCU grace periods.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit allows rcutorture to print additional state for the
RCU grace-period kthreads in cases where RCU seems reluctant to
start a new grace period.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit adds a call to rcutorture_trace_dump() to dump the ftrace
buffer when the RCU grace period stalls in order to help debug the
stall. Note that this is different than the RCU CPU stall warning,
as it is rcutorture detecting the stall rather than the underlying RCU
implementation.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The srcu_torture_stats() function prints SRCU's per-CPU c[] array with
an unsigned format, which means that the number one less than zero is
a very large number. This commit therefore prints this array with a
signed format in order to improve readability of the rcutorture output.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Mark functions as static in kernel/rcu/torture.c because they are not
used outside this file.
This eliminates the following warning in kernel/rcu/torture.c:
kernel/rcu/torture.c:902:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘rcutorture_trace_dump’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
kernel/rcu/torture.c:1572:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘rcu_torture_barrier_cbf’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcutorture output currently does not distinguish between stalls in
the RCU implementation and stalls in the rcu_torture_writer() kthreads.
This commit therefore adds some diagnostics to help distinguish between
these two conditions, at least for the non-SRCU implementations. (SRCU
does not provide evidence of update-side forward progress by design.)
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
__this_cpu_ptr is being phased out.
One special case is increment_cpu_stall_ticks().
A per cpu variable is incremented so use raw_cpu_inc().
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Currently, small systems move back into RCU_SYSIDLE_NOT from
RCU_SYSIDLE_SHORT and large systems do not. This works because moving
aggressively to RCU_SYSIDLE_NOT affects only performance, not correctness,
and on small systems, the performance impact should be negligible. That
said, this difference does make RCU a bit more complex, and RCU does not
seem to be suffering from any lack of complexity. This commit therefore
adjusts small-system operation to match that of large systems, so that
the state never moves back to RCU_SYSIDLE_NOT from RCU_SYSIDLE_SHORT.
Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Currently, RCU binds the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping
CPU only if CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=y. This means that these
kthreads must be bound manually when CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=n and
CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y: Otherwise, these kthreads will induce OS jitter on
random CPUs. Given that we are trying to reduce the amount of manual
tweaking required to make CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y work nicely, this commit
makes this binding happen when CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, even in cases where
CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=n.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This patch merges the function rcu_force_quiescent_state() with
rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state(), using the rcu_state pointer. Firstly,
the rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state() function is deleted from the file
kernel/rcu/tree.c. Also, the rcu_force_quiescent_state() function that was
calling force_quiescent_state with the argument rcu_preempt_state pointer
was deleted as well. The new function that combines the old ones uses
the rcu_state pointer and is located after rcu_batches_completed_bh()
in kernel/rcu/tree.c.
Signed-off-by: Andreea-Cristina Bernat <bernat.ada@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
kfree_call_rcu is defined two times. When defined under CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU,
it uses rcu_preempt_state. Otherwise, it uses rcu_sched_state.
This patch uses the rcu_state_pointer to combine the two definitions into one.
The resulting function is placed after the closing of the preprocessor
conditional CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU.
Signed-off-by: Andreea-Cristina Bernat <bernat.ada@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This patch replaces NR_CPUS with nr_cpu_ids as NR_CPUS should
consider cpumask_var_t.
Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This patch adds event tracing to dyntick_save_progress_counter() in the case
where it returns 1. I used the tracepoint string "dti" because this function
returns 1 in case the CPU is in dynticks idle mode.
Signed-off-by: Andreea-Cristina Bernat <bernat.ada@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Some of the accesses to the rcu_state structure's ->jiffies_stall
field are unprotected. This patch protects them with ACCESS_ONCE().
The following coccinelle script was used to acheive this:
/* coccinelle script to protect uses of ->jiffies_stall with ACCESS_ONCE() */
@@
identifier a;
@@
(
ACCESS_ONCE(a->jiffies_stall)
|
- a->jiffies_stall
+ ACCESS_ONCE(a->jiffies_stall)
)
Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The rcu_start_gp_advanced() function currently uses irq_work_queue()
to defer wakeups of the RCU grace-period kthread. This deferring
is necessary to avoid RCU-scheduler deadlocks involving the rcu_node
structure's lock, meaning that RCU cannot call any of the scheduler's
wake-up functions while holding one of these locks.
Unfortunately, the second and subsequent calls to irq_work_queue() are
ignored, and the first call will be ignored (aside from queuing the work
item) if the scheduler-clock tick is turned off. This is OK for many
uses, especially those where irq_work_queue() is called from an interrupt
or softirq handler, because in those cases the scheduler-clock-tick state
will be re-evaluated, which will turn the scheduler-clock tick back on.
On the next tick, any deferred work will then be processed.
However, this strategy does not always work for RCU, which can be invoked
at process level from idle CPUs. In this case, the tick might never
be turned back on, indefinitely defering a grace-period start request.
Note that the RCU CPU stall detector cannot see this condition, because
there is no RCU grace period in progress. Therefore, we can (and do!)
see long tens-of-seconds stalls in grace-period handling. In theory,
we could see a full grace-period hang, but rcutorture testing to date
has seen only the tens-of-seconds stalls. Event tracing demonstrates
that irq_work_queue() is being called repeatedly to no effect during
these stalls: The "newreq" event appears repeatedly from a task that is
not one of the grace-period kthreads.
In theory, irq_work_queue() might be fixed to avoid this sort of issue,
but RCU's requirements are unusual and it is quite straightforward to pass
wake-up responsibility up through RCU's call chain, so that the wakeup
happens when the offending locks are released.
This commit therefore makes this change. The rcu_start_gp_advanced(),
rcu_start_future_gp(), rcu_accelerate_cbs(), rcu_advance_cbs(),
__note_gp_changes(), and rcu_start_gp() functions now return a boolean
which indicates when a wake-up is needed. A new rcu_gp_kthread_wake()
does the wakeup when it is necessary and safe to do so: No self-wakes,
no wake-ups if the ->gp_flags field indicates there is no need (as in
someone else did the wake-up before we got around to it), and no wake-ups
before the grace-period kthread has been created.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Some of the uses of the rcu_state structure's ->jiffies_stall field
do not use ACCESS_ONCE(), despite there being unprotected accesses.
This commit therefore uses the ACCESS_ONCE() macro to protect this field.
Signed-off-by: Iulia Manda <iulia.manda21@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The ->preemptible field in rcu_data is only initialized in the function
rcu_init_percpu_data(), and never used. This commit therefore removes
this field.
Signed-off-by: Iulia Manda <iulia.manda21@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
In the old days, the only source of requests for future grace periods
was NOCB CPUs. This has changed: CPUs routinely post requests for
future grace periods in order to promote power efficiency and reduce
OS jitter with minimal impact on grace-period latency. This commit
therefore updates cpu_needs_another_gp() to invoke rcu_future_needs_gp()
instead of rcu_nocb_needs_gp(). The latter is no longer used, so is
now removed. This commit also adds tracing for the irq_work_queue()
wakeup case.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The print_other_cpu_stall() and print_cpu_stall() functions print
grace-period numbers using an unsigned format, which means that the number
one less than zero is a very large number. This commit therefore causes
these numbers to be printed with a signed format in order to improve
readability of the RCU CPU stall-warning output.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Liu Ping Fan <kernelfans@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
A number of ->gp_flags accesses don't have ACCESS_ONCE(), but all of
the can race against other loads or stores. This commit therefore
applies ACCESS_ONCE() to the unprotected ->gp_flags accesses.
Reported-by: Alexey Roytman <alexey.roytman@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Bigger changes:
- sched/idle restructuring: they are WIP preparation for deeper
integration between the scheduler and idle state selection, by
Nicolas Pitre.
- add NUMA scheduling pseudo-interleaving, by Rik van Riel.
- optimize cgroup context switches, by Peter Zijlstra.
- RT scheduling enhancements, by Thomas Gleixner.
The rest is smaller changes, non-urgnt fixes and cleanups"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (68 commits)
sched: Clean up the task_hot() function
sched: Remove double calculation in fix_small_imbalance()
sched: Fix broken setscheduler()
sparc64, sched: Remove unused sparc64_multi_core
sched: Remove unused mc_capable() and smt_capable()
sched/numa: Move task_numa_free() to __put_task_struct()
sched/fair: Fix endless loop in idle_balance()
sched/core: Fix endless loop in pick_next_task()
sched/fair: Push down check for high priority class task into idle_balance()
sched/rt: Fix picking RT and DL tasks from empty queue
trace: Replace hardcoding of 19 with MAX_NICE
sched: Guarantee task priority in pick_next_task()
sched/idle: Remove stale old file
sched: Put rq's sched_avg under CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
cpuidle/arm64: Remove redundant cpuidle_idle_call()
cpuidle/powernv: Remove redundant cpuidle_idle_call()
sched, nohz: Exclude isolated cores from load balancing
sched: Fix select_task_rq_fair() description comments
workqueue: Replace hardcoding of -20 and 19 with MIN_NICE and MAX_NICE
sys: Replace hardcoding of -20 and 19 with MIN_NICE and MAX_NICE
...
The following pattern is currently not well supported by RCU:
1. Make data element inaccessible to RCU readers.
2. Do work that probably lasts for more than one grace period.
3. Do something to make sure RCU readers in flight before #1 above
have completed.
Here are some things that could currently be done:
a. Do a synchronize_rcu() unconditionally at either #1 or #3 above.
This works, but imposes needless work and latency.
b. Post an RCU callback at #1 above that does a wakeup, then
wait for the wakeup at #3. This works well, but likely results
in an extra unneeded grace period. Open-coding this is also
a bit more semi-tricky code than would be good.
This commit therefore adds get_state_synchronize_rcu() and
cond_synchronize_rcu() APIs. Call get_state_synchronize_rcu() at #1
above and pass its return value to cond_synchronize_rcu() at #3 above.
This results in a call to synchronize_rcu() if no grace period has
elapsed between #1 and #3, but requires only a load, comparison, and
memory barrier if a full grace period did elapse.
Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
The kbuild test bot uncovered an implicit dependence on the
trace header being present before rcu.h in ia64 allmodconfig
that looks like this:
In file included from kernel/ksysfs.c:22:0:
kernel/rcu/rcu.h: In function '__rcu_reclaim':
kernel/rcu/rcu.h:107:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'trace_rcu_invoke_kfree_callback' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
kernel/rcu/rcu.h:112:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'trace_rcu_invoke_callback' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors
Looking at other rcu.h users, we can find that they all
were sourcing the trace header in advance of rcu.h itself,
as seen in the context of this diff. There were also some
inconsistencies as to whether it was or wasn't sourced based
on the parent tracing Kconfig.
Rather than "fix" it at each use site, and have inconsistent
use based on whether "#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TRACE" was used or not,
lets just source the trace header just once, in the actual consumer
of it, which is rcu.h itself. We include it unconditionally, as
build testing shows us that is a hard requirement for some files.
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit fixes the follwoing warning:
kernel/ksysfs.c:143:5: warning: symbol 'rcu_expedited' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
[ paulmck: Moved the declaration to include/linux/rcupdate.h to avoid
including the RCU-internal rcu.h file outside of RCU. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit adds a deliberately buggy RCU implementation into rcutorture
to allow easy checking that rcutorture correctly flags buggy RCU
implementations.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
