This commit causes rcu_torture_writer() to use WARN_ON_ONCE() to check
that the cookie returned by the current RCU flavor's ->get_gp_state()
function (get_state_synchronize_rcu() for vanilla RCU) causes that
flavor's ->poll_gp_state function (poll_state_synchronize_rcu() for
vanilla RCU) to unconditionally return true.
Note that a pair calls to synchronous grace-period-wait functions are
used. This is necessary to account for partially overlapping normal and
expedited grace periods aligning in just the wrong way with polled API
invocations, which can cause those polled API invocations to ignore one or
the other of those partially overlapping grace periods. It is unlikely
that this sort of ignored grace period will be a problem in production,
but rcutorture can make it happen quite within a few tens of seconds.
This commit is in preparation for polled expedited grace periods.
[ paulmck: Apply feedback from Frederic Weisbecker. ]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220121142454.1994916-1-bfoster@redhat.com/
Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RNKWW9jQyfjxw2E8dsXVTdvZYh0HnYeSHDKog9jhdN8/edit?usp=sharing
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Unless a kernel builds rcutorture, whether built-in or as a module, that
kernel is also built with CONFIG_TASKS_RUDE_RCU, whether anything else
needs Tasks Rude RCU or not. This unnecessarily increases kernel size.
This commit therefore decouples the presence of rcutorture from the
presence of RCU Tasks Rude.
However, there is a need to select CONFIG_TASKS_RUDE_RCU for testing
purposes. Except that casual users must not be bothered with
questions -- for them, this needs to be fully automated. There is
thus a CONFIG_FORCE_TASKS_RUDE_RCU that selects CONFIG_TASKS_RUDE_RCU,
is user-selectable, but which depends on CONFIG_RCU_EXPERT.
[ paulmck: Apply kernel test robot feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, a CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y kernel substitutes normal RCU for
RCU Tasks. Unless that kernel builds rcutorture, whether built-in or as
a module, in which case RCU Tasks is (unnecessarily) used. This both
increases kernel size and increases the complexity of certain tracing
operations. This commit therefore decouples the presence of rcutorture
from the presence of RCU Tasks.
However, there is a need to select CONFIG_TASKS_RCU for testing purposes.
Except that casual users must not be bothered with questions -- for them,
this needs to be fully automated. There is thus a CONFIG_FORCE_TASKS_RCU
that selects CONFIG_TASKS_RCU, is user-selectable, but which depends
on CONFIG_RCU_EXPERT.
[ paulmck: Apply kernel test robot feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Unless a kernel builds rcutorture, whether built-in or as a module, that
kernel is also built with CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU, whether anything else
needs Tasks Trace RCU or not. This unnecessarily increases kernel size.
This commit therefore decouples the presence of rcutorture from the
presence of RCU Tasks Trace.
However, there is a need to select CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU for
testing purposes. Except that casual users must not be bothered with
questions -- for them, this needs to be fully automated. There is thus
a CONFIG_FORCE_TASKS_TRACE_RCU that selects CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU,
is user-selectable, but which depends on CONFIG_RCU_EXPERT.
[ paulmck: Apply kernel test robot feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcutorture module has an rcu_torture_writer task that repeatedly
performs writes, synchronizations, and deletes. There is a corner-case
check in rcu_torture_writer() wherein if nsynctypes is 0, a warning is
issued and the task waits to be stopped via a call to
torture_kthread_stopping() rather than performing any work.
There should be a return statement following this call to
torture_kthread_stopping(), as the intention with issuing the call to
torture_kthread_stopping() in the first place is to avoid the
rcu_torture_writer task from performing any work. Some of the work may even
be dangerous to perform, such as potentially causing a #DE due to
nsynctypes being used in a modulo operator when querying for sync updates
to issue.
This patch adds the missing return call. As a bonus, it also fixes a
checkpatch warning that was emitted due to the WARN_ONCE() call using the
name of the function rather than __func__.
Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcutorture module is used to run torture tests that validate RCU.
rcutorture takes a variety of module parameters that configure the
functionality of the test. Amongst these parameters are the types of
synchronization mechanisms that the rcu_torture_writer and
rcu_torture_fakewriter tasks may use, and the torture_type of the run which
determines what read and sync operations are used by the various writer and
reader tasks that run throughout the test.
When the module is configured to only use sync types for which the
specified torture_type does not implement the necessary operations, we can
end up in a state where nsynctypes is 0. This is not an erroneous state,
but it currently crashes the kernel with a #DE due to nsynctypes being used
with a modulo operator in rcu_torture_fakewriter().
Here is an example of such a #DE:
$ insmod ./rcutorture.ko gp_cond=1 gp_cond_exp=0 gp_exp=0 gp_poll_exp=0
gp_normal=0 gp_poll=0 gp_poll_exp=0 verbose=9999 torture_type=trivial
...
[ 8536.525096] divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
[ 8536.525101] CPU: 30 PID: 392138 Comm: rcu_torture_fak Kdump: loaded Tainted: G S 5.17.0-rc1-00179-gc8c42c80febd #24
[ 8536.525105] Hardware name: Quanta Twin Lakes MP/Twin Lakes Passive MP, BIOS F09_3A23 12/08/2020
[ 8536.525106] RIP: 0010:rcu_torture_fakewriter+0xf1/0x2d0 [rcutorture]
[ 8536.525121] Code: 00 31 d2 8d 0c f5 00 00 00 00 48 63 c9 48 f7 f1 48 85 d2 0f 84 79 ff ff ff 48 89 e7 e8 78 78 01 00 48 63 0d 29 ca 00 00 31 d2 <48> f7 f1 8b 04 95 00 05 4e a0 83 f8 06 0f 84 ad 00 00 00 7f 1f 83
[ 8536.525124] RSP: 0018:ffffc9000777fef0 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 8536.525127] RAX: 00000000223d006e RBX: cccccccccccccccd RCX: 0000000000000000
[ 8536.525130] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: ffffffff824315b9 RDI: ffffc9000777fef0
[ 8536.525132] RBP: ffffc9000487bb30 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 000000000002a580
[ 8536.525134] R10: ffffffff82c5f920 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff8881a2c35d00
[ 8536.525136] R13: ffff8881540c8d00 R14: ffffffffa04d39d0 R15: 0000000000000000
[ 8536.525137] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff88903ff80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 8536.525140] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 8536.525142] CR2: 00007f839f022000 CR3: 0000000002c0a006 CR4: 00000000007706e0
[ 8536.525144] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
[ 8536.525145] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
[ 8536.525147] PKRU: 55555554
[ 8536.525148] Call Trace:
[ 8536.525150] <TASK>
[ 8536.525153] kthread+0xe8/0x110
[ 8536.525161] ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x20/0x20
[ 8536.525167] ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
[ 8536.525174] </TASK>
The solution is to gracefully handle the case of nsynctypes being 0 in
rcu_torture_fakewriter() by not performing any work. This is already being
done in rcu_torture_writer(), though there is a missing return on that path
which will be fixed in a subsequent patch.
Signed-off-by: David Vernet <void@manifault.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tree RCU supports grace-period delays using the rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay,
rcutree.gp_init_delay, and rcutree.gp_preinit_delay kernel boot
parameters. These delays are strictly for debugging purposes, and have
proven quite effective at exposing bugs involving race with CPU-hotplug
operations. However, these delays can result in false positives when
used in conjunction with callback flooding, for example, those generated
by the rcutorture.fwd_progress kernel boot parameter.
This commit therefore suppresses grace-period delays while callback
flooding is in progress.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit allows up to 50,000 callbacks worth of callback-flooding
tests of SRCU. The goal of this change is to exercise Tree SRCU's
ability to transition from SRCU_SIZE_SMALL to SRCU_SIZE_BIG triggered
by callback-queue-time lock contention.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_torture_fwd_cb_hist() function acquires rcu_fwd_mutex, but is
invoked from rcutorture_oom_notify() function, which hold this same
mutex across this call. This commit fixes the resulting deadlock.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Oliver Sang <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The second and subsequent forward-progress kthreads loop waiting for
the first forward-progress kthread to start the next test interval.
Unfortunately, if the test ends while one of those kthreads is waiting,
the test will hang. This hang occurs because that wait loop fails to
check for the end of the test. This commit therefore adds an end-of-test
check to that wait loop.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Back when only one rcutorture kthread could do forward-progress testing,
it was just fine for rcu_fwd_cb_nodelay to be a non-atomic bool. It was
set at the start of forward-progress testing and cleared at the end.
But now that there are multiple threads, the value can be cleared while
one of the threads is still doing forward-progress testing. This commit
therefore makes rcu_fwd_cb_nodelay be an atomic counter, replacing the
WRITE_ONCE() operations with atomic_inc() and atomic_dec().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds a few pr_alert() calls to rcutorture's forward-progress
testing in order to better diagnose shutdown-time hangs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The various ->cb_barrier() functions, for example, rcu_barrier(),
sometimes cause rcutorture hangs. But currently, the last console
message is the unenlightening "Stopping rcu_torture_stats". This commit
therefore prints a message of the form "rcu_torture_cleanup: Invoking
rcu_barrier+0x0/0x1e0()" to help point people in the right direction.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The boost_starttime shared variable has conflicting unmarked C-language
accesses, which are dangerous at best. This commit therefore adds
appropriate marking. This was found by KCSAN.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Merge misc updates from Andrew Morton:
"146 patches.
Subsystems affected by this patch series: kthread, ia64, scripts,
ntfs, squashfs, ocfs2, vfs, and mm (slab-generic, slab, kmemleak,
dax, kasan, debug, pagecache, gup, shmem, frontswap, memremap,
memcg, selftests, pagemap, dma, vmalloc, memory-failure, hugetlb,
userfaultfd, vmscan, mempolicy, oom-kill, hugetlbfs, migration, thp,
ksm, page-poison, percpu, rmap, zswap, zram, cleanups, hmm, and
damon)"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (146 commits)
mm/damon: hide kernel pointer from tracepoint event
mm/damon/vaddr: hide kernel pointer from damon_va_three_regions() failure log
mm/damon/vaddr: use pr_debug() for damon_va_three_regions() failure logging
mm/damon/dbgfs: remove an unnecessary variable
mm/damon: move the implementation of damon_insert_region to damon.h
mm/damon: add access checking for hugetlb pages
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for schemes statistics
mm/damon/dbgfs: support all DAMOS stats
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/reclaim: document statistics parameters
mm/damon/reclaim: provide reclamation statistics
mm/damon/schemes: account how many times quota limit has exceeded
mm/damon/schemes: account scheme actions that successfully applied
mm/damon: remove a mistakenly added comment for a future feature
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for kdamond_pid and (mk|rm)_contexts
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: mention tracepoint at the beginning
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: remove redundant information
Docs/admin-guide/mm/damon/usage: update for scheme quotas and watermarks
mm/damon: convert macro functions to static inline functions
mm/damon: modify damon_rand() macro to static inline function
mm/damon: move damon_rand() definition into damon.h
...
With the addition of multiple callback-flood kthreads, the maximum number
of callbacks from any one of those kthreads is reported in the rcutorture
run summary. This commit changes this to report the sum of each kthread's
maximum number of callbacks in a given callback-flooding episode.
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.iitr10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The RCU tasks flavors of RCU now need concurrent callback flooding to
test their ability to switch between single-queue mode and per-CPU queue
mode, but their lack of heavy-duty forward-progress features rules out
the use of rcutorture's current callback-flooding code. This commit
therefore provides the ability to limit the intensity of the callback
floods using a new ->cbflood_max field in the rcu_operations structure.
When this field is zero, there is no limit, otherwise, each callback-flood
kthread allocates at most ->cbflood_max callbacks.
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.iitr10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit converts the rcutorture.fwd_progress module parameter from
bool to int, so that it specifies the number of callback-flood kthreads.
Values less than zero specify one kthread per CPU, however, the number of
kthreads executing concurrently is limited to the number of online CPUs.
This commit also reverse the order of the need-resched and callback-flood
operations to cause the callback flooding to happen more nearly at the
same time.
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.iitr10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
If we use the module stall_cpu option, we may get a soft lockup warning
in case we also don't pass the stall_cpu_block option.
Introduce the stall_no_softlockup option to avoid a soft lockup on
cpu stall even if we don't use the stall_cpu_block option.
Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa <wander@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Unconditionally log messages corresponding to errors.
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian <zhijianx.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Because Tiny srcu_read_unlock() directly calls swake_up_one(), lockdep
complains when a pi lock is held across that srcu_read_unlock().
Although this is a lockdep false positive (there is no other CPU to
complete the deadlock cycle), lockdep is what it is at the moment.
This commit therefore prevents rcutorture from holding pi lock across
a Tiny srcu_read_unlock().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, nested readers occur only when a timer handler interrupts a
reader. This is rare, and is thus insufficient testing of the transition
between nesting levels. This commit therefore causes rcutorture nested
readers to be the rule rather than the exception.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
RCUTORTURE_RDR_MASK is currently not the bit indicated by
RCUTORTURE_RDR_SHIFT, but is instead all the bits less significant than
that one. This is an accident waiting to happen, so this commit makes
RCUTORTURE_RDR_MASK be that one bit and adjusts uses accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
rcutorture is generating some nesting scenarios that are not compatible on PREEMPT_RT.
For example:
preempt_disable();
rcu_read_lock_bh();
preempt_enable();
rcu_read_unlock_bh();
The problem here is that on PREEMPT_RT the bottom halves have to be
disabled and enabled in preemptible context.
Reorder locking: start with BH locking and continue with then with
disabling preemption or interrupts. In the unlocking do it reverse by
first enabling interrupts and preemption and BH at the very end.
Ensure that on PREEMPT_RT BH locking remains unchanged if in
non-preemptible context.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190911165729.11178-6-swood@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210819182035.GF4126399@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1
Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <swood@redhat.com>
[bigeasy: Drop ATOM_BH, make it only about changing BH in atomic
context. Allow enabling RCU in IRQ-off section. Reword commit message.]
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, in CONFIG_RCU_BOOST kernels, if the rcu_torture_init()
function's call to cpuhp_setup_state() fails, rcu_torture_cleanup()
gamely passes nonsense to cpuhp_remove_state(). This results in
strange and misleading splats. This commit therefore ensures that if
the rcu_torture_init() function's call to cpuhp_setup_state() fails,
rcu_torture_cleanup() avoids invoking cpuhp_remove_state().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
When running rcutorture as a module, any rcu_torture_init() issues will be
reflected in the error code from modprobe or insmod, as the case may be.
However, these error codes are not available when running rcutorture
built-in, for example, when using the kvm.sh script. This commit
therefore adds WARN_ON_ONCE() to allow distinguishing rcu_torture_init()
errors when running rcutorture built-in.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, specifying the rcutorture.read_exit_burst=0 kernel boot
parameter will result in a -EINVAL exit code that will stop the rcutorture
test run before it has fully initialized. This commit therefore uses a
zero exit code in that case, thus allowing rcutorture.read_exit_burst=0
to complete normally.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Invoking scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py in the Linux-kernel source tree
located the following issues:
1. TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Referencing files: arch/sh/configs/sdk7786_defconfig
It should now be CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU. Except that the CONFIG_PREEMPT=y in
that same file implies CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y. Therefore, delete the
CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU=y line.
The reason is as follows:
In kernel/rcu/Kconfig, we have
config PREEMPT_RCU
bool
default y if PREEMPTION
https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt says,
"The default value is only assigned to the config symbol if no other value
was set by the user (via the input prompt above)."
there is no prompt in config PREEMPT_RCU entry, so we are guaranteed to
get CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y when CONFIG_PREEMPT is present.
2. RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO
Referencing files: arch/xtensa/configs/nommu_kc705_defconfig
The old Kconfig option RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO was removed by commit
75c27f119b ("rcu: Remove CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO"), and the kernel
now acts as if this Kconfig option was unconditionally enabled.
3. RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
Referencing files:
Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst
This is an old snapshot of the code. I update this from the real
rcu_prepare_for_idle() function in kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h.
This change was tested by invoking "make htmldocs".
4. RCU_TORTURE_TESTS
Referencing files: kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c
Forward-progress checking conflicts with CPU-stall testing, so we should
complain at "modprobe rcutorture" when both are enabled.
Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, rcu_torture_stall() does a one-jiffy timed wait when
stall_cpu_block is set. This works, but emits a pointless splat in
CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernels. This commit avoids this splat by instead
invoking preempt_schedule() in CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernels.
This uses an admittedly ugly #ifdef, but abstracted approaches just
looked worse. A prettier approach would provide a preempt_schedule()
definition with a WARN_ON() for CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernels, but this seems
quite silly.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Pull RCU updates from Paul McKenney:
- Bitmap parsing support for "all" as an alias for all bits
- Documentation updates
- Miscellaneous fixes, including some that overlap into mm and lockdep
- kvfree_rcu() updates
- mem_dump_obj() updates, with acks from one of the slab-allocator
maintainers
- RCU NOCB CPU updates, including limited deoffloading
- SRCU updates
- Tasks-RCU updates
- Torture-test updates
* 'core-rcu-2021.07.04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: (78 commits)
tasks-rcu: Make show_rcu_tasks_gp_kthreads() be static inline
rcu-tasks: Make ksoftirqd provide RCU Tasks quiescent states
rcu: Add missing __releases() annotation
rcu: Remove obsolete rcu_read_unlock() deadlock commentary
rcu: Improve comments describing RCU read-side critical sections
rcu: Create an unrcu_pointer() to remove __rcu from a pointer
srcu: Early test SRCU polling start
rcu: Fix various typos in comments
rcu/nocb: Unify timers
rcu/nocb: Prepare for fine-grained deferred wakeup
rcu/nocb: Only cancel nocb timer if not polling
rcu/nocb: Delete bypass_timer upon nocb_gp wakeup
rcu/nocb: Cancel nocb_timer upon nocb_gp wakeup
rcu/nocb: Allow de-offloading rdp leader
rcu/nocb: Directly call __wake_nocb_gp() from bypass timer
rcu: Don't penalize priority boosting when there is nothing to boost
rcu: Point to documentation of ordering guarantees
rcu: Make rcu_gp_cleanup() be noinline for tracing
rcu: Restrict RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD to at most four CPUs
rcu: Make show_rcu_gp_kthreads() dump rcu_node structures blocking GP
...
Change the type and name of task_struct::state. Drop the volatile and
shrink it to an 'unsigned int'. Rename it in order to find all uses
such that we can use READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE as appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210611082838.550736351@infradead.org
To make the purpose of the code more apparent, this commit moves the
tests of mem_dump_obj() to a new rcu_torture_mem_dump_obj() function
and calls it from rcu_torture_cleanup().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
It will frequently be the case that rcu_torture_boost() will get a
->start_gp_poll() cookie that needs almost all of the current grace period
plus an additional grace period to elapse before ->poll_gp_state() will
return true. It is quite possible that the current grace period will have
(say) two seconds of stall by a CPU failing to pass through a quiescent
state, followed by 300 milliseconds of delay due to a preempted reader.
The next grace period might suffer only one second of stall by a CPU,
followed by another 300 milliseconds of delay due to a preempted reader.
This is an example of RCU priority boosting doing its job, but the full
elapsed time of 3.6 seconds exceeds the 3.5-second limit. In addition,
there is no CPU stall in force at the 3.5-second mark, so this would
nevertheless currently be counted as an RCU priority boosting failure.
This commit therefore avoids this sort of false positive by resetting
the gp_state_time timestamp any time that the current grace period is
being blocked by a CPU. This results in extremely frequent calls to
the ->check_boost_failed() function, so this commit provides a lockless
fastpath that is selected by supplying a NULL CPU-number pointer.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, rcu_torture_boost() runs CPU-bound at real-time priority
to force RCU priority inversions. It then checks that grace periods
progress during this CPU-bound time. If grace periods fail to progress,
it reports and RCU priority boosting failure.
However, it is possible (and sometimes does happen) that the grace period
fails to progress due to a CPU failing to pass through a quiescent state
for an extended time period (3.5 seconds by default). This can happen
due to vCPU preemption, long-running interrupts, and much else besides.
There is nothing that RCU priority boosting can do about these situations,
and so they should not be counted as RCU priority boosting failures.
This commit therefore checks for CPUs (as opposed to preempted tasks)
holding up a grace period, and flags the resulting RCU priority boosting
failures, but does not splat nor count them as errors. It does rate-limit
them to avoid flooding the console log.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
It is possible that a delayed grace period that rcu_torture_boost()
was polling for ended while rcu_torture_boost_failed() was printing the
failure splat. It would be good to know when this happens. This commit
therefore has rcu_torture_boost_failed() recheck the grace period after
printing the splat, and printing a message indicating whether or not
the grace period has ended.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit consolidates two loops in rcu_torture_boost(), one of which
counts the number of boost-test episodes and the other of which computes
the start time of the next episode, into one loop that does both with but
a single acquisition of boost_mutex. This means that the count of the
number of boost-test episodes is incremented after an episode completes
rather than before it starts, but it also avoids the over-counting that
was possible previously.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
If an rcu_torture_boost() kthread determines that its grace period
has not yet ended, it invokes rcu_torture_boost_failed() which checks
whether enough time has elapsed for this to be considered a failure of
RCU priority boosting, and, if so, flags the error.
Unfortunately, that kthread might be preempted for some seconds between
the time that it checks the grace period and the time that it checks the
time. This delay can result in a false positive, featuring a complaint
that a particular grace period has not ended, followed by a diagnostic
dump featuring a much later grace period.
This commit avoids these false positives by rechecking for the end of
the grace period after the time check.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, rcutorture's testing of RCU priority boosting insists not
only that grace periods complete, but also that callbacks be invoked.
Although this is in fact what the user would want, ensuring that there
is sufficient CPU bandwidth devoted to callback execution is in fact
the user's responsibility. One could argue that rcutorture can take on
that responsibility, which is true in theory. But in practice, ensuring
sufficient CPU bandwidth to ksoftirqd, any rcuc kthreads, and any rcuo
kthreads is not particularly consistent with rcutorture's main job,
that of stress-testing RCU. In addition, if the system administrator
(say) makes very poor choices when pinning rcuo kthreads and then runs
rcutorture, there really isn't much rcutorture can do.
Besides, RCU priority boosting only boosts lagging readers, not all the
machinery required to invoke callbacks in a timely fashion.
This commit therefore switches rcutorture's evaluation of RCU priority
boosting from callback execution to grace-period completion by using
the new start_poll_synchronize_rcu() and poll_state_synchronize_rcu()
functions. When rcutorture is built in (as in when there is no innocent
workload to inconvenience), the ksoftirqd ktheads are boosted to real-time
priority 2 in order to allow timeouts to work properly in the face of
rcutorture's testing of RCU priority boosting.
Indeed, it is not as easy as it looks to create a reliable test of RCU
priority boosting without destroying the rest of the kernel!
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds a (*readlock_held)() function pointer to the
rcu_torture_ops structure in order to make the rcu_torture_one_read()
function's rcu_dereference_check() lockdep expression more appropriate
for a given run.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit causes rcutorture to test the new start_poll_synchronize_rcu()
and poll_state_synchronize_rcu() functions. Because of the difficulty of
determining the nature of a synchronous RCU grace (expedited or not),
the test that insisted that poll_state_synchronize_rcu() detect an
intervening synchronize_rcu() had to be dropped.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit replaces a hard-coded "rcu_torture_stall" string in a
pr_alert() format with "%s" and __func__.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Zhang <stephenzhangzsd@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, rcutorture refuses to test RCU priority boosting in
CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y kernels, which are the only kind normally built on
x86 these days. This commit therefore updates rcutorture's tests of RCU
priority boosting to make them safe for CPU hotplug. However, these tests
will fail unless TIMER_SOFTIRQ runs at realtime priority, which does not
happen in current mainline. This commit therefore also refuses to test
RCU priority boosting except in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y.
While in the area, this commt adds some debug output at boost-fail time
that helps diagnose the cause of the failure, for example, failing to
run TIMER_SOFTIRQ at realtime priority.
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Scott Wood <swood@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds a few crude tests for mem_dump_obj() to rcutorture
runs. Just to prevent bitrot, you understand!
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
