Use of the rcu_data structure's segmented ->cblist for no-CBs CPUs
takes advantage of unrelated grace periods, thus reducing the memory
footprint in the face of floods of call_rcu() invocations. However,
the ->cblist field is a more-complex rcu_segcblist structure which must
be protected via locking. Even though there are only three entities
which can acquire this lock (the CPU invoking call_rcu(), the no-CBs
grace-period kthread, and the no-CBs callbacks kthread), the contention
on this lock is excessive under heavy stress.
This commit therefore greatly reduces contention by provisioning
an rcu_cblist structure field named ->nocb_bypass within the
rcu_data structure. Each no-CBs CPU is permitted only a limited
number of enqueues onto the ->cblist per jiffy, controlled by a new
nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy kernel boot parameter that defaults to
about 16 enqueues per millisecond (16 * 1000 / HZ). When that limit is
exceeded, the CPU instead enqueues onto the new ->nocb_bypass.
The ->nocb_bypass is flushed into the ->cblist every jiffy or when
the number of callbacks on ->nocb_bypass exceeds qhimark, whichever
happens first. During call_rcu() floods, this flushing is carried out
by the CPU during the course of its call_rcu() invocations. However,
a CPU could simply stop invoking call_rcu() at any time. The no-CBs
grace-period kthread therefore carries out less-aggressive flushing
(every few jiffies or when the number of callbacks on ->nocb_bypass
exceeds (2 * qhimark), whichever comes first). This means that the
no-CBs grace-period kthread cannot be permitted to do unbounded waits
while there are callbacks on ->nocb_bypass. A ->nocb_bypass_timer is
used to provide the needed wakeups.
[ paulmck: Apply Coverity feedback reported by Colin Ian King. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
When there are excessive numbers of callbacks, and when either the
corresponding no-CBs callback kthread is asleep or there is no more
ready-to-invoke callbacks, and when least one callback is pending,
__call_rcu_nocb_wake() will advance the callbacks, but refrain from
awakening the corresponding no-CBs grace-period kthread. However,
because rcu_advance_cbs_nowake() is used, it is possible (if a bit
unlikely) that the needed advancement could not happen due to a grace
period not being in progress. Plus there will always be at least one
pending callback due to one having just now been enqueued.
This commit therefore attempts to advance callbacks and awakens the
no-CBs grace-period kthread when there are excessive numbers of callbacks
posted and when the no-CBs callback kthread is not in a position to do
anything helpful.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The sleep/wakeup of the no-CBs grace-period kthreads is synchronized
using the ->nocb_lock of the first CPU corresponding to that kthread.
This commit provides a separate ->nocb_gp_lock for this purpose, thus
reducing contention on ->nocb_lock.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Currently, nocb_cb_wait() unconditionally acquires the leaf rcu_node
->lock to advance callbacks when done invoking the previous batch.
It does this while holding ->nocb_lock, which means that contention on
the leaf rcu_node ->lock visits itself on the ->nocb_lock. This commit
therefore makes this lock acquisition conditional, forgoing callback
advancement when the leaf rcu_node ->lock is not immediately available.
(In this case, the no-CBs grace-period kthread will eventually do any
needed callback advancement.)
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Currently, __call_rcu_nocb_wake() conditionally acquires the leaf rcu_node
structure's ->lock, and only afterwards does rcu_advance_cbs_nowake()
check to see if it is possible to advance callbacks without potentially
needing to awaken the grace-period kthread. Given that the no-awaken
check can be done locklessly, this commit reverses the order, so that
rcu_advance_cbs_nowake() is invoked without holding the leaf rcu_node
structure's ->lock and rcu_advance_cbs_nowake() checks the grace-period
state before conditionally acquiring that lock, thus reducing the number
of needless acquistions of the leaf rcu_node structure's ->lock.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Currently, when the square root of the number of CPUs is rounded down
by int_sqrt(), this round-down is applied to the number of callback
kthreads per grace-period kthreads. This makes almost no difference
for large systems, but results in oddities such as three no-CBs
grace-period kthreads for a five-CPU system, which is a bit excessive.
This commit therefore causes the round-down to apply to the number of
no-CBs grace-period kthreads, so that systems with from four to eight
CPUs have only two no-CBs grace period kthreads.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
A given rcu_data structure's ->nocb_lock can be acquired very frequently
by the corresponding CPU and occasionally by the corresponding no-CBs
grace-period and callbacks kthreads. In particular, these two kthreads
will have frequent gaps between ->nocb_lock acquisitions that are roughly
a grace period in duration. This means that any excessive ->nocb_lock
contention will be due to the CPU's acquisitions, and this in turn
enables a very naive contention-avoidance strategy to be quite effective.
This commit therefore modifies rcu_nocb_lock() to first
attempt a raw_spin_trylock(), and to atomically increment a
separate ->nocb_lock_contended across a raw_spin_lock(). This new
->nocb_lock_contended field is checked in __call_rcu_nocb_wake() when
interrupts are enabled, with a spin-wait for contending acquisitions
to complete, thus allowing the kthreads a chance to acquire the lock.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Currently, the code provides an extra wakeup for the no-CBs grace-period
kthread if one of its CPUs is generating excessive numbers of callbacks.
But satisfying though it is to wake something up when things are going
south, unless the thing being awakened can actually help solve the
problem, that extra wakeup does nothing but consume additional CPU time,
which is exactly what you don't want during a call_rcu() flood.
This commit therefore avoids doing anything if the corresponding
no-CBs callback kthread is going full tilt. Otherwise, if advancing
callbacks immediately might help and if the leaf rcu_node structure's
lock is immediately available, this commit invokes a new variant of
rcu_advance_cbs() that advances callbacks only if doing so won't require
awakening the grace-period kthread (not to be confused with any of the
no-CBs grace-period kthreads).
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
It might be hard to imagine having more than two billion callbacks
queued on a single CPU's ->cblist, but someone will do it sometime.
This commit therefore makes __call_rcu_nocb_wake() handle this situation
by upgrading local variable "len" from "int" to "long".
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Currently, wake_nocb_gp_defer() simply stores whatever waketype was
passed in, which can result in a RCU_NOCB_WAKE_FORCE being downgraded
to RCU_NOCB_WAKE, which could in turn delay callback processing.
This commit therefore adds a check so that wake_nocb_gp_defer() only
updates ->nocb_defer_wakeup when the update increases the forcefulness,
thus avoiding downgrades.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The __call_rcu_nocb_wake() function and its predecessors set
->qlen_last_fqs_check to zero for the first callback and to LONG_MAX / 2
for forced reawakenings. The former can result in a too-quick reawakening
when there are many callbacks ready to invoke and the latter prevents a
second reawakening. This commit therefore sets ->qlen_last_fqs_check
to the current number of callbacks in both cases. While in the area,
this commit also moves both assignments under ->nocb_lock.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Historically, no-CBs CPUs allowed the scheduler-clock tick to be
unconditionally disabled on any transition to idle or nohz_full userspace
execution (see the rcu_needs_cpu() implementations). Unfortunately,
the checks used by rcu_needs_cpu() are defeated now that no-CBs CPUs
use ->cblist, which might make users of battery-powered devices rather
unhappy. This commit therefore adds explicit rcu_segcblist_is_offloaded()
checks to return to the historical energy-efficient semantics.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Some compilers complain that wait_gp_seq might be used uninitialized
in nocb_gp_wait(). This cannot actually happen because when wait_gp_seq
is uninitialized, needwait_gp must be false, which prevents wait_gp_seq
from being used. But this analysis is apparently beyond some compilers,
so this commit adds a bogus initialization of wait_gp_seq for the sole
purpose of suppressing the false-positive warning.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit removes the obsolete nocb_q_count and nocb_q_count_lazy
fields, also removing rcu_get_n_cbs_nocb_cpu(), adjusting
rcu_get_n_cbs_cpu(), and making rcutree_migrate_callbacks() once again
disable the ->cblist fields of offline CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Currently the RCU callbacks for no-CBs CPUs are queued on a series of
ad-hoc linked lists, which means that these callbacks cannot benefit
from "drive-by" grace periods, thus suffering needless delays prior
to invocation. In addition, the no-CBs grace-period kthreads first
wait for callbacks to appear and later wait for a new grace period,
which means that callbacks appearing during a grace-period wait can
be delayed. These delays increase memory footprint, and could even
result in an out-of-memory condition.
This commit therefore enqueues RCU callbacks from no-CBs CPUs on the
rcu_segcblist structure that is already used by non-no-CBs CPUs. It also
restructures the no-CBs grace-period kthread to be checking for incoming
callbacks while waiting for grace periods. Also, instead of waiting
for a new grace period, it waits for the closest grace period that will
cause some of the callbacks to be safe to invoke. All of these changes
reduce callback latency and thus the number of outstanding callbacks,
in turn reducing the probability of an out-of-memory condition.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
As a first step towards making no-CBs CPUs use the ->cblist, this commit
leaves the ->cblist enabled for these CPUs. The main reason to make
no-CBs CPUs use ->cblist is to take advantage of callback numbering,
which will reduce the effects of missed grace periods which in turn will
reduce forward-progress problems for no-CBs CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The idea behind the checks for extended quiescent states at the end of
__call_rcu_nocb() is to handle cases where call_rcu() is invoked directly
from within an extended quiescent state, for example, from the idle loop.
However, this will result in a timer-mediated deferred wakeup, which
will cause the needed wakeup to happen within a jiffy or thereabouts.
There should be no forward-progress concerns, and if there are, the proper
response is to exit the extended quiescent state while executing the
endless blast of call_rcu() invocations, for example, using RCU_NONIDLE().
Given the more realistic case of an isolated call_rcu() invocation, there
should be no problem.
This commit therefore removes the checks for invoking call_rcu() within
an extended quiescent state for on no-CBs CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
RCU callback processing currently uses rcu_is_nocb_cpu() to determine
whether or not the current CPU's callbacks are to be offloaded.
This works, but it is not so good for cache locality. Plus use of
->cblist for offloaded callbacks will greatly increase the frequency
of these checks. This commit therefore adds a ->offloaded flag to the
rcu_segcblist structure to provide a more flexible and cache-friendly
means of checking for callback offloading.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
NULLing the RCU_NEXT_TAIL pointer was a clever way to save a byte, but
forward-progress considerations would require that this pointer be both
NULL and non-NULL, which, absent a quantum-computer port of the Linux
kernel, simply won't happen. This commit therefore creates as separate
->enabled flag to replace the current NULL checks.
[ paulmck: Add include files per 0day test robot and -next. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit causes the no-CBs grace-period/callback hierarchy to be
printed to the console when the dump_tree kernel boot parameter is set.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit changes the name of the rcu_nocb_leader_stride kernel
boot parameter to rcu_nocb_gp_stride in order to account for the new
distinction between callback and grace-period no-CBs kthreads.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The nocb_cb_wait() function traces a "FollowerSleep" trace_rcu_nocb_wake()
event, which never was documented and is now misleading. This commit
therefore changes "FollowerSleep" to "CBSleep", documents this, and
updates the documentation for "Sleep" as well.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit renames rdp_leader to rdp_gp in order to account for the
new distinction between callback and grace-period no-CBs kthreads.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit adjusts naming to account for the new distinction between
callback and grace-period no-CBs kthreads.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit adjusts naming to account for the new distinction between
callback and grace-period no-CBs kthreads. While in the area, it also
updates local variables.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit adjusts naming to account for the new distinction between
callback and grace-period no-CBs kthreads.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit adjusts naming to account for the new distinction between
callback and grace-period no-CBs kthreads.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Currently, there is one no-CBs rcuo kthread per CPU, and these kthreads
are divided into groups. The first rcuo kthread to come online in a
given group is that group's leader, and the leader both waits for grace
periods and invokes its CPU's callbacks. The non-leader rcuo kthreads
only invoke callbacks.
This works well in the real-time/embedded environments for which it was
intended because such environments tend not to generate all that many
callbacks. However, given huge floods of callbacks, it is possible for
the leader kthread to be stuck invoking callbacks while its followers
wait helplessly while their callbacks pile up. This is a good recipe
for an OOM, and rcutorture's new callback-flood capability does generate
such OOMs.
One strategy would be to wait until such OOMs start happening in
production, but similar OOMs have in fact happened starting in 2018.
It would therefore be wise to take a more proactive approach.
This commit therefore features per-CPU rcuo kthreads that do nothing
but invoke callbacks. Instead of having one of these kthreads act as
leader, each group has a separate rcog kthread that handles grace periods
for its group. Because these rcuog kthreads do not invoke callbacks,
callback floods on one CPU no longer block callbacks from reaching the
rcuc callback-invocation kthreads on other CPUs.
This change does introduce additional kthreads, however:
1. The number of additional kthreads is about the square root of
the number of CPUs, so that a 4096-CPU system would have only
about 64 additional kthreads. Note that recent changes
decreased the number of rcuo kthreads by a factor of two
(CONFIG_PREEMPT=n) or even three (CONFIG_PREEMPT=y), so
this still represents a significant improvement on most systems.
2. The leading "rcuo" of the rcuog kthreads should allow existing
scripting to affinity these additional kthreads as needed, the
same as for the rcuop and rcuos kthreads. (There are no longer
any rcuob kthreads.)
3. A state-machine approach was considered and rejected. Although
this would allow the rcuo kthreads to continue their dual
leader/follower roles, it complicates callback invocation
and makes it more difficult to consolidate rcuo callback
invocation with existing softirq callback invocation.
The introduction of rcuog kthreads should thus be acceptable.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit simply rewords comments to prepare for leader nocb kthreads
doing only grace-period work and callback shuffling. This will mean
the addition of replacement kthreads to invoke callbacks. The "leader"
and "follower" thus become less meaningful, so the commit changes no-CB
comments with these strings to "GP" and "CB", respectively. (Give or
take the usual grammatical transformations.)
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit simply renames rcu_data fields to prepare for leader
nocb kthreads doing only grace-period work and callback shuffling.
This will mean the addition of replacement kthreads to invoke callbacks.
The "leader" and "follower" thus become less meaningful, so the commit
changes no-CB fields with these strings to "gp" and "cb", respectively.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The return value of rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread() is not used any longer.
This commit therefore changes its return type from int to void, and
removes the cast to void from its callers.
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Commit bb73c52bad ("rcu: Don't disable preemption for Tiny and Tree
RCU readers") removed the barrier() calls from rcu_read_lock() and
rcu_write_lock() in CONFIG_PREEMPT=n&&CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=n kernels.
Within RCU, this commit was OK, but it failed to account for things like
get_user() that can pagefault and that can be reordered by the compiler.
Lack of the barrier() calls in rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock()
can cause these page faults to migrate into RCU read-side critical
sections, which in CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernels could result in too-short
grace periods and arbitrary misbehavior. Please see commit 386afc9114
("spinlocks and preemption points need to be at least compiler barriers")
and Linus's commit 66be4e66a7 ("rcu: locking and unlocking need to
always be at least barriers"), this last of which restores the barrier()
call to both rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock().
This commit removes barrier() calls that are no longer needed given that
the addition of them in Linus's commit noted above. The combination of
this commit and Linus's commit effectively reverts commit bb73c52bad
("rcu: Don't disable preemption for Tiny and Tree RCU readers").
Reported-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Fix embarrassing typo located by Alan Stern. ]
Because __rcu_read_unlock() can be preempted just before the call to
rcu_read_unlock_special(), it is possible for a task to be preempted just
before it would have fully exited its RCU read-side critical section.
This would result in a needless extension of that critical section until
that task was resumed, which might in turn result in a needlessly
long grace period, needless RCU priority boosting, and needless
force-quiescent-state actions. Therefore, rcu_note_context_switch()
invokes __rcu_read_unlock() followed by rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() when
it detects this situation. This action by rcu_note_context_switch()
ends the RCU read-side critical section immediately.
Of course, once the task resumes, it will invoke rcu_read_unlock_special()
redundantly. This is harmless because the fact that a preemption
happened means that interrupts, preemption, and softirqs cannot
have been disabled, so there would be no deferred quiescent state.
While ->rcu_read_lock_nesting remains less than zero, none of the
->rcu_read_unlock_special.b bits can be set, and they were all zeroed by
the call to rcu_note_context_switch() at task-preemption time. Therefore,
setting ->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.exp_hint to false has no effect.
Therefore, the extra call to rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_irqrestore()
would return immediately. With one possible exception, which is
if an expedited grace period started just as the task was being
resumed, which could leave ->exp_deferred_qs set. This will cause
rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_irqrestore() to invoke rcu_report_exp_rdp(),
reporting the quiescent state, just as it should. (Such an expedited
grace period won't affect the preemption code path due to interrupts
having already been disabled.)
But when rcu_note_context_switch() invokes __rcu_read_unlock(), it
is doing so with preemption disabled, hence __rcu_read_unlock() will
unconditionally defer the quiescent state, only to immediately invoke
rcu_preempt_deferred_qs(), thus immediately reporting the deferred
quiescent state. It turns out to be safe (and faster) to instead
just invoke rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() without the __rcu_read_unlock()
middleman.
Because this is the invocation during the preemption (as opposed to
the invocation just after the resume), at least one of the bits in
->rcu_read_unlock_special.b must be set and ->rcu_read_lock_nesting
must be negative. This means that rcu_preempt_need_deferred_qs() must
return true, avoiding the early exit from rcu_preempt_deferred_qs().
Thus, rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_irqrestore() will be invoked immediately,
as required.
This commit therefore simplifies the CONFIG_PREEMPT=y version of
rcu_note_context_switch() by removing the "else if" branch of its
"if" statement. This change means that all callers that would have
invoked rcu_read_unlock_special() followed by rcu_preempt_deferred_qs()
will now simply invoke rcu_preempt_deferred_qs(), thus avoiding the
rcu_read_unlock_special() middleman when __rcu_read_unlock() is preempted.
Cc: rcu@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Threaded interrupts provide additional interesting interactions between
RCU and raise_softirq() that can result in self-deadlocks in v5.0-2 of
the Linux kernel. These self-deadlocks can be provoked in susceptible
kernels within a few minutes using the following rcutorture command on
an 8-CPU system:
tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh --duration 5 --configs "TREE03" --bootargs "threadirqs"
Although post-v5.2 RCU commits have at least greatly reduced the
probability of these self-deadlocks, this was entirely by accident.
Although this sort of accident should be rowdily celebrated on those
rare occasions when it does occur, such celebrations should be quickly
followed by a principled patch, which is what this patch purports to be.
The key point behind this patch is that when in_interrupt() returns
true, __raise_softirq_irqoff() will never attempt a wakeup. Therefore,
if in_interrupt(), calls to raise_softirq*() are both safe and
extremely cheap.
This commit therefore replaces the in_irq() calls in the "if" statement
in rcu_read_unlock_special() with in_interrupt() and simplifies the
"if" condition to the following:
if (irqs_were_disabled && use_softirq &&
(in_interrupt() ||
(exp && !t->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.deferred_qs))) {
raise_softirq_irqoff(RCU_SOFTIRQ);
} else {
/* Appeal to the scheduler. */
}
The rationale behind the "if" condition is as follows:
1. irqs_were_disabled: If interrupts are enabled, we should
instead appeal to the scheduler so as to let the upcoming
irq_enable()/local_bh_enable() do the rescheduling for us.
2. use_softirq: If this kernel isn't using softirq, then
raise_softirq_irqoff() will be unhelpful.
3. a. in_interrupt(): If this returns true, the subsequent
call to raise_softirq_irqoff() is guaranteed not to
do a wakeup, so that call will be both very cheap and
quite safe.
b. Otherwise, if !in_interrupt() the raise_softirq_irqoff()
might do a wakeup, which is expensive and, in some
contexts, unsafe.
i. The "exp" (an expedited RCU grace period is being
blocked) says that the wakeup is worthwhile, and:
ii. The !.deferred_qs says that scheduler locks
cannot be held, so the wakeup will be safe.
Backporting this requires considerable care, so no auto-backport, please!
Fixes: 05f415715c ("rcu: Speed up expedited GPs when interrupting RCU reader")
Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
In !use_softirq runs, we clearly cannot rely on raise_softirq() and
its lightweight bit setting, so we must instead do some form of wakeup.
In the absence of a self-IPI when interrupts are disabled, these wakeups
can be delayed until the next interrupt occurs. This means that calling
invoke_rcu_core() doesn't actually do any expediting.
In this case, it is better to take the "else" clause, which sets the
current CPU's resched bits and, if there is an expedited grace period
in flight, uses IRQ-work to force the needed self-IPI. This commit
therefore removes the "else if" clause that calls invoke_rcu_core().
Reported-by: Scott Wood <swood@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The dump_blkd_tasks() function dumps at most 10 blocked tasks, ignoring
the value of the ncheck parameter. This commit therefore substitutes
the value of ncheck for the hard-coded value of 10. Because all callers
currently pass 10 as the number, this patch does not change behavior,
but it is clearly an accident waiting to happen.
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org>
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha <mojha@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The rcu_data structure's ->deferred_qs field is used to indicate that the
current CPU is blocking an expedited grace period (perhaps a future one).
Given that it is used only for expedited grace periods, its current name
is misleading, so this commit renames it to ->exp_deferred_qs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
When rcu_read_unlock_special() is invoked with interrupts disabled, is
either not in an interrupt handler or is not using RCU_SOFTIRQ, is not
the first RCU read-side critical section in the chain, and either there
is an expedited grace period in flight or this is a NO_HZ_FULL kernel,
the end of the grace period can be unduly delayed. The reason for this
is that it is not safe to do wakeups in this situation.
This commit fixes this problem by using the irq_work subsystem to
force a later interrupt handler in a clean environment. Because
set_tsk_need_resched(current) and set_preempt_need_resched() are
invoked prior to this, the scheduler will force a context switch
upon return from this interrupt (though perhaps at the end of any
interrupted preempt-disable or BH-disable region of code), which will
invoke rcu_note_context_switch() (again in a clean environment), which
will in turn give RCU the chance to report the deferred quiescent state.
Of course, by then this task might be within another RCU read-side
critical section. But that will be detected at that time and reporting
will be further deferred to the outermost rcu_read_unlock(). See
rcu_preempt_need_deferred_qs() and rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() for more
details on the checking.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
When running in an interrupt handler, raise_softirq() and
raise_softirq_irqoff() have extremely low overhead: They simply set a
bit in a per-CPU mask, which is checked upon exit from that interrupt
handler. Therefore, if rcu_read_unlock_special() is invoked within an
interrupt handler and RCU_SOFTIRQ is in use, this commit make use of
raise_softirq_irqoff() even if there is no expedited grace period in
flight and even if this is not a nohz_full CPU.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Currently, rcu_read_unlock_special() will do wakeups whenever it is safe
to do so. However, wakeups are expensive, and they are only really
needed when the just-ended RCU read-side critical section is blocking
an expedited grace period (in which case speed is of the essence)
or on a nohz_full CPU (where it might be a good long time before an
interrupt arrives). This commit therefore checks for these conditions,
and does the expensive wakeups only if doing so would be useful.
Note it can be rather expensive to determine whether or not the current
task (as opposed to the current CPU) is blocking the current expedited
grace period. Doing so requires traversing the ->blkd_tasks list, which
can be quite long. This commit therefore cheats: If the current task
is on a given ->blkd_tasks list, and some task on that list is blocking
the current expedited grace period, the code assumes that the current
task is blocking that expedited grace period.
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
When RCU core processing is offloaded from RCU_SOFTIRQ to the rcuc
kthreads, a full and unconditional wakeup is required to initiate RCU
core processing. In contrast, when RCU core processing is carried
out by RCU_SOFTIRQ, a raise_softirq() suffices. Of course, there are
situations where raise_softirq() does a full wakeup, but these do not
occur with normal usage of rcu_read_unlock().
The reason that full wakeups can be problematic is that the scheduler
sometimes invokes rcu_read_unlock() with its pi or rq locks held,
which can of course result in deadlock in CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernels when
rcu_read_unlock() invokes the scheduler. Scheduler invocations can happen
in the following situations: (1) The just-ended reader has been subjected
to RCU priority boosting, in which case rcu_read_unlock() must deboost,
(2) Interrupts were disabled across the call to rcu_read_unlock(), so
the quiescent state must be deferred, requiring a wakeup of the rcuc
kthread corresponding to the current CPU.
Now, the scheduler may hold one of its locks across rcu_read_unlock()
only if preemption has been disabled across the entire RCU read-side
critical section, which in the days prior to RCU flavor consolidation
meant that rcu_read_unlock() never needed to do wakeups. However, this
is no longer the case for any but the first rcu_read_unlock() following a
condition (e.g., preempted RCU reader) requiring special rcu_read_unlock()
attention. For example, an RCU read-side critical section might be
preempted, but preemption might be disabled across the rcu_read_unlock().
The rcu_read_unlock() must defer the quiescent state, and therefore
leaves the task queued on its leaf rcu_node structure. If a scheduler
interrupt occurs, the scheduler might well invoke rcu_read_unlock() with
one of its locks held. However, the preempted task is still queued, so
rcu_read_unlock() will attempt to defer the quiescent state once more.
When RCU core processing is carried out by RCU_SOFTIRQ, this works just
fine: The raise_softirq() function simply sets a bit in a per-CPU mask
and the RCU core processing will be undertaken upon return from interrupt.
Not so when RCU core processing is carried out by the rcuc kthread: In this
case, the required wakeup can result in deadlock.
The initial solution to this problem was to use set_tsk_need_resched() and
set_preempt_need_resched() to force a future context switch, which allows
rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() to report the deferred quiescent state
to RCU's core processing. Unfortunately for expedited grace periods,
there can be a significant delay between the call for a context switch
and the actual context switch.
This commit therefore introduces a ->deferred_qs flag to the task_struct
structure's rcu_special structure. This flag is initially false, and
is set to true by the first call to rcu_read_unlock() requiring special
attention, then finally reset back to false when the quiescent state is
finally reported. Then rcu_read_unlock() attempts full wakeups only when
->deferred_qs is false, that is, on the first rcu_read_unlock() requiring
special attention. Note that a chain of RCU readers linked by some other
sort of reader may find that a later rcu_read_unlock() is once again able
to do a full wakeup, courtesy of an intervening preemption:
rcu_read_lock();
/* preempted */
local_irq_disable();
rcu_read_unlock(); /* Can do full wakeup, sets ->deferred_qs. */
rcu_read_lock();
local_irq_enable();
preempt_disable()
rcu_read_unlock(); /* Cannot do full wakeup, ->deferred_qs set. */
rcu_read_lock();
preempt_enable();
/* preempted, >deferred_qs reset. */
local_irq_disable();
rcu_read_unlock(); /* Can again do full wakeup, sets ->deferred_qs. */
Such linked RCU readers do not yet seem to appear in the Linux kernel, and
it is probably best if they don't. However, RCU needs to handle them, and
some variations on this theme could make even raise_softirq() unsafe due to
the possibility of its doing a full wakeup. This commit therefore also
avoids invoking raise_softirq() when the ->deferred_qs set flag is set.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Some workloads need to change kthread priority for RCU core processing
without affecting other softirq work. This commit therefore introduces
the rcutree.use_softirq kernel boot parameter, which moves the RCU core
work from softirq to a per-CPU SCHED_OTHER kthread named rcuc. Use of
SCHED_OTHER approach avoids the scalability problems that appeared
with the earlier attempt to move RCU core processing to from softirq
to kthreads. That said, kernels built with RCU_BOOST=y will run the
rcuc kthreads at the RCU-boosting priority.
Note that rcutree.use_softirq=0 must be specified to move RCU core
processing to the rcuc kthreads: rcutree.use_softirq=1 is the default.
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
[ paulmck: Adjust for invoke_rcu_callbacks() only ever being invoked
from RCU core processing, in contrast to softirq->rcuc transition
in old mainline RCU priority boosting. ]
[ paulmck: Avoid wakeups when scheduler might have invoked rcu_read_unlock()
while holding rq or pi locks, also possibly fixing a pre-existing latent
bug involving raise_softirq()-induced wakeups. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit further consolidates the stall-warning code by moving
print_cpu_stall_info() and its helper functions along with
zero_cpu_stall_ticks() to kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The print_cpu_stall_info_begin() and print_cpu_stall_info_end() print a
single character each onto the console, and are a holdover from a time
when RCU CPU stall warning messages could be abbreviated using a long-gone
Kconfig option. This commit therefore adds these single characters to
already-printed strings in the calling functions, and then eliminates
both print_cpu_stall_info_begin() and print_cpu_stall_info_end().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Because expedited CPU stall warnings are contained within the
kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h file, rcu_print_task_exp_stall() should live
there too. This commit carries out the required code motion.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The RCU CPU stall-warning code for normal grace periods is currently
scattered across two files, due to earlier Tiny RCU support for RCU
CPU stall warnings and for old Kconfig options that have long since
been retired. Given that it is hard for the lead RCU maintainer to
find relevant stall-warning code, it would be good to consolidate it.
This commit continues this process by moving stall-warning code from
kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.c to a new kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h file.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The task_struct structure's ->rcu_read_unlock_special field is only ever
read or written by the owning task, but it is accessed both at process
and interrupt levels. It may therefore be accessed using plain reads
and writes while interrupts are disabled, but must be accessed using
READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() or better otherwise. This commit makes a
few adjustments to align with this discipline.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Because rcu_wake_cond() checks for a null task_struct pointer, there is
no need for its callers to do so. This commit eliminates the redundant
check.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit prints a console message when cpulist_parse() reports a
bad list of CPUs, and sets all CPUs' bits in that case. The reason for
setting all CPUs' bits is that this is the safe(r) choice for real-time
workloads, which would normally be the ones using the rcu_nocbs= kernel
boot parameter. Either way, later RCU console log messages list the
actual set of CPUs whose RCU callbacks will be offloaded.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Currently, the rcu_nocbs= kernel boot parameter requires that a specific
list of CPUs be specified, and has no way to say "all of them".
As noted by user RavFX in a comment to Phoronix topic 1002538, this
is an inconvenient side effect of the removal of the RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
Kconfig option. This commit therefore enables the rcu_nocbs= kernel boot
parameter to be given the string "all", as in "rcu_nocbs=all" to specify
that all CPUs on the system are to have their RCU callbacks offloaded.
Another approach would be to make cpulist_parse() check for "all", but
there are uses of cpulist_parse() that do other checking, which could
conflict with an "all". This commit therefore focuses on the specific
use of cpulist_parse() in rcu_nocb_setup().
Just a note to other people who would like changes to Linux-kernel RCU:
If you send your requests to me directly, they might get fixed somewhat
faster. RavFX's comment was posted on January 22, 2018 and I first saw
it on March 5, 2019. And the only reason that I found it -at- -all- was
that I was looking for projects using RCU, and my search engine showed
me that Phoronix comment quite by accident. Your choice, though! ;-)
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The purpose of exit_rcu() is to handle cases where buggy code causes a
task to exit within an RCU read-side critical section. It currently
does that in the case where said RCU read-side critical section was
preempted at least once, but fails to handle cases where preemption did
not occur. This case needs to be handled because otherwise the final
context switch away from the exiting task will incorrectly behave as if
task exit were instead a preemption of an RCU read-side critical section,
and will therefore queue the exiting task. The exiting task will have
exited, and thus won't ever execute rcu_read_unlock(), which means that
it will remain queued forever, blocking all subsequent grace periods,
and eventually resulting in OOM.
Although this is arguably better than letting grace periods proceed
and having a later rcu_read_unlock() access the now-freed task
structure that once belonged to the exiting tasks, it would obviously
be better to correctly handle this case. This commit therefore sets
->rcu_read_lock_nesting to 1 in that case, so that the subsequence call
to __rcu_read_unlock() causes the exiting task to exit its dangling RCU
read-side critical section.
Note that deferred quiescent states need not be considered. The reason
is that removing the task from the ->blkd_tasks[] list in the call to
rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() handles the per-task component of any deferred
quiescent state, and all other components of any deferred quiescent state
are associated with the CPU, which isn't going anywhere until some later
CPU-hotplug operation, which will report any remaining deferred quiescent
states from within the rcu_report_dead() function.
Note also that negative values of ->rcu_read_lock_nesting need not be
considered. First, these won't show up in exit_rcu() unless there is
a serious bug in RCU, and second, setting ->rcu_read_lock_nesting sets
the state so that the RCU read-side critical section will be exited
normally.
Again, this code has no effect unless there has been some prior bug
that prevents a task from leaving an RCU read-side critical section
before exiting. Furthermore, there have been no reports of the bug
fixed by this commit appearing in production. This commit is therefore
absolutely -not- recommended for backporting to -stable.
Reported-by: ABHISHEK DUBEY <dabhishek@iisc.ac.in>
Reported-by: BHARATH Y MOURYA <bharathm@iisc.ac.in>
Reported-by: Aravinda Prasad <aravinda@iisc.ac.in>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: ABHISHEK DUBEY <dabhishek@iisc.ac.in>
Replace the license boiler plate with a SPDX license identifier.
While in the area, update an email address.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Update .h file SPDX comment format per Joe Perches. ]
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The name rcu_check_callbacks() arguably made sense back in the early
2000s when RCU was quite a bit simpler than it is today, but it has
become quite misleading, especially with the advent of dyntick-idle
and NO_HZ_FULL. The rcu_check_callbacks() function is RCU's hook into
the scheduling-clock interrupt, and is now but one of many ways that
callbacks get promoted to invocable state.
This commit therefore changes the name to rcu_sched_clock_irq(),
which is the same number of characters and clearly indicates this
function's relation to the rest of the Linux kernel. In addition, for
the sake of consistency, rcu_flavor_check_callbacks() is also renamed
to rcu_flavor_sched_clock_irq().
While in the area, the header comments for both functions are reworked.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Given that RCU has a perfectly good per-CPU rcu_data structure, most
per-CPU quantities should be stored there.
This commit therefore moves the rcu_cpu_has_work per-CPU variable to
the rcu_data structure. This also makes this variable unconditionally
present, which should be acceptable given the memory reduction due to the
RCU flavor consolidation and also due to simplifications this will enable.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The rcu_cpu_kthread_loops variable used to provide debugfs information,
but is no longer used. This commit therefore removes it.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Given that RCU has a perfectly good per-CPU rcu_data structure, most
per-CPU quantities should be stored there.
This commit therefore moves the rcu_cpu_kthread_status per-CPU variable
to the rcu_data structure. This also makes this variable unconditionally
present, which should be acceptable given the memory reduction due to the
RCU flavor consolidation and also due to simplifications this will enable.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Given that RCU has a perfectly good per-CPU rcu_data structure, most
per-CPU quantities should be stored there.
This commit therefore moves the rcu_cpu_kthread_task per-CPU variable to
the rcu_data structure. This also makes this variable unconditionally
present, which should be acceptable given the memory reduction due to the
RCU flavor consolidation and also due to simplifications this will enable.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Back when there were multiple flavors of RCU, it was necessary to
separately count lazy and non-lazy callbacks for each CPU. These counts
were used in CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ kernels to determine how long a newly
idle CPU should be allowed to sleep before handling its RCU callbacks.
But now that there is only one flavor, the callback counts for a given
CPU's sole rcu_data structure are the counts for that CPU.
This commit therefore removes the rcu_data structure's ->nonlazy_posted
and ->nonlazy_posted_snap fields, the rcu_idle_count_callbacks_posted()
and rcu_cpu_has_callbacks() functions, repurposes the rcu_data structure's
->all_lazy field to record the laziness state at the beginning of the
latest idle sojourn, and modifies CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ RCU CPU stall
warnings accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Now that rcu_blocking_is_gp() makes the correct immediate-return
decision for both PREEMPT and !PREEMPT, a single implementation of
synchronize_rcu() will work correctly under both configurations.
This commit therefore eliminates a few lines of code by consolidating
the two implementations of synchronize_rcu().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The rcu_kthread_do_work() function has a single-line body and only one
remaining caller. This commit therefore saves a few lines of code by
inlining rcu_kthread_do_work() into its sole remaining caller.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Given RCU flavor consolidation, the name rcu_spawn_all_nocb_kthreads()
is quite misleading. It no longer ever creates more than one kthread,
and it does so only for the specified CPU. This commit therefore changes
this name to the more descriptive rcu_spawn_cpu_nocb_kthread(), and also
fixes up a similar issue in its header comment while in the area.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The RCU CPU stall warnings print an estimate of the total number of
RCU callbacks queued in the system, but this estimate leaves out
the callbacks queued for nocbs CPUs. This commit therefore introduces
rcu_get_n_cbs_cpu(), which gives an accurate callback estimate for
both nocbs and normal CPUs, and uses this new function as needed.
This commit also introduces a rcu_get_n_cbs_nocb_cpu() helper function
that returns the number of callbacks for nocbs CPUs or zero otherwise,
and also uses this function in place of direct access to ->nocb_q_count
while in the area (fewer characters, you see).
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit affinities the forward-progress tests to avoid hogging a
housekeeping CPU on the theory that the offloaded callbacks will be
running on those housekeeping CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Fix NULL-pointer issue located by kbuild test robot. ]
Tested-by: Rong Chen <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
bug.2018.11.12a: Get rid of BUG_ON() and friends
consolidate.2018.12.01a: Continued RCU flavor-consolidation cleanup
doc.2018.11.12a: Documentation updates
fixes.2018.11.12a: Miscellaneous fixes
initrd.2018.11.08b: Automate creation of rcutorture initrd
sil.2018.11.12a: Remove more spin_unlock_wait() calls
Subtracting INT_MIN can be interpreted as unconditional signed integer
overflow, which according to the C standard is undefined behavior.
Therefore, kernel build arguments notwithstanding, it would be good to
future-proof the code. This commit therefore substitutes INT_MAX for
INT_MIN in order to avoid undefined behavior.
While in the neighborhood, this commit also creates some meaningful names
for INT_MAX and friends in order to improve readability, as suggested
by Joel Fernandes.
Reported-by: Ran Rozenstein <ranro@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Because __this_cpu_read() can be lighter weight than equivalent uses of
this_cpu_ptr(), this commit replaces the latter with the former.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
In PREEMPT kernels, an expedited grace period might send an IPI to a
CPU that is executing an RCU read-side critical section. In that case,
it would be nice if the rcu_read_unlock() directly interacted with the
RCU core code to immediately report the quiescent state. And this does
happen in the case where the reader has been preempted. But it would
also be a nice performance optimization if immediate reporting also
happened in the preemption-free case.
This commit therefore adds an ->exp_hint field to the task_struct structure's
->rcu_read_unlock_special field. The IPI handler sets this hint when
it has interrupted an RCU read-side critical section, and this causes
the outermost rcu_read_unlock() call to invoke rcu_read_unlock_special(),
which, if preemption is enabled, reports the quiescent state immediately.
If preemption is disabled, then the report is required to be deferred
until preemption (or bottom halves or interrupts or whatever) is re-enabled.
Because this is a hint, it does nothing for more complicated cases. For
example, if the IPI interrupts an RCU reader, but interrupts are disabled
across the rcu_read_unlock(), but another rcu_read_lock() is executed
before interrupts are re-enabled, the hint will already have been cleared.
If you do crazy things like this, reporting will be deferred until some
later RCU_SOFTIRQ handler, context switch, cond_resched(), or similar.
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
The tree_plugin.h file has a number of calls to BUG_ON(), which panics
the kernel, which is not a good strategy for devices (like embedded)
that don't have a way to capture console output. This commit therefore
converts these BUG_ON() calls to WARN_ON_ONCE() and WARN_ONCE().
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Fix typo: s/rcuo/rcub/. ]
This commit move ->dynticks from the rcu_dynticks structure to the
rcu_data structure, replacing the field of the same name. It also updates
the code to access ->dynticks from the rcu_data structure and to use the
rcu_data structure rather than following to now-gone ->dynticks field
to the now-gone rcu_dynticks structure. While in the area, this commit
also fixes up comments.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit removes ->dynticks_nesting and ->dynticks_nmi_nesting from
the rcu_dynticks structure and updates the code to access them from the
rcu_data structure.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit removes ->rcu_need_heavy_qs and ->rcu_urgent_qs from the
rcu_dynticks structure and updates the code to access them from the
rcu_data structure.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit removes ->all_lazy, ->nonlazy_posted and ->nonlazy_posted_snap
from the rcu_dynticks structure and updates the code to access them from
the rcu_data structure.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit removes ->last_accelerate and ->last_advance_all from the
rcu_dynticks structure and updates the code to access them from the
rcu_data structure.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit removes ->tick_nohz_enabled_snap from the rcu_dynticks
structure and updates the code to access it from the rcu_data
structure.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The resched_cpu() interface is quite handy, but it does acquire the
specified CPU's runqueue lock, which does not come for free. This
commit therefore substitutes the following when directing resched_cpu()
at the current CPU:
set_tsk_need_resched(current);
set_preempt_need_resched();
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Because nohz_full CPUs can leave the scheduler-clock interrupt disabled
even when in kernel mode, RCU cannot rely on rcu_check_callbacks() to
enlist the scheduler's aid in extracting a quiescent state from such CPUs.
This commit therefore more aggressively uses resched_cpu() on nohz_full
CPUs that fail to pass through a quiescent state in a timely manner.
By default, the resched_cpu() beating starts 300 milliseconds into the
quiescent state.
While in the neighborhood, add a ->last_fqs_resched field to the rcu_data
structure in order to rate-limit resched_cpu() calls from the RCU
grace-period kthread.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The jiffies_till_sched_qs value used to determine how old a grace period
must be before RCU enlists the help of the scheduler to force a quiescent
state on the holdout CPU. Currently, this defaults to HZ/10 regardless of
system size and may be set only at boot time. This can be a problem for
very large systems, because if the values of the jiffies_till_first_fqs
and jiffies_till_next_fqs kernel parameters are left at their defaults,
they are calculated to increase as the number of CPUs actually configured
on the system increases. Thus, on a sufficiently large system, RCU would
enlist the help of the scheduler before the grace-period kthread had a
chance to scan for idle CPUs, which wastes CPU time.
This commit therefore allows jiffies_till_sched_qs to be set, if desired,
but if left as default, computes is as jiffies_till_first_fqs plus twice
jiffies_till_next_fqs, thus allowing three force-quiescent-state scans
for idle CPUs. This scales with the number of CPUs, providing sensible
default values.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The ->rcu_qs_ctr counter was intended to allow providing a lightweight
report of a quiescent state to all RCU flavors. But now that there is
only one flavor of RCU in any one running kernel, there is no point in
having this feature. This commit therefore removes the ->rcu_qs_ctr
field from the rcu_dynticks structure and the ->rcu_qs_ctr_snap field
from the rcu_data structure. This results in the "rqc" option to the
rcu_fqs trace event no longer being used, so this commit also removes the
"rqc" description from the header comment.
While in the neighborhood, this commit also causes the forward-progress
request .rcu_need_heavy_qs be set one jiffies_till_sched_qs interval
later in the grace period than the first setting of .rcu_urgent_qs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Because rcu_barrier() is a one-line wrapper function for _rcu_barrier()
and because nothing else calls _rcu_barrier(), this commit inlines
_rcu_barrier() into rcu_barrier().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Now that rcu_all_qs() is used only in !PREEMPT builds, move it to
tree_plugin.h so that it is defined only in those builds. This in
turn means that rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle() is only used in !PREEMPT
builds, but it is simply marked __maybe_unused in order to keep it
near the rest of the dyntick-idle code.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Consolidation of the RCU flavors into one makes increment_cpu_stall_ticks()
a trivial one-line function with only one caller. This commit therefore
inlines it.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Now that there is only ever a single flavor of RCU in a given kernel
build, there isn't a whole lot of point in having a flavor-traversal
macro. This commit therefore removes it and converts calls to it to
straightline code, inlining trivial functions as appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit removes the last non-flavor-traversal rsp local variable from
kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h in favor of &rcu_state. The flavor-traversal
locals will be removed with the removal of flavor traversal.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Now that there is only one rcu_state structure, there is no need for the
rcu_data structure to indicate which it corresponds to. This commit
therefore removes the rcu_data structure's ->rsp field, replacing all
remaining uses of it with &rcu_state.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux
kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's rcu_node
tree's accessor macros. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter
from those macros in kernel/rcu/rcu.h, and removes some now-unused rsp
local variables while in the area.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to
RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter
from the code in kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h, and removes all of the
rsp local variables while in the area.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to
RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter
from rcu_nocb_cpu_needs_barrier(), rcu_spawn_one_nocb_kthread(),
rcu_organize_nocb_kthreads(), rcu_nocb_cpu_needs_barrier(), and
rcu_nohz_full_cpu().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
print_cpu_stall_info().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
dump_blkd_tasks() and rcu_preempt_blocked_readers_cgp().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
rcu_print_detail_task_stall().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
rcu_do_batch().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
note_gp_changes().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
rcu_accelerate_cbs().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
rcu_gp_kthread_wake().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
rcu_get_root().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
rcu_gp_in_progress().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp(), which is particularly appropriate in
this case given that this parameter is no longer used.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_data_p pointer references the default set of per-CPU rcu_data
structures, that is, those that call_rcu() uses, as opposed to
call_rcu_bh() and sometimes call_rcu_sched(). But there is now only one
set of per-CPU rcu_data structures, so that one set is by definition
the default, which means that the rcu_data_p pointer no longer serves
any useful purpose. This commit therefore removes it.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_state_p pointer references the default rcu_state structure,
that is, the one that call_rcu() uses, as opposed to call_rcu_bh()
and sometimes call_rcu_sched(). But there is now only one rcu_state
structure, so that one structure is by definition the default, which
means that the rcu_state_p pointer no longer serves any useful purpose.
This commit therefore removes it.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_state structure's ->rda field was used to find the per-CPU
rcu_data structures corresponding to that rcu_state structure. But now
there is only one rcu_state structure (creatively named "rcu_state")
and one set of per-CPU rcu_data structures (creatively named "rcu_data").
Therefore, uses of the ->rda field can always be replaced by "rcu_data,
and this commit makes that change and removes the ->rda field.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Now that RCU-preempt knows about preemption disabling, its implementation
of synchronize_rcu() works for synchronize_sched(), and likewise for the
other RCU-sched update-side API members. This commit therefore confines
the RCU-sched update-side code to CONFIG_PREEMPT=n builds, and defines
RCU-sched's update-side API members in terms of those of RCU-preempt.
This means that any given build of the Linux kernel has only one
update-side flavor of RCU, namely RCU-preempt for CONFIG_PREEMPT=y builds
and RCU-sched for CONFIG_PREEMPT=n builds. This in turn means that kernels
built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y have only one rcuo kthread per CPU.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
The rcu_report_exp_rdp() function is always invoked with its "wake"
argument set to "true", so this commit drops this parameter. The only
potential call site that would use "false" is in the code driving the
expedited grace period, and that code uses rcu_report_exp_cpu_mult()
instead, which therefore retains its "wake" parameter.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Now that the main RCU API knows about softirq disabling and softirq's
quiescent states, the RCU-bh update code can be dispensed with.
This commit therefore removes the RCU-bh update-side implementation and
defines RCU-bh's update-side API in terms of that of either RCU-preempt or
RCU-sched, depending on the setting of the CONFIG_PREEMPT Kconfig option.
In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y this has the knock-on effect
of reducing by one the number of rcuo kthreads per CPU.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit reduces the latency of expedited RCU grace periods by
reporting a quiescent state for the CPU at context-switch time.
In CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernels, if the outgoing task is still within an
RCU read-side critical section (and thus still blocking some grace
period, perhaps including this expedited grace period), then that task
will already have been placed on one of the leaf rcu_node structures'
->blkd_tasks list.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
One necessary step towards consolidating the three flavors of RCU is to
make sure that the resulting consolidated "one flavor to rule them all"
correctly handles networking denial-of-service attacks. One thing that
allows RCU-bh to do so is that __do_softirq() invokes rcu_bh_qs() every
so often, and so something similar has to happen for consolidated RCU.
This must be done carefully. For example, if a preemption-disabled
region of code takes an interrupt which does softirq processing before
returning, consolidated RCU must ignore the resulting rcu_bh_qs()
invocations -- preemption is still disabled, and that means an RCU
reader for the consolidated flavor.
This commit therefore creates a new rcu_softirq_qs() that is called only
from the ksoftirqd task, thus avoiding the interrupted-a-preempted-region
problem. This new rcu_softirq_qs() function invokes rcu_sched_qs(),
rcu_preempt_qs(), and rcu_preempt_deferred_qs(). The latter call handles
any deferred quiescent states.
Note that __do_softirq() still invokes rcu_bh_qs(). It will continue to
do so until a later stage of cleanup when the RCU-bh flavor is removed.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Fix !SMP issue located by kbuild test robot. ]
The ->b.exp_need_qs field is now set only to false, so this commit
removes it. The job this field used to do is now done by the rcu_data
structure's ->deferred_qs field, which is a consequence of a better
split between task-based (the rcu_node structure's ->exp_tasks field) and
CPU-based (the aforementioned rcu_data structure's ->deferred_qs field)
tracking of quiescent states for RCU-preempt expedited grace periods.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
If an RCU-preempt read-side critical section is exiting, that is,
->rcu_read_lock_nesting is negative, then it is a good time to look
at the possibility of reporting deferred quiescent states. This
commit therefore updates the checks in rcu_preempt_need_deferred_qs()
to allow exiting critical sections to report deferred quiescent states.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit defers reporting of RCU-preempt quiescent states at
rcu_read_unlock_special() time when any of interrupts, softirq, or
preemption are disabled. These deferred quiescent states are reported
at a later RCU_SOFTIRQ, context switch, idle entry, or CPU-hotplug
offline operation. Of course, if another RCU read-side critical
section has started in the meantime, the reporting of the quiescent
state will be further deferred.
This also means that disabling preemption, interrupts, and/or
softirqs will act as an RCU-preempt read-side critical section.
This is enforced by checking preempt_count() as needed.
Some special cases must be handled on an ad-hoc basis, for example,
context switch is a quiescent state even though both the scheduler and
do_exit() disable preemption. In these cases, additional calls to
rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() override the preemption disabling. Similar
logic overrides disabled interrupts in rcu_preempt_check_callbacks()
because in this case the quiescent state happened just before the
corresponding scheduling-clock interrupt.
In theory, this change lifts a long-standing restriction that required
that if interrupts were disabled across a call to rcu_read_unlock()
that the matching rcu_read_lock() also be contained within that
interrupts-disabled region of code. Because the reporting of the
corresponding RCU-preempt quiescent state is now deferred until
after interrupts have been enabled, it is no longer possible for this
situation to result in deadlocks involving the scheduler's runqueue and
priority-inheritance locks. This may allow some code simplification that
might reduce interrupt latency a bit. Unfortunately, in practice this
would also defer deboosting a low-priority task that had been subjected
to RCU priority boosting, so real-time-response considerations might
well force this restriction to remain in place.
Because RCU-preempt grace periods are now blocked not only by RCU
read-side critical sections, but also by disabling of interrupts,
preemption, and softirqs, it will be possible to eliminate RCU-bh and
RCU-sched in favor of RCU-preempt in CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernels. This may
require some additional plumbing to provide the network denial-of-service
guarantees that have been traditionally provided by RCU-bh. Once these
are in place, CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernels will be able to fold RCU-bh
into RCU-sched. This would mean that all kernels would have but
one flavor of RCU, which would open the door to significant code
cleanup.
Moving to a single flavor of RCU would also have the beneficial effect
of reducing the NOCB kthreads by at least a factor of two.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Apply rcu_read_unlock_special() preempt_count() feedback
from Joel Fernandes. ]
[ paulmck: Adjust rcu_eqs_enter() call to rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() in
response to bug reports from kbuild test robot. ]
[ paulmck: Fix bug located by kbuild test robot involving recursion
via rcu_preempt_deferred_qs(). ]
Pull scheduler updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Cleanup and improvement of NUMA balancing
- Refactoring and improvements to the PELT (Per Entity Load Tracking)
code
- Watchdog simplification and related cleanups
- The usual pile of small incremental fixes and improvements
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (41 commits)
watchdog: Reduce message verbosity
stop_machine: Reflow cpu_stop_queue_two_works()
sched/numa: Move task_numa_placement() closer to numa_migrate_preferred()
sched/numa: Use group_weights to identify if migration degrades locality
sched/numa: Update the scan period without holding the numa_group lock
sched/numa: Remove numa_has_capacity()
sched/numa: Modify migrate_swap() to accept additional parameters
sched/numa: Remove unused task_capacity from 'struct numa_stats'
sched/numa: Skip nodes that are at 'hoplimit'
sched/debug: Reverse the order of printing faults
sched/numa: Use task faults only if numa_group is not yet set up
sched/numa: Set preferred_node based on best_cpu
sched/numa: Simplify load_too_imbalanced()
sched/numa: Evaluate move once per node
sched/numa: Remove redundant field
sched/debug: Show the sum wait time of a task group
sched/fair: Remove #ifdefs from scale_rt_capacity()
sched/core: Remove get_cpu() from sched_fork()
sched/cpufreq: Clarify sugov_get_util()
sched/sysctl: Remove unused sched_time_avg_ms sysctl
...
The ->dynticks_nmi_nesting field records the nesting depth of both
interrupt and NMI handlers. Because the kernel can enter interrupts
and never leave them (and vice versa) and because NMIs can interrupt
manipulation of the ->dynticks_nmi_nesting field, the values in this
field must be both chosen and maniupated very carefully. As a result,
although the value is zero when the corresponding CPU is executing
neither an interrupt nor an NMI handler, it is 4,611,686,018,427,387,906
on 64-bit systems when there is a single level of interrupt/NMI handling
in progress.
This number is difficult to remember and interpret, so this commit
switches the output to hexadecimal, resulting in the much nicer
0x4000000000000002.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
One danger of using __maybe_unused is that the compiler doesn't yell
at you when you remove the last reference, witness rcu_bind_gp_kthread()
and its local variable "cpu". This commit removes this local variable.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_kick_nohz_cpu() function is no longer used, and the functionality
it used to provide is now provided by a call to resched_cpu() in the
force-quiescent-state function rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs(). This commit
therefore removes rcu_kick_nohz_cpu().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_preempt_qs() function only applies to the CPU, not the task.
A task really is allowed to invoke this function while in an RCU-preempt
read-side critical section, but only if it has first added itself to
some leaf rcu_node structure's ->blkd_tasks list.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
If any scheduling-clock interrupt interrupts an RCU-preempt read-side
critical section, the interrupted task's ->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs
field is set. This causes the outermost rcu_read_unlock() to incur the
extra overhead of calling into rcu_read_unlock_special(). This commit
reduces that overhead by setting ->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs only
if the grace period has been in effect for more than one second.
Why one second? Because this is comfortably smaller than the minimum
RCU CPU stall-warning timeout of three seconds, but long enough that the
.need_qs marking should happen quite rarely. And if your RCU read-side
critical section has run on-CPU for a full second, it is not unreasonable
to invest some CPU time in ending the grace period quickly.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit also adjusts some whitespace while in the area.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Revert string-breaking %s as requested by Andy Shevchenko. ]
Because rcu_read_unlock_special() is no longer used outside of
kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h, this commit makes it static.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Interactions between CPU-hotplug operations and grace-period
initialization can result in dump_blkd_tasks(). One of the first
debugging actions in this case is to search back in dmesg to work
out which of the affected rcu_node structure's CPUs are online and to
determine the last CPU-hotplug operation affecting any of those CPUs.
This can be laborious and error-prone, especially when console output
is lost.
This commit therefore causes dump_blkd_tasks() to dump the state of
the affected rcu_node structure's CPUs and the last grace period during
which the last offline and online operation affected each of these CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit updates dump_blkd_tasks() to print out quiescent-state
bitmasks for the rcu_node structures further up the tree. This
information helps debugging of interactions between CPU-hotplug
operations and RCU grace-period initialization.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
RCU should only be waiting on CPUs that were online at the time that the
current grace period started. Failure to abide by this rule can result
in confusing splats during grace-period cleanup and initialization.
This commit therefore adds a check to RCU-preempt's preempted-task
queuing that checks for waiting on newly onlined CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Consider the following sequence of events in a PREEMPT=y kernel:
1. All CPUs corresponding to a given leaf rcu_node structure are
offline.
2. The first phase of the rcu_gp_init() function's grace-period
initialization runs, and sets that rcu_node structure's
->qsmaskinit to zero, as it should.
3. One of the CPUs corresponding to that rcu_node structure comes
back online. Note that because this CPU came online after the
grace period started, this grace period can safely ignore this
newly onlined CPU.
4. A task running on the newly onlined CPU enters an RCU-preempt
read-side critical section, and is then preempted. Because
the corresponding rcu_node structure's ->qsmask is zero,
rcu_preempt_ctxt_queue() leaves the rcu_node structure's
->gp_tasks field NULL, as it should.
5. The rcu_gp_init() function continues running the second phase of
grace-period initialization. The ->qsmask field of the parent of
the aforementioned leaf rcu_node structure is set to not expect
a quiescent state from the leaf, as is only right and proper.
However, when rcu_gp_init() reaches the leaf, it invokes
rcu_preempt_check_blocked_tasks(), which sees that the leaf's
->blkd_tasks list is non-empty, and therefore sets the leaf's
->gp_tasks field to reference the first task on that list.
6. The grace period ends before the preempted task resumes, which
is perfectly fine, given that this grace period was under no
obligation to wait for that task to exit its late-starting
RCU-preempt read-side critical section. Unfortunately, the
leaf's ->gp_tasks field is non-NULL, so rcu_gp_cleanup() splats.
After all, it appears to rcu_gp_cleanup() that the grace period
failed to wait for a task that was supposed to be blocking that
grace period.
This commit avoids this false-positive splat by adding a check of both
->qsmaskinit and ->wait_blkd_tasks to rcu_preempt_check_blocked_tasks().
If both ->qsmaskinit and ->wait_blkd_tasks are zero, then the task must
have entered its RCU-preempt read-side critical section late (after all,
the CPU that it is running on was not online at that time), which means
that the upper-level rcu_node structure won't be waiting for anything
on the leaf anyway.
If ->wait_blkd_tasks is non-zero, then there is at least one task on
ths rcu_node structure's ->blkd_tasks list whose RCU read-side
critical section predates the current grace period. If ->qsmaskinit
is non-zero, there is at least one CPU that was online at the start
of the current grace period. Thus, if both are zero, there is nothing
to wait for.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit fixes a typo and adds some additional debugging to the
message emitted when a task blocking the current grace period is listed
as blocking it when either that grace period ends or the next grace
period begins. This commit also reformats the console message for
readability.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Now that everything has been converted to use ->gp_seq instead of
->gpnum and ->completed, this commit removes ->gpnum and ->completed.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit makes the rcu_quiescent_state_report tracepoint use ->gp_seq
instead of ->gpnum.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit makes the rcu_unlock_preempted_task tracepoint use ->gp_seq
instead of ->gpnum.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit makes the rcu_grace_period tracepoint use gp_seq instead
of ->gpnum or ->completed. It also introduces a "cpuofl-bgp" string to
less obscurely indicate when a CPU has gone offline while a grace period
is waiting on it.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit makes rcu_nocb_wait_gp() check rdp->gp_seq_needed to see
if the current CPU already knows about the needed grace period having
already been requested. If so, it avoids acquiring the corresponding
leaf rcu_node structure's ->lock, thus decreasing contention. This
optimization is intended for cases where either multiple leader rcuo
kthreads are running on the same CPU or these kthreads are running on
a non-offloaded (e.g., housekeeping) CPU.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Move lock release past "if" as suggested by Joel Fernandes. ]
[ paulmck: Fix caching of furthest-future requested grace period. ]
This commit makes the RCU CPU stall-warning code in print_other_cpu_stall(),
print_cpu_stall(), and check_cpu_stall() use ->gp_seq instead of ->gpnum
and ->completed.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit converts the grace-period request code paths from ->completed
and ->gpnum to ->gp_seq. The need_future_gp_element() macro encapsulates
the shift operation required to use ->gp_seq as an index to the
->need_future_gp[] array. The rcu_cbs_completed() function is removed
in favor of the rcu_seq_snap() function. The rcu_start_this_gp()
gets some temporary consistency checks and uses rcu_seq_done(),
rcu_seq_current(), rcu_seq_state(), and rcu_gp_in_progress() in place
of the earlier open-coded comparisons of ->gpnum and ->completed.
The rcu_future_gp_cleanup() function replaces use of ->completed
with ->gp_seq. The rcu_accelerate_cbs() function replaces a call to
rcu_cbs_completed() with one to rcu_seq_snap(). The rcu_advance_cbs()
function replaces an access to >completed with one to ->gp_seq and adds
some temporary warnings. The rcu_nocb_wait_gp() function replaces a
call to rcu_cbs_completed() with one to rcu_seq_snap() and an open-coded
comparison with rcu_seq_done().
The temporary warnings will be removed when the various ->gpnum and
->completed fields are removed. Their purpose is to locate code who
might still be using ->gpnum and ->completed. (Much easier that way
than trying to trace down the causes of too-short grace periods and
grace-period hangs!)
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit switches the quiescent-state no-backtracking checks from
->gpnum and ->completed to ->gp_seq.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit switches the interrupt-disabled detection mechanism to
->gp_seq. This mechanism is used as part of RCU CPU stall warnings,
and detects cases where the stall is due to a CPU having interrupts
disabled.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit makes rcu_try_advance_all_cbs() use ->gp_seq. It uses
rcu_seq_ctr() in order to shift away the state bits, so that the
low-order bits of the result may safely be used to index ->nocb_gp_wq[].
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit makes rcu_try_advance_all_cbs() use ->gp_seq, with the
exception of tracing, which will be converted later.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Sparse reported this:
| kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:814:9: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different modifiers)
| kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:814:9: expected struct lockdep_map const *lock
| kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:814:9: got struct lockdep_map [noderef] *<noident>
This is caused by using vanilla lockdep annotations on rcu_node::lock,
and that requires accessing ->lock of rcu_node directly. However we need
to keep rcu_node::lock __private to avoid breaking its extra ordering
guarantee. And we have a dedicated lockdep annotation for
rcu_node::lock, so use it.
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The WARN_ON_ONCE(rcu_preempt_blocked_readers_cgp()) in
rcu_gp_cleanup() triggers (inexplicably, of course) every so often.
This commit therefore extracts more information.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_accelerate_cbs() function selects a grace-period target, which
it uses to have rcu_segcblist_accelerate() assign numbers to recently
queued callbacks. Then it invokes rcu_start_future_gp(), which selects
a grace-period target again, which is a bit pointless. This commit
therefore changes rcu_start_future_gp() to take the grace-period target as
a parameter, thus avoiding double selection. This commit also changes
the name of rcu_start_future_gp() to rcu_start_this_gp() to reflect
this change in functionality, and also makes a similar change to the
name of trace_rcu_future_gp().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Currently, rcu_gp_cleanup() scans the rcu_node tree in order to reset
state to reflect the end of the grace period. It also checks to see
whether a new grace period is needed, but in a number of cases, rather
than directly cause the new grace period to be immediately started, it
instead leaves the grace-period-needed state where various fail-safes
can find it. This works fine, but results in higher contention on the
root rcu_node structure's ->lock, which is undesirable, and contention
on that lock has recently become noticeable.
This commit therefore makes rcu_gp_cleanup() immediately start a new
grace period if there is any need for one.
It is quite possible that it will later be necessary to throttle the
grace-period rate, but that can be dealt with when and if.
Reported-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
