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Documentation: RCU: Correct spelling
Correct spelling problems for Documentation/RCU/ as reported by codespell. Note: in RTFP.txt, there are other misspellings that are left as is since they were used that way in email Subject: lines or in LWN.net articles. [preemptable, Preemptable, synchonisation] Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: rcu@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
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@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ the following access functions:
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Again, only one request in a given batch need actually carry out a
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grace-period operation, which means there must be an efficient way to
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identify which of many concurrent reqeusts will initiate the grace
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identify which of many concurrent requests will initiate the grace
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period, and that there be an efficient way for the remaining requests to
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wait for that grace period to complete. However, that is the topic of
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the next section.
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@ -405,7 +405,7 @@ Use of Workqueues
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In earlier implementations, the task requesting the expedited grace
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period also drove it to completion. This straightforward approach had
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the disadvantage of needing to account for POSIX signals sent to user
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tasks, so more recent implemementations use the Linux kernel's
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tasks, so more recent implementations use the Linux kernel's
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workqueues (see Documentation/core-api/workqueue.rst).
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The requesting task still does counter snapshotting and funnel-lock
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@ -465,7 +465,7 @@ corresponding disadvantage that workqueues cannot be used until they are
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initialized, which does not happen until some time after the scheduler
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spawns the first task. Given that there are parts of the kernel that
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really do want to execute grace periods during this mid-boot “dead
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zone”, expedited grace periods must do something else during thie time.
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zone”, expedited grace periods must do something else during this time.
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What they do is to fall back to the old practice of requiring that the
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requesting task drive the expedited grace period, as was the case before
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@ -168,7 +168,7 @@ an ``atomic_add_return()`` of zero) to detect idle CPUs.
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+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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The approach must be extended to handle one final case, that of waking a
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task blocked in ``synchronize_rcu()``. This task might be affinitied to
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task blocked in ``synchronize_rcu()``. This task might be affined to
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a CPU that is not yet aware that the grace period has ended, and thus
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might not yet be subject to the grace period's memory ordering.
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Therefore, there is an ``smp_mb()`` after the return from
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@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ work looked at debugging uses of RCU [Seyster:2011:RFA:2075416.2075425].
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In 2012, Josh Triplett received his Ph.D. with his dissertation
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covering RCU-protected resizable hash tables and the relationship
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between memory barriers and read-side traversal order: If the updater
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is making changes in the opposite direction from the read-side traveral
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is making changes in the opposite direction from the read-side traversal
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order, the updater need only execute a memory-barrier instruction,
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but if in the same direction, the updater needs to wait for a grace
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period between the individual updates [JoshTriplettPhD]. Also in 2012,
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@ -1245,7 +1245,7 @@ Oregon Health and Sciences University"
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[Viewed September 5, 2005]"
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,annotation={
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First posting showing how RCU can be safely adapted for
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preemptable RCU read side critical sections.
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preemptible RCU read side critical sections.
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}
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}
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@ -1888,7 +1888,7 @@ Revised:
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\url{https://lore.kernel.org/r/20070910183004.GA3299@linux.vnet.ibm.com}
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[Viewed October 25, 2007]"
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,annotation={
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Final patch for preemptable RCU to -rt. (Later patches were
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Final patch for preemptible RCU to -rt. (Later patches were
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to mainline, eventually incorporated.)
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}
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}
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@ -2275,7 +2275,7 @@ lot of {Linux} into your technology!!!"
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\url{https://lore.kernel.org/r/20090724001429.GA17374@linux.vnet.ibm.com}
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[Viewed August 15, 2009]"
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,annotation={
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First posting of simple and fast preemptable RCU.
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First posting of simple and fast preemptible RCU.
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}
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}
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@ -2639,7 +2639,7 @@ lot of {Linux} into your technology!!!"
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RCU-protected hash tables, barriers vs. read-side traversal order.
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.
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If the updater is making changes in the opposite direction from
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the read-side traveral order, the updater need only execute a
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the read-side traversal order, the updater need only execute a
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memory-barrier instruction, but if in the same direction, the
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updater needs to wait for a grace period between the individual
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updates.
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@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ UP systems, including PREEMPT SMP builds running on UP systems.
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Quick Quiz #3:
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Why can't synchronize_rcu() return immediately on UP systems running
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preemptable RCU?
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preemptible RCU?
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.. _answer_quick_quiz_up:
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@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ Answer to Quick Quiz #2:
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Answer to Quick Quiz #3:
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Why can't synchronize_rcu() return immediately on UP systems
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running preemptable RCU?
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running preemptible RCU?
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Because some other task might have been preempted in the middle
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of an RCU read-side critical section. If synchronize_rcu()
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rcu_access_pointer(p):
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Return the value of the pointer and omit all barriers,
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but retain the compiler constraints that prevent duplicating
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or coalescsing. This is useful when testing the
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or coalescing. This is useful when testing the
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value of the pointer itself, for example, against NULL.
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The rcu_dereference_check() check expression can be any boolean
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rcutorture's module parameters. For example, to test a change to RCU's
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CPU stall-warning code, use "--bootargs 'rcutorture.stall_cpu=30'".
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This will of course result in the scripting reporting a failure, namely
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the resuling RCU CPU stall warning. As noted above, reducing memory may
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the resulting RCU CPU stall warning. As noted above, reducing memory may
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require disabling rcutorture's callback-flooding tests::
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kvm.sh --cpus 448 --configs '56*TREE04' --memory 128M \
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@ -370,5 +370,5 @@ You can also re-run a previous remote run in a manner similar to kvm.sh:
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tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/res/2022.11.03-11.26.28-remote \
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--duration 24h
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In this case, most of the kvm-again.sh parmeters may be supplied following
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In this case, most of the kvm-again.sh parameters may be supplied following
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the pathname of the old run-results directory.
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