The [smp_]read_barrier_depends() barrier macros no longer exist as
part of the Linux memory model, so remove all references to them from
the Documentation/ directory.
Although this is fairly mechanical on the whole, we drop the "CACHE
COHERENCY" section entirely from 'memory-barriers.txt' as it doesn't
make any sense now that the dependency barriers have been removed.
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Protecting the code in a trampoline can also require protecting a
number of instructions prior to actually entering the trampoline.
For example, these earlier instructions might be computing the address
of the trampoline. This commit therefore updates RCU's requirements to
record this for posterity.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200511154824.09a18c46@gandalf.local.home/
Reported-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Over the past few years, there have been several cases where timekeeping
bugs have caused RCU CPU stall warnings, particularly during hardware
bringup. This commit therefore adds such bugs to the list of things
that can result in RCU CPU stall warnings.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Since changeset 58ad30cf91 ("docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst"),
auto-references for chapters are generated. This is a nice feature, but
has a drawback: no chapters can have the same sumber.
So, we need to add two higher hierarchy chapters on this document,
in order to avoid such duplication.
Fixes: 58ad30cf91 ("docs: fix reference to core-api/namespaces.rst")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
- Add a SPDX header;
- Adjust document and section titles;
- Fix list markups;
- Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks;
- Mark literal blocks as such;
- Add it to RCU/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
- Add a SPDX header;
- Adjust document title;
- Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks;
- Mark literal blocks as such;
- Add it to RCU/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
- Add a SPDX header;
- Adjust document and section titles;
- Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks;
- Mark literal blocks as such;
- Add it to RCU/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
- Add a SPDX header;
- Adjust document title;
- Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks;
- Mark literal blocks as such;
- Add it to RCU/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
- Add a SPDX header;
- Adjust document title;
- Mark literal blocks as such;
- Add it to RCU/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
- Add a SPDX header;
- Add a document title;
- Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks;
- Mark literal blocks as such;
- Add it to RCU/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
- Add a SPDX header;
- Adjust document title;
- Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks;
- Use the right list markups;
- Add it to RCU/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The scheduler is currently required to hold rq/pi locks across the entire
RCU read-side critical section or not at all. This is inconvenient and
leaves traps for the unwary, including the author of this commit.
But now that excessively long grace periods enable scheduling-clock
interrupts for holdout nohz_full CPUs, the nohz_full rescue logic in
rcu_read_unlock_special() can be dispensed with. In other words, the
rcu_read_unlock_special() function can refrain from doing wakeups unless
such wakeups are guaranteed safe.
This commit therefore avoids unsafe wakeups, freeing the scheduler to
hold rq/pi locks across rcu_read_unlock() even if the corresponding RCU
read-side critical section might have been preempted. This commit also
updates RCU's requirements documentation.
This commit is inspired by a patch from Lai Jiangshan:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191102124559.1135-2-laijs@linux.alibaba.com
This commit is further intended to be a step towards his goal of permitting
the inlining of RCU-preempt's rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock().
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
For testing mainline, the kvm.sh rcutorture script is the preferred
approach to testing. This commit therefore adds it to the torture.txt
documentation.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
listRCU.rst document gives an example with 'ipc_lock()', but the
function has dropped off by commit 82061c57ce ("ipc: drop
ipc_lock()"). Because the main logic of 'ipc_lock()' has melded in
'shm_lock()' by the commit, this commit updates the document to use
'shm_lock()' instead.
Reviewed-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik04@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Commit ccc9971e21 ("docs: rcu: convert some articles from html to
ReST") has converted a few of html RCU docs into ReST files, but a few
of html tags which not supported on rst is remaining. This commit
converts those to ReST appropriate alternatives.
Reviewed-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik04@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
- Add more information about RCU list patterns taking examples
from audit subsystem in the linux kernel.
- Keep the current audit examples, even though the kernel has changed.
- Modify inline text for better passage quality.
- Fix typo in code-blocks and improve code comments.
- Add text formatting (italics, bold and code) for better emphasis.
Patch originally submitted at
https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1082804/
Co-developed-by: Amol Grover <frextrite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Amol Grover <frextrite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit removes kfree_rcu() special-casing and the lazy-callback
handling from Tree RCU. It moves some of this special casing to Tiny RCU,
the removal of which will be the subject of later commits.
This results in a nice negative delta.
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Add slab.h #include, thanks to kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This patch updates the list of RCU API in whatisRCU.rst.
Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik04@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Amol Grover <frextrite@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Phong Tran <tranmanphong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Convert rcubarrier.txt to rcubarrier.rst and add it to index.rst.
Format file according to reST
- Add headings and sub-headings
- Add code segments
- Add cross-references to quizes and answers
Signed-off-by: Amol Grover <frextrite@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Phong Tran <tranmanphong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This patch converts rcu_dereference.txt to rcu_dereference.rst and
adds it to index.rst
Signed-off-by: Amol Grover <frextrite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This patch converts NMI-RCU from txt to rst format.
Also adds NMI-RCU in the index.rst file.
Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik04@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Apply feedback from Phong Tran. ]
Tested-by: Phong Tran <tranmanphong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This patch converts arrayRCU from .txt to .rst format, and also adds
it to the index.rst file.
Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik04@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Trimmed trailing whitespace. ]
Tested-by: Phong Tran <tranmanphong@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Amol Grover <frextrite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
While Paul was explaining some RCU magic I noticed a typo in
rcu_note_context_switch(). As a result, this commit replaces
rcu_node_context_switch() with rcu_note_context_switch().
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit updates the documentation with information about
usage of lockdep with list_for_each_entry_rcu().
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Wordsmithing. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This restores docs back in ReST format.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Added Joel's SoB per Stephen Rothwell feedback. ]
[ paulmck: Joel approved via private email. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This restores docs back in ReST format.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Added Joel's SoB per Stephen Rothwell feedback. ]
[ paulmck: Joel approved via private email. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
These documents are long and have various sections. Provide a good
toc nesting level.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Mauro's auto conversion broken these links, fix them.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
There are 4 RCU articles that are written on html format.
The way they are, they can't be part of the Linux Kernel
documentation body nor share the styles and pdf output.
So, convert them to ReST format.
This way, make htmldocs and make pdfdocs will produce a
documentation output that will be like the original ones, but
will be part of the Linux Kernel documentation body.
Part of the conversion was done with the help of pandoc, but
the result had some broken things that had to be manually
fixed.
Following are manual changes Mauro made when doing the automatic conversion:
Quoting from: https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/20190726154550.5eeae294@coco.lan/
> > At least the pandoc's version I used here has a bug: its conversion
> > from html to ReST on those files only start after a <body> tag - or
> > when the first quiz table starts. I only discovered that adding a
> > <body> at the beginning of the file solve this book at the last
> > conversions.
> >
> > So, for most html->ReST conversions, I manually converted the first
> > part of the document, basically stripping html paragraph tags and
> > by replacing highlights by the ReST syntax.
> >
> > Also, all the quiz tables seem to assume some javascript macro or
> > css style that would be hiding the answer part until the mouse moves
> > to it. Such macro/css was not there at the kernel tree. So, the quiz
> > answers have the same color as the background, making them invisible.
> > Even if we had such macro/css, this is not portable for pdf/LaTeX output
> > (and I'm not sure if this would work with ePub).
> >
> > So, I ended by manually doing the table conversion.
> >
> > Finally, I double-checked if the conversions ended ok, addressing any
> > issues that might have heppened.
> >
> > So, after both automatic conversion and manual fixes, I opened both the
> > html files produced by Sphinx and the original ones and compared them
> > line per line (except for the indexes, as Sphinx produces them
> > automatically), in order to see if all information from the original
> > files will be there on a format close to what we have on other ReST
> > files, fixing any pending issues if any.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This reverts docs from commit 355e9972da81e803bbb825b76106ae9b358caf8e.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Added Joel's SoB per Stephen Rothwell feedback. ]
[ paulmck: Joel approved via private email. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This reverts docs from commit d6b9cd7dc8e041ee83cb1362fce59a3cdb1f2709.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Added Joel's SoB per Stephen Rothwell feedback. ]
[ paulmck: Joel approved via private email. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() API name is confusing. It is equivalent
to rcu_dereference_raw() except that it also does sparse pointer checking.
There are only a few users of rcu_dereference_raw_notrace(). This patches
renames all of them to be rcu_dereference_raw_check() with the "_check()"
indicating sparse checking.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Fix checkpatch warnings about parentheses. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit adds mention of the rcutree.kthread_prio kernel boot parameter
to the discussion of how high-priority real-time tasks can result in
RCU CPU stall warnings. (However, this does not necessarily help when
the high-priority real-time tasks are using dubious deadlines.)
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. ]
Some files got renamed but probably due to some merge conflicts,
a few references still point to the old locations.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
- A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more
than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with other
trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on the wings
that, I think, will go to you directly later on.
- A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos, and one
on Spectre vulnerabilities.
- Various improvements to the build system, including automatic markup of
function() references because some people, for reasons I will never
understand, were of the opinion that :c:func:``function()`` is
unattractive and not fun to type.
- We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4.
- Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs:
- A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more
than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with
other trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on
the wings that, I think, will go to you directly later on.
- A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos,
and one on Spectre vulnerabilities.
- Various improvements to the build system, including automatic
markup of function() references because some people, for reasons I
will never understand, were of the opinion that
:c:func:``function()`` is unattractive and not fun to type.
- We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4.
- Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc"
* tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (129 commits)
docs: automarkup.py: ignore exceptions when seeking for xrefs
docs: Move binderfs to admin-guide
Disable Sphinx SmartyPants in HTML output
doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irq
docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code
Doc : doc-guide : Fix a typo
platform: x86: get rid of a non-existent document
Add the RCU docs to the core-api manual
Documentation: RCU: Add TOC tree hooks
Documentation: RCU: Rename txt files to rst
Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU UP systems to reST
Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU linked list to reST
Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU basic concepts to reST
docs: filesystems: Remove uneeded .rst extension on toctables
scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix out-of-tree build
docs: zh_CN: submitting-drivers.rst: Remove a duplicated Documentation/
Documentation: PGP: update for newer HW devices
Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre
Documentation: platform: Delete x86-laptop-drivers.txt
docs: Note that :c:func: should no longer be used
...
The UP.rst file calls for locks acquired within RCU callback functions
to use _irq variants (spin_lock_irqsave() or similar), which does work,
but can be overkill. This commit therefore instead calls for _bh variants
(spin_lock_bh() or similar), while noting that _irq does work.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiunn Chang <c0d1n61at3@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Rename the following files to reST:
- rcu.txt
- listRCU.txt
- UP.txt
Signed-off-by: Jiunn Chang <c0d1n61at3@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
RCU UP systems reST markup.
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiunn Chang <c0d1n61at3@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
