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Paul E. McKenney ab954c167e rcu: Remove redundant callback-list initialization
The RCU callback lists are initialized in both rcu_boot_init_percpu_data()
and rcu_init_percpu_data().  The former is intended for initializing
immutable data, so this commit removes the initialization from
rcu_boot_init_percpu_data() and leaves it in rcu_init_percpu_data().
This change prepares for permitting callbacks to be queued very early
in boot.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:54 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 6cd534ef8b rcu: Don't scan root rcu_node structure for stalled tasks
Now that blocked tasks are no longer migrated to the root rcu_node
structure, there is no need to scan the root rcu_node structure for
blocked tasks stalling the current grace period.  This commit therefore
removes this scan.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:53 -08:00
Lai Jiangshan abaf3f9d27 rcu: Revert "Allow post-unlock reference for rt_mutex" to avoid priority-inversion
The patch dfeb9765ce ("Allow post-unlock reference for rt_mutex")
ensured rcu-boost safe even the rt_mutex has post-unlock reference.

But rt_mutex allowing post-unlock reference is definitely a bug and it was
fixed by the commit 27e35715df ("rtmutex: Plug slow unlock race").
This fix made the previous patch (dfeb9765ce) useless.

And even worse, the priority-inversion introduced by the the previous
patch still exists.

rcu_read_unlock_special() {
	rt_mutex_unlock(&rnp->boost_mtx);
	/* Priority-Inversion:
	 * the current task had been deboosted and preempted as a low
	 * priority task immediately, it could wait long before reschedule in,
	 * and the rcu-booster also waits on this low priority task and sleeps.
	 * This priority-inversion makes rcu-booster can't work
	 * as expected.
	 */
	complete(&rnp->boost_completion);
}

Just revert the patch to avoid it.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:52 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 3ba4d0e09b rcu: Note quiescent state when CPU goes offline
The rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu() function (called after a CPU has gone
completely offline) has not reported a quiescent state because there
was probably at least one synchronize_rcu() between the time the CPU
went offline and the CPU_DEAD notifier, and this would have detected
the CPU's offline state via quiescent-state forcing.  However, the plan
is for CPUs to take themselves offline, at which point it makes sense
for them to report their own quiescent state.  This commit makes this
change in preparation for the new CPU-hotplug setup.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:51 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 5d0b024973 rcu: Don't bother affinitying rcub kthreads away from offline CPUs
When rcu_boost_kthread_setaffinity() sees that all CPUs for a given
rcu_node structure are now offline, it affinities the corresponding
RCU-boost ("rcub") kthread away from those CPUs.  This is pointless
because the kthread cannot run on those offline CPUs in any case.
This commit therefore removes this unneeded code.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:50 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 1be0085b51 rcu: Don't initiate RCU priority boosting on root rcu_node
Because there is no longer any preempted tasks on the root rcu_node, and
because there is no longer ever an rcub kthread for the root rcu_node,
this commit drops the code in force_qs_rnp() that attempts to awaken
the non-existent root rcub kthread.  This is strictly a performance
enhancement, removing a root rcu_node ->lock acquisition and release
along with some tests in rcu_initiate_boost(), ending with the test that
notes that there is no rcub kthread.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:48 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 3e9f5c70d8 rcu: Don't spawn rcub kthreads on root rcu_node structure
Now that offlining CPUs no longer moves leaf rcu_node structures'
->blkd_tasks lists to the root, there is no way for the root rcu_node
structure's ->blkd_task list to be nonempty, unless the root node is also
the sole leaf node.  This commit therefore refrains from creating an rcub
kthread for the root rcu_node structure unless it is also the sole leaf.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:47 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 96e92021d4 rcu: Make use of rcu_preempt_has_tasks()
Given that there is now arcu_preempt_has_tasks() function that checks
to see if the ->blkd_tasks list is non-empty, this commit makes use of it.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:46 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney a8f4cbadfb rcu: Shorten irq-disable region in rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu()
Now that we are not migrating callbacks, there is no need to hold the
->orphan_lock across the the ->qsmaskinit bit-clearing process.
This commit therefore releases ->orphan_lock immediately after adopting
the orphaned RCU callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:45 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney d19fb8d1f3 rcu: Don't migrate blocked tasks even if all corresponding CPUs offline
When the last CPU associated with a given leaf rcu_node structure
goes offline, something must be done about the tasks queued on that
rcu_node structure.  Each of these tasks has been preempted on one of
the leaf rcu_node structure's CPUs while in an RCU read-side critical
section that it have not yet exited.  Handling these tasks is the job of
rcu_preempt_offline_tasks(), which migrates them from the leaf rcu_node
structure to the root rcu_node structure.

Unfortunately, this migration has to be done one task at a time because
each tasks allegiance must be shifted from the original leaf rcu_node to
the root, so that future attempts to deal with these tasks will acquire
the root rcu_node structure's ->lock rather than that of the leaf.
Worse yet, this migration must be done with interrupts disabled, which
is not so good for realtime response, especially given that there is
no bound on the number of tasks on a given rcu_node structure's list.
(OK, OK, there is a bound, it is just that it is unreasonably large,
especially on 64-bit systems.)  This was not considered a problem back
when rcu_preempt_offline_tasks() was first written because realtime
systems were assumed not to do CPU-hotplug operations while real-time
applications were running.  This assumption has proved of dubious validity
given that people are starting to run multiple realtime applications
on a single SMP system and that it is common practice to offline then
online a CPU before starting its real-time application in order to clear
extraneous processing off of that CPU.  So we now need CPU hotplug
operations to avoid undue latencies.

This commit therefore avoids migrating these tasks, instead letting
them be dequeued one by one from the original leaf rcu_node structure
by rcu_read_unlock_special().  This means that the clearing of bits
from the upper-level rcu_node structures must be deferred until the
last such task has been dequeued, because otherwise subsequent grace
periods won't wait on them.  This commit has the beneficial side effect
of simplifying the CPU-hotplug code for TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, especially in
CONFIG_RCU_BOOST builds.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:44 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney b6a932d1d9 rcu: Make rcu_read_unlock_special() propagate ->qsmaskinit bit clearing
This commit causes rcu_read_unlock_special() to propagate ->qsmaskinit
bit clearing up the rcu_node tree once a given rcu_node structure's
blkd_tasks list becomes empty.  This is the final commit in preparation
for the rework of RCU priority boosting:  It enables preempted tasks to
remain queued on their rcu_node structure even after all of that rcu_node
structure's CPUs have gone offline.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:43 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 8af3a5e78c rcu: Abstract rcu_cleanup_dead_rnp() from rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu()
This commit abstracts rcu_cleanup_dead_rnp() from rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu()
in preparation for the rework of RCU priority boosting.  This new function
will be invoked from rcu_read_unlock_special() in the reworked scheme,
which is why rcu_cleanup_dead_rnp() assumes that the leaf rcu_node
structure's ->qsmaskinit field has already been updated.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:41 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 74e871ac6c rcu: Rename "empty" to "empty_norm" in preparation for boost rework
This commit undertakes a simple variable renaming to make way for
some rework of RCU priority boosting.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:40 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney b08ea27d95 rcu: Protect rcu_boost() lockless accesses with ACCESS_ONCE()
This commit prevents random compiler optimizations by applying
ACCESS_ONCE() to lockless accesses.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:39 -08:00
Lai Jiangshan 5a43b88e98 rcu: Remove "select IRQ_WORK" from config TREE_RCU
The 48a7639ce8 ("rcu: Make callers awaken grace-period kthread")
removed the irq_work_queue(), so the TREE_RCU doesn't need
irq work any more.  This commit therefore updates RCU's Kconfig and

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:01:17 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 41050a0096 rcu: Fix rcu_barrier() race that could result in too-short wait
The rcu_barrier() no-callbacks check for no-CBs CPUs has race conditions.
It checks a given CPU's lists of callbacks, and if all three no-CBs lists
are empty, ignores that CPU.  However, these three lists could potentially
be empty even when callbacks are present if the check executed just as
the callbacks were being moved from one list to another.  It turns out
that recent versions of rcutorture can spot this race.

This commit plugs this hole by consolidating the per-list counts of
no-CBs callbacks into a single count, which is incremented before
the corresponding callback is posted and after it is invoked.  Then
rcu_barrier() checks this single count to reliably determine whether
the corresponding CPU has no-CBs callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:01:15 -08:00
Lai Jiangshan 5f6130fa52 tiny_rcu: Directly force QS when call_rcu_[bh|sched]() on idle_task
For RCU in UP, context-switch = QS = GP, thus we can force a
context-switch when any call_rcu_[bh|sched]() is happened on idle_task.
After doing so, rcu_idle/irq_enter/exit() are useless, so we can simply
make these functions empty.

More important, this change does not change the functionality logically.
Note: raise_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ)/rcu_sched_qs() in rcu_idle_enter() and
outmost rcu_irq_exit() will have to wake up the ksoftirqd
(due to in_interrupt() == 0).

Before this patch		After this patch:
call_rcu_sched() in idle;	call_rcu_sched() in idle
				  set resched
do other stuffs;		do other stuffs
outmost rcu_irq_exit()		outmost rcu_irq_exit() (empty function)
  (or rcu_idle_enter())		  (or rcu_idle_enter(), also empty function)
				start to resched. (see above)
  rcu_sched_qs()		rcu_sched_qs()
    QS,and GP and advance cb	  QS,and GP and advance cb
    wake up the ksoftirqd	    wake up the ksoftirqd
      set resched
resched to ksoftirqd (or other)	resched to ksoftirqd (or other)

These two code patches are almost the same.

Size changed after patched:

size kernel/rcu/tiny-old.o kernel/rcu/tiny-patched.o
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   3449	    206	      8	   3663	    e4f	kernel/rcu/tiny-old.o
   2406	    144	      8	   2558	    9fe	kernel/rcu/tiny-patched.o

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:01:12 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 924df8a011 rcu: Fix invoke_rcu_callbacks() comment
Despite what the comment says, it is only softirqs that are disabled,
not interrupts.  This commit therefore fixes the comment.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-12-30 17:40:19 -08:00
Alexander Gordeev ca9558a33f rcu: Remove redundant rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle() from tiny RCU
Let's start assuming that something in the idle loop posts a callback,
and scheduling-clock interrupt occurs:

1. The system is idle and stays that way, no runnable tasks.

2. Scheduling-clock interrupt occurs, rcu_check_callbacks() is called
   as result, which in turn calls rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle().

3. rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle() reports the CPU was interrupted from
   idle, which results in rcu_sched_qs() call, which does a
   raise_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ).

4. Upon return from interrupt, rcu_irq_exit() is invoked, which calls
   rcu_idle_enter_common(), which in turn calls rcu_sched_qs() again,
   which does another raise_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ).

5. The softirq happens shortly and invokes rcu_process_callbacks(),
   which invokes __rcu_process_callbacks().

6. So now callbacks can be invoked. At least they can be if
   ->donetail has been updated. Which it will have been because
   rcu_sched_qs() invokes rcu_qsctr_help().

In the described scenario rcu_sched_qs() and raise_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ)
get called twice in steps 3 and 4. This redundancy could be eliminated
by removing rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle() function.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-12-30 17:40:18 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 734d168013 rcu: Make rcu_nmi_enter() handle nesting
The x86 architecture has multiple types of NMI-like interrupts: real
NMIs, machine checks, and, for some values of NMI-like, debugging
and breakpoint interrupts.  These interrupts can nest inside each
other.  Andy Lutomirski is adding RCU support to these interrupts,
so rcu_nmi_enter() and rcu_nmi_exit() must now correctly handle nesting.

This commit therefore introduces nesting, using a clever NMI-coordination
algorithm suggested by Andy.  The trick is to atomically increment
->dynticks (if needed) before manipulating ->dynticks_nmi_nesting on entry
(and, accordingly, after on exit).  In addition, ->dynticks_nmi_nesting
is incremented by one if ->dynticks was incremented and by two otherwise.
This means that when rcu_nmi_exit() sees ->dynticks_nmi_nesting equal
to one, it knows that ->dynticks must be atomically incremented.

This NMI-coordination algorithms has been validated by the following
Promela model:

------------------------------------------------------------------------

/*
 * Promela model for Andy Lutomirski's suggested change to rcu_nmi_enter()
 * that allows nesting.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, you can access it online at
 * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html.
 *
 * Copyright IBM Corporation, 2014
 *
 * Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
 */

byte dynticks_nmi_nesting = 0;
byte dynticks = 0;

/*
 * Promela verision of rcu_nmi_enter().
 */
inline rcu_nmi_enter()
{
	byte incby;
	byte tmp;

	incby = BUSY_INCBY;
	assert(dynticks_nmi_nesting >= 0);
	if
	:: (dynticks & 1) == 0 ->
		atomic {
			dynticks = dynticks + 1;
		}
		assert((dynticks & 1) == 1);
		incby = 1;
	:: else ->
		skip;
	fi;
	tmp = dynticks_nmi_nesting;
	tmp = tmp + incby;
	dynticks_nmi_nesting = tmp;
	assert(dynticks_nmi_nesting >= 1);
}

/*
 * Promela verision of rcu_nmi_exit().
 */
inline rcu_nmi_exit()
{
	byte tmp;

	assert(dynticks_nmi_nesting > 0);
	assert((dynticks & 1) != 0);
	if
	:: dynticks_nmi_nesting != 1 ->
		tmp = dynticks_nmi_nesting;
		tmp = tmp - BUSY_INCBY;
		dynticks_nmi_nesting = tmp;
	:: else ->
		dynticks_nmi_nesting = 0;
		atomic {
			dynticks = dynticks + 1;
		}
		assert((dynticks & 1) == 0);
	fi;
}

/*
 * Base-level NMI runs non-atomically.  Crudely emulates process-level
 * dynticks-idle entry/exit.
 */
proctype base_NMI()
{
	byte busy;

	busy = 0;
	do
	::	/* Emulate base-level dynticks and not. */
		if
		:: 1 ->	atomic {
				dynticks = dynticks + 1;
			}
			busy = 1;
		:: 1 ->	skip;
		fi;

		/* Verify that we only sometimes have base-level dynticks. */
		if
		:: busy == 0 -> skip;
		:: busy == 1 -> skip;
		fi;

		/* Model RCU's NMI entry and exit actions. */
		rcu_nmi_enter();
		assert((dynticks & 1) == 1);
		rcu_nmi_exit();

		/* Emulated re-entering base-level dynticks and not. */
		if
		:: !busy -> skip;
		:: busy ->
			atomic {
				dynticks = dynticks + 1;
			}
			busy = 0;
		fi;

		/* We had better now be in dyntick-idle mode. */
		assert((dynticks & 1) == 0);
	od;
}

/*
 * Nested NMI runs atomically to emulate interrupting base_level().
 */
proctype nested_NMI()
{
	do
	::	/*
		 * Use an atomic section to model a nested NMI.  This is
		 * guaranteed to interleave into base_NMI() between a pair
		 * of base_NMI() statements, just as a nested NMI would.
		 */
		atomic {
			/* Verify that we only sometimes are in dynticks. */
			if
			:: (dynticks & 1) == 0 -> skip;
			:: (dynticks & 1) == 1 -> skip;
			fi;

			/* Model RCU's NMI entry and exit actions. */
			rcu_nmi_enter();
			assert((dynticks & 1) == 1);
			rcu_nmi_exit();
		}
	od;
}

init {
	run base_NMI();
	run nested_NMI();
}

------------------------------------------------------------------------

The following script can be used to run this model if placed in
rcu_nmi.spin:

------------------------------------------------------------------------

if ! spin -a rcu_nmi.spin
then
	echo Spin errors!!!
	exit 1
fi
if ! cc -DSAFETY -o pan pan.c
then
	echo Compilation errors!!!
	exit 1
fi
./pan -m100000

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-12-30 17:40:16 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 9ea6c58856 Merge branches 'torture.2014.11.03a', 'cpu.2014.11.03a', 'doc.2014.11.13a', 'fixes.2014.11.13a', 'signal.2014.10.29a' and 'rt.2014.10.29a' into HEAD
cpu.2014.11.03a: Changes for per-CPU variables.
doc.2014.11.13a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2014.11.13a: Miscellaneous fixes.
signal.2014.10.29a: Signal changes.
rt.2014.10.29a: Real-time changes.
torture.2014.11.03a: torture-test changes.
2014-11-13 10:39:04 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 60ced4950c rcu: Fix FIXME in rcu_tasks_kthread()
This commit affines rcu_tasks_kthread() to the housekeeping CPUs
in CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL builds.  This is just a default, so systems
administrators are free to put this kthread somewhere else if they wish.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-11-13 10:35:41 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney b8969d1a50 rcutorture: Fix rcu_torture_cbflood() memory leak
Commit 38706bc5a2 (rcutorture: Add callback-flood test) vmalloc()ed
a bunch of RCU callbacks, but failed to free them.  This commit fixes
that oversight.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03 19:26:41 -08:00
Pranith Kumar aa23c6fbc5 rcutorture: Add early boot self tests
Add early boot self tests for RCU under CONFIG_PROVE_RCU.

Currently the only test is adding a dummy callback which increments a counter
which we then later verify after calling rcu_barrier*().

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-11-03 19:26:37 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 8fa7845df5 rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_cleanup_after_idle()
The "cpu" argument to rcu_cleanup_after_idle() is always the current
CPU, so drop it.  This moves the smp_processor_id() from the caller to
rcu_cleanup_after_idle(), saving argument-passing overhead.  Again,
the anticipated cross-CPU uses of these functions has been replaced
by NO_HZ_FULL.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03 19:20:56 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 198bbf8127 rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_prepare_for_idle()
The "cpu" argument to rcu_prepare_for_idle() is always the current
CPU, so drop it.  This in turn allows two of the uses of "cpu" in
this function to be replaced with a this_cpu_ptr() and the third by
smp_processor_id(), replacing that of the call to rcu_prepare_for_idle().
Again, the anticipated cross-CPU uses of these functions has been replaced
by NO_HZ_FULL.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03 19:20:49 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney aa6da5140b rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_needs_cpu()
The "cpu" argument to rcu_needs_cpu() is always the current CPU, so drop
it.  This in turn allows the "cpu" argument to rcu_cpu_has_callbacks()
to be removed, which allows the uses of "cpu" in both functions to be
replaced with a this_cpu_ptr().  Again, the anticipated cross-CPU uses
of these functions has been replaced by NO_HZ_FULL.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03 19:20:43 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 38200cf247 rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_note_context_switch()
The "cpu" argument to rcu_note_context_switch() is always the current
CPU, so drop it.  This in turn allows the "cpu" argument to
rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() to be removed, which allows the sole
use of "cpu" in both functions to be replaced with a this_cpu_ptr().
Again, the anticipated cross-CPU uses of these functions has been
replaced by NO_HZ_FULL.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03 19:20:34 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 86aea0e6e7 rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_preempt_check_callbacks()
Because rcu_preempt_check_callbacks()'s argument is guaranteed to
always be the current CPU, drop the argument and replace per_cpu()
with __this_cpu_read().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03 19:20:26 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney e3950ecd55 rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_pending()
Because rcu_pending()'s argument is guaranteed to always be the current
CPU, drop the argument and replace per_cpu_ptr() with this_cpu_ptr().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03 19:20:18 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney c3377c2da6 rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_check_callbacks()
The "cpu" argument was kept around on the off-chance that RCU might
offload scheduler-clock interrupts.  However, this offload approach
has been replaced by NO_HZ_FULL, which offloads -all- RCU processing
from qualifying CPUs.  It is therefore time to remove the "cpu" argument
to rcu_check_callbacks(), which this commit does.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03 19:20:11 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 11bbb235c2 rcu: Use DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED for rcu_data
The rcu_data per-CPU variable has a number of fields that are atomically
manipulated, potentially by any CPU.  This situation can result in false
sharing with per-CPU variables that have the misfortune of being allocated
adjacent to rcu_data in memory.  This commit therefore changes the
DEFINE_PER_CPU() to DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED() in order to avoid
this false sharing.

Reported-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03 19:20:03 -08:00
Christoph Lameter 28ced795cb rcu: Remove rcu_dynticks * parameters when they are always this_cpu_ptr(&rcu_dynticks)
For some functions in kernel/rcu/tree* the rdtp parameter is always
this_cpu_ptr(rdtp).  Remove the parameter if constant and calculate the
pointer in function.

This will have the advantage that it is obvious that the address are
all per cpu offsets and thus it will enable the use of this_cpu_ops in
the future.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
[ paulmck: Forward-ported to rcu/dev, whitespace adjustment. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03 19:19:26 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney bbe5d7a93a rcu: Fix for rcuo online-time-creation reorganization bug
Commit 35ce7f29a4 (rcu: Create rcuo kthreads only for onlined CPUs)
contains checks for the case where CPUs are brought online out of
order, re-wiring the rcuo leader-follower relationships as needed.
Unfortunately, this rewiring was broken.  This apparently went undetected
due to the tendency of systems to bring CPUs online in order.  This commit
nevertheless fixes the rewiring.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-10-29 10:20:08 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 776d680711 rcu: Kick rcuo kthreads after their CPU goes offline
If a no-CBs CPU were to post an RCU callback with interrupts disabled
after it entered the idle loop for the last time, there might be no
deferred wakeup for the corresponding rcuo kthreads.  This commit
therefore adds a set of calls to do_nocb_deferred_wakeup() after the
CPU has gone completely offline.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-10-29 10:20:07 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 28f6569ab7 rcu: Remove redundant TREE_PREEMPT_RCU config option
PREEMPT_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU serve the same function after
TINY_PREEMPT_RCU has been removed. This patch removes TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
and uses PREEMPT_RCU config option in its place.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-10-29 10:20:05 -07:00
Clark Williams 21871d7eff rcu: Unify boost and kthread priorities
Rename CONFIG_RCU_BOOST_PRIO to CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO and use this
value for both the per-CPU kthreads (rcuc/N) and the rcu boosting
threads (rcub/n).

Also, create the module_parameter rcutree.kthread_prio to be used on
the kernel command line at boot to set a new value (rcutree.kthread_prio=N).

Signed-off-by: Clark Williams <clark.williams@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Ported to rcu/dev, applied Paul Bolle and Peter Zijlstra feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-10-29 10:19:41 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney e0775cefb5 rcu: Avoid IPIing idle CPUs from synchronize_sched_expedited()
Currently, synchronize_sched_expedited() sends IPIs to all online CPUs,
even those that are idle or executing in nohz_full= userspace.  Because
idle CPUs and nohz_full= userspace CPUs are in extended quiescent states,
there is no need to IPI them in the first place.  This commit therefore
avoids IPIing CPUs that are already in extended quiescent states.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-10-28 13:49:30 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 61cfd0970e rcu: Move RCU_BOOST variable declarations, eliminating #ifdef
There are some RCU_BOOST-specific per-CPU variable declarations that
are needlessly defined under #ifdef in kernel/rcu/tree.c.  This commit
therefore moves these declarations into a pre-existing #ifdef in
kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-10-28 13:49:28 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 0eafa46823 rcu: Remove CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE
The CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE Kconfig parameter causes preemptible
RCU's CPU stall warnings to dump out any preempted tasks that are blocking
the current RCU grace period.  This information is useful, and the default
has been CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE=y for some years.  It is therefore
time for this commit to remove this Kconfig parameter, so that future
kernel builds will always act as if CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE=y.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-10-28 13:48:13 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney d7e2993396 rcu: Make rcu_barrier() understand about missing rcuo kthreads
Commit 35ce7f29a4 (rcu: Create rcuo kthreads only for onlined CPUs)
avoids creating rcuo kthreads for CPUs that never come online.  This
fixes a bug in many instances of firmware: Instead of lying about their
age, these systems instead lie about the number of CPUs that they have.
Before commit 35ce7f29a4, this could result in huge numbers of useless
rcuo kthreads being created.

It appears that experience indicates that I should have told the
people suffering from this problem to fix their broken firmware, but
I instead produced what turned out to be a partial fix.   The missing
piece supplied by this commit makes sure that rcu_barrier() knows not to
post callbacks for no-CBs CPUs that have not yet come online, because
otherwise rcu_barrier() will hang on systems having firmware that lies
about the number of CPUs.

It is tempting to simply have rcu_barrier() refuse to post a callback on
any no-CBs CPU that does not have an rcuo kthread.  This unfortunately
does not work because rcu_barrier() is required to wait for all pending
callbacks.  It is therefore required to wait even for those callbacks
that cannot possibly be invoked.  Even if doing so hangs the system.

Given that posting a callback to a no-CBs CPU that does not yet have an
rcuo kthread can hang rcu_barrier(), It is tempting to report an error
in this case.  Unfortunately, this will result in false positives at
boot time, when it is perfectly legal to post callbacks to the boot CPU
before the scheduler has started, in other words, before it is legal
to invoke rcu_barrier().

So this commit instead has rcu_barrier() avoid posting callbacks to
CPUs having neither rcuo kthread nor pending callbacks, and has it
complain bitterly if it finds CPUs having no rcuo kthread but some
pending callbacks.  And when rcu_barrier() does find CPUs having no rcuo
kthread but pending callbacks, as noted earlier, it has no choice but
to hang indefinitely.

Reported-by: Yanko Kaneti <yaneti@declera.com>
Reported-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Reported-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com>
Tested-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Yanko Kaneti <yaneti@declera.com>
Tested-by: Kevin Fenzi <kevin@scrye.com>
Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
2014-10-28 13:24:13 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney dd56af42bd rcu: Eliminate deadlock between CPU hotplug and expedited grace periods
Currently, the expedited grace-period primitives do get_online_cpus().
This greatly simplifies their implementation, but means that calls
to them holding locks that are acquired by CPU-hotplug notifiers (to
say nothing of calls to these primitives from CPU-hotplug notifiers)
can deadlock.  But this is starting to become inconvenient, as can be
seen here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/5/754.  The problem in this
case is that some developers need to acquire a mutex from a CPU-hotplug
notifier, but also need to hold it across a synchronize_rcu_expedited().
As noted above, this currently results in deadlock.

This commit avoids the deadlock and retains the simplicity by creating
a try_get_online_cpus(), which returns false if the get_online_cpus()
reference count could not immediately be incremented.  If a call to
try_get_online_cpus() returns true, the expedited primitives operate as
before.  If a call returns false, the expedited primitives fall back to
normal grace-period operations.  This falling back of course results in
increased grace-period latency, but only during times when CPU hotplug
operations are actually in flight.  The effect should therefore be
negligible during normal operation.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Tested-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
2014-09-18 16:22:27 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 59da22a020 rcutorture: Rename rcutorture_runnable parameter
This commit changes rcutorture_runnable to torture_runnable, which is
consistent with the names of the other parameters and is a bit shorter
as well.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-16 13:41:44 -07:00
Davidlohr Bueso d36a7a0d5e torture: Address race in module cleanup
When performing module cleanups by calling torture_cleanup() the
'torture_type' string in nullified However, callers are not necessarily
done, and might still need to reference the variable. This impacts
both rcutorture and locktorture, causing printing things like:

[   94.226618] (null)-torture: Stopping lock_torture_writer task
[   94.226624] (null)-torture: Stopping lock_torture_stats task

Thus delay this operation until the very end of the cleanup process.
The consequence (which shouldn't matter for this kid of program) is,
of course, that we delay the window between rmmod and modprobing,
for instance in module_torture_begin().

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-16 13:41:06 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 96b4672703 Merge branch 'rcu-tasks.2014.09.10a' into HEAD
rcu-tasks.2014.09.10a: Add RCU-tasks flavor of RCU.
2014-09-16 10:10:44 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney e98d06dd6c Merge branches 'doc.2014.09.07a', 'fixes.2014.09.10a', 'nocb-nohz.2014.09.16b' and 'torture.2014.09.07a' into HEAD
doc.2014.09.07a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2014.09.10a: Miscellaneous fixes.
nocb-nohz.2014.09.16b: No-CBs CPUs and NO_HZ_FULL updates.
torture.2014.09.07a: Torture-test updates.
2014-09-16 10:08:34 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney c847f14217 rcu: Avoid misordering in nocb_leader_wait()
The NOCB follower wakeup ordering depends on the store to the tail
pointer happening before the wakeup.  However, because atomic_long_add()
does not return a value, it does not provide ordering guarantees, and
the locking in wake_up() only guarantees that the store will happen
before the unlock, which might be too late.  Even though this is only a
theoretical issue, this commit adds a smp_mb__after_atomic() after the
final atomic_long_add() to provide the needed ordering guarantee.

Reported-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:03 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 1772947bd0 rcu: Handle NOCB callbacks from irq-disabled idle code
If an RCU callback is queued on a no-CBs CPU from idle code with irqs
disabled, and if that CPU stays idle forever after, the callback will
never be invoked.  This commit therefore adds a check for this situation
in ____call_rcu_nocb(), invoking the RCU core solely for the purpose
of the ensuing return-to-idle transition.  (If the CPU doesn't return
to idle, the next scheduling-clock interrupt will fix things up.)

Reported-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:03 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 39953dfd40 rcu: Avoid misordering in __call_rcu_nocb_enqueue()
The NOCB leader wakeup ordering depends on the store to the header
happening before the check for the leader already being awake.  However,
because atomic_long_add() does not return a value, it does not provide
ordering guarantees, the incorrect comment in wake_nocb_leader()
notwithstanding.  This commit therefore adds a smp_mb__after_atomic()
after the final atomic_long_add() to provide the needed ordering
guarantee.

Reported-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:03 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 663e131090 rcu: Don't track sysidle state if no nohz_full= CPUs
If there are no nohz_full= CPUs, then there is currently no reason to
track sysidle state.  This commit therefore short-circuits this state
tracking if !tick_nohz_full_enabled().

Note that these checks will need to be revisited if nohz_full= state
can ever be changed at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:02 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 417e8d2655 rcu: Eliminate redundant rcu_sysidle_state variable
Now that we have rcu_state_p, which references rcu_preempt_state for
TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and rcu_sched_state for TREE_RCU, we don't need a
separate rcu_sysidle_state variable.  This commit therefore eliminates
rcu_preempt_state in favor of rcu_state_p.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:02 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 22c2f66961 rcu: Check for have_rcu_nocb_mask instead of rcu_nocb_mask
If we configure a kernel with CONFIG_NOCB_CPU=y, CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE=y and
CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=n and do not pass in a rcu_nocb= boot parameter, the
cpumask rcu_nocb_mask can be garbage instead of NULL.

Hence this commit replaces checks for rcu_nocb_mask == NULL with a check for
have_rcu_nocb_mask.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:02 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 35ce7f29a4 rcu: Create rcuo kthreads only for onlined CPUs
RCU currently uses for_each_possible_cpu() to spawn rcuo kthreads,
which can result in more rcuo kthreads than one would expect, for
example, derRichard reported 64 CPUs worth of rcuo kthreads on an
8-CPU image.  This commit therefore creates rcuo kthreads only for
those CPUs that actually come online.

This was reported by derRichard on the OFTC IRC network.

Reported-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:02 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 9386c0b75d rcu: Rationalize kthread spawning
Currently, RCU spawns kthreads from several different early_initcall()
functions.  Although this has served RCU well for quite some time,
as more kthreads are added a more deterministic approach is required.
This commit therefore causes all of RCU's early-boot kthreads to be
spawned from a single early_initcall() function.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:01 -07:00
Pranith Kumar f4aa84ba24 rcu: Return false instead of 0 in rcu_nocb_adopt_orphan_cbs()
Return false instead of 0 in rcu_nocb_adopt_orphan_cbs() as this has
bool as return type.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:01 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 4afc7e269b rcu: Use false for return in __call_rcu_nocb()
Return false instead of 0 in __call_rcu_nocb() as this has bool as
return type.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:01 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 0a9e1e111b rcu: Use true/false for return in rcu_nocb_adopt_orphan_cbs()
Return true/false in rcu_nocb_adopt_orphan_cbs() instead of 0/1 as
this function has return type of bool.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:00 -07:00
Pranith Kumar c271d3a957 rcu: Use true/false for return in __call_rcu_nocb()
Return true/false instead of 0/1 in __call_rcu_nocb() as this returns a
bool type.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:00 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 949cccdbe6 rcu: Check the return value of zalloc_cpumask_var()
This commit checks the return value of the zalloc_cpumask_var() used for
allocating cpumask for rcu_nocb_mask.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:00 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney f4579fc57c rcu: Fix attempt to avoid unsolicited offloading of callbacks
Commit b58cc46c5f (rcu: Don't offload callbacks unless specifically
requested) failed to adjust the callback lists of the CPUs that are
known to be no-CBs CPUs only because they are also nohz_full= CPUs.
This failure can result in callbacks that are posted during early boot
getting stranded on nxtlist for CPUs whose no-CBs property becomes
apparent late, and there can also be spurious warnings about offline
CPUs posting callbacks.

This commit fixes these problems by adding an early-boot rcu_init_nohz()
that properly initializes the no-CBs CPUs.

Note that kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y or with
CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=n do not exhibit this bug.  Neither do kernels
booted without the nohz_full= boot parameter.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:07:59 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 284a8c93af rcu: Per-CPU operation cleanups to rcu_*_qs() functions
The rcu_bh_qs(), rcu_preempt_qs(), and rcu_sched_qs() functions use
old-style per-CPU variable access and write to ->passed_quiesce even
if it is already set.  This commit therefore updates to use the new-style
per-CPU variable access functions and avoids the spurious writes.
This commit also eliminates the "cpu" argument to these functions because
they are always invoked on the indicated CPU.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:27:35 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 1d082fd061 rcu: Remove local_irq_disable() in rcu_preempt_note_context_switch()
The rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() function is on a scheduling fast
path, so it would be good to avoid disabling irqs.  The reason that irqs
are disabled is to synchronize process-level and irq-handler access to
the task_struct ->rcu_read_unlock_special bitmask.  This commit therefore
makes ->rcu_read_unlock_special instead be a union of bools with a short
allowing single-access checks in RCU's __rcu_read_unlock().  This results
in the process-level and irq-handler accesses being simple loads and
stores, so that irqs need no longer be disabled.  This commit therefore
removes the irq disabling from rcu_preempt_note_context_switch().

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:27:34 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 4ff475ed4c rcu: Additional information on RCU-tasks stall-warning messages
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:27:33 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 8f20a5e83d rcu: Make rcu_tasks_kthread()'s GP-wait loop allow preemption
The grace-period-wait loop in rcu_tasks_kthread() is under (unnecessary)
RCU protection, and therefore has no preemption points in a PREEMPT=n
kernel.  This commit therefore removes the RCU protection and inserts
cond_resched().

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:27:31 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 176f8f7a52 rcu: Make TASKS_RCU handle nohz_full= CPUs
Currently TASKS_RCU would ignore a CPU running a task in nohz_full=
usermode execution.  There would be neither a context switch nor a
scheduling-clock interrupt to tell TASKS_RCU that the task in question
had passed through a quiescent state.  The grace period would therefore
extend indefinitely.  This commit therefore makes RCU's dyntick-idle
subsystem record the task_struct structure of the task that is running
in dyntick-idle mode on each CPU.  The TASKS_RCU grace period can
then access this information and record a quiescent state on
behalf of any CPU running in dyntick-idle usermode.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:27:30 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 84a8f446ff rcu: Defer rcu_tasks_kthread() creation till first call_rcu_tasks()
It is expected that many sites will have CONFIG_TASKS_RCU=y, but
will never actually invoke call_rcu_tasks().  For such sites, creating
rcu_tasks_kthread() at boot is wasteful.  This commit therefore defers
creation of this kthread until the time of the first call_rcu_tasks().

This of course means that the first call_rcu_tasks() must be invoked
from process context after the scheduler is fully operational.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:27:29 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney c7b24d2b9a rcu: Improve RCU-tasks energy efficiency
The current RCU-tasks implementation uses strict polling to detect
callback arrivals.  This works quite well, but is not so good for
energy efficiency.  This commit therefore replaces the strict polling
with a wait queue.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:27:27 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 52db30ab23 rcu: Add stall-warning checks for RCU-tasks
This commit adds a ten-minute RCU-tasks stall warning.  The actual
time is controlled by the boot/sysfs parameter rcu_task_stall_timeout,
with values less than or equal to zero disabling the stall warnings.
The default value is ten minutes, which means that the tasks that have
not yet responded will get their stacks dumped every ten minutes, until
they pass through a voluntary context switch.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:27:26 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 69c604557c rcutorture: Add torture tests for RCU-tasks
This commit adds torture tests for RCU-tasks.  It also fixes a bug that
would segfault for an RCU flavor lacking a callback-barrier function.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-09-07 16:27:24 -07:00
Steven Rostedt 06c2a9238f rcu: Export RCU-tasks APIs to GPL modules
This commit exports the RCU-tasks synchronous APIs,
synchronize_rcu_tasks() and rcu_barrier_tasks(), to
GPL-licensed kernel modules.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-09-07 16:27:23 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 3f95aa81d2 rcu: Make TASKS_RCU handle tasks that are almost done exiting
Once a task has passed exit_notify() in the do_exit() code path, it
is no longer on the task lists, and is therefore no longer visible
to rcu_tasks_kthread().  This means that an almost-exited task might
be preempted while within a trampoline, and this task won't be waited
on by rcu_tasks_kthread().  This commit fixes this bug by adding an
srcu_struct.  An exiting task does srcu_read_lock() just before calling
exit_notify(), and does the corresponding srcu_read_unlock() after
doing the final preempt_disable().  This means that rcu_tasks_kthread()
can do synchronize_srcu() to wait for all mostly-exited tasks to reach
their final preempt_disable() region, and then use synchronize_sched()
to wait for those tasks to finish exiting.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:27:22 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 53c6d4edf8 rcu: Add synchronous grace-period waiting for RCU-tasks
It turns out to be easier to add the synchronous grace-period waiting
functions to RCU-tasks than to work around their absense in rcutorture,
so this commit adds them.  The key point is that the existence of
call_rcu_tasks() means that rcutorture needs an rcu_barrier_tasks().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:27:21 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney bde6c3aa99 rcu: Provide cond_resched_rcu_qs() to force quiescent states in long loops
RCU-tasks requires the occasional voluntary context switch
from CPU-bound in-kernel tasks.  In some cases, this requires
instrumenting cond_resched().  However, there is some reluctance
to countenance unconditionally instrumenting cond_resched() (see
http://lwn.net/Articles/603252/), so this commit creates a separate
cond_resched_rcu_qs() that may be used in place of cond_resched() in
locations prone to long-duration in-kernel looping.

This commit currently instruments only RCU-tasks.  Future possibilities
include also instrumenting RCU, RCU-bh, and RCU-sched in order to reduce
IPI usage.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:27:20 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 8315f42295 rcu: Add call_rcu_tasks()
This commit adds a new RCU-tasks flavor of RCU, which provides
call_rcu_tasks().  This RCU flavor's quiescent states are voluntary
context switch (not preemption!) and userspace execution (not the idle
loop -- use some sort of schedule_on_each_cpu() if you need to handle the
idle tasks.  Note that unlike other RCU flavors, these quiescent states
occur in tasks, not necessarily CPUs.  Includes fixes from Steven Rostedt.

This RCU flavor is assumed to have very infrequent latency-tolerant
updaters.  This assumption permits significant simplifications, including
a single global callback list protected by a single global lock, along
with a single task-private linked list containing all tasks that have not
yet passed through a quiescent state.  If experience shows this assumption
to be incorrect, the required additional complexity will be added.

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:27:19 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 38706bc5a2 rcutorture: Add callback-flood test
Although RCU is designed to handle arbitrary floods of callbacks, this
capability is not routinely tested.   This commit therefore adds a
cbflood capability in which kthreads repeatedly registers large numbers
of callbacks.  One such kthread is created for each four CPUs (rounding
up), and the test may be controlled by several cbflood_* kernel boot
parameters, which control the number of bursts per flood, the number
of callbacks per burst, the time between bursts, and the time between
floods.  The default values are large enough to exercise RCU's emergency
responses to callback flooding.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-09-07 16:24:48 -07:00
Joe Perches eea203fea3 rcu: Use pr_alert/pr_cont for printing logs
User pr_alert/pr_cont for printing the logs from rcutorture module directly
instead of writing it to a buffer and then printing it. This allows us from not
having to allocate such buffers. Also remove a resulting empty function.

I tested this using the parse-torture.sh script as follows:

$ dmesg | grep torture > log.txt
$ bash parse-torture.sh log.txt test
$

There were no warnings which means that parsing went fine.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:24:47 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 58ade2dbe9 rcutorture: Fix a sparse warning by marking boost_mutex static
This commit fixes the following sparse warning by marking boost_mutex
static:

kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c:185:1: warning: symbol 'boost_mutex' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-09-07 16:24:17 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 73a860cd58 rcu: Replace flush_signals() with WARN_ON(signal_pending())
Currently, when RCU awakens from a wait_event_interruptible() that
might have awakened prematurely, it does a flush_signals(). This is
done on the off-chance that someone figured out how to deliver a signal
to a kthread, which is supposed to be impossible.  Given that this
is supposed to be impossible, this commit changes the flush_signals()
calls into WARN_ON(signal_pending()).

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:18:20 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 2aa792e6fa rcu: Use rcu_gp_kthread_wake() to wake up grace period kthreads
The rcu_gp_kthread_wake() function checks for three conditions before
waking up grace period kthreads:

*  Is the thread we are trying to wake up the current thread?
*  Are the gp_flags zero? (all threads wait on non-zero gp_flags condition)
*  Is there no thread created for this flavour, hence nothing to wake up?

If any one of these condition is true, we do not call wake_up().
It was found that there are quite a few avoidable wake ups both during
idle time and under stress induced by rcutorture.

Idle:

Total:66000, unnecessary:66000, case1:61827, case2:66000, case3:0
Total:68000, unnecessary:68000, case1:63696, case2:68000, case3:0

rcutorture:

Total:254000, unnecessary:254000, case1:199913, case2:254000, case3:0
Total:256000, unnecessary:256000, case1:201784, case2:256000, case3:0

Here case{1-3} are the cases listed above. We can avoid these wake
ups by using rcu_gp_kthread_wake() to conditionally wake up the grace
period kthreads.

There is a comment about an implied barrier supplied by the wake_up()
logic.  This barrier is necessary for the awakened thread to see the
updated ->gp_flags.  This flag is always being updated with the root node
lock held. Also, the awakened thread tries to acquire the root node lock
before reading ->gp_flags because of which there is proper ordering.

Hence this commit tries to avoid calling wake_up() whenever we can by
using rcu_gp_kthread_wake() function.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
CC: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:18:19 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney ade9862470 rcu: Make TINY_RCU tinier by putting error checks under #ifdef
The rcu_idle_enter_common() and rcu_idle_exit_common() functions contain
error checks that have to the best of my knowledge have never triggered
over the past several years.  These are nevertheless valuable when
creating new architectures or doing other low-level changes, so the
checks should not be deleted.  This commit instead places these checks
under #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TRACE so that they are executed only when
specifically requested.

The savings are significant:

	Before:

	   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
	   1749      39       0    1788     6fc /tmp/b/kernel/rcu/tiny.o
	    632     152       0     784     310 /tmp/b/kernel/rcu/update.o
				   ----
				   2572

	After:

	   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
	   1281      37       0    1318     526 /tmp/b/kernel/rcu/tiny.o
	    632     152       0     784     310 /tmp/b/kernel/rcu/update.o
				   ----
				   2102

This amounts to 470 bytes, or 18% of the original.

Switched from #ifdef to IS_ENABLED() on Josh Triplett's advice.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-09-07 16:18:18 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 9fdd3bc900 rcu: Break more call_rcu() deadlock involving scheduler and perf
Commit 96d3fd0d31 (rcu: Break call_rcu() deadlock involving scheduler
and perf) covered the case where __call_rcu_nocb_enqueue() needs to wake
the rcuo kthread due to the queue being initially empty, but did not
do anything for the case where the queue was overflowing.  This commit
therefore also defers wakeup for the overflow case.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:18:17 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 66d701ea7e rcu: Remove stale comment in tree.c
This commit removes a stale comment in rcu/tree.c which was left
out when some code was moved around previously in commit 2036d94a7b
("rcu:  Rework detection of use of RCU by offline CPUs") For reference,
the following updated comment exists a few lines below this which means
the same:

/* Remove the outgoing CPU from the masks in the rcu_node hierarchy. */

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:18:16 -07:00
Pranith Kumar fafb6e843f rcu: Update tiny.c references to tree.c
This commit updates the references to rcutree.c which is now rcu/tree.c

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:18:15 -07:00
Ard Biesheuvel a8a29b3b7b rcu: Define tracepoint strings only if CONFIG_TRACING is set
Commit f7f7bac9cb ("rcu: Have the RCU tracepoints use the tracepoint_string
infrastructure") unconditionally populates the __tracepoint_str input section,
but this section is not assigned an output section if CONFIG_TRACING is not set.
This results in the __tracepoint_str turning up in unexpected places, i.e.,
after _edata.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:18:14 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 85b39d305b rcu: Uninline rcu_read_lock_held()
This commit uninlines rcu_read_lock_held(). According to "size vmlinux"
this saves 28549 in .text:

	- 5541731 3014560 14757888 23314179
	+ 5513182 3026848 14757888 23297918

Note: it looks as if the data grows by 12288 bytes but this is not true,
it does not actually grow. But .data starts with ALIGN(THREAD_SIZE) and
since .text shrinks the padding grows, and thus .data grows too as it
seen by /bin/size. diff System.map:

	- ffffffff81510000 D _sdata
	- ffffffff81510000 D init_thread_union
	+ ffffffff81509000 D _sdata
	+ ffffffff8150c000 D init_thread_union

Perhaps we can change vmlinux.lds.S to .data itself, so that /bin/size
can't "wrongly" report that .data grows if .text shinks.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:18:13 -07:00
Pranith Kumar e02b2edfa1 rcu: Use true/false instead of 1/0 for a bool type
This commit uses true/false instead of 1/0 for bool types in rcu_gp_fqs()
and force_qs_rnp().

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:18:12 -07:00
Pranith Kumar d0bc90fd37 rcu: Return bool type for rcu_try_advance_all_cbs()
Return a bool type instead of 0 in rcu_try_advance_all_cbs().

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:18:10 -07:00
Pranith Kumar f534ed1fd7 rcu: Use bool type for return value in rcu_is_watching()
Use a bool type for return in rcu_is_watching().

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:18:09 -07:00
Pranith Kumar bf33eb1aef rcu: Fix sparse warning about rcu_batches_completed_preempt() being non-static
fix sparse warning about rcu_batches_completed_preempt() being non-static by
marking it as static

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:18:08 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 4de376a1b1 rcu: Remove remaining read-modify-write ACCESS_ONCE() calls
Change the remaining uses of ACCESS_ONCE() so that each ACCESS_ONCE() either does a load or a store, but not both.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:18:07 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 11ed7f934c rcu: Make nocb leader kthreads process pending callbacks after spawning
The nocb callbacks generated before the nocb kthreads are spawned are
enqueued in the nocb queue for later processing. Commit fbce7497ee ("rcu:
Parallelize and economize NOCB kthread wakeups") introduced nocb leader kthreads
which checked the nocb_leader_wake flag to see if there were any such pending
callbacks. A case was reported in which newly spawned leader kthreads were not
processing the pending callbacks as this flag was not set, which led to a boot
hang.

The following commit ensures that the newly spawned nocb kthreads process the
pending callbacks by allowing the kthreads to run immediately after spawning
instead of waiting. This is done by inverting the logic of nocb_leader_wake
tests to nocb_leader_sleep which allows us to use the default initialization of
this flag to 0 to let the kthreads run.

Reported-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Link: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1802899.html
[ paulmck: Backported to v3.17-rc2. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
2014-08-28 05:59:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5bda4f638f Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molar:
 "The main changes:

   - torture-test updates
   - callback-offloading changes
   - maintainership changes
   - update RCU documentation
   - miscellaneous fixes"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
  rcu: Allow for NULL tick_nohz_full_mask when nohz_full= missing
  rcu: Fix a sparse warning in rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp()
  rcu: Fix a sparse warning in rcu_initiate_boost()
  rcu: Fix __rcu_reclaim() to use true/false for bool
  rcu: Remove CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAY
  rcu: Use __this_cpu_read() instead of per_cpu_ptr()
  rcu: Don't use NMIs to dump other CPUs' stacks
  rcu: Bind grace-period kthreads to non-NO_HZ_FULL CPUs
  rcu: Simplify priority boosting by putting rt_mutex in rcu_node
  rcu: Check both root and current rcu_node when setting up future grace period
  rcu: Allow post-unlock reference for rt_mutex
  rcu: Loosen __call_rcu()'s rcu_head alignment constraint
  rcu: Eliminate read-modify-write ACCESS_ONCE() calls
  rcu: Remove redundant ACCESS_ONCE() from tick_do_timer_cpu
  rcu: Make rcu node arrays static const char * const
  signal: Explain local_irq_save() call
  rcu: Handle obsolete references to TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
  rcu: Document deadlock-avoidance information for rcu_read_unlock()
  scripts: Teach get_maintainer.pl about the new "R:" tag
  rcu: Update rcu torture maintainership filename patterns
  ...
2014-08-04 15:55:08 -07:00
Josh Triplett e0198b290d Josh has moved
My IBM email addresses haven't worked for years; also map some
old-but-functional forwarding addresses to my canonical address.

Update my GPG key fingerprint; I moved to 4096R a long time ago.

Update description.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2014-07-30 17:16:13 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 187497fa5e rcu: Allow for NULL tick_nohz_full_mask when nohz_full= missing
If there isn't a nohz_full= kernel parameter specified, then
tick_nohz_full_mask can legitimately be NULL.  This can cause
problems when RCU's boot code tries to cpumask_or() this value into
rcu_nocb_mask.  In addition, if NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y, there is no point
in doing the cpumask_or() in the first place because this will cause
RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y, which in turn will have all bits already set in
rcu_nocb_mask.

This commit therefore avoids the cpumask_or() if NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y
and checks for !tick_nohz_full_running otherwise, this latter check
catching cases when there was no nohz_full= kernel parameter specified.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-16 10:44:46 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 1823172ab5 Merge branches 'doc.2014.07.08a', 'fixes.2014.07.09a', 'maintainers.2014.07.08b', 'nocbs.2014.07.07a' and 'torture.2014.07.07a' into HEAD
doc.2014.07.08a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2014.07.09a: Miscellaneous fixes.
maintainers.2014.07.08b: Maintainership updates.
nocbs.2014.07.07a: Callback-offloading fixes.
torture.2014.07.07a: Torture-test updates.
2014-07-09 09:16:54 -07:00
Pranith Kumar b41d1b924d rcu: Fix a sparse warning in rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp()
This commit annotates rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() in order to fix the
following sparse warning:

kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:990:13: warning: context imbalance in 'rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp' - unexpected unlock

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-09 09:15:51 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 615e41c605 rcu: Fix a sparse warning in rcu_initiate_boost()
This commit annotates rcu_initiate_boost() fixes the following sparse
warning:

	kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:1494:13: warning: context imbalance in 'rcu_initiate_boost' - unexpected unlock

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-09 09:15:45 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 406e3e5365 rcu: Fix __rcu_reclaim() to use true/false for bool
The __rcu_reclaim() function returned 0/1, which is not proper for a
function of type bool.  This commit therefore converts to false/true.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-09 09:15:32 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 11992c703a rcu: Remove CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAY
The CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAY Kconfig parameter doesn't appear to be very
effective at finding race conditions, so this commit removes it.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
[ paulmck: Remove definition and uses as noted by Paul Bolle. ]
2014-07-09 09:15:31 -07:00
Shan Wei d860d40327 rcu: Use __this_cpu_read() instead of per_cpu_ptr()
The __this_cpu_read() function produces better code than does
per_cpu_ptr() on both ARM and x86.  For example, gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro
4.7.3-12ubuntu1) 4.7.3 produces the following:

ARMv7 per_cpu_ptr():

force_quiescent_state:
    mov    r3, sp    @,
    bic    r1, r3, #8128    @ tmp171,,
    ldr    r2, .L98    @ tmp169,
    bic    r1, r1, #63    @ tmp170, tmp171,
    ldr    r3, [r0, #220]    @ __ptr, rsp_6(D)->rda
    ldr    r1, [r1, #20]    @ D.35903_68->cpu, D.35903_68->cpu
    mov    r6, r0    @ rsp, rsp
    ldr    r2, [r2, r1, asl #2]    @ tmp173, __per_cpu_offset
    add    r3, r3, r2    @ tmp175, __ptr, tmp173
    ldr    r5, [r3, #12]    @ rnp_old, D.29162_13->mynode

ARMv7 __this_cpu_read():

force_quiescent_state:
    ldr    r3, [r0, #220]    @ rsp_7(D)->rda, rsp_7(D)->rda
    mov    r6, r0    @ rsp, rsp
    add    r3, r3, #12    @ __ptr, rsp_7(D)->rda,
    ldr    r5, [r2, r3]    @ rnp_old, *D.29176_13

Using gcc 4.8.2:

x86_64 per_cpu_ptr():

    movl %gs:cpu_number,%edx    # cpu_number, pscr_ret__
    movslq    %edx, %rdx    # pscr_ret__, pscr_ret__
    movq    __per_cpu_offset(,%rdx,8), %rdx    # __per_cpu_offset, tmp93
    movq    %rdi, %r13    # rsp, rsp
    movq    1000(%rdi), %rax    # rsp_9(D)->rda, __ptr
    movq    24(%rdx,%rax), %r12    # _15->mynode, rnp_old

x86_64 __this_cpu_read():

    movq    %rdi, %r13    # rsp, rsp
    movq    1000(%rdi), %rax    # rsp_9(D)->rda, rsp_9(D)->rda
    movq %gs:24(%rax),%r12    # _10->mynode, rnp_old

Because this change produces significant benefits for these two very
diverse architectures, this commit makes this change.

Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <davidshan@tencent.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-09 09:15:21 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney bc1dce514e rcu: Don't use NMIs to dump other CPUs' stacks
Although NMI-based stack dumps are in principle more accurate, they are
also more likely to trigger deadlocks.  This commit therefore replaces
all uses of trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() with rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(), so
that the CPU detecting an RCU CPU stall does the stack dumping.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-09 09:15:04 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney c0f489d2c6 rcu: Bind grace-period kthreads to non-NO_HZ_FULL CPUs
Binding the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping CPU resulted in
significant performance decreases for some workloads.  For more detail,
see:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/3/395 for benchmark numbers

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/4/218 for CPU statistics

It turns out that it is necessary to bind the grace-period kthreads
to the timekeeping CPU only when all but CPU 0 is a nohz_full CPU
on the one hand or if CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=y on the other.
In other cases, it suffices to bind the grace-period kthreads to the
set of non-nohz_full CPUs.

This commit therefore creates a tick_nohz_not_full_mask that is the
complement of tick_nohz_full_mask, and then binds the grace-period
kthread to the set of CPUs indicated by this new mask, which covers
the CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=n case.  The CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=y
case still binds the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping CPU.
This commit also includes the tick_nohz_full_enabled() check suggested
by Frederic Weisbecker.

Reported-by: Jet Chen <jet.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Created housekeeping_affine() and housekeeping_mask per
  fweisbec feedback. ]
2014-07-09 09:15:02 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney abaa93d9e1 rcu: Simplify priority boosting by putting rt_mutex in rcu_node
RCU priority boosting currently checks for boosting via a pointer in
task_struct.  However, this is not needed: As Oleg noted, if the
rt_mutex is placed in the rcu_node instead of on the booster's stack,
the boostee can simply check it see if it owns the lock.  This commit
makes this change, shrinking task_struct by one pointer and the kernel
by thirteen lines.

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-09 09:15:01 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 48bd8e9b82 rcu: Check both root and current rcu_node when setting up future grace period
The rcu_start_future_gp() function checks the current rcu_node's ->gpnum
and ->completed twice, once without ACCESS_ONCE() and once with it.
Which is pointless because we hold that rcu_node's ->lock at that point.
The intent was to check the current rcu_node structure and the root
rcu_node structure, the latter locklessly with ACCESS_ONCE().  This
commit therefore makes that change.

The reason that it is safe to locklessly check the root rcu_nodes's
->gpnum and ->completed fields is that we hold the current rcu_node's
->lock, which constrains the root rcu_node's ability to change its
->gpnum and ->completed fields.  Of course, if there is a single rcu_node
structure, then rnp_root==rnp, and holding the lock prevents all changes.
If there is more than one rcu_node structure, then the code updates the
fields in the following order:

1.	Increment rnp_root->gpnum to start new grace period.
2.	Increment rnp->gpnum to initialize the current rcu_node,
	continuing initialization for the new grace period.
3.	Increment rnp_root->completed to end the current grace period.
4.	Increment rnp->completed to continue cleaning up after the
	old grace period.

So there are four possible combinations of relative values of these
four fields:

N   N   N   N:  RCU idle, new grace period must be initiated.
		Although rnp_root->gpnum might be incremented immediately
		after we check, that will just result in unnecessary work.
		The grace period already started, and we try to start it.

N+1 N   N   N:  RCU grace period just started.  No further change is
		possible because we hold rnp->lock, so the checks of
		rnp_root->gpnum and rnp_root->completed are stable.
		We know that our request for a future grace period will
		be seen during grace-period cleanup.

N+1 N   N+1 N:  RCU grace period is ongoing.  Because rnp->gpnum is
		different than rnp->completed, we won't even look at
		rnp_root->gpnum and rnp_root->completed, so the possible
		concurrent change to rnp_root->completed does not matter.
		We know that our request for a future grace period will
		be seen during grace-period cleanup, which cannot pass
		this rcu_node because we hold its ->lock.

N+1 N+1 N+1 N:  RCU grace period has ended, but not yet been cleaned up.
		Because rnp->gpnum is different than rnp->completed, we
		won't look at rnp_root->gpnum and rnp_root->completed, so
		the possible concurrent change to rnp_root->completed does
		not matter.  We know that our request for a future grace
		period will be seen during grace-period cleanup, which
		cannot pass this rcu_node because we hold its ->lock.

Therefore, despite initial appearances, the lockless check is safe.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Update comment to say why the lockless check is safe. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-09 09:15:01 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney dfeb9765ce rcu: Allow post-unlock reference for rt_mutex
The current approach to RCU priority boosting uses an rt_mutex strictly
for its priority-boosting side effects.  The rt_mutex_init_proxy_locked()
function is used by the booster to initialize the lock as held by the
boostee.  The booster then uses rt_mutex_lock() to acquire this rt_mutex,
which priority-boosts the boostee.  When the boostee reaches the end
of its outermost RCU read-side critical section, it checks a field in
its task structure to see whether it has been boosted, and, if so, uses
rt_mutex_unlock() to release the rt_mutex.  The booster can then go on
to boost the next task that is blocking the current RCU grace period.

But reasonable implementations of rt_mutex_unlock() might result in the
boostee referencing the rt_mutex's data after releasing it.  But the
booster might have re-initialized the rt_mutex between the time that the
boostee released it and the time that it later referenced it.  This is
clearly asking for trouble, so this commit introduces a completion that
forces the booster to wait until the boostee has completely finished with
the rt_mutex, thus avoiding the case where the booster is re-initializing
the rt_mutex before the last boostee's last reference to that rt_mutex.

This of course does introduce some overhead, but the priority-boosting
code paths are miles from any possible fastpath, and the overhead of
executing the completion will normally be quite small compared to the
overhead of priority boosting and deboosting, so this should be OK.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-09 09:15:00 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 1146edcbef rcu: Loosen __call_rcu()'s rcu_head alignment constraint
The m68k architecture aligns only to 16-bit boundaries, which can cause
the align-to-32-bits check in __call_rcu() to trigger.  Because there is
currently no known potential need for more than one low-order bit, this
commit loosens the check to 16-bit boundaries.

Reported-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-09 09:14:50 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney a792563bd4 rcu: Eliminate read-modify-write ACCESS_ONCE() calls
RCU contains code of the following forms:

	ACCESS_ONCE(x)++;
	ACCESS_ONCE(x) += y;
	ACCESS_ONCE(x) -= y;

Now these constructs do operate correctly, but they really result in a
pair of volatile accesses, one to do the load and another to do the store.
This can be confusing, as the casual reader might well assume that (for
example) gcc might generate a memory-to-memory add instruction for each
of these three cases.  In fact, gcc will do no such thing.  Also, there
is a good chance that the kernel will move to separate load and store
variants of ACCESS_ONCE(), and constructs like the above could easily
confuse both people and scripts attempting to make that sort of change.
Finally, most of RCU's read-modify-write uses of ACCESS_ONCE() really
only need the store to be volatile, so that the read-modify-write form
might be misleading.

This commit therefore changes the above forms in RCU so that each instance
of ACCESS_ONCE() either does a load or a store, but not both.  In a few
cases, ACCESS_ONCE() was not critical, for example, for maintaining
statisitics.  In these cases, ACCESS_ONCE() has been dispensed with
entirely.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-09 09:14:49 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 4da117cfa7 rcu: Remove redundant ACCESS_ONCE() from tick_do_timer_cpu
In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL, tick_do_timer_cpu is constant
once boot completes.  Thus, there is no need to wrap it in ACCESS_ONCE()
in code that is built only when CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL.  This commit therefore
removes the redundant ACCESS_ONCE().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-09 09:14:35 -07:00
Fabian Frederick b4426b49c6 rcu: Make rcu node arrays static const char * const
Those two arrays are being passed to lockdep_init_map(), which expects
const char *, and are stored in lockdep_map the same way.

Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-09 09:14:34 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney b58cc46c5f rcu: Don't offload callbacks unless specifically requested
Enabling NO_HZ_FULL currently has the side effect of enabling callback
offloading on all CPUs.  This results in lots of additional rcuo kthreads,
and can also increase context switching and wakeups, even in cases where
callback offloading is neither needed nor particularly desirable.  This
commit therefore enables callback offloading on a given CPU only if
specifically requested at build time or boot time, or if that CPU has
been specifically designated (again, either at build time or boot time)
as a nohz_full CPU.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-07 15:13:44 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney fbce7497ee rcu: Parallelize and economize NOCB kthread wakeups
An 80-CPU system with a context-switch-heavy workload can require so
many NOCB kthread wakeups that the RCU grace-period kthreads spend several
tens of percent of a CPU just awakening things.  This clearly will not
scale well: If you add enough CPUs, the RCU grace-period kthreads would
get behind, increasing grace-period latency.

To avoid this problem, this commit divides the NOCB kthreads into leaders
and followers, where the grace-period kthreads awaken the leaders each of
whom in turn awakens its followers.  By default, the number of groups of
kthreads is the square root of the number of CPUs, but this default may
be overridden using the rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride boot parameter.
This reduces the number of wakeups done per grace period by the RCU
grace-period kthread by the square root of the number of CPUs, but of
course by shifting those wakeups to the leaders.  In addition, because
the leaders do grace periods on behalf of their respective followers,
the number of wakeups of the followers decreases by up to a factor of two.
Instead of being awakened once when new callbacks arrive and again
at the end of the grace period, the followers are awakened only at
the end of the grace period.

For a numerical example, in a 4096-CPU system, the grace-period kthread
would awaken 64 leaders, each of which would awaken its 63 followers
at the end of the grace period.  This compares favorably with the 79
wakeups for the grace-period kthread on an 80-CPU system.

Reported-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-07 15:13:44 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 4a81e8328d rcu: Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU
Commit ac1bea8578 (Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent states)
fixed a problem where a CPU looping in the kernel with but one runnable
task would give RCU CPU stall warnings, even if the in-kernel loop
contained cond_resched() calls.  Unfortunately, in so doing, it introduced
performance regressions in Anton Blanchard's will-it-scale "open1" test.
The problem appears to be not so much the increased cond_resched() path
length as an increase in the rate at which grace periods complete, which
increased per-update grace-period overhead.

This commit takes a different approach to fixing this bug, mainly by
moving the RCU-visible quiescent state from cond_resched() to
rcu_note_context_switch(), and by further reducing the check to a
simple non-zero test of a single per-CPU variable.  However, this
approach requires that the force-quiescent-state processing send
resched IPIs to the offending CPUs.  These will be sent only once
the grace period has reached an age specified by the boot/sysfs
parameter rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs, or once the grace period
reaches an age halfway to the point at which RCU CPU stall warnings
will be emitted, whichever comes first.

Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
[ paulmck: Made rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle() as suggested by the
  ktest build robot.  Also fixed smp_mb() comment as noted by
  Oleg Nesterov. ]

Merge with e552592e (Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU)

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-06-23 11:19:32 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 546a9d8519 rcu: Export debug_init_rcu_head() and and debug_init_rcu_head()
Currently, call_rcu() relies on implicit allocation and initialization
for the debug-objects handling of RCU callbacks.  If you hammer the
kernel hard enough with Sasha's modified version of trinity, you can end
up with the sl*b allocators recursing into themselves via this implicit
call_rcu() allocation.

This commit therefore exports the debug_init_rcu_head() and
debug_rcu_head_free() functions, which permits the allocators to allocated
and pre-initialize the debug-objects information, so that there no longer
any need for call_rcu() to do that initialization, which in turn prevents
the recursion into the memory allocators.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Looks-good-to: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
2014-06-23 11:19:29 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 776edb5931 Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next
Pull core locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - reduced/streamlined smp_mb__*() interface that allows more usecases
     and makes the existing ones less buggy, especially in rarer
     architectures

   - add rwsem implementation comments

   - bump up lockdep limits"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  rwsem: Add comments to explain the meaning of the rwsem's count field
  lockdep: Increase static allocations
  arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()
  arch,doc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,xtensa: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,x86: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,tile: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,sparc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,sh: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,score: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,s390: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,powerpc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,parisc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,openrisc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,mn10300: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,mips: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,metag: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,m68k: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,m32r: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,ia64: Convert smp_mb__*()
  ...
2014-06-03 12:57:53 -07:00
Rik van Riel 61f38db3e3 rcu: Provide API to suppress stall warnings while sysrc runs
Some sysrq handlers can run for a long time, because they dump a lot
of data onto a serial console. Having RCU stall warnings pop up in
the middle of them only makes the problem worse.

This commit provides rcu_sysrq_start() and rcu_sysrq_end() APIs to
temporarily suppress RCU CPU stall warnings while a sysrq request is
handled.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
[ paulmck: Fix TINY_RCU build error. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-05-19 10:52:04 -07:00
Uma Sharma e534165bbf rcu: Variable name changed in tree_plugin.h and used in tree.c
The variable and struct both having the name "rcu_state" confuses
sparse in some situations, so this commit changes the variable to
"rcu_state_p" in order to avoid this confusion.  This also makes
things easier for human readers.

Signed-off-by: Uma Sharma <uma.sharma523@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Changed the declaration and several additional uses. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-05-14 11:41:04 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney f5d2a0450d Merge branches 'doc.2014.04.29a', 'fixes.2014.04.29a' and 'torture.2014.05.14a' into HEAD
doc.2014.04.29a:  Documentation updates.
fixes.2014.04.29a:  Miscellaneous fixes.
torture.2014.05.14a:  RCU/Lock torture tests.
2014-05-14 10:57:31 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 5228084eed torture: Check for multiple concurrent torture tests
The torture tests are designed to run in isolation, but do not enforce
this isolation.  This commit therefore checks for concurrent torture
tests, and refuses to start new tests while old tests are running.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-05-14 09:46:29 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 48d684fdad rcutorture: Run rcu_torture_writer at normal priority
There are usually lots of readers and only one writer, so if there has
to be a choice, we would want rcu_torture_writer to win.  This commit
therefore removes the set_user_nice() from rcu_torture_writer().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-05-14 09:46:26 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner 424c1b6820 rcutorture: Add missing destroy_timer_on_stack()
The rcu_torture_reader() function uses an on-stack timer_list structure
which it initializes with setup_timer_on_stack().  However, it fails to
use destroy_timer_on_stack() before exiting, which results in leaking a
tracking object if DEBUG_OBJECTS is enabled.  This commit therefore
invokes destroy_timer_on_stack() to avoid this leakage.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-05-14 09:46:24 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney f0bf8fab4f rcutorture: Explicitly test synchronous grace-period primitives
The original rcu_torture_writer() avoided testing the synchronous
grace-period primitives because they were simply wrappers around
call_rcu() invocations.  The testing of these synchronous primitives
was delegated to the fake writers.  However, there really is no excuse
not to test them, especially in the case of SRCU, where the wrappering
is somewhat more elaborate.  This commit therefore makes the default
rcutorture parameters cause rcu_torture_writer() to include synchronous
grace-period primitives in its testing.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-05-14 09:46:22 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney a48f3fad4f rcutorture: Add tests for get_state_synchronize_rcu()
This commit adds rcutorture testing for get_state_synchronize_rcu()
and cond_synchronize_rcu().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-05-14 09:46:21 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney d0d0606e2c rcutorture: Check for rcu_torture_fqs creation errors
The return value from torture_create_kthread() is currently ignored
when creating the rcu_torture_fqs kthread.  This commit therefore
captures the return value so that it can be tested for errors.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-05-14 09:46:17 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 64e4b43ae0 rcutorture: Make rcu_torture_reader() use cond_resched()
The rcu_torture_reader() function currently uses schedule().  This commit
therefore speeds things up a bit by substituting cond_resched().
This change makes rcu_torture_reader() more CPU-bound, so this commit
also adjusts the number of readers (the "nreaders" module parameter,
which feeds into the "nrealreaders" variable) to allow one CPU to be
free of readers on SMP systems.  The point of this is to increase the
probability that readers will be watching while an updater makes a change.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-05-14 09:46:13 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney ac1bea8578 sched,rcu: Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent states
Given a CPU running a loop containing cond_resched(), with no
other tasks runnable on that CPU, RCU will eventually report RCU
CPU stall warnings due to lack of quiescent states.  Fortunately,
every call to cond_resched() is a perfectly good quiescent state.
Unfortunately, invoking rcu_note_context_switch() is a bit heavyweight
for cond_resched(), especially given the need to disable preemption,
and, for RCU-preempt, interrupts as well.

This commit therefore maintains a per-CPU counter that causes
cond_resched(), cond_resched_lock(), and cond_resched_softirq() to call
rcu_note_context_switch(), but only about once per 256 invocations.
This ratio was chosen in keeping with the relative time constants of
RCU grace periods.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-05-14 09:46:11 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney afea227fd4 rcutorture: Export RCU grace-period kthread wait state to rcutorture
This commit allows rcutorture to print additional state for the
RCU grace-period kthreads in cases where RCU seems reluctant to
start a new grace period.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-05-14 09:46:09 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 945fa9c631 torture: Dump ftrace buffer when the RCU grace period stalls
This commit adds a call to rcutorture_trace_dump() to dump the ftrace
buffer when the RCU grace period stalls in order to help debug the
stall.  Note that this is different than the RCU CPU stall warning,
as it is rcutorture detecting the stall rather than the underlying RCU
implementation.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-05-14 09:46:07 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 589a8f5950 rcutorture: Print negatives for SRCU counter wraparound
The srcu_torture_stats() function prints SRCU's per-CPU c[] array with
an unsigned format, which means that the number one less than zero is
a very large number.  This commit therefore prints this array with a
signed format in order to improve readability of the rcutorture output.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-05-14 09:45:58 -07:00
Rashika Kheria b3b8a4d42b rcutorture: Mark function as static in kernel/rcu/torture.c
Mark functions as static in kernel/rcu/torture.c because they are not
used outside this file.

This eliminates the following warning in kernel/rcu/torture.c:
kernel/rcu/torture.c:902:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘rcutorture_trace_dump’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
kernel/rcu/torture.c:1572:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘rcu_torture_barrier_cbf’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]

Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-05-14 09:45:53 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney ad0dc7f94d rcutorture: Add forward-progress checking for writer
The rcutorture output currently does not distinguish between stalls in
the RCU implementation and stalls in the rcu_torture_writer() kthreads.
This commit therefore adds some diagnostics to help distinguish between
these two conditions, at least for the non-SRCU implementations.  (SRCU
does not provide evidence of update-side forward progress by design.)

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-05-13 11:18:18 -07:00
Christoph Lameter fa07a58f71 rcu: Replace __this_cpu_ptr() uses with raw_cpu_ptr()
__this_cpu_ptr is being phased out.

One special case is increment_cpu_stall_ticks().
A per cpu variable is incremented so use raw_cpu_inc().

Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-04-29 08:45:35 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 8c96ae1dfa rcu: Remove duplicate resched_cpu() declaration
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <pranith@gatech.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-04-29 08:45:29 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney becb41bfe0 rcu: Make large and small sysidle systems use same state machine
Currently, small systems move back into RCU_SYSIDLE_NOT from
RCU_SYSIDLE_SHORT and large systems do not.  This works because moving
aggressively to RCU_SYSIDLE_NOT affects only performance, not correctness,
and on small systems, the performance impact should be negligible.  That
said, this difference does make RCU a bit more complex, and RCU does not
seem to be suffering from any lack of complexity.  This commit therefore
adjusts small-system operation to match that of large systems, so that
the state never moves back to RCU_SYSIDLE_NOT from RCU_SYSIDLE_SHORT.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-04-29 08:45:24 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 5057f55e54 rcu: Bind RCU grace-period kthreads if NO_HZ_FULL
Currently, RCU binds the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping
CPU only if CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=y.  This means that these
kthreads must be bound manually when CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=n and
CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y: Otherwise, these kthreads will induce OS jitter on
random CPUs.  Given that we are trying to reduce the amount of manual
tweaking required to make CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y work nicely, this commit
makes this binding happen when CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, even in cases where
CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=n.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-04-29 08:45:19 -07:00
Andreea-Cristina Bernat a381d757d9 rcu: Merge rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state() with rcu_force_quiescent_state()
This patch merges the function rcu_force_quiescent_state() with
rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state(), using the rcu_state pointer.  Firstly,
the rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state() function is deleted from the file
kernel/rcu/tree.c. Also, the rcu_force_quiescent_state() function that was
calling force_quiescent_state with the argument rcu_preempt_state pointer
was deleted as well.  The new function that combines the old ones uses
the rcu_state pointer and is located after rcu_batches_completed_bh()
in kernel/rcu/tree.c.

Signed-off-by: Andreea-Cristina Bernat <bernat.ada@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-04-29 08:45:07 -07:00
Andreea-Cristina Bernat 495aa969db rcu: Consolidate kfree_call_rcu() to use rcu_state pointer
kfree_call_rcu is defined two times. When defined under CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU,
it uses rcu_preempt_state. Otherwise, it uses rcu_sched_state.
This patch uses the rcu_state_pointer to combine the two definitions into one.
The resulting function is placed after the closing of the preprocessor
conditional CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU.

Signed-off-by: Andreea-Cristina Bernat <bernat.ada@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-04-29 08:45:01 -07:00
Himangi Saraogi 595f3900f6 rcu: Replace NR_CPUS with nr_cpu_ids
This patch replaces NR_CPUS with nr_cpu_ids as NR_CPUS should
consider cpumask_var_t.

Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-04-29 08:44:55 -07:00
Andreea-Cristina Bernat 7941dbdebe rcu: Add event tracing to dyntick_save_progress_counter().
This patch adds event tracing to dyntick_save_progress_counter() in the case
where it returns 1. I used the tracepoint string "dti" because this function
returns 1 in case the CPU is in dynticks idle mode.

Signed-off-by: Andreea-Cristina Bernat <bernat.ada@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-04-29 08:44:49 -07:00
Himangi Saraogi af952b919b rcu: Protect uses of ->jiffies_stall with ACCESS_ONCE()
Some of the accesses to the rcu_state structure's ->jiffies_stall
field are unprotected. This patch protects them with ACCESS_ONCE().
The following coccinelle script was used to acheive this:
/* coccinelle script to protect uses of ->jiffies_stall with ACCESS_ONCE() */
@@
identifier a;
@@
(
	ACCESS_ONCE(a->jiffies_stall)
|
-	a->jiffies_stall
+	ACCESS_ONCE(a->jiffies_stall)
)

Signed-off-by: Himangi Saraogi <himangi774@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-04-29 08:44:41 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 48a7639ce8 rcu: Make callers awaken grace-period kthread
The rcu_start_gp_advanced() function currently uses irq_work_queue()
to defer wakeups of the RCU grace-period kthread.  This deferring
is necessary to avoid RCU-scheduler deadlocks involving the rcu_node
structure's lock, meaning that RCU cannot call any of the scheduler's
wake-up functions while holding one of these locks.

Unfortunately, the second and subsequent calls to irq_work_queue() are
ignored, and the first call will be ignored (aside from queuing the work
item) if the scheduler-clock tick is turned off.  This is OK for many
uses, especially those where irq_work_queue() is called from an interrupt
or softirq handler, because in those cases the scheduler-clock-tick state
will be re-evaluated, which will turn the scheduler-clock tick back on.
On the next tick, any deferred work will then be processed.

However, this strategy does not always work for RCU, which can be invoked
at process level from idle CPUs.  In this case, the tick might never
be turned back on, indefinitely defering a grace-period start request.
Note that the RCU CPU stall detector cannot see this condition, because
there is no RCU grace period in progress.  Therefore, we can (and do!)
see long tens-of-seconds stalls in grace-period handling.  In theory,
we could see a full grace-period hang, but rcutorture testing to date
has seen only the tens-of-seconds stalls.  Event tracing demonstrates
that irq_work_queue() is being called repeatedly to no effect during
these stalls: The "newreq" event appears repeatedly from a task that is
not one of the grace-period kthreads.

In theory, irq_work_queue() might be fixed to avoid this sort of issue,
but RCU's requirements are unusual and it is quite straightforward to pass
wake-up responsibility up through RCU's call chain, so that the wakeup
happens when the offending locks are released.

This commit therefore makes this change.  The rcu_start_gp_advanced(),
rcu_start_future_gp(), rcu_accelerate_cbs(), rcu_advance_cbs(),
__note_gp_changes(), and rcu_start_gp() functions now return a boolean
which indicates when a wake-up is needed.  A new rcu_gp_kthread_wake()
does the wakeup when it is necessary and safe to do so: No self-wakes,
no wake-ups if the ->gp_flags field indicates there is no need (as in
someone else did the wake-up before we got around to it), and no wake-ups
before the grace-period kthread has been created.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-04-29 08:44:07 -07:00
Iulia Manda 4fc5b75537 rcu: Protect uses of jiffies_stall field with ACCESS_ONCE()
Some of the uses of the rcu_state structure's ->jiffies_stall field
do not use ACCESS_ONCE(), despite there being unprotected accesses.
This commit therefore uses the ACCESS_ONCE() macro to protect this field.

Signed-off-by: Iulia Manda <iulia.manda21@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-04-29 08:43:45 -07:00
Iulia Manda 9b67122ae3 rcu: Remove unused rcu_data structure field
The ->preemptible field in rcu_data is only initialized in the function
rcu_init_percpu_data(), and never used.  This commit therefore removes
this field.

Signed-off-by: Iulia Manda <iulia.manda21@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-04-29 08:43:38 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 365187fbc0 rcu: Update cpu_needs_another_gp() for futures from non-NOCB CPUs
In the old days, the only source of requests for future grace periods
was NOCB CPUs.  This has changed: CPUs routinely post requests for
future grace periods in order to promote power efficiency and reduce
OS jitter with minimal impact on grace-period latency.  This commit
therefore updates cpu_needs_another_gp() to invoke rcu_future_needs_gp()
instead of rcu_nocb_needs_gp().  The latter is no longer used, so is
now removed.  This commit also adds tracing for the irq_work_queue()
wakeup case.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-04-29 08:43:32 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 83ebe63ead rcu: Print negatives for stall-warning counter wraparound
The print_other_cpu_stall() and print_cpu_stall() functions print
grace-period numbers using an unsigned format, which means that the number
one less than zero is a very large number.  This commit therefore causes
these numbers to be printed with a signed format in order to improve
readability of the RCU CPU stall-warning output.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-04-29 08:43:26 -07:00
Liu Ping Fan 24342c963a rcu: Fix incorrect notes for code
Signed-off-by: Liu Ping Fan <kernelfans@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-04-29 08:43:19 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 91dc95427a rcu: Protect ->gp_flags accesses with ACCESS_ONCE()
A number of ->gp_flags accesses don't have ACCESS_ONCE(), but all of
the can race against other loads or stores.  This commit therefore
applies ACCESS_ONCE() to the unprotected ->gp_flags accesses.

Reported-by: Alexey Roytman <alexey.roytman@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-04-29 08:42:31 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra 4e857c58ef arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()
Mostly scripted conversion of the smp_mb__* barriers.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-55dhyhocezdw1dg7u19hmh1u@git.kernel.org
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-04-18 14:20:48 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 971eae7c99 Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "Bigger changes:

   - sched/idle restructuring: they are WIP preparation for deeper
     integration between the scheduler and idle state selection, by
     Nicolas Pitre.

   - add NUMA scheduling pseudo-interleaving, by Rik van Riel.

   - optimize cgroup context switches, by Peter Zijlstra.

   - RT scheduling enhancements, by Thomas Gleixner.

  The rest is smaller changes, non-urgnt fixes and cleanups"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (68 commits)
  sched: Clean up the task_hot() function
  sched: Remove double calculation in fix_small_imbalance()
  sched: Fix broken setscheduler()
  sparc64, sched: Remove unused sparc64_multi_core
  sched: Remove unused mc_capable() and smt_capable()
  sched/numa: Move task_numa_free() to __put_task_struct()
  sched/fair: Fix endless loop in idle_balance()
  sched/core: Fix endless loop in pick_next_task()
  sched/fair: Push down check for high priority class task into idle_balance()
  sched/rt: Fix picking RT and DL tasks from empty queue
  trace: Replace hardcoding of 19 with MAX_NICE
  sched: Guarantee task priority in pick_next_task()
  sched/idle: Remove stale old file
  sched: Put rq's sched_avg under CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED
  cpuidle/arm64: Remove redundant cpuidle_idle_call()
  cpuidle/powernv: Remove redundant cpuidle_idle_call()
  sched, nohz: Exclude isolated cores from load balancing
  sched: Fix select_task_rq_fair() description comments
  workqueue: Replace hardcoding of -20 and 19 with MIN_NICE and MAX_NICE
  sys: Replace hardcoding of -20 and 19 with MIN_NICE and MAX_NICE
  ...
2014-03-31 11:21:19 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 765a3f4fed rcu: Provide grace-period piggybacking API
The following pattern is currently not well supported by RCU:

1.	Make data element inaccessible to RCU readers.

2.	Do work that probably lasts for more than one grace period.

3.	Do something to make sure RCU readers in flight before #1 above
	have completed.

Here are some things that could currently be done:

a.	Do a synchronize_rcu() unconditionally at either #1 or #3 above.
	This works, but imposes needless work and latency.

b.	Post an RCU callback at #1 above that does a wakeup, then
	wait for the wakeup at #3.  This works well, but likely results
	in an extra unneeded grace period.  Open-coding this is also
	a bit more semi-tricky code than would be good.

This commit therefore adds get_state_synchronize_rcu() and
cond_synchronize_rcu() APIs.  Call get_state_synchronize_rcu() at #1
above and pass its return value to cond_synchronize_rcu() at #3 above.
This results in a call to synchronize_rcu() if no grace period has
elapsed between #1 and #3, but requires only a load, comparison, and
memory barrier if a full grace period did elapse.

Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2014-03-20 17:12:25 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney f5604f67fe Merge branch 'torture.2014.02.23a' into HEAD
torture.2014.02.23a: locktorture addition and rcutorture changes
2014-02-26 06:38:59 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 322efba5b6 Merge branches 'doc.2014.02.24a', 'fixes.2014.02.26a' and 'rt.2014.02.17b' into HEAD
doc.2014.02.24a: Documentation changes
fixes.2014.02.26a: Miscellaneous fixes
rt.2014.02.17b: Response-time-related changes
2014-02-26 06:36:09 -08:00
Paul Gortmaker 5cb5c6e18f rcu: Ensure kernel/rcu/rcu.h can be sourced/used stand-alone
The kbuild test bot uncovered an implicit dependence on the
trace header being present before rcu.h in ia64 allmodconfig
that looks like this:

In file included from kernel/ksysfs.c:22:0:
kernel/rcu/rcu.h: In function '__rcu_reclaim':
kernel/rcu/rcu.h:107:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'trace_rcu_invoke_kfree_callback' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
kernel/rcu/rcu.h:112:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'trace_rcu_invoke_callback' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]
cc1: some warnings being treated as errors

Looking at other rcu.h users, we can find that they all
were sourcing the trace header in advance of rcu.h itself,
as seen in the context of this diff.  There were also some
inconsistencies as to whether it was or wasn't sourced based
on the parent tracing Kconfig.

Rather than "fix" it at each use site, and have inconsistent
use based on whether "#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TRACE" was used or not,
lets just source the trace header just once, in the actual consumer
of it, which is rcu.h itself.  We include it unconditionally, as
build testing shows us that is a hard requirement for some files.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-02-26 06:35:18 -08:00
Paul Gortmaker 7a75474318 rcu: Fix sparse warning for rcu_expedited from kernel/ksysfs.c
This commit fixes the follwoing warning:

kernel/ksysfs.c:143:5: warning: symbol 'rcu_expedited' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
[ paulmck: Moved the declaration to include/linux/rcupdate.h to avoid
	   including the RCU-internal rcu.h file outside of RCU. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-26 06:35:16 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney ff20e251c4 rcutorture: Add an rcu_busted to test the test
This commit adds a deliberately buggy RCU implementation into rcutorture
to allow easy checking that rcutorture correctly flags buggy RCU
implementations.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23 09:04:30 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney bfefc73aa1 rcutorture: Stop generic kthreads in torture_cleanup()
The specific torture modules (like rcutorture) need to call
torture_cleanup() in any case, so this commit makes torture_cleanup()
deal with torture_shutdown_cleanup() and torture_stutter_cleanup() so
that the specific modules don't have to deal with these details.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23 09:04:27 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 9c029b8609 rcutorture: Abstract torture_stop_kthread()
Stopping of kthreads is not RCU-specific, so this commit abstracts
out torture_stop_kthread(), saving a few lines of code in the process.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23 09:04:25 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 47cf29b9e7 rcutorture: Abstract torture_create_kthread()
Creation of kthreads is not RCU-specific, so this commit abstracts
out torture_create_kthread(), saving a few tens of lines of code in
the process.

This change requires modifying VERBOSE_TOROUT_ERRSTRING() to take a
non-const string, so that _torture_create_kthread() can avoid an
open-coded substitute.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23 09:03:24 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney bc8f83e2c0 rcutorture: Fix missing-return bug in rcu_torture_barrier_init()
This commit adds a missing error return to the code path that creates
the rcu_torture_barrier() kthread.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23 09:03:22 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 7fafaac5b9 rcutorture: Fix rcutorture shutdown races
Not all of the rcutorture kthreads waited for kthread_should_stop()
before returning from their top-level functions, and none of them
used torture_shutdown_absorb() properly.  These problems can result in
segfaults and hangs at shutdown time, and some recent changes perturbed
timing sufficiently to make them much more probable.  This commit
therefore creates a torture_kthread_stopping() function that does the
proper kthread shutdown dance in one centralized location.

Accommodate this grouping by making VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING() capable of
taking a non-const string as its argument, which allows the new
torture_kthread_stopping() to pass its "title" argument directly to
the updated version of VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-02-23 09:03:21 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 14562d1cf1 rcutorture: Announce task creation
A few "stealth-start rcutorture kthreads" have accumulated over the years,
so this commit adds console-log announcements (but only if the torture
tests are running verbose).

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23 09:03:20 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 01025ebc99 rcutorture: Clean up rcu_torture_init() error checking
This commit applies some simple cleanups to rcu_torture_init() error
checking.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23 09:03:19 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney e991dbc077 rcutorture: Abstract torture_shutdown()
Because auto-shutdown of torture testing is not specific to RCU,
this commit moves the auto-shutdown function to kernel/torture.c.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23 09:03:18 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 628edaa506 rcutorture: Abstract stutter_wait()
Because stuttering the test load (stopping and restarting it) is useful
for non-RCU testing, this commit moves the load-stuttering functionality
to kernel/torture.c.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23 09:02:54 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 36970bb91d rcutorture: Privatize fullstop
This commit introduces the torture_must_stop() function in order to
keep use of the fullstop variable local to kernel/torture.c.  There
is also a torture_must_stop_irq() counterpart for use from RCU callbacks,
timeout handlers, and the like.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23 09:01:12 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 4622b487ec rcutorture: Abstract torture_shutdown_notify()
Because handling the race between rmmod and system shutdown is not
specific to RCU, this commit abstracts torture_shutdown_notify(),
placing this code into kernel/torture.c.  This change also allows
fullstop_mutex to be private to kernel/torture.c.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23 09:01:11 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney cc47ae0830 rcutorture: Abstract torture-test cleanup
This commit creates a torture_cleanup() that handles the generic
cleanup actions local to kernel/torture.c.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23 09:01:08 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney b5daa8f3b3 rcutorture: Abstract torture-test initialization
This commit creates torture_init_begin() and torture_init_end() functions
to abstract locking and allow the torture_type and verbose variables
in kernel/torture.o to become static.  With a bit more abstraction,
fullstop_mutex will also become static.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23 09:01:07 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 2e9e8081d2 rcutorture: Abstract torture_onoff()
Because online/offline torturing is not specific to RCU, this commit
abstracts it into the kernel/torture.c module to allow other torture
tests to use it.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23 09:01:06 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 3808dc9fab rcutorture: Abstract torture_shuffle()
The torture_shuffle() function forces each CPU in turn to go idle
periodically in order to check for problems interacting with per-CPU
variables and with dyntick-idle mode.  Because this sort of debugging
is not specific to RCU, this commit abstracts that functionality.
This in turn requires abstracting some additional infrastructure.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23 09:01:05 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney f67a33561e rcutorture: Abstract torture_shutdown_absorb()
Because handling races between rmmod and normal shutdown is not specific
to rcutorture, this commit renames rcutorture_shutdown_absorb() to
torture_shutdown_absorb() and pulls it out into then kernel/torture.c
module.  This implies pulling the fullstop mechanism into kernel/torture.c
as well.

The exporting of fullstop and fullstop_mutex is ugly and must die.
And it does in fact die in later commits that introduce higher-level
APIs that encapsulate both of these variables.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>`
2014-02-23 09:01:04 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney c2884de38e rcutorture: Abstract TOROUT_STRING() and friends
These diagnostic macros are not confined to torturing RCU, so this commit
makes them available to other torture tests.  Also removed the do-while
from TOROUT_STRING() in response to checkpatch complaints.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-02-23 09:01:02 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 5ccf60f23d rcutorture: Rename PRINTK to TOROUT
Since it doesn't do printk()s anymore anyway, this commit renames these
macros from PRINTK to TOROUT (short for torture output).

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23 09:01:01 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 9e25022541 rcutorture: Abstract torture_param()
Create a torture_param() macro and apply it to rcutorture in order to
save a few lines of code.  This same macro may be applied to other
torture frameworks.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-02-23 09:01:00 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 51b1130eb5 rcutorture: Abstract rcu_torture_random()
Because rcu_torture_random() will be used by the locking equivalent to
rcutorture, pull it out into its own module.  This new module cannot
be separately configured, instead, use the Kconfig "select" statement
from the Kconfig options of tests depending on it.

Suggested-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-02-23 09:00:58 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 806274c018 rcutorture: Fix checkpatch complaint
This commit does a code-style cleanup so that the first curly brace
of an initializer does not appear at the beginning of a line.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-02-23 09:00:57 -08:00
Dongsheng Yang d277d868da rcu: Use MAX_NICE to replace hardcoding of 19
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5b3bf232f41b33ab703a1595e94671b303e2d1fc.1392103744.git.yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-22 18:15:24 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney f1f399d128 rcu: Optimize RCU_FAST_NO_HZ for RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
If CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y, then no CPU will ever have RCU callbacks
because these callbacks will instead be handled by the rcuo kthreads.
However, the current version of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ nevertheless checks for RCU
callbacks.  This commit therefore creates static inline implementations
of rcu_prepare_for_idle() and rcu_cleanup_after_idle() that are no-ops
when CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-17 16:03:33 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney ffa83fb565 rcu: Optimize rcu_needs_cpu() for RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
If CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y, then rcu_needs_cpu() will always
return false, however, the current version nevertheless checks
for RCU callbacks.  This commit therefore creates a static inline
implementation of rcu_needs_cpu() that unconditionally returns false
when CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-17 16:03:09 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 2f33b512a5 rcu: Optimize rcu_is_nocb_cpu() for RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
If CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y, then rcu_is_nocb_cpu() will always
return true, however, the current version nevertheless checks
rcu_nocb_mask.  This commit therefore creates a static inline
implementation of rcu_is_nocb_cpu() that unconditionally returns
true when CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-17 15:32:48 -08:00
Shaibal Dutta ae1670339c rcu: Move SRCU grace period work to power efficient workqueue
For better use of CPU idle time, allow the scheduler to select the CPU
on which the SRCU grace period work would be scheduled. This improves
idle residency time and conserves power.

This functionality is enabled when CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT is selected.

Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Shaibal Dutta <shaibal.dutta@broadcom.com>
[zoran.markovic@linaro.org: Rebased to latest kernel version. Added commit
message. Fixed code alignment.]
Signed-off-by: Zoran Markovic <zoran.markovic@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-17 15:02:14 -08:00
Paul Bolle 52e2bb958a rcu: Disambiguate CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPUs
This commit fixes a grammar issue in the rcu_nohz_full_cpu() comment
header, so that it is clear that the plural is CPUs not Kconfig options.

Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-17 15:02:08 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney cb1e78cfa2 rcu: Remove ACCESS_ONCE() from jiffies
Because jiffies is one of a very few variables marked "volatile", there
is no need to use ACCESS_ONCE() when accessing it.  This commit therefore
removes the redundant ACCESS_ONCE() wrappers.

Reported by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-17 15:01:42 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 87de1cfdc5 rcu: Stop tracking FSF's postal address
All of the RCU source files have the usual GPL header, which contains a
long-obsolete postal address for FSF.  To avoid the need to track the
FSF office's movements, this commit substitutes the URL where GPL may
be found.

Reported-by: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-17 15:01:37 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 3660c2813f rcu: Add ACCESS_ONCE() to ->n_force_qs_lh accesses
The ->n_force_qs_lh field is accessed without the benefit of any
synchronization, so this commit adds the needed ACCESS_ONCE() wrappers.
Yes, increments to ->n_force_qs_lh can be lost, but contention should
be low and the field is strictly statistical in nature, so this is not
a problem.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-17 15:01:10 -08:00
Linus Torvalds bf3d846b78 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs
Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "Assorted stuff; the biggest pile here is Christoph's ACL series.  Plus
  assorted cleanups and fixes all over the place...

  There will be another pile later this week"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (43 commits)
  __dentry_path() fixes
  vfs: Remove second variable named error in __dentry_path
  vfs: Is mounted should be testing mnt_ns for NULL or error.
  Fix race when checking i_size on direct i/o read
  hfsplus: remove can_set_xattr
  nfsd: use get_acl and ->set_acl
  fs: remove generic_acl
  nfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure for v3 Posix ACLs
  gfs2: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
  jfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
  xfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
  reiserfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
  ocfs2: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
  jffs2: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
  hfsplus: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
  f2fs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
  ext2/3/4: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
  btrfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure
  fs: make posix_acl_create more useful
  fs: make posix_acl_chmod more useful
  ...
2014-01-28 08:38:04 -08:00
Oleg Nesterov a8d4b8345e introduce __fcheck_files() to fix rcu_dereference_check_fdtable(), kill rcu_my_thread_group_empty()
rcu_dereference_check_fdtable() looks very wrong,

1. rcu_my_thread_group_empty() was added by 844b9a8707 "vfs: fix
   RCU-lockdep false positive due to /proc" but it doesn't really
   fix the problem. A CLONE_THREAD (without CLONE_FILES) task can
   hit the same race with get_files_struct().

   And otoh rcu_my_thread_group_empty() can suppress the correct
   warning if the caller is the CLONE_FILES (without CLONE_THREAD)
   task.

2. files->count == 1 check is not really right too. Even if this
   files_struct is not shared it is not safe to access it lockless
   unless the caller is the owner.

   Otoh, this check is sub-optimal. files->count == 0 always means
   it is safe to use it lockless even if files != current->files,
   but put_files_struct() has to take rcu_read_lock(). See the next
   patch.

This patch removes the buggy checks and turns fcheck_files() into
__fcheck_files() which uses rcu_dereference_raw(), the "unshared"
callers, fget_light() and fget_raw_light(), can use it to avoid
the warning from RCU-lockdep.

fcheck_files() is trivially reimplemented as rcu_lockdep_assert()
plus __fcheck_files().

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-01-25 03:14:36 -05:00
Linus Torvalds a693c46e14 Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 - add RCU torture scripts/tooling
 - static analysis improvements
 - update RCU documentation
 - miscellaneous fixes

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits)
  rcu: Remove "extern" from function declarations in kernel/rcu/rcu.h
  rcu: Remove "extern" from function declarations in include/linux/*rcu*.h
  rcu/torture: Dynamically allocate SRCU output buffer to avoid overflow
  rcu: Don't activate RCU core on NO_HZ_FULL CPUs
  rcu: Warn on allegedly impossible rcu_read_unlock_special() from irq
  rcu: Add an RCU_INITIALIZER for global RCU-protected pointers
  rcu: Make rcu_assign_pointer's assignment volatile and type-safe
  bonding: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER() for better overhead and for sparse
  rcu: Add comment on evaluate-once properties of rcu_assign_pointer().
  rcu: Provide better diagnostics for blocking in RCU callback functions
  rcu: Improve SRCU's grace-period comments
  rcu: Fix CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT for odd fanout/leaf values
  rcu: Fix coccinelle warnings
  rcutorture: Stop tracking FSF's postal address
  rcutorture: Move checkarg to functions.sh
  rcutorture: Flag errors and warnings with color coding
  rcutorture: Record results from repeated runs of the same test scenario
  rcutorture: Test summary at end of run with less chattiness
  rcutorture: Update comment in kvm.sh listing typical RCU trace events
  rcutorture: Add tracing-enabled version of TREE08
  ...
2014-01-20 10:25:12 -08:00
Ingo Molnar bb799d3b98 Linux 3.13-rc4
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Merge tag 'v3.13-rc4' into core/locking

Merge Linux 3.13-rc4, to refresh this rather old tree with the latest fixes.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-12-17 15:27:08 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 73a7ac2808 Merge branch 'rcu/next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull v3.14 RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney.

The main changes:

  * Update RCU documentation.

  * Miscellaneous fixes.

  * Add RCU torture scripts.

  * Static-analysis improvements.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-12-16 11:43:41 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney 6303b9c87d rcu: Apply smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() to preserve grace periods
RCU must ensure that there is the equivalent of a full memory
barrier between any memory access preceding grace period and any
memory access following that same grace period, regardless of
which CPU(s) happen to execute the two memory accesses.
Therefore, downgrading UNLOCK+LOCK to no longer imply a full
memory barrier requires some adjustments to RCU.

This commit therefore adds smp_mb__after_unlock_lock()
invocations as needed after the RCU lock acquisitions that need
to be part of a full-memory-barrier UNLOCK+LOCK.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386799151-2219-7-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-12-16 11:36:16 +01:00
Teodora Baluta bd73a7f5cd rcu: Remove "extern" from function declarations in kernel/rcu/rcu.h
Function prototypes don't need to have the "extern" keyword since this
is the default behavior. Its explicit use is redundant.  This commit
therefore removes them.

Signed-off-by: Teodora Baluta <teobaluta@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-12-12 12:34:17 -08:00
Chen Gang d100895086 rcu/torture: Dynamically allocate SRCU output buffer to avoid overflow
If the rcutorture SRCU output exceeds 4096 bytes, for example, if you
have more than about 75 CPUs, it will overflow the current statically
allocated buffer.  This commit therefore replaces this static buffer
with a dynamically buffer whose size is based on the number of CPUs.

Benefits:

 - Avoids both buffer overflow and output truncation.
 - Handles an arbitrarily large number of CPUs.
 - Straightforward implementation.

Shortcomings:

 - Some memory is wasted:

   1 cpu now comsumes 50 - 60 bytes, and this patch provides 200 bytes.
   Therefore, for 1K CPUs, roughly 100KB of memory will be wasted.
   However, the memory is freed immediately after printing, so this
   wastage should not be a problem in practice.

Testing (Fedora16 2 CPUs, 2GB RAM x86_64):

 - as module, with/without "torture_type=srcu".
 - build-in not boot runnable, with/without "torture_type=srcu".
 - build-in let boot runnable, with/without "torture_type=srcu".

Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-12-12 12:34:16 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney a096932f0c rcu: Don't activate RCU core on NO_HZ_FULL CPUs
Whenever a CPU receives a scheduling-clock interrupt, RCU checks to see
if the RCU core needs anything from this CPU.  If so, RCU raises
RCU_SOFTIRQ to carry out any needed processing.

This approach has worked well historically, but it is undesirable on
NO_HZ_FULL CPUs.  Such CPUs are expected to spend almost all of their time
in userspace, so that scheduling-clock interrupts can be disabled while
there is only one runnable task on the CPU in question.  Unfortunately,
raising any softirq has the potential to wake up ksoftirqd, which would
provide the second runnable task on that CPU, preventing disabling of
scheduling-clock interrupts.

What is needed instead is for RCU to leave NO_HZ_FULL CPUs alone,
relying on the grace-period kthreads' quiescent-state forcing to
do any needed RCU work on behalf of those CPUs.

This commit therefore refrains from raising RCU_SOFTIRQ on any
NO_HZ_FULL CPUs during any grace periods that have been in effect
for less than one second.  The one-second limit handles the case
where an inappropriate workload is running on a NO_HZ_FULL CPU
that features lots of scheduling-clock interrupts, but no idle
or userspace time.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Toasted-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2013-12-12 12:34:15 -08:00
Lai Jiangshan 79a62f957e rcu: Warn on allegedly impossible rcu_read_unlock_special() from irq
After commit #10f39bb1b2c1 (rcu: protect __rcu_read_unlock() against
scheduler-using irq handlers), it is no longer possible to enter
the main body of rcu_read_lock_special() from an NMI, interrupt, or
softirq handler.  In theory, this implies that the check for "in_irq()
|| in_serving_softirq()" must always fail, so that in theory this check
could be removed entirely.

In practice, this commit wraps this condition with a WARN_ON_ONCE().
If this warning never triggers, then the condition will be removed
entirely.

[ paulmck: And one way of triggering the WARN_ON() is if a scheduling
  clock interrupt occurs in an RCU read-side critical section, setting
  RCU_READ_UNLOCK_NEED_QS, which is handled by rcu_read_unlock_special().
  Updated this commit to return if only that bit was set. ]

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-12-12 12:34:00 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 24ef659a85 rcu: Provide better diagnostics for blocking in RCU callback functions
Currently blocking in an RCU callback function will result in
"scheduling while atomic", which could be triggered for any number
of reasons.  To aid debugging, this patch introduces a rcu_callback_map
that is used to tie the inappropriate voluntary context switch back
to the fact that the function is being invoked from within a callback.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-12-09 15:12:39 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney bc72d962d6 rcu: Improve SRCU's grace-period comments
This commit documents the memory-barrier guarantees provided by
synchronize_srcu() and call_srcu().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-12-09 15:12:38 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 04f34650ca rcu: Fix CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT for odd fanout/leaf values
Each element of the rcu_state structure's ->levelspread[] array
is intended to contain the per-level fanout, where the zero-th
element corresponds to the root of the rcu_node tree, and the last
element corresponds to the leaves.  In the CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT
case, this means that the last element should be filled in
from CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF (or from the rcu_fanout_leaf boot
parameter, if provided) and that the remaining elements should
be filled in from CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT.  Unfortunately, the current
code in rcu_init_levelspread() takes the opposite approach, placing
CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF in the zero-th element and CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT in
the remaining elements.

For typical power-of-two values, this generates odd but functional
rcu_node trees.  However, other values, for example CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT=3
and CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF=2, generate trees that can leave some CPUs
out of the grace-period computation, resulting in too-short grace periods
and therefore a broken RCU implementation.

This commit therefore fixes rcu_init_levelspread() to set the last
->levelspread[] array element from CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF and the
remaining elements from CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT, thus generating the
intended rcu_node trees.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-12-09 15:12:38 -08:00
Fengguang Wu f6f7ee9af7 rcu: Fix coccinelle warnings
This commit fixes the following coccinelle warning:

kernel/rcu/tree.c:712:9-10: WARNING: return of 0/1 in function
'rcu_lockdep_current_cpu_online' with return type bool

Return statements in functions returning bool should use
 true/false instead of 1/0.
 Generated by: coccinelle/misc/boolreturn.cocci

Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-12-09 15:12:25 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 3947909814 rcu: Let the world know when RCU adjusts its geometry
Some RCU bugs have been specific to the layout of the rcu_node tree,
but RCU will silently adjust the tree at boot time if appropriate.
This obscures valuable debugging information, so print a message when
this happens.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-12-03 10:10:19 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 4461212aa0 rcu: Fix srcu_barrier() docbook header
The srcu_barrier() docbook header left out the "sp" argument, so this
commit adds that argument's docbook text.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-12-03 10:10:19 -08:00