One of the requirements on RCU grace periods is that if there is a
causal chain of operations that starts after one grace period and
ends before another grace period, then the two grace periods must
be serialized. There has been (and might still be) code that relies
on this, for example, certain types of reference-counting code that
does a call_rcu() within an RCU callback function.
This requirement is why there is an smp_mb() at the end of both
synchronize_sched_expedited() and synchronize_rcu_expedited().
However, this is the only smp_mb() in these functions, so it would
be nicer to consolidate it into rcu_exp_gp_seq_end(). This commit
does just that.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_seq operations were open-coded in _rcu_barrier(), so this commit
replaces the open-coding with the shiny new rcu_seq operations.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit gets rid of synchronize_rcu_expedited()'s mutex_trylock()
polling loop in favor of the funnel-locking scheme that was abstracted
from synchronize_sched_expedited().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The type of "s" has been "long" rather than the correct "unsigned long"
for quite some time. This commit fixes this type error.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit abstracts funnel locking from synchronize_sched_expedited()
so that it may be used by synchronize_rcu_expedited().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Although synchronize_rcu_expedited() uses a sequence-counter scheme, it
is based on a single increment per grace period, which means that tasks
piggybacking off of concurrent grace periods may be forced to wait longer
than necessary. This commit therefore applies the new sequence-count
functions developed for synchronize_sched_expedited() to speed things
up a bit and to consolidate the sequence-counter implementation.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit creates rcu_exp_gp_seq_start() and rcu_exp_gp_seq_end() to
bracket an expedited grace period, rcu_exp_gp_seq_snap() to snapshot the
sequence counter, and rcu_exp_gp_seq_done() to check to see if a full
expedited grace period has elapsed since the snapshot. These will be
applied to synchronize_rcu_expedited(). These are defined in terms of
underlying rcu_seq_start(), rcu_seq_end(), rcu_seq_snap(), rcu_seq_done(),
which will be applied to _rcu_barrier().
One reason that this commit doesn't use the seqcount primitives themselves
is that the smp_wmb() in those primitive is insufficient due to the fact
that expedited grace periods do reads as well as writes. In addition,
the read-side seqcount primitives detect a potentially partial change,
where the expedited primitives instead need a guaranteed full change.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Sequentially stopping the CPUs slows down expedited grace periods by
at least a factor of two, based on rcutorture's grace-period-per-second
rate. This is a conservative measure because rcutorture uses unusually
long RCU read-side critical sections and because rcutorture periodically
quiesces the system in order to test RCU's ability to ramp down to and
up from the idle state. This commit therefore replaces the stop_one_cpu()
with stop_one_cpu_nowait(), using an atomic-counter scheme to determine
when all CPUs have passed through the stopped state.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit gets rid of synchronize_sched_expedited()'s mutex_trylock()
polling loop in favor of a funnel-locking scheme based on the rcu_node
tree. The work-done check is done at each level of the tree, allowing
high-contention situations to be resolved quickly with reasonable levels
of mutex contention.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Now that synchronize_sched_expedited() have a mutex, it can use simpler
work-already-done detection scheme. This commit simplifies this scheme
by using something similar to the sequence-locking counter scheme.
A counter is incremented before and after each grace period, so that
the counter is odd in the midst of the grace period and even otherwise.
So if the counter has advanced to the second even number that is
greater than or equal to the snapshot, the required grace period has
already happened.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The synchronize_sched_expedited() currently invokes try_stop_cpus(),
which schedules the stopper kthreads on each online non-idle CPU,
and waits until all those kthreads are running before letting any
of them stop. This is disastrous for real-time workloads, which
get hit with a preemption that is as long as the longest scheduling
latency on any CPU, including any non-realtime housekeeping CPUs.
This commit therefore switches to using stop_one_cpu() on each CPU
in turn. This avoids inflicting the worst-case scheduling latency
on the worst-case CPU onto all other CPUs, and also simplifies the
code a little bit.
Follow-up commits will simplify the counter-snapshotting algorithm
and convert a number of the counters that are now protected by the
new ->expedited_mutex to non-atomic.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
[ paulmck: Kept stop_one_cpu(), dropped disabling of "guardrails". ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO has been default-y for a couple of
releases with no complaints, so it is time to eliminate this Kconfig
option entirely, so that the long-form RCU CPU stall warnings cannot
be disabled. This commit does just that.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The fact that tasks could be migrated from leaf to root rcu_node
structures meant that synchronize_rcu_expedited() had to disable
CPU hotplug. However, tasks now stay put, so this commit removes the
CPU-hotplug disabling from synchronize_rcu_expedited().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently if the rcu_fanout_leaf boot parameter is out of bounds (that
is, less than RCU_FANOUT_LEAF or greater than the number of bits in an
unsigned long), a warning is issued and execution continues with the
out-of-bounds value. This can result in all manner of failures, so this
patch resets rcu_fanout_leaf to RCU_FANOUT_LEAF when an out-of-bounds
condition is detected.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Because gcc does not realize a loop would not be entered ever
(i.e. in case of rcu_num_lvls == 1):
for (i = 1; i < rcu_num_lvls; i++)
rsp->level[i] = rsp->level[i - 1] + levelcnt[i - 1];
some compiler (pre- 5.x?) versions give a bogus warning:
kernel/rcu/tree.c: In function ‘rcu_init_one.isra.55’:
kernel/rcu/tree.c:4108:13: warning: array subscript is above array bounds [-Warray-bounds]
rsp->level[i] = rsp->level[i - 1] + rsp->levelcnt[i - 1];
^
Fix that warning by adding an extra item to rcu_state::level[]
array. Once the bogus warning is fixed in gcc and kernel drops
support of older versions, the dummy item may be removed from
the array.
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This update makes arithmetic to calculate number of RCU nodes
more straight and easy to read.
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Although a number of RCU levels may be less than the current
maximum of four, some static data associated with each level
are allocated for all four levels. As result, the extra data
never get accessed and just wast memory. This update limits
count of allocated items to the number of used RCU levels.
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Members rcu_state::levelcnt[] and rcu_state::levelspread[]
are only used at init. There is no reason to keep them
afterwards.
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Number of items in rcu_capacity[] array is defined by macro
MAX_RCU_LVLS. However, that array is never accessed beyond
RCU_NUM_LVLS index. Therefore, we can limit the array to
RCU_NUM_LVLS items and eliminate MAX_RCU_LVLS. As result,
in most cases the memory is conserved.
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Variable rcu_num_lvls is limited by RCU_NUM_LVLS macro.
In turn, rcu_state::levelcnt[] array is never accessed
beyond rcu_num_lvls. Thus, rcu_state::levelcnt[] is safe
to limit to RCU_NUM_LVLS items.
Since rcu_num_lvls could be changed during boot (as result
of rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf kernel parameter update) one might
assume a new value could overflow the value of RCU_NUM_LVLS.
However, that is not the case, since leaf-level fanout is only
permitted to increase, resulting in rcu_num_lvls possibly to
decrease.
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Current code suggests that introducing the extra level to
rcu_capacity[] array makes some of the arithmetic easier.
Well, in fact it appears rather confusing and unnecessary.
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This update simplifies rcu_init_geometry() code flow
and makes calculation of the total number of rcu_node
structures more easy to read.
The update relies on the fact num_rcu_lvl[] is never
accessed beyond rcu_num_lvls index by the rest of the
code. Therefore, there is no need initialize the whole
num_rcu_lvl[].
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Local variable 'n' mimics 'nr_cpu_ids' while the both are
used within one function. There is no reason for 'n' to
exist whatsoever.
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently a condition when RCU tree is unable to accommodate
the configured number of CPUs is not permitted and causes
a fall back to compile-time values. However, the code has no
means to exceed the RCU tree capacity neither at compile-time
nor in run-time. Therefore, if the condition is met in run-
time then it indicates a serios problem elsewhere and should
be handled with a panic.
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
"monitonic raw". Also some enhancements to make the ring buffer even
faster. But the biggest and most noticeable change is the renaming of
the ftrace* files, structures and variables that have to deal with
trace events.
Over the years I've had several developers tell me about their confusion
with what ftrace is compared to events. Technically, "ftrace" is the
infrastructure to do the function hooks, which include tracing and also
helps with live kernel patching. But the trace events are a separate
entity altogether, and the files that affect the trace events should
not be named "ftrace". These include:
include/trace/ftrace.h -> include/trace/trace_events.h
include/linux/ftrace_event.h -> include/linux/trace_events.h
Also, functions that are specific for trace events have also been renamed:
ftrace_print_*() -> trace_print_*()
(un)register_ftrace_event() -> (un)register_trace_event()
ftrace_event_name() -> trace_event_name()
ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled()-> trace_trigger_soft_disabled()
ftrace_define_fields_##call() -> trace_define_fields_##call()
ftrace_get_offsets_##call() -> trace_get_offsets_##call()
Structures have been renamed:
ftrace_event_file -> trace_event_file
ftrace_event_{call,class} -> trace_event_{call,class}
ftrace_event_buffer -> trace_event_buffer
ftrace_subsystem_dir -> trace_subsystem_dir
ftrace_event_raw_##call -> trace_event_raw_##call
ftrace_event_data_offset_##call-> trace_event_data_offset_##call
ftrace_event_type_funcs_##call -> trace_event_type_funcs_##call
And a few various variables and flags have also been updated.
This has been sitting in linux-next for some time, and I have not heard
a single complaint about this rename breaking anything. Mostly because
these functions, variables and structures are mostly internal to the
tracing system and are seldom (if ever) used by anything external to that.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"This patch series contains several clean ups and even a new trace
clock "monitonic raw". Also some enhancements to make the ring buffer
even faster. But the biggest and most noticeable change is the
renaming of the ftrace* files, structures and variables that have to
deal with trace events.
Over the years I've had several developers tell me about their
confusion with what ftrace is compared to events. Technically,
"ftrace" is the infrastructure to do the function hooks, which include
tracing and also helps with live kernel patching. But the trace
events are a separate entity altogether, and the files that affect the
trace events should not be named "ftrace". These include:
include/trace/ftrace.h -> include/trace/trace_events.h
include/linux/ftrace_event.h -> include/linux/trace_events.h
Also, functions that are specific for trace events have also been renamed:
ftrace_print_*() -> trace_print_*()
(un)register_ftrace_event() -> (un)register_trace_event()
ftrace_event_name() -> trace_event_name()
ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled() -> trace_trigger_soft_disabled()
ftrace_define_fields_##call() -> trace_define_fields_##call()
ftrace_get_offsets_##call() -> trace_get_offsets_##call()
Structures have been renamed:
ftrace_event_file -> trace_event_file
ftrace_event_{call,class} -> trace_event_{call,class}
ftrace_event_buffer -> trace_event_buffer
ftrace_subsystem_dir -> trace_subsystem_dir
ftrace_event_raw_##call -> trace_event_raw_##call
ftrace_event_data_offset_##call-> trace_event_data_offset_##call
ftrace_event_type_funcs_##call -> trace_event_type_funcs_##call
And a few various variables and flags have also been updated.
This has been sitting in linux-next for some time, and I have not
heard a single complaint about this rename breaking anything. Mostly
because these functions, variables and structures are mostly internal
to the tracing system and are seldom (if ever) used by anything
external to that"
* tag 'trace-v4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (33 commits)
ring_buffer: Allow to exit the ring buffer benchmark immediately
ring-buffer-benchmark: Fix the wrong type
ring-buffer-benchmark: Fix the wrong param in module_param
ring-buffer: Add enum names for the context levels
ring-buffer: Remove useless unused tracing_off_permanent()
ring-buffer: Give NMIs a chance to lock the reader_lock
ring-buffer: Add trace_recursive checks to ring_buffer_write()
ring-buffer: Allways do the trace_recursive checks
ring-buffer: Move recursive check to per_cpu descriptor
ring-buffer: Add unlikelys to make fast path the default
tracing: Rename ftrace_get_offsets_##call() to trace_event_get_offsets_##call()
tracing: Rename ftrace_define_fields_##call() to trace_event_define_fields_##call()
tracing: Rename ftrace_event_type_funcs_##call to trace_event_type_funcs_##call
tracing: Rename ftrace_data_offset_##call to trace_event_data_offset_##call
tracing: Rename ftrace_raw_##call event structures to trace_event_raw_##call
tracing: Rename ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled() to trace_trigger_soft_disabled()
tracing: Rename FTRACE_EVENT_FL_* flags to EVENT_FILE_FL_*
tracing: Rename struct ftrace_subsystem_dir to trace_subsystem_dir
tracing: Rename ftrace_event_name() to trace_event_name()
tracing: Rename FTRACE_MAX_EVENT to TRACE_EVENT_TYPE_MAX
...
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A rather largish update for everything time and timer related:
- Cache footprint optimizations for both hrtimers and timer wheel
- Lower the NOHZ impact on systems which have NOHZ or timer migration
disabled at runtime.
- Optimize run time overhead of hrtimer interrupt by making the clock
offset updates smarter
- hrtimer cleanups and removal of restrictions to tackle some
problems in sched/perf
- Some more leap second tweaks
- Another round of changes addressing the 2038 problem
- First step to change the internals of clock event devices by
introducing the necessary infrastructure
- Allow constant folding for usecs/msecs_to_jiffies()
- The usual pile of clockevent/clocksource driver updates
The hrtimer changes contain updates to sched, perf and x86 as they
depend on them plus changes all over the tree to cleanup API changes
and redundant code, which got copied all over the place. The y2038
changes touch s390 to remove the last non 2038 safe code related to
boot/persistant clock"
* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (114 commits)
clocksource: Increase dependencies of timer-stm32 to limit build wreckage
timer: Minimize nohz off overhead
timer: Reduce timer migration overhead if disabled
timer: Stats: Simplify the flags handling
timer: Replace timer base by a cpu index
timer: Use hlist for the timer wheel hash buckets
timer: Remove FIFO "guarantee"
timers: Sanitize catchup_timer_jiffies() usage
hrtimer: Allow hrtimer::function() to free the timer
seqcount: Introduce raw_write_seqcount_barrier()
seqcount: Rename write_seqcount_barrier()
hrtimer: Fix hrtimer_is_queued() hole
hrtimer: Remove HRTIMER_STATE_MIGRATE
selftest: Timers: Avoid signal deadlock in leap-a-day
timekeeping: Copy the shadow-timekeeper over the real timekeeper last
clockevents: Check state instead of mode in suspend/resume path
selftests: timers: Add leap-second timer edge testing to leap-a-day.c
ntp: Do leapsecond adjustment in adjtimex read path
time: Prevent early expiry of hrtimers[CLOCK_REALTIME] at the leap second edge
ntp: Introduce and use SECS_PER_DAY macro instead of 86400
...
Eric reported that the timer_migration sysctl is not really nice
performance wise as it needs to check at every timer insertion whether
the feature is enabled or not. Further the check does not live in the
timer code, so we have an extra function call which checks an extra
cache line to figure out that it is disabled.
We can do better and store that information in the per cpu (hr)timer
bases. I pondered to use a static key, but that's a nightmare to
update from the nohz code and the timer base cache line is hot anyway
when we select a timer base.
The old logic enabled the timer migration unconditionally if
CONFIG_NO_HZ was set even if nohz was disabled on the kernel command
line.
With this modification, we start off with migration disabled. The user
visible sysctl is still set to enabled. If the kernel switches to NOHZ
migration is enabled, if the user did not disable it via the sysctl
prior to the switch. If nohz=off is on the kernel command line,
migration stays disabled no matter what.
Before:
47.76% hog [.] main
14.84% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
9.55% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
6.71% [kernel] [k] mod_timer
6.24% [kernel] [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38
3.76% [kernel] [k] detach_if_pending
3.71% [kernel] [k] del_timer
2.50% [kernel] [k] internal_add_timer
1.51% [kernel] [k] get_nohz_timer_target
1.28% [kernel] [k] __internal_add_timer
0.78% [kernel] [k] timerfn
0.48% [kernel] [k] wake_up_nohz_cpu
After:
48.10% hog [.] main
15.25% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
9.76% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
6.50% [kernel] [k] mod_timer
6.44% [kernel] [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38
3.87% [kernel] [k] detach_if_pending
3.80% [kernel] [k] del_timer
2.67% [kernel] [k] internal_add_timer
1.33% [kernel] [k] __internal_add_timer
0.73% [kernel] [k] timerfn
0.54% [kernel] [k] wake_up_nohz_cpu
Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Wenbo Wang <wenbo.wang@memblaze.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150526224512.127050787@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
The current rcutorture testing does not do any cleanup operations.
This works because the srcu_struct is statically allocated, but it
does represent a memory leak of the associated dynamically allocated
->per_cpu_ref per-CPU variables. However, rcutorture currently uses
a statically allocated srcu_struct, which cannot legally be passed to
cleanup_srcu_struct(). Therefore, this commit adds a second form
of srcu (called srcud) that dynamically allocates and frees the
associated per-CPU variables. This commit also adds a ->cleanup()
member to rcu_torture_ops that is invoked at the end of the test,
after ->cb_barriers(). This ->cleanup() pointer is NULL for all
existing tests, and thus only used for scrud. Finally, the SRCU-P
torture-test configuration selects scrud instead of srcu, with SRCU-N
continuing to use srcu, thereby testing both static and dynamic
srcu_struct structures.
Reported-by: "Ahmed, Iftekhar" <ahmedi@onid.oregonstate.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The rcutorture.c file uses several explicit memory barriers that can
easily be converted to smp_store_release() and smp_load_acquire(), which
improves maintainability and also improves performance a bit.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
By default, with rcutorture.nreaders equal to -1, rcutorture provisions
N-1 reader kthreads, where N is the number of CPUs. This avoids
rcutorture-induced stalls, but also avoids heavier levels of torture.
This commit therefore allows negative values of rcutorture.nreaders
to specify larger numbers of reader kthreads, so that for example
rcutorture.nreaders=-2 provisions N kthreads and rcutorture.nreaders=-5
provisions N+3 kthreads.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Update documentation, as suggested by Josh Triplett. ]
If, at the time __rcu_process_callbacks() is invoked, there are callbacks
in Tiny RCU's callback list, but none of them are ready to be invoked,
the current list-management code will knit the non-ready callbacks out
of the list. This can result in hangs and possibly worse. This commit
therefore inserts a check for there being no callbacks that can be
invoked immediately.
This bug is unlikely to occur -- you have to get a new callback between
the time rcu_sched_qs() or rcu_bh_qs() was called, but before we get to
__rcu_process_callbacks(). It was detected by the addition of RCU-bh
testing to rcutorture, which in turn was instigated by Iftekhar Ahmed's
mutation testing. Although this bug was made much more likely by
915e8a4fe4 (rcu: Remove fastpath from __rcu_process_callbacks()), this
did not cause the bug, but rather made it much more probable. That
said, it takes more than 40 hours of rcutorture testing, on average,
for this bug to appear, so this fix cannot be considered an emergency.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The Tiny RCU counterparts to rcu_idle_enter(), rcu_idle_exit(),
rcu_irq_enter(), and rcu_irq_exit() are empty functions, but each has
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), which needlessly consumes extra memory, especially
in kernels built with module support. This commit therefore moves these
functions to static inlines in rcutiny.h, removing the need for exports.
This won't affect the size of the tiniest kernels, which are likely
built without module support, but might help semi-tiny kernels that
might include module support.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit applies some warning-omission micro-optimizations to RCU's
various extended-quiescent-state functions, which are on the kernel/user
hotpath for CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y.
Reported-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reported by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit updates the initialization of the kthread_prio boot parameter
so that RCU will build even when CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO is undefined.
The kthread_prio boot parameter is set to CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO if
that is defined, otherwise to 1 if CONFIG_RCU_BOOST is defined and
to zero otherwise. This commit then makes CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
depend on CONFIG_RCU_EXPERT, so that Kconfig users won't be asked about
CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO unless they want to be.
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
This commit introduces an RCU_FANOUT_LEAF C-preprocessor macro so
that RCU will build even when CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF is undefined.
The RCU_FANOUT_LEAF macro is set to the value of CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
when defined, otherwise it is set to 32 for 32-bit systems and 64 for
64-bit systems. This commit then makes CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF depend
on CONFIG_RCU_EXPERT, so that Kconfig users won't be asked about
CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF unless they want to be.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
This commit introduces an RCU_FANOUT C-preprocessor macro so that RCU will
build even when CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT is undefined. The RCU_FANOUT macro is
set to the value of CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT when defined, otherwise it is set
to 32 for 32-bit systems and 64 for 64-bit systems. This commit then
makes CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT depend on CONFIG_RCU_EXPERT, so that Kconfig
users won't be asked about CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT unless they want to be.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
The purpose of this commit is to make it easier to verify that RCU's
combining tree is set up correctly, which is useful to have when making
changes in how that tree is initialized.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Fold fix found by Fengguang's 0-day test robot. ]
The CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT Kconfig parameter is used primarily (and
perhaps only) by rcutorture to verify that RCU works correctly in specific
rcu_node combining-tree configurations. It therefore does not make
much sense have this as a question to people attempting to configure
their kernels. So this commit creates an rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact=
boot parameter that rcutorture can use, and eliminates the original
CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT Kconfig parameter.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Grace-period scans of the rcu_node combining tree normally
proceed quite quickly, so that it is very difficult to reproduce
races against them. This commit therefore allows grace-period
pre-initialization and cleanup to be artificially slowed down,
increasing race-reproduction probability. A pair of pairs of new
Kconfig parameters are provided, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT to
enable the slowing down of propagating CPU-hotplug changes up the
combining tree along with RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY to
specify the delay in jiffies, and RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP
to enable the slowing down of the end-of-grace-period cleanup scan
along with RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP_DELAY to specify the delay
in jiffies. Boot-time parameters named rcutree.gp_preinit_delay and
rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay allow these delays to be specified at boot time.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Because gcc doesn't realize that rcu_num_lvls must be strictly greater
than zero, some versions give a spurious warning about levelcnt[0] being
uninitialized in rcu_init_one(). This commit updates the condition on
the pre-existing panic() in order to educate gcc on this point.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, the larger the gp_init_delay boot parameter, the slower
rcutorture will sequence through grace periods. This commit avoids this
issue by decreasing the probability of slowing initialization of a given
grace period as the degree of slowness increases.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_data structure's ->rcu_qs_ctr_snap field is initialized at
CPU-online time from the current CPU's element of the per-CPU rcu_qs_ctr
variable. Unfortunately, this is at CPU_UP_PREPARE time, so has nothing
to do with the CPU being onlined. This commit therefore initializes
this variable from the incoming CPU's element of rcu_qs_ctr.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Because offline CPUs are propagated up the rcu_node tree's ->qsmaskinit
bits just before each grace period starts, the ->qsmaskinit bit cannot
be clear when the corresponding ->qsmask bit is set. Furthermore, this
condition used to correspond to a CPU that was on its way offline, and
making RCU's notion of an offline CPU more precise has eliminated this
situation. This commit therefore removes the now-redundant offline
check from force_qs_rnp().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Because force_qs_rnp() is invoked only from the force-quiescent-state
code which runs only in the context of the grace-period kthread, a grace
period must always be in progress throughout force_qs_rnp()'s execution.
This commit therefore removes the rcu_gp_in_progress() check and the
associated dead code.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tasks are no longer migrated away from a given rcu_node structure
when all CPUs corresponding to that rcu_node structure have gone offline.
This means that rcu_read_unlock_special() no longer needs to loop
retrying rcu_node ->lock acquisition because the current task is
guaranteed to stay put.
This commit takes a small and paranoid step towards relying on this
guarantee by placing a WARN_ON_ONCE() just after the early exit from
the lock-acquisition loop.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit removes a HOTPLUG_CPU #ifdef, replacing it with
IS_ENABLED()-protected return statements. This relies on the
optimizer to remove any resulting dead code.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
rcu_cpu_has_callbacks() is declared int. The current declaration was introduced
in commit c0f4dfd4f9 (rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered
callbacks). But it is actually returning bool and as the function description
states " * Return true if the specified CPU has any callback....", this probably
should be a bool as all (3) call-sites currently treat it as bool.
Type-checking coccinelle spatches are being used to locate type mismatches
between function signatures and return values in this case this produced:
./kernel/rcu/tree.c:3538 WARNING: return of wrong type
int != bool,
Patch was compile tested with x86_64_defconfig (implies CONFIG_TREE_RCU=y)
Patch is against 4.1-rc3 (localversion-next is -next-20150511) and fixes
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
rcu_bh_data, rcu_sched_data and rcu_preempt_data are never used outside
kernel/rcu/tree.c and thus can be made static.
Doing so fixes a section mismatch warning reported by clang when
building LLVMLinux with -Wsection, because these variables were declared
in .data..percpu and defined in .data..percpu..shared_aligned since
commit 11bbb235c2 ("rcu: Use DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED for
rcu_data").
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
