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Paul E. McKenney
a3dc2948ce rcu: Enable diagnostic dump of rcu_node combining tree
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. ]
2015-05-27 12:59:04 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
7fa270010e rcu: Convert CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT to boot parameter
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>
2015-05-27 12:59:04 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
0f41c0ddad rcu: Provide diagnostic option to slow down grace-period scans
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>
2015-05-27 12:59:02 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
3eaaaf6cd6 rcu: Shut up spurious gcc uninitialized-variable warning
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>
2015-05-27 12:59:02 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
eab128e830 rcu: Modulate grace-period slow init to normalize delay
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>
2015-05-27 12:59:01 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
a738eec6c6 rcu: Correctly initialize ->rcu_qs_ctr_snap at online time
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>
2015-05-27 12:58:38 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
cce7f1fc01 rcu: Remove redundant offline check
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>
2015-05-27 12:58:38 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
c5b5539506 rcu: Remove dead code from force_qs_rnp()
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>
2015-05-27 12:58:37 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
ea46351cea rcu: Eliminate HOTPLUG_CPU #ifdef in favor of IS_ENABLED()
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>
2015-05-27 12:58:37 -07:00
Nicholas Mc Guire
82072c4fcf rcu: Change function declaration to bool
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>
2015-05-27 12:58:04 -07:00
Nicolas Iooss
c92fb05795 rcu: Make rcu_*_data variables static
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>
2015-05-27 12:58:03 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
30ff1533b8 rcu: Make synchronize_sched_expedited() call wait_rcu_gp()
Currently, synchronize_sched_expedited() will call synchronize_sched()
if there is danger of counter wrap.  But if configuration says to
always do expedited grace periods, synchronize_sched() will just
call synchronize_sched_expedited() right back again.  In theory,
the old expedited operations will complete, the counters will
get back in synch, and the recursion will end.  But we could
easily run out of stack long before that time.  This commit
therefore makes synchronize_sched_expedited() invoke the underlying
wait_rcu_gp(call_rcu_sched) instead of synchronize_sched(), the same as
all the other calls out from synchronize_sched_expedited().

This bug was introduced by commit 1924bcb025 (Avoid counter wrap in
synchronize_sched_expedited()).

Reported-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:58:03 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
81e701e437 rcu: Add more debug info on "kthread starved" RCU CPU stall warnings
This commit adds grace number and command-flags information to the
"kthread starved" message that is sometimes printed out as part of
RCU CPU stall warnings.  This message is caused by the corresponding
RCU grace-period kthread not having run for at least two seconds, and
this added information can be helpful when debugging.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:58:02 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
cd73ca21cd rcu: Force wakeup of rcu_gp_kthread at grace-period end
The rcu_gp_kthread_wake() refuses to do a wakeup unless at least
one of the ->gp_flags bits are set, which normally will not be the
case when the last quiescent state is reported.  This results in
up to a 3-jiffy delay given default Kconfig settings.  This commit
therefore has rcu_report_qs_rsp() set RCU_GP_FLAG_FQS before invoking
rcu_gp_kthread_wake() in order to force a more immediate wakeup at
grace-period end, thus reducing grace-period latencies.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:58:01 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
2927a689e8 rcu: Create an immutable rcu_data_p pointer to default rcu_data structure
This commit creates an immutable rcu_data_p pointer that references
rcu_preempt_data for TREE_PREEMPT_RCU builds and that references
rcu_sched_data for TREE_RCU builds.  This rcu_data_p pointer will enable
more code to move from #ifdef to IS_ENABLED().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:58:00 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
b28a7c0166 rcu: Tell the compiler that rcu_state_p is immutable
This commit adds a "const" tag to the declarations of rcu_state_p,
which should allow the compiler to generate better code and also to
catch erroneous assignments to this variable.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:57:59 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
7d0ae8086b rcu: Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE()
This commit moves from the old ACCESS_ONCE() API to the new READ_ONCE()
and WRITE_ONCE() APIs.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck:  Updated to include kernel/torture.c as suggested by Jason Low. ]
2015-05-27 12:56:15 -07:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
af658dca22 tracing: Rename ftrace_event.h to trace_events.h
The term "ftrace" is really the infrastructure of the function hooks,
and not the trace events. Rename ftrace_event.h to trace_events.h to
represent the trace_event infrastructure and decouple the term ftrace
from it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-05-13 14:05:12 -04:00
Paul E. McKenney
8d7dc9283f rcu: Control grace-period delays directly from value
In a misguided attempt to avoid an #ifdef, the use of the
gp_init_delay module parameter was conditioned on the corresponding
RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT Kconfig variable, using IS_ENABLED() at
the point of use in the code.  This meant that the compiler always saw
the delay, which meant that RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY had to be
unconditionally defined.  This in turn caused "make oldconfig" to ask
pointless questions about the value of RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY
in cases where it was not even used.

This commit avoids these pointless questions by defining gp_init_delay
under #ifdef.  In one branch, gp_init_delay is initialized to
RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY and is also a module parameter (thus
allowing boot-time modification), and in the other branch gp_init_delay
is a const variable initialized by default to zero.

This approach also simplifies the code at the delay point by eliminating
the IS_DEFINED().  Because gp_init_delay is constant zero in the no-delay
case intended for production use, the "gp_init_delay > 0" check causes
the delay to become dead code, as desired in this case.  In addition,
this commit replaces magic constant "10" with the preprocessor variable
PER_RCU_NODE_PERIOD, which controls the number of grace periods that
are allowed to elapse at full speed before a delay is inserted.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-04-14 19:33:59 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
42528795ac Merge branches 'doc.2015.02.26a', 'earlycb.2015.03.03a', 'fixes.2015.03.03a', 'gpexp.2015.02.26a', 'hotplug.2015.03.20a', 'sysidle.2015.02.26b' and 'tiny.2015.02.26a' into HEAD
doc.2015.02.26a:  Documentation changes
earlycb.2015.03.03a:  Permit early-boot RCU callbacks
fixes.2015.03.03a:  Miscellaneous fixes
gpexp.2015.02.26a:  In-kernel expediting of normal grace periods
hotplug.2015.03.20a:  CPU hotplug fixes
sysidle.2015.02.26b:  NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE fixes
tiny.2015.02.26a:  TINY_RCU fixes
2015-03-20 08:31:01 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
654e953340 rcu: Associate quiescent-state reports with grace period
As noted in earlier commit logs, CPU hotplug operations running
concurrently with grace-period initialization can result in a given
leaf rcu_node structure having all CPUs offline and no blocked readers,
but with this rcu_node structure nevertheless blocking the current
grace period.  Therefore, the quiescent-state forcing code now checks
for this situation and repairs it.

Unfortunately, this checking can result in false positives, for example,
when the last task has just removed itself from this leaf rcu_node
structure, but has not yet started clearing the ->qsmask bits further
up the structure.  This means that the grace-period kthread (which
forces quiescent states) and some other task might be attempting to
concurrently clear these ->qsmask bits.  This is usually not a problem:
One of these tasks will be the first to acquire the upper-level rcu_node
structure's lock and with therefore clear the bit, and the other task,
seeing the bit already cleared, will stop trying to clear bits.

Sadly, this means that the following unusual sequence of events -can-
result in a problem:

1.	The grace-period kthread wins, and clears the ->qsmask bits.

2.	This is the last thing blocking the current grace period, so
	that the grace-period kthread clears ->qsmask bits all the way
	to the root and finds that the root ->qsmask field is now zero.

3.	Another grace period is required, so that the grace period kthread
	initializes it, including setting all the needed qsmask bits.

4.	The leaf rcu_node structure (the one that started this whole
	mess) is blocking this new grace period, either because it
	has at least one online CPU or because there is at least one
	task that had blocked within an RCU read-side critical section
	while running on one of this leaf rcu_node structure's CPUs.
	(And yes, that CPU might well have gone offline before the
	grace period in step (3) above started, which can mean that
	there is a task on the leaf rcu_node structure's ->blkd_tasks
	list, but ->qsmask equal to zero.)

5.	The other kthread didn't get around to trying to clear the upper
	level ->qsmask bits until all the above had happened.  This means
	that it now sees bits set in the upper-level ->qsmask field, so it
	proceeds to clear them.  Too bad that it is doing so on behalf of
	a quiescent state that does not apply to the current grace period!

This sequence of events can result in the new grace period being too
short.  It can also result in the new grace period ending before the
leaf rcu_node structure's ->qsmask bits have been cleared, which will
result in splats during initialization of the next grace period.  In
addition, it can result in tasks blocking the new grace period still
being queued at the start of the next grace period, which will result
in other splats.  Sasha's testing turned up another of these splats,
as did rcutorture testing.  (And yes, rcutorture is being adjusted to
make these splats show up more quickly.  Which probably is having the
undesirable side effect of making other problems show up less quickly.
Can't have everything!)

Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.0.x
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
2015-03-20 08:28:25 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
a77da14ce9 rcu: Yet another fix for preemption and CPU hotplug
As noted earlier, the following sequence of events can occur when
running PREEMPT_RCU and HOTPLUG_CPU on a system with a multi-level
rcu_node combining tree:

1.	A group of tasks block on CPUs corresponding to a given leaf
	rcu_node structure while within RCU read-side critical sections.
2.	All CPUs corrsponding to that rcu_node structure go offline.
3.	The next grace period starts, but because there are still tasks
	blocked, the upper-level bits corresponding to this leaf rcu_node
	structure remain set.
4.	All the tasks exit their RCU read-side critical sections and
	remove themselves from the leaf rcu_node structure's list,
	leaving it empty.
5.	But because there now is code to check for this condition at
	force-quiescent-state time, the upper bits are cleared and the
	grace period completes.

However, there is another complication that can occur following step 4 above:

4a.	The grace period starts, and the leaf rcu_node structure's
	gp_tasks pointer is set to NULL because there are no tasks
	blocked on this structure.
4b.	One of the CPUs corresponding to the leaf rcu_node structure
	comes back online.
4b.	An endless stream of tasks are preempted within RCU read-side
	critical sections on this CPU, such that the ->blkd_tasks
	list is always non-empty.

The grace period will never end.

This commit therefore makes the force-quiescent-state processing check only
for absence of tasks blocking the current grace period rather than absence
of tasks altogether.  This will cause a quiescent state to be reported if
the current leaf rcu_node structure is not blocking the current grace period
and its parent thinks that it is, regardless of how RCU managed to get
itself into this state.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.0.x
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
2015-03-20 08:27:33 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
5c60d25fa1 rcu: Add diagnostics to grace-period cleanup
At grace-period initialization time, RCU checks that all quiescent
states were really reported for the previous grace period.  Now that
grace-period cleanup has been split out of grace-period initialization,
this commit also performs those checks at grace-period cleanup time.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-12 15:19:38 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
88428cc5c2 rcu: Handle outgoing CPUs on exit from idle loop
This commit informs RCU of an outgoing CPU just before that CPU invokes
arch_cpu_idle_dead() during its last pass through the idle loop (via a
new CPU_DYING_IDLE notifier value).  This change means that RCU need not
deal with outgoing CPUs passing through the scheduler after informing
RCU that they are no longer online.  Note that removing the CPU from
the rcu_node ->qsmaskinit bit masks is done at CPU_DYING_IDLE time,
and orphaning callbacks is still done at CPU_DEAD time, the reason being
that at CPU_DEAD time we have another CPU that can adopt them.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-12 15:19:38 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
c199068913 rcu: Eliminate ->onoff_mutex from rcu_node structure
Because that RCU grace-period initialization need no longer exclude
CPU-hotplug operations, this commit eliminates the ->onoff_mutex and
its uses.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-12 15:19:37 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
0aa04b055e rcu: Process offlining and onlining only at grace-period start
Races between CPU hotplug and grace periods can be difficult to resolve,
so the ->onoff_mutex is used to exclude the two events.  Unfortunately,
this means that it is impossible for an outgoing CPU to perform the
last bits of its offlining from its last pass through the idle loop,
because sleeplocks cannot be acquired in that context.

This commit avoids these problems by buffering online and offline events
in a new ->qsmaskinitnext field in the leaf rcu_node structures.  When a
grace period starts, the events accumulated in this mask are applied to
the ->qsmaskinit field, and, if needed, up the rcu_node tree.  The special
case of all CPUs corresponding to a given leaf rcu_node structure being
offline while there are still elements in that structure's ->blkd_tasks
list is handled using a new ->wait_blkd_tasks field.  In this case,
propagating the offline bits up the tree is deferred until the beginning
of the grace period after all of the tasks have exited their RCU read-side
critical sections and removed themselves from the list, at which point
the ->wait_blkd_tasks flag is cleared.  If one of that leaf rcu_node
structure's CPUs comes back online before the list empties, then the
->wait_blkd_tasks flag is simply cleared.

This of course means that RCU's notion of which CPUs are offline can be
out of date.  This is OK because RCU need only wait on CPUs that were
online at the time that the grace period started.  In addition, RCU's
force-quiescent-state actions will handle the case where a CPU goes
offline after the grace period starts.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-12 15:19:37 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
cc99a310ca rcu: Move rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() to common code
The rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() function is invoked when the
last task blocking the current grace period exits its outermost
RCU read-side critical section.  Previously, this was called only
from rcu_read_unlock_special(), and was therefore defined only when
CONFIG_RCU_PREEMPT=y.  However, this function will be invoked even when
CONFIG_RCU_PREEMPT=n once CPU-hotplug operations are processed only at
the beginnings of RCU grace periods.  The reason for this change is that
the last task on a given leaf rcu_node structure's ->blkd_tasks list
might well exit its RCU read-side critical section between the time that
recent CPU-hotplug operations were applied and when the new grace period
was initialized.  This situation could result in RCU waiting forever on
that leaf rcu_node structure, because if all that structure's CPUs were
already offline, there would be no quiescent-state events to drive that
structure's part of the grace period.

This commit therefore moves rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() to common code
that is built unconditionally so that the quiescent-state-forcing code
can clean up after this situation, avoiding the grace-period stall.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-12 15:19:36 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
999c286347 rcu: Remove event tracing from rcu_cpu_notify(), used by offline CPUs
Offline CPUs cannot safely invoke trace events, but such CPUs do execute
within rcu_cpu_notify().  Therefore, this commit removes the trace events
from rcu_cpu_notify().  These trace events are for utilization, against
which rcu_cpu_notify() execution time should be negligible.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-11 13:22:39 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
37745d2810 rcu: Provide diagnostic option to slow down grace-period initialization
Grace-period initialization normally proceeds quite quickly, so
that it is very difficult to reproduce races against grace-period
initialization.  This commit therefore allows grace-period
initialization to be artificially slowed down, increasing
race-reproduction probability.  A pair of new Kconfig parameters are
provided, CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT to enable the slowdowns, and
CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY to specify the number of jiffies
of slowdown to apply.  A boot-time parameter named rcutree.gp_init_delay
allows boot-time delay to be specified.  By default, no delay will be
applied even if CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT is set.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-11 13:22:38 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
237a0f2193 rcu: Detect stalls caused by failure to propagate up rcu_node tree
If all CPUs have passed through quiescent states, then stalls might be
due to starvation of the grace-period kthread or to failure to propagate
the quiescent states up the rcu_node combining tree.  The current stall
warning messages do not differentiate, so this commit adds a printout
of the root rcu_node structure's ->qsmask field.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-11 13:22:38 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
78043c467a rcu: Put all orphan-callback-related code under same comment
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-11 13:22:37 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
b33078b609 rcu: Consolidate offline-CPU callback initialization
Currently, both rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu() and rcu_send_cbs_to_orphanage()
initialize the outgoing CPU's callback list.  However, only
rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu() invokes rcu_send_cbs_to_orphanage(), and
it does so unconditionally, which means that only one of these
initializations is required.  This commit therefore consolidates the
callback-list initialization with the rest of the callback handling in
rcu_send_cbs_to_orphanage().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-11 13:22:36 -07:00
Yao Dongdong
9910affa89 rcu: Remove redundant check of cpu_online()
Because invoke_cpu_core() checks whether the current CPU is online,
there is no need for __call_rcu_core() to redundantly check it.
There should not be any performance degradation because the called
function is visible to the compiler.  This commit therefore removes
the redundant check.

Signed-off-by: Yao Dongdong <yaodongdong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-03 11:17:34 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
e7580f3388 rcu: Get rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state() where it belongs
The very similar functions rcu_force_quiescent_state(),
rcu_bh_force_quiescent_state(), and rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state()
are supposed to be together, but have drifted apart.  This commit
restores rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state() to its rightful place.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-03 11:17:19 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
6629240575 rcu: Use IS_ENABLED() to CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT #ifdef
This commit uses IS_ENABLED() to remove the #ifdef from the
rcu_init_levelspread() functions.  No effect on executable code.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-03 11:14:08 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
4762767810 rcu: Move early boot callback tests earlier
Because callbacks can now be posted quite early in boot, move the
early boot callback tests to precede RCU initialization.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-03 11:06:22 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
34404ca8fb rcu: Move early-boot callbacks to no-CBs lists for no-CBs CPUs
When a CPU is first determined to be a no-CBs CPUs, this commit causes
any early boot callbacks to be moved to the no-CBs callback list,
allowing them to be invoked.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-03 11:06:02 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
5871968d53 rcu: Tighten up affinity and check for sysidle
If the RCU grace-period kthread invoking rcu_sysidle_check_cpu()
happens to be running on the tick_do_timer_cpu initially,
then rcu_bind_gp_kthread() won't bind it.  This kthread might
then migrate before invoking rcu_gp_fqs(), which will trigger the
WARN_ON_ONCE() in rcu_sysidle_check_cpu().  This commit therefore makes
rcu_bind_gp_kthread() do the binding even if the kthread is currently
on the same CPU.  Because this incurs added overhead, this commit also
causes each RCU grace-period kthread to invoke rcu_bind_gp_kthread()
once at boot rather than at the beginning of each grace period.
And as long as rcu_bind_gp_kthread() is being modified, this commit
eliminates its #ifdef.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26 16:04:37 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
675da67f24 rcu: Fixes to NO_HZ_FULL sysidle accounting
On second and subsequent passes through quiescent-state forcing, the
isidle variable was initialized to false, which would prevent full sysidle
state from being reached if a grace period needed more than one round
of quiescent-state forcing (which most should not).  However, the check
for offline CPUs in the quiescent-state forcing main loop had the wrong
sense, which could prevent CPUs from ever entering full sysidle state.

This commit fixes both of these bugs.  Given that sysidle is not yet
wired up, this has no effect in old kernels, but might have proven
frustrating had anyone attempted to wire it up.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26 12:11:03 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
5afff48bdf rcu: Update from rcu_expedited variable to rcu_gp_is_expedited()
This commit updates open-coded tests of the rcu_expedited variable
to instead use rcu_gp_is_expedited().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26 12:03:01 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
1925d1967c rcu: Fix a couple of typos in rcu_all_qs() comment header
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26 12:02:10 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
39c8d313c3 rcu: Avoid clobbering early boot callbacks
When a CPU comes online, it initializes its callback list.  This
is a bad thing if this is the first time that the CPU has come
online and if that CPU has early boot callbacks.  This commit therefore
avoid initializing the callback list if there are callbacks present,
in which case the initial call_rcu() did the initialization for us.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26 12:01:30 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
143da9c2fc rcu: Prevent early-boot RCU callbacks from splatting
Currently, a call_rcu() that precedes rcu_init() will splat due to the
callback lists not having yet been initialized.  This commit causes the
first such callback to initialize the boot CPU's RCU callback list.

Note that this commit does not change rcu_init()-time initialization,
which means that the callback will be discarded at rcu_init() time.
Fixing this is the job of later commits.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26 12:01:28 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
2723249a31 rcu: Wire ->rda pointers at compile time
This commit wires up the rcu_state structures' ->rda pointers to the
per-CPU rcu_data structures at compile time, thus ensuring that this
linkage is present at early boot, in turn allowing posting of callbacks
before rcu_init() is executed.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26 12:01:27 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
d3f3f3f25b rcu: Abstract default callback-list initialization from init_callback_list()
In preparation for early-boot posting of callbacks, this commit abstracts
initialization of the default (non-no-CB) callbacks list from the
init_callback_list() function into a new init_default_callback_list()
function.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26 12:01:25 -08:00
Lai Jiangshan
3f47da0f32 rcu_tree: Avoid touching rnp->completed when a new GP is started
In rcu_gp_init(), rnp->completed equals to rsp->completed in THEORY,
we don't need to touch it normally.  If something goes wrong,
it will complain and fixup rnp->completed and avoid oops.
This commit thus avoids the normal needless store to rnp->completed.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-25 17:03:05 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
78e691f4ae Merge branches 'doc.2015.01.07a', 'fixes.2015.01.15a', 'preempt.2015.01.06a', 'srcu.2015.01.06a', 'stall.2015.01.16a' and 'torture.2015.01.11a' into HEAD
doc.2015.01.07a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2015.01.15a: Miscellaneous fixes.
preempt.2015.01.06a: Changes to handling of lists of preempted tasks.
srcu.2015.01.06a: SRCU updates.
stall.2015.01.16a: RCU CPU stall-warning updates and fixes.
torture.2015.01.11a: RCU torture-test updates and fixes.
2015-01-15 23:34:34 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
fb81a44b88 rcu: Add GP-kthread-starvation checks to CPU stall warnings
This commit adds a message that is printed if the relevant grace-period
kthread has not been able to run for the two seconds preceding the
stall warning.  (The two seconds is double the maximum interval between
successive bouts of quiescent-state forcing.)

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-15 23:33:15 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
5cd37193ce rcu: Make cond_resched_rcu_qs() apply to normal RCU flavors
Although cond_resched_rcu_qs() only applies to TASKS_RCU, it is used
in places where it would be useful for it to apply to the normal RCU
flavors, rcu_preempt, rcu_sched, and rcu_bh.  This is especially the
case for workloads that aggressively overload the system, particularly
those that generate large numbers of RCU updates on systems running
NO_HZ_FULL CPUs.  This commit therefore communicates quiescent states
from cond_resched_rcu_qs() to the normal RCU flavors.

Note that it is unfortunately necessary to leave the old ->passed_quiesce
mechanism in place to allow quiescent states that apply to only one
flavor to be recorded.  (Yes, we could decrement ->rcu_qs_ctr_snap in
that case, but that is not so good for debugging of RCU internals.)
In addition, if one of the RCU flavor's grace period has stalled, this
will invoke rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle(), resulting in a heavy-weight
quiescent state visible from other CPUs.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Merge commit from Sasha Levin fixing a bug where __this_cpu()
  was used in preemptible code. ]
2015-01-15 23:33:14 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
a94844b22a rcu: Optionally run grace-period kthreads at real-time priority
Recent testing has shown that under heavy load, running RCU's grace-period
kthreads at real-time priority can improve performance (according to 0day
test robot) and reduce the incidence of RCU CPU stall warnings.  However,
most systems do just fine with the default non-realtime priorities for
these kthreads, and it does not make sense to expose the entire user
base to any risk stemming from this change, given that this change is
of use only to a few users running extremely heavy workloads.

Therefore, this commit allows users to specify realtime priorities
for the grace-period kthreads, but leaves them running SCHED_OTHER
by default.  The realtime priority may be specified at build time
via the RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO Kconfig parameter, or at boot time via the
rcutree.kthread_prio parameter.  Either way, 0 says to continue the
default SCHED_OTHER behavior and values from 1-99 specify that priority
of SCHED_FIFO behavior.  Note that a value of 0 is not permitted when
the RCU_BOOST Kconfig parameter is specified.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-15 23:25:04 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
917963d0b3 rcutorture: Check from beginning to end of grace period
Currently, rcutorture's Reader Batch checks measure from the end of
the previous grace period to the end of the current one.  This commit
tightens up these checks by measuring from the start and end of the same
grace period.  This involves adding rcu_batches_started() and friends
corresponding to the existing rcu_batches_completed() and friends.

We leave SRCU alone for the moment, as it does not yet have a way of
tracking both ends of its grace periods.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-10 19:08:02 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
9733e4f0a9 rcu: Make _batches_completed() functions return unsigned long
Long ago, the various ->completed fields were of type long, but now are
unsigned long due to signed-integer-overflow concerns.  However, the
various _batches_completed() functions remained of type long, even though
their only purpose in life is to return the corresponding ->completed
field.  This patch cleans this up by changing these functions' return
types to unsigned long.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-10 19:07:56 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
e3663b1024 rcu: Handle gpnum/completed wrap while dyntick idle
Subtle race conditions can result if a CPU stays in dyntick-idle mode
long enough for the ->gpnum and ->completed fields to wrap.  For
example, consider the following sequence of events:

o	CPU 1 encounters a quiescent state while waiting for grace period
	5 to complete, but then enters dyntick-idle mode.

o	While CPU 1 is in dyntick-idle mode, the grace-period counters
	wrap around so that the grace period number is now 4.

o	Just as CPU 1 exits dyntick-idle mode, grace period 4 completes
	and grace period 5 begins.

o	The quiescent state that CPU 1 passed through during the old
	grace period 5 looks like it applies to the new grace period
	5.  Therefore, the new grace period 5 completes without CPU 1
	having passed through a quiescent state.

This could clearly be a fatal surprise to any long-running RCU read-side
critical section that happened to be running on CPU 1 at the time.  At one
time, this was not a problem, given that it takes significant time for
the grace-period counters to overflow even on 32-bit systems.  However,
with the advent of NO_HZ_FULL and SMP embedded systems, arbitrarily long
idle periods are now becoming quite feasible.  It is therefore time to
close this race.

This commit therefore avoids this race condition by having the
quiescent-state forcing code detect when a CPU is falling too far
behind, and setting a new rcu_data field ->gpwrap when this happens.
Whenever this new ->gpwrap field is set, the CPU's ->gpnum and ->completed
fields are known to be untrustworthy, and can be ignored, along with
any associated quiescent states.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:05:28 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
6ccd2ecd42 rcu: Improve diagnostics for spurious RCU CPU stall warnings
The current RCU CPU stall warning code will print "Stall ended before
state dump start" any time that the stall-warning code is triggered on
a CPU that has already reported a quiescent state for the current grace
period and if all quiescent states have been reported for the current
grace period.  However, a true stall can result in these symptoms, for
example, by preventing RCU's grace-period kthreads from ever running

This commit therefore checks for this condition, reporting the end of
the stall only if one of the grace-period counters has actually advanced.
Otherwise, it reports the last time that the grace-period kthread made
meaningful progress.  (In normal situations, the grace-period kthread
should make meaningful progress at least every jiffies_till_next_fqs
jiffies.)

Reported-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
2015-01-06 11:05:27 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
fc908ed33e rcu: Make RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO include number of fqs attempts
One way that an RCU CPU stall warning can happen is if the grace-period
kthread is not allowed to execute.  One proxy for this kthread's
forward progress is the number of force-quiescent-state (fqs) scans.
This commit therefore adds the number of fqs scans to the RCU CPU stall
warning printouts when CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO=y.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:05:25 -08:00
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
3a5924052a rcu: Allow task-level idle entry/exit nesting
The current task-level idle entry/exit code forces an entry/exit on
each call, regardless of the nesting level.  This commit therefore
properly accounts for nesting.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2013-12-03 10:10:19 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
96d3fd0d31 rcu: Break call_rcu() deadlock involving scheduler and perf
Dave Jones got the following lockdep splat:

>  ======================================================
>  [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
>  3.12.0-rc3+ #92 Not tainted
>  -------------------------------------------------------
>  trinity-child2/15191 is trying to acquire lock:
>   (&rdp->nocb_wq){......}, at: [<ffffffff8108ff43>] __wake_up+0x23/0x50
>
> but task is already holding lock:
>   (&ctx->lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff81154c19>] perf_event_exit_task+0x109/0x230
>
> which lock already depends on the new lock.
>
>
> the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
>
> -> #3 (&ctx->lock){-.-...}:
>         [<ffffffff810cc243>] lock_acquire+0x93/0x200
>         [<ffffffff81733f90>] _raw_spin_lock+0x40/0x80
>         [<ffffffff811500ff>] __perf_event_task_sched_out+0x2df/0x5e0
>         [<ffffffff81091b83>] perf_event_task_sched_out+0x93/0xa0
>         [<ffffffff81732052>] __schedule+0x1d2/0xa20
>         [<ffffffff81732f30>] preempt_schedule_irq+0x50/0xb0
>         [<ffffffff817352b6>] retint_kernel+0x26/0x30
>         [<ffffffff813eed04>] tty_flip_buffer_push+0x34/0x50
>         [<ffffffff813f0504>] pty_write+0x54/0x60
>         [<ffffffff813e900d>] n_tty_write+0x32d/0x4e0
>         [<ffffffff813e5838>] tty_write+0x158/0x2d0
>         [<ffffffff811c4850>] vfs_write+0xc0/0x1f0
>         [<ffffffff811c52cc>] SyS_write+0x4c/0xa0
>         [<ffffffff8173d4e4>] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2
>
> -> #2 (&rq->lock){-.-.-.}:
>         [<ffffffff810cc243>] lock_acquire+0x93/0x200
>         [<ffffffff81733f90>] _raw_spin_lock+0x40/0x80
>         [<ffffffff810980b2>] wake_up_new_task+0xc2/0x2e0
>         [<ffffffff81054336>] do_fork+0x126/0x460
>         [<ffffffff81054696>] kernel_thread+0x26/0x30
>         [<ffffffff8171ff93>] rest_init+0x23/0x140
>         [<ffffffff81ee1e4b>] start_kernel+0x3f6/0x403
>         [<ffffffff81ee1571>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c
>         [<ffffffff81ee1664>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xf1/0xf4
>
> -> #1 (&p->pi_lock){-.-.-.}:
>         [<ffffffff810cc243>] lock_acquire+0x93/0x200
>         [<ffffffff8173419b>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x4b/0x90
>         [<ffffffff810979d1>] try_to_wake_up+0x31/0x350
>         [<ffffffff81097d62>] default_wake_function+0x12/0x20
>         [<ffffffff81084af8>] autoremove_wake_function+0x18/0x40
>         [<ffffffff8108ea38>] __wake_up_common+0x58/0x90
>         [<ffffffff8108ff59>] __wake_up+0x39/0x50
>         [<ffffffff8110d4f8>] __call_rcu_nocb_enqueue+0xa8/0xc0
>         [<ffffffff81111450>] __call_rcu+0x140/0x820
>         [<ffffffff81111b8d>] call_rcu+0x1d/0x20
>         [<ffffffff81093697>] cpu_attach_domain+0x287/0x360
>         [<ffffffff81099d7e>] build_sched_domains+0xe5e/0x10a0
>         [<ffffffff81efa7fc>] sched_init_smp+0x3b7/0x47a
>         [<ffffffff81ee1f4e>] kernel_init_freeable+0xf6/0x202
>         [<ffffffff817200be>] kernel_init+0xe/0x190
>         [<ffffffff8173d22c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0
>
> -> #0 (&rdp->nocb_wq){......}:
>         [<ffffffff810cb7ca>] __lock_acquire+0x191a/0x1be0
>         [<ffffffff810cc243>] lock_acquire+0x93/0x200
>         [<ffffffff8173419b>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x4b/0x90
>         [<ffffffff8108ff43>] __wake_up+0x23/0x50
>         [<ffffffff8110d4f8>] __call_rcu_nocb_enqueue+0xa8/0xc0
>         [<ffffffff81111450>] __call_rcu+0x140/0x820
>         [<ffffffff81111bb0>] kfree_call_rcu+0x20/0x30
>         [<ffffffff81149abf>] put_ctx+0x4f/0x70
>         [<ffffffff81154c3e>] perf_event_exit_task+0x12e/0x230
>         [<ffffffff81056b8d>] do_exit+0x30d/0xcc0
>         [<ffffffff8105893c>] do_group_exit+0x4c/0xc0
>         [<ffffffff810589c4>] SyS_exit_group+0x14/0x20
>         [<ffffffff8173d4e4>] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2
>
> other info that might help us debug this:
>
> Chain exists of:
>   &rdp->nocb_wq --> &rq->lock --> &ctx->lock
>
>   Possible unsafe locking scenario:
>
>         CPU0                    CPU1
>         ----                    ----
>    lock(&ctx->lock);
>                                 lock(&rq->lock);
>                                 lock(&ctx->lock);
>    lock(&rdp->nocb_wq);
>
>  *** DEADLOCK ***
>
> 1 lock held by trinity-child2/15191:
>  #0:  (&ctx->lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff81154c19>] perf_event_exit_task+0x109/0x230
>
> stack backtrace:
> CPU: 2 PID: 15191 Comm: trinity-child2 Not tainted 3.12.0-rc3+ #92
>  ffffffff82565b70 ffff880070c2dbf8 ffffffff8172a363 ffffffff824edf40
>  ffff880070c2dc38 ffffffff81726741 ffff880070c2dc90 ffff88022383b1c0
>  ffff88022383aac0 0000000000000000 ffff88022383b188 ffff88022383b1c0
> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffff8172a363>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x82
>  [<ffffffff81726741>] print_circular_bug+0x200/0x20f
>  [<ffffffff810cb7ca>] __lock_acquire+0x191a/0x1be0
>  [<ffffffff810c6439>] ? get_lock_stats+0x19/0x60
>  [<ffffffff8100b2f4>] ? native_sched_clock+0x24/0x80
>  [<ffffffff810cc243>] lock_acquire+0x93/0x200
>  [<ffffffff8108ff43>] ? __wake_up+0x23/0x50
>  [<ffffffff8173419b>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x4b/0x90
>  [<ffffffff8108ff43>] ? __wake_up+0x23/0x50
>  [<ffffffff8108ff43>] __wake_up+0x23/0x50
>  [<ffffffff8110d4f8>] __call_rcu_nocb_enqueue+0xa8/0xc0
>  [<ffffffff81111450>] __call_rcu+0x140/0x820
>  [<ffffffff8109bc8f>] ? local_clock+0x3f/0x50
>  [<ffffffff81111bb0>] kfree_call_rcu+0x20/0x30
>  [<ffffffff81149abf>] put_ctx+0x4f/0x70
>  [<ffffffff81154c3e>] perf_event_exit_task+0x12e/0x230
>  [<ffffffff81056b8d>] do_exit+0x30d/0xcc0
>  [<ffffffff810c9af5>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x115/0x1e0
>  [<ffffffff810c9bcd>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
>  [<ffffffff8105893c>] do_group_exit+0x4c/0xc0
>  [<ffffffff810589c4>] SyS_exit_group+0x14/0x20
>  [<ffffffff8173d4e4>] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2

The underlying problem is that perf is invoking call_rcu() with the
scheduler locks held, but in NOCB mode, call_rcu() will with high
probability invoke the scheduler -- which just might want to use its
locks.  The reason that call_rcu() needs to invoke the scheduler is
to wake up the corresponding rcuo callback-offload kthread, which
does the job of starting up a grace period and invoking the callbacks
afterwards.

One solution (championed on a related problem by Lai Jiangshan) is to
simply defer the wakeup to some point where scheduler locks are no longer
held.  Since we don't want to unnecessarily incur the cost of such
deferral, the task before us is threefold:

1.	Determine when it is likely that a relevant scheduler lock is held.

2.	Defer the wakeup in such cases.

3.	Ensure that all deferred wakeups eventually happen, preferably
	sooner rather than later.

We use irqs_disabled_flags() as a proxy for relevant scheduler locks
being held.  This works because the relevant locks are always acquired
with interrupts disabled.  We may defer more often than needed, but that
is at least safe.

The wakeup deferral is tracked via a new field in the per-CPU and
per-RCU-flavor rcu_data structure, namely ->nocb_defer_wakeup.

This flag is checked by the RCU core processing.  The __rcu_pending()
function now checks this flag, which causes rcu_check_callbacks()
to initiate RCU core processing at each scheduling-clock interrupt
where this flag is set.  Of course this is not sufficient because
scheduling-clock interrupts are often turned off (the things we used to
be able to count on!).  So the flags are also checked on entry to any
state that RCU considers to be idle, which includes both NO_HZ_IDLE idle
state and NO_HZ_FULL user-mode-execution state.

This approach should allow call_rcu() to be invoked regardless of what
locks you might be holding, the key word being "should".

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2013-12-03 10:10:18 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
78e4bc34e5 rcu: Fix and comment ordering around wait_event()
It is all too easy to forget that wait_event() does not necessarily
imply a full memory barrier.  The case where it does not is where the
condition transitions to true just as wait_event() starts execution.
This is actually a feature: The standard use of wait_event() involves
locking, in which case the locks provide the needed ordering (you hold a
lock across the wake_up() and acquire that same lock after wait_event()
returns).

Given that I did forget that wait_event() does not necessarily imply a
full memory barrier in one case, this commit fixes that case.  This commit
also adds comments calling out the placement of existing memory barriers
relied on by wait_event() calls.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-12-03 10:10:18 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
6193c76aba rcu: Kick CPU halfway to RCU CPU stall warning
When an RCU CPU stall warning occurs, the CPU invokes resched_cpu() on
itself.  This can help move the grace period forward in some situations,
but it would be even better to do this -before- the RCU CPU stall warning.
This commit therefore causes resched_cpu() to be called every five jiffies
once the system is halfway to an RCU CPU stall warning.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-12-03 10:10:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
b29c8306a3 This batch of changes is mostly clean ups and small bug fixes.
The only real feature that was added this release is from Namhyung Kim,
 who introduced "set_graph_notrace" filter that lets you run the function
 graph tracer and not trace particular functions and their call chain.
 
 Tom Zanussi added some updates to the ftrace multibuffer tracing that
 made it more consistent with the top level tracing.
 
 One of the fixes for perf function tracing required an API change in
 RCU; the addition of "rcu_is_watching()". As Paul McKenney is pushing
 that change in this release too, he gave me a branch that included
 all the changes to get that working, and I pulled that into my tree
 in order to complete the perf function tracing fix.
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Merge tag 'trace-3.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing update from Steven Rostedt:
 "This batch of changes is mostly clean ups and small bug fixes.  The
  only real feature that was added this release is from Namhyung Kim,
  who introduced "set_graph_notrace" filter that lets you run the
  function graph tracer and not trace particular functions and their
  call chain.

  Tom Zanussi added some updates to the ftrace multibuffer tracing that
  made it more consistent with the top level tracing.

  One of the fixes for perf function tracing required an API change in
  RCU; the addition of "rcu_is_watching()".  As Paul McKenney is pushing
  that change in this release too, he gave me a branch that included all
  the changes to get that working, and I pulled that into my tree in
  order to complete the perf function tracing fix"

* tag 'trace-3.13' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
  tracing: Add rcu annotation for syscall trace descriptors
  tracing: Do not use signed enums with unsigned long long in fgragh output
  tracing: Remove unused function ftrace_off_permanent()
  tracing: Do not assign filp->private_data to freed memory
  tracing: Add helper function tracing_is_disabled()
  tracing: Open tracer when ftrace_dump_on_oops is used
  tracing: Add support for SOFT_DISABLE to syscall events
  tracing: Make register/unregister_ftrace_command __init
  tracing: Update event filters for multibuffer
  recordmcount.pl: Add support for __fentry__
  ftrace: Have control op function callback only trace when RCU is watching
  rcu: Do not trace rcu_is_watching() functions
  ftrace/x86: skip over the breakpoint for ftrace caller
  trace/trace_stat: use rbtree postorder iteration helper instead of opencoding
  ftrace: Add set_graph_notrace filter
  ftrace: Narrow down the protected area of graph_lock
  ftrace: Introduce struct ftrace_graph_data
  ftrace: Get rid of ftrace_graph_filter_enabled
  tracing: Fix potential out-of-bounds in trace_get_user()
  tracing: Show more exact help information about snapshot
2013-11-16 12:23:18 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
39cf275a1a Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle are:

   - (much) improved CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING support from Mel Gorman, Rik
     van Riel, Peter Zijlstra et al.  Yay!

   - optimize preemption counter handling: merge the NEED_RESCHED flag
     into the preempt_count variable, by Peter Zijlstra.

   - wait.h fixes and code reorganization from Peter Zijlstra

   - cfs_bandwidth fixes from Ben Segall

   - SMP load-balancer cleanups from Peter Zijstra

   - idle balancer improvements from Jason Low

   - other fixes and cleanups"

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (129 commits)
  ftrace, sched: Add TRACE_FLAG_PREEMPT_RESCHED
  stop_machine: Fix race between stop_two_cpus() and stop_cpus()
  sched: Remove unnecessary iteration over sched domains to update nr_busy_cpus
  sched: Fix asymmetric scheduling for POWER7
  sched: Move completion code from core.c to completion.c
  sched: Move wait code from core.c to wait.c
  sched: Move wait.c into kernel/sched/
  sched/wait: Fix __wait_event_interruptible_lock_irq_timeout()
  sched: Avoid throttle_cfs_rq() racing with period_timer stopping
  sched: Guarantee new group-entities always have weight
  sched: Fix hrtimer_cancel()/rq->lock deadlock
  sched: Fix cfs_bandwidth misuse of hrtimer_expires_remaining
  sched: Fix race on toggling cfs_bandwidth_used
  sched: Remove extra put_online_cpus() inside sched_setaffinity()
  sched/rt: Fix task_tick_rt() comment
  sched/wait: Fix build breakage
  sched/wait: Introduce prepare_to_wait_event()
  sched/wait: Add ___wait_cond_timeout() to wait_event*_timeout() too
  sched: Remove get_online_cpus() usage
  sched: Fix race in migrate_swap_stop()
  ...
2013-11-12 10:20:12 +09:00
Paul E. McKenney
4102adab91 rcu: Move RCU-related source code to kernel/rcu directory
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-10-15 12:53:31 -07:00