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rcu: Fix attempt to avoid unsolicited offloading of callbacks 

Commit b58cc46c5f (rcu: Don't offload callbacks unless specifically
requested) failed to adjust the callback lists of the CPUs that are
known to be no-CBs CPUs only because they are also nohz_full= CPUs.
This failure can result in callbacks that are posted during early boot
getting stranded on nxtlist for CPUs whose no-CBs property becomes
apparent late, and there can also be spurious warnings about offline
CPUs posting callbacks.

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

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

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
This commit is contained in:
Paul E. McKenney 2014-07-25 11:21:47 -07:00
parent 11ed7f934c
commit f4579fc57c
4 changed files with 72 additions and 33 deletions
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8
include/linux/rcupdate.h
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@ -269,6 +269,14 @@ static inline void rcu_user_hooks_switch(struct task_struct *prev,
struct task_struct *next) { }
#endif /* CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS */
#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU
void rcu_init_nohz(void);
#else /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU */
static inline void rcu_init_nohz(void)
{
}
#endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU */
/**
* RCU_NONIDLE - Indicate idle-loop code that needs RCU readers
* @a: Code that RCU needs to pay attention to.

4
init/Kconfig
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@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ choice
config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
bool "No build_forced no-CBs CPUs"
depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL_ALL
depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
help
This option does not force any of the CPUs to be no-CBs CPUs.
Only CPUs designated by the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter will be
@ -751,7 +751,7 @@ config RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
config RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
bool "CPU 0 is a build_forced no-CBs CPU"
depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU && !NO_HZ_FULL_ALL
depends on RCU_NOCB_CPU
help
This option forces CPU 0 to be a no-CBs CPU, so that its RCU
callbacks are invoked by a per-CPU kthread whose name begins

1
init/main.c
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@ -578,6 +578,7 @@ asmlinkage __visible void __init start_kernel(void)
idr_init_cache();
rcu_init();
tick_nohz_init();
rcu_init_nohz();
context_tracking_init();
radix_tree_init();
/* init some links before init_ISA_irqs() */

92
kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
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@ -85,33 +85,6 @@ static void __init rcu_bootup_announce_oddness(void)
pr_info("\tBoot-time adjustment of leaf fanout to %d.\n", rcu_fanout_leaf);
if (nr_cpu_ids != NR_CPUS)
pr_info("\tRCU restricting CPUs from NR_CPUS=%d to nr_cpu_ids=%d.\n", NR_CPUS, nr_cpu_ids);
#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU
#ifndef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
if (!have_rcu_nocb_mask) {
zalloc_cpumask_var(&rcu_nocb_mask, GFP_KERNEL);
have_rcu_nocb_mask = true;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
pr_info("\tOffload RCU callbacks from CPU 0\n");
cpumask_set_cpu(0, rcu_nocb_mask);
#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO */
#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
pr_info("\tOffload RCU callbacks from all CPUs\n");
cpumask_copy(rcu_nocb_mask, cpu_possible_mask);
#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL */
#endif /* #ifndef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE */
if (have_rcu_nocb_mask) {
if (!cpumask_subset(rcu_nocb_mask, cpu_possible_mask)) {
pr_info("\tNote: kernel parameter 'rcu_nocbs=' contains nonexistent CPUs.\n");
cpumask_and(rcu_nocb_mask, cpu_possible_mask,
rcu_nocb_mask);
}
cpulist_scnprintf(nocb_buf, sizeof(nocb_buf), rcu_nocb_mask);
pr_info("\tOffload RCU callbacks from CPUs: %s.\n", nocb_buf);
if (rcu_nocb_poll)
pr_info("\tPoll for callbacks from no-CBs CPUs.\n");
}
#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU */
}
#ifdef CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
@ -2451,6 +2424,67 @@ static void do_nocb_deferred_wakeup(struct rcu_data *rdp)
trace_rcu_nocb_wake(rdp->rsp->name, rdp->cpu, TPS("DeferredWakeEmpty"));
}
void __init rcu_init_nohz(void)
{
int cpu;
bool need_rcu_nocb_mask = true;
struct rcu_state *rsp;
#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE
need_rcu_nocb_mask = false;
#endif /* #ifndef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE */
#if defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL)
if (tick_nohz_full_running && cpumask_weight(tick_nohz_full_mask))
need_rcu_nocb_mask = true;
#endif /* #if defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL) */
if (!have_rcu_nocb_mask && need_rcu_nocb_mask) {
zalloc_cpumask_var(&rcu_nocb_mask, GFP_KERNEL);
have_rcu_nocb_mask = true;
}
if (!have_rcu_nocb_mask)
return;
#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO
pr_info("\tOffload RCU callbacks from CPU 0\n");
cpumask_set_cpu(0, rcu_nocb_mask);
#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO */
#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
pr_info("\tOffload RCU callbacks from all CPUs\n");
cpumask_copy(rcu_nocb_mask, cpu_possible_mask);
#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL */
#if defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL)
if (tick_nohz_full_running)
cpumask_or(rcu_nocb_mask, rcu_nocb_mask, tick_nohz_full_mask);
#endif /* #if defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL) */
if (!cpumask_subset(rcu_nocb_mask, cpu_possible_mask)) {
pr_info("\tNote: kernel parameter 'rcu_nocbs=' contains nonexistent CPUs.\n");
cpumask_and(rcu_nocb_mask, cpu_possible_mask,
rcu_nocb_mask);
}
cpulist_scnprintf(nocb_buf, sizeof(nocb_buf), rcu_nocb_mask);
pr_info("\tOffload RCU callbacks from CPUs: %s.\n", nocb_buf);
if (rcu_nocb_poll)
pr_info("\tPoll for callbacks from no-CBs CPUs.\n");
for_each_rcu_flavor(rsp) {
for_each_cpu(cpu, rcu_nocb_mask) {
struct rcu_data *rdp = per_cpu_ptr(rsp->rda, cpu);
/*
* If there are early callbacks, they will need
* to be moved to the nocb lists.
*/
WARN_ON_ONCE(rdp->nxttail[RCU_NEXT_TAIL] !=
&rdp->nxtlist &&
rdp->nxttail[RCU_NEXT_TAIL] != NULL);
init_nocb_callback_list(rdp);
}
}
}
/* Initialize per-rcu_data variables for no-CBs CPUs. */
static void __init rcu_boot_init_nocb_percpu_data(struct rcu_data *rdp)
{
@ -2479,10 +2513,6 @@ static void __init rcu_spawn_nocb_kthreads(struct rcu_state *rsp)
if (rcu_nocb_mask == NULL)
return;
#if defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL) && !defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL)
if (tick_nohz_full_running)
cpumask_or(rcu_nocb_mask, rcu_nocb_mask, tick_nohz_full_mask);
#endif /* #if defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL) && !defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL) */
if (ls == -1) {
ls = int_sqrt(nr_cpu_ids);
rcu_nocb_leader_stride = ls;