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Lai Jiangshan e4fa4c9701 rcu: add __cpuinit to rcu_init_percpu_data()
Impact: reduce memory footprint

add __cpuinit to rcu_init_percpu_data(), and this function's text
will be discarded after boot when !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-14 11:26:40 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 263ec6457b cpumask: convert RCU implementations, fix
Impact: cleanup

This warning:

 kernel/rcuclassic.c: In function ‘rcu_start_batch’:
 kernel/rcuclassic.c:397: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘cpumask_andnot’ from incompatible pointer type

triggers because one usage site of rcp->cpumask was not converted
to to_cpumask(rcp->cpumask). There's no ill effects of this bug.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-03 18:59:25 +01:00
Mike Travis 7eb1955336 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask into merge-rr-cpumask
Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
	kernel/rcuclassic.c
	kernel/sched.c
	kernel/time/tick-sched.c

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
[ mingo@elte.hu: backmerged typo fix for io_apic.c ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-03 18:53:31 +01:00
Rusty Russell bd232f97b3 cpumask: convert RCU implementations
Impact: use new cpumask API.

rcu_ctrlblk contains a cpumask, and it's highly optimized so I don't want
a cpumask_var_t (ie. a pointer) for the CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK case.  It
could use a dangling bitmap, and be allocated in __rcu_init to save memory,
but for the moment we use a bitmap.

(Eventually 'struct cpumask' will be undefined for CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK,
so we use a bitmap here to show we really mean it).

We remove on-stack cpumasks, using cpumask_var_t for
rcu_torture_shuffle_tasks() and for_each_cpu_and in force_quiescent_state().

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-01-01 10:12:26 +10:30
Rusty Russell 6a7b3dc344 sched: convert nohz_cpu_mask to cpumask_var_t.
Impact: (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS.

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS.  cpumask_var_t
is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-24 17:51:10 +01:00
Ingo Molnar be19ef82e0 rcu: make rcu-stall debug printout more standard
Impact: change debug printout

Change "RCU detected CPU stall" to "INFO: RCU detected CPU stall"
message, to make it easier for tools to pick up the warning.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-03 18:34:55 +01:00
Ingo Molnar 2ec2b482b1 rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU, fix
fix the !CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR path:

 kernel/rcuclassic.c: In function '__rcu_pending':
 kernel/rcuclassic.c:609: error: too few arguments to function 'check_cpu_stall'

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-03 10:41:00 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney 2133b5d7ff rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU
This patch adds stalled-CPU detection to Classic RCU.  This capability
is enabled by a new config variable CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR, which
defaults disabled.

This is a debugging feature to detect infinite loops in kernel code, not
something that non-kernel-hackers would be expected to care about.

This feature can detect looping CPUs in !PREEMPT builds and looping CPUs
with preemption disabled in PREEMPT builds.  This is essentially a port of
this functionality from the treercu patch, replacing the stall debug patch
that is already in tip/core/rcu (commit 67182ae1c4).

The changes from the patch in tip/core/rcu include making the config
variable name match that in treercu, changing from seconds to jiffies to
avoid spurious warnings, and printing a boot message when this feature
is enabled.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-10-03 10:36:08 +02:00
Harvey Harrison 3a72dc8eb5 rcu: fix sparse shadowed variable warning
kernel/rcuclassic.c:564:18: warning: symbol 'flags' shadows an earlier one
kernel/rcuclassic.c:527:16: originally declared here

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-23 11:04:30 +02:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto 0cd418ddb1 rcuclassic: fix compiler warning
CC      kernel/rcuclassic.o
kernel/rcuclassic.c: In function 'rcu_init_percpu_data':
kernel/rcuclassic.c:705: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
kernel/rcuclassic.c:713: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast

flags should be unsigned long.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-27 09:28:07 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney 275a89bdd3 rcu: use irq-safe locks
Some earlier tip/core/rcu patches caused RCU to incorrectly enable irqs
too early in boot.  This caused Yinghai's repeated-kexec testing to
hit oopses, presumably due to so that device interrupts left over from
the prior kernel instance (which would oops the newly booting kernel
before it got a chance to reset said devices).  This patch therefore
converts all the local_irq_disable()s in rcuclassic.c to local_irq_save().

Besides, I never did like local_irq_disable() anyway.  ;-)

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-21 16:01:02 +02:00
Hiroshi Shimamoto 0c925d7923 rcuclassic: fix compilation NG
fix:

  CC      kernel/rcuclassic.o
kernel/rcuclassic.c: In function '__rcu_process_callbacks':
kernel/rcuclassic.c:561: error: 'flags' undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/rcuclassic.c:561: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
kernel/rcuclassic.c:561: error: for each function it appears in.)

Declare missing variable flags.

Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-19 11:03:33 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney eff9b713ee rcu: fix locking cleanup fallout
Given that the rcp->lock is now acquired from call_rcu(), which can be
invoked from irq-disable regions, all acquisitions need to disable irqs.
The following patch fixes this.

Although I don't have any reason to believe that this is the cause of
Yinghai's oops, it does need to be fixed.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-19 04:15:36 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney cd95851785 rcu: fix classic RCU locking cleanup lockdep problem
On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 04:24:30PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> Paul,
>
> one of your two recent RCU patches caused this lockdep splat in -tip
> testing:
>
> ------------------->
> Brought up 2 CPUs
> Total of 2 processors activated (6850.87 BogoMIPS).
> PM: Adding info for No Bus:platform
> khelper used greatest stack depth: 3124 bytes left
>
> =================================
> [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
> 2.6.27-rc3-tip #1
> ---------------------------------
> inconsistent {softirq-on-W} -> {in-softirq-W} usage.
> ksoftirqd/0/4 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE1:SE0] takes:
>  (&rcu_ctrlblk.lock){-+..}, at: [<c016d91c>] __rcu_process_callbacks+0x1ac/0x1f0
> {softirq-on-W} state was registered at:
>   [<c01528e4>] __lock_acquire+0x3f4/0x5b0
>   [<c0152b29>] lock_acquire+0x89/0xc0
>   [<c076142b>] _spin_lock+0x3b/0x70
>   [<c016d649>] rcu_init_percpu_data+0x29/0x80
>   [<c075e43f>] rcu_cpu_notify+0xaf/0xd0
>   [<c076458d>] notifier_call_chain+0x2d/0x60
>   [<c0145ede>] __raw_notifier_call_chain+0x1e/0x30
>   [<c075db29>] _cpu_up+0x79/0x110
>   [<c075dc0d>] cpu_up+0x4d/0x70
>   [<c0a769e1>] kernel_init+0xb1/0x200
>   [<c01048a3>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
>   [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
> irq event stamp: 14
> hardirqs last  enabled at (14): [<c01534db>] trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10
> hardirqs last disabled at (13): [<c014dbeb>] trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0x10
> softirqs last  enabled at (0): [<c012b186>] copy_process+0x276/0x1190
> softirqs last disabled at (11): [<c0105c0a>] call_on_stack+0x1a/0x30
>
> other info that might help us debug this:
> no locks held by ksoftirqd/0/4.
>
> stack backtrace:
> Pid: 4, comm: ksoftirqd/0 Not tainted 2.6.27-rc3-tip #1
>  [<c01504dc>] print_usage_bug+0x16c/0x1b0
>  [<c0152455>] mark_lock+0xa75/0xb10
>  [<c0108b75>] ? sched_clock+0x15/0x30
>  [<c015289d>] __lock_acquire+0x3ad/0x5b0
>  [<c0152b29>] lock_acquire+0x89/0xc0
>  [<c016d91c>] ? __rcu_process_callbacks+0x1ac/0x1f0
>  [<c076142b>] _spin_lock+0x3b/0x70
>  [<c016d91c>] ? __rcu_process_callbacks+0x1ac/0x1f0
>  [<c016d91c>] __rcu_process_callbacks+0x1ac/0x1f0
>  [<c016d986>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x26/0x50
>  [<c0132305>] __do_softirq+0x95/0x120
>  [<c0132270>] ? __do_softirq+0x0/0x120
>  [<c0105c0a>] call_on_stack+0x1a/0x30
>  [<c0132426>] ? ksoftirqd+0x96/0x110
>  [<c0132390>] ? ksoftirqd+0x0/0x110
>  [<c01411f7>] ? kthread+0x47/0x80
>  [<c01411b0>] ? kthread+0x0/0x80
>  [<c01048a3>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
>  =======================
> calling  init_cpufreq_transition_notifier_list+0x0/0x20
> initcall init_cpufreq_transition_notifier_list+0x0/0x20 returned 0 after 0 msecs
> calling  net_ns_init+0x0/0x190
> net_namespace: 676 bytes
> initcall net_ns_init+0x0/0x190 returned 0 after 0 msecs
> calling  cpufreq_tsc+0x0/0x20
> initcall cpufreq_tsc+0x0/0x20 returned 0 after 0 msecs
> calling  reboot_init+0x0/0x20
> initcall reboot_init+0x0/0x20 returned 0 after 0 msecs
> calling  print_banner+0x0/0x10
> Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
>
> <-----------------------
>
> my guess is on:
>
>  commit 1f7b94cd3d
>  Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>  Date:   Tue Aug 5 09:21:44 2008 -0700
>
>     rcu: classic RCU locking and memory-barrier cleanups
>
> 	Ingo

Fixes a problem detected by lockdep in which rcu->lock was acquired
both in irq context and in process context, but without disabling from
process context.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-17 17:38:01 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney 1f7b94cd3d rcu: classic RCU locking and memory-barrier cleanups
This patch simplifies the locking and memory-barrier usage in the Classic
RCU grace-period-detection mechanism, incorporating Lai Jiangshan's
feedback from the earlier version (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/1/400
and http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/3/43).  Passed 10 hours of
rcutorture concurrent with CPUs being put online and taken offline on
a 128-hardware-thread Power machine.  My apologies to whoever in the
Eastern Hemisphere was planning to use this machine over the Western
Hemisphere night, but it was sitting idle and...

So this is ready for tip/core/rcu.

This patch is in preparation for moving to a hierarchical
algorithm to allow the very large SMP machines -- requested by some
people at OLS, and there seem to have been a few recent patches in the
4096-CPU direction as well.  The general idea is to move to a much more
conservative concurrency design, then apply a hierarchy to reduce
contention on the global lock by a few orders of magnitude (larger
machines would see greater reductions).  The reason for taking a
conservative approach is that this code isn't on any fast path.

Prototype in progress.

This patch is against the linux-tip git tree (tip/core/rcu).  If you
wish to test this against 2.6.26, use the following set of patches:

http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/patches/2.6.26-ljsimp-1.patch
http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/patches/2.6.26-ljsimpfix-3.patch

The first patch combines commits 5127bed588
and 3cac97cbb1 from Lai Jiangshan
<laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>, and the second patch contains my changes.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-15 16:08:47 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney 293a17ebc9 rcu: prevent console flood when one CPU sees another AWOL via RCU
One small change needed to keep from flooding the console when one
CPU notices that another is AWOL.  Unless I am missing something subtle.
Otherwise the cleanups look good!

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-15 15:08:58 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 78635fc739 rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periods, cleanups
small cleanups.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 13:35:18 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney 67182ae1c4 rcu, debug: detect stalled grace periods
this is a diagnostic patch for Classic RCU.

The approach is to record a timestamp at the beginning
of the grace period (in rcu_start_batch()), then have
rcu_check_callbacks() complain if:

 1.	it is running on a CPU that has holding up grace periods for
 	a long time (say one second).  This will identify the culprit
 	assuming that the culprit has not disabled hardware irqs,
 	instruction execution, or some such.

 2.	it is running on a CPU that is not holding up grace periods,
 	but grace periods have been held up for an even longer time
 	(say two seconds).

It is enabled via the default-off CONFIG_DEBUG_RCU_STALL kernel parameter.

Rather than exponential backoff, it backs off to once per 30 seconds.
My feeling upon thinking on it was that if you have stalled RCU grace
periods for that long, a few extra printk() messages are probably the
least of your worries...

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: David Witbrodt <dawitbro@sbcglobal.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-08-11 13:35:18 +02:00
Ingo Molnar c4c0c56a7a Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcu 2008-08-11 13:27:47 +02:00
Rusty Russell 9b1a4d3837 stop_machine: Wean existing callers off stop_machine_run()
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-07-28 12:16:31 +10:00
Lai Jiangshan 5127bed588 rcu classic: new algorithm for callbacks-processing(v2)
This is v2, it's a little deference from v1 that I
had send to lkml.
use ACCESS_ONCE
use rcu_batch_after/rcu_batch_before for batch # comparison.

rcutorture test result:
(hotplugs: do cpu-online/offline once per second)

No CONFIG_NO_HZ:           OK, 12hours
No CONFIG_NO_HZ, hotplugs: OK, 12hours
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y:            OK, 24hours
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y, hotplugs:  Failed.
(Failed also without my patch applied, exactly the same bug occurred,
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/3/24)

v1's email thread:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/2/539

v1's description:

The code/algorithm of the implement of current callbacks-processing
is very efficient and technical. But when I studied it and I found
a disadvantage:

In multi-CPU systems, when a new RCU callback is being
queued(call_rcu[_bh]), this callback will be invoked after the grace
period for the batch with batch number = rcp->cur+2 has completed
very very likely in current implement. Actually, this callback can be
invoked after the grace period for the batch with
batch number = rcp->cur+1 has completed. The delay of invocation means
that latency of synchronize_rcu() is extended. But more important thing
is that the callbacks usually free memory, and these works are delayed
too! it's necessary for reclaimer to free memory as soon as
possible when left memory is few.

A very simple way can solve this problem:
a field(struct rcu_head::batch) is added to record the batch number for
the RCU callback. And when a new RCU callback is being queued, we
determine the batch number for this callback(head->batch = rcp->cur+1)
and we move this callback to rdp->donelist if we find
that head->batch <= rcp->completed when we process callbacks.
This simple way reduces the wait time for invocation a lot. (about
2.5Grace Period -> 1.5Grace Period in average in multi-CPU systems)

This is my algorithm. But I do not add any field for struct rcu_head
in my implement. We just need to memorize the last 2 batches and
their batch number, because these 2 batches include all entries that
for whom the grace period hasn't completed. So we use a special
linked-list rather than add a field.
Please see the comment of struct rcu_data.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Gautham Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 16:07:33 +02:00
Lai Jiangshan 3cac97cbb1 rcu classic: simplify the next pending batch
use a batch number(rcp->pending) instead of a flag(rcp->next_pending)

rcu_start_batch() need to change this flag, so mb()s is needed
for memory-access safe.

but(after this patch applied) rcu_start_batch() do not change
this batch number(rcp->pending), rcp->pending is managed by
__rcu_process_callbacks only, and troublesome mb()s are eliminated.

And codes look simpler and clearer.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Gautham Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-18 16:07:32 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 82638844d9 Merge branch 'linus' into cpus4096
Conflicts:

	arch/x86/xen/smp.c
	kernel/sched_rt.c
	net/iucv/iucv.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-16 00:29:07 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 6c9fcaf2ee Merge branch 'core/rcu' into core/rcu-for-linus 2008-07-15 21:10:12 +02:00
Linus Torvalds 666484f025 Merge branch 'core/softirq' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core/softirq' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  softirq: remove irqs_disabled warning from local_bh_enable
  softirq: remove initialization of static per-cpu variable
  Remove argument from open_softirq which is always NULL
2008-07-14 15:28:42 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan 199a952876 rcu classic: update qlen when cpu offline
When callbacks are moved from offline cpu to this cpu,
the qlen field of this rdp should be updated.

[ Paul E. McKenney: ]

The effect of this bug would be for force_quiescent_state() to be invoked
when it should not and vice versa -- wasting cycles in the first case
and letting RCU callbacks remain piled up in the second case.  The bug
is thus "benign" in that it does not result in premature grace-period
termination, but should of course be fixed nonetheless.

Preemption is disabled by the caller's get_cpu_var(), so we are guaranteed
to remain on the same CPU, as required.  The local_irq_disable() is indeed
needed, otherwise, an interrupt might invoke call_rcu() or call_rcu_bh(),
which could cause that interrupt's increment of ->qlen to be lost.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-13 23:12:17 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 0c81b2a144 Merge branch 'linus' into core/rcu
Conflicts:

	include/linux/rculist.h
	kernel/rcupreempt.c

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-11 10:46:50 +02:00
Ingo Molnar 68083e05d7 Merge commit 'v2.6.26-rc9' into cpus4096 2008-07-06 14:23:39 +02:00
Gautham R Shenoy 8558f8f816 rcu: fix hotplug vs rcu race
Dhaval Giani reported this warning during cpu hotplug stress-tests:

| On running kernel compiles in parallel with cpu hotplug:
|
| WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:118
| native_smp_send_reschedule+0x21/0x36()
| Modules linked in:
| Pid: 27483, comm: cc1 Not tainted 2.6.26-rc7 #1
| [...]
|  [<c0110355>] native_smp_send_reschedule+0x21/0x36
|  [<c014fe8f>] force_quiescent_state+0x47/0x57
|  [<c014fef0>] call_rcu+0x51/0x6d
|  [<c01713b3>] __fput+0x130/0x158
|  [<c0171231>] fput+0x17/0x19
|  [<c016fd99>] filp_close+0x4d/0x57
|  [<c016fdff>] sys_close+0x5c/0x97

IMHO the warning is a spurious one.

cpu_online_map is updated by the _cpu_down() using stop_machine_run().
Since force_quiescent_state is invoked from irqs disabled section,
stop_machine_run() won't be executing while a cpu is executing
force_quiescent_state(). Hence the cpu_online_map is stable while we're
in the irq disabled section.

However, a cpu might have been offlined _just_ before we disabled irqs
while entering force_quiescent_state(). And rcu subsystem might not yet
have handled the CPU_DEAD notification, leading to the offlined cpu's
bit being set in the rcp->cpumask.

Hence cpumask = (rcp->cpumask & cpu_online_map) to prevent sending
smp_reschedule() to an offlined CPU.

Here's the timeline:

CPU_A						 CPU_B
--------------------------------------------------------------
cpu_down():					.
.					   	.
.						.
stop_machine(): /* disables preemption,		.
		 * and irqs */			.
.						.
.						.
take_cpu_down();				.
.						.
.						.
.						.
cpu_disable(); /*this removes cpu 		.
		*from cpu_online_map 		.
		*/				.
.						.
.						.
restart_machine(); /* enables irqs */		.
------WINDOW DURING WHICH rcp->cpumask is stale ---------------
.						call_rcu();
.						/* disables irqs here */
.						.force_quiescent_state();
.CPU_DEAD:					.for_each_cpu(rcp->cpumask)
.						.   smp_send_reschedule();
.						.
.						.   WARN_ON() for offlined CPU!
.
.
.
rcu_cpu_notify:
.
-------- WINDOW ENDS ------------------------------------------
rcu_offline_cpu() /* Which calls cpu_quiet()
		   * which removes
		   * cpu from rcp->cpumask.
		   */

If a new batch was started just before calling stop_machine_run(), the
"tobe-offlined" cpu is still present in rcp-cpumask.

During a cpu-offline, from take_cpu_down(), we queue an rt-prio idle
task as the next task to be picked by the scheduler. We also call
cpu_disable() which will disable any further interrupts and remove the
cpu's bit from the cpu_online_map.

Once the stop_machine_run() successfully calls take_cpu_down(), it calls
schedule(). That's the last time a schedule is called on the offlined
cpu, and hence the last time when rdp->passed_quiesc will be set to 1
through rcu_qsctr_inc().

But the cpu_quiet() will be on this cpu will be called only when the
next RCU_SOFTIRQ occurs on this CPU. So at this time, the offlined CPU
is still set in rcp->cpumask.

Now coming back to the idle_task which truely offlines the CPU, it does
check for a pending RCU and raises the softirq, since it will find
rdp->passed_quiesc to be 0 in this case. However, since the cpu is
offline I am not sure if the softirq will trigger on the CPU.

Even if it doesn't the rcu_offline_cpu() will find that rcp->completed
is not the same as rcp->cur, which means that our cpu could be holding
up the grace period progression. Hence we call cpu_quiet() and move
ahead.

But because of the window explained in the timeline, we could still have
a call_rcu() before the RCU subsystem executes it's CPU_DEAD
notification, and we send smp_send_reschedule() to offlined cpu while
trying to force the quiescent states. The appended patch adds comments
and prevents checking for offlined cpu everytime.

cpu_online_map is updated by the _cpu_down() using stop_machine_run().
Since force_quiescent_state is invoked from irqs disabled section,
stop_machine_run() won't be executing while a cpu is executing
force_quiescent_state(). Hence the cpu_online_map is stable while we're
in the irq disabled section.

Reported-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Rusty Russel <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-01 09:27:17 +02:00
Carlos R. Mafra 962cf36c5b Remove argument from open_softirq which is always NULL
As git-grep shows, open_softirq() is always called with the last argument
being NULL

block/blk-core.c:       open_softirq(BLOCK_SOFTIRQ, blk_done_softirq, NULL);
kernel/hrtimer.c:       open_softirq(HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ, run_hrtimer_softirq, NULL);
kernel/rcuclassic.c:    open_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ, rcu_process_callbacks, NULL);
kernel/rcupreempt.c:    open_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ, rcu_process_callbacks, NULL);
kernel/sched.c: open_softirq(SCHED_SOFTIRQ, run_rebalance_domains, NULL);
kernel/softirq.c:       open_softirq(TASKLET_SOFTIRQ, tasklet_action, NULL);
kernel/softirq.c:       open_softirq(HI_SOFTIRQ, tasklet_hi_action, NULL);
kernel/timer.c: open_softirq(TIMER_SOFTIRQ, run_timer_softirq, NULL);
net/core/dev.c: open_softirq(NET_TX_SOFTIRQ, net_tx_action, NULL);
net/core/dev.c: open_softirq(NET_RX_SOFTIRQ, net_rx_action, NULL);

This observation has already been made by Matthew Wilcox in June 2002
(http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-25/0687.html)

"I notice that none of the current softirq routines use the data element
passed to them."

and the situation hasn't changed since them. So it appears we can safely
remove that extra argument to save 128 (54) bytes of kernel data (text).

Signed-off-by: Carlos R. Mafra <crmafra@ift.unesp.br>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-25 07:43:15 +02:00
Mike Travis 363ab6f142 core: use performance variant for_each_cpu_mask_nr
Change references from for_each_cpu_mask to for_each_cpu_mask_nr
where appropriate

Reviewed-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-23 18:35:12 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney 8db559b830 rcu: add memory barriers and comments to rcu_check_callbacks()
Add comments to the logic that infers quiescent states when interrupting
from either user mode or the idle loop.  Also add a memory barrier: it
appears that James Huang was in fact onto something, as the scheduler
is much less synchronization happy than it once was, so we can no longer
rely on its memory barriers in all cases.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: James Huang <jamesclhuang@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-05-19 10:01:36 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney e260be673a Preempt-RCU: implementation
This patch implements a new version of RCU which allows its read-side
critical sections to be preempted. It uses a set of counter pairs
to keep track of the read-side critical sections and flips them
when all tasks exit read-side critical section. The details
of this implementation can be found in this paper -

	http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/OLSrtRCU.2006.08.11a.pdf

and the article-

	http://lwn.net/Articles/253651/

This patch was developed as a part of the -rt kernel development and
meant to provide better latencies when read-side critical sections of
RCU don't disable preemption.  As a consequence of keeping track of RCU
readers, the readers have a slight overhead (optimizations in the paper).
This implementation co-exists with the "classic" RCU implementations
and can be switched to at compiler.

Also includes RCU tracing summarized in debugfs.

[ akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes on non-preempt architectures ]

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:24 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney e0ecfa7917 Preempt-RCU: fix rcu_barrier for preemptive environment.
Fix rcu_barrier() to work properly in preemptive kernel environment.
Also, the ordering of callback must be preserved while moving
callbacks to another CPU during CPU hotplug.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:24 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney 01c1c660f4 Preempt-RCU: reorganize RCU code into rcuclassic.c and rcupdate.c
This patch re-organizes the RCU code to enable multiple implementations
of RCU. Users of RCU continues to include rcupdate.h and the
RCU interfaces remain the same. This is in preparation for
subsequently merging the preemptible RCU implementation.

Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-01-25 21:08:24 +01:00