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Paul E. McKenney 4f89b336fd rcu: Apply ACCESS_ONCE() to rcu_boost() return value
Both TINY_RCU's and TREE_RCU's implementations of rcu_boost() access
the ->boost_tasks and ->exp_tasks fields without preventing concurrent
changes to these fields.  This commit therefore applies ACCESS_ONCE in
order to prevent compiler mischief.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:33:19 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 4968c300e1 rcu: Augment rcu_batch_end tracing for idle and callback state
The current rcu_batch_end event trace records only the name of the RCU
flavor and the total number of callbacks that remain queued on the
current CPU.  This is insufficient for testing and tuning the new
dyntick-idle RCU_FAST_NO_HZ code, so this commit adds idle state along
with whether or not any of the callbacks that were ready to invoke
at the beginning of rcu_do_batch() are still queued.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:32:22 -08:00
Paul Gortmaker bdfa97bf72 kernel: fix up module header handling in rcutiny files
The file rcutiny.c does not need moduleparam.h header, as
there are no modparams in this file.

However rcutiny_plugin.h does define a module_init() and
a module_exit() and it uses the various MODULE_ macros, so
it really does need module.h included.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-10-31 09:20:13 -04:00
Paul E. McKenney 965a002b4f rcu: Make TINY_RCU also use softirq for RCU_BOOST=n
This patch #ifdefs TINY_RCU kthreads out of the kernel unless RCU_BOOST=y,
thus eliminating context-switch overhead if RCU priority boosting has
not been configured.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28 21:38:20 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney e99033c5c1 rcu: Put names into TINY_RCU structures under RCU_TRACE
In order to allow event tracing to distinguish between flavors of
RCU, we need those names in the relevant RCU data structures.  TINY_RCU
has avoided them for memory-footprint reasons, so add them only if
CONFIG_RCU_TRACE=y.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28 21:38:14 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 2c42818e96 rcu: Abstract common code for RCU grace-period-wait primitives
Pull the code that waits for an RCU grace period into a single function,
which is then called by synchronize_rcu() and friends in the case of
TREE_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, and from rcu_barrier() and friends in
the case of TINY_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28 21:36:42 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 7e8b4c7234 rcu: Converge TINY_RCU expedited and normal boosting
This applies a trick from TREE_RCU boosting to TINY_RCU, eliminating
code and adding comments.  The key point is that it is possible for
the booster thread itself to work out whether there is a normal or
expedited boost required based solely on local information.  There
is therefore no need for boost initiation to know or care what type
of boosting is required.  In addition, when boosting is complete for
a given grace period, then by definition there cannot be any more
boosting for that grace period.  This allows eliminating yet more
state and statistics.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-05-05 23:16:58 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 203373c81b rcu: remove useless ->boosted_this_gp field
The ->boosted_this_gp field is a holdover from an earlier design that
was to carry out multiple boost operations in parallel.  It is not required
by the current design, which boosts one task at a time.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-05-05 23:16:58 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney ddeb75814f rcu: code cleanups in TINY_RCU priority boosting.
Extraneous semicolon, bad comment, and fold INIT_LIST_HEAD() into
list_del() to get list_del_init().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-05-05 23:16:58 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan ba74f4d7e5 rcu: call __rcu_read_unlock() in exit_rcu for tiny RCU
Using __rcu_read_lock() in place of rcu_read_lock() leaves any debug
state as it really should be, namely with the lock still held.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-03-04 08:05:08 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney e940cc804e rcu: Distinguish between boosting and boosted
RCU priority boosting's tracing did not distinguish between ongoing
boosting and completion of boosting.  This commit therefore adds this
capability.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-11-29 22:01:56 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 9e571a82f0 rcu: add tracing for TINY_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
Add tracing for the tiny RCU implementations, including statistics on
boosting in the case of TINY_PREEMPT_RCU and RCU_BOOST.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-11-29 22:01:55 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 24278d1483 rcu: priority boosting for TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
Add priority boosting, but only for TINY_PREEMPT_RCU.  This is enabled
by the default-off RCU_BOOST kernel parameter.  The priority to which to
boost preempted RCU readers is controlled by the RCU_BOOST_PRIO kernel
parameter (defaulting to real-time priority 1) and the time to wait
before boosting the readers blocking a given grace period is controlled
by the RCU_BOOST_DELAY kernel parameter (defaulting to 500 milliseconds).

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-11-29 22:01:54 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney b2c0710c46 rcu: move TINY_RCU from softirq to kthread
If RCU priority boosting is to be meaningful, callback invocation must
be boosted in addition to preempted RCU readers.  Otherwise, in presence
of CPU real-time threads, the grace period ends, but the callbacks don't
get invoked.  If the callbacks don't get invoked, the associated memory
doesn't get freed, so the system is still subject to OOM.

But it is not reasonable to priority-boost RCU_SOFTIRQ, so this commit
moves the callback invocations to a kthread, which can be boosted easily.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-11-17 15:45:09 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney dd7c4d8973 rcu: performance fixes to TINY_PREEMPT_RCU callback checking
This commit tightens up checks in rcu_preempt_check_callbacks() to avoid
unnecessary special handling at rcu_read_unlock() time.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-27 10:51:17 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney a3dc3fb161 rcu: repair code-duplication FIXMEs
Combine the duplicate definitions of ULONG_CMP_GE(), ULONG_CMP_LT(),
and rcu_preempt_depth() into include/linux/rcupdate.h.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-20 09:00:13 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney a57eb940d1 rcu: Add a TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
Implement a small-memory-footprint uniprocessor-only implementation of
preemptible RCU.  This implementation uses but a single blocked-tasks
list rather than the combinatorial number used per leaf rcu_node by
TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, which reduces memory consumption and greatly simplifies
processing.  This version also takes advantage of uniprocessor execution
to accelerate grace periods in the case where there are no readers.

The general design is otherwise broadly similar to that of TREE_PREEMPT_RCU.

This implementation is a step towards having RCU implementation driven
off of the SMP and PREEMPT kernel configuration variables, which can
happen once this implementation has accumulated sufficient experience.

Removed ACCESS_ONCE() from __rcu_read_unlock() and added barrier() as
suggested by Steve Rostedt in order to avoid the compiler-reordering
issue noted by Mathieu Desnoyers (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/16/183).

As can be seen below, CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU represents almost 5Kbyte
savings compared to CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU.  Of course, for non-real-time
workloads, CONFIG_TINY_RCU is even better.

	CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU

	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	   filename
	     13	      0	      0	     13	   kernel/rcupdate.o
	   6170	    825	     28	   7023	   kernel/rcutree.o
				   ----
				   7026    Total

	CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU

	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	   filename
	     13	      0	      0	     13	   kernel/rcupdate.o
	   2081	     81	      8	   2170	   kernel/rcutiny.o
				   ----
				   2183    Total

	CONFIG_TINY_RCU (non-preemptible)

	   text	   data	    bss	    dec	   filename
	     13	      0	      0	     13	   kernel/rcupdate.o
	    719	     25	      0	    744	   kernel/rcutiny.o
				    ---
				    757    Total

Requested-by: Loïc Minier <loic.minier@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-20 08:55:00 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney bbad937983 rcu: slim down rcutiny by removing rcu_scheduler_active and friends
TINY_RCU does not need rcu_scheduler_active unless CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC.
So conditionally compile rcu_scheduler_active in order to slim down
rcutiny a bit more.  Also gets rid of an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, which is
responsible for most of the slimming.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-05-10 11:08:34 -07:00