This commit provides rcu_exp_batches_completed() and
rcu_exp_batches_completed_sched() functions to allow torture-test modules
to check how many expedited grace period batches have completed.
These are analogous to the existing rcu_batches_completed(),
rcu_batches_completed_bh(), and rcu_batches_completed_sched() functions.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
If it is necessary to kick the grace-period kthread, that is a good
time to dump the trace buffer in order to learn why kicking was needed.
This commit therefore does the dump.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Recent kernels can fail to awaken the grace-period kthread for
quiescent-state forcing. This commit is a crude hack that does
a wakeup if a scheduling-clock interrupt sees that it has been
too long since force-quiescent-state (FQS) processing.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, the force-quiescent-state (FQS) code in rcu_gp_kthread() can
advance the next FQS even if one was not executed last time. This can
happen due timeout-duration uncertainty. This commit therefore avoids
advancing the FQS schedule unless an FQS was just executed. In the
corner case where an FQS was not executed, but is due now, the code does
a one-jiffy wait.
This change prepares for kthread kicking.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Recent kernels can fail to awaken the grace-period kthread for
quiescent-state forcing. This commit is a crude hack that does
a wakeup any time a stall is detected.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The current expedited grace-period implementation makes subsequent grace
periods wait on wakeups for the prior grace period. This does not fit
the dictionary definition of "expedited", so this commit allows these two
phases to overlap. Doing this requires four waitqueues rather than two
because tasks can now be waiting on the previous, current, and next grace
periods. The fourth waitqueue makes the bit masking work out nicely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit pulls the grace-period-start counter adjustment and tracing
from synchronize_rcu_expedited() and synchronize_sched_expedited()
into exp_funnel_lock(), thus eliminating some code duplication.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit moves some duplicate code from synchronize_rcu_expedited()
and synchronize_sched_expedited() into rcu_exp_gp_seq_snap(). This
doesn't save lines of code, but does eliminate a "tell me twice" issue.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, synchronize_rcu_expedited() and rcu_sched_expedited() have
significant duplicate code. This commit therefore consolidates some of
this code into rcu_exp_wake(), which is now renamed to rcu_exp_wait_wake()
in recognition of its added responsibilities.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit speeds up the low-contention case, especially for systems
with large rcu_node trees, by attempting to directly acquire the
->exp_mutex. This fastpath checks the leaves and root first in
order to avoid excessive memory contention on the mutex itself.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The current mutex-based funnel-locking approach used by expedited grace
periods is subject to severe unfairness. The problem arises when a
few tasks, making a path from leaves to root, all wake up before other
tasks do. A new task can then follow this path all the way to the root,
which needlessly delays tasks whose grace period is done, but who do
not happen to acquire the lock quickly enough.
This commit avoids this problem by maintaining per-rcu_node wait queues,
along with a per-rcu_node counter that tracks the latest grace period
sought by an earlier task to visit this node. If that grace period
would satisfy the current task, instead of proceeding up the tree,
it waits on the current rcu_node structure using a pair of wait queues
provided for that purpose. This decouples awakening of old tasks from
the arrival of new tasks.
If the wakeups prove to be a bottleneck, additional kthreads can be
brought to bear for that purpose.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The cpu_online() function can return values other than 0 and 1, which
can result in subscript overflow when applied to a two-element array.
This commit allows for this behavior by using "!!" on the return value
from cpu_online() when used as a subscript.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Commit #cdacbe1f91264 ("rcu: Add fastpath bypassing funnel locking")
turns out to be a pessimization at high load because it forces a tree
full of tasks to wait for an expedited grace period that they probably
do not need. This commit therefore removes this optimization.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Although cond_resched_rcu_qs() supplies quiescent states to all flavors
of normal RCU grace periods, it does nothing for expedited RCU-sched
grace periods. This commit therefore adds a check for a need for a
quiescent state from the current CPU by an expedited RCU-sched grace
period, and invokes rcu_sched_qs() to supply that quiescent state if so.
Note that the check is racy in that we might be migrated to some other
CPU just after checking the per-CPU variable. This is OK because the
act of migration will do a context switch, which will supply the needed
quiescent state. The only downside is that we might do an unnecessary
call to rcu_sched_qs(), but the probability is low and the overhead
is small.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, synchronize_sched_expedited_wait() simply sets the ndetected
variable to the rcu_print_task_exp_stall() return value. This means
that if the last rcu_node structure has no stalled tasks, record of
any stalled tasks in previous rcu_node structures is lost, which can
in turn result in failure to dump out the blocking rcu_node structures.
Or could, had the test been correct.
This commit therefore adds the return value of rcu_print_task_exp_stall()
to ndetected and corrects the later test for ndetected.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, sync_sched_exp_handler() will force a reschedule unless
this CPU has already checked in or unless a reschedule has already
been called for. This is clearly wasteful if sync_sched_exp_handler()
interrupted an idle CPU, so this commit immediately reports the
quiescent state in that case.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit consolidates a couple definitions and several calls for
single-shot ftrace-buffer dumping.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Pull cpu hotplug updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"This is the first part of the ongoing cpu hotplug rework:
- Initial implementation of the state machine
- Runs all online and prepare down callbacks on the plugged cpu and
not on some random processor
- Replaces busy loop waiting with completions
- Adds tracepoints so the states can be followed"
More detailed commentary on this work from an earlier email:
"What's wrong with the current cpu hotplug infrastructure?
- Asymmetry
The hotplug notifier mechanism is asymmetric versus the bringup and
teardown. This is mostly caused by the notifier mechanism.
- Largely undocumented dependencies
While some notifiers use explicitely defined notifier priorities,
we have quite some notifiers which use numerical priorities to
express dependencies without any documentation why.
- Control processor driven
Most of the bringup/teardown of a cpu is driven by a control
processor. While it is understandable, that preperatory steps,
like idle thread creation, memory allocation for and initialization
of essential facilities needs to be done before a cpu can boot,
there is no reason why everything else must run on a control
processor. Before this patch series, bringup looks like this:
Control CPU Booting CPU
do preparatory steps
kick cpu into life
do low level init
sync with booting cpu sync with control cpu
bring the rest up
- All or nothing approach
There is no way to do partial bringups. That's something which is
really desired because we waste e.g. at boot substantial amount of
time just busy waiting that the cpu comes to life. That's stupid
as we could very well do preparatory steps and the initial IPI for
other cpus and then go back and do the necessary low level
synchronization with the freshly booted cpu.
- Minimal debuggability
Due to the notifier based design, it's impossible to switch between
two stages of the bringup/teardown back and forth in order to test
the correctness. So in many hotplug notifiers the cancel
mechanisms are either not existant or completely untested.
- Notifier [un]registering is tedious
To [un]register notifiers we need to protect against hotplug at
every callsite. There is no mechanism that bringup/teardown
callbacks are issued on the online cpus, so every caller needs to
do it itself. That also includes error rollback.
What's the new design?
The base of the new design is a symmetric state machine, where both
the control processor and the booting/dying cpu execute a well
defined set of states. Each state is symmetric in the end, except
for some well defined exceptions, and the bringup/teardown can be
stopped and reversed at almost all states.
So the bringup of a cpu will look like this in the future:
Control CPU Booting CPU
do preparatory steps
kick cpu into life
do low level init
sync with booting cpu sync with control cpu
bring itself up
The synchronization step does not require the control cpu to wait.
That mechanism can be done asynchronously via a worker or some
other mechanism.
The teardown can be made very similar, so that the dying cpu cleans
up and brings itself down. Cleanups which need to be done after
the cpu is gone, can be scheduled asynchronously as well.
There is a long way to this, as we need to refactor the notion when a
cpu is available. Today we set the cpu online right after it comes
out of the low level bringup, which is not really correct.
The proper mechanism is to set it to available, i.e. cpu local
threads, like softirqd, hotplug thread etc. can be scheduled on that
cpu, and once it finished all booting steps, it's set to online, so
general workloads can be scheduled on it. The reverse happens on
teardown. First thing to do is to forbid scheduling of general
workloads, then teardown all the per cpu resources and finally shut it
off completely.
This patch series implements the basic infrastructure for this at the
core level. This includes the following:
- Basic state machine implementation with well defined states, so
ordering and prioritization can be expressed.
- Interfaces to [un]register state callbacks
This invokes the bringup/teardown callback on all online cpus with
the proper protection in place and [un]installs the callbacks in
the state machine array.
For callbacks which have no particular ordering requirement we have
a dynamic state space, so that drivers don't have to register an
explicit hotplug state.
If a callback fails, the code automatically does a rollback to the
previous state.
- Sysfs interface to drive the state machine to a particular step.
This is only partially functional today. Full functionality and
therefor testability will be achieved once we converted all
existing hotplug notifiers over to the new scheme.
- Run all CPU_ONLINE/DOWN_PREPARE notifiers on the booting/dying
processor:
Control CPU Booting CPU
do preparatory steps
kick cpu into life
do low level init
sync with booting cpu sync with control cpu
wait for boot
bring itself up
Signal completion to control cpu
In a previous step of this work we've done a full tree mechanical
conversion of all hotplug notifiers to the new scheme. The balance
is a net removal of about 4000 lines of code.
This is not included in this series, as we decided to take a
different approach. Instead of mechanically converting everything
over, we will do a proper overhaul of the usage sites one by one so
they nicely fit into the symmetric callback scheme.
I decided to do that after I looked at the ugliness of some of the
converted sites and figured out that their hotplug mechanism is
completely buggered anyway. So there is no point to do a
mechanical conversion first as we need to go through the usage
sites one by one again in order to achieve a full symmetric and
testable behaviour"
* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
cpu/hotplug: Document states better
cpu/hotplug: Fix smpboot thread ordering
cpu/hotplug: Remove redundant state check
cpu/hotplug: Plug death reporting race
rcu: Make CPU_DYING_IDLE an explicit call
cpu/hotplug: Make wait for dead cpu completion based
cpu/hotplug: Let upcoming cpu bring itself fully up
arch/hotplug: Call into idle with a proper state
cpu/hotplug: Move online calls to hotplugged cpu
cpu/hotplug: Create hotplug threads
cpu/hotplug: Split out the state walk into functions
cpu/hotplug: Unpark smpboot threads from the state machine
cpu/hotplug: Move scheduler cpu_online notifier to hotplug core
cpu/hotplug: Implement setup/removal interface
cpu/hotplug: Make target state writeable
cpu/hotplug: Add sysfs state interface
cpu/hotplug: Hand in target state to _cpu_up/down
cpu/hotplug: Convert the hotplugged cpu work to a state machine
cpu/hotplug: Convert to a state machine for the control processor
cpu/hotplug: Add tracepoints
...
Make the RCU CPU_DYING_IDLE callback an explicit function call, so it gets
invoked at the proper place.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Rafael Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa@mit.edu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160226182341.870167933@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
As of commit dae6e64d2b ("rcu: Introduce proper blocking to no-CBs kthreads
GP waits") the RCU subsystem started making use of wait queues.
Here we convert all additions of RCU wait queues to use simple wait queues,
since they don't need the extra overhead of the full wait queue features.
Originally this was done for RT kernels[1], since we would get things like...
BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/rtmutex.c:659
in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 1, pid: 8, name: rcu_preempt
Pid: 8, comm: rcu_preempt Not tainted
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff8106c8d0>] __might_sleep+0xd0/0xf0
[<ffffffff817d77b4>] rt_spin_lock+0x24/0x50
[<ffffffff8106fcf6>] __wake_up+0x36/0x70
[<ffffffff810c4542>] rcu_gp_kthread+0x4d2/0x680
[<ffffffff8105f910>] ? __init_waitqueue_head+0x50/0x50
[<ffffffff810c4070>] ? rcu_gp_fqs+0x80/0x80
[<ffffffff8105eabb>] kthread+0xdb/0xe0
[<ffffffff8106b912>] ? finish_task_switch+0x52/0x100
[<ffffffff817e0754>] kernel_thread_helper+0x4/0x10
[<ffffffff8105e9e0>] ? __init_kthread_worker+0x60/0x60
[<ffffffff817e0750>] ? gs_change+0xb/0xb
...and hence simple wait queues were deployed on RT out of necessity
(as simple wait uses a raw lock), but mainline might as well take
advantage of the more streamline support as well.
[1] This is a carry forward of work from v3.10-rt; the original conversion
was by Thomas on an earlier -rt version, and Sebastian extended it to
additional post-3.10 added RCU waiters; here I've added a commit log and
unified the RCU changes into one, and uprev'd it to match mainline RCU.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455871601-27484-6-git-send-email-wagi@monom.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
rcu_nocb_gp_cleanup() is called while holding rnp->lock. Currently,
this is okay because the wake_up_all() in rcu_nocb_gp_cleanup() will
not enable the IRQs. lockdep is happy.
By switching over using swait this is not true anymore. swake_up_all()
enables the IRQs while processing the waiters. __do_softirq() can now
run and will eventually call rcu_process_callbacks() which wants to
grap nrp->lock.
Let's move the rcu_nocb_gp_cleanup() call outside the lock before we
switch over to swait.
If we would hold the rnp->lock and use swait, lockdep reports
following:
=================================
[ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
4.2.0-rc5-00025-g9a73ba0 #136 Not tainted
---------------------------------
inconsistent {IN-SOFTIRQ-W} -> {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} usage.
rcu_preempt/8 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
(rcu_node_1){+.?...}, at: [<ffffffff811387c7>] rcu_gp_kthread+0xb97/0xeb0
{IN-SOFTIRQ-W} state was registered at:
[<ffffffff81109b9f>] __lock_acquire+0xd5f/0x21e0
[<ffffffff8110be0f>] lock_acquire+0xdf/0x2b0
[<ffffffff81841cc9>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x59/0xa0
[<ffffffff81136991>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x141/0x3c0
[<ffffffff810b1a9d>] __do_softirq+0x14d/0x670
[<ffffffff810b2214>] irq_exit+0x104/0x110
[<ffffffff81844e96>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x46/0x60
[<ffffffff81842e70>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x70/0x80
[<ffffffff810dba66>] rq_attach_root+0xa6/0x100
[<ffffffff810dbc2d>] cpu_attach_domain+0x16d/0x650
[<ffffffff810e4b42>] build_sched_domains+0x942/0xb00
[<ffffffff821777c2>] sched_init_smp+0x509/0x5c1
[<ffffffff821551e3>] kernel_init_freeable+0x172/0x28f
[<ffffffff8182cdce>] kernel_init+0xe/0xe0
[<ffffffff8184231f>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70
irq event stamp: 76
hardirqs last enabled at (75): [<ffffffff81841330>] _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x30/0x60
hardirqs last disabled at (76): [<ffffffff8184116f>] _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x1f/0x90
softirqs last enabled at (0): [<ffffffff810a8df2>] copy_process.part.26+0x602/0x1cf0
softirqs last disabled at (0): [< (null)>] (null)
other info that might help us debug this:
Possible unsafe locking scenario:
CPU0
----
lock(rcu_node_1);
<Interrupt>
lock(rcu_node_1);
*** DEADLOCK ***
1 lock held by rcu_preempt/8:
#0: (rcu_node_1){+.?...}, at: [<ffffffff811387c7>] rcu_gp_kthread+0xb97/0xeb0
stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 PID: 8 Comm: rcu_preempt Not tainted 4.2.0-rc5-00025-g9a73ba0 #136
Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R820/066N7P, BIOS 2.0.20 01/16/2014
0000000000000000 000000006d7e67d8 ffff881fb081fbd8 ffffffff818379e0
0000000000000000 ffff881fb0812a00 ffff881fb081fc38 ffffffff8110813b
0000000000000000 0000000000000001 ffff881f00000001 ffffffff8102fa4f
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff818379e0>] dump_stack+0x4f/0x7b
[<ffffffff8110813b>] print_usage_bug+0x1db/0x1e0
[<ffffffff8102fa4f>] ? save_stack_trace+0x2f/0x50
[<ffffffff811087ad>] mark_lock+0x66d/0x6e0
[<ffffffff81107790>] ? check_usage_forwards+0x150/0x150
[<ffffffff81108898>] mark_held_locks+0x78/0xa0
[<ffffffff81841330>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x30/0x60
[<ffffffff81108a28>] trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x168/0x220
[<ffffffff81108aed>] trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
[<ffffffff81841330>] _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x30/0x60
[<ffffffff810fd1c7>] swake_up_all+0xb7/0xe0
[<ffffffff811386e1>] rcu_gp_kthread+0xab1/0xeb0
[<ffffffff811089bf>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0xff/0x220
[<ffffffff81841341>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x41/0x60
[<ffffffff81137c30>] ? rcu_barrier+0x20/0x20
[<ffffffff810d2014>] kthread+0x104/0x120
[<ffffffff81841330>] ? _raw_spin_unlock_irq+0x30/0x60
[<ffffffff810d1f10>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x260/0x260
[<ffffffff8184231f>] ret_from_fork+0x3f/0x70
[<ffffffff810d1f10>] ? kthread_create_on_node+0x260/0x260
Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1455871601-27484-5-git-send-email-wagi@monom.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
In patch:
"rcu: Add transitivity to remaining rcu_node ->lock acquisitions"
All locking operations on rcu_node::lock are replaced with the wrappers
because of the need of transitivity, which indicates we should never
write code using LOCK primitives alone(i.e. without a proper barrier
following) on rcu_node::lock outside those wrappers. We could detect
this kind of misuses on rcu_node::lock in the future by adding __private
modifier on rcu_node::lock.
To privatize rcu_node::lock, unlock wrappers are also needed. Replacing
spinlock unlocks with these wrappers not only privatizes rcu_node::lock
but also makes it easier to figure out critical sections of rcu_node.
This patch adds __private modifier to rcu_node::lock and makes every
access to it wrapped by ACCESS_PRIVATE(). Besides, unlock wrappers are
added and raw_spin_unlock(&rnp->lock) and its friends are replaced with
those wrappers.
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The related warning from gcc 6.0:
In file included from kernel/rcu/tree.c:4630:0:
kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:810:40: warning: ‘rcu_data_p’ defined but not used [-Wunused-const-variable]
static struct rcu_data __percpu *const rcu_data_p = &rcu_sched_data;
^~~~~~~~~~
Also remove always redundant rcu_data_p in tree.c.
Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen.5i5j@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Commit #e3663b1024d1 ("rcu: Handle gpnum/completed wrap while dyntick
idle") sets rdp->gpwrap on the wrong side of the "if" statement in
dyntick_save_progress_counter(), that is, it sets it when the CPU is
not idle instead of when it is idle. Of course, if the CPU is not idle,
its rdp->gpnum won't be lagging beind the global rsp->gpnum, which means
that rdp->gpwrap will never be set.
This commit therefore moves this code to the proper leg of that "if"
statement. This change means that the "else" cause is just "return 0"
and the "then" clause ends with "return 1", so also move the "return 0"
to follow the "if", dropping the "else" clause.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Commit 4a81e8328d ("Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU")
handles the error case where a nohz_full loops indefinitely in the kernel
with the scheduling-clock interrupt disabled. However, this handling
includes IPIing the CPU running the offending loop, which is not what
we want for real-time workloads. And there are starting to be real-time
CPU-bound in-kernel workloads, and these must be handled without IPIing
the CPU, at least not in the common case. Therefore, this situation can
no longer be dismissed as an error case.
This commit therefore splits the handling out, so that the setting of
bits in the per-CPU rcu_sched_qs_mask variable is done relatively early,
but if the problem persists, resched_cpu() is eventually used to IPI the
CPU containing the offending loop. Assuming that in-kernel CPU-bound
loops used by real-time tasks contain frequent calls cond_resched_rcu_qs()
(as in more than once per few tens of milliseconds), the real-time tasks
will never be IPIed.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The header comment for rcu_report_qs_rsp() was obsolete, dating well
before the advent of RCU grace-period kthreads. This commit therefore
brings this comment back into alignment with current reality.
Reported-by: Lihao Liang <lihao.liang@cs.ox.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
A zero seems to have escaped earlier true/false substitution efforts,
so this commit changes 0 to false for the ->core_needs_qs boolean field.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The return value from rcu_gp_init() is always used as a bool, so
this commit makes it be a bool.
Reported-by: Iftekhar Ahmed <ahmedi@oregonstate.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This patch removes a potential deadlock hazard by moving the
wake_up_process() in rcu_spawn_gp_kthread() out from under rnp->lock.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit replaces a local_irq_save()/local_irq_restore() pair with
a lockdep assertion that interrupts are already disabled. This should
remove the corresponding overhead from the interrupt entry/exit fastpaths.
This change was inspired by the fact that Iftekhar Ahmed's mutation
testing showed that removing rcu_irq_enter()'s call to local_ird_restore()
had no effect, which might indicate that interrupts were always enabled
anyway.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The cpu_needs_another_gp() function is currently of type int, but only
returns zero or one. Bow to reality and make it be of type bool.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Now that the rcu_state structure's ->rda field is compile-time initialized,
there is no need to pass the per-CPU rcu_data structure into rcu_init_one().
This commit therefore eliminates this now-unused parameter.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, ->gp_state is printed as an integer, which slows debugging.
This commit therefore prints a symbolic name in addition to the integer.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Updated to fix relational operator called out by Dan Carpenter. ]
[ paulmck: More "const", as suggested by Josh Triplett. ]
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit increases debug information in the case where the grace-period
kthread is being prevented from running by dumping that kthread's stack.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Split into prior commit and this commit, as suggested by
Josh Triplett. ]
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Currently, if the RCU grace-period kthread has not yet been created,
in which case the starvation-check code will print zero for the state,
which maps to TASK_RUNNING. This could clearly be quite confusing, so
this commit prints ~0, which does not map to any legal ->state value.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
We need the scheduler's fastpaths to be, well, fast, and unnecessarily
disabling and re-enabling interrupts is not necessarily consistent with
this goal. Especially given that there are regions of the scheduler that
already have interrupts disabled.
This commit therefore moves the call to rcu_note_context_switch()
to one of the interrupts-disabled regions of the scheduler, and
removes the now-redundant disabling and re-enabling of interrupts from
rcu_note_context_switch() and the functions it calls.
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Shift rcu_note_context_switch() to avoid deadlock, as suggested
by Peter Zijlstra. ]
This commit applies an early-exit approach to rcu_sched_qs(), reducing
the nesting level and saving a line of code.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, the rcu_node_class[], rcu_fqs_class[], and rcu_exp_class[]
arrays needlessly pollute the global namespace within tree.c. This
commit therefore converts them to static local variables within
rcu_init_one().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Although expedited grace periods can be quite useful, and although their
OS jitter has been greatly reduced, they can still pose problems for
extreme real-time workloads. This commit therefore adds a rcu_normal
kernel boot parameter (which can also be manipulated via sysfs)
to suppress expedited grace periods, that is, to treat requests for
expedited grace periods as if they were requests for normal grace periods.
If both rcu_expedited and rcu_normal are specified, rcu_normal wins.
This means that if you are relying on expedited grace periods to speed up
boot, you will want to specify rcu_expedited on the kernel command line,
and then specify rcu_normal via sysfs once boot completes.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit adds print statements that check the rcu_node structure to
find which ->expmask bits and which ->exp_tasks structures are blocking
the current expedited grace period.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, if a grace period ends just as the stall-warning timeout
fires, an empty stall warning will be printed. This is not helpful,
so this commit avoids these useless warnings by rechecking completion
after awakening in synchronize_sched_expedited_wait().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, the piggybacked-work checks carried out by sync_exp_work_done()
atomically increment a small set of variables (the ->expedited_workdone0,
->expedited_workdone1, ->expedited_workdone2, ->expedited_workdone3
fields in the rcu_state structure), which will form a memory-contention
bottleneck given a sufficiently large number of CPUs concurrently invoking
either synchronize_rcu_expedited() or synchronize_sched_expedited().
This commit therefore moves these for fields to the per-CPU rcu_data
structure, eliminating the memory contention. The show_rcuexp() function
also changes to sum up each field in the rcu_data structures.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit saves a couple lines of code and reduces indentation
by inverting the sense of an "if" statement in the function
sync_rcu_exp_select_cpus().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Paul E. McKenney
Linus Torvalds
Ingo Molnar
Thomas Gleixner
Paul Gortmaker
Daniel Wagner
Boqun Feng
Chen Gang
Peter Zijlstra