This commit pulls the simple pattern-based error detection from the
console log into a new console-badness.sh file. This will enable future
commits to end a run on the first error.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
When bisecting RCU issues, it is often the case that the first error in
an unsuccessful run will happen quickly, but that a successful run must
go on for some time in order to obtain a sufficiently low false-negative
error rate. In many cases, a bisection requires multiple concurrent
runs, in which case the first failure in any run indicates failure,
pure and simple. In such cases, it would speed things up greatly if
the first failure terminated all runs.
This commit therefore adds scripting that checks for a file named "STOP"
in the top-level results directory, terminating the run when it appears.
Note that in-progress builds will continue until completion, but future
builds and all runs will be cut short.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
One reason to do a --buildonly run is to use the build products elsewhere,
for example, to do the actual test on some other system. Part of doing
the test is the actual qemu command, which is not currently produced
by --buildonly runs. This commit therefore causes --buildonly runs to
create this file.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Coccinelle reports a warning
WARNING: Assignment of 0/1 to bool variable
The root cause is that the variable lastphase is a bool, but is
initialised with integer 0. This commit therefore replaces the 0 with
a false.
Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Leaving off the kvm.sh script's --cpus argument results in the script
testing the scenarios sequentially, which can be quite slow. However,
having to specify the actual number of CPUs can be error-prone.
This commit therefore adds a --allcpus argument that causes kvm.sh to
use all available CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The identify_qemu_vcpus bash function can return numbers including
whitespace characters, which can be a bit annoying in some bash
dollar-sign substitutions. This commit therefore strips all spaces and
tabs from the value that identify_qemu_vcpus outputs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, the rcu_torture_current variable remains non-NULL until after
all readers have stopped. During this time, rcu_torture_stats_print()
will think that the test is still ongoing, which can result in confusing
dmesg output. This commit therefore NULLs rcu_torture_current immediately
after the rcu_torture_writer() kthread has decided to stop, thus informing
rcu_torture_stats_print() much sooner.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The current console parsing assumes that console lines containing "!!!"
are statistics lines from which it can parse the number of rcutorture
too-short grace-period failures. This prints confusing output for
other problems, including memory exhaustion. This commit therefore
differentiates between these cases and prints an appropriate error string.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The torture-test recheck logic fails to set the configfile variable to
the current scenario, so this commit properly initializes this variable.
This change isn't critical given that all errors for a given scenario
follow that scenario's heading, but it is easier on the eyes to repeat it.
And this repetition also prevents confusion as to whether a given message
goes with the previous heading or the next one.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Several variants of Linux-kernel RCU interact with task-exit processing,
including preemptible RCU, Tasks RCU, and Tasks Trace RCU. This commit
therefore adds testing of this interaction to rcutorture by adding
rcutorture.read_exit_burst and rcutorture.read_exit_delay kernel-boot
parameters. These kernel parameters control the frequency and spacing
of special read-then-exit kthreads that are spawned.
[ paulmck: Apply feedback from Dan Carpenter's static checker. ]
[ paulmck: Reduce latency to avoid false-positive shutdown hangs. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit fixes the following coccicheck warnings:
kernel/locking/locktorture.c:689:6-10: WARNING: Assignment of 0/1 to bool variable
kernel/locking/locktorture.c:907:2-20: WARNING: Assignment of 0/1 to bool variable
kernel/locking/locktorture.c:938:3-20: WARNING: Assignment of 0/1 to bool variable
kernel/locking/locktorture.c:668:2-19: WARNING: Assignment of 0/1 to bool variable
kernel/locking/locktorture.c:674:2-19: WARNING: Assignment of 0/1 to bool variable
kernel/locking/locktorture.c:634:2-20: WARNING: Assignment of 0/1 to bool variable
kernel/locking/locktorture.c:640:2-20: WARNING: Assignment of 0/1 to bool variable
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Zou Wei <zou_wei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds a kvm-check-branches.sh script that takes a list
of commits and commit ranges and runs a short rcutorture test on all
scenarios on each specified commit. A summary is printed at the end, and
the script returns success if all rcutorture runs completed without error.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
On some (probably misconfigured) systems, the torture-test scripting
will cause qemu to complain about missing EFI firmware, often because
qemu is trying to traverse broken symbolic links to find that firmware.
Which is a bit silly given that the default torture-test guest OS has
but a single binary for its userspace, and thus is unlikely to do much
in the way of networking in any case.
This commit therefore avoids such problems by specifying "-net none"
to qemu unless the TORTURE_QEMU_INTERACTIVE environment variable is set
(for example, by having specified "--interactive" to kvm.sh), in which
case "-net nic -net user" is specified to qemu instead. Either choice
may be overridden by specifying the "-net" argument of your choice to
the kvm.sh "--qemu-args" parameter.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190701141403.GA246562@google.com
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
SRCU disables interrupts to get a stable per-CPU pointer and then
acquires the spinlock which is in the per-CPU data structure. The
release uses spin_unlock_irqrestore(). While this is correct on a non-RT
kernel, this conflicts with the RT semantics because the spinlock is
converted to a 'sleeping' spinlock. Sleeping locks can obviously not be
acquired with interrupts disabled.
Acquire the per-CPU pointer `ssp->sda' without disabling preemption and
then acquire the spinlock_t of the per-CPU data structure. The lock will
ensure that the data is consistent.
The added call to check_init_srcu_struct() is now needed because a
statically defined srcu_struct may remain uninitialized until this
point and the newly introduced locking operation requires an initialized
spinlock_t.
This change was tested for four hours with 8*SRCU-N and 8*SRCU-P without
causing any warnings.
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: rcu@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit renames the rcutorture config/refperf to config/refscale to
further avoid conflation with the Linux kernel's perf feature.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit further avoids conflation of refperf with the kernel's perf
feature by renaming kernel/rcu/refperf.c to kernel/rcu/refscale.c,
and also by similarly renaming the functions and variables inside
this file. This has the side effect of changing the names of the
kernel boot parameters, so kernel-parameters.txt and ver_functions.sh
are also updated.
The rcutorture --torture type remains refperf, and this will be
addressed in a separate commit.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The old Kconfig option name is all too easy to conflate with the
unrelated "perf" feature, so this commit renames RCU_REF_PERF_TEST to
RCU_REF_SCALE_TEST.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace() header comment incorrectly claims that
any number of things delimit RCU Tasks Trace read-side critical sections,
when in fact only rcu_read_lock_trace() and rcu_read_unlock_trace() do so.
This commit therefore fixes this comment, and, while in the area, fixes
a typo in the rcu_read_lock_trace() header comment.
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds testing for RCU Tasks readers to the refperf module.
This also applies to RCU Rude readers, as both flavors have empty
(as in non-existent) read-side markers.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The current units of microseconds are too coarse, so this commit
changes the units to nanoseconds. However, ndelay is used only for the
nanoseconds with udelay being used for whole microseconds. For example,
setting refperf.readdelay=1500 results in a udelay(1) followed by an
ndelay(500).
Suggested-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Abstracted delay per Akira feedback and move from 80 to 100 lines. ]
[ paulmck: Fix names as suggested by kbuild test robot. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
A 64-bit division was introduced in refperf, breaking compilation
on all 32-bit architectures:
kernel/rcu/refperf.o: in function `main_func':
refperf.c:(.text+0x57c): undefined reference to `__aeabi_uldivmod'
Fix this by using div_u64 to mark the expensive operation.
[ paulmck: Update primitive and format per Nathan Chancellor. ]
Fixes: bd5b16d6c88d ("refperf: Allow decimal nanoseconds")
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Reported-by: Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> # build-tested
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds documentation for the rcuperf module parameters.
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
With the various measurement optimizations, 10,000 loops normally
suffices. This commit therefore reduces the refperf.loops default value
from 10,000,000 to 10,000.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds a refperf.readdelay module parameter that controls the
duration of each critical section. This parameter allows gathering data
showing how the performance differences between the various primitives
vary with critical-section length.
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit moves the reader-launch wait loop from ref_perf_init()
to main_func(), removing one layer of wakeup and allowing slightly
faster system boot.
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, it is necessary to manually edit the console output to see
anything more than statistics, and sometimes the statistics can indicate
outliers that need more investigation. This commit therefore dumps out
the per-experiment measurements, sorted in ascending order, just before
dumping out the statistics.
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The experiment-number column is currently labeled "Threads", which is
misleading at best. This commit therefore relabels it as "Runs", and
adjusts the scripts accordingly.
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit causes all the readers to start running unmeasured load
until all readers have done at least one such run (thus having warmed
up), then run the measured load, and then run unmeasured load until all
readers have completed their measured load. This approach avoids any
thread running measured load while other readers are idle.
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, readers are awakened individually. On most systems, this
results in significant wakeup delay from one reader to the next, which
can result in the first and last reader having sole access to the
synchronization primitive in question. If that synchronization primitive
involves shared memory, those readers will rack up a huge number of
operations in a very short time, causing large perturbations in the
results.
This commit therefore has the readers busy-wait after being awakened,
and uses a new n_started variable to synchronize their start times.
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit converts the reader_task structure's "start" field to int
in order to demote a full barrier to an smp_load_acquire() and also to
simplify the code a bit. While in the area, and to enlist the compiler's
help in ensuring that nothing was missed, the field's name was changed
to start_reader.
Also while in the area, change the main_func() store to use
smp_store_release() to further fortify against wait/wake races.
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit moves a printk() out of the measurement interval, converts
a atomic_dec()/atomic_read() pair to atomic_dec_and_test(), and adds
a smp_mb__before_atomic() to avoid potential wake/wait hangs. These
changes have the added benefit of reducing the number of loops required
for amortizing loop overhead for CONFIG_PREEMPT=n RCU measurements from
1,000,000 to 10,000. This reduction in turn shortens the test, reducing
the probability of interference.
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Because the reset_readers() and process_durations() functions are used
only within kernel/rcu/refperf.c, this commit makes them static.
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, the buffer used to accumulate the thread-summary output is
fixed size, which will cause problems if someone decides to run on a large
number of PCUs. This commit therefore dynamically allocates this buffer.
[ paulmck: Fix memory allocation as suggested by KASAN. ]
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, the buffer used to accumulate the experiment-summary output
is fixed size, which will cause problems if someone decides to run
one hundred experiments. This commit therefore dynamically allocates
this buffer.
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The current code uses the number of threads both to limit the number
of threads and to specify the number of experiments, but also varies
the number of threads as the experiments progress. This commit takes
a different approach by adding an refperf.nruns module parameter that
specifies the number of experiments, and furthermore uses the same
number of threads for each experiment.
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit converts nreaders to a module parameter, with the default
of -1 specifying the old behavior of using 75% of the readers.
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The CONFIG_PREEMPT=n rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pair's overhead,
even including loop overhead, is far less than one nanosecond.
Since logscale plots are not all that happy with zero values, provide
picoseconds as decimals.
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Current runs show PREEMPT=n rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pairs
consuming between 20 and 30 nanoseconds, when in fact the actual value is
zero, give or take the barrier() asm's effect on compiler optimizations.
The additional overhead is caused by function calls through pointers
(especially in these days of Spectre mitigations) and perhaps also
needless argument passing, a non-const loop limit, and an upcounting loop.
This commit therefore combines the ->readlock() and ->readunlock()
function pointers into a single ->readsection() function pointer that
takes the loop count as a const parameter and keeps any data passed
from the read-lock to the read-unlock internal to this new function.
These changes reduce the measured overhead of the aforementioned
PREEMPT=n rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pairs from between 20 and
30 nanoseconds to somewhere south of 500 picoseconds.
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds an rcuperf module parameter named "holdoff" that
defaults to 10 seconds if refperf is built in and to zero otherwise.
The assumption is that all the CPUs are online by the time that the
modprobe and insmod commands are going to do anything, and that normal
systems will have all the CPUs online within ten seconds.
Larger systems may take many tens of seconds or even minutes to get
to this point, hence this being a module parameter instead of being a
hard-coded constant.
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit updates the rcutorture scripting to include the new refperf
torture-test module.
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds comments explaining why the readers have otherwise insane
levels of measurement overhead, namely that they are intended as a test
load for update-side performance measurements, not as a straight-up
read-side performance test.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Add a test for comparing the performance of RCU with various read-side
synchronization mechanisms. The test has proved useful for collecting
data and performing these comparisons.
Currently RCU, SRCU, reader-writer lock, reader-writer semaphore and
reference counting can be measured using refperf.perf_type parameter.
Each invocation of the test runs measures performance of a specific
mechanism.
The maximum number of CPUs to concurrently run readers on is chosen by
the test itself and is 75% of the total number of CPUs. So if you had 24
CPUs, the test runs with a maximum of 18 parallel readers.
A number of experiments are conducted, and in each experiment, the
number of readers is increased by 1, upto the 75% of CPUs mark. During
each experiment, all readers execute an empty loop with refperf.loops
iterations and time the total loop duration. This is then averaged.
Example output:
Parameters "refperf.perf_type=srcu refperf.loops=2000000" looks like:
[ 3.347133] srcu-ref-perf:
[ 3.347133] Threads Time(ns)
[ 3.347133] 1 36
[ 3.347133] 2 34
[ 3.347133] 3 34
[ 3.347133] 4 34
[ 3.347133] 5 33
[ 3.347133] 6 33
[ 3.347133] 7 33
[ 3.347133] 8 33
[ 3.347133] 9 33
[ 3.347133] 10 33
[ 3.347133] 11 33
[ 3.347133] 12 33
[ 3.347133] 13 33
[ 3.347133] 14 33
[ 3.347133] 15 32
[ 3.347133] 16 33
[ 3.347133] 17 33
[ 3.347133] 18 34
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
wait_event() already retries if the condition for the wake up is not
satisifed after wake up. Remove them from the rcuperf test.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit declares trc_n_readers_need_end and trc_wait static and
replaced a "&" with "&&". The "&" happened to work because the values
are bool, but accidents waiting to happen and all that...
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The show_rcu_tasks_gp_kthreads() function is not invoked by Tiny RCU,
but is nevertheless defined in Tiny RCU builds that enable Tasks Trace
RCU. This commit therefore conditionally compiles this function so
that it is defined only in builds that actually use it.
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Although this is in some strict sense unnecessary, it is good to allow
the compiler to compare the function declaration with its definition.
This commit therefore adds a #include of linux/rcupdate_trace.h to
kernel/rcu/update.c.
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_tasks_postscan() function is not used outside of RCU's tasks.h
file, so this commit makes it be static.
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit converts the long-standing schedule_timeout_interruptible()
and schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() calls used by the various Tasks
RCU's grace-period kthreads to schedule_timeout_idle(). This conversion
avoids polluting the load-average with Tasks-RCU-related sleeping.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
