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Linus Torvalds
0a1d4434db Updates for timers, timekeeping and drivers:
- Core:
 
    - The timer_shutdown[_sync]() infrastructure:
 
      Tearing down timers can be tedious when there are circular
      dependencies to other things which need to be torn down. A prime
      example is timer and workqueue where the timer schedules work and the
      work arms the timer.
 
      What needs to prevented is that pending work which is drained via
      destroy_workqueue() does not rearm the previously shutdown
      timer. Nothing in that shutdown sequence relies on the timer being
      functional.
 
      The conclusion was that the semantics of timer_shutdown_sync() should
      be:
 
 	- timer is not enqueued
     	- timer callback is not running
     	- timer cannot be rearmed
 
      Preventing the rearming of shutdown timers is done by discarding rearm
      attempts silently. A warning for the case that a rearm attempt of a
      shutdown timer is detected would not be really helpful because it's
      entirely unclear how it should be acted upon. The only way to address
      such a case is to add 'if (in_shutdown)' conditionals all over the
      place. This is error prone and in most cases of teardown not required
      all.
 
    - The real fix for the bluetooth HCI teardown based on
      timer_shutdown_sync().
 
      A larger scale conversion to timer_shutdown_sync() is work in
      progress.
 
    - Consolidation of VDSO time namespace helper functions
 
    - Small fixes for timer and timerqueue
 
  - Drivers:
 
    - Prevent integer overflow on the XGene-1 TVAL register which causes
      an never ending interrupt storm.
 
    - The usual set of new device tree bindings
 
    - Small fixes and improvements all over the place
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Merge tag 'timers-core-2022-12-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "Updates for timers, timekeeping and drivers:

  Core:

   - The timer_shutdown[_sync]() infrastructure:

     Tearing down timers can be tedious when there are circular
     dependencies to other things which need to be torn down. A prime
     example is timer and workqueue where the timer schedules work and
     the work arms the timer.

     What needs to prevented is that pending work which is drained via
     destroy_workqueue() does not rearm the previously shutdown timer.
     Nothing in that shutdown sequence relies on the timer being
     functional.

     The conclusion was that the semantics of timer_shutdown_sync()
     should be:
	- timer is not enqueued
    	- timer callback is not running
    	- timer cannot be rearmed

     Preventing the rearming of shutdown timers is done by discarding
     rearm attempts silently.

     A warning for the case that a rearm attempt of a shutdown timer is
     detected would not be really helpful because it's entirely unclear
     how it should be acted upon. The only way to address such a case is
     to add 'if (in_shutdown)' conditionals all over the place. This is
     error prone and in most cases of teardown not required all.

   - The real fix for the bluetooth HCI teardown based on
     timer_shutdown_sync().

     A larger scale conversion to timer_shutdown_sync() is work in
     progress.

   - Consolidation of VDSO time namespace helper functions

   - Small fixes for timer and timerqueue

  Drivers:

   - Prevent integer overflow on the XGene-1 TVAL register which causes
     an never ending interrupt storm.

   - The usual set of new device tree bindings

   - Small fixes and improvements all over the place"

* tag 'timers-core-2022-12-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (34 commits)
  dt-bindings: timer: renesas,cmt: Add r8a779g0 CMT support
  dt-bindings: timer: renesas,tmu: Add r8a779g0 support
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Use kstrtobool() instead of strtobool()
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Fix missing clk_disable_unprepare in dmtimer_systimer_init_clock()
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Clear settings on probe and free
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Make timer_get_irq static
  clocksource/drivers/timer-ti-dm: Fix warning for omap_timer_match
  clocksource/drivers/arm_arch_timer: Fix XGene-1 TVAL register math error
  clocksource/drivers/timer-npcm7xx: Enable timer 1 clock before use
  dt-bindings: timer: nuvoton,npcm7xx-timer: Allow specifying all clocks
  dt-bindings: timer: rockchip: Add rockchip,rk3128-timer
  clockevents: Repair kernel-doc for clockevent_delta2ns()
  clocksource/drivers/ingenic-ost: Define pm functions properly in platform_driver struct
  clocksource/drivers/sh_cmt: Access registers according to spec
  vdso/timens: Refactor copy-pasted find_timens_vvar_page() helper into one copy
  Bluetooth: hci_qca: Fix the teardown problem for real
  timers: Update the documentation to reflect on the new timer_shutdown() API
  timers: Provide timer_shutdown[_sync]()
  timers: Add shutdown mechanism to the internal functions
  timers: Split [try_to_]del_timer[_sync]() to prepare for shutdown mode
  ...
2022-12-12 12:52:02 -08:00
Steven Rostedt (Google)
a31323bef2 timers: Update the documentation to reflect on the new timer_shutdown() API
In order to make sure that a timer is not re-armed after it is stopped
before freeing, a new shutdown state is added to the timer code. The API
timer_shutdown_sync() and timer_shutdown() must be called before the
object that holds the timer can be freed.

Update the documentation to reflect this new workflow.

[ tglx: Updated to the new semantics and updated the zh_CN version ]

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221110064147.712934793@goodmis.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123201625.375284489@linutronix.de
2022-11-24 15:09:12 +01:00
Thomas Gleixner
87bdd932e8 Documentation: Replace del_timer/del_timer_sync()
Adjust to the new preferred function names.

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123201625.075320635@linutronix.de
2022-11-24 15:09:11 +01:00
Paul E. McKenney
2c3cdf5a8e doc: Update RCU's lockdep.rst
This commit adds a couple of new functions to the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2022-10-20 11:57:46 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
06e6d1d6fd doc: Update listRCU.rst
This commit updates listRCU.txt to reflect RCU additions and changes
over the past few years.

[ paulmck: Apply kernel test robot feedback. ]

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2022-10-20 11:57:19 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
3e7768b7ad doc: Update checklist.txt
This commit updates checklist.txt to reflect RCU additions and changes
over the past few years.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2022-10-18 14:58:50 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
ef2555cf68 doc: Remove arrayRCU.rst
Although RCU can in theory be used to protect array indexes in a manner
similar to the way it protects pointers, doing so is extremely risky
because of the huge number of optimizations that modern compilers can
apply to integral types.

For but one example, if your code can be configured such that your array
contains only a single element, then indexing that array with any integer
other than zero invokes undefined behavior, which in turn means that
the compiler is within its rights to assume (without checking!) that any
integer used as an index to that array has the value zero.  Therefore,
the compiler can index the array with the constant zero, which breaks
any dependencies that might have otherwise existed between the time the
actual value was loaded and the time that the array was indexed.

This commit therefore removes the arrayRCU.rst file that describes how
to go about carrying dependencies through array indexes.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2022-10-18 14:58:50 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
f3dfe925f9 There's not a huge amount of activity in the docs tree this time around,
but a few significant changes even so:
 
 - A complete rewriting of the top-level index.rst file, which mostly
   reflects itself in a redone top page in the HTML-rendered docs.  The hope
   is that the new organization will be a friendlier starting point for
   both users and developers.
 
 - Some math-rendering improvements.
 
 - A coding-style.rst update on the use of BUG() and WARN()
 
 - A big maintainer-PHP guide update.
 
 - Some code-of-conduct updates
 
 - More Chinese translation work
 
 Plus the usual pile of typo fixes, corrections, and updates.
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Merge tag 'docs-6.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "There's not a huge amount of activity in the docs tree this time
  around, but a few significant changes even so:

   - A complete rewriting of the top-level index.rst file, which mostly
     reflects itself in a redone top page in the HTML-rendered docs. The
     hope is that the new organization will be a friendlier starting
     point for both users and developers.

   - Some math-rendering improvements.

   - A coding-style.rst update on the use of BUG() and WARN()

   - A big maintainer-PHP guide update.

   - Some code-of-conduct updates

   - More Chinese translation work

  Plus the usual pile of typo fixes, corrections, and updates"

* tag 'docs-6.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (66 commits)
  checkpatch: warn on usage of VM_BUG_ON() and other BUG variants
  coding-style.rst: document BUG() and WARN() rules ("do not crash the kernel")
  Documentation: devres: add missing IO helper
  Documentation: devres: update IRQ helper
  Documentation/mm: modify page_referenced to folio_referenced
  Documentation/CoC: Reflect current CoC interpretation and practices
  docs/doc-guide: Add documentation on SPHINX_IMGMATH
  docs: process/5.Posting.rst: clarify use of Reported-by: tag
  docs, kprobes: Fix the wrong location of Kprobes
  docs: add a man-pages link to the front page
  docs: put atomic*.txt and memory-barriers.txt into the core-api book
  docs: move asm-annotations.rst into core-api
  docs: remove some index.rst cruft
  docs: reconfigure the HTML left column
  docs: Rewrite the front page
  docs: promote the title of process/index.rst
  Documentation: devres: add missing SPI helper
  Documentation: devres: add missing PINCTRL helpers
  docs: hugetlbpage.rst: fix a typo of hugepage size
  docs/zh_CN: Add new translation of admin-guide/bootconfig.rst
  ...
2022-10-03 10:23:32 -07:00
Akhil Raj
7f77ebbf75 Delete duplicate words from kernel docs
I have deleted duplicate words like

to, guest, trace, when, we

Signed-off-by: Akhil Raj <lf32.dev@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220829065239.4531-1-lf32.dev@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2022-09-27 13:21:43 -06:00
Shao-Tse Hung
ef32aee9aa doc/rcu: Update LWN article URLs and add 2019 article
This patch adds LWN articles about RCU APIs which were released in 2019.
Also, HTTP URLs are replaced by HTTPS.

Signed-off-by: Shao-Tse Hung <ccs100203@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2022-08-31 04:58:15 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
99cf092058 doc: SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU uses cannot rely on spinlocks
Because the SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU code does not zero pages that are
to be broken up into slabs, the memory returned by kmem_cache_alloc()
must be fully initialized, including any spinlocks included in the newly
allocated structure.  This means that readers attempting to look up an
SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU object must use a reference-counting approach.
A spinlock may be acquired only after a reference is obtained, which
prevents that object from being passed to kmem_struct_free(), but only
while that reference continues to be held.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2022-08-31 04:58:15 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
022d1b356c doc: Update rcu_access_pointer() advice in rcu_dereference.rst
This commit updates the rcu_access_pointer() advice, noting that its
return value should not be assigned to a local variable, and also noting
that there is little point in using rcu_access_pointer() within an RCU
read-side critical section.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2022-08-31 04:58:15 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
ca8a439e46 doc: Fix list: rcu_access_pointer() is not lockdep-checked
The rcu_access_pointer() macro does not consult lockdep by design because
it is intended to be used outside of RCU read-side critical sections.
This commit therefore makes a separate list for it in whatisRCU.rst.

Similarly, RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(), rcu_sleep_check(), and RCU_NONIDLE()
do not do anything with pointer access.  This commit therefore creates
a separate utility-API list for them.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2022-08-31 04:58:15 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
1c1c1d983e doc: Use rcu_barrier() to rate-limit RCU callbacks
The checklist.rst document advises periodic synchronize_rcu() invocations
to prevent callback flooding.  However, rcu_barrier() is often a better
choice.  This commit therefore adds words to this effect.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2022-08-31 04:58:15 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
ed336c6fe4 doc: Call out queue_rcu_work() for blocking RCU callbacks
The current checklist.rst file correctly notes that RCU callbacks execute
in BH context, and cannot block.  This commit adds words advising people
needing callbacks to block to use workqueues, for example, by replacing
call_rcu() with queue_rcu_work().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2022-08-31 04:58:14 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
4d2f862b5b doc: Emphasize the need for explicit RCU read-side markers
This commit updates checklist.rst to emphasize the need for explicit
markers for RCU read-side critical sections.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2022-08-31 04:58:14 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker
c33ef43a35 rcu/context-tracking: Remove unused and/or unecessary middle functions
Some eqs functions are now only used internally by context tracking, so
their public declarations can be removed.

Also middle functions such as rcu_user_*() and rcu_idle_*()
which now directly call to rcu_eqs_enter() and rcu_eqs_exit() can be
wiped out as well.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <uladzislau.rezki@sony.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenz@kernel.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com>
Cc: Yu Liao <liaoyu15@huawei.com>
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker<paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Alex Belits <abelits@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
2022-07-05 13:33:00 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker
493c182282 context_tracking: Take NMI eqs entrypoints over RCU
The RCU dynticks counter is going to be merged into the context tracking
subsystem. Prepare with moving the NMI extended quiescent states
entrypoints to context tracking. For now those are dumb redirection to
existing RCU calls.

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <uladzislau.rezki@sony.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenz@kernel.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com>
Cc: Yu Liao <liaoyu15@huawei.com>
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker<paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Alex Belits <abelits@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
2022-07-05 13:32:59 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker
6f0e6c1598 context_tracking: Take IRQ eqs entrypoints over RCU
The RCU dynticks counter is going to be merged into the context tracking
subsystem. Prepare with moving the IRQ extended quiescent states
entrypoints to context tracking. For now those are dumb redirection to
existing RCU calls.

[ paulmck: Apply Stephen Rothwell feedback from -next. ]
[ paulmck: Apply Nathan Chancellor feedback. ]

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <uladzislau.rezki@sony.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenz@kernel.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com>
Cc: Yu Liao <liaoyu15@huawei.com>
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker<paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Alex Belits <abelits@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
2022-07-05 13:32:59 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker
e67198cc05 context_tracking: Take idle eqs entrypoints over RCU
The RCU dynticks counter is going to be merged into the context tracking
subsystem. Start with moving the idle extended quiescent states
entrypoints to context tracking. For now those are dumb redirections to
existing RCU calls.

[ paulmck: Apply kernel test robot feedback. ]

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <uladzislau.rezki@sony.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenz@kernel.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com>
Cc: Yu Liao <liaoyu15@huawei.com>
Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker<paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Alex Belits <abelits@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
2022-07-05 13:32:16 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
ce13389053 Merge branch 'exp.2022.05.11a' into HEAD
exp.2022.05.11a: Expedited-grace-period latency-reduction updates.
2022-05-11 11:49:35 -07:00
Uladzislau Rezki
28b3ae4265 rcu: Introduce CONFIG_RCU_EXP_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT
Currently both expedited and regular grace period stall warnings use
a single timeout value that with units of seconds.  However, recent
Android use cases problem require a sub-100-millisecond expedited RCU CPU
stall warning.  Given that expedited RCU grace periods normally complete
in far less than a single millisecond, especially for small systems,
this is not unreasonable.

Therefore introduce the CONFIG_RCU_EXP_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT kernel
configuration that defaults to 20 msec on Android and remains the same
as that of the non-expedited stall warnings otherwise.  It also can be
changed in run-time via: /sys/.../parameters/rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout.

[ paulmck: Default of zero to use CONFIG_RCU_STALL_TIMEOUT. ]

Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki <uladzislau.rezki@sony.com>
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2022-05-11 11:38:50 -07:00
Akira Yokosawa
404147faaa docs: Update RCU cross-references as suggested in doc-guide
The RCU documentation contains old-style cross references which
do not follow the best practices outlined in doc-guide/sphinx.rst.
In addition, some of the cross references use URLs that should be replaced
by pathnames.

Update all of these cross references and adjust the surrounding words.

Summary of changes:

  - out-of-date plaintext file names (*.txt) -> *.rst
  - references by :ref: tags -> path names of *.rst
    * use relative paths to .rst files under the RCU/ subdirectory
    * use abs paths of Documentation/xxx for other .rst files
  - references by URL under https://www.kernel.org/ -> paths of *.rst
  - adjust surrounding words of some of updated references.

Note:
  The automarkup.py script interprets references via "*.txt" as if they
were via "*.rst", so the *.txt -> *.rst changes should be regarded as
cleanups rather than bug fixes.

Cc: rcu@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2022-04-20 16:13:52 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
6172de3c7f docs: Add documentation for rude and trace RCU flavors
This commit belatedly adds documentation of Tasks Rude RCU and Tasks
Trace RCU to RCU's requirements document.

Tested-by: Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2022-04-20 15:57:02 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
f80fe66c38 Merge branches 'doc.2021.11.30c', 'exp.2021.12.07a', 'fastnohz.2021.11.30c', 'fixes.2021.11.30c', 'nocb.2021.12.09a', 'nolibc.2021.11.30c', 'tasks.2021.12.09a', 'torture.2021.12.07a' and 'torturescript.2021.11.30c' into HEAD
doc.2021.11.30c: Documentation updates.
exp.2021.12.07a: Expedited-grace-period fixes.
fastnohz.2021.11.30c: Remove CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ.
fixes.2021.11.30c: Miscellaneous fixes.
nocb.2021.12.09a: No-CB CPU updates.
nolibc.2021.11.30c: Tiny in-kernel library updates.
tasks.2021.12.09a: RCU-tasks updates, including update-side scalability.
torture.2021.12.07a: Torture-test in-kernel module updates.
torturescript.2021.11.30c: Torture-test scripting updates.
2021-12-09 11:38:09 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
e2c73a6860 rcu: Remove the RCU_FAST_NO_HZ Kconfig option
All of the uses of CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y that I have seen involve
systems with RCU callbacks offloaded.  In this situation, all that this
Kconfig option does is slow down idle entry/exit with an additional
allways-taken early exit.  If this is the only use case, then this
Kconfig option nothing but an attractive nuisance that needs to go away.

This commit therefore removes the RCU_FAST_NO_HZ Kconfig option.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-11-30 17:24:47 -08:00
Akira Yokosawa
5861dad198 doc: RCU: Avoid 'Symbol' font-family in SVG figures
On Ubuntu Focal, strings in some of SVG files under
Documentation/RCU/Design can not be rendered properly when
converted to PDF.

Ubuntu releases since Focal and Debian bullseye have trouble
with "Symbol" font-family in SVG files.

As those strings are mostly API names such as "READ_ONCE()",
"WRITE_ONCE(), "rcu_read_lock()", and so on, using a generic
monospace font-family should be a good alternative.

Substitute the font-family name by a simple sed pattern:

    's/Symbol/monospace/g'

Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-11-30 17:23:14 -08:00
NeilBrown
7c0be9f890 doc: Add refcount analogy to What is RCU
The reader-writer-lock analogy is a useful way to think about RCU, but
it is not always applicable.  It is useful to have other analogies to
work with, and particularly to emphasise that no single analogy is
perfect.

This patch add a "RCU as reference count" to the "what is RCU" document.

See https://lwn.net/Articles/872559/

[ paulmck: Apply Akira Yokosawa feedback. ]
Reviewed-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-11-30 17:23:06 -08:00
Zhouyi Zhou
3ac8587852 rcu: Fix undefined Kconfig macros
Invoking scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py in the Linux-kernel source tree
located the following issues:

1. TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
Referencing files: arch/sh/configs/sdk7786_defconfig

It should now be CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU. Except that the CONFIG_PREEMPT=y in
that same file implies CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y.  Therefore, delete the
CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU=y line.

The reason is as follows:

In kernel/rcu/Kconfig, we have
config PREEMPT_RCU
        bool
        default y if PREEMPTION

https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt says,
"The default value is only assigned to the config symbol if no other value
 was set by the user (via the input prompt above)."
there is no prompt in config PREEMPT_RCU entry, so we are guaranteed to
get CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y when CONFIG_PREEMPT is present.

2. RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO
Referencing files: arch/xtensa/configs/nommu_kc705_defconfig

The old Kconfig option RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO was removed by commit
75c27f119b ("rcu: Remove CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO"), and the kernel
now acts as if this Kconfig option was unconditionally enabled.

3. RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL
Referencing files:
Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst

This is an old snapshot of the code. I update this from the real
rcu_prepare_for_idle() function in kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h.
This change was tested by invoking "make htmldocs".

4. RCU_TORTURE_TESTS
Referencing files: kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c

Forward-progress checking conflicts with CPU-stall testing, so we should
complain at "modprobe rcutorture" when both are enabled.

Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-09-13 16:32:46 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
13bc8fa805 doc: Add another stall-warning root cause in stallwarn.rst
This commit adds a bullet item noting that both deficiencies and surpluses
of calls to rcu_*_enter() and rcu_*_exit() can result in RCU CPU stall
warnings.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-09-13 16:32:46 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
99c0974ffe doc: Update stallwarn.rst with recent changes
This commit calls out the possibility of self-detected stalls, adds new
messages, and calls out the use for stack traces.

Reported-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-07-20 13:36:33 -07:00
Frederic Weisbecker
c28adacc14 rcu/doc: Add a quick quiz to explain further why we need smp_mb__after_unlock_lock()
Add some missing critical pieces of explanation to understand the need
for full memory barriers throughout the whole grace period state machine,
thanks to Paul's explanations.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Adjust code block per Akira Yokosawa. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-07-20 13:36:33 -07:00
Haocheng Xie
9984fd7e5e docs: Fix a typo in Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst
Add the missing ')' in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Haocheng Xie <xiehaocheng.cn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-07-20 13:36:33 -07:00
Akira Yokosawa
4966090849 Documentation/RCU: Fix nested inline markup
To avoid the ``foo`` markup inside the `bar`__ hyperlink marker,
use the "replace" directive [1].

This should restore the intended appearance of the link.

Tested with sphinx versions 1.7.9 and 2.4.4.

[1]: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#replace

Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-07-20 13:36:33 -07:00
Akira Yokosawa
e3879ecd36 Documentation/RCU: Fix emphasis markers
"-foo-" does not work as emphasis in ReST markdown.
Use "*foo*" instead.

Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-07-20 13:36:33 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
28e92f9903 Merge branch 'core-rcu-2021.07.04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu
Pull RCU updates from Paul McKenney:

 - Bitmap parsing support for "all" as an alias for all bits

 - Documentation updates

 - Miscellaneous fixes, including some that overlap into mm and lockdep

 - kvfree_rcu() updates

 - mem_dump_obj() updates, with acks from one of the slab-allocator
   maintainers

 - RCU NOCB CPU updates, including limited deoffloading

 - SRCU updates

 - Tasks-RCU updates

 - Torture-test updates

* 'core-rcu-2021.07.04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: (78 commits)
  tasks-rcu: Make show_rcu_tasks_gp_kthreads() be static inline
  rcu-tasks: Make ksoftirqd provide RCU Tasks quiescent states
  rcu: Add missing __releases() annotation
  rcu: Remove obsolete rcu_read_unlock() deadlock commentary
  rcu: Improve comments describing RCU read-side critical sections
  rcu: Create an unrcu_pointer() to remove __rcu from a pointer
  srcu: Early test SRCU polling start
  rcu: Fix various typos in comments
  rcu/nocb: Unify timers
  rcu/nocb: Prepare for fine-grained deferred wakeup
  rcu/nocb: Only cancel nocb timer if not polling
  rcu/nocb: Delete bypass_timer upon nocb_gp wakeup
  rcu/nocb: Cancel nocb_timer upon nocb_gp wakeup
  rcu/nocb: Allow de-offloading rdp leader
  rcu/nocb: Directly call __wake_nocb_gp() from bypass timer
  rcu: Don't penalize priority boosting when there is nothing to boost
  rcu: Point to documentation of ordering guarantees
  rcu: Make rcu_gp_cleanup() be noinline for tracing
  rcu: Restrict RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD to at most four CPUs
  rcu: Make show_rcu_gp_kthreads() dump rcu_node structures blocking GP
  ...
2021-07-04 12:58:33 -07:00
Toke Høiland-Jørgensen
e74c74f9e5 doc: Give XDP as example of non-obvious RCU reader/updater pairing
This commit gives an example of non-obvious RCU reader/updater pairing
in the guise of the XDP feature in networking, which calls BPF programs
from network-driver NAPI (softirq) context.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210624160609.292325-4-toke@redhat.com
2021-06-24 19:41:14 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney
9a145c04a2 doc: Clarify and expand RCU updaters and corresponding readers
This commit clarifies which primitives readers can use given that the
corresponding updaters have made a specific choice.  This commit also adds
this information for the various RCU Tasks flavors.  While in the area, it
removes a paragraph that no longer applies in any straightforward manner.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen <toke@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20210624160609.292325-3-toke@redhat.com
2021-06-24 19:41:14 +02:00
Frederic Weisbecker
58d0db869d doc: Fix diagram references in memory-ordering document
The three diagrams describing rcu_gp_init() all spuriously refer to
the same figure, probably due to a copy/paste issue.  This commit fixes
these references.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-05-10 15:39:19 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
18389c4570 doc: Fix statement of RCU's memory-ordering requirements
The sentence defining the relationship of accesses before a grace
period to read-side accesses following that same grace period was
missing a small word: "not".  This commit therefore adds it.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-05-10 15:39:19 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
e589c7c723 docs: Correctly spell Stephen Hemminger's name
This commit replaces "Steve" with the his real name, which is "Stephen".

Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-03-15 13:53:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0e63a5c6ba It has been a relatively quiet cycle in docsland.
- As promised, the minimum Sphinx version to build the docs is now 1.7,
    and we have dropped support for Python 2 entirely.  That allowed the
    removal of a bunch of compatibility code.
 
  - A set of treewide warning fixups from Mauro that I applied after it
    became clear nobody else was going to deal with them.
 
  - The automarkup mechanism can now create cross-references from relative
    paths to RST files.
 
  - More translations, typo fixes, and warning fixes.
 
 No conflicts with any other tree as far as I know.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux

Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
 "It has been a relatively quiet cycle in docsland.

   - As promised, the minimum Sphinx version to build the docs is now
     1.7, and we have dropped support for Python 2 entirely. That
     allowed the removal of a bunch of compatibility code.

   - A set of treewide warning fixups from Mauro that I applied after it
     became clear nobody else was going to deal with them.

   - The automarkup mechanism can now create cross-references from
     relative paths to RST files.

   - More translations, typo fixes, and warning fixes"

* tag 'docs-5.12' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (75 commits)
  docs: kernel-hacking: be more civil
  docs: Remove the Microsoft rhetoric
  Documentation/admin-guide: kernel-parameters: Update nohlt section
  doc/admin-guide: fix spelling mistake: "perfomance" -> "performance"
  docs: Document cross-referencing using relative path
  docs: Enable usage of relative paths to docs on automarkup
  docs: thermal: fix spelling mistakes
  Documentation: admin-guide: Update kvm/xen config option
  docs: Make syscalls' helpers naming consistent
  coding-style.rst: Avoid comma statements
  Documentation: /proc/loadavg: add 3 more field descriptions
  Documentation/submitting-patches: Add blurb about backtraces in commit messages
  Docs: drop Python 2 support
  Move our minimum Sphinx version to 1.7
  Documentation: input: define ABS_PRESSURE/ABS_MT_PRESSURE resolution as grams
  scripts/kernel-doc: add internal hyperlink to DOC: sections
  Update Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/fs.rst
  docs: Update DTB format references
  docs: zh_CN: add iio index.rst translation
  docs/zh_CN: add iio ep93xx_adc.rst translation
  ...
2021-02-22 10:57:46 -08:00
Linus Torvalds
d089f48fba These are the latest RCU updates for v5.12:
- Documentation updates.
 
  - Miscellaneous fixes.
 
  - kfree_rcu() updates: Addition of mem_dump_obj() to provide allocator return
    addresses to more easily locate bugs.  This has a couple of RCU-related commits,
    but is mostly MM.  Was pulled in with akpm's agreement.
 
  - Per-callback-batch tracking of numbers of callbacks,
    which enables better debugging information and smarter
    reactions to large numbers of callbacks.
 
  - The first round of changes to allow CPUs to be runtime switched from and to
    callback-offloaded state.
 
  - CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT-related changes.
 
  - RCU CPU stall warning updates.
 
  - Addition of polling grace-period APIs for SRCU.
 
  - Torture-test and torture-test scripting updates, including a "torture everything"
    script that runs rcutorture, locktorture, scftorture, rcuscale, and refscale.
    Plus does an allmodconfig build.
 
  - nolibc fixes for the torture tests
 
 Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'core-rcu-2021-02-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "These are the latest RCU updates for v5.12:

   - Documentation updates.

   - Miscellaneous fixes.

   - kfree_rcu() updates: Addition of mem_dump_obj() to provide
     allocator return addresses to more easily locate bugs. This has a
     couple of RCU-related commits, but is mostly MM. Was pulled in with
     akpm's agreement.

   - Per-callback-batch tracking of numbers of callbacks, which enables
     better debugging information and smarter reactions to large numbers
     of callbacks.

   - The first round of changes to allow CPUs to be runtime switched
     from and to callback-offloaded state.

   - CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT-related changes.

   - RCU CPU stall warning updates.

   - Addition of polling grace-period APIs for SRCU.

   - Torture-test and torture-test scripting updates, including a
     "torture everything" script that runs rcutorture, locktorture,
     scftorture, rcuscale, and refscale. Plus does an allmodconfig
     build.

   - nolibc fixes for the torture tests"

* tag 'core-rcu-2021-02-17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (130 commits)
  percpu_ref: Dump mem_dump_obj() info upon reference-count underflow
  rcu: Make call_rcu() print mem_dump_obj() info for double-freed callback
  mm: Make mem_obj_dump() vmalloc() dumps include start and length
  mm: Make mem_dump_obj() handle vmalloc() memory
  mm: Make mem_dump_obj() handle NULL and zero-sized pointers
  mm: Add mem_dump_obj() to print source of memory block
  tools/rcutorture: Fix position of -lgcc in mkinitrd.sh
  tools/nolibc: Fix position of -lgcc in the documented example
  tools/nolibc: Emit detailed error for missing alternate syscall number definitions
  tools/nolibc: Remove incorrect definitions of __ARCH_WANT_*
  tools/nolibc: Get timeval, timespec and timezone from linux/time.h
  tools/nolibc: Implement poll() based on ppoll()
  tools/nolibc: Implement fork() based on clone()
  tools/nolibc: Make getpgrp() fall back to getpgid(0)
  tools/nolibc: Make dup2() rely on dup3() when available
  tools/nolibc: Add the definition for dup()
  rcutorture: Add rcutree.use_softirq=0 to RUDE01 and TASKS01
  torture: Maintain torture-specific set of CPUs-online books
  torture: Clean up after torture-test CPU hotplugging
  rcutorture: Make object_debug also double call_rcu() heap object
  ...
2021-02-21 12:04:41 -08:00
Ingo Molnar
85e853c5ec Merge branch 'for-mingo-rcu' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney:

- Documentation updates.

- Miscellaneous fixes.

- kfree_rcu() updates: Addition of mem_dump_obj() to provide allocator return
  addresses to more easily locate bugs.  This has a couple of RCU-related commits,
  but is mostly MM.  Was pulled in with akpm's agreement.

- Per-callback-batch tracking of numbers of callbacks,
  which enables better debugging information and smarter
  reactions to large numbers of callbacks.

- The first round of changes to allow CPUs to be runtime switched from and to
  callback-offloaded state.

- CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT-related changes.

- RCU CPU stall warning updates.
- Addition of polling grace-period APIs for SRCU.

- Torture-test and torture-test scripting updates, including a "torture everything"
  script that runs rcutorture, locktorture, scftorture, rcuscale, and refscale.
  Plus does an allmodconfig build.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2021-02-12 12:56:55 +01:00
Viresh Kumar
f8408264c7 drivers: Remove CONFIG_OPROFILE support
The "oprofile" user-space tools don't use the kernel OPROFILE support
any more, and haven't in a long time. User-space has been converted to
the perf interfaces.

Remove kernel's old oprofile support.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> #RCU
Acked-by: William Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2021-01-29 10:06:24 +05:30
Paul E. McKenney
0d2460ba61 Merge branches 'doc.2021.01.06a', 'fixes.2021.01.04b', 'kfree_rcu.2021.01.04a', 'mmdumpobj.2021.01.22a', 'nocb.2021.01.06a', 'rt.2021.01.04a', 'stall.2021.01.06a', 'torture.2021.01.12a' and 'tortureall.2021.01.06a' into HEAD
doc.2021.01.06a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2021.01.04b: Miscellaneous fixes.
kfree_rcu.2021.01.04a: kfree_rcu() updates.
mmdumpobj.2021.01.22a: Dump allocation point for memory blocks.
nocb.2021.01.06a: RCU callback offload updates and cblist segment lengths.
rt.2021.01.04a: Real-time updates.
stall.2021.01.06a: RCU CPU stall warning updates.
torture.2021.01.12a: Torture-test updates and polling SRCU grace-period API.
tortureall.2021.01.06a: Torture-test script updates.
2021-01-22 15:26:44 -08:00
Joe Perches
05a5f51ca5 Documentation: Replace lkml.org links with lore
Replace the lkml.org links with lore to better use a single source
that's more likely to stay available long-term.

Done by bash script:

cvt_lkml_to_lore ()
{
    tmpfile=$(mktemp ./.cvt_links.XXXXXXX)

    header=$(echo $1 | sed 's@/lkml/@/lkml/headers/@')

    wget -qO - $header > $tmpfile
    if [[ $? == 0 ]] ; then
	link=$(grep -i '^Message-Id:' $tmpfile | head -1 | \
		   sed -r -e 's/^\s*Message-Id:\s*<\s*//' -e  's/\s*>\s*$//' -e 's@^@https://lore.kernel.org/r/@')
	#    echo "testlink: $link"
	if [ -n "$link" ] ; then
	    wget -qO - $link > /dev/null
	    if [[ $? == 0 ]] ; then
		echo $link
	    fi
	fi
    fi

    rm -f $tmpfile
}

git grep -P -o "\bhttps?://(?:www.)?lkml.org/lkml[\/\w]+" $@ |
    while read line ; do
	echo $line
	file=$(echo $line | cut -f1 -d':')
	link=$(echo $line | cut -f2- -d':')
	newlink=$(cvt_lkml_to_lore $link)
	if [[ -n "$newlink" ]] ; then
	    sed -i -e "s#\b$link\b#$newlink#" $file
	fi
    done

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1265849/#1462688
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/77cdb7f32cfb087955bfc3600b86c40bed5d4104.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2021-01-11 12:47:38 -07:00
Neeraj Upadhyay
683954e55c rcu: Check and report missed fqs timer wakeup on RCU stall
For a new grace period request, the RCU GP kthread transitions through
following states:

a. [RCU_GP_WAIT_GPS] -> [RCU_GP_DONE_GPS]

The RCU_GP_WAIT_GPS state is where the GP kthread waits for a request
for a new GP.  Once it receives a request (for example, when a new RCU
callback is queued), the GP kthread transitions to RCU_GP_DONE_GPS.

b. [RCU_GP_DONE_GPS] -> [RCU_GP_ONOFF]

Grace period initialization starts in rcu_gp_init(), which records the
start of new GP in rcu_state.gp_seq and transitions to RCU_GP_ONOFF.

c. [RCU_GP_ONOFF] -> [RCU_GP_INIT]

The purpose of the RCU_GP_ONOFF state is to apply the online/offline
information that was buffered for any CPUs that recently came online or
went offline.  This state is maintained in per-leaf rcu_node bitmasks,
with the buffered state in ->qsmaskinitnext and the state for the upcoming
GP in ->qsmaskinit.  At the end of this RCU_GP_ONOFF state, each bit in
->qsmaskinit will correspond to a CPU that must pass through a quiescent
state before the upcoming grace period is allowed to complete.

However, a leaf rcu_node structure with an all-zeroes ->qsmaskinit
cannot necessarily be ignored.  In preemptible RCU, there might well be
tasks still in RCU read-side critical sections that were first preempted
while running on one of the CPUs managed by this structure.  Such tasks
will be queued on this structure's ->blkd_tasks list.  Only after this
list fully drains can this leaf rcu_node structure be ignored, and even
then only if none of its CPUs have come back online in the meantime.
Once that happens, the ->qsmaskinit masks further up the tree will be
updated to exclude this leaf rcu_node structure.

Once the ->qsmaskinitnext and ->qsmaskinit fields have been updated
as needed, the GP kthread transitions to RCU_GP_INIT.

d. [RCU_GP_INIT] -> [RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS]

The purpose of the RCU_GP_INIT state is to copy each ->qsmaskinit to
the ->qsmask field within each rcu_node structure.  This copying is done
breadth-first from the root to the leaves.  Why not just copy directly
from ->qsmaskinitnext to ->qsmask?  Because the ->qsmaskinitnext masks
can change in the meantime as additional CPUs come online or go offline.
Such changes would result in inconsistencies in the ->qsmask fields up and
down the tree, which could in turn result in too-short grace periods or
grace-period hangs.  These issues are avoided by snapshotting the leaf
rcu_node structures' ->qsmaskinitnext fields into their ->qsmaskinit
counterparts, generating a consistent set of ->qsmaskinit fields
throughout the tree, and only then copying these consistent ->qsmaskinit
fields to their ->qsmask counterparts.

Once this initialization step is complete, the GP kthread transitions
to RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS, where it waits to do a force-quiescent-state scan
on the one hand or for the end of the grace period on the other.

e. [RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS] -> [RCU_GP_DOING_FQS]

The RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS state waits for one of three things:  (1) An
explicit request to do a force-quiescent-state scan, (2) The end of
the grace period, or (3) A short interval of time, after which it
will do a force-quiescent-state (FQS) scan.  The explicit request can
come from rcutorture or from any CPU that has too many RCU callbacks
queued (see the qhimark kernel parameter and the RCU_GP_FLAG_OVLD
flag).  The aforementioned "short period of time" is specified by the
jiffies_till_first_fqs boot parameter for a given grace period's first
FQS scan and by the jiffies_till_next_fqs for later FQS scans.

Either way, once the wait is over, the GP kthread transitions to
RCU_GP_DOING_FQS.

f. [RCU_GP_DOING_FQS] -> [RCU_GP_CLEANUP]

The RCU_GP_DOING_FQS state performs an FQS scan.  Each such scan carries
out two functions for any CPU whose bit is still set in its leaf rcu_node
structure's ->qsmask field, that is, for any CPU that has not yet reported
a quiescent state for the current grace period:

  i.  Report quiescent states on behalf of CPUs that have been observed
      to be idle (from an RCU perspective) since the beginning of the
      grace period.

  ii. If the current grace period is too old, take various actions to
      encourage holdout CPUs to pass through quiescent states, including
      enlisting the aid of any calls to cond_resched() and might_sleep(),
      and even including IPIing the holdout CPUs.

These checks are skipped for any leaf rcu_node structure with a all-zero
->qsmask field, however such structures are subject to RCU priority
boosting if there are tasks on a given structure blocking the current
grace period.  The end of the grace period is detected when the root
rcu_node structure's ->qsmask is zero and when there are no longer any
preempted tasks blocking the current grace period.  (No, this last check
is not redundant.  To see this, consider an rcu_node tree having exactly
one structure that serves as both root and leaf.)

Once the end of the grace period is detected, the GP kthread transitions
to RCU_GP_CLEANUP.

g. [RCU_GP_CLEANUP] -> [RCU_GP_CLEANED]

The RCU_GP_CLEANUP state marks the end of grace period by updating the
rcu_state structure's ->gp_seq field and also all rcu_node structures'
->gp_seq field.  As before, the rcu_node tree is traversed in breadth
first order.  Once this update is complete, the GP kthread transitions
to the RCU_GP_CLEANED state.

i. [RCU_GP_CLEANED] -> [RCU_GP_INIT]

Once in the RCU_GP_CLEANED state, the GP kthread immediately transitions
into the RCU_GP_INIT state.

j. The role of timers.

If there is at least one idle CPU, and if timers are not firing, the
transition from RCU_GP_DOING_FQS to RCU_GP_CLEANUP will never happen.
Timers can fail to fire for a number of reasons, including issues in
timer configuration, issues in the timer framework, and failure to handle
softirqs (for example, when there is a storm of interrupts).  Whatever the
reason, if the timers fail to fire, the GP kthread will never be awakened,
resulting in RCU CPU stall warnings and eventually in OOM.

However, an RCU CPU stall warning has a large number of potential causes,
as documented in Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst.  This commit therefore
adds analysis to the RCU CPU stall-warning code to emit an additional
message if the cause of the stall is likely to be timer failure.

Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-01-06 16:54:11 -08:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
81ad58be2f doc: Use CONFIG_PREEMPTION
CONFIG_PREEMPTION is selected by CONFIG_PREEMPT and by CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT.
Both PREEMPT and PREEMPT_RT require the same functionality which today
depends on CONFIG_PREEMPT.

Update the documents and mention CONFIG_PREEMPTION. Spell out
CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT (instead PREEMPT_RT) since it is an option now.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-01-06 16:10:44 -08:00
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
361c0f3d80 doc: Update RCU's requirements page about the PREEMPT_RT wiki
The PREEMPT_RT wiki moved from kernel.org to the Linux Foundation wiki.
The kernel.org wiki is read only.

This commit therefore updates the URL of the active PREEMPT_RT wiki.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-01-06 16:10:41 -08:00