Some workloads need to change kthread priority for RCU core processing
without affecting other softirq work. This commit therefore introduces
the rcutree.use_softirq kernel boot parameter, which moves the RCU core
work from softirq to a per-CPU SCHED_OTHER kthread named rcuc. Use of
SCHED_OTHER approach avoids the scalability problems that appeared
with the earlier attempt to move RCU core processing to from softirq
to kthreads. That said, kernels built with RCU_BOOST=y will run the
rcuc kthreads at the RCU-boosting priority.
Note that rcutree.use_softirq=0 must be specified to move RCU core
processing to the rcuc kthreads: rcutree.use_softirq=1 is the default.
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
[ paulmck: Adjust for invoke_rcu_callbacks() only ever being invoked
from RCU core processing, in contrast to softirq->rcuc transition
in old mainline RCU priority boosting. ]
[ paulmck: Avoid wakeups when scheduler might have invoked rcu_read_unlock()
while holding rq or pi locks, also possibly fixing a pre-existing latent
bug involving raise_softirq()-induced wakeups. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
- Removing of non-DYNAMIC_FTRACE from 32bit x86
- Removing of mcount support from x86
- Emulating a call from int3 on x86_64, fixes live kernel patching
- Consolidated Tracing Error logs file
Minor updates:
- Removal of klp_check_compiler_support()
- kdb ftrace dumping output changes
- Accessing and creating ftrace instances from inside the kernel
- Clean up of #define if macro
- Introduction of TRACE_EVENT_NOP() to disable trace events based on config
options
And other minor fixes and clean ups
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"The major changes in this tracing update includes:
- Removal of non-DYNAMIC_FTRACE from 32bit x86
- Removal of mcount support from x86
- Emulating a call from int3 on x86_64, fixes live kernel patching
- Consolidated Tracing Error logs file
Minor updates:
- Removal of klp_check_compiler_support()
- kdb ftrace dumping output changes
- Accessing and creating ftrace instances from inside the kernel
- Clean up of #define if macro
- Introduction of TRACE_EVENT_NOP() to disable trace events based on
config options
And other minor fixes and clean ups"
* tag 'trace-v5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
x86: Hide the int3_emulate_call/jmp functions from UML
livepatch: Remove klp_check_compiler_support()
ftrace/x86: Remove mcount support
ftrace/x86_32: Remove support for non DYNAMIC_FTRACE
tracing: Simplify "if" macro code
tracing: Fix documentation about disabling options using trace_options
tracing: Replace kzalloc with kcalloc
tracing: Fix partial reading of trace event's id file
tracing: Allow RCU to run between postponed startup tests
tracing: Fix white space issues in parse_pred() function
tracing: Eliminate const char[] auto variables
ring-buffer: Fix mispelling of Calculate
tracing: probeevent: Fix to make the type of $comm string
tracing: probeevent: Do not accumulate on ret variable
tracing: uprobes: Re-enable $comm support for uprobe events
ftrace/x86_64: Emulate call function while updating in breakpoint handler
x86_64: Allow breakpoints to emulate call instructions
x86_64: Add gap to int3 to allow for call emulation
tracing: kdb: Allow ftdump to skip all but the last few entries
tracing: Add trace_total_entries() / trace_total_entries_cpu()
...
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Merge tag 'printk-for-5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk
Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek:
- Allow state reset of printk_once() calls.
- Prevent crashes when dereferencing invalid pointers in vsprintf().
Only the first byte is checked for simplicity.
- Make vsprintf warnings consistent and inlined.
- Treewide conversion of obsolete %pf, %pF to %ps, %pF printf
modifiers.
- Some clean up of vsprintf and test_printf code.
* tag 'printk-for-5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/pmladek/printk:
lib/vsprintf: Make function pointer_string static
vsprintf: Limit the length of inlined error messages
vsprintf: Avoid confusion between invalid address and value
vsprintf: Prevent crash when dereferencing invalid pointers
vsprintf: Consolidate handling of unknown pointer specifiers
vsprintf: Factor out %pO handler as kobject_string()
vsprintf: Factor out %pV handler as va_format()
vsprintf: Factor out %p[iI] handler as ip_addr_string()
vsprintf: Do not check address of well-known strings
vsprintf: Consistent %pK handling for kptr_restrict == 0
vsprintf: Shuffle restricted_pointer()
printk: Tie printk_once / printk_deferred_once into .data.once for reset
treewide: Switch printk users from %pf and %pF to %ps and %pS, respectively
lib/test_printf: Switch to bitmap_zalloc()
When CONFIG_RCU_TRACE is not set, all these tracepoints are defined as
do-nothing macro.
We'd better make those inline functions that take proper arguments.
As RCU_TRACE() is defined as do-nothing marco as well when
CONFIG_RCU_TRACE is not set, so we can clean it up.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1553602391-11926-4-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
This commit further consolidates stall-warning functionality by moving
forward-progress checkers into kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h, updating a
comment or two while in the area. More specifically, this commit moves
show_rcu_gp_kthreads(), rcu_check_gp_start_stall(), rcu_fwd_progress_check(),
sysrq_rcu, sysrq_show_rcu(), sysrq_rcudump_op, and rcu_sysrq_init() from
kernel/rcu/tree.c to kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The rcu_iw_handler() function's sole purpose in life is to indicate
whether a stalled CPU had interrupts disabled, so it belongs in
kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h. This commit therefore makes that move,
clarifying its header comment while in the area.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit completes the process of consolidating the code for RCU CPU
stall warnings for normal grace periods by moving the remaining such
code from kernel/rcu/tree.c to kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The RCU CPU stall-warning code for normal grace periods is currently
scattered across three files, due to earlier Tiny RCU support for RCU
CPU stall warnings and for old Kconfig options that have long since
been retired. Given that it is hard for the lead RCU maintainer to
find relevant stall-warning code, it would be good to consolidate it.
This commit starts this process by moving stall-warning code from
kernel/rcu/update.c to a new kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h file.
Note that the definitions of rcu_cpu_stall_suppress and
rcu_cpu_stall_timeout must remain in kernel/rcu/update.h to provide
compatibility for kernel boot parameter lists.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Previously, threads blocked on offlining CPUS were migrated to the
root rcu_node structure, thus requiring RCU priority boosting on this
structure. However, since commit d19fb8d1f3 ("rcu: Don't migrate
blocked tasks even if all corresponding CPUs offline"), RCU does not
migrate blocked tasks. Consequently, RCU no longer does RCU priority
boosting on the root rcu_node structure as of commit 1be0085b51 ("rcu:
Don't initiate RCU priority boosting on root rcu_node").
This commit therefore brings comments for the force_qs_rnp() function's
header comment in line with this new no-root-boosting reality.
Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Also remove obsolete comment on suppressing new grace periods. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit better documents the jiffies_to_sched_qs default-value
strategy used by adjust_jiffies_till_sched_qs()
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The current code only calls adjust_jiffies_till_sched_qs() if
jiffies_till_sched_qs is left at its default value, so when the
jiffies_till_sched_qs kernel-boot parameter actually is specified,
jiffies_to_sched_qs will be left with the value zero, which
will result in useless slowdowns of cond_resched(). This commit
therefore changes rcu_init_geometry() to unconditionally invoke
adjust_jiffies_till_sched_qs(), which ensures that jiffies_to_sched_qs
will be initialized in all cases, thus maintaining good cond_resched()
performance.
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The current rcu_gp_kthread_wake() function uses in_interrupt()
and thus does a self-wakeup from all interrupt contexts, including
the pointless case where the GP kthread happens to be running with
bottom halves disabled, along with the impossible case where the GP
kthread is running within an NMI handler (you are not supposed to invoke
rcu_gp_kthread_wake() from within an NMI handler. This commit therefore
replaces the in_interrupt() with in_irq(), so that the self-wakeups
happen only from handlers for hardware interrupts and softirqs.
This also makes the code match the comment.
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
As the result of recent addition of "rdp->core_needs_qs = false;" in
the "if" block, now both branches of the if-else have the same
assignment.
Factor it out and reduce line count.
Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
The rcutree.kthread_prio kernel-boot parameter is used to set the
priority for boost (rcub), per-CPU (rcuc), and grace-period (rcu_preempt
or rcu_sched) kthreads. It is also used by rcutorture to check whether
it is possible to meaningfully test RCU priority boosting. However,
all of these cases will either ignore or be confused by any post-boot
changes to rcutree.kthread_prio.
Note that the user really can change the priorities of all of these
kthreads using chrt, given sufficient privileges. Therefore, the
read-write nature of sysfs access to rcutree.kthread_prio is thus at
best an attractive nuisance.
This commit therefore changes sysfs access to rcutree.kthread_prio to
be read-only.
Signed-off-by: Liu Song <liu.song11@zte.com.cn>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
When there are no callbacks pending on an idle system, I noticed that
RCU softirq is continuously firing. During this the cpu_no_qs is set to
false, and core_needs_qs is set to true indefinitely. This causes
rcu_process_callbacks to be repeatedly called, even though the node
corresponding to the CPU has that CPU's mask bit cleared and the system
is idle. I believe the race is when such mask clearing is done during
idle CPU scan of the quiescent state forcing stage in the kthread
instead of the softirq. Since the rnp mask is cleared, but the flags on
the CPU's rdp are not cleared, the CPU thinks it still needs to report
to core RCU.
Cure this by clearing the core_needs_qs flag when the CPU detects that
its node is already updated which will avoid the unwanted softirq raises
to the benefit of real-time systems.
Test: Ran rcutorture for various tree RCU configs.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The rcu_pm_notify() function refuses to switch to/from expedited grace
periods on systems with more than 256 CPUs due to the serialized
initialization of expedited grace periods. However, expedited grace
periods are now initialized in parallel, removing this concern.
This commit therefore removes the checks from rcu_pm_notify(), so that
expedited grace periods are used unconditionally during suspend/resume
and hibernate/wake operations.
As always, real-time workloads wishing to completely avoid expedited
grace periods can use the rcupdate.rcu_normal= kernel parameter.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Pull perf updates from Ingo Molnar:
"Lots of tooling updates - too many to list, here's a few highlights:
- Various subcommand updates to 'perf trace', 'perf report', 'perf
record', 'perf annotate', 'perf script', 'perf test', etc.
- CPU and NUMA topology and affinity handling improvements,
- HW tracing and HW support updates:
- Intel PT updates
- ARM CoreSight updates
- vendor HW event updates
- BPF updates
- Tons of infrastructure updates, both on the build system and the
library support side
- Documentation updates.
- ... and lots of other changes, see the changelog for details.
Kernel side updates:
- Tighten up kprobes blacklist handling, reduce the number of places
where developers can install a kprobe and hang/crash the system.
- Fix/enhance vma address filter handling.
- Various PMU driver updates, small fixes and additions.
- refcount_t conversions
- BPF updates
- error code propagation enhancements
- misc other changes"
* 'perf-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (238 commits)
perf script python: Add Python3 support to syscall-counts-by-pid.py
perf script python: Add Python3 support to syscall-counts.py
perf script python: Add Python3 support to stat-cpi.py
perf script python: Add Python3 support to stackcollapse.py
perf script python: Add Python3 support to sctop.py
perf script python: Add Python3 support to powerpc-hcalls.py
perf script python: Add Python3 support to net_dropmonitor.py
perf script python: Add Python3 support to mem-phys-addr.py
perf script python: Add Python3 support to failed-syscalls-by-pid.py
perf script python: Add Python3 support to netdev-times.py
perf tools: Add perf_exe() helper to find perf binary
perf script: Handle missing fields with -F +..
perf data: Add perf_data__open_dir_data function
perf data: Add perf_data__(create_dir|close_dir) functions
perf data: Fail check_backup in case of error
perf data: Make check_backup work over directories
perf tools: Add rm_rf_perf_data function
perf tools: Add pattern name checking to rm_rf
perf tools: Add depth checking to rm_rf
perf data: Add global path holder
...
Prohibit probing on the functions called before kprobe_int3_handler()
in do_int3(). More specifically, ftrace_int3_handler(),
poke_int3_handler(), and ist_enter(). And since rcu_nmi_enter() is
called by ist_enter(), it also should be marked as NOKPROBE_SYMBOL.
Since those are handled before kprobe_int3_handler(), probing those
functions can cause a breakpoint recursion and crash the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/154998793571.31052.11301258949601150994.stgit@devbox
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Replace the license boiler plate with a SPDX license identifier.
While in the area, update an email address.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Update .h file SPDX comment format per Joe Perches. ]
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
srcu_queue_delayed_work_on() disables preemption (and therefore CPU
hotplug in RCU's case) and then checks based on its own accounting if a
CPU is online. If the CPU is online it uses queue_delayed_work_on()
otherwise it fallbacks to queue_delayed_work().
The problem here is that queue_work() on -RT does not work with disabled
preemption.
queue_work_on() works also on an offlined CPU. queue_delayed_work_on()
has the problem that it is possible to program a timer on an offlined
CPU. This timer will fire once the CPU is online again. But until then,
the timer remains programmed and nothing will happen.
Add a local timer which will fire (as requested per delay) on the local
CPU and then enqueue the work on the specific CPU.
RCUtorture testing with SRCU-P for 24h showed no problems.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit removes the "@irq" argument from the rcu_nmi_exit() docbook
header, given that this function now has no arguments.
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Although the name rcu_process_callbacks() still makes sense for Tiny
RCU, where most of what it does is invoke callbacks, it no longer makes
much sense for Tree RCU, especially given that the actually callback
invocation is relegated to rcu_do_batch(), or, for no-CBs CPUs, to the
rcuo kthreads. Especially in the latter case, rcu_process_callbacks()
has very little to do with actual callbacks. A better description of
this function is that it performs RCU's core processing.
This commit therefore changes the name of Tree RCU's rcu_process_callbacks()
function to rcu_core(), which also has the virtue of being consistent with
the existing invoke_rcu_core() function.
While in the area, the header comment is reworked.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The name rcu_check_callbacks() arguably made sense back in the early
2000s when RCU was quite a bit simpler than it is today, but it has
become quite misleading, especially with the advent of dyntick-idle
and NO_HZ_FULL. The rcu_check_callbacks() function is RCU's hook into
the scheduling-clock interrupt, and is now but one of many ways that
callbacks get promoted to invocable state.
This commit therefore changes the name to rcu_sched_clock_irq(),
which is the same number of characters and clearly indicates this
function's relation to the rest of the Linux kernel. In addition, for
the sake of consistency, rcu_flavor_check_callbacks() is also renamed
to rcu_flavor_sched_clock_irq().
While in the area, the header comments for both functions are reworked.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Currently, __note_gp_changes() checks to see if the rcu_node structure's
->gp_seq_needed is greater than or equal to that of the rcu_data
structure, and if so, updates the rcu_data structure's ->gp_seq_needed
field. This results in a useless store in the case where the two fields
are equal.
This commit therefore carries out this store only in the case where the
rcu_node structure's ->gp_seq_needed is strictly greater than that of
the rcu_data structure.
Signed-off-by: "Zhang, Jun" <jun.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/88DC34334CA3444C85D647DBFA962C2735AD5F77@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com
The rcu_gp_kthread_wake() function is invoked when it might be necessary
to wake the RCU grace-period kthread. Because self-wakeups are normally
a useless waste of CPU cycles, if rcu_gp_kthread_wake() is invoked from
this kthread, it naturally refuses to do the wakeup.
Unfortunately, natural though it might be, this heuristic fails when
rcu_gp_kthread_wake() is invoked from an interrupt or softirq handler
that interrupted the grace-period kthread just after the final check of
the wait-event condition but just before the schedule() call. In this
case, a wakeup is required, even though the call to rcu_gp_kthread_wake()
is within the RCU grace-period kthread's context. Failing to provide
this wakeup can result in grace periods failing to start, which in turn
results in out-of-memory conditions.
This race window is quite narrow, but it actually did happen during real
testing. It would of course need to be fixed even if it was strictly
theoretical in nature.
This patch does not Cc stable because it does not apply cleanly to
earlier kernel versions.
Fixes: 48a7639ce8 ("rcu: Make callers awaken grace-period kthread")
Reported-by: "He, Bo" <bo.he@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: "Zhang, Jun" <jun.zhang@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: "He, Bo" <bo.he@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: "xiao, jin" <jin.xiao@intel.com>
Co-developed-by: Bai, Jie A <jie.a.bai@intel.com>
Signed-off: "Zhang, Jun" <jun.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off: "He, Bo" <bo.he@intel.com>
Signed-off: "xiao, jin" <jin.xiao@intel.com>
Signed-off: Bai, Jie A <jie.a.bai@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: "Zhang, Jun" <jun.zhang@intel.com>
[ paulmck: Switch from !in_softirq() to "!in_interrupt() &&
!in_serving_softirq() to avoid redundant wakeups and to also handle the
interrupt-handler scenario as well as the softirq-handler scenario that
actually occurred in testing. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CD6925E8781EFD4D8E11882D20FC406D52A11F61@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com
Life is hard if RCU manages to get stuck without triggering RCU CPU
stall warnings or triggering the rcu_check_gp_start_stall() checks
for failing to start a grace period. This commit therefore adds a
boot-time-selectable sysrq key (commandeering "y") that allows manually
dumping Tree RCU state. The new rcutree.sysrq_rcu kernel boot parameter
must be set for this sysrq to be available.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation() function can be invoked without
holding locks, so the access to the rcu_state structure's ->gp_flags
field must be protected with READ_ONCE(). This commit therefore adds
this protection.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
If a grace period fails to start (for example, because you commented
out the last two lines of rcu_accelerate_cbs_unlocked()), rcu_core()
will invoke rcu_check_gp_start_stall(), which will notice and complain.
However, this complaint is lacking crucial debugging information such
as when the last wakeup executed and what the value of ->gp_seq was at
that time. This commit therefore removes the current pr_alert() from
rcu_check_gp_start_stall(), instead invoking show_rcu_gp_kthreads(),
which has been updated to print the needed information, which is collected
by rcu_gp_kthread_wake().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
It is perfectly fine to set the rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs boot
parameter to zero, in fact, this can be useful on specialty systems that
usually have at least one idle CPU and that need fast grace periods.
This is because this setting causes the RCU grace-period kthread to
scan for idle threads immediately after grace-period initialization,
as opposed to waiting several jiffies to do so.
It is also perfectly fine to set the rcutree.rcu_kick_kthreads kernel
parameter, which gives the RCU grace-period kthread an extra wakeup
if it doesn't make progress for a period of three times the setting of
the rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs boot parameter. This is of course
problematic when the value of this parameter is zero, as it can result
in unnecessary wakeup IPIs along with unnecessary WARN_ONCE() invocations.
This commit therefore defers kthread kicking for at least two jiffies,
regardless of the setting of rcutree.jiffies_till_first_fqs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Back when there were multiple flavors of RCU, it was necessary to
separately count lazy and non-lazy callbacks for each CPU. These counts
were used in CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ kernels to determine how long a newly
idle CPU should be allowed to sleep before handling its RCU callbacks.
But now that there is only one flavor, the callback counts for a given
CPU's sole rcu_data structure are the counts for that CPU.
This commit therefore removes the rcu_data structure's ->nonlazy_posted
and ->nonlazy_posted_snap fields, the rcu_idle_count_callbacks_posted()
and rcu_cpu_has_callbacks() functions, repurposes the rcu_data structure's
->all_lazy field to record the laziness state at the beginning of the
latest idle sojourn, and modifies CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ RCU CPU stall
warnings accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Now that rcu_blocking_is_gp() makes the correct immediate-return
decision for both PREEMPT and !PREEMPT, a single implementation of
synchronize_rcu() will work correctly under both configurations.
This commit therefore eliminates a few lines of code by consolidating
the two implementations of synchronize_rcu().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Now that the RCU flavors have been consolidated, RCU_BH_FLAVOR and
RCU_SCHED_FLAVOR are no longer used. This commit therefore saves a
few lines by removing them.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Given that rcu_force_quiescent_state() is a simple wrapper around
force_quiescent_state(), this commit saves a few lines of code by
inlining force_quiescent_state() into rcu_force_quiescent_state(),
and changing all references to force_quiescent_state() to instead
invoke rcu_force_quiescent_state().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Given RCU flavor consolidation, the name rcu_spawn_all_nocb_kthreads()
is quite misleading. It no longer ever creates more than one kthread,
and it does so only for the specified CPU. This commit therefore changes
this name to the more descriptive rcu_spawn_cpu_nocb_kthread(), and also
fixes up a similar issue in its header comment while in the area.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
If rcutorture's forward-progress tests fail while a grace period is not
in progress, it is useful to print the time since the last grace period
ended as a way to detect failure to launch a new grace period. This
commit therefore makes this change.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit prints out the non-zero per-CPU callback counts when a
forware-progress error (OOM event) occurs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Fix a pair of uninitialized locals spotted by kbuild test robot. ]
The RCU CPU stall warnings print an estimate of the total number of
RCU callbacks queued in the system, but this estimate leaves out
the callbacks queued for nocbs CPUs. This commit therefore introduces
rcu_get_n_cbs_cpu(), which gives an accurate callback estimate for
both nocbs and normal CPUs, and uses this new function as needed.
This commit also introduces a rcu_get_n_cbs_nocb_cpu() helper function
that returns the number of callbacks for nocbs CPUs or zero otherwise,
and also uses this function in place of direct access to ->nocb_q_count
while in the area (fewer characters, you see).
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit adds an OOM notifier during rcutorture forward-progress
testing. If this notifier is invoked, it dumps out some grace-period
state to help debug the forward-progress problem.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
bug.2018.11.12a: Get rid of BUG_ON() and friends
consolidate.2018.12.01a: Continued RCU flavor-consolidation cleanup
doc.2018.11.12a: Documentation updates
fixes.2018.11.12a: Miscellaneous fixes
initrd.2018.11.08b: Automate creation of rcutorture initrd
sil.2018.11.12a: Remove more spin_unlock_wait() calls
Currently, rcu_gp_cleanup() traces the end of the old grace period after
the old grace period has officially ended. This might make intuitive
sense, but it also makes for confusing event-trace output because the
"end" trace displays not the old but instead the new grace-period number.
This commit therefore traces the end of an old grace period just before
that grace period officially ends.
Reported-by: Aravinda Prasad <aravinda@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Because RCU avoids interrupting idle CPUs, rcu_is_watching() is used to
test whether or not it is currently legal to run RCU read-side critical
sections on this CPU. However, the first sentence and last sentences
of current comment for rcu_is_watching have opposite meaning of what
is expected. This commit therefore fixes this header comment.
Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit adds a printout of the number of jiffies since the last time
that the RCU grace-period kthread did any processing. This can be useful
when tracking down forward-progress issues.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit adds the name of the RCU grace-period state to
the show_rcu_gp_kthreads() output in order to ease debugging.
This commit also moves gp_state_getname() up in the code so that
show_rcu_gp_kthreads() can use it.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
In order to debug forward-progress stalls, it is necessary to check
for excessively delayed grace-period starts. This is currently done
for RCU CPU stall warnings by rcu_check_gp_start_stall(), which checks
to see if the start of a requested grace period has been delayed by an
RCU CPU stall warning period. Because rcutorture will need to check
for the time consumed by an RCU forward-progress delay, this commit
promotes gpssdelay from a local variable to a formal parameter. It is
not necessary to export rcu_check_gp_start_stall() because rcutorture
will access it via a wrapper function.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The rcu_check_gp_start_stall() function multiplies the return value
from rcu_jiffies_till_stall_check() by HZ, but the units are already
in jiffies. This commit therefore avoids the need for introduction of
a jiffies-squared unit by removing the extraneous multiplication.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
