Some larger systems can take in excess of 50 seconds to complete their
early boot initcalls prior to spawing init. This does not in any way
help the forward-progress judgments of built-in rcutorture (when
rcutorture is built as a module, the insmod or modprobe command normally
cannot happen until some time after boot completes). This commit
therefore suppresses such complaints until about the time that init
is spawned.
This also includes a fix to a stupid error located by kbuild test robot.
[ paulmck: Apply kbuild test robot feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
[ paulmck: Fix to nohz_full slow-expediting recovery logic, per bpetkov. ]
[ paulmck: Restrict splat to CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels and simplify. ]
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
This commit moves the rcu_{expedited,normal} definitions from
kernel/rcu/update.c to include/linux/rcupdate.h to make sure they are
in sync, and also to avoid the following warning from sparse:
kernel/ksysfs.c:150:5: warning: symbol 'rcu_expedited' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/ksysfs.c:167:5: warning: symbol 'rcu_normal' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Recently a discussion about stability and performance of a system
involving a high rate of kfree_rcu() calls surfaced on the list [1]
which led to another discussion how to prepare for this situation.
This patch adds basic batching support for kfree_rcu(). It is "basic"
because we do none of the slab management, dynamic allocation, code
moving or any of the other things, some of which previous attempts did
[2]. These fancier improvements can be follow-up patches and there are
different ideas being discussed in those regards. This is an effort to
start simple, and build up from there. In the future, an extension to
use kfree_bulk and possibly per-slab batching could be done to further
improve performance due to cache-locality and slab-specific bulk free
optimizations. By using an array of pointers, the worker thread
processing the work would need to read lesser data since it does not
need to deal with large rcu_head(s) any longer.
Torture tests follow in the next patch and show improvements of around
5x reduction in number of grace periods on a 16 CPU system. More
details and test data are in that patch.
There is an implication with rcu_barrier() with this patch. Since the
kfree_rcu() calls can be batched, and may not be handed yet to the RCU
machinery in fact, the monitor may not have even run yet to do the
queue_rcu_work(), there seems no easy way of implementing rcu_barrier()
to wait for those kfree_rcu()s that are already made. So this means a
kfree_rcu() followed by an rcu_barrier() does not imply that memory will
be freed once rcu_barrier() returns.
Another implication is higher active memory usage (although not
run-away..) until the kfree_rcu() flooding ends, in comparison to
without batching. More details about this are in the second patch which
adds an rcuperf test.
Finally, in the near future we will get rid of kfree_rcu() special casing
within RCU such as in rcu_do_batch and switch everything to just
batching. Currently we don't do that since timer subsystem is not yet up
and we cannot schedule the kfree_rcu() monitor as the timer subsystem's
lock are not initialized. That would also mean getting rid of
kfree_call_rcu_nobatch() entirely.
[1] http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190723035725-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/19/824
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Cc: kernel-team@lge.com
Co-developed-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Applied 0day and Paul Walmsley feedback on ->monitor_todo. ]
[ paulmck: Make it work during early boot. ]
[ paulmck: Add a crude early boot self-test. ]
[ paulmck: Style adjustments and experimental docbook structure header. ]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/alpine.DEB.2.21.9999.1908161931110.32497@viisi.sifive.com/T/#me9956f66cb611b95d26ae92700e1d901f46e8c59
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently PREEMPT_RCU and TREE_RCU are mutually exclusive Kconfig
options. But PREEMPT_RCU actually specifies a kind of TREE_RCU,
namely a preemptible TREE_RCU. This commit therefore makes PREEMPT_RCU
be a modifer to the TREE_RCU Kconfig option. This has the benefit of
simplifying several of the #if expressions that formerly needed to
check both, but now need only check one or the other.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Because rcu_expedited_nesting is initialized to 1 and not decremented
until just before init is spawned, rcu_expedited_nesting is guaranteed
to be non-zero whenever rcu_scheduler_active == RCU_SCHEDULER_INIT.
This commit therefore removes this redundant "if" equality test.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
This commit adds RCU-reader checks to list_for_each_entry_rcu() and
hlist_for_each_entry_rcu(). These checks are optional, and are indicated
by a lockdep expression passed to a new optional argument to these two
macros. If this optional lockdep expression is omitted, these two macros
act as before, checking for an RCU read-side critical section.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Update to eliminate return within macro and update comment. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The debug_locks flag can never be true at the end of
rcu_read_lock_sched_held() because it is already checked by the earlier
call todebug_lockdep_rcu_enabled(). This commit therefore removes this
redundant check.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit adds a rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump kernel boot parameter, that,
when set, causes the trace buffer to be dumped after an RCU CPU stall
warning is printed. This kernel boot parameter is disabled by default,
maintaining compatibility with previous behavior.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
I have been showing off a trivial RCU implementation for non-preemptive
environments for some time now:
#define rcu_read_lock()
#define rcu_read_unlock()
#define rcu_dereference(p) READ_ONCE(p)
#define rcu_assign_pointer(p, v) smp_store_release(&(p), (v))
void synchronize_rcu(void)
{
int cpu;
for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
sched_setaffinity(current->pid, cpumask_of(cpu));
}
Trivial or not, as the old saying goes, "if it ain't tested, it don't
work!". This commit therefore adds a "trivial" flavor to rcutorture
and a corresponding TRIVIAL test scenario. This variant does not handle
CPU hotplug, which is unconditionally enabled on x86 for post-v5.1-rc3
kernels, which is why the TRIVIAL.boot says "rcutorture.onoff_interval=0".
This commit actually does handle CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernels, but only
because it turns back the Linux-kernel clock in order to provide these
alternative definitions (or the moral equivalent thereof):
#define rcu_read_lock() preempt_disable()
#define rcu_read_unlock() preempt_enable()
In CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernels without debugging, these are equivalent to
empty macros give or take a compiler barrier. However, the have been
successfully tested with actual empty macros as well.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Fix symbol issue reported by kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>. ]
[ paulmck: Work around sched_setaffinity() issue noted by Andrea Parri. ]
[ paulmck: Add rcutorture.shuffle_interval=0 to TRIVIAL.boot to fix
interaction with shuffler task noted by Peter Zijlstra. ]
Tested-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.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>
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
...
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>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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
The update.c file has a number of calls to BUG_ON(), which panics the
kernel, which is not a good strategy for devices (like embedded) that
don't have a way to capture console output. This commit therefore
converts these BUG_ON() calls to WARN_ON_ONCE() and WARN_ONCE().
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Now that synchronize_rcu() waits for both RCU read-side critical
sections and preempt-disabled regions of code, the sole caller of
synchronize_rcu_mult() can be replaced by synchronize_rcu().
This patch makes this change and removes synchronize_rcu_mult().
Note that _wait_rcu_gp() still supports synchronize_rcu_mult(),
and thus might be simplified in the future to take only take
a single call_rcu() function rather than the current list of them.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Event tracing is moving to SRCU in order to take advantage of the fact
that SRCU may be safely used from idle and even offline CPUs. However,
event tracing can invoke call_srcu() very early in the boot process,
even before workqueue_init_early() is invoked (let alone rcu_init()).
Therefore, call_srcu()'s attempts to queue work fail miserably.
This commit therefore detects this situation, and refrains from attempting
to queue work before rcu_init() time, but does everything else that it
would have done, and in addition, adds the srcu_struct to a global list.
The rcu_init() function now invokes a new srcu_init() function, which
is empty if CONFIG_SRCU=n. Otherwise, srcu_init() queues work for
each srcu_struct on the list. This all happens early enough in boot
that there is but a single CPU with interrupts disabled, which allows
synchronization to be dispensed with.
Of course, the queued work won't actually be invoked until after
workqueue_init() is invoked, which happens shortly after the scheduler
is up and running. This means that although call_srcu() may be invoked
any time after per-CPU variables have been set up, there is still a very
narrow window when synchronize_srcu() won't work, and this window
extends from the time that the scheduler starts until the time that
workqueue_init() returns. This can be fixed in a manner similar to
the fix for synchronize_rcu_expedited() and friends, but until someone
actually needs to use synchronize_srcu() during this window, this fix
is added churn for no benefit.
Finally, note that Tree SRCU's new srcu_init() function invokes
queue_work() rather than the queue_delayed_work() function that is
invoked post-boot. The reason is that queue_delayed_work() will (as you
would expect) post a timer, and timers have not yet been initialized.
So use of queue_work() avoids the complaints about use of uninitialized
spinlocks that would otherwise result. Besides, some delay is already
provide by the aforementioned fact that the queued work won't actually
be invoked until after the scheduler is up and running.
Requested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Now that the RCU-bh and RCU-sched update-side functions are simple
wrappers around their RCU counterparts, there isn't a whole lot of
point in testing them. This commit therefore removes the self-test
capability and removes the corresponding kernel-boot parameters.
It also updates the various rcutorture .boot files to remove the
kernel boot parameters that call for testing RCU-bh and RCU-sched.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit updates comments and help text to account for the fact that
RCU-bh update-side functions are now simple wrappers for their RCU or
RCU-sched counterparts.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit adds a kthread that loops going into and out of RCU
read-side critical sections, but also including a cond_resched(),
optionally guarded by a check of need_resched(), in that same loop.
This commit relies solely on rcu_torture_writer() progress to judge
the forward progress of grace periods.
Note that Tasks RCU and SRCU are exempted from forward-progress testing
due their (intentionally) less-robust forward-progress guarantees.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
At the end of rcu_tasks_kthread() there's a lonely
schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() call with no apparent rationale for
its existence. But there is. It is to keep the thread from going into
a tight loop if there's some anomaly. That really needs a comment.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180524223839.GU3803@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Joel Fernandes found that the synchronize_rcu_tasks() was taking a
significant amount of time. He demonstrated it with the following test:
# cd /sys/kernel/tracing
# while [ 1 ]; do x=1; done &
# echo '__schedule_bug:traceon' > set_ftrace_filter
# time echo '!__schedule_bug:traceon' > set_ftrace_filter;
real 0m1.064s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.004s
Where it takes a little over a second to perform the synchronize,
because there's a loop that waits 1 second at a time for tasks to get
through their quiescent points when there's a task that must be waited
for.
After discussion we came up with a simple way to wait for holdouts but
increase the time for each iteration of the loop but no more than a
full second.
With the new patch we have:
# time echo '!__schedule_bug:traceon' > set_ftrace_filter;
real 0m0.131s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.004s
Which drops it down to 13% of what the original wait time was.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180523063815.198302-2-joel@joelfernandes.org
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Suggested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The naming and comments associated with some RCU-tasks code make
the faulty assumption that context switches due to cond_resched()
are voluntary. As several people pointed out, this is not the case.
This commit therefore updates function names and comments to better
reflect current reality.
Reported-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The __rcu_read_lock() and __rcu_read_unlock() functions were moved
to kernel/rcu/update.c in order to implement tiny preemptible RCU.
However, tiny preemptible RCU was removed from the kernel a long time
ago, so this commit belatedly moves them back into the only remaining
preemptible-RCU code.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Commit e31d28b6ab ("trace: Eliminate cond_resched_rcu_qs() in favor
of cond_resched()") substituted cond_resched() for the earlier call
to cond_resched_rcu_qs(). However, the new-age cond_resched() does
not do anything to help RCU-tasks grace periods because (1) RCU-tasks
is only enabled when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y and (2) cond_resched() is a
complete no-op when preemption is enabled. This situation results
in hangs when running the trace benchmarks.
A number of potential fixes were discussed on LKML
(https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180224151240.0d63a059@vmware.local.home),
including making cond_resched() not be a no-op; making cond_resched()
not be a no-op, but only when running tracing benchmarks; reverting
the aforementioned commit (which works because cond_resched_rcu_qs()
does provide an RCU-tasks quiescent state; and adding a call to the
scheduler/RCU rcu_note_voluntary_context_switch() function. All were
deemed unsatisfactory, either due to added cond_resched() overhead or
due to magic functions inviting cargo culting.
This commit renames cond_resched_rcu_qs() to cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs(),
which provides a clear hint as to what this function is doing and
why and where it should be used, and then replaces the call to
cond_resched() with cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() in the trace benchmark's
benchmark_event_kthread() function.
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Use of init_rcu_head() and destroy_rcu_head() from modules results in
the following build-time error with CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD=y:
ERROR: "init_rcu_head" [drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko] undefined!
ERROR: "destroy_rcu_head" [drivers/scsi/scsi_mod.ko] undefined!
This commit therefore adds EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() for each to allow them to
be used by GPL-licensed kernel modules.
Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@wdc.com>
Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com>
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main updates in this cycle were:
- Group balancing enhancements and cleanups (Brendan Jackman)
- Move CPU isolation related functionality into its separate
kernel/sched/isolation.c file, with related 'housekeeping_*()'
namespace and nomenclature et al. (Frederic Weisbecker)
- Improve the interactive/cpu-intense fairness calculation (Josef
Bacik)
- Improve the PELT code and related cleanups (Peter Zijlstra)
- Improve the logic of pick_next_task_fair() (Uladzislau Rezki)
- Improve the RT IPI based balancing logic (Steven Rostedt)
- Various micro-optimizations:
- better !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG optimizations (Patrick Bellasi)
- better idle loop (Cheng Jian)
- ... plus misc fixes, cleanups and updates"
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (54 commits)
sched/core: Optimize sched_feat() for !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG builds
sched/sysctl: Fix attributes of some extern declarations
sched/isolation: Document isolcpus= boot parameter flags, mark it deprecated
sched/isolation: Add basic isolcpus flags
sched/isolation: Move isolcpus= handling to the housekeeping code
sched/isolation: Handle the nohz_full= parameter
sched/isolation: Introduce housekeeping flags
sched/isolation: Split out new CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION=y config from CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
sched/isolation: Rename is_housekeeping_cpu() to housekeeping_cpu()
sched/isolation: Use its own static key
sched/isolation: Make the housekeeping cpumask private
sched/isolation: Provide a dynamic off-case to housekeeping_any_cpu()
sched/isolation, watchdog: Use housekeeping_cpumask() instead of ad-hoc version
sched/isolation: Move housekeeping related code to its own file
sched/idle: Micro-optimize the idle loop
sched/isolcpus: Fix "isolcpus=" boot parameter handling when !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK
x86/tsc: Append the 'tsc=' description for the 'tsc=unstable' boot parameter
sched/rt: Simplify the IPI based RT balancing logic
block/ioprio: Use a helper to check for RT prio
sched/rt: Add a helper to test for a RT task
...
Before we implement isolcpus under housekeeping, we need the isolation
features to be more finegrained. For example some people want NOHZ_FULL
without the full scheduler isolation, others want full scheduler
isolation without NOHZ_FULL.
So let's cut all these isolation features piecewise, at the risk of
overcutting it right now. We can still merge some flags later if they
always make sense together.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509072159-31808-9-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
The housekeeping code is currently tied to the NOHZ code. As we are
planning to make housekeeping independent from it, start with moving
the relevant code to its own file.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509072159-31808-2-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Currently, RCU emits Suppress RCU CPU stall warnings during its
automatically initiated ftrace_dump() calls after detecting an error
condition, which can result in excessively excessive console output
and lost trace events. This commit therefore suppresses RCU CPU stall
warnings across any of these ftrace_dump() calls.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently the call_rcu_tasks() kthread is created upon first
invocation of call_rcu_tasks(). This has the advantage of avoiding
creation if there are never any invocations of call_rcu_tasks() and of
synchronize_rcu_tasks(), but it requires an unreliable heuristic to
determine when it is safe to create the kthread. For example, it is
not safe to create the kthread when call_rcu_tasks() is invoked with
a spinlock held, but there is no good way to detect this in !PREEMPT
kernels.
This commit therefore creates this kthread unconditionally at
core_initcall() time. If you don't want this kthread created, then
build with CONFIG_TASKS_RCU=n.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, the exit-time support for TASKS_RCU is open-coded in do_exit().
This commit creates exit_tasks_rcu_start() and exit_tasks_rcu_finish()
APIs for do_exit() use. This has the benefit of confining the use of the
tasks_rcu_exit_srcu variable to one file, allowing it to become static.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_expedited and rcu_normal variables are used only by sysctl
and kernel/rcu/update.c, so it does not make sense to their extern
declarations in rcupdate.h. This commit therefore moves these
extern declarations to update.c.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The include/linux/rcupdate.h file is included by more than 200
files, so shrinking it should provide some build-time benefits.
This commit therefore moves several docbook comments from rcupdate.h to
kernel/rcu/update.c, kernel/rcu/tree.c, and kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h, thus
reducing the number of times that the compiler has to scan these comments.
This likely provides only a small benefit, but every little bit helps.
This commit also fixes a malformed bulleted list noted by the 0day
Test Robot.
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, doing synchronize_rcu_mult(call_rcu, call_rcu) might
(or might not) wait for two RCU grace periods. One approach is
of course "don't do that!", but in CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernels,
synchronize_rcu_mult(call_rcu, call_rcu_sched) does exactly that.
This results in an ugly #ifdef in sched_cpu_deactivate().
This commit therefore makes __wait_rcu_gp() check for duplicates,
which in turn allows duplicates to be passed to synchronize_rcu_mult()
without risk of waiting twice on the same type of grace period.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit adds a rcupdate_announce_bootup_oddness() function to
print out non-default values of significant kernel boot parameter
settings to aid in debugging.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, a call to schedule() acts as a Tasks RCU quiescent state
only if a context switch actually takes place. However, just the
call to schedule() guarantees that the calling task has moved off of
whatever tracing trampoline that it might have been one previously.
This commit therefore plumbs schedule()'s "preempt" parameter into
rcu_note_context_switch(), which then records the Tasks RCU quiescent
state, but only if this call to schedule() was -not- due to a preemption.
To avoid adding overhead to the common-case context-switch path,
this commit hides the rcu_note_context_switch() check under an existing
non-common-case check.
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This is primarily a code-movement commit in preparation for allowing
SRCU to handle early-boot SRCU grace periods.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
We are going to split <linux/sched/debug.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.
Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/debug.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We are going to split <linux/sched/signal.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.
Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/signal.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
So rcupdate.h is a pretty complex header, in particular it includes
<linux/completion.h> which includes <linux/wait.h> - creating a
dependency that includes <linux/wait.h> in <linux/sched.h>,
which prevents the isolation of <linux/sched.h> from the derived
<linux/wait.h> header.
Solve part of the problem by decoupling rcupdate.h from completions:
this can be done by separating out the rcu_synchronize types and APIs,
and updating their usage sites.
Since this is a mostly RCU-internal types this will not just simplify
<linux/sched.h>'s dependencies, but will make all the hundreds of
.c files that include rcupdate.h but not completions or wait.h build
faster.
( For rcutiny this means that two dependent APIs have to be uninlined,
but that shouldn't be much of a problem as they are rare variants. )
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT should speed up the boot process by enforcing
synchronize_rcu_expedited() instead of synchronize_rcu() during the boot
process. There should be no reason why one does not want this and there
is no need worry about real time latency at this point.
Therefore make it default.
Note that users wishing to avoid expediting entirely, for example when
bringing up new hardware possibly having flaky IPIs, can use the
rcu_normal boot parameter to override boot-time expediting.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
[ paulmck: Reworded commit log. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The current preemptible RCU implementation goes through three phases
during bootup. In the first phase, there is only one CPU that is running
with preemption disabled, so that a no-op is a synchronous grace period.
In the second mid-boot phase, the scheduler is running, but RCU has
not yet gotten its kthreads spawned (and, for expedited grace periods,
workqueues are not yet running. During this time, any attempt to do
a synchronous grace period will hang the system (or complain bitterly,
depending). In the third and final phase, RCU is fully operational and
everything works normally.
This has been OK for some time, but there has recently been some
synchronous grace periods showing up during the second mid-boot phase.
This code worked "by accident" for awhile, but started failing as soon
as expedited RCU grace periods switched over to workqueues in commit
8b355e3bc1 ("rcu: Drive expedited grace periods from workqueue").
Note that the code was buggy even before this commit, as it was subject
to failure on real-time systems that forced all expedited grace periods
to run as normal grace periods (for example, using the rcu_normal ksysfs
parameter). The callchain from the failure case is as follows:
early_amd_iommu_init()
|-> acpi_put_table(ivrs_base);
|-> acpi_tb_put_table(table_desc);
|-> acpi_tb_invalidate_table(table_desc);
|-> acpi_tb_release_table(...)
|-> acpi_os_unmap_memory
|-> acpi_os_unmap_iomem
|-> acpi_os_map_cleanup
|-> synchronize_rcu_expedited
The kernel showing this callchain was built with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y,
which caused the code to try using workqueues before they were
initialized, which did not go well.
This commit therefore reworks RCU to permit synchronous grace periods
to proceed during this mid-boot phase. This commit is therefore a
fix to a regression introduced in v4.9, and is therefore being put
forward post-merge-window in v4.10.
This commit sets a flag from the existing rcu_scheduler_starting()
function which causes all synchronous grace periods to take the expedited
path. The expedited path now checks this flag, using the requesting task
to drive the expedited grace period forward during the mid-boot phase.
Finally, this flag is updated by a core_initcall() function named
rcu_exp_runtime_mode(), which causes the runtime codepaths to be used.
Note that this arrangement assumes that tasks are not sent POSIX signals
(or anything similar) from the time that the first task is spawned
through core_initcall() time.
Fixes: 8b355e3bc1 ("rcu: Drive expedited grace periods from workqueue")
Reported-by: "Zheng, Lv" <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Stan Kain <stan.kain@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ivan <waffolz@hotmail.com>
Tested-by: Emanuel Castelo <emanuel.castelo@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Bruno Pesavento <bpesavento@infinito.it>
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Frederic Bezies <fredbezies@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.9.0-
The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of tree.c is:
init/Kconfig:config TREE_RCU
init/Kconfig: bool
...and update.c and sync.c are "obj-y" meaning that none are ever
built as a module by anyone.
Since MODULE_ALIAS is a no-op for non-modular code, we can remove
them from these files.
We leave moduleparam.h behind since the files instantiate some boot
time configuration parameters with module_param() still.
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, if the very first call to call_rcu_tasks() has irqs disabled,
it will create the rcu_tasks_kthread with irqs disabled, which will
result in a splat in the memory allocator, which kthread_run() invokes
with the expectation that irqs are enabled.
This commit fixes this problem by deferring kthread creation if called
with irqs disabled. The first call to call_rcu_tasks() that has irqs
enabled will create the kthread.
This bug was detected by rcutorture changes that were motivated by
Iftekhar Ahmed's mutation-testing efforts.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
