There is plenty of space in the printk_context variable. Reserve one byte
there for the NMI context to be on the safe side.
It should never overflow. The BUG_ON(in_nmi() == NMI_MASK) in nmi_enter()
will trigger much earlier.
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200505134100.681374113@linutronix.de
We have some rather random rules about when we accept the
"maybe-initialized" warnings, and when we don't.
For example, we consider it unreliable for gcc versions < 4.9, but also
if -O3 is enabled, or if optimizing for size. And then various kernel
config options disabled it, because they know that they trigger that
warning by confusing gcc sufficiently (ie PROFILE_ALL_BRANCHES).
And now gcc-10 seems to be introducing a lot of those warnings too, so
it falls under the same heading as 4.9 did.
At the same time, we have a very straightforward way to _enable_ that
warning when wanted: use "W=2" to enable more warnings.
So stop playing these ad-hoc games, and just disable that warning by
default, with the known and straight-forward "if you want to work on the
extra compiler warnings, use W=123".
Would it be great to have code that is always so obvious that it never
confuses the compiler whether a variable is used initialized or not?
Yes, it would. In a perfect world, the compilers would be smarter, and
our source code would be simpler.
That's currently not the world we live in, though.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Here are a number of small driver core fixes for 5.7-rc5 to resolve a
bunch of reported issues with the current tree.
Biggest here are the reverts and patches from John Stultz to resolve a
bunch of deferred probe regressions we have been seeing in 5.7-rc right
now.
Along with those are some other smaller fixes:
- coredump crash fix
- devlink fix for when permissive mode was enabled
- amba and platform device dma_parms fixes
- component error silenced for when deferred probe happens
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-5.7-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core
Pull driver core fixes from Greg KH:
"Here are a number of small driver core fixes for 5.7-rc5 to resolve a
bunch of reported issues with the current tree.
Biggest here are the reverts and patches from John Stultz to resolve a
bunch of deferred probe regressions we have been seeing in 5.7-rc
right now.
Along with those are some other smaller fixes:
- coredump crash fix
- devlink fix for when permissive mode was enabled
- amba and platform device dma_parms fixes
- component error silenced for when deferred probe happens
All of these have been in linux-next for a while with no reported
issues"
* tag 'driver-core-5.7-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
regulator: Revert "Use driver_deferred_probe_timeout for regulator_init_complete_work"
driver core: Ensure wait_for_device_probe() waits until the deferred_probe_timeout fires
driver core: Use dev_warn() instead of dev_WARN() for deferred_probe_timeout warnings
driver core: Revert default driver_deferred_probe_timeout value to 0
component: Silence bind error on -EPROBE_DEFER
driver core: Fix handling of fw_devlink=permissive
coredump: fix crash when umh is disabled
amba: Initialize dma_parms for amba devices
driver core: platform: Initialize dma_parms for platform devices
Merge misc fixes from Andrew Morton:
"14 fixes and one selftest to verify the ipc fixes herein"
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>:
mm: limit boost_watermark on small zones
ubsan: disable UBSAN_ALIGNMENT under COMPILE_TEST
mm/vmscan: remove unnecessary argument description of isolate_lru_pages()
epoll: atomically remove wait entry on wake up
kselftests: introduce new epoll60 testcase for catching lost wakeups
percpu: make pcpu_alloc() aware of current gfp context
mm/slub: fix incorrect interpretation of s->offset
scripts/gdb: repair rb_first() and rb_last()
eventpoll: fix missing wakeup for ovflist in ep_poll_callback
arch/x86/kvm/svm/sev.c: change flag passed to GUP fast in sev_pin_memory()
scripts/decodecode: fix trapping instruction formatting
kernel/kcov.c: fix typos in kcov_remote_start documentation
mm/page_alloc: fix watchdog soft lockups during set_zone_contiguous()
mm, memcg: fix error return value of mem_cgroup_css_alloc()
ipc/mqueue.c: change __do_notify() to bypass check_kill_permission()
- Fix bootconfig causing kernels to fail with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM enabled
- Fix allocation leaks in bootconfig tool
- Fix a double initialization of a variable
- Fix API bootconfig usage from kprobe boot time events
- Reject NULL location for kprobes
- Fix crash caused by preempt delay module not cleaning up kthread
correctly
- Add vmalloc_sync_mappings() to prevent x86_64 page faults from
recursively faulting from tracing page faults
- Fix comment in gpu/trace kerneldoc header
- Fix documentation of how to create a trace event class
- Make the local tracing_snapshot_instance_cond() function static
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.7-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing fixes from Steven Rostedt:
- Fix bootconfig causing kernels to fail with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM
enabled
- Fix allocation leaks in bootconfig tool
- Fix a double initialization of a variable
- Fix API bootconfig usage from kprobe boot time events
- Reject NULL location for kprobes
- Fix crash caused by preempt delay module not cleaning up kthread
correctly
- Add vmalloc_sync_mappings() to prevent x86_64 page faults from
recursively faulting from tracing page faults
- Fix comment in gpu/trace kerneldoc header
- Fix documentation of how to create a trace event class
- Make the local tracing_snapshot_instance_cond() function static
* tag 'trace-v5.7-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
tools/bootconfig: Fix resource leak in apply_xbc()
tracing: Make tracing_snapshot_instance_cond() static
tracing: Fix doc mistakes in trace sample
gpu/trace: Minor comment updates for gpu_mem_total tracepoint
tracing: Add a vmalloc_sync_mappings() for safe measure
tracing: Wait for preempt irq delay thread to finish
tracing/kprobes: Reject new event if loc is NULL
tracing/boottime: Fix kprobe event API usage
tracing/kprobes: Fix a double initialization typo
bootconfig: Fix to remove bootconfig data from initrd while boot
Fix the following sparse warning:
kernel/trace/trace.c:950:6: warning: symbol 'tracing_snapshot_instance_cond'
was not declared. Should it be static?
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1587614905-48692-1-git-send-email-zou_wei@huawei.com
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Zou Wei <zou_wei@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
x86_64 lazily maps in the vmalloc pages, and the way this works with per_cpu
areas can be complex, to say the least. Mappings may happen at boot up, and
if nothing synchronizes the page tables, those page mappings may not be
synced till they are used. This causes issues for anything that might touch
one of those mappings in the path of the page fault handler. When one of
those unmapped mappings is touched in the page fault handler, it will cause
another page fault, which in turn will cause a page fault, and leave us in
a loop of page faults.
Commit 763802b53a ("x86/mm: split vmalloc_sync_all()") split
vmalloc_sync_all() into vmalloc_sync_unmappings() and
vmalloc_sync_mappings(), as on system exit, it did not need to do a full
sync on x86_64 (although it still needed to be done on x86_32). By chance,
the vmalloc_sync_all() would synchronize the page mappings done at boot up
and prevent the per cpu area from being a problem for tracing in the page
fault handler. But when that synchronization in the exit of a task became a
nop, it caused the problem to appear.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200429054857.66e8e333@oasis.local.home
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 737223fbca ("tracing: Consolidate buffer allocation code")
Reported-by: "Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware)" <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Running on a slower machine, it is possible that the preempt delay kernel
thread may still be executing if the module was immediately removed after
added, and this can cause the kernel to crash as the kernel thread might be
executing after its code has been removed.
There's no reason that the caller of the code shouldn't just wait for the
delay thread to finish, as the thread can also be created by a trigger in
the sysfs code, which also has the same issues.
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/5EA2B0C8.2080706@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 793937236d ("lib: Add module for testing preemptoff/irqsoff latency tracers")
Reported-by: Xiao Yang <yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Xiao Yang <yangx.jy@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
fixes.2020.04.27a: Miscellaneous fixes.
kfree_rcu.2020.04.27a: Changes related to kfree_rcu().
rcu-tasks.2020.04.27a: Addition of new RCU-tasks flavors.
stall.2020.04.27a: RCU CPU stall-warning updates.
torture.2020.05.07a: Torture-test updates.
This commit converts three ULONG_CMP_LT() invocations in rcutorture to
time_before() to reflect the fact that they are comparing timestamps to
the jiffies counter.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit fixes the following sparse warning:
kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c:1695:16: warning: symbol 'rcu_fwds' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c:1696:6: warning: symbol 'rcu_fwd_emergency_stop' was not declared. Should it be static?
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Yan <yanaijie@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit provides an rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread module parameter
to allow rcutorture to starve the grace-period kthread. This allows
testing the code that detects such starvation.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit aids testing of RCU task stall warning messages by adding
an rcutorture.stall_cpu_block module parameter that results in the
induced stall sleeping within the RCU read-side critical section.
Spinning with interrupts disabled is still available via the
rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff module parameter, and specifying neither
of these two module parameters will spin with preemption disabled.
Note that sleeping (as opposed to preemption) results in additional
complaints from RCU at context-switch time, so yet more testing.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reject the new event which has NULL location for kprobes.
For kprobes, user must specify at least the location.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158779376597.6082.1411212055469099461.stgit@devnote2
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 2a588dd1d5 ("tracing: Add kprobe event command generation functions")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fix boottime kprobe events to use API correctly for
multiple events.
For example, when we set a multiprobe kprobe events in
bootconfig like below,
ftrace.event.kprobes.myevent {
probes = "vfs_read $arg1 $arg2", "vfs_write $arg1 $arg2"
}
This cause an error;
trace_boot: Failed to add probe: p:kprobes/myevent (null) vfs_read $arg1 $arg2 vfs_write $arg1 $arg2
This shows the 1st argument becomes NULL and multiprobes
are merged to 1 probe.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158779375766.6082.201939936008972838.stgit@devnote2
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: 29a1548105 ("tracing: Change trace_boot to use kprobe_event interface")
Reviewed-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Fix a typo that resulted in an unnecessary double
initialization to addr.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/158779374968.6082.2337484008464939919.stgit@devnote2
Cc: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@kernel.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: c7411a1a12 ("tracing/kprobe: Check whether the non-suffixed symbol is notrace")
Signed-off-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The n_barrier_successes, n_barrier_attempts, and
n_rcu_torture_barrier_error variables are updated (without access
markings) by the main rcu_barrier() test kthread, and accessed (also
without access markings) by the rcu_torture_stats() kthread. This of
course can result in KCSAN complaints.
Because the accesses are in diagnostic prints, this commit uses
data_race() to excuse the diagnostic prints from the data race. If this
were to ever cause bogus statistics prints (for example, due to store
tearing), any misleading information would be disambiguated by the
presence or absence of an rcutorture splat.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely and due to the mild consequences of the
failure, namely a confusing rcutorture console message.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
This commit adds stubs for KCSAN's data_race(), ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_WRITER(),
and ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_ACCESS() macros to allow code using these macros to
move ahead.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
When all quiescent states have been seen, it is normally the grace-period
kthread that is in trouble. Although the existing stack trace from
the current CPU might possibly provide useful information, experience
indicates that there is too much noise for this to be worthwhile.
This commit therefore removes this stack trace from the output.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
If the grace-period kthread is starved, idle threads' extended quiescent
states are not reported. These idle threads thus wrongly appear to
be blocking the current grace period. This commit therefore tags such
idle threads as probable false positives when the grace-period kthread
is being starved.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Although the accesses used to determine whether or not an expedited
stall should be printed are an integral part of the concurrency algorithm
governing use of the corresponding variables, the values that are simply
printed are ancillary. As such, it is best to use data_race() for these
accesses in order to provide the greatest latitude in the use of KCSAN
for the other accesses that are an integral part of the algorithm. This
commit therefore changes the relevant uses of READ_ONCE() to data_race().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit replaces the schedule_on_each_cpu(ftrace_sync) instances
with synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude().
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
[ paulmck: Make Kconfig adjustments noted by kbuild test robot. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit allows TASKS_TRACE_RCU to be used independently of TASKS_RCU
and vice versa.
[ paulmck: Fix conditional compilation per kbuild test robot feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds a failure-return count for smp_call_function_single(),
and adds this to the console messages for rcutorture writer stalls and at
the end of rcutorture testing.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds a counter for the number of times the quiescent state
was an idle task associated with an offline CPU, and prints this count
at the end of rcutorture runs and at stall time.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds counts of the number of calls and number of successful
calls to rcu_dynticks_zero_in_eqs(), which are printed at the end
of rcutorture runs and at stall time. This allows evaluation of the
effectiveness of rcu_dynticks_zero_in_eqs().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit scans the CPUs, adding each CPU's idle task to the list of
tasks that need quiescent states.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The idle task corresponding to an offline CPU can appear to be running
while that CPU is offline. This commit therefore adds checks for this
situation, treating it as a quiescent state. Because the tasklist scan
and the holdout-list scan now exclude CPU-hotplug operations, readers
on the CPU-hotplug paths are still waited for.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit disables CPU hotplug across RCU tasks trace scans, which
is a first step towards correctly recognizing idle tasks "running" on
offline CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_read_unlock_trace() can invoke rcu_read_unlock_trace_special(),
which in turn can call wake_up(). Therefore, if any scheduler lock is
held across a call to rcu_read_unlock_trace(), self-deadlock can occur.
This commit therefore uses the irq_work facility to defer the wake_up()
to a clean environment where no scheduler locks will be held.
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ paulmck: Update #includes for m68k per kbuild test robot. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Systems running CPU-bound real-time task do not want IPIs sent to CPUs
executing nohz_full userspace tasks. Battery-powered systems don't
want IPIs sent to idle CPUs in low-power mode. Unfortunately, RCU tasks
trace can and will send such IPIs in some cases.
Both of these situations occur only when the target CPU is in RCU
dyntick-idle mode, in other words, when RCU is not watching the
target CPU. This suggests that CPUs in dyntick-idle mode should use
memory barriers in outermost invocations of rcu_read_lock_trace()
and rcu_read_unlock_trace(), which would allow the RCU tasks trace
grace period to directly read out the target CPU's read-side state.
One challenge is that RCU tasks trace is not targeting a specific
CPU, but rather a task. And that task could switch from one CPU to
another at any time.
This commit therefore uses try_invoke_on_locked_down_task()
and checks for task_curr() in trc_inspect_reader_notrunning().
When this condition holds, the target task is running and cannot move.
If CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB=y, the new rcu_dynticks_zero_in_eqs()
function can be used to check if the specified integer (in this case,
t->trc_reader_nesting) is zero while the target CPU remains in that same
dyntick-idle sojourn. If so, the target task is in a quiescent state.
If not, trc_read_check_handler() must indicate failure so that the
grace-period kthread can take appropriate action or retry after an
appropriate delay, as the case may be.
With this change, given CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB=y, if a given
CPU remains idle or a given task continues executing in nohz_full mode,
the RCU tasks trace grace-period kthread will detect this without the
need to send an IPI.
Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit provides a new TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB Kconfig option that
enables use of read-side memory barriers by both rcu_read_lock_trace()
and rcu_read_unlock_trace() when the are executed with the
current->trc_reader_special.b.need_mb flag set. This flag is currently
never set. Doing that is the subject of a later commit.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds a grace-period count and a count of IPIs sent since
boot, which is printed in response to rcutorture writer stalls and at
the end of rcutorture testing. These counts will be used to evaluate
various schemes to reduce the number of IPIs sent.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit splits ->trc_reader_need_end by using the rcu_special union.
This change permits readers to check to see if a memory barrier is
required without any added overhead in the common case where no such
barrier is required. This commit also adds the read-side checking.
Later commits will add the machinery to properly set the new
->trc_reader_special.b.need_mb field.
This commit also makes rcu_read_unlock_trace_special() tolerate nested
read-side critical sections within interrupt and NMI handlers.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit provides a rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay kernel boot parameter
that specifies how old the RCU tasks trace grace period must be before
the grace-period kthread starts sending IPIs. This delay allows more
tasks to pass through rcu_tasks_qs() quiescent states, thus reducing
(or even eliminating) the number of IPIs that must be sent.
On a short rcutorture test setting this kernel boot parameter to HZ/2
resulted in zero IPIs for all 877 RCU-tasks trace grace periods that
elapsed during that test.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds a place to record the grace-period start in jiffies.
This will be used by later commits for debugging purposes and to throttle
IPIs early in the grace period.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit makes the calls to rcu_tasks_qs() detect and report
quiescent states for RCU tasks trace. If the task is in a quiescent
state and if ->trc_reader_checked is not yet set, the task sets its own
->trc_reader_checked. This will cause the grace-period kthread to
remove it from the holdout list if it still remains there.
[ paulmck: Fix conditional compilation per kbuild test robot feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds state for each RCU-tasks flavor to the rcutorture
writer stall output. The initial state is minimal, but you have to
start somewhere.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
[ paulmck: Fixes based on feedback from kbuild test robot. ]
This commit pushes the #ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_GENERIC from
kernel/rcu/update.c to kernel/rcu/tasks.h in order to improve
readability as more APIs are added.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds RCU CPU stall warnings for RCU Tasks Trace. These
dump out any tasks blocking the current grace period, as well as any
CPUs that have not responded to an IPI request. This happens in two
phases, when initially extracting state from the tasks and later when
waiting for any holdout tasks to check in.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Because RCU does not watch exception early-entry/late-exit, idle-loop,
or CPU-hotplug execution, protection of tracing and BPF operations is
needlessly complicated. This commit therefore adds a variant of
Tasks RCU that:
o Has explicit read-side markers to allow finite grace periods in
the face of in-kernel loops for PREEMPT=n builds. These markers
are rcu_read_lock_trace() and rcu_read_unlock_trace().
o Protects code in the idle loop, exception entry/exit, and
CPU-hotplug code paths. In this respect, RCU-tasks trace is
similar to SRCU, but with lighter-weight readers.
o Avoids expensive read-side instruction, having overhead similar
to that of Preemptible RCU.
There are of course downsides:
o The grace-period code can send IPIs to CPUs, even when those
CPUs are in the idle loop or in nohz_full userspace. This is
mitigated by later commits.
o It is necessary to scan the full tasklist, much as for Tasks RCU.
o There is a single callback queue guarded by a single lock,
again, much as for Tasks RCU. However, those early use cases
that request multiple grace periods in quick succession are
expected to do so from a single task, which makes the single
lock almost irrelevant. If needed, multiple callback queues
can be provided using any number of schemes.
Perhaps most important, this variant of RCU does not affect the vanilla
flavors, rcu_preempt and rcu_sched. The fact that RCU Tasks Trace
readers can operate from idle, offline, and exception entry/exit in no
way enables rcu_preempt and rcu_sched readers to do so.
The memory ordering was outlined here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200319034030.GX3199@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72/
This effort benefited greatly from off-list discussions of BPF
requirements with Alexei Starovoitov and Andrii Nakryiko. At least
some of the on-list discussions are captured in the Link: tags below.
In addition, KCSAN was quite helpful in finding some early bugs.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200219150744.428764577@infradead.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87mu8p797b.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200225221305.605144982@linutronix.de/
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
[ paulmck: Apply feedback from Steve Rostedt and Joel Fernandes. ]
[ paulmck: Decrement trc_n_readers_need_end upon IPI failure. ]
[ paulmck: Fix locking issue reported by rcutorture. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit refactors RCU tasks to allow variants to be added. These
variants will share the current Tasks-RCU tasklist scan and the holdout
list processing.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit causes the flavors of RCU Tasks to use different names
for their kthreads and in their console messages.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
