This commit removes kfree_rcu() special-casing and the lazy-callback
handling from Tree RCU. It moves some of this special casing to Tiny RCU,
the removal of which will be the subject of later commits.
This results in a nice negative delta.
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Add slab.h #include, thanks to kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This patch updates the list of RCU API in whatisRCU.rst.
Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik04@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Amol Grover <frextrite@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Phong Tran <tranmanphong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Convert rcubarrier.txt to rcubarrier.rst and add it to index.rst.
Format file according to reST
- Add headings and sub-headings
- Add code segments
- Add cross-references to quizes and answers
Signed-off-by: Amol Grover <frextrite@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Phong Tran <tranmanphong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This patch converts rcu_dereference.txt to rcu_dereference.rst and
adds it to index.rst
Signed-off-by: Amol Grover <frextrite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This patch converts NMI-RCU from txt to rst format.
Also adds NMI-RCU in the index.rst file.
Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik04@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Apply feedback from Phong Tran. ]
Tested-by: Phong Tran <tranmanphong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This patch converts arrayRCU from .txt to .rst format, and also adds
it to the index.rst file.
Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik04@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Trimmed trailing whitespace. ]
Tested-by: Phong Tran <tranmanphong@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Amol Grover <frextrite@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
While Paul was explaining some RCU magic I noticed a typo in
rcu_note_context_switch(). As a result, this commit replaces
rcu_node_context_switch() with rcu_note_context_switch().
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit updates the documentation with information about
usage of lockdep with list_for_each_entry_rcu().
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Wordsmithing. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This restores docs back in ReST format.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Added Joel's SoB per Stephen Rothwell feedback. ]
[ paulmck: Joel approved via private email. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This restores docs back in ReST format.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Added Joel's SoB per Stephen Rothwell feedback. ]
[ paulmck: Joel approved via private email. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
These documents are long and have various sections. Provide a good
toc nesting level.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Mauro's auto conversion broken these links, fix them.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
There are 4 RCU articles that are written on html format.
The way they are, they can't be part of the Linux Kernel
documentation body nor share the styles and pdf output.
So, convert them to ReST format.
This way, make htmldocs and make pdfdocs will produce a
documentation output that will be like the original ones, but
will be part of the Linux Kernel documentation body.
Part of the conversion was done with the help of pandoc, but
the result had some broken things that had to be manually
fixed.
Following are manual changes Mauro made when doing the automatic conversion:
Quoting from: https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/20190726154550.5eeae294@coco.lan/
> > At least the pandoc's version I used here has a bug: its conversion
> > from html to ReST on those files only start after a <body> tag - or
> > when the first quiz table starts. I only discovered that adding a
> > <body> at the beginning of the file solve this book at the last
> > conversions.
> >
> > So, for most html->ReST conversions, I manually converted the first
> > part of the document, basically stripping html paragraph tags and
> > by replacing highlights by the ReST syntax.
> >
> > Also, all the quiz tables seem to assume some javascript macro or
> > css style that would be hiding the answer part until the mouse moves
> > to it. Such macro/css was not there at the kernel tree. So, the quiz
> > answers have the same color as the background, making them invisible.
> > Even if we had such macro/css, this is not portable for pdf/LaTeX output
> > (and I'm not sure if this would work with ePub).
> >
> > So, I ended by manually doing the table conversion.
> >
> > Finally, I double-checked if the conversions ended ok, addressing any
> > issues that might have heppened.
> >
> > So, after both automatic conversion and manual fixes, I opened both the
> > html files produced by Sphinx and the original ones and compared them
> > line per line (except for the indexes, as Sphinx produces them
> > automatically), in order to see if all information from the original
> > files will be there on a format close to what we have on other ReST
> > files, fixing any pending issues if any.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This reverts docs from commit 355e9972da81e803bbb825b76106ae9b358caf8e.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Added Joel's SoB per Stephen Rothwell feedback. ]
[ paulmck: Joel approved via private email. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This reverts docs from commit d6b9cd7dc8e041ee83cb1362fce59a3cdb1f2709.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Added Joel's SoB per Stephen Rothwell feedback. ]
[ paulmck: Joel approved via private email. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() API name is confusing. It is equivalent
to rcu_dereference_raw() except that it also does sparse pointer checking.
There are only a few users of rcu_dereference_raw_notrace(). This patches
renames all of them to be rcu_dereference_raw_check() with the "_check()"
indicating sparse checking.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Fix checkpatch warnings about parentheses. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit adds mention of the rcutree.kthread_prio kernel boot parameter
to the discussion of how high-priority real-time tasks can result in
RCU CPU stall warnings. (However, this does not necessarily help when
the high-priority real-time tasks are using dubious deadlines.)
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Commit bb73c52bad ("rcu: Don't disable preemption for Tiny and Tree
RCU readers") removed the barrier() calls from rcu_read_lock() and
rcu_write_lock() in CONFIG_PREEMPT=n&&CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=n kernels.
Within RCU, this commit was OK, but it failed to account for things like
get_user() that can pagefault and that can be reordered by the compiler.
Lack of the barrier() calls in rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock()
can cause these page faults to migrate into RCU read-side critical
sections, which in CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernels could result in too-short
grace periods and arbitrary misbehavior. Please see commit 386afc9114
("spinlocks and preemption points need to be at least compiler barriers")
and Linus's commit 66be4e66a7 ("rcu: locking and unlocking need to
always be at least barriers"), this last of which restores the barrier()
call to both rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock().
This commit removes barrier() calls that are no longer needed given that
the addition of them in Linus's commit noted above. The combination of
this commit and Linus's commit effectively reverts commit bb73c52bad
("rcu: Don't disable preemption for Tiny and Tree RCU readers").
Reported-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Fix embarrassing typo located by Alan Stern. ]
Some files got renamed but probably due to some merge conflicts,
a few references still point to the old locations.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
- A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more
than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with other
trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on the wings
that, I think, will go to you directly later on.
- A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos, and one
on Spectre vulnerabilities.
- Various improvements to the build system, including automatic markup of
function() references because some people, for reasons I will never
understand, were of the opinion that :c:func:``function()`` is
unattractive and not fun to type.
- We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4.
- Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull Documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It's been a relatively busy cycle for docs:
- A fair pile of RST conversions, many from Mauro. These create more
than the usual number of simple but annoying merge conflicts with
other trees, unfortunately. He has a lot more of these waiting on
the wings that, I think, will go to you directly later on.
- A new document on how to use merges and rebases in kernel repos,
and one on Spectre vulnerabilities.
- Various improvements to the build system, including automatic
markup of function() references because some people, for reasons I
will never understand, were of the opinion that
:c:func:``function()`` is unattractive and not fun to type.
- We now recommend using sphinx 1.7, but still support back to 1.4.
- Lots of smaller improvements, warning fixes, typo fixes, etc"
* tag 'docs-5.3' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (129 commits)
docs: automarkup.py: ignore exceptions when seeking for xrefs
docs: Move binderfs to admin-guide
Disable Sphinx SmartyPants in HTML output
doc: RCU callback locks need only _bh, not necessarily _irq
docs: format kernel-parameters -- as code
Doc : doc-guide : Fix a typo
platform: x86: get rid of a non-existent document
Add the RCU docs to the core-api manual
Documentation: RCU: Add TOC tree hooks
Documentation: RCU: Rename txt files to rst
Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU UP systems to reST
Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU linked list to reST
Documentation: RCU: Convert RCU basic concepts to reST
docs: filesystems: Remove uneeded .rst extension on toctables
scripts/sphinx-pre-install: fix out-of-tree build
docs: zh_CN: submitting-drivers.rst: Remove a duplicated Documentation/
Documentation: PGP: update for newer HW devices
Documentation: Add section about CPU vulnerabilities for Spectre
Documentation: platform: Delete x86-laptop-drivers.txt
docs: Note that :c:func: should no longer be used
...
The UP.rst file calls for locks acquired within RCU callback functions
to use _irq variants (spin_lock_irqsave() or similar), which does work,
but can be overkill. This commit therefore instead calls for _bh variants
(spin_lock_bh() or similar), while noting that _irq does work.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiunn Chang <c0d1n61at3@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Rename the following files to reST:
- rcu.txt
- listRCU.txt
- UP.txt
Signed-off-by: Jiunn Chang <c0d1n61at3@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
RCU UP systems reST markup.
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiunn Chang <c0d1n61at3@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Quoting Paul [1]:
"Given that a quick (and perhaps error-prone) search of the uses
of rcu_assign_pointer() in v5.1 didn't find a single use of the
return value, let's please instead change the documentation and
implementation to eliminate the return value."
[1] https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190523135013.GL28207@linux.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.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>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: rcu@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
A positive value of rcupdate.rcu_task_stall_timeout is an interval
in seconds rather than jiffies.
Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Document similar real world examples in the kernel corresponding to the
second and third code snippets. Also correct an issue in
release_referenced() in the code snippet example.
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: jannh@google.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Do a bit of wordsmithing. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
A diagram in whatisRCU.txt has space character before tabs. This commit
therefore makes this diagram consistent with elsewhere in the document:
Use one leading tab, followed by spaces for any additional whitespace
required.
Signed-off-by: Tycho Andersen <tycho@tycho.ws>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Now that synchronize_rcu_bh, synchronize_rcu_bh_expedited, call_rcu_bh,
rcu_barrier_bh, synchronize_sched, synchronize_sched_expedited,
call_rcu_sched, rcu_barrier_sched, get_state_synchronize_sched,
and cond_synchronize_sched are obsolete, let's remove them from the
documentation aside from a small historical section.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
and more translations. There's also some LICENSES adjustments from
Thomas.
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Merge tag 'docs-5.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux
Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A fairly routine cycle for docs - lots of typo fixes, some new
documents, and more translations. There's also some LICENSES
adjustments from Thomas"
* tag 'docs-5.1' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (74 commits)
docs: Bring some order to filesystem documentation
Documentation/locking/lockdep: Drop last two chars of sample states
doc: rcu: Suspicious RCU usage is a warning
docs: driver-api: iio: fix errors in documentation
Documentation/process/howto: Update for 4.x -> 5.x versioning
docs: Explicitly state that the 'Fixes:' tag shouldn't split lines
doc: security: Add kern-doc for lsm_hooks.h
doc: sctp: Merge and clean up rst files
Docs: Correct /proc/stat path
scripts/spdxcheck.py: fix C++ comment style detection
doc: fix typos in license-rules.rst
Documentation: fix admin-guide/README.rst minimum gcc version requirement
doc: process: complete removal of info about -git patches
doc: translations: sync translations 'remove info about -git patches'
perf-security: wrap paragraphs on 72 columns
perf-security: elaborate on perf_events/Perf privileged users
perf-security: document collected perf_events/Perf data categories
perf-security: document perf_events/Perf resource control
sysfs.txt: add note on available attribute macros
docs: kernel-doc: typo "if ... if" -> "if ... is"
...
Since the removal of FS_RECLAIM annotations, lockdep states contain four
characters, not six.
Fixes: e5684bbfc3 ("Documentation/locking/lockdep: Update info about states")
Fixes: d92a8cfcb3 ("locking/lockdep: Rework FS_RECLAIM annotation")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Suspicious RCU usage messages are reported as warnings.
Fixes: a5dd63efda ("lockdep: Use "WARNING" tag on lockdep splats")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
The supported module parameters are detailed in both RCU/torture.txt and
admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt, and the latter is actively maintained.
So this patch removes section MODULE PARAMETERS in torture.txt and
adds a reference to the information in kernel-parameters.txt.
Signed-off-by: Junchang Wang <junchangwang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Add search string. ]
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>
SRCU's synchronize_srcu() may not be invoked from CPU-hotplug notifiers,
due to the fact that SRCU grace periods make use of timers and the
possibility of timers being temporarily stranded on the outgoing CPU.
This stranding of timers means that timers posted to the outgoing CPU
will not fire until late in the CPU-hotplug process. The problem is
that if a notifier is waiting on an SRCU grace period, that grace period
is waiting on a timer, and that timer is stranded on the outgoing CPU,
then the notifier will never be awakened, in other words, deadlock has
occurred. This same situation of course also prohibits srcu_barrier()
from being invoked from CPU-hotplug notifiers.
This commit therefore updates the requirements to include this restriction.
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>
Back when there could be multiple RCU flavors running in the same kernel
at the same time, it was necessary to specify the expedited grace-period
IPI handler at runtime. Now that there is only one RCU flavor, the
IPI handler can be determined at build time. There is therefore no
longer any reason for the RCU-preempt and RCU-sched IPI handlers to
have different names, nor is there any reason to pass these handlers in
function arguments and in the data structures enclosing workqueues.
This commit therefore makes all these changes, pushing the specification
of the expedited grace-period IPI handler down to the point of use.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit replaces "struction" with the correct "structure".
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
