There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
check_cpu_stall().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
print_cpu_stall().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
print_other_cpu_stall().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
rcu_stall_kick_kthreads().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
rcu_dump_cpu_stacks().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
record_gp_stall_check_time().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
rcu_get_root().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
rcu_gp_in_progress().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
rcu_report_qs_rdp().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp(), which is particularly appropriate in
this case given that this parameter is no longer used.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
rcu_report_qs_rsp().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
rcu_report_qs_rnp().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_data_p pointer references the default set of per-CPU rcu_data
structures, that is, those that call_rcu() uses, as opposed to
call_rcu_bh() and sometimes call_rcu_sched(). But there is now only one
set of per-CPU rcu_data structures, so that one set is by definition
the default, which means that the rcu_data_p pointer no longer serves
any useful purpose. This commit therefore removes it.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_state_p pointer references the default rcu_state structure,
that is, the one that call_rcu() uses, as opposed to call_rcu_bh()
and sometimes call_rcu_sched(). But there is now only one rcu_state
structure, so that one structure is by definition the default, which
means that the rcu_state_p pointer no longer serves any useful purpose.
This commit therefore removes it.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_state structure's ->rda field was used to find the per-CPU
rcu_data structures corresponding to that rcu_state structure. But now
there is only one rcu_state structure (creatively named "rcu_state")
and one set of per-CPU rcu_data structures (creatively named "rcu_data").
Therefore, uses of the ->rda field can always be replaced by "rcu_data,
and this commit makes that change and removes the ->rda field.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_state structure's ->call field references the corresponding RCU
flavor's call_rcu() function. However, now that there is only ever one
rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, and that flavor
uses plain old call_rcu(), there is not a lot of point in continuing to
have the ->call field. This commit therefore removes it.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Now that a given build of the Linux kernel has only one set of rcu_state,
rcu_node, and rcu_data structures, there is no point in creating a macro
to declare and compile-time initialize them. This commit therefore
just does normal declaration and compile-time initialization of these
structures. While in the area, this commit also removes #ifndefs of
the no-longer-ever-defined preprocessor macro RCU_TREE_NONCORE.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit renames Tiny RCU functions so that the lowest level of
functionality is RCU (e.g., synchronize_rcu()) rather than RCU-sched
(e.g., synchronize_sched()). This provides greater naming compatibility
with Tree RCU, which will in turn permit more LoC removal once
the RCU-sched and RCU-bh update-side API is removed.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Fix Tiny call_rcu()'s EXPORT_SYMBOL() in response to a bug
report from kbuild test robot. ]
Now that RCU-preempt knows about preemption disabling, its implementation
of synchronize_rcu() works for synchronize_sched(), and likewise for the
other RCU-sched update-side API members. This commit therefore confines
the RCU-sched update-side code to CONFIG_PREEMPT=n builds, and defines
RCU-sched's update-side API members in terms of those of RCU-preempt.
This means that any given build of the Linux kernel has only one
update-side flavor of RCU, namely RCU-preempt for CONFIG_PREEMPT=y builds
and RCU-sched for CONFIG_PREEMPT=n builds. This in turn means that kernels
built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y have only one rcuo kthread per CPU.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
The rcu_report_exp_rdp() function is always invoked with its "wake"
argument set to "true", so this commit drops this parameter. The only
potential call site that would use "false" is in the code driving the
expedited grace period, and that code uses rcu_report_exp_cpu_mult()
instead, which therefore retains its "wake" parameter.
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>
Now that the main RCU API knows about softirq disabling and softirq's
quiescent states, the RCU-bh update code can be dispensed with.
This commit therefore removes the RCU-bh update-side implementation and
defines RCU-bh's update-side API in terms of that of either RCU-preempt or
RCU-sched, depending on the setting of the CONFIG_PREEMPT Kconfig option.
In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y this has the knock-on effect
of reducing by one the number of rcuo kthreads per CPU.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit reduces the latency of expedited RCU grace periods by
reporting a quiescent state for the CPU at context-switch time.
In CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernels, if the outgoing task is still within an
RCU read-side critical section (and thus still blocking some grace
period, perhaps including this expedited grace period), then that task
will already have been placed on one of the leaf rcu_node structures'
->blkd_tasks list.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
One necessary step towards consolidating the three flavors of RCU is to
make sure that the resulting consolidated "one flavor to rule them all"
correctly handles networking denial-of-service attacks. One thing that
allows RCU-bh to do so is that __do_softirq() invokes rcu_bh_qs() every
so often, and so something similar has to happen for consolidated RCU.
This must be done carefully. For example, if a preemption-disabled
region of code takes an interrupt which does softirq processing before
returning, consolidated RCU must ignore the resulting rcu_bh_qs()
invocations -- preemption is still disabled, and that means an RCU
reader for the consolidated flavor.
This commit therefore creates a new rcu_softirq_qs() that is called only
from the ksoftirqd task, thus avoiding the interrupted-a-preempted-region
problem. This new rcu_softirq_qs() function invokes rcu_sched_qs(),
rcu_preempt_qs(), and rcu_preempt_deferred_qs(). The latter call handles
any deferred quiescent states.
Note that __do_softirq() still invokes rcu_bh_qs(). It will continue to
do so until a later stage of cleanup when the RCU-bh flavor is removed.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Fix !SMP issue located by kbuild test robot. ]
RCU's dyntick-idle code is written to tolerate half-interrupts, that it,
either an interrupt that invokes rcu_irq_enter() but never invokes the
corresponding rcu_irq_exit() on the one hand, or an interrupt that never
invokes rcu_irq_enter() but does invoke the "corresponding" rcu_irq_exit()
on the other. These things really did happen at one time, as evidenced
by this ca-2011 LKML post:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111014170019.GE2428@linux.vnet.ibm.com
The reason why RCU tolerates half-interrupts is that usermode helpers
used exceptions to invoke a system call from within the kernel such that
the system call did a normal return (not a return from exception) to
the calling context. This caused rcu_irq_enter() to be invoked without
a matching rcu_irq_exit(). However, usermode helpers have since been
rewritten to make much more housebroken use of workqueues, kernel threads,
and do_execve(), and therefore should no longer produce half-interrupts.
No one knows of any other source of half-interrupts, but then again,
no one seems insane enough to go audit the entire kernel to verify that
half-interrupts really are a relic of the past.
This commit therefore adds a pair of WARN_ON_ONCE() calls that will
trigger in the presence of half interrupts, which the code will continue
to handle correctly. If neither of these WARN_ON_ONCE() trigger by
mid-2021, then perhaps RCU can stop handling half-interrupts, which
would be a considerable simplification.
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
The ->b.exp_need_qs field is now set only to false, so this commit
removes it. The job this field used to do is now done by the rcu_data
structure's ->deferred_qs field, which is a consequence of a better
split between task-based (the rcu_node structure's ->exp_tasks field) and
CPU-based (the aforementioned rcu_data structure's ->deferred_qs field)
tracking of quiescent states for RCU-preempt expedited grace periods.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
If an RCU-preempt read-side critical section is exiting, that is,
->rcu_read_lock_nesting is negative, then it is a good time to look
at the possibility of reporting deferred quiescent states. This
commit therefore updates the checks in rcu_preempt_need_deferred_qs()
to allow exiting critical sections to report deferred quiescent states.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit makes the "rcu" torture type test extended read-side
critical sections in order to test the deferral of RCU-preempt
quiescent-state testing.
In CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernels, this simply duplicates the setup already
in place for the "sched" torture type.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit defers reporting of RCU-preempt quiescent states at
rcu_read_unlock_special() time when any of interrupts, softirq, or
preemption are disabled. These deferred quiescent states are reported
at a later RCU_SOFTIRQ, context switch, idle entry, or CPU-hotplug
offline operation. Of course, if another RCU read-side critical
section has started in the meantime, the reporting of the quiescent
state will be further deferred.
This also means that disabling preemption, interrupts, and/or
softirqs will act as an RCU-preempt read-side critical section.
This is enforced by checking preempt_count() as needed.
Some special cases must be handled on an ad-hoc basis, for example,
context switch is a quiescent state even though both the scheduler and
do_exit() disable preemption. In these cases, additional calls to
rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() override the preemption disabling. Similar
logic overrides disabled interrupts in rcu_preempt_check_callbacks()
because in this case the quiescent state happened just before the
corresponding scheduling-clock interrupt.
In theory, this change lifts a long-standing restriction that required
that if interrupts were disabled across a call to rcu_read_unlock()
that the matching rcu_read_lock() also be contained within that
interrupts-disabled region of code. Because the reporting of the
corresponding RCU-preempt quiescent state is now deferred until
after interrupts have been enabled, it is no longer possible for this
situation to result in deadlocks involving the scheduler's runqueue and
priority-inheritance locks. This may allow some code simplification that
might reduce interrupt latency a bit. Unfortunately, in practice this
would also defer deboosting a low-priority task that had been subjected
to RCU priority boosting, so real-time-response considerations might
well force this restriction to remain in place.
Because RCU-preempt grace periods are now blocked not only by RCU
read-side critical sections, but also by disabling of interrupts,
preemption, and softirqs, it will be possible to eliminate RCU-bh and
RCU-sched in favor of RCU-preempt in CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernels. This may
require some additional plumbing to provide the network denial-of-service
guarantees that have been traditionally provided by RCU-bh. Once these
are in place, CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernels will be able to fold RCU-bh
into RCU-sched. This would mean that all kernels would have but
one flavor of RCU, which would open the door to significant code
cleanup.
Moving to a single flavor of RCU would also have the beneficial effect
of reducing the NOCB kthreads by at least a factor of two.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Apply rcu_read_unlock_special() preempt_count() feedback
from Joel Fernandes. ]
[ paulmck: Adjust rcu_eqs_enter() call to rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() in
response to bug reports from kbuild test robot. ]
[ paulmck: Fix bug located by kbuild test robot involving recursion
via rcu_preempt_deferred_qs(). ]
When entering or exiting irq or NMI handlers, the current code uses
->dynticks_nmi_nesting to detect if it is in the outermost handler,
that is, the one interrupting or returning to an RCU-idle context (the
idle loop or nohz_full usermode execution). When entering the outermost
handler via an interrupt (as opposed to NMI), it is necessary to invoke
rcu_dynticks_task_exit() just before the CPU is marked non-idle from an
RCU perspective and to invoke rcu_cleanup_after_idle() just after the
CPU is marked non-idle. Similarly, when exiting the outermost handler
via an interrupt, it is necessary to invoke rcu_prepare_for_idle() just
before marking the CPU idle and to invoke rcu_dynticks_task_enter()
just after marking the CPU idle.
The decision to execute these four functions is currently taken in
rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit() as follows:
rcu_irq_enter()
/* A conditional branch with ->dynticks_nmi_nesting */
rcu_nmi_enter()
/* A conditional branch with ->dynticks */
/* A conditional branch with ->dynticks_nmi_nesting */
rcu_irq_exit()
/* A conditional branch with ->dynticks_nmi_nesting */
rcu_nmi_exit()
/* A conditional branch with ->dynticks_nmi_nesting */
/* A conditional branch with ->dynticks_nmi_nesting */
rcu_nmi_enter()
/* A conditional branch with ->dynticks */
rcu_nmi_exit()
/* A conditional branch with ->dynticks_nmi_nesting */
This works, but the conditional branches in rcu_irq_enter() and
rcu_irq_exit() are redundant with those in rcu_nmi_enter() and
rcu_nmi_exit(), respectively. Redundant branches are not something
we want in the to/from-idle fastpaths, so this commit refactors
rcu_{nmi,irq}_{enter,exit}() so they use a common inlined function passed
a constant argument as follows:
rcu_irq_enter() inlining rcu_nmi_enter_common(irq=true)
/* A conditional branch with ->dynticks */
rcu_irq_exit() inlining rcu_nmi_exit_common(irq=true)
/* A conditional branch with ->dynticks_nmi_nesting */
rcu_nmi_enter() inlining rcu_nmi_enter_common(irq=false)
/* A conditional branch with ->dynticks */
rcu_nmi_exit() inlining rcu_nmi_exit_common(irq=false)
/* A conditional branch with ->dynticks_nmi_nesting */
The combination of the constant function argument and the inlining allows
the compiler to discard the conditionals that previously controlled
execution of rcu_dynticks_task_exit(), rcu_cleanup_after_idle(),
rcu_prepare_for_idle(), and rcu_dynticks_task_enter(). This reduces both
the to-idle and from-idle path lengths by two conditional branches each,
and improves readability as well.
This commit also changes order of execution from this:
rcu_dynticks_task_exit();
rcu_dynticks_eqs_exit();
trace_rcu_dyntick();
rcu_cleanup_after_idle();
To this:
rcu_dynticks_task_exit();
rcu_dynticks_eqs_exit();
rcu_cleanup_after_idle();
trace_rcu_dyntick();
In other words, the calls to rcu_cleanup_after_idle() and
trace_rcu_dyntick() are reversed. This has no functional effect because
the real concern is whether a given call is before or after the call to
rcu_dynticks_eqs_exit(), and this patch does not change that. Before the
call to rcu_dynticks_eqs_exit(), RCU is not yet watching the current
CPU and after that call RCU is watching.
A similar switch in calling order happens on the idle-entry path, with
similar lack of effect for the same reasons.
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Applied Steven Rostedt feedback. ]
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The current forward-progress testing maintains a self-propagating
callback during the full test. This could result in false negatives
for stutter-end checking, where it might appear that RCU was clearing
out old callbacks only because it was being continually motivated by
the self-propagating callback. This commit therefore shuts down the
self-propagating callback at the end of each forward-progress test
interval.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_torture_writer() function invokes stutter_wait() at the end of
each writer pass, which occasionally blocks for an extended time period
in order to ensure that RCU can handle intermittent loads. But part of
handling a busy period is invoking all the callbacks before the end of
the idle period induced by stutter_wait().
This commit therefore adds a return value to stutter_wait() indicating
whether stutter_wait() actually waited. In addition, this commit causes
rcu_torture_writer() to test this value and if set, checks that all the
elements of the rcu_tortures[] array have been freed up.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit prints the duration of the forward-progress test interval in
the case that no forward progress was observed as an aid to debugging.
When forward progress does happen, it prints out the number of
rcu_torture_writer() versions and grace periods that elapsed during the
forward-progress test. At the end of the run, it also prints the number
of attempted and actual forward-progress tests.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, rcutorture provisions rcu_torture_reader() kthreads based
on the initial number of CPUs. This can be problematic when CPU hotplug
is enabled, as a system with a very large number of CPUs will provision
a very large number of rcu_torture_reader() kthreads. All of these
kthreads will continue running even if the CPU-hotplug operations result
in only one remaining online CPU. This can result in all sorts of strange
artifacts due simply to massive overload.
This commit therefore causes the rcu_torture_reader() kthreads to start
blocking as the number of online CPUs decreases. This is accomplished
by numbering these kthreads, and having each check to make sure that the
number of online CPUs is at least as large as its assigned number.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
On !SMP tests, the forward-progress kthread might prevent RCU's
grace-period kthread from running, which would defeat RCU's
forward-progress measures. On PREEMPT tests without RCU priority
boosting, the forward-progress kthread might preempt a reader for an
extended time period, which would also defeat RCU's forward-progress
measures. This commit therefore reduced rcutorture's forward-progress
kthread's priority in those cases.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There are debug checks in some environments that will complain if the
duration of a bh-disabled region of code exceeds about 50 milliseconds.
Because rcu_read_delay() can produce a 50-millisecond delay and because
there could be up to eight reader segments with such delays, this commit
limits the maximum delay to 10 milliseconds if either interrupts or
softirqs are disabled.
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
RCU now takes certain actions 100 and 200 milliseconds into a grace period
by default, but rcutorture only runs RCU read-side critical sections
with durations up to 50 milliseconds. This commit therefore increases
test coverage by increasing the maximum critical-section duration to
300 milliseconds. Note that the existing code automatically dials down
the probability of long delays based on the maximum duration, which means
that this change should not significantly change the rate of execution
of RCU read-side critical sections.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
If rcutorture is run on a quiet system with the rcutorture.stutter module
parameter set high, then there can legitimately be an extended period
during which no RCU forward progress takes place. This can result
in false-positive no-forward-progress splats. This commit therefore
makes rcu_torture_fwd_prog() create a self-propagating RCU callback
to ensure that grace periods are in progress for the duration of the
forward-progress test.
Note that the RCU flavor under test must define ->call(), ->sync(),
and ->cb_barrier() for this self-propagating callback to be created.
If one or more of those rcu_torture_ops fields are NULL, then the
rcu_torture_fwd_prog() function will silently proceed without creating
the self-propagating callback.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Some of the Linux kernel's RCU implementations provide several mechanisms
to promote forward progress that operate over different timeframes.
This commit therefore causes rcu_torture_fwd_prog() to vary the duration
of its forward-progress testing in order to test each such mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
In a too-short test, random delays can cause each attempt to do
forward-progress testing to fail to complete, thus resulting in
spurious splats. This commit therefore requires at least five tries
before complaining about rcutorture runs that failed to produce at
least one valid forward-progress testing attempt. Note that actual
forward-progress failures will splat regardless of the number of tries.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, rcutorture relies solely on the progress of
rcu_torture_writer() to judge grace-period forward progress. In theory,
this is the gold standard of forward progress, but in practice rcutorture
separately detects and reports rcu_torture_writer() stalls. This commit
therefore adds the grace-period sequence number (when provided) to the
judgment of grace-period forward progress, which makes it easier to
distinguish between failure of actual grace periods to progress on the
one hand and downstream forward-progress failures on the other.
For example, given this change, if rcu_torture_writer() stalls,
but rcu_torture_fwd_prog() does not complain, then the grace-period
computation is working, which is a hint that the failure lies in callback
processing, wakeup of the rcu_torture_writer() kthread, or similar.
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>
When running a built-in rcuperf test, specifying an invalid perf type
results in what looks like a hard hang, with the error messages hidden
by other boot-time output. This commit therefore executes a WARN_ON()
in this case so that the splat appears just following the error messages.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
When running a built-in rcutorture test, specifying an invalid torture
type results in what looks like a hard hang, with the error messages
hidden by other boot-time output. This commit therefore executes a
WARN_ON() in this case so that the splat appears just following the
error messages.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Deferred quiescent states can interact with the scheduler, but
rcu_torture_reader() does not force such interaction all that frequently.
This commit therefore blocks for one jiffy after ten jiffies of read-side
runtime. This has the beneficial effect of being most likely to block
just after long-running readers, and it is exactly these readers that
are most likely to have been preempted (in CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernels).
This in turn helps increase the probability that a deferred quiescent
state will be seen by RCU's context-switch hooks.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Pull scheduler updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Cleanup and improvement of NUMA balancing
- Refactoring and improvements to the PELT (Per Entity Load Tracking)
code
- Watchdog simplification and related cleanups
- The usual pile of small incremental fixes and improvements
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (41 commits)
watchdog: Reduce message verbosity
stop_machine: Reflow cpu_stop_queue_two_works()
sched/numa: Move task_numa_placement() closer to numa_migrate_preferred()
sched/numa: Use group_weights to identify if migration degrades locality
sched/numa: Update the scan period without holding the numa_group lock
sched/numa: Remove numa_has_capacity()
sched/numa: Modify migrate_swap() to accept additional parameters
sched/numa: Remove unused task_capacity from 'struct numa_stats'
sched/numa: Skip nodes that are at 'hoplimit'
sched/debug: Reverse the order of printing faults
sched/numa: Use task faults only if numa_group is not yet set up
sched/numa: Set preferred_node based on best_cpu
sched/numa: Simplify load_too_imbalanced()
sched/numa: Evaluate move once per node
sched/numa: Remove redundant field
sched/debug: Show the sum wait time of a task group
sched/fair: Remove #ifdefs from scale_rt_capacity()
sched/core: Remove get_cpu() from sched_fork()
sched/cpufreq: Clarify sugov_get_util()
sched/sysctl: Remove unused sched_time_avg_ms sysctl
...
The rcutorture test module currently increments both successes and error
for the barrier test upon error, which results in misleading statistics
being printed. This commit therefore changes the code to increment the
success counter only when the test actually passes.
This change was tested by by returning from the barrier callback without
incrementing the callback counter, thus introducing what appeared to
rcutorture to be rcu_barrier() failures.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
When rcutorture is built in to the kernel, an earlier patch detects
that and raises the priority of RCU's kthreads to allow rcutorture's
RCU priority boosting tests to succeed.
However, if rcutorture is built as a module, those priorities must be
raised manually via the rcutree.kthread_prio kernel boot parameter.
If this manual step is not taken, rcutorture's RCU priority boosting
tests will fail due to kthread starvation. One approach would be to
raise the default priority, but that risks breaking existing users.
Another approach would be to allow runtime adjustment of RCU's kthread
priorities, but that introduces numerous "interesting" race conditions.
This patch therefore instead detects too-low priorities, and prints a
message and disables the RCU priority boosting tests in that case.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The get_seconds() call is deprecated because it overflows on 32-bit
architectures. The algorithm in rcu_torture_stall() can deal with
the overflow, but another problem here is that using a CLOCK_REALTIME
stamp can lead to a false-positive stall warning when a settimeofday()
happens concurrently.
Using ktime_get_seconds() instead avoids those issues and will never
overflow. The added cast to 'unsigned long' however is necessary to
make ULONG_CMP_LT() work correctly.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, with RCU_BOOST disabled, I get no failures when forcing
rcutorture to test RCU boost priority inversion. The reason seems to be
that we don't check for failures if the callback never ran at all for
the duration of the boost-test loop.
Further, the 'rtb' and 'rtbf' counters seem to be used inconsistently.
'rtb' is incremented at the start of each test and 'rtbf' is incremented
per-cpu on each failure of call_rcu. So its possible 'rtbf' > 'rtb'.
To test the boost with rcutorture, I did following on a 4-CPU x86 machine:
modprobe rcutorture test_boost=2
sleep 20
rmmod rcutorture
With patch:
rtbf: 8 rtb: 12
Without patch:
rtbf: 0 rtb: 2
In summary this patch:
- Increments failed and total test counters once per boost-test.
- Checks for failure cases correctly.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently rcutorture is not able to torture RCU boosting properly. This
is because the rcutorture's boost threads which are doing the torturing
may be throttled due to RT throttling.
This patch makes rcutorture use the right torture technique (unthrottled
rcutorture boost tasks) for torturing RCU so that the test fails
correctly when no boost is available.
Currently this requires accessing sysctl_sched_rt_runtime directly, but
that should be Ok since rcutorture is test code. Such direct access is
also only possible if rcutorture is used as a built-in so make it
conditional on that.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
For RCU implementations supporting multiple types of reader protection,
rcutorture currently randomly selects the combinations of types of
protection for each phase of each reader. The problem with this,
for example, given the four kinds of protection for RCU-sched
(local_irq_disable(), local_bh_disable(), preempt_disable(), and
rcu_read_lock_sched()), the reader will be protected by a single
mechanism only 25% of the time. We really heavier testing of single
read-side mechanisms.
This commit therefore uses only a single mechanism about 60% of the time,
half of the time explicitly and one-eighth of the time by chance.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit enables rcutorture to test whether RCU properly aggregates
different types of read-side critical sections into a larger section
covering the set. It does this by extending an initial read-side
critical section randomly for a random number of extensions. There is
a new rcu_torture_ops field ->extendable that specifies what extensions
are permitted for a given flavor of RCU (for example, SRCU does not
permit any extensions, while RCU-sched permits all types). Note that
if a given operation (for example, local_bh_disable()) extends an RCU
read-side critical section, then rcutorture feels free to also start
and end the critical section with that operation's type of disabling.
Disabling operations include local_bh_disable(), local_irq_disable(),
and preempt_disable(). This commit also adds a new "busted_srcud"
torture type, which verifies rcutorture's ability to detect extensions
of RCU read-side critical sections that are not handled. Gotta test
the test, after all!
Note that it is not legal to invoke local_bh_disable() with interrupts
disabled, and this transition is avoided by overriding the random-number
generator when it wants to call local_bh_disable() while interrupts
are disabled. The code instead leaves both interrupts and bh/softirq
disabled in this case.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit saves a few lines of code by making rcu_torture_timer()
invoke rcu_torture_one_read(), thus completing the consolidation of
code between rcu_torture_timer() and rcu_torture_reader().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, the rcu_torture_timer() function uses a single global
torture_random_state structure protected by a single global lock.
This conflicts to some extent with performance and scalability,
but even more with the goal of consolidating read-side testing
with rcu_torture_reader(). This commit therefore creates a per-CPU
torture_random_state structure for use by rcu_torture_timer() and
eliminates the lock.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Make rcu_torture_timer_rand static, per 0day Test Robot report. ]
Currently, rcu_torture_timer() relies on a lock to guard updates to
n_rcu_torture_timers. Unfortunately, consolidating code with
rcu_torture_reader() will dispense with this lock. This commit
therefore makes n_rcu_torture_timers be an atomic_long_t and uses
atomic_long_inc() to carry out the update.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit extracts the code executed on each pass through the loop
in rcu_torture_reader() into a new rcu_torture_one_read() function.
This new function will also be used by rcu_torture_timer().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Back when RCU had a debugfs interface, there was a test version and
sequence number that allowed associating debugfs data with a particular
test run, where the test run started with modprobe and ended with rmmod,
which was how tests were run back on the old ABAT system within IBM.
But rcutorture testing no longer runs on ABAT, and there is no longer an
RCU debugfs interface, so there is no longer any need for test versions
and sequence numbers.
This commit therefore removes the rcutorture_record_test_transition()
and rcutorture_record_progress() functions, and along with them the
rcutorture_testseq and rcutorture_vernum variables that they update.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Some RCU bugs have been sensitive to the frequency of CPU-hotplug
operations, which have been gradually increased over time. But this
frequency is now at the one-second lower limit that can be specified using
the rcutorture.onoff_interval kernel parameter. This commit therefore
changes the units of rcutorture.onoff_interval from seconds to jiffies,
and also sets the value specified for this kernel parameter in the TREE03
rcutorture scenario to 200, which is 200 milliseconds for HZ=1000.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcutorture RCU priority boosting tests fail even with CONFIG_RCU_BOOST
set because rcutorture's threads run at the same priority as the default
RCU kthreads (RT class with priority of 1).
This patch checks if RCU torture is built into the kernel and if so,
assigns RT priority 1 to the RCU threads, allowing the rcutorture boost
tests to pass.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit adds the SRCU grace-period number to the rcutorture statistics
printout, which allows it to be compared to the rcutorture "Writer stall
state" message.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The ->dynticks_nmi_nesting field records the nesting depth of both
interrupt and NMI handlers. Because the kernel can enter interrupts
and never leave them (and vice versa) and because NMIs can interrupt
manipulation of the ->dynticks_nmi_nesting field, the values in this
field must be both chosen and maniupated very carefully. As a result,
although the value is zero when the corresponding CPU is executing
neither an interrupt nor an NMI handler, it is 4,611,686,018,427,387,906
on 64-bit systems when there is a single level of interrupt/NMI handling
in progress.
This number is difficult to remember and interpret, so this commit
switches the output to hexadecimal, resulting in the much nicer
0x4000000000000002.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The current implementatation of rcu_seq_diff() follows tradition in
providing a rough-and-ready approximation of the number of elapsed grace
periods between the two rcu_seq values. However, this difference is
used to flag RCU-failure "near misses", which can be a valuable debugging
aid, so more exactitude would be an improvement. This commit therefore
improves the accuracy of rcu_seq_diff().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, the range of jiffies_till_{first,next}_fqs are checked and
adjusted on and on in the loop of rcu_gp_kthread on runtime.
However, it's enough to check them only when setting them, not every
time in the loop. So make them handled on a setting time via sysfs.
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit adds any in-the-future ->gp_seq_needed fields to the
diagnostics for an rcutorture writer stall warning message.
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>
rcu_seq_snap may be tricky to decipher. Lets document how it works with
an example to make it easier.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Shrink comment as suggested by Peter Zijlstra. ]
Currently, rcu_check_gp_start_stall() waits for one second after the first
request before complaining that a grace period has not yet started. This
was desirable while testing the conversion from ->future_gp_needed[] to
->gp_seq_needed, but it is a bit on the hair-trigger side for production
use under heavy load. This commit therefore makes this wait time be
exactly that of the RCU CPU stall warning, allowing easy adjustment of
both timeouts to suit the distribution or installation at hand.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_cpu_has_callbacks() function is now used in all configurations,
so this commit removes the __maybe_unused.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This function is in rcuperf.c, which is not an include file, so there
is no problem dropping the "inline", especially given that this function
is invoked only twice per rcuperf run. This commit therefore delegates
the inlining decision to the compiler by dropping the "inline".
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This function is in rcutorture.c, which is not an include file, so there
is no problem dropping the "inline", especially given that this function
is invoked only twice per rcutorture run. This commit therefore delegates
the inlining decision to the compiler by dropping the "inline".
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
These functions are in kernel/rcu/tree.c, which is not an include file,
so there is no problem dropping the "inline", especially given that these
functions are nowhere near a fastpath. This commit therefore delegates
the inlining decision to the compiler by dropping the "inline".
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
One danger of using __maybe_unused is that the compiler doesn't yell
at you when you remove the last reference, witness rcu_bind_gp_kthread()
and its local variable "cpu". This commit removes this local variable.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_kick_nohz_cpu() function is no longer used, and the functionality
it used to provide is now provided by a call to resched_cpu() in the
force-quiescent-state function rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs(). This commit
therefore removes rcu_kick_nohz_cpu().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_preempt_qs() function only applies to the CPU, not the task.
A task really is allowed to invoke this function while in an RCU-preempt
read-side critical section, but only if it has first added itself to
some leaf rcu_node structure's ->blkd_tasks list.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_dynticks_momentary_idle() function is invoked only from
rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle(), and neither function is particularly
large. This commit therefore saves a few lines by inlining
rcu_dynticks_momentary_idle() into rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
If any scheduling-clock interrupt interrupts an RCU-preempt read-side
critical section, the interrupted task's ->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs
field is set. This causes the outermost rcu_read_unlock() to incur the
extra overhead of calling into rcu_read_unlock_special(). This commit
reduces that overhead by setting ->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs only
if the grace period has been in effect for more than one second.
Why one second? Because this is comfortably smaller than the minimum
RCU CPU stall-warning timeout of three seconds, but long enough that the
.need_qs marking should happen quite rarely. And if your RCU read-side
critical section has run on-CPU for a full second, it is not unreasonable
to invest some CPU time in ending the grace period quickly.
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>
This commit also adjusts some whitespace while in the area.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Revert string-breaking %s as requested by Andy Shevchenko. ]
We expect a quiescent state of TASKS_RCU when cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs()
is called, no matter whether it actually be scheduled or not. However,
it currently doesn't report the quiescent state when the task enters
into __schedule() as it's called with preempt = true. So make it report
the quiescent state unconditionally when cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() is
called.
And in TINY_RCU, even though the quiescent state of rcu_bh also should
be reported when the tick interrupt comes from user, it doesn't. So make
it reported.
Lastly in TREE_RCU, rcu_note_voluntary_context_switch() should be
reported when the tick interrupt comes from not only user but also idle,
as an extended quiescent state.
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Simplify rcutiny portion given no RCU-tasks for !PREEMPT. ]
Because rcu_read_unlock_special() is no longer used outside of
kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h, this commit makes it static.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CPUs are expected to report quiescent states when coming online and
when going offline, and grace-period initialization is supposed to
handle any race conditions where a CPU's ->qsmask bit is set just after
it goes offline. This commit adds diagnostics for the case where an
offline CPU nevertheless has a grace period waiting on it.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Grace-period initialization first processes any recent CPU-hotplug
operations, and then initializes state for the new grace period. These
two phases of initialization are currently not distinguished in debug
prints, but the distinction is valuable in a number of debug situations.
This commit therefore introduces two new values for ->gp_state,
RCU_GP_ONOFF and RCU_GP_INIT, in order to make this distinction.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Interactions between CPU-hotplug operations and grace-period
initialization can result in dump_blkd_tasks(). One of the first
debugging actions in this case is to search back in dmesg to work
out which of the affected rcu_node structure's CPUs are online and to
determine the last CPU-hotplug operation affecting any of those CPUs.
This can be laborious and error-prone, especially when console output
is lost.
This commit therefore causes dump_blkd_tasks() to dump the state of
the affected rcu_node structure's CPUs and the last grace period during
which the last offline and online operation affected each of these CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit updates dump_blkd_tasks() to print out quiescent-state
bitmasks for the rcu_node structures further up the tree. This
information helps debugging of interactions between CPU-hotplug
operations and RCU grace-period initialization.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Now that quiescent states for newly offlined CPUs are reported either
when that CPU goes offline or at the end of grace-period initialization,
the CPU-hotplug failsafe in the force-quiescent-state code path is no
longer needed.
This commit therefore removes this failsafe.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Now that quiescent-state reporting is fully event-driven, this commit
removes the check for a lost quiescent state from force_qs_rnp().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The main race with the early part of grace-period initialization appears
to be with CPU hotplug. To more fully open this race window, this commit
moves the rcu_gp_slow() from the beginning of the early initialization
loop to follow that loop, thus widening the race window, especially for
the rcu_node structures that are initialized last. This commit also
expands rcutree.gp_preinit_delay from 3 to 12, giving the same overall
delay in the grace period, but concentrated in the spot where it will
do the most good.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
RCU should only be waiting on CPUs that were online at the time that the
current grace period started. Failure to abide by this rule can result
in confusing splats during grace-period cleanup and initialization.
This commit therefore adds a check to RCU-preempt's preempted-task
queuing that checks for waiting on newly onlined CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Without special fail-safe quiescent-state-propagation checks, grace-period
hangs can result from the following scenario:
1. CPU 1 goes offline.
2. Because CPU 1 is the only CPU in the system blocking the current
grace period, the grace period ends as soon as
rcu_cleanup_dying_idle_cpu()'s call to rcu_report_qs_rnp()
returns.
3. At this point, the leaf rcu_node structure's ->lock is no longer
held: rcu_report_qs_rnp() has released it, as it must in order
to awaken the RCU grace-period kthread.
4. At this point, that same leaf rcu_node structure's ->qsmaskinitnext
field still records CPU 1 as being online. This is absolutely
necessary because the scheduler uses RCU (in this case on the
wake-up path while awakening RCU's grace-period kthread), and
->qsmaskinitnext contains RCU's idea as to which CPUs are online.
Therefore, invoking rcu_report_qs_rnp() after clearing CPU 1's
bit from ->qsmaskinitnext would result in a lockdep-RCU splat
due to RCU being used from an offline CPU.
5. RCU's grace-period kthread awakens, sees that the old grace period
has completed and that a new one is needed. It therefore starts
a new grace period, but because CPU 1's leaf rcu_node structure's
->qsmaskinitnext field still shows CPU 1 as being online, this new
grace period is initialized to wait for a quiescent state from the
now-offline CPU 1.
6. Without the fail-safe force-quiescent-state checks, there would
be no quiescent state from the now-offline CPU 1, which would
eventually result in RCU CPU stall warnings and memory exhaustion.
It would be good to get rid of the special fail-safe quiescent-state
propagation checks, and thus it would be good to fix things so that
the above scenario cannot happen. This commit therefore adds a new
->ofl_lock to the rcu_state structure. This lock is held by rcu_gp_init()
across the applying of buffered online and offline operations to the
rcu_node tree, and it is also held by rcu_cleanup_dying_idle_cpu()
when buffering a new offline operation. This prevents rcu_gp_init()
from acquiring the leaf rcu_node structure's lock during the interval
between when rcu_cleanup_dying_idle_cpu() invokes rcu_report_qs_rnp(),
which releases ->lock and the re-acquisition of that same lock.
This in turn prevents the failure scenario outlined above, and will
hopefully eventually allow removal of the offline-CPU checks from the
force-quiescent-state code path.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Without special fail-safe quiescent-state-propagation checks, grace-period
hangs can result from the following scenario:
1. A task running on a given CPU is preempted in its RCU read-side
critical section.
2. That CPU goes offline, and there are now no online CPUs
corresponding to that CPU's leaf rcu_node structure.
3. The rcu_gp_init() function does the first phase of grace-period
initialization, and sets the aforementioned leaf rcu_node
structure's ->qsmaskinit field to all zeroes. Because there
is a blocked task, it does not propagate the zeroing of either
->qsmaskinit or ->qsmaskinitnext up the rcu_node tree.
4. The task resumes on some other CPU and exits its critical section.
There is no grace period in progress, so the resulting quiescent
state is not reported up the tree.
5. The rcu_gp_init() function does the second phase of grace-period
initialization, which results in the leaf rcu_node structure
being initialized to expect no further quiescent states, but
with that structure's parent expecting a quiescent-state report.
The parent will never receive a quiescent state from this leaf
rcu_node structure, so the grace period will hang, resulting in
RCU CPU stall warnings.
It would be good to get rid of the special fail-safe quiescent-state
propagation checks. This commit therefore checks the leaf rcu_node
structure's ->wait_blkd_tasks field during grace-period initialization.
If this flag is set, the rcu_report_qs_rnp() is invoked to immediately
report the possible quiescent state. While in the neighborhood, this
commit also report quiescent states for any CPUs that went offline between
the two phases of grace-period initialization, thus reducing grace-period
delays and hopefully eventually allowing removal of offline-CPU checks
from the force-quiescent-state code path.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Consider the following sequence of events in a PREEMPT=y kernel:
1. All CPUs corresponding to a given leaf rcu_node structure are
offline.
2. The first phase of the rcu_gp_init() function's grace-period
initialization runs, and sets that rcu_node structure's
->qsmaskinit to zero, as it should.
3. One of the CPUs corresponding to that rcu_node structure comes
back online. Note that because this CPU came online after the
grace period started, this grace period can safely ignore this
newly onlined CPU.
4. A task running on the newly onlined CPU enters an RCU-preempt
read-side critical section, and is then preempted. Because
the corresponding rcu_node structure's ->qsmask is zero,
rcu_preempt_ctxt_queue() leaves the rcu_node structure's
->gp_tasks field NULL, as it should.
5. The rcu_gp_init() function continues running the second phase of
grace-period initialization. The ->qsmask field of the parent of
the aforementioned leaf rcu_node structure is set to not expect
a quiescent state from the leaf, as is only right and proper.
However, when rcu_gp_init() reaches the leaf, it invokes
rcu_preempt_check_blocked_tasks(), which sees that the leaf's
->blkd_tasks list is non-empty, and therefore sets the leaf's
->gp_tasks field to reference the first task on that list.
6. The grace period ends before the preempted task resumes, which
is perfectly fine, given that this grace period was under no
obligation to wait for that task to exit its late-starting
RCU-preempt read-side critical section. Unfortunately, the
leaf's ->gp_tasks field is non-NULL, so rcu_gp_cleanup() splats.
After all, it appears to rcu_gp_cleanup() that the grace period
failed to wait for a task that was supposed to be blocking that
grace period.
This commit avoids this false-positive splat by adding a check of both
->qsmaskinit and ->wait_blkd_tasks to rcu_preempt_check_blocked_tasks().
If both ->qsmaskinit and ->wait_blkd_tasks are zero, then the task must
have entered its RCU-preempt read-side critical section late (after all,
the CPU that it is running on was not online at that time), which means
that the upper-level rcu_node structure won't be waiting for anything
on the leaf anyway.
If ->wait_blkd_tasks is non-zero, then there is at least one task on
ths rcu_node structure's ->blkd_tasks list whose RCU read-side
critical section predates the current grace period. If ->qsmaskinit
is non-zero, there is at least one CPU that was online at the start
of the current grace period. Thus, if both are zero, there is nothing
to wait for.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Consider the following sequence of events in a PREEMPT=y kernel:
1. All but one of the CPUs corresponding to a given leaf rcu_node
structure go offline. Each of these CPUs clears its bit in that
structure's ->qsmaskinitnext field.
2. A new grace period starts, and rcu_gp_init() scans the leaf
rcu_node structures, applying CPU-hotplug changes since the
start of the previous grace period, including those changes in
#1 above. This copies each leaf structure's ->qsmaskinitnext
to its ->qsmask field, which represents the CPUs that this new
grace period will wait on. Each copy operation is done holding
the corresponding leaf rcu_node structure's ->lock, and at the
end of this scan, rcu_gp_init() holds no locks.
3. The last CPU corresponding to #1's leaf rcu_node structure goes
offline, clearing its bit in that structure's ->qsmaskinitnext
field, but not touching the ->qsmaskinit field. Note that
rcu_gp_init() is not currently holding any locks! This CPU does
-not- report a quiescent state because the grace period has not
yet initialized itself sufficiently to have set any bits in any
of the leaf rcu_node structures' ->qsmask fields.
4. The rcu_gp_init() function continues initializing the new grace
period, copying each leaf rcu_node structure's ->qsmaskinit
field to its ->qsmask field while holding the corresponding ->lock.
This sets the ->qsmask bit corresponding to #3's CPU.
5. Before the grace period ends, #3's CPU comes back online.
Because te grace period has not yet done any force-quiescent-state
scans (which would report a quiescent state on behalf of any
offline CPUs), this CPU's ->qsmask bit is still set.
6. A task running on the newly onlined CPU is preempted while in
an RCU read-side critical section. Because this CPU's ->qsmask
bit is net, not only does this task queue itself on the leaf
rcu_node structure's ->blkd_tasks list, it also sets that
structure's ->gp_tasks pointer to reference it.
7. The grace period started in #1 above comes to an end. This
results in rcu_gp_cleanup() being invoked, which, among other
things, checks to make sure that there are no tasks blocking the
just-ended grace period, that is, that all ->gp_tasks pointers
are NULL. The ->gp_tasks pointer corresponding to the task
preempted in #3 above is non-NULL, which results in a splat.
This splat is a false positive. The task's RCU read-side critical
section cannot have begun before the just-ended grace period because
this would mean either: (1) The CPU came online before the grace period
started, which cannot have happened because the grace period started
before that CPU went offline, or (2) The task started its RCU read-side
critical section on some other CPU, but then it would have had to have
been preempted before migrating to this CPU, which would mean that it
would have instead queued itself on that other CPU's rcu_node structure.
RCU's grace periods thus are working correctly. Or, more accurately,
that remaining bugs in RCU's grace periods are elsewhere.
This commit eliminates this false positive by adding code to the end
of rcu_cpu_starting() that reports a quiescent state to RCU, which has
the side-effect of clearing that CPU's ->qsmask bit, preventing the
above scenario. This approach has the added benefit of more promptly
reporting quiescent states corresponding to offline CPUs. Nevertheless,
this commit does -not- remove the need for the force-quiescent-state
scans to check for offline CPUs, given that a CPU might remain offline
indefinitely. And without the checks in the force-quiescent-state scans,
the grace period would also persist indefinitely, which could result in
hangs or memory exhaustion.
Note well that the call to rcu_report_qs_rnp() reporting the quiescent
state must come -after- the setting of this CPU's bit in the leaf rcu_node
structure's ->qsmaskinitnext field. Otherwise, lockdep-RCU will complain
bitterly about quiescent states coming from an offline CPU.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Consider the following sequence of events in a PREEMPT=y kernel:
1. All CPUs corresponding to a given rcu_node structure go offline.
A new grace period starts just after the CPU-hotplug code path
does its synchronize_rcu() for the last CPU, so at least this
CPU is present in that structure's ->qsmask.
2. Before the grace period ends, a CPU comes back online, and not
just any CPU, but the one corresponding to a non-zero bit in
the leaf rcu_node structure's ->qsmask.
3. A task running on the newly onlined CPU is preempted while in
an RCU read-side critical section. Because this CPU's ->qsmask
bit is net, not only does this task queue itself on the leaf
rcu_node structure's ->blkd_tasks list, it also sets that
structure's ->gp_tasks pointer to reference it.
4. The grace period started in #1 above comes to an end. This
results in rcu_gp_cleanup() being invoked, which, among other
things, checks to make sure that there are no tasks blocking the
just-ended grace period, that is, that all ->gp_tasks pointers
are NULL. The ->gp_tasks pointer corresponding to the task
preempted in #3 above is non-NULL, which results in a splat.
This splat is a false positive. The task's RCU read-side critical
section cannot have begun before the just-ended grace period because
this would mean either: (1) The CPU came online before the grace period
started, which cannot have happened because the grace period started
before that CPU was all the way offline, or (2) The task started its
RCU read-side critical section on some other CPU, but then it would
have had to have been preempted before migrating to this CPU, which
would mean that it would have instead queued itself on that other CPU's
rcu_node structure.
This commit eliminates this false positive by adding code to the end
of rcu_cleanup_dying_idle_cpu() that reports a quiescent state to RCU,
which has the side-effect of clearing that CPU's ->qsmask bit, preventing
the above scenario. This approach has the added benefit of more promptly
reporting quiescent states corresponding to offline CPUs.
Note well that the call to rcu_report_qs_rnp() reporting the quiescent
state must come -before- the clearing of this CPU's bit in the leaf
rcu_node structure's ->qsmaskinitnext field. Otherwise, lockdep-RCU
will complain bitterly about quiescent states coming from an offline CPU.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_lockdep_current_cpu_online() function currently checks only the
RCU-sched data structures to determine whether or not RCU believes that a
given CPU is offline. Unfortunately, there are multiple flavors of RCU,
which means that there is a short window of time during which the various
flavors disagree as to whether or not a given CPU is offline. This can
result in false-positive lockdep-RCU splats in which some other flavor
of RCU tries to do something based on its view that the CPU is online,
only to get hit with a lockdep-RCU splat because RCU-sched instead
believes that the CPU is offline.
This commit therefore changes rcu_lockdep_current_cpu_online() to scan
all RCU flavors and to consider a given CPU to be online if any of the
RCU flavors believe it to be online, thus preventing these false-positive
splats.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The force_qs_rnp() function checks for ->qsmask being all zero, that is,
all CPUs for the current rcu_node structure having already passed through
quiescent states. But with RCU-preempt, this is not sufficient to report
quiescent states further up the tree, so there are further checks that
can initiate RCU priority boosting and also for races with CPU-hotplug
operations. However, if neither of these further checks apply, the code
proceeds to carry out a useless scan of an all-zero ->qsmask.
This commit therefore adds code to release the current rcu_node
structure's lock and continue on to the next rcu_node structure, thereby
avoiding this useless scan.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit gets rid of the smp_wmb() in record_gp_stall_check_time()
in favor of an smp_store_release().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit fixes a typo and adds some additional debugging to the
message emitted when a task blocking the current grace period is listed
as blocking it when either that grace period ends or the next grace
period begins. This commit also reformats the console message for
readability.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
If rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() is invoked on something other than
preemptible RCU or if there are still preempted tasks blocking the
current grace period, something went badly wrong in the caller.
This commit therefore adds WARN_ON_ONCE() to these conditions, but
leaving the legitimate reason for early exit (rnp->qsmask != 0)
unwarned.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, rcu_init_new_rnp() walks up the rcu_node combining tree,
setting bits in the ->qsmaskinit fields on the way up. It walks up
unconditionally, regardless of the initial state of these bits. This is
OK because only the corresponding RCU grace-period kthread ever tests
or sets these bits during runtime. However, it is also pointless, and
it increases both memory and lock contention (albeit only slightly), so
this commit stops the walk as soon as an already-set bit is encountered.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Back in the old days, when grace-period initialization blocked CPU
hotplug, the ->qsmaskinit mask was indeed updated at the time that
a given CPU went offline. However, with the deferral of these updates
until the beginning of the next grace period in commit 0aa04b055e
("rcu: Process offlining and onlining only at grace-period start"),
it is instead ->qsmaskinitnext that gets updated at that time.
This commit therefore updates the obsolete comment. It also fixes
punctuation while on the topic of comments mentioning ->qsmaskinit.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Commit 0aa04b055e ("rcu: Process offlining and onlining only at
grace-period start") deferred handling of CPU-hotplug events until the
start of the next grace period, but consider the following sequence
of events:
1. A task is preempted within an RCU-preempt read-side critical
section.
2. The CPU that this task was running on goes offline, along with all
other CPUs sharing the corresponding leaf rcu_node structure.
3. The task resumes execution.
4. One of those CPUs comes back online before a new grace period starts.
In step 2, the code in the next rcu_gp_init() invocation will (correctly)
defer removing the leaf rcu_node structure from the upper-level bitmasks,
and will (correctly) set that structure's ->wait_blkd_tasks field. During
the ensuing interval, RCU will (correctly) track the tasks preempted on
that structure because they must block any subsequent grace period.
In step 3, the code in rcu_read_unlock_special() will (correctly) remove
the task from the leaf rcu_node structure. From this point forward, RCU
need not pay attention to this structure, at least not until one of the
corresponding CPUs comes back online.
In step 4, the code in the next rcu_gp_init() invocation will
(incorrectly) invoke rcu_init_new_rnp(). This is incorrect because
the corresponding rcu_cleanup_dead_rnp() was never invoked. This is
nevertheless harmless because the upper-level bits are still set.
So, no harm, no foul, right?
At least, all is well until a little further into rcu_gp_init()
invocation, which will notice that there are no longer any tasks blocked
on the leaf rcu_node structure, conclude that there is no longer anything
left over from step 2's offline operation, and will therefore invoke
rcu_cleanup_dead_rnp(). But this invocation of rcu_cleanup_dead_rnp()
is for the beginning of the earlier offline interval, and the previous
invocation of rcu_init_new_rnp() is for the end of that same interval.
That is right, they are invoked out of order.
That cannot be good, can it?
It turns out that this is not a (correctness!) problem because
rcu_cleanup_dead_rnp() checks to see if any of the corresponding CPUs
are online, and refuses to do anything if so. In other words, in the
case where rcu_init_new_rnp() and rcu_cleanup_dead_rnp() execute out of
order, they both have no effect.
But this is at best an accident waiting to happen.
This commit therefore adds logic to rcu_gp_init() so that
rcu_init_new_rnp() and rcu_cleanup_dead_rnp() are always invoked in
order, and so that neither are invoked at all in cases where RCU had to
pay attention to the leaf rcu_node structure during the entire time that
all corresponding CPUs were offline.
And, while in the area, this commit reduces confusion by using formal
parameters rather than local variables that just happen to have the same
value at that particular point in the code.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There's no need to keep checking the same starting node for whether a
grace period is in progress as we advance up the funnel lock loop. Its
sufficient if we just checked it in the start, and then subsequently
checked the internal nodes as we advanced up the combining tree. This
also makes sense because the grace-period updates propogate from the
root to the leaf, so there's a chance we may find a grace period has
started as we advance up, lets check for the same.
Reported-by: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The funnel locking loop in rcu_start_this_gp uses rcu_root as a
temporary variable while walking the combining tree. This causes a
tiresome exercise of a code reader reminding themselves that rcu_root
may not be root. Lets just call it rnp, and rename other variables as
well to be more appropriate.
Original patch: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10396577/
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Fix name in comment as well. ]
The name 'c' is used for variables and parameters holding the requested
grace-period sequence number. However it is no longer very meaningful
given the conversions from ->gpnum and (especially) ->completed to
->gp_seq. This commit therefore renames 'c' to 'gp_seq_req'.
Previous patch discussion is at:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10396579/
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_data structure's ->gpwrap indicator is currently reset only
when the CPU in question detects a new grace period. This is in theory
sufficient because any CPU that has been out of action for long enough
that its ->gpwrap indicator is set is guaranteed to see both the end
of an old grace period and the start of a new one.
However, the current code leaves a short window during which the ->gpwrap
indicator has been reset but the corresponding ->gp_seq counter has not
yet been brought up to date. This is harmless because interrupts are
disabled, but it is likely to (at the very least) cause confusion.
This commit therefore moves the resetting of ->gpwrap to follow the
updating of ->gp_seq. While in the area, it also resets ->gp_seq_needed.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The new ->gq_seq grace-period sequence numbers must be shifted down,
which give artifacts when these numbers wrap. This commit therefore
enables rcutorture and rcuperf to handle grace-period sequence numbers
even if they do wrap. It does this by allowing a special subtraction
function to be specified, and this function subtracts before shifting.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
In the old days of ->gpnum and ->completed, the code requesting a new
grace period checked to see if that grace period had already started,
bailing early if so. The new-age ->gp_seq approach instead checks
whether the grace period has already finished. A compensating change
pushed the requested grace period down to the bottom of the tree, thus
reducing lock contention and even eliminating it in some cases. But why
not further reduce contention, especially on large systems, by doing both,
especially given that the cost of doing both is extremely small?
This commit therefore adds a new rcu_seq_started() function that checks
whether a specified grace period has already started. It then uses
this new function in place of rcu_seq_done() in the rcu_start_this_gp()
function's funnel locking code.
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The "cpustart" trace event shows a stale gp_seq. This is because it uses
rdp->gp_seq, which is updated only at the end of the __note_gp_changes()
function. This commit therefore instead uses rnp->gp_seq.
An alternative fix would be to update rdp->gp_seq earlier, but this would
break RCU's detection of the beginning of a new-to-this-CPU grace period.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently Tree RCU's clean-up code emits a "CleanupMore" trace event in
response to late-arriving grace-period requests even if the grace period
was already requested. This makes "CleanupMore" show up an extra time (in
addition to once for each rcu_node structure that was previously marked
with the request), and for no good reason. This commit therefore avoids
emitting this trace message unless the the only request for this next
grace period arrived during or after the cleanup scan of the rcu_node
structures.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The old grace-period start code would acquire only the leaf's rcu_node
structure's ->lock if that structure believed that a grace period was
in progress. The new code advances to the leaf's parent in this case,
needlessly acquiring then leaf's parent's ->lock. This commit therefore
checks the grace-period state after marking the leaf with the need for
the specified grace period, and if the leaf believes that a grace period
is in progress, takes an early exit.
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Add "Startedleaf" tracing as suggested by Joel Fernandes. ]
Now that the rcu_data structure contains ->gp_seq_needed, create an
rcu_accelerate_cbs_unlocked() helper function that locklessly checks to
see if new callbacks' required grace period has already been requested.
If so, update the callback list locally and again locklessly. (Though
interrupts must be and are disabled to avoid racing with conflicting
updates in interrupt handlers.)
Otherwise, call rcu_accelerate_cbs() as before.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Now that everything has been converted to use ->gp_seq instead of
->gpnum and ->completed, this commit removes ->gpnum and ->completed.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit makes the rcu_quiescent_state_report tracepoint use ->gp_seq
instead of ->gpnum.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit makes the rcu_unlock_preempted_task tracepoint use ->gp_seq
instead of ->gpnum.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit makes the rcu_future_grace_period tracepoint use gp_seq
instead of ->gpnum and ->completed.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit makes the rcu_grace_period tracepoint use gp_seq instead
of ->gpnum or ->completed. It also introduces a "cpuofl-bgp" string to
less obscurely indicate when a CPU has gone offline while a grace period
is waiting on it.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit makes rcu_nocb_wait_gp() check rdp->gp_seq_needed to see
if the current CPU already knows about the needed grace period having
already been requested. If so, it avoids acquiring the corresponding
leaf rcu_node structure's ->lock, thus decreasing contention. This
optimization is intended for cases where either multiple leader rcuo
kthreads are running on the same CPU or these kthreads are running on
a non-offloaded (e.g., housekeeping) CPU.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Move lock release past "if" as suggested by Joel Fernandes. ]
[ paulmck: Fix caching of furthest-future requested grace period. ]
One problem with the ->need_future_gp[] array is that the grace-period
assignment of each element changes as the grace periods complete.
This means that it is necessary to hold a lock when checking this
array to learn if a given grace period has already been requested.
This increase lock contention, which is the opposite of helpful.
This commit therefore replaces the ->need_future_gp[] with a single
->gp_seq_needed value and keeps it updated in the rcu_data structure.
This will enable reliable lockless checking of whether or not a given
grace period has already been requested.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
SRCU has long used ->srcu_gp_seq, and now RCU uses ->gp_seq. This
commit therefore moves the rcutorture_get_gp_data() function from
a ->gpnum / ->completed pair to ->gp_seq.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit makes the RCU CPU stall-warning code in print_other_cpu_stall(),
print_cpu_stall(), and check_cpu_stall() use ->gp_seq instead of ->gpnum
and ->completed.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit converts the grace-period request code paths from ->completed
and ->gpnum to ->gp_seq. The need_future_gp_element() macro encapsulates
the shift operation required to use ->gp_seq as an index to the
->need_future_gp[] array. The rcu_cbs_completed() function is removed
in favor of the rcu_seq_snap() function. The rcu_start_this_gp()
gets some temporary consistency checks and uses rcu_seq_done(),
rcu_seq_current(), rcu_seq_state(), and rcu_gp_in_progress() in place
of the earlier open-coded comparisons of ->gpnum and ->completed.
The rcu_future_gp_cleanup() function replaces use of ->completed
with ->gp_seq. The rcu_accelerate_cbs() function replaces a call to
rcu_cbs_completed() with one to rcu_seq_snap(). The rcu_advance_cbs()
function replaces an access to >completed with one to ->gp_seq and adds
some temporary warnings. The rcu_nocb_wait_gp() function replaces a
call to rcu_cbs_completed() with one to rcu_seq_snap() and an open-coded
comparison with rcu_seq_done().
The temporary warnings will be removed when the various ->gpnum and
->completed fields are removed. Their purpose is to locate code who
might still be using ->gpnum and ->completed. (Much easier that way
than trying to trace down the causes of too-short grace periods and
grace-period hangs!)
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit switches the quiescent-state no-backtracking checks from
->gpnum and ->completed to ->gp_seq.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit switches the interrupt-disabled detection mechanism to
->gp_seq. This mechanism is used as part of RCU CPU stall warnings,
and detects cases where the stall is due to a CPU having interrupts
disabled.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit makes rcu_gp_in_progress() use ->gp_seq instead of
->completed and ->gpnum. The READ_ONCE() invocations are buried
in rcu_seq_current().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit makes rcu_try_advance_all_cbs() use ->gp_seq. It uses
rcu_seq_ctr() in order to shift away the state bits, so that the
low-order bits of the result may safely be used to index ->nocb_gp_wq[].
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit makes rcu_try_advance_all_cbs() use ->gp_seq, with the
exception of tracing, which will be converted later.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit makes rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() use ->gp_seq, with the
exception of tracing, which will be converted later.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit converts rcu_gpnum_ovf() to use ->gp_seq instead of ->gpnum.
Same size unsigned long, so same approach.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit moves __note_gp_changes(), note_gp_changes(), and
__rcu_pending() to ->gp_seq, creating new rcu_seq_completed_gp() and
rcu_seq_new_gp() functions for this purpose.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Reinstate "cpuend: trace as suggested by Joel Fernandes. ]
This commit converts get_state_synchronize_rcu(), cond_synchronize_rcu(),
get_state_synchronize_sched(), and cond_synchronize_sched() from ->gpnum
and ->completed to ->gp_seq. Note that this also introduces a full
memory barrier in the already-done paths off cond_synchronize_rcu() and
cond_synchronize_sched(), as work with LKMM indicates that the earlier
smp_load_acquire() were insufficiently strong in some situations where
these two functions were called just as the grace period ended. In such
cases, these two functions would not gain the benefit of memory ordering
at the end of the grace period.
Please note that the performance impact is negligible, as you shouldn't
be using either function anywhere near a fastpath in any case.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit switches the functions reporting quiescent states from
use of ->gpnum to ->gp_seq. In either case, the point is to handle
races where a given grace period ends before a quiescent state can
be reported. Failing to catch these races would result in too-short
grace periods, hence the checking.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit switches rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation() from printing
->gpnum and ->completed to printing ->gp_seq upon detecting a starving
RCU grace-period kthread during an RCU CPU stall warning.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcutorture test invokes rcu_batches_started(),
rcu_batches_completed(), rcu_batches_started_bh(),
rcu_batches_completed_bh(), rcu_batches_started_sched(), and
rcu_batches_completed_sched() to do grace-period consistency checks,
and rcuperf uses the _completed variants for statistics.
These functions use ->gpnum and ->completed. This commit therefore
replaces them with rcu_get_gp_seq(), rcu_bh_get_gp_seq(), and
rcu_sched_get_gp_seq(), adjusting rcutorture and rcuperf to make
use of them.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit moves rcu_gp_slow() to ->gp_seq. This function only uses
the grace-period number to modulate delay, so rcu_seq_ctr(rsp->gp_seq)
gets the same effect, at least in cases where the delay is to happen
more than four times per wrap of an unsigned long.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit adds grace-period sequence numbers (->gp_seq) to the
rcu_state, rcu_node, and rcu_data structures, and updates them.
It also checks for consistency between rsp->gpnum and rsp->gp_seq.
These ->gp_seq counters will eventually replace the existing ->gpnum
and ->completed counters, allowing a single memory access to determine
whether or not a grace period is in progress and if so, which one.
This in turn will enable changes that will reduce ->lock contention on
the leaf rcu_node structures.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
At the end of rcu_gp_cleanup(), if another grace period is needed, but
not via rcu_accelerate_cbs(), the ->gp_flags field is written twice,
once when making the new grace-period request, and once when clearing
all other types of requests. This commit therefore adds an else-clause
to avoid this double write.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit causes a splat if RCU is idle and a request for a new grace
period is ignored for more than one second. This splat normally indicates
that some code path asked for a new grace period, but failed to wake up
the RCU grace-period kthread.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Fix bug located by Dan Carpenter and his static checker. ]
[ paulmck: Fix self-deadlock bug located 0day test robot. ]
[ paulmck: Disable unless CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y. ]
Currently, the parallelized initialization of expedited grace periods uses
the workqueue associated with each rcu_node structure's ->grplo field.
This works fine unless that CPU is offline. This commit therefore uses
the CPU corresponding to the lowest-numbered online CPU, or just queues
the work on WORK_CPU_UNBOUND if there are no online CPUs corresponding
to this rcu_node structure.
Note that this patch uses cpu_is_offline() instead of the usual approach
of checking bits in the rcu_node structure's ->qsmaskinitnext field. This
is safe because preemption is disabled across both the cpu_is_offline()
check and the call to queue_work_on().
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Disable preemption to close offline race window. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Apply Peter Zijlstra feedback on CPU selection. ]
Tested-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There is a two-jiffy delay between the time that a CPU will self-report
an RCU CPU stall warning and the time that some other CPU will report a
warning on behalf of the first CPU. This has worked well in the past,
but on busy systems, it is possible for the two warnings to overlap,
which makes interpreting them extremely difficult.
This commit therefore uses a cmpxchg-based timing decision that
allows only one report in a given one-minute period (assuming default
stall-warning Kconfig parameters). This approach will of course fail
if you are seeing minute-long vCPU preemption, but in that case the
overlapping RCU CPU stall warnings are the least of your worries.
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Sparse reported this:
| kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:814:9: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different modifiers)
| kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:814:9: expected struct lockdep_map const *lock
| kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:814:9: got struct lockdep_map [noderef] *<noident>
This is caused by using vanilla lockdep annotations on rcu_node::lock,
and that requires accessing ->lock of rcu_node directly. However we need
to keep rcu_node::lock __private to avoid breaking its extra ordering
guarantee. And we have a dedicated lockdep annotation for
rcu_node::lock, so use it.
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The WARN_ON_ONCE(rcu_preempt_blocked_readers_cgp()) in
rcu_gp_cleanup() triggers (inexplicably, of course) every so often.
This commit therefore extracts more information.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit adds "#define pr_fmt(fmt) fmt" to the torture-test files
in order to keep the current dmesg format. Once Joe's commits have
hit mainline, these definitions will be changed in order to automatically
generate the dmesg line prefix that the scripts expect. This will have
the beneficial side-effect of allowing printk() formats to be used more
widely and of shortening some pr_*() lines.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Some bugs reproduce quickly only at high CPU-hotplug rates, so the
rcutorture TREE03 scenario now has only 200 milliseconds spacing between
CPU-hotplug operations. At this rate, the torture-test pair of console
messages per operation becomes a bit voluminous. This commit therefore
converts the torture-test set of "verbose" kernel-boot arguments from
bool to int, and prints the extra console messages only when verbose=2.
The default is still verbose=1.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit adds the address of the first callback to the per-CPU rcutorture
output in order to allow lost wakeups to be more efficiently tracked down.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit updates the header comment of srcu_funnel_gp_start() to
document the fact that srcu_funnel_gp_start() does the work of
srcu_funnel_exp_start(), in some cases by invoking it directly.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit simply changes some copy-pasta call_rcu() instances to
the correct call_srcu().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
During expedited grace-period initialization, a work item is scheduled
for each leaf rcu_node structure. However, that initialization code
is itself (normally) executing from a workqueue, so one of the leaf
rcu_node structures could just as well be handled by that pre-existing
workqueue, and with less overhead. This commit therefore uses a
shiny new rcu_is_leaf_node() macro to execute the last leaf rcu_node
structure's initialization directly from the pre-existing workqueue.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The x86/mtrr code does horrific things because hardware. It uses
stop_machine_from_inactive_cpu(), which does a wakeup (of the stopper
thread on another CPU), which uses RCU, all before the CPU is onlined.
RCU complains about this, because wakeups use RCU and RCU does
(rightfully) not consider offline CPUs for grace-periods.
Fix this by initializing RCU way early in the MTRR case.
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Add !SMP support, per 0day Test Robot report. ]
This commit adds end-of-test state printout to help check whether RCU
shut down nicely. Note that this printout only helps for flavors of
RCU that are not used much by the kernel. In particular, for normal
RCU having a grace period in progress is expected behavior.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Now that grace-period requests use funnel locking and now that they
set ->gp_flags to RCU_GP_FLAG_INIT even when the RCU grace-period
kthread has not yet started, rcu_gp_kthread() no longer needs to check
need_any_future_gp() at startup time. This commit therefore removes
this check.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Now that RCU no longer relies on failsafe checks, cpu_needs_another_gp()
can be greatly simplified. This simplification eliminates the last
call to rcu_future_needs_gp() and to rcu_segcblist_future_gp_needed(),
both of which which can then be eliminated. And then, because
cpu_needs_another_gp() is called only from __rcu_pending(), it can be
inlined and eliminated.
This commit carries out the simplification, inlining, and elimination
called out above.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
All of the cpu_needs_another_gp() function's checks (except for
newly arrived callbacks) have been subsumed into the rcu_gp_cleanup()
function's scan of the rcu_node tree. This commit therefore drops the
call to cpu_needs_another_gp(). The check for newly arrived callbacks
is supplied by rcu_accelerate_cbs(). Any needed advancing (as in the
earlier rcu_advance_cbs() call) will be supplied when the corresponding
CPU becomes aware of the end of the now-completed grace period.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
If rcu_start_this_gp() is invoked with a requested grace period more
than three in the future, then either the ->need_future_gp[] array
needs to be bigger or the caller needs to be repaired. This commit
therefore adds a WARN_ON_ONCE() checking for this condition.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
The rcu_start_this_gp() function had a simple form of funnel locking that
used only the leaves and root of the rcu_node tree, which is fine for
systems with only a few hundred CPUs, but sub-optimal for systems having
thousands of CPUs. This commit therefore adds full-tree funnel locking.
This variant of funnel locking is unusual in the following ways:
1. The leaf-level rcu_node structure's ->lock is held throughout.
Other funnel-locking implementations drop the leaf-level lock
before progressing to the next level of the tree.
2. Funnel locking can be started at the root, which is convenient
for code that already holds the root rcu_node structure's ->lock.
Other funnel-locking implementations start at the leaves.
3. If an rcu_node structure other than the initial one believes
that a grace period is in progress, it is not necessary to
go further up the tree. This is because grace-period cleanup
scans the full tree, so that marking the need for a subsequent
grace period anywhere in the tree suffices -- but only if
a grace period is currently in progress.
4. It is possible that the RCU grace-period kthread has not yet
started, and this case must be handled appropriately.
However, the general approach of using a tree to control lock contention
is still in place.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
The rcu_accelerate_cbs() function selects a grace-period target, which
it uses to have rcu_segcblist_accelerate() assign numbers to recently
queued callbacks. Then it invokes rcu_start_future_gp(), which selects
a grace-period target again, which is a bit pointless. This commit
therefore changes rcu_start_future_gp() to take the grace-period target as
a parameter, thus avoiding double selection. This commit also changes
the name of rcu_start_future_gp() to rcu_start_this_gp() to reflect
this change in functionality, and also makes a similar change to the
name of trace_rcu_future_gp().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
The rcu_start_gp_advanced() is invoked only from rcu_start_future_gp() and
much of its code is redundant when invoked from that context. This commit
therefore inlines rcu_start_gp_advanced() into rcu_start_future_gp(),
then removes rcu_start_gp_advanced().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Once the grace period has ended, any RCU_GP_FLAG_FQS requests are
irrelevant: The grace period has ended, so there is no longer any
point in forcing quiescent states in order to try to make it end sooner.
This commit therefore causes rcu_gp_cleanup() to clear any bits other
than RCU_GP_FLAG_INIT from ->gp_flags at the end of the grace period.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
It is true that currently only the low-order two bits are used, so
there should be no problem given modern machines and compilers, but
good hygiene and maintainability dictates use of an unsigned long
instead of an int. This commit therefore makes this change.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
The __rcu_process_callbacks() function currently checks to see if
the current CPU needs a grace period and also if there is any other
reason to kick off a new grace period. This is one of the fail-safe
checks that has been rendered unnecessary by the changes that increase
the accuracy of rcu_gp_cleanup()'s estimate as to whether another grace
period is required. Because this particular fail-safe involved acquiring
the root rcu_node structure's ->lock, which has seen excessive contention
in real life, this fail-safe needs to go.
However, one check must remain, namely the check for newly arrived
RCU callbacks that have not yet been associated with a grace period.
One might hope that the checks in __note_gp_changes(), which is invoked
indirectly from rcu_check_quiescent_state(), would suffice, but this
function won't be invoked at all if RCU is idle. It is therefore necessary
to replace the fail-safe checks with a simpler check for newly arrived
callbacks during an RCU idle period, which is exactly what this commit
does. This change removes the final call to rcu_start_gp(), so this
function is removed as well.
Note that lockless use of cpu_needs_another_gp() is racy, but that
these races are harmless in this case. If RCU really is idle, the
values will not change, so the return value from cpu_needs_another_gp()
will be correct. If RCU is not idle, the resulting redundant call to
rcu_accelerate_cbs() will be harmless, and might even have the benefit
of reducing grace-period latency a bit.
This commit also moves interrupt disabling into the "if" statement to
improve real-time response a bit.
Reported-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
When __call_rcu_core() notices excessive numbers of callbacks pending
on the current CPU, we know that at least one of them is not yet
classified, namely the one that was just now queued. Therefore, it
is not necessary to invoke rcu_start_gp() and thus not necessary to
acquire the root rcu_node structure's ->lock. This commit therefore
replaces the rcu_start_gp() with rcu_accelerate_cbs(), thus replacing
an acquisition of the root rcu_node structure's ->lock with that of
this CPU's leaf rcu_node structure.
This decreases contention on the root rcu_node structure's ->lock.
Reported-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
The rcu_migrate_callbacks() function invokes rcu_advance_cbs()
twice, ignoring the return value. This is OK at pressent because of
failsafe code that does the wakeup when needed. However, this failsafe
code acquires the root rcu_node structure's lock frequently, while
rcu_migrate_callbacks() does so only once per CPU-offline operation.
This commit therefore makes rcu_migrate_callbacks()
wake up the RCU GP kthread when either call to rcu_advance_cbs()
returns true, thus removing need for the failsafe code.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
There is no longer any need for ->need_future_gp[] to count the number of
requests for future grace periods, so this commit converts the additions
to assignments to "true" and reduces the size of each element to one byte.
While we are in the area, fix an obsolete comment.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Currently, the rcu_future_needs_gp() function checks only the current
element of the ->need_future_gps[] array, which might miss elements that
were offset from the expected element, for example, due to races with
the start or the end of a grace period. This commit therefore makes
rcu_future_needs_gp() use the need_any_future_gp() macro to check all
of the elements of this array.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
The rcu_cbs_completed() function provides the value of ->completed
at which new callbacks can safely be invoked. This is recorded in
two-element ->need_future_gp[] arrays in the rcu_node structure, and
the elements of these arrays corresponding to the just-completed grace
period are zeroed at the end of that grace period. However, the
rcu_cbs_completed() function can return the current ->completed value
plus either one or two, so it is possible for the corresponding
->need_future_gp[] entry to be cleared just after it was set, thus
losing a request for a future grace period.
This commit avoids this race by expanding ->need_future_gp[] to four
elements.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Currently, rcu_gp_cleanup() scans the rcu_node tree in order to reset
state to reflect the end of the grace period. It also checks to see
whether a new grace period is needed, but in a number of cases, rather
than directly cause the new grace period to be immediately started, it
instead leaves the grace-period-needed state where various fail-safes
can find it. This works fine, but results in higher contention on the
root rcu_node structure's ->lock, which is undesirable, and contention
on that lock has recently become noticeable.
This commit therefore makes rcu_gp_cleanup() immediately start a new
grace period if there is any need for one.
It is quite possible that it will later be necessary to throttle the
grace-period rate, but that can be dealt with when and if.
Reported-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
The rcu_gp_kthread() function immediately sleeps waiting to be notified
of the need for a new grace period, which currently works because there
are a number of code sequences that will provide the needed wakeup later.
However, some of these code sequences need to acquire the root rcu_node
structure's ->lock, and contention on that lock has started manifesting.
This commit therefore makes rcu_gp_kthread() check for early-boot activity
when it starts up, omitting the initial sleep in that case.
Reported-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Accessors for the ->need_future_gp[] array are currently open-coded,
which makes them difficult to change. To improve maintainability, this
commit adds need_future_gp_mask() to compute the indexing mask from the
array size, need_future_gp_element() to access the element corresponding
to the specified grace-period number, and need_any_future_gp() to
determine if any future grace period is needed. This commit also applies
need_future_gp_element() to existing open-coded single-element accesses.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
The rcu_start_future_gp() function uses a sloppy check for a grace
period being in progress, which works today because there are a number
of code sequences that resolve the resulting races. However, some of
these race-resolution code sequences must acquire the root rcu_node
structure's ->lock, and contention on that lock has started manifesting.
This commit therefore makes rcu_start_future_gp() check more precise,
eliminating the sloppy lockless check of the rcu_state structure's ->gpnum
and ->completed fields. The effect is that rcu_start_future_gp() will
sometimes unnecessarily attempt to start a new grace period, but this
overhead will be reduced later using funnel locking.
Reported-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
When rcu_cbs_completed() is invoked on a non-root rcu_node structure,
it unconditionally assumes that two grace periods must complete before
the callbacks at hand can be invoked. This is overly conservative because
if that non-root rcu_node structure believes that no grace period is in
progress, and if the corresponding rcu_state structure's ->gpnum field
has not yet been incremented, then these callbacks may safely be invoked
after only one grace period has completed.
This change is required to permit grace-period start requests to use
funnel locking, which is in turn permitted to reduce root rcu_node ->lock
contention, which has been observed by Nick Piggin. Furthermore, such
contention will likely be increased by the merging of RCU-bh, RCU-preempt,
and RCU-sched, so it makes sense to take steps to decrease it.
This commit therefore improves the accuracy of rcu_cbs_completed() when
invoked on a non-root rcu_node structure as described above.
Reported-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
This commit adds rcu_first_leaf_node() that returns a pointer to
the first leaf rcu_node structure in the specified RCU flavor and an
rcu_is_leaf_node() that returns true iff the specified rcu_node structure
is a leaf. This commit also uses these macros where appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
The current cleanup_srcu_struct() flushes work, which prevents it
from being invoked from some workqueue contexts, as well as from
atomic (non-blocking) contexts. This patch therefore introduced a
cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced(), which can be invoked only after all
activity on the specified srcu_struct has completed. This restriction
allows cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced() to be invoked from workqueue
contexts as well as from atomic contexts.
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nitzan Carmi <nitzanc@mellanox.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Because rcu_eqs_special_set() is declared only in internal header
kernel/rcu/tree.h and stubbed in include/linux/rcutiny.h, it is
inaccessible outside of the RCU implementation. This patch therefore
moves the rcu_eqs_special_set() declaration to include/linux/rcutree.h,
which allows it to be used in non-rcu kernel code.
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
The header comment for rcu_bind_gp_kthread() refers to sysidle, which
is no longer with us. However, it is still important to bind RCU's
grace-period kthreads to the housekeeping CPU(s), so rather than remove
rcu_bind_gp_kthread(), this commit updates the comment.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.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>
Commit ae91aa0adb ("rcu: Remove debugfs tracing") removed the
RCU debugfs tracing code, but did not remove the no-longer used
->exp_workdone{0,1,2,3} fields in the srcu_data structure. This commit
therefore removes these fields along with the code that uselessly
updates them.
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
If an excessive number of callbacks have been queued, but the NOCB
leader kthread's wakeup must be deferred, then we should wake up the
leader unconditionally once it is safe to do so.
This was handled correctly in commit fbce7497ee ("rcu: Parallelize and
economize NOCB kthread wakeups"), but then commit 8be6e1b15c ("rcu:
Use timer as backstop for NOCB deferred wakeups") passed RCU_NOCB_WAKE
instead of the correct RCU_NOCB_WAKE_FORCE to wake_nocb_leader_defer().
As an interesting aside, RCU_NOCB_WAKE_FORCE is never passed to anything,
which should have been taken as a hint. ;-)
This commit therefore passes RCU_NOCB_WAKE_FORCE instead of RCU_NOCB_WAKE
to wake_nocb_leader_defer() when a callback is queued onto a NOCB CPU
that already has an excessive number of callbacks pending.
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Commit 44c65ff2e3 ("rcu: Eliminate NOCBs CPU-state Kconfig options")
made allocation of rcu_nocb_mask depend only on the rcu_nocbs=,
nohz_full=, or isolcpus= kernel boot parameters. However, it failed
to change the initial value of rcu_init_nohz()'s local variable
need_rcu_nocb_mask to false, which can result in useless allocation
of an all-zero rcu_nocb_mask. This commit therefore fixes this bug by
changing the initial value of need_rcu_nocb_mask to false.
While we are in the area, also correct the error message that is printed
when someone specifies that can-never-exist CPUs should be NOCBs CPUs.
Reported-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
The rcu_preempt_do_callbacks() function was introduced in commit
09223371dea(rcu: Use softirq to address performance regression), where it
was necessary to handle kernel builds both containing and not containing
RCU-preempt. Since then, various changes (most notably f8b7fc6b51
("rcu: use softirq instead of kthreads except when RCU_BOOST=y")) have
resulted in this function being invoked only from rcu_kthread_do_work(),
which is present only in kernels containing RCU-preempt, which in turn
means that the rcu_preempt_do_callbacks() function is no longer needed.
This commit therefore inlines rcu_preempt_do_callbacks() into its
sole remaining caller and also removes the rcu_state_p and rcu_data_p
indirection for added clarity.
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ paulmck: Remove the rcu_state_p and rcu_data_p indirection. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Currently some callsites of sync_rcu_preempt_exp_done() are not called
with the corresponding rcu_node's ->lock held, which could introduces
bugs as per Paul:
o CPU 0 in sync_rcu_preempt_exp_done() reads ->exp_tasks and
sees that it is NULL.
o CPU 1 blocks within an RCU read-side critical section, so
it enqueues the task and points ->exp_tasks at it and
clears CPU 1's bit in ->expmask.
o All other CPUs clear their bits in ->expmask.
o CPU 0 reads ->expmask, sees that it is zero, so incorrectly
concludes that all quiescent states have completed, despite
the fact that ->exp_tasks is non-NULL.
To fix this, sync_rcu_preempt_exp_unlocked() is introduced to replace
lockless callsites of sync_rcu_preempt_exp_done().
Further, a lockdep annotation is added into sync_rcu_preempt_exp_done()
to prevent mis-use in the future.
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Since commit d9a3da0699 ("rcu: Add expedited grace-period support
for preemptible RCU"), there are comments for some funtions in
rcu_report_exp_rnp()'s call-chain saying that exp_mutex or its
predecessors needs to be held.
However, exp_mutex and its predecessors were used only to synchronize
between GPs, and it is clear that all variables visited by those functions
are under the protection of rcu_node's ->lock. Moreover, those functions
are currently called without held exp_mutex, and seems that doesn't
introduce any trouble.
So this patch fixes this problem by updating the comments to match the
current code.
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Fixes: d9a3da0699 ("rcu: Add expedited grace-period support for preemptible RCU")
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
The latency of RCU expedited grace periods grows with increasing numbers
of CPUs, eventually failing to be all that expedited. Much of the growth
in latency is in the initialization phase, so this commit uses workqueues
to carry out this initialization concurrently on a rcu_node-by-rcu_node
basis.
This change makes use of a new rcu_par_gp_wq because flushing a work
item from another work item running from the same workqueue can result
in deadlock.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
RCU's expedited grace periods can participate in out-of-memory deadlocks
due to all available system_wq kthreads being blocked and there not being
memory available to create more. This commit prevents such deadlocks
by allocating an RCU-specific workqueue_struct at early boot time, and
providing it with a rescuer to ensure forward progress. This uses the
shiny new init_rescuer() function provided by Tejun (but indirectly).
This commit also causes SRCU to use this new RCU-specific
workqueue_struct. Note that SRCU's use of workqueues never blocks them
waiting for readers, so this should be safe from a forward-progress
viewpoint. Note that this moves SRCU from system_power_efficient_wq
to a normal workqueue. In the unlikely event that this results in
measurable degradation, a separate power-efficient workqueue will be
creates for SRCU.
Reported-by: Prateek Sood <prsood@codeaurora.org>
Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
The default values for nreader and nwriter are apparently not all that
user-friendly, resulting in people doing scalability tests that ran all
runs at large scale. This commit therefore makes both the nreaders and
nwriters module default to the number of CPUs, and adds a comment to
rcuperf.c stating that the number of CPUs should be specified using the
nr_cpus kernel boot parameter. This commit also eliminates the redundant
rcuperf scripting specification of default values for these parameters.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_torture_writer() function adapts to requested testing from module
parameters as well as the function pointers in the structure referenced
by cur_ops. However, as long as the module parameters do not conflict
with the function pointers, this adaptation is silent. This silence can
result in confusion as to exactly what was tested, which could in turn
result in untested RCU code making its way into mainline.
This commit therefore makes rcu_torture_writer() announce exactly which
portions of RCU's API it ends up testing.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
During boot, normal grace periods are processed as expedited. When
rcutorture is built into the kernel, it starts during boot and thus
detects that normal grace periods are unconditionally expedited.
Therefore, rcutorture concludes that there is no point in trying
to dynamically enable expediting, do it disables this aspect of testing,
which is a bit of an overreaction to the temporary boot-time expediting.
This commit therefore rechecks forced expediting throughout the test,
enabling dynamic expediting if normal grace periods are processed
normally at any point.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently the rcu_torture_fakewriter() function invokes cur_ops->sync()
and cur_ops->exp_sync() without first checking to see if they are in
fact non-NULL. This results in kernel NULL pointer dereferences when
testing RCU implementations that choose not to provide the full set of
primitives. Given that it is perfectly reasonable to have specialized
RCU implementations that provide only a subset of the RCU API, this is
a bug in rcutorture.
This commit therefore makes rcu_torture_fakewriter() check function
pointers before invoking them, thus allowing it to test subsetted
RCU implementations.
Reported-by: Lihao Liang <lianglihao@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
