Currently, if the 'rcu_nocb_poll' kernel boot parameter is enabled, all
rcuog kthreads enter polling mode. However, if all of a given group
of rcuo kthreads correspond to CPUs that have been de-offloaded, the
corresponding rcuog kthread will nonetheless still wake up periodically,
unnecessarily consuming power and perturbing workloads. Fortunately,
this situation is easily detected by the fact that the rcuog kthread's
CPU's rcu_data structure's ->nocb_head_rdp list is empty.
This commit saves power and avoids unnecessarily perturbing workloads
by putting an rcuog kthread to sleep during any time period when all of
its rcuo kthreads' CPUs are de-offloaded.
Co-developed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
This commit introduces a RCU_NOCB_CPU_CB_BOOST Kconfig option that
prevents rcuo kthreads from running at real-time priority, even in
kernels built with RCU_BOOST. This capability is important to devices
needing low-latency (as in a few milliseconds) response from expedited
RCU grace periods, but which are not running a classic real-time workload.
On such devices, permitting the rcuo kthreads to run at real-time priority
results in unacceptable latencies imposed on the application tasks,
which run as SCHED_OTHER.
See for example the following trace output:
<snip>
<...>-60 [006] d..1 2979.028717: rcu_batch_start: rcu_preempt CBs=34619 bl=270
<snip>
If that rcuop kthread were permitted to run at real-time SCHED_FIFO
priority, it would monopolize its CPU for hundreds of milliseconds
while invoking those 34619 RCU callback functions, which would cause an
unacceptably long latency spike for many application stacks on Android
platforms.
However, some existing real-time workloads require that callback
invocation run at SCHED_FIFO priority, for example, those running on
systems with heavy SCHED_OTHER background loads. (It is the real-time
system's administrator's responsibility to make sure that important
real-time tasks run at a higher priority than do RCU's kthreads.)
Therefore, this new RCU_NOCB_CPU_CB_BOOST Kconfig option defaults to
"y" on kernels built with PREEMPT_RT and defaults to "n" otherwise.
The effect is to preserve current behavior for real-time systems, but for
other systems to allow expedited RCU grace periods to run with real-time
priority while continuing to invoke RCU callbacks as SCHED_OTHER.
As you would expect, this RCU_NOCB_CPU_CB_BOOST Kconfig option has no
effect except on CPUs with offloaded RCU callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Systems built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y but booted without either
the rcu_nocbs= or rcu_nohz_full= kernel-boot parameters will not have
callback offloading on any of the CPUs, nor can any of the CPUs be
switched to enable callback offloading at runtime. Although this is
intentional, it would be nice to have a way to offload all the CPUs
without having to make random bootloaders specify either the rcu_nocbs=
or the rcu_nohz_full= kernel-boot parameters.
This commit therefore provides a new CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL
Kconfig option that switches the default so as to offload callback
processing on all of the CPUs. This default can still be overridden
using the rcu_nocbs= and rcu_nohz_full= kernel-boot parameters.
Reviewed-by: Kalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
(In v4.1, fixed issues with CONFIG maze reported by kernel test robot).
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
If the rcuog/o[p] kthreads spawn failed, the offloaded rdp needs to
be explicitly deoffloaded, otherwise the target rdp is still considered
offloaded even though nothing actually handles the callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <uladzislau.rezki@sony.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
In case of failure to spawn either rcuog or rcuo[p] kthreads for a given
rdp, rcu_nocb_rdp_deoffload() needs to be called with the hotplug
lock and the barrier_mutex held. However cpus write lock is already held
while calling rcutree_prepare_cpu(). It's not possible to call
rcu_nocb_rdp_deoffload() from there with just locking the barrier_mutex
or this would result in a locking inversion against
rcu_nocb_cpu_deoffload() which holds both locks in the reverse order.
Simply solve this with inverting the locking order inside
rcu_nocb_cpu_[de]offload(). This will be a pre-requisite to toggle NOCB
states toward cpusets anyway.
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <uladzislau.rezki@sony.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
NOCB rdp's are part of a group whose list is iterated by the
corresponding rdp leader.
This list is RCU traversed because an rdp can be either added or
deleted concurrently. Upon addition, a new iteration to the list after
a synchronization point (a pair of LOCK/UNLOCK ->nocb_gp_lock) is forced
to make sure:
1) we didn't miss a new element added in the middle of an iteration
2) we didn't ignore a whole subset of the list due to an element being
quickly deleted and then re-added.
3) we prevent from probably other surprises...
Although this layout is expected to be safe, it doesn't help anybody
to sleep well.
Simplify instead the nocb state toggling with moving the list
modification from the nocb (de-)offloading workqueue to the rcuog
kthreads instead.
Whenever the rdp leader is expected to (re-)set the SEGCBLIST_KTHREAD_GP
flag of a target rdp, the latter is queued so that the leader handles
the flag flip along with adding or deleting the target rdp to the list
to iterate. This way the list modification and iteration happen from the
same kthread and those operations can't race altogether.
As a bonus, the flags for each rdp don't need to be checked locklessly
before each iteration, which is one less opportunity to produce
nightmares.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <uladzislau.rezki@sony.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
The rcu_spawn_gp_kthread() function is called as an early initcall, which
means that SMP initialization hasn't happened yet and only the boot CPU is
online. Therefore, create only the NOCB kthreads related to the boot CPU.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <uladzislau.rezki@sony.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit moves the RCU nocb initialization witness within rcu_state
to consolidate RCU's global state.
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <uladzislau.rezki@sony.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_is_nocb_cpu() function is no longer used, so this commmit
removes it.
Reported-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <uladzislau.rezki@sony.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
In some places, RCU code calls cpumask_weight() to check if any bit of a
given cpumask is set. We can do it more efficiently with cpumask_empty()
because cpumask_empty() stops traversing the cpumask as soon as it finds
first set bit, while cpumask_weight() counts all bits unconditionally.
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
When CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y, the rcutree.kthread_prio command-line
parameter signals initialization code to boost the priority of rcuc
callbacks to the designated value. With the additional
CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y configuration and an additional rcu_nocbs
command-line parameter, the callbacks on the listed cores are
offloaded to new rcuop kthreads that are not pinned to the cores whose
post-grace-period work is performed. While the rcuop kthreads perform
the same function as the rcuc kthreads they offload, the kthread_prio
parameter only boosts the priority of the rcuc kthreads. Fix this
inconsistency by elevating rcuop kthreads to the same priority as the rcuc
kthreads.
Signed-off-by: Alison Chaiken <achaiken@aurora.tech>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The priority of RCU grace period threads is set to kthread_prio when
they are launched from rcu_spawn_gp_kthread(). The same is not true
of rcu_spawn_one_nocb_kthread(). Accordingly, add priority elevation
to rcu_spawn_one_nocb_kthread().
Signed-off-by: Alison Chaiken <achaiken@aurora.tech>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
When multiple CPUs in the same nocb gp/cb group concurrently
come online, they might try to concurrently create the same
rcuog kthread. Fix this by using nocb gp CPU's spawn mutex to
provide mutual exclusion for the rcuog kthread creation code.
[ paulmck: Whitespace fixes per kernel test robot feedback. ]
Acked-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw@amazon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_spawn_one_nocb_kthread() function is called only from
rcu_spawn_cpu_nocb_kthread(). Therefore, inline the former into
the latter, saving a few lines of code.
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Allow the rcu_nocbs kernel parameter to be specified just by itself,
without specifying any CPUs. This allows systems administrators to use
"rcu_nocbs" to specify that none of the CPUs are to be offloaded at boot
time, but than any of them may be offloaded at runtime via cpusets.
In contrast, if the "rcu_nocbs" or "nohz_full" kernel parameters are not
specified at all, then not only are none of the CPUs offloaded at boot,
none of them can be offloaded at runtime, either.
While in the area, modernize the description of the "rcuo" kthreads'
naming scheme.
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
In order to be able to (de-)offload any CPU using cpusets in the future,
create the NOCB data structures for all possible CPUs. For now this is
done only as long as the "rcu_nocbs=" or "nohz_full=" kernel parameters
are passed to avoid the unnecessary overhead for most users.
Note that the rcuog and rcuoc kthreads are not created until at least
one of the corresponding CPUs comes online. This approach avoids the
creation of excess kthreads when firmware lies about the number of CPUs
present on the system.
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently cpumask_available() is used to prevent from unwanted NOCB
initialization. However if neither "rcu_nocbs=" nor "nohz_full="
parameters are passed to a kernel built with CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=n,
the initialization path is still taken, running through all sorts of
needless operations and iterations on an empty cpumask.
Fix this by relying on a real initialization state instead. This also
optimizes kthread creation, preventing needless iteration over all online
CPUs when the kernel is booted without any offloaded CPUs.
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
In order to be able to toggle the offloaded state from cpusets, a nocb
kthread will need to be created for all possible CPUs whenever either
of the "rcu_nocbs=" or "nohz_full=" parameters are specified.
Therefore, the nocb_cb_wait() kthread must be prepared to start running
on a de-offloaded rdp. To accomplish this, simply move the sleeping
condition to the beginning of the nocb_cb_wait() function, which prevents
this kthread from attempting to invoke callbacks before the corresponding
CPU is offloaded.
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The nocb_gp_wait() function iterates over all CPUs in its group,
including even those CPUs that have been de-offloaded. This is of
course suboptimal, especially if none of the CPUs within the group are
currently offloaded. This will become even more of a problem once a
nocb kthread is created for all possible CPUs.
Therefore use a standard double linked list to link all the offloaded
rcu_data structures and safely add or delete these structure as we
offload or de-offload them, respectively.
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Tested-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
On PREEMPT_RT, if rcu_core() is preempted by the de-offloading process,
some work, such as callbacks acceleration and invocation, may be left
unattended due to the volatile checks on the offloaded state.
In the worst case this work is postponed until the next rcu_pending()
check that can take a jiffy to reach, which can be a problem in case
of callbacks flooding.
Solve that with invoking rcu_core() early in the de-offloading process.
This way any work dismissed by an ongoing rcu_core() call fooled by
a preempting deoffloading process will be caught up by a nearby future
recall to rcu_core(), this time fully aware of the de-offloading state.
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently SEGCBLIST_SOFTIRQ_ONLY is a bit of an exception among the
segcblist flags because it is an exclusive state that doesn't mix up
with the other flags. Remove it in favour of:
_ A flag specifying that rcu_core() needs to perform callbacks execution
and acceleration
and
_ A flag specifying we want the nocb lock to be held in any needed
circumstances
This clarifies the code and is more flexible: It allows to have a state
where rcu_core() runs with locking while offloading hasn't started yet.
This is a necessary step to prepare for triggering rcu_core() at the
very beginning of the de-offloading process so that rcu_core() won't
dismiss work while being preempted by the de-offloading process, at
least not without a pending subsequent rcu_core() that will quickly
catch up.
Reviewed-by: Valentin Schneider <Valentin.Schneider@arm.com>
Tested-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit removes a non-value-returning "return" statement at the end
of __call_rcu_nocb_wake() and adds a blank line following declarations
in nocb_cb_can_run().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h file contains not only the plugins for
preemptible RCU, but also many other features including rcu_nocbs
callback offloading. This offloading has become large and complex,
so it is time to put it in its own file.
This commit starts that process.
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
[ paulmck: Rename to tree_nocb.h, add Frederic as author. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
