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2015-01-06rcu: Make RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO include number of fqs attemptsPaul E. McKenney
One way that an RCU CPU stall warning can happen is if the grace-period kthread is not allowed to execute. One proxy for this kthread's forward progress is the number of force-quiescent-state (fqs) scans. This commit therefore adds the number of fqs scans to the RCU CPU stall warning printouts when CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO=y. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-11-13Merge branches 'torture.2014.11.03a', 'cpu.2014.11.03a', 'doc.2014.11.13a', ↵Paul E. McKenney
'fixes.2014.11.13a', 'signal.2014.10.29a' and 'rt.2014.10.29a' into HEAD cpu.2014.11.03a: Changes for per-CPU variables. doc.2014.11.13a: Documentation updates. fixes.2014.11.13a: Miscellaneous fixes. signal.2014.10.29a: Signal changes. rt.2014.10.29a: Real-time changes. torture.2014.11.03a: torture-test changes.
2014-11-03rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_cleanup_after_idle()Paul E. McKenney
The "cpu" argument to rcu_cleanup_after_idle() is always the current CPU, so drop it. This moves the smp_processor_id() from the caller to rcu_cleanup_after_idle(), saving argument-passing overhead. Again, the anticipated cross-CPU uses of these functions has been replaced by NO_HZ_FULL. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_prepare_for_idle()Paul E. McKenney
The "cpu" argument to rcu_prepare_for_idle() is always the current CPU, so drop it. This in turn allows two of the uses of "cpu" in this function to be replaced with a this_cpu_ptr() and the third by smp_processor_id(), replacing that of the call to rcu_prepare_for_idle(). Again, the anticipated cross-CPU uses of these functions has been replaced by NO_HZ_FULL. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_needs_cpu()Paul E. McKenney
The "cpu" argument to rcu_needs_cpu() is always the current CPU, so drop it. This in turn allows the "cpu" argument to rcu_cpu_has_callbacks() to be removed, which allows the uses of "cpu" in both functions to be replaced with a this_cpu_ptr(). Again, the anticipated cross-CPU uses of these functions has been replaced by NO_HZ_FULL. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_note_context_switch()Paul E. McKenney
The "cpu" argument to rcu_note_context_switch() is always the current CPU, so drop it. This in turn allows the "cpu" argument to rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() to be removed, which allows the sole use of "cpu" in both functions to be replaced with a this_cpu_ptr(). Again, the anticipated cross-CPU uses of these functions has been replaced by NO_HZ_FULL. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_preempt_check_callbacks()Paul E. McKenney
Because rcu_preempt_check_callbacks()'s argument is guaranteed to always be the current CPU, drop the argument and replace per_cpu() with __this_cpu_read(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03rcu: Remove rcu_dynticks * parameters when they are always ↵Christoph Lameter
this_cpu_ptr(&rcu_dynticks) For some functions in kernel/rcu/tree* the rdtp parameter is always this_cpu_ptr(rdtp). Remove the parameter if constant and calculate the pointer in function. This will have the advantage that it is obvious that the address are all per cpu offsets and thus it will enable the use of this_cpu_ops in the future. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> [ paulmck: Forward-ported to rcu/dev, whitespace adjustment. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-10-29rcu: Fix for rcuo online-time-creation reorganization bugPaul E. McKenney
Commit 35ce7f29a44a (rcu: Create rcuo kthreads only for onlined CPUs) contains checks for the case where CPUs are brought online out of order, re-wiring the rcuo leader-follower relationships as needed. Unfortunately, this rewiring was broken. This apparently went undetected due to the tendency of systems to bring CPUs online in order. This commit nevertheless fixes the rewiring. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-10-29rcu: Remove redundant TREE_PREEMPT_RCU config optionPranith Kumar
PREEMPT_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU serve the same function after TINY_PREEMPT_RCU has been removed. This patch removes TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and uses PREEMPT_RCU config option in its place. Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-10-29rcu: Unify boost and kthread prioritiesClark Williams
Rename CONFIG_RCU_BOOST_PRIO to CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO and use this value for both the per-CPU kthreads (rcuc/N) and the rcu boosting threads (rcub/n). Also, create the module_parameter rcutree.kthread_prio to be used on the kernel command line at boot to set a new value (rcutree.kthread_prio=N). Signed-off-by: Clark Williams <clark.williams@gmail.com> [ paulmck: Ported to rcu/dev, applied Paul Bolle and Peter Zijlstra feedback. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-10-28rcu: Move RCU_BOOST variable declarations, eliminating #ifdefPaul E. McKenney
There are some RCU_BOOST-specific per-CPU variable declarations that are needlessly defined under #ifdef in kernel/rcu/tree.c. This commit therefore moves these declarations into a pre-existing #ifdef in kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-10-28rcu: Remove CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSEPaul E. McKenney
The CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE Kconfig parameter causes preemptible RCU's CPU stall warnings to dump out any preempted tasks that are blocking the current RCU grace period. This information is useful, and the default has been CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE=y for some years. It is therefore time for this commit to remove this Kconfig parameter, so that future kernel builds will always act as if CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE=y. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-10-28rcu: Make rcu_barrier() understand about missing rcuo kthreadsPaul E. McKenney
Commit 35ce7f29a44a (rcu: Create rcuo kthreads only for onlined CPUs) avoids creating rcuo kthreads for CPUs that never come online. This fixes a bug in many instances of firmware: Instead of lying about their age, these systems instead lie about the number of CPUs that they have. Before commit 35ce7f29a44a, this could result in huge numbers of useless rcuo kthreads being created. It appears that experience indicates that I should have told the people suffering from this problem to fix their broken firmware, but I instead produced what turned out to be a partial fix. The missing piece supplied by this commit makes sure that rcu_barrier() knows not to post callbacks for no-CBs CPUs that have not yet come online, because otherwise rcu_barrier() will hang on systems having firmware that lies about the number of CPUs. It is tempting to simply have rcu_barrier() refuse to post a callback on any no-CBs CPU that does not have an rcuo kthread. This unfortunately does not work because rcu_barrier() is required to wait for all pending callbacks. It is therefore required to wait even for those callbacks that cannot possibly be invoked. Even if doing so hangs the system. Given that posting a callback to a no-CBs CPU that does not yet have an rcuo kthread can hang rcu_barrier(), It is tempting to report an error in this case. Unfortunately, this will result in false positives at boot time, when it is perfectly legal to post callbacks to the boot CPU before the scheduler has started, in other words, before it is legal to invoke rcu_barrier(). So this commit instead has rcu_barrier() avoid posting callbacks to CPUs having neither rcuo kthread nor pending callbacks, and has it complain bitterly if it finds CPUs having no rcuo kthread but some pending callbacks. And when rcu_barrier() does find CPUs having no rcuo kthread but pending callbacks, as noted earlier, it has no choice but to hang indefinitely. Reported-by: Yanko Kaneti <yaneti@declera.com> Reported-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> Reported-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com> Tested-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com> Tested-by: Yanko Kaneti <yaneti@declera.com> Tested-by: Kevin Fenzi <kevin@scrye.com> Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
2014-09-18rcu: Eliminate deadlock between CPU hotplug and expedited grace periodsPaul E. McKenney
Currently, the expedited grace-period primitives do get_online_cpus(). This greatly simplifies their implementation, but means that calls to them holding locks that are acquired by CPU-hotplug notifiers (to say nothing of calls to these primitives from CPU-hotplug notifiers) can deadlock. But this is starting to become inconvenient, as can be seen here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/5/754. The problem in this case is that some developers need to acquire a mutex from a CPU-hotplug notifier, but also need to hold it across a synchronize_rcu_expedited(). As noted above, this currently results in deadlock. This commit avoids the deadlock and retains the simplicity by creating a try_get_online_cpus(), which returns false if the get_online_cpus() reference count could not immediately be incremented. If a call to try_get_online_cpus() returns true, the expedited primitives operate as before. If a call returns false, the expedited primitives fall back to normal grace-period operations. This falling back of course results in increased grace-period latency, but only during times when CPU hotplug operations are actually in flight. The effect should therefore be negligible during normal operation. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Tested-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
2014-09-16Merge branch 'rcu-tasks.2014.09.10a' into HEADPaul E. McKenney
rcu-tasks.2014.09.10a: Add RCU-tasks flavor of RCU.
2014-09-16Merge branches 'doc.2014.09.07a', 'fixes.2014.09.10a', ↵Paul E. McKenney
'nocb-nohz.2014.09.16b' and 'torture.2014.09.07a' into HEAD doc.2014.09.07a: Documentation updates. fixes.2014.09.10a: Miscellaneous fixes. nocb-nohz.2014.09.16b: No-CBs CPUs and NO_HZ_FULL updates. torture.2014.09.07a: Torture-test updates.
2014-09-16rcu: Avoid misordering in nocb_leader_wait()Paul E. McKenney
The NOCB follower wakeup ordering depends on the store to the tail pointer happening before the wakeup. However, because atomic_long_add() does not return a value, it does not provide ordering guarantees, and the locking in wake_up() only guarantees that the store will happen before the unlock, which might be too late. Even though this is only a theoretical issue, this commit adds a smp_mb__after_atomic() after the final atomic_long_add() to provide the needed ordering guarantee. Reported-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16rcu: Handle NOCB callbacks from irq-disabled idle codePaul E. McKenney
If an RCU callback is queued on a no-CBs CPU from idle code with irqs disabled, and if that CPU stays idle forever after, the callback will never be invoked. This commit therefore adds a check for this situation in ____call_rcu_nocb(), invoking the RCU core solely for the purpose of the ensuing return-to-idle transition. (If the CPU doesn't return to idle, the next scheduling-clock interrupt will fix things up.) Reported-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16rcu: Avoid misordering in __call_rcu_nocb_enqueue()Paul E. McKenney
The NOCB leader wakeup ordering depends on the store to the header happening before the check for the leader already being awake. However, because atomic_long_add() does not return a value, it does not provide ordering guarantees, the incorrect comment in wake_nocb_leader() notwithstanding. This commit therefore adds a smp_mb__after_atomic() after the final atomic_long_add() to provide the needed ordering guarantee. Reported-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16rcu: Don't track sysidle state if no nohz_full= CPUsPaul E. McKenney
If there are no nohz_full= CPUs, then there is currently no reason to track sysidle state. This commit therefore short-circuits this state tracking if !tick_nohz_full_enabled(). Note that these checks will need to be revisited if nohz_full= state can ever be changed at runtime. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16rcu: Eliminate redundant rcu_sysidle_state variablePaul E. McKenney
Now that we have rcu_state_p, which references rcu_preempt_state for TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and rcu_sched_state for TREE_RCU, we don't need a separate rcu_sysidle_state variable. This commit therefore eliminates rcu_preempt_state in favor of rcu_state_p. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16rcu: Check for have_rcu_nocb_mask instead of rcu_nocb_maskPranith Kumar
If we configure a kernel with CONFIG_NOCB_CPU=y, CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE=y and CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=n and do not pass in a rcu_nocb= boot parameter, the cpumask rcu_nocb_mask can be garbage instead of NULL. Hence this commit replaces checks for rcu_nocb_mask == NULL with a check for have_rcu_nocb_mask. Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16rcu: Create rcuo kthreads only for onlined CPUsPaul E. McKenney
RCU currently uses for_each_possible_cpu() to spawn rcuo kthreads, which can result in more rcuo kthreads than one would expect, for example, derRichard reported 64 CPUs worth of rcuo kthreads on an 8-CPU image. This commit therefore creates rcuo kthreads only for those CPUs that actually come online. This was reported by derRichard on the OFTC IRC network. Reported-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16rcu: Rationalize kthread spawningPaul E. McKenney
Currently, RCU spawns kthreads from several different early_initcall() functions. Although this has served RCU well for quite some time, as more kthreads are added a more deterministic approach is required. This commit therefore causes all of RCU's early-boot kthreads to be spawned from a single early_initcall() function. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16rcu: Return false instead of 0 in rcu_nocb_adopt_orphan_cbs()Pranith Kumar
Return false instead of 0 in rcu_nocb_adopt_orphan_cbs() as this has bool as return type. Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16rcu: Use false for return in __call_rcu_nocb()Pranith Kumar
Return false instead of 0 in __call_rcu_nocb() as this has bool as return type. Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16rcu: Use true/false for return in rcu_nocb_adopt_orphan_cbs()Pranith Kumar
Return true/false in rcu_nocb_adopt_orphan_cbs() instead of 0/1 as this function has return type of bool. Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16rcu: Use true/false for return in __call_rcu_nocb()Pranith Kumar
Return true/false instead of 0/1 in __call_rcu_nocb() as this returns a bool type. Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16rcu: Check the return value of zalloc_cpumask_var()Pranith Kumar
This commit checks the return value of the zalloc_cpumask_var() used for allocating cpumask for rcu_nocb_mask. Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16rcu: Fix attempt to avoid unsolicited offloading of callbacksPaul E. McKenney
Commit b58cc46c5f6b (rcu: Don't offload callbacks unless specifically requested) failed to adjust the callback lists of the CPUs that are known to be no-CBs CPUs only because they are also nohz_full= CPUs. This failure can result in callbacks that are posted during early boot getting stranded on nxtlist for CPUs whose no-CBs property becomes apparent late, and there can also be spurious warnings about offline CPUs posting callbacks. This commit fixes these problems by adding an early-boot rcu_init_nohz() that properly initializes the no-CBs CPUs. Note that kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y or with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=n do not exhibit this bug. Neither do kernels booted without the nohz_full= boot parameter. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-07rcu: Per-CPU operation cleanups to rcu_*_qs() functionsPaul E. McKenney
The rcu_bh_qs(), rcu_preempt_qs(), and rcu_sched_qs() functions use old-style per-CPU variable access and write to ->passed_quiesce even if it is already set. This commit therefore updates to use the new-style per-CPU variable access functions and avoids the spurious writes. This commit also eliminates the "cpu" argument to these functions because they are always invoked on the indicated CPU. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07rcu: Remove local_irq_disable() in rcu_preempt_note_context_switch()Paul E. McKenney
The rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() function is on a scheduling fast path, so it would be good to avoid disabling irqs. The reason that irqs are disabled is to synchronize process-level and irq-handler access to the task_struct ->rcu_read_unlock_special bitmask. This commit therefore makes ->rcu_read_unlock_special instead be a union of bools with a short allowing single-access checks in RCU's __rcu_read_unlock(). This results in the process-level and irq-handler accesses being simple loads and stores, so that irqs need no longer be disabled. This commit therefore removes the irq disabling from rcu_preempt_note_context_switch(). Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07rcu: Make TASKS_RCU handle nohz_full= CPUsPaul E. McKenney
Currently TASKS_RCU would ignore a CPU running a task in nohz_full= usermode execution. There would be neither a context switch nor a scheduling-clock interrupt to tell TASKS_RCU that the task in question had passed through a quiescent state. The grace period would therefore extend indefinitely. This commit therefore makes RCU's dyntick-idle subsystem record the task_struct structure of the task that is running in dyntick-idle mode on each CPU. The TASKS_RCU grace period can then access this information and record a quiescent state on behalf of any CPU running in dyntick-idle usermode. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07rcu: Provide cond_resched_rcu_qs() to force quiescent states in long loopsPaul E. McKenney
RCU-tasks requires the occasional voluntary context switch from CPU-bound in-kernel tasks. In some cases, this requires instrumenting cond_resched(). However, there is some reluctance to countenance unconditionally instrumenting cond_resched() (see http://lwn.net/Articles/603252/), so this commit creates a separate cond_resched_rcu_qs() that may be used in place of cond_resched() in locations prone to long-duration in-kernel looping. This commit currently instruments only RCU-tasks. Future possibilities include also instrumenting RCU, RCU-bh, and RCU-sched in order to reduce IPI usage. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07rcu: Replace flush_signals() with WARN_ON(signal_pending())Paul E. McKenney
Currently, when RCU awakens from a wait_event_interruptible() that might have awakened prematurely, it does a flush_signals(). This is done on the off-chance that someone figured out how to deliver a signal to a kthread, which is supposed to be impossible. Given that this is supposed to be impossible, this commit changes the flush_signals() calls into WARN_ON(signal_pending()). Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07rcu: Break more call_rcu() deadlock involving scheduler and perfPaul E. McKenney
Commit 96d3fd0d315a9 (rcu: Break call_rcu() deadlock involving scheduler and perf) covered the case where __call_rcu_nocb_enqueue() needs to wake the rcuo kthread due to the queue being initially empty, but did not do anything for the case where the queue was overflowing. This commit therefore also defers wakeup for the overflow case. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07rcu: Return bool type for rcu_try_advance_all_cbs()Pranith Kumar
Return a bool type instead of 0 in rcu_try_advance_all_cbs(). Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07rcu: Fix sparse warning about rcu_batches_completed_preempt() being non-staticPranith Kumar
fix sparse warning about rcu_batches_completed_preempt() being non-static by marking it as static Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07rcu: Remove remaining read-modify-write ACCESS_ONCE() callsPranith Kumar
Change the remaining uses of ACCESS_ONCE() so that each ACCESS_ONCE() either does a load or a store, but not both. Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-08-28rcu: Make nocb leader kthreads process pending callbacks after spawningPranith Kumar
The nocb callbacks generated before the nocb kthreads are spawned are enqueued in the nocb queue for later processing. Commit fbce7497ee5af ("rcu: Parallelize and economize NOCB kthread wakeups") introduced nocb leader kthreads which checked the nocb_leader_wake flag to see if there were any such pending callbacks. A case was reported in which newly spawned leader kthreads were not processing the pending callbacks as this flag was not set, which led to a boot hang. The following commit ensures that the newly spawned nocb kthreads process the pending callbacks by allowing the kthreads to run immediately after spawning instead of waiting. This is done by inverting the logic of nocb_leader_wake tests to nocb_leader_sleep which allows us to use the default initialization of this flag to 0 to let the kthreads run. Reported-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> Link: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1802899.html [ paulmck: Backported to v3.17-rc2. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
2014-07-16rcu: Allow for NULL tick_nohz_full_mask when nohz_full= missingPaul E. McKenney
If there isn't a nohz_full= kernel parameter specified, then tick_nohz_full_mask can legitimately be NULL. This can cause problems when RCU's boot code tries to cpumask_or() this value into rcu_nocb_mask. In addition, if NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y, there is no point in doing the cpumask_or() in the first place because this will cause RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y, which in turn will have all bits already set in rcu_nocb_mask. This commit therefore avoids the cpumask_or() if NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y and checks for !tick_nohz_full_running otherwise, this latter check catching cases when there was no nohz_full= kernel parameter specified. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-09Merge branches 'doc.2014.07.08a', 'fixes.2014.07.09a', ↵Paul E. McKenney
'maintainers.2014.07.08b', 'nocbs.2014.07.07a' and 'torture.2014.07.07a' into HEAD doc.2014.07.08a: Documentation updates. fixes.2014.07.09a: Miscellaneous fixes. maintainers.2014.07.08b: Maintainership updates. nocbs.2014.07.07a: Callback-offloading fixes. torture.2014.07.07a: Torture-test updates.
2014-07-09rcu: Fix a sparse warning in rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp()Pranith Kumar
This commit annotates rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() in order to fix the following sparse warning: kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:990:13: warning: context imbalance in 'rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp' - unexpected unlock Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-09rcu: Fix a sparse warning in rcu_initiate_boost()Pranith Kumar
This commit annotates rcu_initiate_boost() fixes the following sparse warning: kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:1494:13: warning: context imbalance in 'rcu_initiate_boost' - unexpected unlock Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-09rcu: Bind grace-period kthreads to non-NO_HZ_FULL CPUsPaul E. McKenney
Binding the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping CPU resulted in significant performance decreases for some workloads. For more detail, see: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/3/395 for benchmark numbers https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/4/218 for CPU statistics It turns out that it is necessary to bind the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping CPU only when all but CPU 0 is a nohz_full CPU on the one hand or if CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=y on the other. In other cases, it suffices to bind the grace-period kthreads to the set of non-nohz_full CPUs. This commit therefore creates a tick_nohz_not_full_mask that is the complement of tick_nohz_full_mask, and then binds the grace-period kthread to the set of CPUs indicated by this new mask, which covers the CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=n case. The CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=y case still binds the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping CPU. This commit also includes the tick_nohz_full_enabled() check suggested by Frederic Weisbecker. Reported-by: Jet Chen <jet.chen@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Created housekeeping_affine() and housekeeping_mask per fweisbec feedback. ]
2014-07-09rcu: Simplify priority boosting by putting rt_mutex in rcu_nodePaul E. McKenney
RCU priority boosting currently checks for boosting via a pointer in task_struct. However, this is not needed: As Oleg noted, if the rt_mutex is placed in the rcu_node instead of on the booster's stack, the boostee can simply check it see if it owns the lock. This commit makes this change, shrinking task_struct by one pointer and the kernel by thirteen lines. Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-09rcu: Allow post-unlock reference for rt_mutexPaul E. McKenney
The current approach to RCU priority boosting uses an rt_mutex strictly for its priority-boosting side effects. The rt_mutex_init_proxy_locked() function is used by the booster to initialize the lock as held by the boostee. The booster then uses rt_mutex_lock() to acquire this rt_mutex, which priority-boosts the boostee. When the boostee reaches the end of its outermost RCU read-side critical section, it checks a field in its task structure to see whether it has been boosted, and, if so, uses rt_mutex_unlock() to release the rt_mutex. The booster can then go on to boost the next task that is blocking the current RCU grace period. But reasonable implementations of rt_mutex_unlock() might result in the boostee referencing the rt_mutex's data after releasing it. But the booster might have re-initialized the rt_mutex between the time that the boostee released it and the time that it later referenced it. This is clearly asking for trouble, so this commit introduces a completion that forces the booster to wait until the boostee has completely finished with the rt_mutex, thus avoiding the case where the booster is re-initializing the rt_mutex before the last boostee's last reference to that rt_mutex. This of course does introduce some overhead, but the priority-boosting code paths are miles from any possible fastpath, and the overhead of executing the completion will normally be quite small compared to the overhead of priority boosting and deboosting, so this should be OK. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-09rcu: Remove redundant ACCESS_ONCE() from tick_do_timer_cpuPaul E. McKenney
In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL, tick_do_timer_cpu is constant once boot completes. Thus, there is no need to wrap it in ACCESS_ONCE() in code that is built only when CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL. This commit therefore removes the redundant ACCESS_ONCE(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-07rcu: Don't offload callbacks unless specifically requestedPaul E. McKenney
Enabling NO_HZ_FULL currently has the side effect of enabling callback offloading on all CPUs. This results in lots of additional rcuo kthreads, and can also increase context switching and wakeups, even in cases where callback offloading is neither needed nor particularly desirable. This commit therefore enables callback offloading on a given CPU only if specifically requested at build time or boot time, or if that CPU has been specifically designated (again, either at build time or boot time) as a nohz_full CPU. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>