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Impact: build fix for all non-x86 architectures
We want to remove percpu.h from rcuclassic.h/rcutree.h (for upcoming
kmemtrace changes) but that would break the DECLARE_PER_CPU based
declarations in these files.
Move the quiescent counter management functions to their respective
RCU implementation .c files - they were slightly above the inlining
limit anyway.
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
LKML-Reference: <1237898630.25315.83.camel@penberg-laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This patch fixes a bug located by Vegard Nossum with the aid of
kmemcheck, updated based on review comments from Nick Piggin,
Ingo Molnar, and Andrew Morton. And cleans up the variable-name
and function-name language. ;-)
The boot CPU runs in the context of its idle thread during boot-up.
During this time, idle_cpu(0) will always return nonzero, which will
fool Classic and Hierarchical RCU into deciding that a large chunk of
the boot-up sequence is a big long quiescent state. This in turn causes
RCU to prematurely end grace periods during this time.
This patch changes the rcutree.c and rcuclassic.c rcu_check_callbacks()
function to ignore the idle task as a quiescent state until the
system has started up the scheduler in rest_init(), introducing a
new non-API function rcu_idle_now_means_idle() to inform RCU of this
transition. RCU maintains an internal rcu_idle_cpu_truthful variable
to track this state, which is then used by rcu_check_callback() to
determine if it should believe idle_cpu().
Because this patch has the effect of disallowing RCU grace periods
during long stretches of the boot-up sequence, this patch also introduces
Josh Triplett's UP-only optimization that makes synchronize_rcu() be a
no-op if num_online_cpus() returns 1. This allows boot-time code that
calls synchronize_rcu() to proceed normally. Note, however, that RCU
callbacks registered by call_rcu() will likely queue up until later in
the boot sequence. Although rcuclassic and rcutree can also use this
same optimization after boot completes, rcupreempt must restrict its
use of this optimization to the portion of the boot sequence before the
scheduler starts up, given that an rcupreempt RCU read-side critical
section may be preeempted.
In addition, this patch takes Nick Piggin's suggestion to make the
system_state global variable be __read_mostly.
Changes since v4:
o Changes the name of the introduced function and variable to
be less emotional. ;-)
Changes since v3:
o WARN_ON(nr_context_switches() > 0) to verify that RCU
switches out of boot-time mode before the first context
switch, as suggested by Nick Piggin.
Changes since v2:
o Created rcu_blocking_is_gp() internal-to-RCU API that
determines whether a call to synchronize_rcu() is itself
a grace period.
o The definition of rcu_blocking_is_gp() for rcuclassic and
rcutree checks to see if but a single CPU is online.
o The definition of rcu_blocking_is_gp() for rcupreempt
checks to see both if but a single CPU is online and if
the system is still in early boot.
This allows rcupreempt to again work correctly if running
on a single CPU after booting is complete.
o Added check to rcupreempt's synchronize_sched() for there
being but one online CPU.
Tested all three variants both SMP and !SMP, booted fine, passed a short
rcutorture test on both x86 and Power.
Located-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: reduce memory footprint
add __cpuinit to rcu_init_percpu_data(), and this function's text
will be discarded after boot when !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: cleanup
This warning:
kernel/rcuclassic.c: In function ‘rcu_start_batch’:
kernel/rcuclassic.c:397: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘cpumask_andnot’ from incompatible pointer type
triggers because one usage site of rcp->cpumask was not converted
to to_cpumask(rcp->cpumask). There's no ill effects of this bug.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask into merge-rr-cpumask
Conflicts:
arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
kernel/rcuclassic.c
kernel/sched.c
kernel/time/tick-sched.c
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
[ mingo@elte.hu: backmerged typo fix for io_apic.c ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: use new cpumask API.
rcu_ctrlblk contains a cpumask, and it's highly optimized so I don't want
a cpumask_var_t (ie. a pointer) for the CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK case. It
could use a dangling bitmap, and be allocated in __rcu_init to save memory,
but for the moment we use a bitmap.
(Eventually 'struct cpumask' will be undefined for CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK,
so we use a bitmap here to show we really mean it).
We remove on-stack cpumasks, using cpumask_var_t for
rcu_torture_shuffle_tasks() and for_each_cpu_and in force_quiescent_state().
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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Impact: (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS.
Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS. cpumask_var_t
is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Impact: change debug printout
Change "RCU detected CPU stall" to "INFO: RCU detected CPU stall"
message, to make it easier for tools to pick up the warning.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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fix the !CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR path:
kernel/rcuclassic.c: In function '__rcu_pending':
kernel/rcuclassic.c:609: error: too few arguments to function 'check_cpu_stall'
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This patch adds stalled-CPU detection to Classic RCU. This capability
is enabled by a new config variable CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR, which
defaults disabled.
This is a debugging feature to detect infinite loops in kernel code, not
something that non-kernel-hackers would be expected to care about.
This feature can detect looping CPUs in !PREEMPT builds and looping CPUs
with preemption disabled in PREEMPT builds. This is essentially a port of
this functionality from the treercu patch, replacing the stall debug patch
that is already in tip/core/rcu (commit 67182ae1c4).
The changes from the patch in tip/core/rcu include making the config
variable name match that in treercu, changing from seconds to jiffies to
avoid spurious warnings, and printing a boot message when this feature
is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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kernel/rcuclassic.c:564:18: warning: symbol 'flags' shadows an earlier one
kernel/rcuclassic.c:527:16: originally declared here
Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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CC kernel/rcuclassic.o
kernel/rcuclassic.c: In function 'rcu_init_percpu_data':
kernel/rcuclassic.c:705: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
kernel/rcuclassic.c:713: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
flags should be unsigned long.
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Some earlier tip/core/rcu patches caused RCU to incorrectly enable irqs
too early in boot. This caused Yinghai's repeated-kexec testing to
hit oopses, presumably due to so that device interrupts left over from
the prior kernel instance (which would oops the newly booting kernel
before it got a chance to reset said devices). This patch therefore
converts all the local_irq_disable()s in rcuclassic.c to local_irq_save().
Besides, I never did like local_irq_disable() anyway. ;-)
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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fix:
CC kernel/rcuclassic.o
kernel/rcuclassic.c: In function '__rcu_process_callbacks':
kernel/rcuclassic.c:561: error: 'flags' undeclared (first use in this function)
kernel/rcuclassic.c:561: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
kernel/rcuclassic.c:561: error: for each function it appears in.)
Declare missing variable flags.
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Given that the rcp->lock is now acquired from call_rcu(), which can be
invoked from irq-disable regions, all acquisitions need to disable irqs.
The following patch fixes this.
Although I don't have any reason to believe that this is the cause of
Yinghai's oops, it does need to be fixed.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 04:24:30PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> Paul,
>
> one of your two recent RCU patches caused this lockdep splat in -tip
> testing:
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> ------------------->
> Brought up 2 CPUs
> Total of 2 processors activated (6850.87 BogoMIPS).
> PM: Adding info for No Bus:platform
> khelper used greatest stack depth: 3124 bytes left
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> =================================
> [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
> 2.6.27-rc3-tip #1
> ---------------------------------
> inconsistent {softirq-on-W} -> {in-softirq-W} usage.
> ksoftirqd/0/4 [HC0[0]:SC1[1]:HE1:SE0] takes:
> (&rcu_ctrlblk.lock){-+..}, at: [<c016d91c>] __rcu_process_callbacks+0x1ac/0x1f0
> {softirq-on-W} state was registered at:
> [<c01528e4>] __lock_acquire+0x3f4/0x5b0
> [<c0152b29>] lock_acquire+0x89/0xc0
> [<c076142b>] _spin_lock+0x3b/0x70
> [<c016d649>] rcu_init_percpu_data+0x29/0x80
> [<c075e43f>] rcu_cpu_notify+0xaf/0xd0
> [<c076458d>] notifier_call_chain+0x2d/0x60
> [<c0145ede>] __raw_notifier_call_chain+0x1e/0x30
> [<c075db29>] _cpu_up+0x79/0x110
> [<c075dc0d>] cpu_up+0x4d/0x70
> [<c0a769e1>] kernel_init+0xb1/0x200
> [<c01048a3>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
> [<ffffffff>] 0xffffffff
> irq event stamp: 14
> hardirqs last enabled at (14): [<c01534db>] trace_hardirqs_on+0xb/0x10
> hardirqs last disabled at (13): [<c014dbeb>] trace_hardirqs_off+0xb/0x10
> softirqs last enabled at (0): [<c012b186>] copy_process+0x276/0x1190
> softirqs last disabled at (11): [<c0105c0a>] call_on_stack+0x1a/0x30
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> other info that might help us debug this:
> no locks held by ksoftirqd/0/4.
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> stack backtrace:
> Pid: 4, comm: ksoftirqd/0 Not tainted 2.6.27-rc3-tip #1
> [<c01504dc>] print_usage_bug+0x16c/0x1b0
> [<c0152455>] mark_lock+0xa75/0xb10
> [<c0108b75>] ? sched_clock+0x15/0x30
> [<c015289d>] __lock_acquire+0x3ad/0x5b0
> [<c0152b29>] lock_acquire+0x89/0xc0
> [<c016d91c>] ? __rcu_process_callbacks+0x1ac/0x1f0
> [<c076142b>] _spin_lock+0x3b/0x70
> [<c016d91c>] ? __rcu_process_callbacks+0x1ac/0x1f0
> [<c016d91c>] __rcu_process_callbacks+0x1ac/0x1f0
> [<c016d986>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x26/0x50
> [<c0132305>] __do_softirq+0x95/0x120
> [<c0132270>] ? __do_softirq+0x0/0x120
> [<c0105c0a>] call_on_stack+0x1a/0x30
> [<c0132426>] ? ksoftirqd+0x96/0x110
> [<c0132390>] ? ksoftirqd+0x0/0x110
> [<c01411f7>] ? kthread+0x47/0x80
> [<c01411b0>] ? kthread+0x0/0x80
> [<c01048a3>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
> =======================
> calling init_cpufreq_transition_notifier_list+0x0/0x20
> initcall init_cpufreq_transition_notifier_list+0x0/0x20 returned 0 after 0 msecs
> calling net_ns_init+0x0/0x190
> net_namespace: 676 bytes
> initcall net_ns_init+0x0/0x190 returned 0 after 0 msecs
> calling cpufreq_tsc+0x0/0x20
> initcall cpufreq_tsc+0x0/0x20 returned 0 after 0 msecs
> calling reboot_init+0x0/0x20
> initcall reboot_init+0x0/0x20 returned 0 after 0 msecs
> calling print_banner+0x0/0x10
> Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
>
> <-----------------------
>
> my guess is on:
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> commit 1f7b94cd3d564901f9e04a8bc5832ae7bfd690a0
> Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Date: Tue Aug 5 09:21:44 2008 -0700
>
> rcu: classic RCU locking and memory-barrier cleanups
>
> Ingo
Fixes a problem detected by lockdep in which rcu->lock was acquired
both in irq context and in process context, but without disabling from
process context.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This patch simplifies the locking and memory-barrier usage in the Classic
RCU grace-period-detection mechanism, incorporating Lai Jiangshan's
feedback from the earlier version (http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/1/400
and http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/3/43). Passed 10 hours of
rcutorture concurrent with CPUs being put online and taken offline on
a 128-hardware-thread Power machine. My apologies to whoever in the
Eastern Hemisphere was planning to use this machine over the Western
Hemisphere night, but it was sitting idle and...
So this is ready for tip/core/rcu.
This patch is in preparation for moving to a hierarchical
algorithm to allow the very large SMP machines -- requested by some
people at OLS, and there seem to have been a few recent patches in the
4096-CPU direction as well. The general idea is to move to a much more
conservative concurrency design, then apply a hierarchy to reduce
contention on the global lock by a few orders of magnitude (larger
machines would see greater reductions). The reason for taking a
conservative approach is that this code isn't on any fast path.
Prototype in progress.
This patch is against the linux-tip git tree (tip/core/rcu). If you
wish to test this against 2.6.26, use the following set of patches:
http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/patches/2.6.26-ljsimp-1.patch
http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/patches/2.6.26-ljsimpfix-3.patch
The first patch combines commits 5127bed588a2f8f3a1f732de2a8a190b7df5dce3
and 3cac97cbb14aed00d83eb33d4613b0fe3aaea863 from Lai Jiangshan
<laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>, and the second patch contains my changes.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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One small change needed to keep from flooding the console when one
CPU notices that another is AWOL. Unless I am missing something subtle.
Otherwise the cleanups look good!
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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small cleanups.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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this is a diagnostic patch for Classic RCU.
The approach is to record a timestamp at the beginning
of the grace period (in rcu_start_batch()), then have
rcu_check_callbacks() complain if:
1. it is running on a CPU that has holding up grace periods for
a long time (say one second). This will identify the culprit
assuming that the culprit has not disabled hardware irqs,
instruction execution, or some such.
2. it is running on a CPU that is not holding up grace periods,
but grace periods have been held up for an even longer time
(say two seconds).
It is enabled via the default-off CONFIG_DEBUG_RCU_STALL kernel parameter.
Rather than exponential backoff, it backs off to once per 30 seconds.
My feeling upon thinking on it was that if you have stalled RCU grace
periods for that long, a few extra printk() messages are probably the
least of your worries...
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>
Cc: David Witbrodt <dawitbro@sbcglobal.net>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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This is v2, it's a little deference from v1 that I
had send to lkml.
use ACCESS_ONCE
use rcu_batch_after/rcu_batch_before for batch # comparison.
rcutorture test result:
(hotplugs: do cpu-online/offline once per second)
No CONFIG_NO_HZ: OK, 12hours
No CONFIG_NO_HZ, hotplugs: OK, 12hours
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y: OK, 24hours
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y, hotplugs: Failed.
(Failed also without my patch applied, exactly the same bug occurred,
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/3/24)
v1's email thread:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/2/539
v1's description:
The code/algorithm of the implement of current callbacks-processing
is very efficient and technical. But when I studied it and I found
a disadvantage:
In multi-CPU systems, when a new RCU callback is being
queued(call_rcu[_bh]), this callback will be invoked after the grace
period for the batch with batch number = rcp->cur+2 has completed
very very likely in current implement. Actually, this callback can be
invoked after the grace period for the batch with
batch number = rcp->cur+1 has completed. The delay of invocation means
that latency of synchronize_rcu() is extended. But more important thing
is that the callbacks usually free memory, and these works are delayed
too! it's necessary for reclaimer to free memory as soon as
possible when left memory is few.
A very simple way can solve this problem:
a field(struct rcu_head::batch) is added to record the batch number for
the RCU callback. And when a new RCU callback is being queued, we
determine the batch number for this callback(head->batch = rcp->cur+1)
and we move this callback to rdp->donelist if we find
that head->batch <= rcp->completed when we process callbacks.
This simple way reduces the wait time for invocation a lot. (about
2.5Grace Period -> 1.5Grace Period in average in multi-CPU systems)
This is my algorithm. But I do not add any field for struct rcu_head
in my implement. We just need to memorize the last 2 batches and
their batch number, because these 2 batches include all entries that
for whom the grace period hasn't completed. So we use a special
linked-list rather than add a field.
Please see the comment of struct rcu_data.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Gautham Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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use a batch number(rcp->pending) instead of a flag(rcp->next_pending)
rcu_start_batch() need to change this flag, so mb()s is needed
for memory-access safe.
but(after this patch applied) rcu_start_batch() do not change
this batch number(rcp->pending), rcp->pending is managed by
__rcu_process_callbacks only, and troublesome mb()s are eliminated.
And codes look simpler and clearer.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Gautham Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Conflicts:
arch/x86/xen/smp.c
kernel/sched_rt.c
net/iucv/iucv.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core/softirq' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
softirq: remove irqs_disabled warning from local_bh_enable
softirq: remove initialization of static per-cpu variable
Remove argument from open_softirq which is always NULL
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When callbacks are moved from offline cpu to this cpu,
the qlen field of this rdp should be updated.
[ Paul E. McKenney: ]
The effect of this bug would be for force_quiescent_state() to be invoked
when it should not and vice versa -- wasting cycles in the first case
and letting RCU callbacks remain piled up in the second case. The bug
is thus "benign" in that it does not result in premature grace-period
termination, but should of course be fixed nonetheless.
Preemption is disabled by the caller's get_cpu_var(), so we are guaranteed
to remain on the same CPU, as required. The local_irq_disable() is indeed
needed, otherwise, an interrupt might invoke call_rcu() or call_rcu_bh(),
which could cause that interrupt's increment of ->qlen to be lost.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Conflicts:
include/linux/rculist.h
kernel/rcupreempt.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Dhaval Giani reported this warning during cpu hotplug stress-tests:
| On running kernel compiles in parallel with cpu hotplug:
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| WARNING: at arch/x86/kernel/smp.c:118
| native_smp_send_reschedule+0x21/0x36()
| Modules linked in:
| Pid: 27483, comm: cc1 Not tainted 2.6.26-rc7 #1
| [...]
| [<c0110355>] native_smp_send_reschedule+0x21/0x36
| [<c014fe8f>] force_quiescent_state+0x47/0x57
| [<c014fef0>] call_rcu+0x51/0x6d
| [<c01713b3>] __fput+0x130/0x158
| [<c0171231>] fput+0x17/0x19
| [<c016fd99>] filp_close+0x4d/0x57
| [<c016fdff>] sys_close+0x5c/0x97
IMHO the warning is a spurious one.
cpu_online_map is updated by the _cpu_down() using stop_machine_run().
Since force_quiescent_state is invoked from irqs disabled section,
stop_machine_run() won't be executing while a cpu is executing
force_quiescent_state(). Hence the cpu_online_map is stable while we're
in the irq disabled section.
However, a cpu might have been offlined _just_ before we disabled irqs
while entering force_quiescent_state(). And rcu subsystem might not yet
have handled the CPU_DEAD notification, leading to the offlined cpu's
bit being set in the rcp->cpumask.
Hence cpumask = (rcp->cpumask & cpu_online_map) to prevent sending
smp_reschedule() to an offlined CPU.
Here's the timeline:
CPU_A CPU_B
--------------------------------------------------------------
cpu_down(): .
. .
. .
stop_machine(): /* disables preemption, .
* and irqs */ .
. .
. .
take_cpu_down(); .
. .
. .
. .
cpu_disable(); /*this removes cpu .
*from cpu_online_map .
*/ .
. .
. .
restart_machine(); /* enables irqs */ .
------WINDOW DURING WHICH rcp->cpumask is stale ---------------
. call_rcu();
. /* disables irqs here */
. .force_quiescent_state();
.CPU_DEAD: .for_each_cpu(rcp->cpumask)
. . smp_send_reschedule();
. .
. . WARN_ON() for offlined CPU!
.
.
.
rcu_cpu_notify:
.
-------- WINDOW ENDS ------------------------------------------
rcu_offline_cpu() /* Which calls cpu_quiet()
* which removes
* cpu from rcp->cpumask.
*/
If a new batch was started just before calling stop_machine_run(), the
"tobe-offlined" cpu is still present in rcp-cpumask.
During a cpu-offline, from take_cpu_down(), we queue an rt-prio idle
task as the next task to be picked by the scheduler. We also call
cpu_disable() which will disable any further interrupts and remove the
cpu's bit from the cpu_online_map.
Once the stop_machine_run() successfully calls take_cpu_down(), it calls
schedule(). That's the last time a schedule is called on the offlined
cpu, and hence the last time when rdp->passed_quiesc will be set to 1
through rcu_qsctr_inc().
But the cpu_quiet() will be on this cpu will be called only when the
next RCU_SOFTIRQ occurs on this CPU. So at this time, the offlined CPU
is still set in rcp->cpumask.
Now coming back to the idle_task which truely offlines the CPU, it does
check for a pending RCU and raises the softirq, since it will find
rdp->passed_quiesc to be 0 in this case. However, since the cpu is
offline I am not sure if the softirq will trigger on the CPU.
Even if it doesn't the rcu_offline_cpu() will find that rcp->completed
is not the same as rcp->cur, which means that our cpu could be holding
up the grace period progression. Hence we call cpu_quiet() and move
ahead.
But because of the window explained in the timeline, we could still have
a call_rcu() before the RCU subsystem executes it's CPU_DEAD
notification, and we send smp_send_reschedule() to offlined cpu while
trying to force the quiescent states. The appended patch adds comments
and prevents checking for offlined cpu everytime.
cpu_online_map is updated by the _cpu_down() using stop_machine_run().
Since force_quiescent_state is invoked from irqs disabled section,
stop_machine_run() won't be executing while a cpu is executing
force_quiescent_state(). Hence the cpu_online_map is stable while we're
in the irq disabled section.
Reported-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Rusty Russel <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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As git-grep shows, open_softirq() is always called with the last argument
being NULL
block/blk-core.c: open_softirq(BLOCK_SOFTIRQ, blk_done_softirq, NULL);
kernel/hrtimer.c: open_softirq(HRTIMER_SOFTIRQ, run_hrtimer_softirq, NULL);
kernel/rcuclassic.c: open_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ, rcu_process_callbacks, NULL);
kernel/rcupreempt.c: open_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ, rcu_process_callbacks, NULL);
kernel/sched.c: open_softirq(SCHED_SOFTIRQ, run_rebalance_domains, NULL);
kernel/softirq.c: open_softirq(TASKLET_SOFTIRQ, tasklet_action, NULL);
kernel/softirq.c: open_softirq(HI_SOFTIRQ, tasklet_hi_action, NULL);
kernel/timer.c: open_softirq(TIMER_SOFTIRQ, run_timer_softirq, NULL);
net/core/dev.c: open_softirq(NET_TX_SOFTIRQ, net_tx_action, NULL);
net/core/dev.c: open_softirq(NET_RX_SOFTIRQ, net_rx_action, NULL);
This observation has already been made by Matthew Wilcox in June 2002
(http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-25/0687.html)
"I notice that none of the current softirq routines use the data element
passed to them."
and the situation hasn't changed since them. So it appears we can safely
remove that extra argument to save 128 (54) bytes of kernel data (text).
Signed-off-by: Carlos R. Mafra <crmafra@ift.unesp.br>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Change references from for_each_cpu_mask to for_each_cpu_mask_nr
where appropriate
Reviewed-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Add comments to the logic that infers quiescent states when interrupting
from either user mode or the idle loop. Also add a memory barrier: it
appears that James Huang was in fact onto something, as the scheduler
is much less synchronization happy than it once was, so we can no longer
rely on its memory barriers in all cases.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reported-by: James Huang <jamesclhuang@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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This patch implements a new version of RCU which allows its read-side
critical sections to be preempted. It uses a set of counter pairs
to keep track of the read-side critical sections and flips them
when all tasks exit read-side critical section. The details
of this implementation can be found in this paper -
http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/OLSrtRCU.2006.08.11a.pdf
and the article-
http://lwn.net/Articles/253651/
This patch was developed as a part of the -rt kernel development and
meant to provide better latencies when read-side critical sections of
RCU don't disable preemption. As a consequence of keeping track of RCU
readers, the readers have a slight overhead (optimizations in the paper).
This implementation co-exists with the "classic" RCU implementations
and can be switched to at compiler.
Also includes RCU tracing summarized in debugfs.
[ akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes on non-preempt architectures ]
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Fix rcu_barrier() to work properly in preemptive kernel environment.
Also, the ordering of callback must be preserved while moving
callbacks to another CPU during CPU hotplug.
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This patch re-organizes the RCU code to enable multiple implementations
of RCU. Users of RCU continues to include rcupdate.h and the
RCU interfaces remain the same. This is in preparation for
subsequently merging the preemptible RCU implementation.
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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