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08-Sep-2023 |
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> |
rcu: Standardize explicit CPU-hotplug calls rcu_report_dead() and rcutree_migrate_callbacks() have their headers in rcupdate.h while those are pure rcutree calls, like the other CPU-hotplug functions. Also rcu_cpu_starting() and rcu_report_dead() have different naming conventions while they mirror each other's effects. Fix the headers and propose a naming that relates both functions and aligns with the prefix of other rcutree CPU-hotplug functions. Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
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05-Jul-2023 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Export rcu_request_urgent_qs_task() If a CPU is executing a long series of non-sleeping system calls, RCU grace periods can be delayed for on the order of a couple hundred milliseconds. This is normally not a problem, but if each system call does a call_rcu(), those callbacks can stack up. RCU will eventually notice this callback storm, but use of rcu_request_urgent_qs_task() allows the code invoking call_rcu() to give RCU a heads up. This function is not for general use, not yet, anyway. Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20230706033447.54696-11-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
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25-Oct-2022 |
Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> |
rcu: Refactor kvfree_call_rcu() and high-level helpers Currently a kvfree_call_rcu() takes an offset within a structure as a second parameter, so a helper such as a kvfree_rcu_arg_2() has to convert rcu_head and a freed ptr to an offset in order to pass it. That leads to an extra conversion on macro entry. Instead of converting, refactor the code in way that a pointer that has to be freed is passed directly to the kvfree_call_rcu(). This patch does not make any functional change and is transparent to all kvfree_rcu() users. Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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22-Nov-2022 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Make SRCU mandatory Kernels configured with CONFIG_PRINTK=n and CONFIG_SRCU=n get build failures. This causes trouble for deep embedded systems. But given that there are more than 25 instances of "select SRCU" in the kernel, it is hard to believe that there are many kernels running in production without SRCU. This commit therefore makes SRCU mandatory. The SRCU Kconfig option remains for backwards compatibility, and will be removed when it is no longer used. [ paulmck: Update per kernel test robot feedback. ] Reported-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Reported-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> # build-tested Reviewed-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
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25-Sep-2022 |
Yipeng Zou <zouyipeng@huawei.com> |
rcu: Remove rcu_is_idle_cpu() The commit 3fcd6a230fa7 ("x86/cpu: Avoid cpuinfo-induced IPIing of idle CPUs") introduced rcu_is_idle_cpu() in order to identify the current CPU idle state. But commit f3eca381bd49 ("x86/aperfmperf: Replace arch_freq_get_on_cpu()") switched to using MAX_SAMPLE_AGE, so rcu_is_idle_cpu() is no longer used. This commit therefore removes it. Fixes: f3eca381bd49 ("x86/aperfmperf: Replace arch_freq_get_on_cpu()") Signed-off-by: Yipeng Zou <zouyipeng@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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15-Sep-2022 |
Zeng Heng <zengheng4@huawei.com> |
rcu: Remove unused 'cpu' in rcu_virt_note_context_switch() This commit removes the unused function argument 'cpu'. This does not change functionality, but might save a cycle or two. Signed-off-by: Zeng Heng <zengheng4@huawei.com> Acked-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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24-Aug-2022 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Add functions to compare grace-period state values This commit adds same_state_synchronize_rcu() and same_state_synchronize_rcu_full() functions to compare grace-period state values, for example, those obtained from get_state_synchronize_rcu() and get_state_synchronize_rcu_full(). These functions allow small structures to omit these state values by placing them in list headers for lists containing structures with the same token value. Presumably the per-structure list pointers are the same ones used to link the structures into whatever reader-accessible data structure was used. This commit also adds both NUM_ACTIVE_RCU_POLL_OLDSTATE and NUM_ACTIVE_RCU_POLL_FULL_OLDSTATE, which define the maximum number of distinct unsigned long values and rcu_gp_oldstate values, respectively, corresponding to not-yet-completed grace periods. These values can be used to size arrays of the list headers described above. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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04-Aug-2022 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Add full-sized polling for cond_sync_exp_full() The cond_synchronize_rcu_expedited() API compresses the combined expedited and normal grace-period states into a single unsigned long, which conserves storage, but can miss grace periods in certain cases involving overlapping normal and expedited grace periods. Missing the occasional grace period is usually not a problem, but there are use cases that care about each and every grace period. This commit therefore adds yet another member of the full-state RCU grace-period polling API, which is the cond_synchronize_rcu_exp_full() function. This uses up to three times the storage (rcu_gp_oldstate structure instead of unsigned long), but is guaranteed not to miss grace periods. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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04-Aug-2022 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Add full-sized polling for cond_sync_full() The cond_synchronize_rcu() API compresses the combined expedited and normal grace-period states into a single unsigned long, which conserves storage, but can miss grace periods in certain cases involving overlapping normal and expedited grace periods. Missing the occasional grace period is usually not a problem, but there are use cases that care about each and every grace period. This commit therefore adds yet another member of the full-state RCU grace-period polling API, which is the cond_synchronize_rcu_full() function. This uses up to three times the storage (rcu_gp_oldstate structure instead of unsigned long), but is guaranteed not to miss grace periods. [ paulmck: Apply feedback from kernel test robot and Julia Lawall. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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03-Aug-2022 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Add full-sized polling for start_poll_expedited() The start_poll_synchronize_rcu_expedited() API compresses the combined expedited and normal grace-period states into a single unsigned long, which conserves storage, but can miss grace periods in certain cases involving overlapping normal and expedited grace periods. Missing the occasional grace period is usually not a problem, but there are use cases that care about each and every grace period. This commit therefore adds yet another member of the full-state RCU grace-period polling API, which is the start_poll_synchronize_rcu_expedited_full() function. This uses up to three times the storage (rcu_gp_oldstate structure instead of unsigned long), but is guaranteed not to miss grace periods. [ paulmck: Apply feedback from kernel test robot and Julia Lawall. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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02-Aug-2022 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Add full-sized polling for start_poll() The start_poll_synchronize_rcu() API compresses the combined expedited and normal grace-period states into a single unsigned long, which conserves storage, but can miss grace periods in certain cases involving overlapping normal and expedited grace periods. Missing the occasional grace period is usually not a problem, but there are use cases that care about each and every grace period. This commit therefore adds the next member of the full-state RCU grace-period polling API, namely the start_poll_synchronize_rcu_full() function. This uses up to three times the storage (rcu_gp_oldstate structure instead of unsigned long), but is guaranteed not to miss grace periods. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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28-Jul-2022 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Add full-sized polling for get_state() The get_state_synchronize_rcu() API compresses the combined expedited and normal grace-period states into a single unsigned long, which conserves storage, but can miss grace periods in certain cases involving overlapping normal and expedited grace periods. Missing the occasional grace period is usually not a problem, but there are use cases that care about each and every grace period. This commit therefore adds the next member of the full-state RCU grace-period polling API, namely the get_state_synchronize_rcu_full() function. This uses up to three times the storage (rcu_gp_oldstate structure instead of unsigned long), but is guaranteed not to miss grace periods. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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28-Jul-2022 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Add full-sized polling for get_completed*() and poll_state*() The get_completed_synchronize_rcu() and poll_state_synchronize_rcu() APIs compress the combined expedited and normal grace-period states into a single unsigned long, which conserves storage, but can miss grace periods in certain cases involving overlapping normal and expedited grace periods. Missing the occasional grace period is usually not a problem, but there are use cases that care about each and every grace period. This commit therefore adds the first members of the full-state RCU grace-period polling API, namely the get_completed_synchronize_rcu_full() and poll_state_synchronize_rcu_full() functions. These use up to three times the storage (rcu_gp_oldstate structure instead of unsigned long), but which are guaranteed not to miss grace periods, at least in situations where the single-CPU grace-period optimization does not apply. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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15-Apr-2022 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Add polled expedited grace-period primitives This commit adds expedited grace-period functionality to RCU's polled grace-period API, adding start_poll_synchronize_rcu_expedited() and cond_synchronize_rcu_expedited(), which are similar to the existing start_poll_synchronize_rcu() and cond_synchronize_rcu() functions, respectively. Note that although start_poll_synchronize_rcu_expedited() can be invoked very early, the resulting expedited grace periods are not guaranteed to start until after workqueues are fully initialized. On the other hand, both synchronize_rcu() and synchronize_rcu_expedited() can also be invoked very early, and the resulting grace periods will be taken into account as they occur. [ paulmck: Apply feedback from Neeraj Upadhyay. ] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220121142454.1994916-1-bfoster@redhat.com/ Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RNKWW9jQyfjxw2E8dsXVTdvZYh0HnYeSHDKog9jhdN8/edit?usp=sharing Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com> Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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27-May-2022 |
Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> |
rcu: tiny: Record kvfree_call_rcu() call stack for KASAN When running KASAN with Tiny RCU (e.g. under ARCH=um, where a working KASAN patch is now available), we don't get any information on the original kfree_rcu() (or similar) caller when a problem is reported, as Tiny RCU doesn't record this. Add the recording, which required pulling kvfree_call_rcu() out of line for the KASAN case since the recording function (kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc) is neither exported, nor can we include kasan.h into rcutiny.h. without KASAN, the patch has no size impact (ARCH=um kernel): text data bss dec hex filename 6151515 4423154 33148520 43723189 29b29b5 linux 6151515 4423154 33148520 43723189 29b29b5 linux + patch with KASAN, the impact on my build was minimal: text data bss dec hex filename 13915539 7388050 33282304 54585893 340ea25 linux 13911266 7392114 33282304 54585684 340e954 linux + patch -4273 +4064 +-0 -209 Acked-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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08-Jun-2022 |
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> |
rcu/context-tracking: Remove unused and/or unecessary middle functions Some eqs functions are now only used internally by context tracking, so their public declarations can be removed. Also middle functions such as rcu_user_*() and rcu_idle_*() which now directly call to rcu_eqs_enter() and rcu_eqs_exit() can be wiped out as well. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 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> Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenz@kernel.org> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com> Cc: Yu Liao <liaoyu15@huawei.com> Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker<paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Alex Belits <abelits@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com> Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
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08-Jun-2022 |
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> |
rcu/context-tracking: Remove rcu_irq_enter/exit() Now rcu_irq_enter/exit() is an unnecessary middle call between ct_irq_enter/exit() and nmi_irq_enter/exit(). Take this opportunity to remove the former functions and move the comments above them to the new entrypoints. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> 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> Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenz@kernel.org> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com> Cc: Yu Liao <liaoyu15@huawei.com> Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker<paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Alex Belits <abelits@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com> Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
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08-Feb-2022 |
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> |
tick/rcu: Remove obsolete rcu_needs_cpu() parameters With the removal of CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ, the parameters in rcu_needs_cpu() are not necessary anymore. Simply remove them. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
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27-Sep-2021 |
Changbin Du <changbin.du@intel.com> |
rcu: in_irq() cleanup This commit replaces the obsolete and ambiguous macro in_irq() with its shiny new in_hardirq() equivalent. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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18-May-2021 |
Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> |
rcu: Remove special bit at the bottom of the ->dynticks counter Commit b8c17e6664c4 ("rcu: Maintain special bits at bottom of ->dynticks counter") reserved a bit at the bottom of the ->dynticks counter to defer flushing of TLBs, but this facility never has been used. This commit therefore removes this capability along with the rcu_eqs_special_set() function used to trigger it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-doc/CALCETrWNPOOdTrFabTDd=H7+wc6xJ9rJceg6OL1S0rTV5pfSsA@mail.gmail.com/ Suggested-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@joelfernandes.org> [ paulmck: Forward-port to v5.13-rc1. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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30-Mar-2021 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Remove the unused rcu_irq_exit_preempt() function Commit 9ee01e0f69a9 ("x86/entry: Clean up idtentry_enter/exit() leftovers") left the rcu_irq_exit_preempt() in place in order to avoid conflicts with the -rcu tree. Now that this change has long since hit mainline, this commit removes the no-longer-used rcu_irq_exit_preempt() function. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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25-Feb-2021 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Provide polling interfaces for Tiny RCU grace periods There is a need for a non-blocking polling interface for RCU grace periods, so this commit supplies start_poll_synchronize_rcu() and poll_state_synchronize_rcu() for this purpose. Note that the existing get_state_synchronize_rcu() may be used if future grace periods are inevitable (perhaps due to a later call_rcu() invocation). The new start_poll_synchronize_rcu() is to be used if future grace periods might not otherwise happen. Finally, poll_state_synchronize_rcu() provides a lockless check for a grace period having elapsed since the corresponding call to either of the get_state_synchronize_rcu() or start_poll_synchronize_rcu(). As with get_state_synchronize_rcu(), the return value from either get_state_synchronize_rcu() or start_poll_synchronize_rcu() is passed in to a later call to either poll_state_synchronize_rcu() or the existing (might_sleep) cond_synchronize_rcu(). [ paulmck: Revert cond_synchronize_rcu() to might_sleep() per Frederic Weisbecker feedback. ] Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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03-Sep-2020 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
x86/cpu: Avoid cpuinfo-induced IPIing of idle CPUs Currently, accessing /proc/cpuinfo sends IPIs to idle CPUs in order to learn their clock frequency. Which is a bit strange, given that waking them from idle likely significantly changes their clock frequency. This commit therefore avoids sending /proc/cpuinfo-induced IPIs to idle CPUs. [ paulmck: Also check for idle in arch_freq_prepare_all(). ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <x86@kernel.org>
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17-Aug-2020 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Remove unused __rcu_is_watching() function The x86/entry work removed all uses of __rcu_is_watching(), therefore this commit removes it entirely. Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <x86@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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25-May-2020 |
Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> |
rcu: Support reclaim for head-less object Update the kvfree_call_rcu() function with head-less support. This allows RCU to reclaim objects without an embedded rcu_head. tree-RCU: We introduce two chains of arrays to store SLAB-backed and vmalloc pointers, each. Storage in either of these arrays does not require embedding an rcu_head within the object. Maintaining the arrays may become impossible due to high memory pressure. For such cases there is an emergency path. Objects with rcu_head inside are just queued on a backup rcu_head list. Later on that list is drained. As for the head-less variant, as the current context can sleep, the following emergency measures are applied: a) Synchronously wait until a grace period has elapsed. b) Call kvfree(). tiny-RCU: For double argument calls, there are no new changes in behavior. For single argument call, kvfree() is directly inlined on the current stack after a synchronize_rcu() call. Note that for tiny-RCU, any call to synchronize_rcu() is actually a quiescent state, therefore it does nothing. Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Co-developed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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25-May-2020 |
Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> |
rcu: Rename *_kfree_callback/*_kfree_rcu_offset/kfree_call_* The following changes are introduced: 1. Rename rcu_invoke_kfree_callback() to rcu_invoke_kvfree_callback(), as well as the associated trace events, so the rcu_kfree_callback(), becomes rcu_kvfree_callback(). The reason is to be aligned with kvfree() notation. 2. Rename __is_kfree_rcu_offset to __is_kvfree_rcu_offset. All RCU paths use kvfree() now instead of kfree(), thus rename it. 3. Rename kfree_call_rcu() to the kvfree_call_rcu(). The reason is, it is capable of freeing vmalloc() memory now. Do the same with __kfree_rcu() macro, it becomes __kvfree_rcu(), the goal is the same. Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Co-developed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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21-May-2020 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
rcu: Provide rcu_irq_exit_check_preempt() Provide a debug check which can be invoked from exception return to kernel mode before an attempt is made to schedule. Warn if RCU is not ready for this. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200521202117.089709607@linutronix.de
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12-May-2020 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
rcu: Provide __rcu_is_watching() Same as rcu_is_watching() but without the preempt_disable/enable() pair inside the function. It is merked noinstr so it ends up in the non-instrumentable text section. This is useful for non-preemptible code especially in the low level entry section. Using rcu_is_watching() there results in a call to the preempt_schedule_notrace() thunk which triggers noinstr section warnings in objtool. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200512213810.518709291@linutronix.de
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03-May-2020 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
rcu: Provide rcu_irq_exit_preempt() Interrupts and exceptions invoke rcu_irq_enter() on entry and need to invoke rcu_irq_exit() before they either return to the interrupted code or invoke the scheduler due to preemption. The general assumption is that RCU idle code has to have preemption disabled so that a return from interrupt cannot schedule. So the return from interrupt code invokes rcu_irq_exit() and preempt_schedule_irq(). If there is any imbalance in the rcu_irq/nmi* invocations or RCU idle code had preemption enabled then this goes unnoticed until the CPU goes idle or some other RCU check is executed. Provide rcu_irq_exit_preempt() which can be invoked from the interrupt/exception return code in case that preemption is enabled. It invokes rcu_irq_exit() and contains a few sanity checks in case that CONFIG_PROVE_RCU is enabled to catch such issues directly. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Alexandre Chartre <alexandre.chartre@oracle.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200505134904.364456424@linutronix.de
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16-Mar-2020 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu-tasks: Make RCU Tasks Trace make use of RCU scheduler hooks This commit makes the calls to rcu_tasks_qs() detect and report quiescent states for RCU tasks trace. If the task is in a quiescent state and if ->trc_reader_checked is not yet set, the task sets its own ->trc_reader_checked. This will cause the grace-period kthread to remove it from the holdout list if it still remains there. [ paulmck: Fix conditional compilation per kbuild test robot feedback. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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10-Apr-2020 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Add rcu_gp_might_be_stalled() This commit adds rcu_gp_might_be_stalled(), which returns true if there is some reason to believe that the RCU grace period is stalled. The use case is where an RCU free-memory path needs to allocate memory in order to free it, a situation that should be avoided where possible. But where it is necessary, there is always the alternative of using synchronize_rcu() to wait for a grace period in order to avoid the allocation. And if the grace period is stalled, allocating memory to asynchronously wait for it is a bad idea of epic proportions: Far better to let others use the memory, because these others might actually be able to free that memory before the grace period ends. Thus, rcu_gp_might_be_stalled() can be used to help decide whether allocating memory on an RCU free path is a semi-reasonable course of action. Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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28-Nov-2019 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcutorture: Suppress forward-progress complaints during early boot Some larger systems can take in excess of 50 seconds to complete their early boot initcalls prior to spawing init. This does not in any way help the forward-progress judgments of built-in rcutorture (when rcutorture is built as a module, the insmod or modprobe command normally cannot happen until some time after boot completes). This commit therefore suppresses such complaints until about the time that init is spawned. This also includes a fix to a stupid error located by kbuild test robot. [ paulmck: Apply kbuild test robot feedback. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> [ paulmck: Fix to nohz_full slow-expediting recovery logic, per bpetkov. ] [ paulmck: Restrict splat to CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels and simplify. ] Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
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29-Aug-2019 |
Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> |
rcu: Remove kfree_call_rcu_nobatch() Now that the kfree_rcu() special-casing has been removed from tree RCU, this commit removes kfree_call_rcu_nobatch() since it is no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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05-Aug-2019 |
Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> |
rcu: Add basic support for kfree_rcu() batching Recently a discussion about stability and performance of a system involving a high rate of kfree_rcu() calls surfaced on the list [1] which led to another discussion how to prepare for this situation. This patch adds basic batching support for kfree_rcu(). It is "basic" because we do none of the slab management, dynamic allocation, code moving or any of the other things, some of which previous attempts did [2]. These fancier improvements can be follow-up patches and there are different ideas being discussed in those regards. This is an effort to start simple, and build up from there. In the future, an extension to use kfree_bulk and possibly per-slab batching could be done to further improve performance due to cache-locality and slab-specific bulk free optimizations. By using an array of pointers, the worker thread processing the work would need to read lesser data since it does not need to deal with large rcu_head(s) any longer. Torture tests follow in the next patch and show improvements of around 5x reduction in number of grace periods on a 16 CPU system. More details and test data are in that patch. There is an implication with rcu_barrier() with this patch. Since the kfree_rcu() calls can be batched, and may not be handed yet to the RCU machinery in fact, the monitor may not have even run yet to do the queue_rcu_work(), there seems no easy way of implementing rcu_barrier() to wait for those kfree_rcu()s that are already made. So this means a kfree_rcu() followed by an rcu_barrier() does not imply that memory will be freed once rcu_barrier() returns. Another implication is higher active memory usage (although not run-away..) until the kfree_rcu() flooding ends, in comparison to without batching. More details about this are in the second patch which adds an rcuperf test. Finally, in the near future we will get rid of kfree_rcu() special casing within RCU such as in rcu_do_batch and switch everything to just batching. Currently we don't do that since timer subsystem is not yet up and we cannot schedule the kfree_rcu() monitor as the timer subsystem's lock are not initialized. That would also mean getting rid of kfree_call_rcu_nobatch() entirely. [1] http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190723035725-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org [2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/19/824 Cc: kernel-team@android.com Cc: kernel-team@lge.com Co-developed-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> [ paulmck: Applied 0day and Paul Walmsley feedback on ->monitor_todo. ] [ paulmck: Make it work during early boot. ] [ paulmck: Add a crude early boot self-test. ] [ paulmck: Style adjustments and experimental docbook structure header. ] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/alpine.DEB.2.21.9999.1908161931110.32497@viisi.sifive.com/T/#me9956f66cb611b95d26ae92700e1d901f46e8c59 Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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04-Aug-2019 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcutorture: Emulate dyntick aspect of userspace nohz_full sojourn During an actual call_rcu() flood, there would be frequent trips to userspace (in-kernel call_rcu() floods must be otherwise housebroken). Userspace execution on nohz_full CPUs implies an RCU dyntick idle/not-idle transition pair, so this commit adds emulation of that pair. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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21-Aug-2019 |
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> |
rcu: Don't include <linux/ktime.h> in rcutiny.h The kbuild reported a built failure due to a header loop when RCUTINY is enabled with my pending riscv-nommu port. Switch rcutiny.h to only include the minimal required header to get HZ instead. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
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17-Jan-2019 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
linux/rcutiny: Convert to SPDX license identifier Replace the license boiler plate with a SPDX license identifier. While in the area, update an email address. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Update .h SPDX format per Joe Perches. ] Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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03-Aug-2018 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Remove unused rcu_dynticks_snap() from Tiny RCU The rcu_dynticks_snap() function is defined in include/linux/rcutiny.h, but is no longer used by Tiny RCU. This commit therefore removes it. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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06-Jul-2018 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Consolidate RCU-sched update-side function definitions This commit saves a few lines by consolidating the RCU-sched function definitions at the end of include/linux/rcupdate.h. This consolidation also makes it easier to remove them all when the time comes. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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06-Jul-2018 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Consolidate RCU-bh update-side function definitions This commit saves a few lines by consolidating the RCU-bh function definitions at the end of include/linux/rcupdate.h. This consolidation also makes it easier to remove them all when the time comes. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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03-Jul-2018 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Express Tiny RCU updates in terms of RCU rather than RCU-sched 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. ]
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02-Jul-2018 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Define RCU-sched API in terms of RCU for Tree RCU PREEMPT builds 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>
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01-Jul-2018 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Define RCU-bh update API in terms of RCU 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>
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28-Jun-2018 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Apply RCU-bh QSes to RCU-sched and RCU-preempt when safe 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. ]
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21-Jun-2018 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Defer reporting RCU-preempt quiescent states when disabled 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(). ]
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18-Jul-2018 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcutorture: Add forward-progress tests for RCU grace periods 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>
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14-May-2018 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Improve RCU-tasks naming and comments 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>
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22-May-2018 |
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> |
rcu/x86: Provide early rcu_cpu_starting() callback 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. ]
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03-Oct-2017 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Eliminate rcu_irq_enter_disabled() Now that the irq path uses the rcu_nmi_{enter,exit}() algorithm, rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit() may be used from any context. There is thus no need for rcu_irq_enter_disabled() and for the checks using it. This commit therefore eliminates rcu_irq_enter_disabled(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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26-May-2017 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
srcu: Move rcu_scheduler_starting() from Tiny RCU to Tiny SRCU Other than lockdep support, Tiny RCU has no need for the scheduler status. However, Tiny SRCU will need this to control boot-time behavior independent of lockdep. Therefore, this commit moves rcu_scheduler_starting() from kernel/rcu/tiny_plugin.h to kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c. This in turn allows the complete removal of kernel/rcu/tiny_plugin.h. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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11-May-2017 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Remove #ifdef moving rcu_end_inkernel_boot from rcupdate.h This commit removes a #ifdef and saves a few lines of code by moving the rcu_end_inkernel_boot() function from include/linux/rcupdate.h to include/linux/rcutiny.h (for TINY_RCU) and to include/linux/rcutree.h (for TREE_RCU). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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03-May-2017 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Refactor #includes from include/linux/rcupdate.h The list of #includes from include/linux/rcupdate.h has grown quite a bit, so it is time to trim it. This commit moves the #include of include/linux/ktime.h to include/linux/rcutiny.h, along with the Tiny-RCU-only function that was the only thing needing ktimem.h. It then reconstructs the files included into include/linux/ktime.h based on what is actually needed, with significant help from the 0day Test Robot. This single change reduces the .i file footprint from rcupdate.h from 9018 lines to 7101 lines. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Move rcutiny.h to new empty/true/false-function style This commit saves a few lines in include/linux/rcutiny.h by moving to single-line definitions for empty functions, instead of the old style where the two curly braces each get their own line. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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03-May-2017 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Move rcu_request_urgent_qs_task() out of rcutiny.h and rcutree.h The rcu_request_urgent_qs_task() function is used only within RCU, so there is no point in exporting it to the rest of the kernel from nclude/linux/rcutiny.h and include/linux/rcutree.h. This commit therefore moves this function to kernel/rcu/rcu.h. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Move torture-related functions out of rcutiny.h and rcutree.h The various functions similar to rcu_batches_started(), the function show_rcu_gp_kthreads(), the various functions similar to rcu_force_quiescent_state(), and the variables rcutorture_testseq and rcutorture_vernum are used only within RCU. There is therefore no point in exporting them to the kernel at large from include/linux/rcutiny.h and include/linux/rcutree.h. This commit therefore moves all of these to kernel/rcu/rcu.h. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Eliminate the unused __rcu_is_watching() function The __rcu_is_watching() function is currently not used, aside from to implement the rcu_is_watching() function. This commit therefore eliminates __rcu_is_watching(), which has the beneficial side-effect of shrinking include/linux/rcupdate.h a bit. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Move torture-related definitions from rcupdate.h to rcu.h The include/linux/rcupdate.h file contains a number of definitions that are used only to communicate between rcutorture, rcuperf, and the RCU code itself. There is no point in having these definitions exposed globally throughout the kernel, so this commit moves them to kernel/rcu/rcu.h. This change has the added benefit of shrinking rcupdate.h. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Make non-preemptive schedule be Tasks RCU quiescent state Currently, a call to schedule() acts as a Tasks RCU quiescent state only if a context switch actually takes place. However, just the call to schedule() guarantees that the calling task has moved off of whatever tracing trampoline that it might have been one previously. This commit therefore plumbs schedule()'s "preempt" parameter into rcu_note_context_switch(), which then records the Tasks RCU quiescent state, but only if this call to schedule() was -not- due to a preemption. To avoid adding overhead to the common-case context-switch path, this commit hides the rcu_note_context_switch() check under an existing non-common-case check. Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
srcu: Allow SRCU to access rcu_scheduler_active This is primarily a code-movement commit in preparation for allowing SRCU to handle early-boot SRCU grace periods. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Maintain special bits at bottom of ->dynticks counter Currently, IPIs are used to force other CPUs to invalidate their TLBs in response to a kernel virtual-memory mapping change. This works, but degrades both battery lifetime (for idle CPUs) and real-time response (for nohz_full CPUs), and in addition results in unnecessary IPIs due to the fact that CPUs executing in usermode are unaffected by stale kernel mappings. It would be better to cause a CPU executing in usermode to wait until it is entering kernel mode to do the flush, first to avoid interrupting usemode tasks and second to handle multiple flush requests with a single flush in the case of a long-running user task. This commit therefore reserves a bit at the bottom of the ->dynticks counter, which is checked upon exit from extended quiescent states. If it is set, it is cleared and then a new rcu_eqs_special_exit() macro is invoked, which, if not supplied, is an empty single-pass do-while loop. If this bottom bit is set on -entry- to an extended quiescent state, then a WARN_ON_ONCE() triggers. This bottom bit may be set using a new rcu_eqs_special_set() function, which returns true if the bit was set, or false if the CPU turned out to not be in an extended quiescent state. Please note that this function refuses to set the bit for a non-nohz_full CPU when that CPU is executing in usermode because usermode execution is tracked by RCU as a dyntick-idle extended quiescent state only for nohz_full CPUs. Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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06-Feb-2017 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> |
rcu: Separate the RCU synchronization types and APIs into <linux/rcupdate_wait.h> So rcupdate.h is a pretty complex header, in particular it includes <linux/completion.h> which includes <linux/wait.h> - creating a dependency that includes <linux/wait.h> in <linux/sched.h>, which prevents the isolation of <linux/sched.h> from the derived <linux/wait.h> header. Solve part of the problem by decoupling rcupdate.h from completions: this can be done by separating out the rcu_synchronize types and APIs, and updating their usage sites. Since this is a mostly RCU-internal types this will not just simplify <linux/sched.h>'s dependencies, but will make all the hundreds of .c files that include rcupdate.h but not completions or wait.h build faster. ( For rcutiny this means that two dependent APIs have to be uninlined, but that shouldn't be much of a problem as they are rare variants. ) Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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02-Nov-2016 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Abstract extended quiescent state determination This commit is the fourth step towards full abstraction of all accesses to the ->dynticks counter, implementing previously open-coded checks and comparisons in new rcu_dynticks_in_eqs() and rcu_dynticks_in_eqs_since() functions. This abstraction will ease changes to the ->dynticks counter operation. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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13-Jul-2016 |
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> |
rcu: Convert rcutree to hotplug state machine Straight forward conversion to the state machine. Though the question arises whether this needs really all these state transitions to work. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: rt@linutronix.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160713153337.982013161@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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12-Jan-2016 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcutorture: Expedited-GP batch progress access to torturing This commit provides rcu_exp_batches_completed() and rcu_exp_batches_completed_sched() functions to allow torture-test modules to check how many expedited grace period batches have completed. These are analogous to the existing rcu_batches_completed(), rcu_batches_completed_bh(), and rcu_batches_completed_sched() functions. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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31-Oct-2015 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Don't redundantly disable irqs in rcu_irq_{enter,exit}() This commit replaces a local_irq_save()/local_irq_restore() pair with a lockdep assertion that interrupts are already disabled. This should remove the corresponding overhead from the interrupt entry/exit fastpaths. This change was inspired by the fact that Iftekhar Ahmed's mutation testing showed that removing rcu_irq_enter()'s call to local_ird_restore() had no effect, which might indicate that interrupts were always enabled anyway. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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30-Jul-2015 |
Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> |
rcu: Don't disable preemption for Tiny and Tree RCU readers Because preempt_disable() maps to barrier() for non-debug builds, it forces the compiler to spill and reload registers. Because Tree RCU and Tiny RCU now only appear in CONFIG_PREEMPT=n builds, these barrier() instances generate needless extra code for each instance of rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock(). This extra code slows down Tree RCU and bloats Tiny RCU. This commit therefore removes the preempt_disable() and preempt_enable() from the non-preemptible implementations of __rcu_read_lock() and __rcu_read_unlock(), respectively. However, for debug purposes, preempt_disable() and preempt_enable() are still invoked if CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, because this allows detection of sleeping inside atomic sections in non-preemptible kernels. However, Tiny and Tree RCU operates by coalescing all RCU read-side critical sections on a given CPU that lie between successive quiescent states. It is therefore necessary to compensate for removing barriers from __rcu_read_lock() and __rcu_read_unlock() by adding them to a couple of the RCU functions invoked during quiescent states, namely to rcu_all_qs() and rcu_note_context_switch(). However, note that the latter is more paranoia than necessity, at least until link-time optimizations become more aggressive. This is based on an earlier patch by Paul E. McKenney, fixing a bug encountered in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPT=n and CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y. Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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28-Jul-2015 |
Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> |
rcu: Use rcu_callback_t in call_rcu*() and friends As we now have rcu_callback_t typedefs as the type of rcu callbacks, we should use it in call_rcu*() and friends as the type of parameters. This could save us a few lines of code and make it clear which function requires an rcu callbacks rather than other callbacks as its argument. Besides, this can also help cscope to generate a better database for code reading. Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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30-May-2015 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Add RCU-sched flavors of get-state and cond-sync The get_state_synchronize_rcu() and cond_synchronize_rcu() functions allow polling for grace-period completion, with an actual wait for a grace period occurring only when cond_synchronize_rcu() is called too soon after the corresponding get_state_synchronize_rcu(). However, these functions work only for vanilla RCU. This commit adds the get_state_synchronize_sched() and cond_synchronize_sched(), which provide the same capability for RCU-sched. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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21-Apr-2015 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Further shrink Tiny RCU by making empty functions static inlines The Tiny RCU counterparts to rcu_idle_enter(), rcu_idle_exit(), rcu_irq_enter(), and rcu_irq_exit() are empty functions, but each has EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), which needlessly consumes extra memory, especially in kernels built with module support. This commit therefore moves these functions to static inlines in rcutiny.h, removing the need for exports. This won't affect the size of the tiniest kernels, which are likely built without module support, but might help semi-tiny kernels that might include module support. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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13-Dec-2014 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Make cond_resched_rcu_qs() apply to normal RCU flavors Although cond_resched_rcu_qs() only applies to TASKS_RCU, it is used in places where it would be useful for it to apply to the normal RCU flavors, rcu_preempt, rcu_sched, and rcu_bh. This is especially the case for workloads that aggressively overload the system, particularly those that generate large numbers of RCU updates on systems running NO_HZ_FULL CPUs. This commit therefore communicates quiescent states from cond_resched_rcu_qs() to the normal RCU flavors. Note that it is unfortunately necessary to leave the old ->passed_quiesce mechanism in place to allow quiescent states that apply to only one flavor to be recorded. (Yes, we could decrement ->rcu_qs_ctr_snap in that case, but that is not so good for debugging of RCU internals.) In addition, if one of the RCU flavor's grace period has stalled, this will invoke rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle(), resulting in a heavy-weight quiescent state visible from other CPUs. Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Merge commit from Sasha Levin fixing a bug where __this_cpu() was used in preemptible code. ]
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21-Nov-2014 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcutorture: Check from beginning to end of grace period Currently, rcutorture's Reader Batch checks measure from the end of the previous grace period to the end of the current one. This commit tightens up these checks by measuring from the start and end of the same grace period. This involves adding rcu_batches_started() and friends corresponding to the existing rcu_batches_completed() and friends. We leave SRCU alone for the moment, as it does not yet have a way of tracking both ends of its grace periods. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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21-Nov-2014 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Provide rcu_batches_completed_sched() for TINY_RCU A bug in rcutorture has caused it to ignore completed batches. In preparation for fixing that bug, this commit provides TINY_RCU with the required rcu_batches_completed_sched(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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21-Nov-2014 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Make _batches_completed() functions return unsigned long Long ago, the various ->completed fields were of type long, but now are unsigned long due to signed-integer-overflow concerns. However, the various _batches_completed() functions remained of type long, even though their only purpose in life is to return the corresponding ->completed field. This patch cleans this up by changing these functions' return types to unsigned long. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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21-Oct-2014 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_note_context_switch() 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>
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14-Aug-2014 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Per-CPU operation cleanups to rcu_*_qs() functions 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>
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12-Mar-2014 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcutorture: Export RCU grace-period kthread wait state to rcutorture This commit allows rcutorture to print additional state for the RCU grace-period kthreads in cases where RCU seems reluctant to start a new grace period. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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14-Mar-2014 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Provide grace-period piggybacking API The following pattern is currently not well supported by RCU: 1. Make data element inaccessible to RCU readers. 2. Do work that probably lasts for more than one grace period. 3. Do something to make sure RCU readers in flight before #1 above have completed. Here are some things that could currently be done: a. Do a synchronize_rcu() unconditionally at either #1 or #3 above. This works, but imposes needless work and latency. b. Post an RCU callback at #1 above that does a wakeup, then wait for the wakeup at #3. This works well, but likely results in an extra unneeded grace period. Open-coding this is also a bit more semi-tricky code than would be good. This commit therefore adds get_state_synchronize_rcu() and cond_synchronize_rcu() APIs. Call get_state_synchronize_rcu() at #1 above and pass its return value to cond_synchronize_rcu() at #3 above. This results in a call to synchronize_rcu() if no grace period has elapsed between #1 and #3, but requires only a load, comparison, and memory barrier if a full grace period did elapse. Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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17-Nov-2013 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Optimize rcu_needs_cpu() for RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL If CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y, then rcu_needs_cpu() will always return false, however, the current version nevertheless checks for RCU callbacks. This commit therefore creates a static inline implementation of rcu_needs_cpu() that unconditionally returns false when CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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03-Dec-2013 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Stop tracking FSF's postal address All of the RCU source files have the usual GPL header, which contains a long-obsolete postal address for FSF. To avoid the need to track the FSF office's movements, this commit substitutes the URL where GPL may be found. Reported-by: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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11-Nov-2013 |
Teodora Baluta <teobaluta@gmail.com> |
rcu: Remove "extern" from function declarations in include/linux/*rcu*.h Function prototypes don't need to have the "extern" keyword since this is the default behavior. Its explicit use is redundant. This commit therefore removes them. Signed-off-by: Teodora Baluta <teobaluta@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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13-Sep-2013 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Consistent rcu_is_watching() naming The old rcu_is_cpu_idle() function is just __rcu_is_watching() with preemption disabled. This commit therefore renames rcu_is_cpu_idle() to rcu_is_watching. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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06-Sep-2013 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Is it safe to enter an RCU read-side critical section? There is currently no way for kernel code to determine whether it is safe to enter an RCU read-side critical section, in other words, whether or not RCU is paying attention to the currently running CPU. Given the large and increasing quantity of code shared by the idle loop and non-idle code, the this shortcoming is becoming increasingly painful. This commit therefore adds __rcu_is_watching(), which returns true if it is safe to enter an RCU read-side critical section on the currently running CPU. This function is quite fast, using only a __this_cpu_read(). However, the caller must disable preemption. Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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11-Apr-2013 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Shrink TINY_RCU by moving exit_rcu() Now that TINY_PREEMPT_RCU is no more, exit_rcu() is always an empty function. But if TINY_RCU is going to have an empty function, it should be in include/linux/rcutiny.h, where it does not bloat the kernel. This commit therefore moves exit_rcu() out of kernel/rcupdate.c to kernel/rcutree_plugin.h, and places a static inline empty function in include/linux/rcutiny.h in order to shrink TINY_RCU a bit. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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27-Mar-2013 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Remove rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() With the removal of CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU, rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() is now an empty function. This commit therefore eliminates it by inlining it. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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15-Apr-2013 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Remove the CONFIG_TINY_RCU ifdefs in rcutiny.h Now that CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU is no more, this commit removes the CONFIG_TINY_RCU ifdefs from include/linux/rcutiny.h in favor of unconditionally compiling the CONFIG_TINY_RCU legs of those ifdefs. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Moved removal of #else to "Remove TINY_PREEMPT_RCU" as suggested by Josh Triplett. ] Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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27-Mar-2013 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Simplify RCU_TINY RCU callback invocation TINY_PREEMPT_RCU could use a kthread to handle RCU callback invocation, which required an API to abstract kthread vs. softirq invocation. Now that TINY_PREEMPT_RCU is no longer with us, this commit retires this API in favor of direct use of the relevant softirq primitives. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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27-Mar-2013 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Remove TINY_PREEMPT_RCU TINY_PREEMPT_RCU adds significant code and complexity, but does not offer commensurate benefits. People currently using TINY_PREEMPT_RCU can get much better memory footprint with TINY_RCU, or, if they really need preemptible RCU, they can use TREE_PREEMPT_RCU with a relatively minor degradation in memory footprint. Please note that this move has been widely publicized on LKML (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/11/12/545) and on LWN (http://lwn.net/Articles/541037/). This commit therefore removes TINY_PREEMPT_RCU. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Updated to eliminate #else in rcutiny.h as suggested by Josh ] Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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02-Jul-2012 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
Revert "rcu: Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation" This reverts commit 616c310e83b872024271c915c1b9ab505b9efad9. (Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation). Testing by Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> showed that this can result in deadlock due to invoking the scheduler when one of the runqueue locks is held. Because this commit was simply a performance optimization, revert it. Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
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10-May-2012 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Precompute RCU_FAST_NO_HZ timer offsets When a CPU is entering dyntick-idle mode, tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() calls rcu_needs_cpu() see if RCU needs that CPU, and, if not, computes the next wakeup time based on the timer wheels. Only later, when actually entering the idle loop, rcu_prepare_for_idle() will be invoked. In some cases, rcu_prepare_for_idle() will post timers to wake the CPU back up. But all for naught: The next wakeup time for the CPU has already been computed, and posting a timer afterwards does not force that wakeup time to be recomputed. This means that rcu_prepare_for_idle()'s have no effect. This is not a problem on a busy system because something else will wake up the CPU soon enough. However, on lightly loaded systems, the CPU might stay asleep for a considerable length of time. If that CPU has a callback that the rest of the system is waiting on, the system might run very slowly or (in theory) even hang. This commit avoids this problem by having rcu_needs_cpu() give tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() an estimate of when RCU will need the CPU to wake back up, which tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() takes into account when programming the CPU's wakeup time. An alternative approach is for rcu_prepare_for_idle() to use hrtimers instead of normal timers, but timers are much more efficient than are hrtimers for frequently and repeatedly posting and cancelling a given timer, which is exactly what RCU_FAST_NO_HZ does. Reported-by: Pascal Chapperon <pascal.chapperon@wanadoo.fr> Reported-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Tested-by: Pascal Chapperon <pascal.chapperon@wanadoo.fr>
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13-Apr-2012 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Make exit_rcu() more precise and consolidate When running preemptible RCU, if a task exits in an RCU read-side critical section having blocked within that same RCU read-side critical section, the task must be removed from the list of tasks blocking a grace period (perhaps the current grace period, perhaps the next grace period, depending on timing). The exit() path invokes exit_rcu() to do this cleanup. However, the current implementation of exit_rcu() needlessly does the cleanup even if the task did not block within the current RCU read-side critical section, which wastes time and needlessly increases the size of the state space. Fix this by only doing the cleanup if the current task is actually on the list of tasks blocking some grace period. While we are at it, consolidate the two identical exit_rcu() functions into a single function. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Conflicts: kernel/rcupdate.c
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27-Mar-2012 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation Currently, PREEMPT_RCU readers are enqueued upon entry to the scheduler. This is inefficient because enqueuing is required only if there is a context switch, and entry to the scheduler does not guarantee a context switch. The commit therefore moves the enqueuing to immediately precede the call to switch_to() from the scheduler. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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11-Jan-2012 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Prevent RCU callbacks from executing before scheduler initialized This is a port of commit #b0d3041 from TREE_RCU to TREE_PREEMPT_RCU. Under some rare but real combinations of configuration parameters, RCU callbacks are posted during early boot that use kernel facilities that are not yet initialized. Therefore, when these callbacks are invoked, hard hangs and crashes ensue. This commit therefore prevents RCU callbacks from being invoked until after the scheduler is fully up and running, as in after multiple tasks have been spawned. It might well turn out that a better approach is to identify the specific RCU callbacks that are causing this problem, but that discussion will wait until such time as someone really needs an RCU callback to be invoked (as opposed to merely registered) during early boot. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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06-Jan-2012 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Avoid waking up CPUs having only kfree_rcu() callbacks When CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ is enabled, RCU will allow a given CPU to enter dyntick-idle mode even if it still has RCU callbacks queued. RCU avoids system hangs in this case by scheduling a timer for several jiffies in the future. However, if all of the callbacks on that CPU are from kfree_rcu(), there is no reason to wake the CPU up, as it is not a problem to defer freeing of memory. This commit therefore tracks the number of callbacks on a given CPU that are from kfree_rcu(), and avoids scheduling the timer if all of a given CPU's callbacks are from kfree_rcu(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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18-Jun-2011 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Make TINY_RCU also use softirq for RCU_BOOST=n This patch #ifdefs TINY_RCU kthreads out of the kernel unless RCU_BOOST=y, thus eliminating context-switch overhead if RCU priority boosting has not been configured. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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26-May-2011 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Abstract common code for RCU grace-period-wait primitives Pull the code that waits for an RCU grace period into a single function, which is then called by synchronize_rcu() and friends in the case of TREE_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, and from rcu_barrier() and friends in the case of TINY_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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04-May-2011 |
Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> |
rcu: provide rcu_virt_note_context_switch() function. Provide rcu_virt_note_context_switch() for vitalization use to note quiescent state during guest entry. Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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20-Oct-2010 |
Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> |
rcu,cleanup: move synchronize_sched_expedited() out of sched.c The first version of synchronize_sched_expedited() used the migration code in the scheduler, and was therefore implemented in kernel/sched.c. However, the more recent version of this code no longer uses the migration code, so this commit moves it to the main RCU source files. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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09-Sep-2010 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: move TINY_RCU from softirq to kthread If RCU priority boosting is to be meaningful, callback invocation must be boosted in addition to preempted RCU readers. Otherwise, in presence of CPU real-time threads, the grace period ends, but the callbacks don't get invoked. If the callbacks don't get invoked, the associated memory doesn't get freed, so the system is still subject to OOM. But it is not reasonable to priority-boost RCU_SOFTIRQ, so this commit moves the callback invocations to a kthread, which can be boosted easily. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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17-Aug-2010 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: combine duplicate code, courtesy of CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU The CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU kernel configuration parameter was recently re-introduced, but as an indication of the type of RCU (preemptible vs. non-preemptible) instead of as selecting a given implementation. This commit uses CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU to combine duplicate code from include/linux/rcutiny.h and include/linux/rcutree.h into include/linux/rcupdate.h. This commit also combines a few other pieces of duplicate code that have accumulated. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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13-Aug-2010 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: repair code-duplication FIXMEs Combine the duplicate definitions of ULONG_CMP_GE(), ULONG_CMP_LT(), and rcu_preempt_depth() into include/linux/rcupdate.h. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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10-Aug-2010 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: permit suppressing current grace period's CPU stall warnings When using a kernel debugger, a long sojourn in the debugger can get you lots of RCU CPU stall warnings once you resume. This might not be helpful, especially if you are using the system console. This patch therefore allows RCU CPU stall warnings to be suppressed, but only for the duration of the current set of grace periods. This differs from Jason's original patch in that it adds support for tiny RCU and preemptible RCU, and uses a slightly different method for suppressing the RCU CPU stall warning messages. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
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29-Jun-2010 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Add a TINY_PREEMPT_RCU Implement a small-memory-footprint uniprocessor-only implementation of preemptible RCU. This implementation uses but a single blocked-tasks list rather than the combinatorial number used per leaf rcu_node by TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, which reduces memory consumption and greatly simplifies processing. This version also takes advantage of uniprocessor execution to accelerate grace periods in the case where there are no readers. The general design is otherwise broadly similar to that of TREE_PREEMPT_RCU. This implementation is a step towards having RCU implementation driven off of the SMP and PREEMPT kernel configuration variables, which can happen once this implementation has accumulated sufficient experience. Removed ACCESS_ONCE() from __rcu_read_unlock() and added barrier() as suggested by Steve Rostedt in order to avoid the compiler-reordering issue noted by Mathieu Desnoyers (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/16/183). As can be seen below, CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU represents almost 5Kbyte savings compared to CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU. Of course, for non-real-time workloads, CONFIG_TINY_RCU is even better. CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU text data bss dec filename 13 0 0 13 kernel/rcupdate.o 6170 825 28 7023 kernel/rcutree.o ---- 7026 Total CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU text data bss dec filename 13 0 0 13 kernel/rcupdate.o 2081 81 8 2170 kernel/rcutiny.o ---- 2183 Total CONFIG_TINY_RCU (non-preemptible) text data bss dec filename 13 0 0 13 kernel/rcupdate.o 719 25 0 744 kernel/rcutiny.o --- 757 Total Requested-by: Loïc Minier <loic.minier@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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02-Apr-2010 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: slim down rcutiny by removing rcu_scheduler_active and friends TINY_RCU does not need rcu_scheduler_active unless CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC. So conditionally compile rcu_scheduler_active in order to slim down rcutiny a bit more. Also gets rid of an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, which is responsible for most of the slimming. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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01-Apr-2010 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: refactor RCU's context-switch handling The addition of preemptible RCU to treercu resulted in a bit of confusion and inefficiency surrounding the handling of context switches for RCU-sched and for RCU-preempt. For RCU-sched, a context switch is a quiescent state, pure and simple, just like it always has been. For RCU-preempt, a context switch is in no way a quiescent state, but special handling is required when a task blocks in an RCU read-side critical section. However, the callout from the scheduler and the outer loop in ksoftirqd still calls something named rcu_sched_qs(), whose name is no longer accurate. Furthermore, when rcu_check_callbacks() notes an RCU-sched quiescent state, it ends up unnecessarily (though harmlessly, aside from the performance hit) enqueuing the current task if it happens to be running in an RCU-preempt read-side critical section. This not only increases the maximum latency of scheduler_tick(), it also needlessly increases the overhead of the next outermost rcu_read_unlock() invocation. This patch addresses this situation by separating the notion of RCU's context-switch handling from that of RCU-sched's quiescent states. The context-switch handling is covered by rcu_note_context_switch() in general and by rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() for preemptible RCU. This permits rcu_sched_qs() to handle quiescent states and only quiescent states. It also reduces the maximum latency of scheduler_tick(), though probably by much less than a microsecond. Finally, it means that tasks within preemptible-RCU read-side critical sections avoid incurring the overhead of queuing unless there really is a context switch. Suggested-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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30-Mar-2010 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: shrink rcutiny by making synchronize_rcu_bh() be inline Because synchronize_rcu_bh() is identical to synchronize_sched(), make the former a static inline invoking the latter, saving the overhead of an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() and the duplicate code. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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06-May-2010 |
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> |
sched: replace migration_thread with cpu_stop Currently migration_thread is serving three purposes - migration pusher, context to execute active_load_balance() and forced context switcher for expedited RCU synchronize_sched. All three roles are hardcoded into migration_thread() and determining which job is scheduled is slightly messy. This patch kills migration_thread and replaces all three uses with cpu_stop. The three different roles of migration_thread() are splitted into three separate cpu_stop callbacks - migration_cpu_stop(), active_load_balance_cpu_stop() and synchronize_sched_expedited_cpu_stop() - and each use case now simply asks cpu_stop to execute the callback as necessary. synchronize_sched_expedited() was implemented with private preallocated resources and custom multi-cpu queueing and waiting logic, both of which are provided by cpu_stop. synchronize_sched_expedited_count is made atomic and all other shared resources along with the mutex are dropped. synchronize_sched_expedited() also implemented a check to detect cases where not all the callback got executed on their assigned cpus and fall back to synchronize_sched(). If called with cpu hotplug blocked, cpu_stop already guarantees that and the condition cannot happen; otherwise, stop_machine() would break. However, this patch preserves the paranoid check using a cpumask to record on which cpus the stopper ran so that it can serve as a bisection point if something actually goes wrong theree. Because the internal execution state is no longer visible, rcu_expedited_torture_stats() is removed. This patch also renames cpu_stop threads to from "stopper/%d" to "migration/%d". The names of these threads ultimately don't matter and there's no reason to make unnecessary userland visible changes. With this patch applied, stop_machine() and sched now share the same resources. stop_machine() is faster without wasting any resources and sched migration users are much cleaner. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>
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25-Feb-2010 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Make rcu_read_lock_sched_held() take boot time into account Before the scheduler starts, all tasks are non-preemptible by definition. So, during that time, rcu_read_lock_sched_held() needs to always return "true". This patch makes that be so. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1267135607-7056-2-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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04-Jan-2010 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Add force_quiescent_state() testing to rcutorture Add force_quiescent_state() testing to rcutorture, with a separate thread that repeatedly invokes force_quiescent_state() in bursts. This can greatly increase the probability of encountering certain types of race conditions. Suggested-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1262646551116-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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16-Dec-2009 |
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> |
sched: Teach might_sleep() about preemptible RCU In practice, it is harmless to voluntarily sleep in a rcu_read_lock() section if we are running under preempt rcu, but it is illegal if we build a kernel running non-preemptable rcu. Currently, might_sleep() doesn't notice sleepable operations under rcu_read_lock() sections if we are running under preemptable rcu because preempt_count() is left untouched after rcu_read_lock() in this case. But we want developers who test their changes under such config to notice the "sleeping while atomic" issues. So we add rcu_read_lock_nesting to prempt_count() in might_sleep() checks. [ v2: Handle rcu-tiny ] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <1260991265-8451-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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22-Nov-2009 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Re-arrange code to reduce #ifdef pain Remove #ifdefs from kernel/rcupdate.c and include/linux/rcupdate.h by moving code to include/linux/rcutiny.h, include/linux/rcutree.h, and kernel/rcutree.c. Also remove some definitions that are no longer used. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1258908830885-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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22-Nov-2009 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: Eliminate unneeded function wrapping The functions rcu_init() is a wrapper for __rcu_init(), and also sets up the CPU-hotplug notifier for rcu_barrier_cpu_hotplug(). But TINY_RCU doesn't need CPU-hotplug notification, and the rcu_barrier_cpu_hotplug() is a simple wrapper for rcu_cpu_notify(). So push rcu_init() out to kernel/rcutree.c and kernel/rcutiny.c and get rid of the wrapper function rcu_barrier_cpu_hotplug(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <12589088302320-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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26-Oct-2009 |
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
rcu: Do tiny cleanups in rcutiny No change in functionality - just straighten out a few small stylistic details. Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: avi@redhat.com Cc: mtosatti@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <12565226351355-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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25-Oct-2009 |
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
rcu: "Tiny RCU", The Bloatwatch Edition This patch is a version of RCU designed for !SMP provided for a small-footprint RCU implementation. In particular, the implementation of synchronize_rcu() is extremely lightweight and high performance. It passes rcutorture testing in each of the four relevant configurations (combinations of NO_HZ and PREEMPT) on x86. This saves about 1K bytes compared to old Classic RCU (which is no longer in mainline), and more than three kilobytes compared to Hierarchical RCU (updated to 2.6.30): CONFIG_TREE_RCU: text data bss dec filename 183 4 0 187 kernel/rcupdate.o 2783 520 36 3339 kernel/rcutree.o 3526 Total (vs 4565 for v7) CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU: text data bss dec filename 263 4 0 267 kernel/rcupdate.o 4594 776 52 5422 kernel/rcutree.o 5689 Total (6155 for v7) CONFIG_TINY_RCU: text data bss dec filename 96 4 0 100 kernel/rcupdate.o 734 24 0 758 kernel/rcutiny.o 858 Total (vs 848 for v7) The above is for x86. Your mileage may vary on other platforms. Further compression is possible, but is being procrastinated. Changes from v7 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/9/388) o Apply Lai Jiangshan's review comments (aside from might_sleep() in synchronize_sched(), which is covered by SMP builds). o Fix up expedited primitives. Changes from v6 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/23/293). o Forward ported to put it into the 2.6.33 stream. o Added lockdep support. o Make lightweight rcu_barrier. Changes from v5 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/23/12). o Ported to latest pre-2.6.32 merge window kernel. - Renamed rcu_qsctr_inc() to rcu_sched_qs(). - Renamed rcu_bh_qsctr_inc() to rcu_bh_qs(). - Provided trivial rcu_cpu_notify(). - Provided trivial exit_rcu(). - Provided trivial rcu_needs_cpu(). - Fixed up the rcu_*_enter/exit() functions in linux/hardirq.h. o Removed the dependence on EMBEDDED, with a view to making TINY_RCU default for !SMP at some time in the future. o Added (trivial) support for expedited grace periods. Changes from v4 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/2/91) include: o Squeeze the size down a bit further by removing the ->completed field from struct rcu_ctrlblk. o This permits synchronize_rcu() to become the empty function. Previous concerns about rcutorture were unfounded, as rcutorture correctly handles a constant value from rcu_batches_completed() and rcu_batches_completed_bh(). Changes from v3 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/29/221) include: o Changed rcu_batches_completed(), rcu_batches_completed_bh() rcu_enter_nohz(), rcu_exit_nohz(), rcu_nmi_enter(), and rcu_nmi_exit(), to be static inlines, as suggested by David Howells. Doing this saves about 100 bytes from rcutiny.o. (The numbers between v3 and this v4 of the patch are not directly comparable, since they are against different versions of Linux.) Changes from v2 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/3/333) include: o Fix whitespace issues. o Change short-circuit "||" operator to instead be "+" in order to fix performance bug noted by "kraai" on LWN. (http://lwn.net/Articles/324348/) Changes from v1 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/13/440) include: o This version depends on EMBEDDED as well as !SMP, as suggested by Ingo. o Updated rcu_needs_cpu() to unconditionally return zero, permitting the CPU to enter dynticks-idle mode at any time. This works because callbacks can be invoked upon entry to dynticks-idle mode. o Paul is now OK with this being included, based on a poll at the Kernel Miniconf at linux.conf.au, where about ten people said that they cared about saving 900 bytes on single-CPU systems. o Applies to both mainline and tip/core/rcu. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: avi@redhat.com Cc: mtosatti@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <12565226351355-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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