History log of /linux-master/include/linux/rcuwait.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# f6239d3f 23-May-2023 Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>

rcuwait: Support timeouts

The rcuwait utility provides an efficient and safe single
wait/wake mechanism. It is used in situations where queued
wait is the wrong semantics, and often too bulky. For example,
cases where the wait is already done under a lock.

In the past, rcuwait has been extended to support beyond only
uninterruptible sleep, and similarly, there are users that can
benefit for the addition of timeouts.

As such, tntroduce rcuwait_wait_event_timeout(), with semantics
equivalent to calls for queued wait counterparts.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230523170927.20685-2-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>


# 58d4292b 14-Jan-2022 Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

rcu: Uninline multi-use function: finish_rcuwait()

This is a rarely used function, so uninlining its 3 instructions
is probably a win or a wash - but the main motivation is to
make <linux/rcuwait.h> independent of task_struct details.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# febd668d 18-May-2020 Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

rcuwait: avoid lockdep splats from rcuwait_active()

rcuwait_active only returns whether w->task is not NULL. This is
exactly one of the usecases that are mentioned in the documentation
for rcu_access_pointer() where it is correct to bypass lockdep checks.

This avoids a splat from kvm_vcpu_on_spin().

Reported-by: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>


# 191a43be 23-Apr-2020 Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>

rcuwait: Introduce rcuwait_active()

This call is lockless and thus should not be trusted blindly.
For example, the return value of rcuwait_wakeup() should be used to
track whether a process was woken up.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Message-Id: <20200424054837.5138-5-dave@stgolabs.net>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>


# 5c21f7b3 23-Apr-2020 Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>

rcuwait: Introduce prepare_to and finish_rcuwait

This allows further flexibility for some callers to implement
ad-hoc versions of the generic rcuwait_wait_event(). For example,
kvm will need this to maintain tracing semantics. The naming
is of course similar to what waitqueue apis offer.

Also go ahead and make use of rcu_assign_pointer() for both task
writes as it will make the __rcu sparse people happy - this will
be the special nil case, thus no added serialization.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Message-Id: <20200424054837.5138-4-dave@stgolabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>


# 9d9a6ebf 23-Apr-2020 Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>

rcuwait: Let rcuwait_wake_up() return whether or not a task was awoken

Propagating the return value of wake_up_process() back to the caller
can come in handy for future users, such as for statistics or
accounting purposes.

Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Message-Id: <20200424054837.5138-3-dave@stgolabs.net>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>


# 80fbaf1c 20-Mar-2020 Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>

rcuwait: Add @state argument to rcuwait_wait_event()

Extend rcuwait_wait_event() with a state variable so that it is not
restricted to UNINTERRUPTIBLE waits.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200321113241.824030968@linutronix.de


# 154abafc 14-Sep-2019 Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>

tasks, sched/core: With a grace period after finish_task_switch(), remove unnecessary code

Remove work arounds that were written before there was a grace period
after tasks left the runqueue in finish_task_switch().

In particular now that there tasks exiting the runqueue exprience
a RCU grace period none of the work performed by task_rcu_dereference()
excpet the rcu_dereference() is necessary so replace task_rcu_dereference()
with rcu_dereference().

Remove the code in rcuwait_wait_event() that checks to ensure the current
task has not exited. It is no longer necessary as it is guaranteed
that any running task will experience a RCU grace period after it
leaves the run queueue.

Remove the comment in rcuwait_wake_up() as it is no longer relevant.

Ref: 8f95c90ceb54 ("sched/wait, RCU: Introduce rcuwait machinery")
Ref: 150593bf8693 ("sched/api: Introduce task_rcu_dereference() and try_get_task_struct()")
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87lfurdpk9.fsf_-_@x220.int.ebiederm.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 03f4b48e 20-Mar-2019 Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>

rcuwait: Annotate task_struct with __rcu

This suppresses sparse error generated due to the recently added
rcu_assign_pointer sparse check.

percpu-rwsem.c:162:9: sparse: error: incompatible types in comparison expression
exit.c:316:16: sparse: error: incompatible types in comparison expression

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
[ From an RCU perspective. ]
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Morten Rasmussen <morten.rasmussen@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: keescook@chromium.org
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190321003426.160260-4-joel@joelfernandes.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# b2441318 01-Nov-2017 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license

Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which
makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license.

By default all files without license information are under the default
license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2.

Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0'
SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding
shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text.

This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and
Philippe Ombredanne.

How this work was done:

Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of
the use cases:
- file had no licensing information it it.
- file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it,
- file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information,

Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases
where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license
had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords.

The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to
a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the
output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX
tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the
base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files.

The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files
assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner
results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s)
to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not
immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was:
- Files considered eligible had to be source code files.
- Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5
lines of source
- File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5
lines).

All documentation files were explicitly excluded.

The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license
identifiers to apply.

- when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was
considered to have no license information in it, and the top level
COPYING file license applied.

For non */uapi/* files that summary was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 11139

and resulted in the first patch in this series.

If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH
Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|-------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930

and resulted in the second patch in this series.

- if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one
of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if
any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in
it (per prior point). Results summary:

SPDX license identifier # files
---------------------------------------------------|------
GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270
GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17
LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15
GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14
((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5
LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4
LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3
((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1

and that resulted in the third patch in this series.

- when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became
the concluded license(s).

- when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a
license but the other didn't, or they both detected different
licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred.

- In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file
resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and
which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics).

- When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was
confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

- If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier,
the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later
in time.

In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the
spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the
source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation
by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation.

Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from
FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners
disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The
Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so
they are related.

Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets
for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the
files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks
in about 15000 files.

In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have
copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the
correct identifier.

Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual
inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch
version early this week with:
- a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected
license ids and scores
- reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+
files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct
- reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license
was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied
SPDX license was correct

This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This
worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the
different types of files to be modified.

These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to
parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the
format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg
based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to
distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different
comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to
generate the patches.

Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 7e1f9467 29-Jan-2017 Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>

sched/wait, rcuwait: Fix typo in comment

Forgot to update the comment after renaming the call.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1485704532-9290-1-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>


# 8f95c90c 11-Jan-2017 Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>

sched/wait, RCU: Introduce rcuwait machinery

rcuwait provides support for (single) RCU-safe task wait/wake functionality,
with the caveat that it must not be called after exit_notify(), such that
we avoid racing with rcu delayed_put_task_struct callbacks, task_struct
being rcu unaware in this context -- for which we similarly have
task_rcu_dereference() magic, but with different return semantics, which
can conflict with the wakeup side.

The interfaces are quite straightforward:

rcuwait_wait_event()
rcuwait_wake_up()

More details are in the comments, but it's perhaps worth mentioning at least,
that users must provide proper serialization when waiting on a condition, and
avoid corrupting a concurrent waiter. Also care must be taken between the task
and the condition for when calling the wakeup -- we cannot miss wakeups. When
porting users, this is for example, a given when using waitqueues in that
everything is done under the q->lock. As such, it can remove sources of non
preemptable unbounded work for realtime.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484148146-14210-2-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>