History log of /linux-master/include/linux/srcutree.h
Revision Date Author Comments
# e15a1930 04-Jan-2023 Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com>

srcu: Add comments for srcu_size_state

The SRCU_SIZE_* names are not self-explanatory, so this commit therefore
adds comments to the definitions.

Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: "Zhang, Qiang1" <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
To: rcu@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>


# fd1b3f8e 17-Mar-2023 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Move work-scheduling fields from srcu_struct to srcu_usage

This commit moves the ->reschedule_jiffies, ->reschedule_count, and
->work fields from the srcu_struct structure to the srcu_usage structure
to reduce the size of the former in order to improve cache locality.

However, this means that the container_of() calls cannot get a pointer
to the srcu_struct because they are no longer in the srcu_struct.
This issue is addressed by adding a ->srcu_ssp field in the srcu_usage
structure that references the corresponding srcu_struct structure.
And given the presence of the sup pointer to the srcu_usage structure,
replace some ssp->srcu_usage-> instances with sup->.

[ paulmck Apply feedback from kernel test robot. ]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202303191400.iO5BOqka-lkp@intel.com/
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: "Zhang, Qiang1" <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# d20162e0 17-Mar-2023 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Move srcu_barrier() fields from srcu_struct to srcu_usage

This commit moves the ->srcu_barrier_seq, ->srcu_barrier_mutex,
->srcu_barrier_completion, and ->srcu_barrier_cpu_cnt fields from the
srcu_struct structure to the srcu_usage structure to reduce the size of
the former in order to improve cache locality.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: "Zhang, Qiang1" <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# 660349ac 17-Mar-2023 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Move ->sda_is_static from srcu_struct to srcu_usage

This commit moves the ->sda_is_static field from the srcu_struct structure
to the srcu_usage structure to reduce the size of the former in order
to improve cache locality.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: "Zhang, Qiang1" <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# 3b46679c 17-Mar-2023 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Move heuristics fields from srcu_struct to srcu_usage

This commit moves the ->srcu_size_jiffies, ->srcu_n_lock_retries,
and ->srcu_n_exp_nodelay fields from the srcu_struct structure to the
srcu_usage structure to reduce the size of the former in order to improve
cache locality.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: "Zhang, Qiang1" <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# 03200b5c 17-Mar-2023 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Move grace-period fields from srcu_struct to srcu_usage

This commit moves the ->srcu_gp_seq, ->srcu_gp_seq_needed,
->srcu_gp_seq_needed_exp, ->srcu_gp_start, and ->srcu_last_gp_end fields
from the srcu_struct structure to the srcu_usage structure to reduce
the size of the former in order to improve cache locality.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: "Zhang, Qiang1" <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# e3a6ab25 17-Mar-2023 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Move ->srcu_gp_mutex from srcu_struct to srcu_usage

This commit moves the ->srcu_gp_mutex field from the srcu_struct structure
to the srcu_usage structure to reduce the size of the former in order
to improve cache locality.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: "Zhang, Qiang1" <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# b3fb11f7 17-Mar-2023 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Move ->lock from srcu_struct to srcu_usage

This commit moves the ->lock field from the srcu_struct structure to
the srcu_usage structure to reduce the size of the former in order to
improve cache locality.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: "Zhang, Qiang1" <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# 574dc1a7 17-Mar-2023 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Move ->srcu_cb_mutex from srcu_struct to srcu_usage

This commit moves the ->srcu_cb_mutex field from the srcu_struct structure
to the srcu_usage structure to reduce the size of the former in order
to improve cache locality.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: "Zhang, Qiang1" <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# a0d8cbd3 17-Mar-2023 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Move ->srcu_size_state from srcu_struct to srcu_usage

This commit moves the ->srcu_size_state field from the srcu_struct
structure to the srcu_usage structure to reduce the size of the former
in order to improve cache locality.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: "Zhang, Qiang1" <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# 208f41b1 17-Mar-2023 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Move ->level from srcu_struct to srcu_usage

This commit moves the ->level[] array from the srcu_struct structure to
the srcu_usage structure to reduce the size of the former in order to
improve cache locality.

Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: "Zhang, Qiang1" <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# 95433f72 16-Mar-2023 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Begin offloading srcu_struct fields to srcu_update

The current srcu_struct structure is on the order of 200 bytes in size
(depending on architecture and .config), which is much better than the
old-style 26K bytes, but still all too inconvenient when one is trying
to achieve good cache locality on a fastpath involving SRCU readers.

However, only a few fields in srcu_struct are used by SRCU readers.
The remaining fields could be offloaded to a new srcu_update
structure, thus shrinking the srcu_struct structure down to a few
tens of bytes. This commit begins this noble quest, a quest that is
complicated by open-coded initialization of the srcu_struct within the
srcu_notifier_head structure. This complication is addressed by updating
the srcu_notifier_head structure's open coding, given that there does
not appear to be a straightforward way of abstracting that initialization.

This commit moves only the ->node pointer to srcu_update. Later commits
will move additional fields.

[ paulmck: Fold in qiang1.zhang@intel.com's memory-leak fix. ]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230320055751.4120251-1-qiang1.zhang@intel.com/
Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: "Michał Mirosław" <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Cc: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com>
Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: "Zhang, Qiang1" <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Tested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# f4d01a25 17-Mar-2023 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Use static init for statically allocated in-module srcu_struct

Further shrinking the srcu_struct structure is eased by requiring
that in-module srcu_struct structures rely more heavily on static
initialization. In particular, this preserves the property that
a module-load-time srcu_struct initialization can fail only due
to memory-allocation failure of the per-CPU srcu_data structures.
It might also slightly improve robustness by keeping the number of memory
allocations that must succeed down percpu_alloc() call.

This is in preparation for splitting an srcu_usage structure out
of the srcu_struct structure.

[ paulmck: Fold in qiang1.zhang@intel.com feedback. ]

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: "Zhang, Qiang1" <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# 3e67cb8a 17-Mar-2023 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Add whitespace to __SRCU_STRUCT_INIT() & __DEFINE_SRCU()

This is a whitespace-only commit with no change in functionality.
Its purpose is to prepare for later commits that: (1) Cause statically
allocated srcu_struct structures to rely on compile-time initialization
and (2) Move fields from the srcu_struct structure to a new srcu_usage
structure.

Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Tested-by: Sachin Sant <sachinp@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: "Zhang, Qiang1" <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# aa5210f5 15-Nov-2022 Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com>

srcu: Fix a misspelling in comment

s/srcu_gq_seq/srcu_gp_seq/

Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: <rcu@vger.kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# e29a4915 13-Oct-2022 Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>

srcu: Debug NMI safety even on archs that don't require it

Currently the NMI safety debugging is only performed on architectures
that don't support NMI-safe this_cpu_inc().

Reorder the code so that other architectures like x86 also detect bad
uses.

[ paulmck: Apply kernel test robot, Stephen Rothwell, and Zqiang feedback. ]

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# 27120e7d 19-Sep-2022 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Check for consistent per-CPU per-srcu_struct NMI safety

This commit adds runtime checks to verify that a given srcu_struct uses
consistent NMI-safe (or not) read-side primitives on a per-CPU basis.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220910221947.171557773@linutronix.de/

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>


# 5d0f5953 15-Sep-2022 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Convert ->srcu_lock_count and ->srcu_unlock_count to atomic

NMI-safe variants of srcu_read_lock() and srcu_read_unlock() are needed
by printk(), which on many architectures entails read-modify-write
atomic operations. This commit prepares Tree SRCU for this change by
making both ->srcu_lock_count and ->srcu_unlock_count by atomic_long_t.

[ paulmck: Apply feedback from John Ogness. ]

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220910221947.171557773@linutronix.de/

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>


# 282d8998 08-Mar-2022 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Prevent expedited GPs and blocking readers from consuming CPU

If an SRCU reader blocks while a synchronize_srcu_expedited() waits for
that same reader, then that grace period will spawn an endless series of
workqueue handlers, consuming a full CPU. This quickly gets pointless
because consuming more CPU isn't going to make that reader get done
faster, especially if it is blocked waiting for an external event.

This commit therefore spawns at most one pair of back-to-back workqueue
handlers per expedited grace period phase, instead inserting increasing
delays as that grace period phase grows older, but capped at 10 jiffies.
In any case, if there have been at least 100 back-to-back workqueue
handlers within a single jiffy, regardless of grace period or grace-period
phase, then a one-jiffy delay is inserted.

[ paulmck: Apply feedback from kernel test robot. ]

Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Reported-by: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# 9f2e91d9 27-Jan-2022 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Add contention-triggered addition of srcu_node tree

This commit instruments the acquisitions of the srcu_struct structure's
->lock, enabling the initiation of a transition from SRCU_SIZE_SMALL
to SRCU_SIZE_BIG when sufficient contention is experienced. The
instrumentation counts the number of trylock failures within the confines
of a single jiffy. If that number exceeds the value specified by the
srcutree.small_contention_lim kernel boot parameter (which defaults to
100), and if the value specified by the srcutree.convert_to_big kernel
boot parameter has the 0x10 bit set (defaults to 0), then a transition
will be automatically initiated.

By default, there will never be any transitions, so that none of the
srcu_struct structures ever gains an srcu_node array.

The useful values for srcutree.convert_to_big are:

0x00: Never convert.
0x01: Always convert at init_srcu_struct() time.
0x02: Convert when rcutorture prints its first round of statistics.
0x03: Decide conversion approach at boot given system size.
0x10: Convert if contention is encountered.
0x12: Convert if contention is encountered or when rcutorture prints
its first round of statistics, whichever comes first.

The value 0x11 acts the same as 0x01 because the conversion happens
before there is any chance of contention.

[ paulmck: Apply "static" feedback from kernel test robot. ]

Co-developed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# 46470cf8 27-Jan-2022 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Prevent cleanup_srcu_struct() from freeing non-dynamic ->sda

When an srcu_struct structure is created (but not in a kernel module)
by DEFINE_SRCU() and friends, the per-CPU srcu_data structure is
statically allocated. In all other cases, that structure is obtained
from alloc_percpu(), in which case cleanup_srcu_struct() must invoke
free_percpu() on the resulting ->sda pointer in the srcu_struct pointer.

Which it does.

Except that it also invokes free_percpu() on the ->sda pointer
referencing the statically allocated per-CPU srcu_data structures.
Which free_percpu() is surprisingly OK with.

This commit nevertheless stops cleanup_srcu_struct() from freeing
statically allocated per-CPU srcu_data structures.

Co-developed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# db8f1471 26-Jan-2022 Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com>

srcu: Use export for srcu_struct defined by DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU()

If an srcu_struct structure defined by tree SRCU's DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU()
is used by a module, sparse will give the following diagnostic:

sparse: symbol '__srcu_struct_nodes_srcu' was not declared. Should it be static?

The problem is that a within-module DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU() must define
a non-static srcu_struct because it is exported by referencing it in a
special '__section("___srcu_struct_ptrs")'. This reference is needed
so that module load and unloading can invoke init_srcu_struct() and
cleanup_srcu_struct(), respectively. Unfortunately, sparse is unaware of
'__section("___srcu_struct_ptrs")', resulting in the above false-positive
diagnostic. To avoid this false positive, this commit therefore creates
a prototype of the srcu_struct with an "extern" keyword.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# 2ec30311 21-Jan-2022 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Dynamically allocate srcu_node array

This commit shrinks the srcu_struct structure by converting its ->node
field from a fixed-size compile-time array to a pointer to a dynamically
allocated array. In kernels built with large values of NR_CPUS that boot
on systems with smaller numbers of CPUs, this can save significant memory.

[ paulmck: Apply kernel test robot feedback. ]

Reported-by: A cast of thousands
Co-developed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# 994f7068 24-Jan-2022 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Make Tree SRCU able to operate without snp_node array

This commit makes Tree SRCU able to operate without an snp_node
array, that is, when the srcu_data structures' ->mynode pointers
are NULL. This can result in high contention on the srcu_struct
structure's ->lock, but only when there are lots of call_srcu(),
synchronize_srcu(), and synchronize_srcu_expedited() calls.

Note that when there is no snp_node array, all SRCU callbacks use
CPU 0's callback queue. This is optimal in the common case of low
update-side load because it removes the need to search each CPU
for the single callback that made the grace period happen.

Co-developed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# 95ebe80d 20-Jan-2022 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Fix s/is/if/ typo in srcu_node comment

This commit fixed a typo in the srcu_node structure's ->srcu_have_cbs
comment. While in the area, redo a couple of comments to take advantage
of 100-character line lengths.

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


# 7bf0a614 08-Apr-2021 Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>

srcu: Unconditionally embed struct lockdep_map

Since struct lockdep_map has zero size when CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=n,
this commit removes the #ifdef from the srcu_struct structure's ->dep_map.
This change will simplify further manipulations of this field.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# 056b89e7 11-Apr-2019 Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>

module: Make srcu_struct ptr array as read-only

Since commit title ("srcu: Allocate per-CPU data for DEFINE_SRCU() in
modules"), modules that call DEFINE_{STATIC,}SRCU will have a new array
of srcu_struct pointers, which is used by srcu code to initialize and
clean up these structures and save valuable per-cpu reserved space.

There is no reason for this array of pointers to be writable, and can
cause security or other hidden bugs. Mark these are read-only after the
module init has completed.

Tested with the following diff to ensure array not writable:

(diff is a bit reduced to avoid patch command getting confused)
a/kernel/module.c
b/kernel/module.c
-3506,6 +3506,14 static noinline int do_init_module [snip]
rcu_assign_pointer(mod->kallsyms, &mod->core_kallsyms);
#endif
module_enable_ro(mod, true);
+
+ if (mod->srcu_struct_ptrs) {
+ // Check if srcu_struct_ptrs access is possible
+ char x = *(char *)mod->srcu_struct_ptrs;
+ *(char *)mod->srcu_struct_ptrs = 0;
+ *(char *)mod->srcu_struct_ptrs = x;
+ }
+
mod_tree_remove_init(mod);
disable_ro_nx(&mod->init_layout);
module_arch_freeing_init(mod);

Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com
Cc: rcu@vger.kernel.org
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>


# fe15b50c 05-Apr-2019 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Allocate per-CPU data for DEFINE_SRCU() in modules

Adding DEFINE_SRCU() or DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU() to a loadable module requires
that the size of the reserved region be increased, which is not something
we want to be doing all that often. One approach would be to require
that loadable modules define an srcu_struct and invoke init_srcu_struct()
from their module_init function and cleanup_srcu_struct() from their
module_exit function. However, this is more than a bit user unfriendly.

This commit therefore creates an ___srcu_struct_ptrs linker section,
and pointers to srcu_struct structures created by DEFINE_SRCU() and
DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU() within a module are placed into that module's
___srcu_struct_ptrs section. The required init_srcu_struct() and
cleanup_srcu_struct() functions are then automatically invoked as needed
when that module is loaded and unloaded, thus allowing modules to continue
to use DEFINE_SRCU() and DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU() while avoiding the need
to increase the size of the reserved region.

Many of the algorithms and some of the code was cheerfully cherry-picked
from other code making use of linker sections, perhaps most notably from
tracepoints. All bugs are nevertheless the sole property of the author.

Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
[ paulmck: Use __section() and use "default" in srcu_module_notify()'s
"switch" statement as suggested by Joel Fernandes. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>


# 8c366db0 17-Jan-2019 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

linux/srcu: 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>


# e81baf4c 10-Dec-2018 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>

srcu: Remove srcu_queue_delayed_work_on()

srcu_queue_delayed_work_on() disables preemption (and therefore CPU
hotplug in RCU's case) and then checks based on its own accounting if a
CPU is online. If the CPU is online it uses queue_delayed_work_on()
otherwise it fallbacks to queue_delayed_work().
The problem here is that queue_work() on -RT does not work with disabled
preemption.

queue_work_on() works also on an offlined CPU. queue_delayed_work_on()
has the problem that it is possible to program a timer on an offlined
CPU. This timer will fire once the CPU is online again. But until then,
the timer remains programmed and nothing will happen.

Add a local timer which will fire (as requested per delay) on the local
CPU and then enqueue the work on the specific CPU.

RCUtorture testing with SRCU-P for 24h showed no problems.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>


# aacb5d91 28-Oct-2018 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Use "ssp" instead of "sp" for srcu_struct pointer

In RCU, the distinction between "rsp", "rnp", and "rdp" has served well
for a great many years, but in SRCU, "sp" vs. "sdp" has proven confusing.
This commit therefore renames SRCU's "sp" pointers to "ssp", so that there
is "ssp" for srcu_struct pointer, "snp" for srcu_node pointer, and "sdp"
for srcu_data pointer.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>


# 4e6ea4ef 14-Aug-2018 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Make early-boot call_srcu() reuse workqueue lists

Allocating a list_head structure that is almost never used, and, when
used, is used only during early boot (rcu_init() and earlier), is a bit
wasteful. This commit therefore eliminates that list_head in favor of
the one in the work_struct structure. This is safe because the work_struct
structure cannot be used until after rcu_init() returns.

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# e0fcba9a 14-Aug-2018 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Make call_srcu() available during very early boot

Event tracing is moving to SRCU in order to take advantage of the fact
that SRCU may be safely used from idle and even offline CPUs. However,
event tracing can invoke call_srcu() very early in the boot process,
even before workqueue_init_early() is invoked (let alone rcu_init()).
Therefore, call_srcu()'s attempts to queue work fail miserably.

This commit therefore detects this situation, and refrains from attempting
to queue work before rcu_init() time, but does everything else that it
would have done, and in addition, adds the srcu_struct to a global list.
The rcu_init() function now invokes a new srcu_init() function, which
is empty if CONFIG_SRCU=n. Otherwise, srcu_init() queues work for
each srcu_struct on the list. This all happens early enough in boot
that there is but a single CPU with interrupts disabled, which allows
synchronization to be dispensed with.

Of course, the queued work won't actually be invoked until after
workqueue_init() is invoked, which happens shortly after the scheduler
is up and running. This means that although call_srcu() may be invoked
any time after per-CPU variables have been set up, there is still a very
narrow window when synchronize_srcu() won't work, and this window
extends from the time that the scheduler starts until the time that
workqueue_init() returns. This can be fixed in a manner similar to
the fix for synchronize_rcu_expedited() and friends, but until someone
actually needs to use synchronize_srcu() during this window, this fix
is added churn for no benefit.

Finally, note that Tree SRCU's new srcu_init() function invokes
queue_work() rather than the queue_delayed_work() function that is
invoked post-boot. The reason is that queue_delayed_work() will (as you
would expect) post a timer, and timers have not yet been initialized.
So use of queue_work() avoids the complaints about use of uninitialized
spinlocks that would otherwise result. Besides, some delay is already
provide by the aforementioned fact that the queued work won't actually
be invoked until after the scheduler is up and running.

Requested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>


# 9c80172b 24-May-2018 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>

kernel/SRCU: provide a static initializer

There are macros for static initializer for the three out of four
possible notifier types, that are:
ATOMIC_NOTIFIER_HEAD()
BLOCKING_NOTIFIER_HEAD()
RAW_NOTIFIER_HEAD()

This patch provides a static initilizer for the forth type to make it
complete.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>


# d6331980 10-Oct-2017 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Prohibit call_srcu() use under raw spinlocks

Invoking queue_delayed_work() while holding a raw spinlock is forbidden
in -rt kernels, which is exactly what __call_srcu() does, indirectly via
srcu_funnel_gp_start(). This commit therefore downgrades Tree SRCU's
locking from raw to non-raw spinlocks, which works because call_srcu()
is not ever called while holding a raw spinlock.

Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


# 115a1a52 22-May-2017 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

rcutorture: Move SRCU status printing to SRCU implementations

This commit gets rid of some ugly #ifdefs in rcutorture.c by moving
the SRCU status printing to the SRCU implementations.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


# 0d8a1e83 15-Jun-2017 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Make process_srcu() be static

The function process_srcu() is not invoked outside of srcutree.c, so
this commit makes it static and drops the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


# a3883df3 09-May-2017 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Use rnp->lock wrappers to replace explicit memory barriers

This commit uses TREE RCU's rnp->lock wrappers to replace a few explicit
memory barriers. This change also has the advantage of making SRCU's
memory-ordering properties be implemented in roughly the same way as they
are in Tree RCU.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


# 5a0465e1 04-May-2017 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Shrink srcu.h by moving docbook and private function

The call_srcu() docbook entry is currently in include/linux/srcu.h,
which causes needless processing for each include point. This commit
therefore moves this entry to kernel/rcu/srcutree.c, which the compiler
reads only once. In addition, the srcu_batches_completed() function is
used only within RCU and its torture-test suites. This commit therefore
also moves this function's declaration from include/linux/srcutiny.h,
include/linux/srcutree.h, and include/linux/srcuclassic.h to
kernel/rcu/rcu.h.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>


# cad7b389 03-May-2017 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>


# 22607d66 25-Apr-2017 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Specify auto-expedite holdoff time

On small systems, in the absence of readers, expedited SRCU grace
periods can complete in less than a microsecond. This means that an
eight-CPU system can have all CPUs doing synchronize_srcu() in a tight
loop and almost always expedite. This might actually be desirable in
some situations, but in general it is a good way to needlessly burn
CPU cycles. And in those situations where it is desirable, your friend
is the function synchronize_srcu_expedited().

For other situations, this commit adds a kernel parameter that specifies
a holdoff between completing the last SRCU grace period and auto-expediting
the next. If the next grace period starts before the holdoff expires,
auto-expediting is disabled. The holdoff is 50 microseconds by default,
and can be tuned to the desired number of nanoseconds. A value of zero
disables auto-expediting.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>


# 1e9a038b 24-Apr-2017 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Expedited grace periods with reduced memory contention

Commit f60d231a87c5 ("srcu: Crude control of expedited grace periods")
introduced a per-srcu_struct atomic counter to track outstanding
requests for grace periods. This works, but represents a memory-contention
bottleneck. This commit therefore uses the srcu_node combining tree
to remove this bottleneck.

This commit adds new ->srcu_gp_seq_needed_exp fields to the
srcu_data, srcu_node, and srcu_struct structures, which track the
farthest-in-the-future grace period that must be expedited, which in
turn requires that all nearer-term grace periods also be expedited.
Requests for expediting start with the srcu_data structure, run up
through the srcu_node tree, and end at the srcu_struct structure.
Note that it may be necessary to expedite a grace period that just
now started, and this is handled by a new srcu_funnel_exp_start()
function, which is invoked when the grace period itself is already
in its way, but when that grace period was not marked as expedited.

A new srcu_get_delay() function returns zero if there is at least one
expedited SRCU grace period in flight, or SRCU_INTERVAL otherwise.
This function is used to calculate delays: Normal grace periods
are allowed to extend in order to cover more requests with a given
grace-period computation, which decreases per-request overhead.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>


# 7f6733c3 18-Apr-2017 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Make rcutorture writer stalls print SRCU GP state

In the past, SRCU was simple enough that there was little point in
making the rcutorture writer stall messages print the SRCU grace-period
number state. With the advent of Tree SRCU, this has changed. This
commit therefore makes Classic, Tiny, and Tree SRCU report this state
to rcutorture as needed.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>


# c7e88067 18-Apr-2017 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Exact tracking of srcu_data structures containing callbacks

The current Tree SRCU implementation schedules a workqueue for every
srcu_data covered by a given leaf srcu_node structure having callbacks,
even if only one of those srcu_data structures actually contains
callbacks. This is clearly inefficient for workloads that don't feature
callbacks everywhere all the time. This commit therefore adds an array
of masks that are used by the leaf srcu_node structures to track exactly
which srcu_data structures contain callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>


# da915ad5 05-Apr-2017 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Parallelize callback handling

Peter Zijlstra proposed using SRCU to reduce mmap_sem contention [1,2],
however, there are workloads that could result in a high volume of
concurrent invocations of call_srcu(), which with current SRCU would
result in excessive lock contention on the srcu_struct structure's
->queue_lock, which protects SRCU's callback lists. This commit therefore
moves SRCU to per-CPU callback lists, thus greatly reducing contention.

Because a given SRCU instance no longer has a single centralized callback
list, starting grace periods and invoking callbacks are both more complex
than in the single-list Classic SRCU implementation. Starting grace
periods and handling callbacks are now handled using an srcu_node tree
that is in some ways similar to the rcu_node trees used by RCU-bh,
RCU-preempt, and RCU-sched (for example, the srcu_node tree shape is
controlled by exactly the same Kconfig options and boot parameters that
control the shape of the rcu_node tree).

In addition, the old per-CPU srcu_array structure is now named srcu_data
and contains an rcu_segcblist structure named ->srcu_cblist for its
callbacks (and a spinlock to protect this). The srcu_struct gets
an srcu_gp_seq that is used to associate callback segments with the
corresponding completion-time grace-period number. These completion-time
grace-period numbers are propagated up the srcu_node tree so that the
grace-period workqueue handler can determine whether additional grace
periods are needed on the one hand and where to look for callbacks that
are ready to be invoked.

The srcu_barrier() function must now wait on all instances of the per-CPU
->srcu_cblist. Because each ->srcu_cblist is protected by ->lock,
srcu_barrier() can remotely add the needed callbacks. In theory,
it could also remotely start grace periods, but in practice doing so
is complex and racy. And interestingly enough, it is never necessary
for srcu_barrier() to start a grace period because srcu_barrier() only
enqueues a callback when a callback is already present--and it turns out
that a grace period has to have already been started for this pre-existing
callback. Furthermore, it is only the callback that srcu_barrier()
needs to wait on, not any particular grace period. Therefore, a new
rcu_segcblist_entrain() function enqueues the srcu_barrier() function's
callback into the same segment occupied by the last pre-existing callback
in the list. The special case where all the pre-existing callbacks are
on a different list (because they are in the process of being invoked)
is handled by enqueuing srcu_barrier()'s callback into the RCU_DONE_TAIL
segment, relying on the done-callbacks check that takes place after all
callbacks are inovked.

Note that the readers use the same algorithm as before. Note that there
is a separate srcu_idx that tells the readers what counter to increment.
This unfortunately cannot be combined with srcu_gp_seq because they
need to be incremented at different times.

This commit introduces some ugly #ifdefs in rcutorture. These will go
away when I feel good enough about Tree SRCU to ditch Classic SRCU.

Some crude performance comparisons, courtesy of a quickly hacked rcuperf
asynchronous-grace-period capability:

Callback Queuing Overhead
-------------------------
# CPUS Classic SRCU Tree SRCU
------ ------------ ---------
2 0.349 us 0.342 us
16 31.66 us 0.4 us
41 --------- 0.417 us

The times are the 90th percentiles, a statistic that was chosen to reject
the overheads of the occasional srcu_barrier() call needed to avoid OOMing
the test machine. The rcuperf test hangs when running Classic SRCU at 41
CPUs, hence the line of dashes. Despite the hacks to both the rcuperf code
and that statistics, this is a convincing demonstration of Tree SRCU's
performance and scalability advantages.

[1] https://lwn.net/Articles/309030/
[2] https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/5108281/

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Fix initialization if synchronize_srcu_expedited() called first. ]


# d8be8173 25-Mar-2017 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

srcu: Create a tiny SRCU

In response to automated complaints about modifications to SRCU
increasing its size, this commit creates a tiny SRCU that is
used in SMP=n && PREEMPT=n builds.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>