History log of /linux-master/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# d6fea1dd 16-Aug-2023 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

refscale: Print out additional module parameters

The refscale.verbose_batched and refscale.lookup_instances module
parameters are omitted from the ref_scale_print_module_parms()
beginning-of-test output. This commit therefore adds them.

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


# 730c3ed4 01-Aug-2023 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

refscale: Fix misplaced data re-read

This commit fixes a misplaced data re-read in the typesafe code.
The reason that this was not noticed is that this is a performance test
with no writers, so a mismatch could not occur.

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


# b5a2801f 11-Jul-2023 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

refscale: Add a "jiffies" test

This commit adds a "jiffies" test to refscale, allowing use of jiffies
to be compared to ktime_get_real_fast_ns(). On my x86 laptop, jiffies
is more than 20x faster. (Though for many uses, the tens-of-nanoseconds
overhead of ktime_get_real_fast_ns() will be just fine.)

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


# f5063e89 07-Jul-2023 Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>

refscale: Fix uninitalized use of wait_queue_head_t

Running the refscale test occasionally crashes the kernel with the
following error:

[ 8569.952896] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffffffffe8
[ 8569.952900] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 8569.952902] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 8569.952904] PGD c4b048067 P4D c4b049067 PUD c4b04b067 PMD 0
[ 8569.952910] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT_RT SMP NOPTI
[ 8569.952916] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R750/0WMWCR, BIOS 1.2.4 05/28/2021
[ 8569.952917] RIP: 0010:prepare_to_wait_event+0x101/0x190
:
[ 8569.952940] Call Trace:
[ 8569.952941] <TASK>
[ 8569.952944] ref_scale_reader+0x380/0x4a0 [refscale]
[ 8569.952959] kthread+0x10e/0x130
[ 8569.952966] ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
[ 8569.952973] </TASK>

The likely cause is that init_waitqueue_head() is called after the call to
the torture_create_kthread() function that creates the ref_scale_reader
kthread. Although this init_waitqueue_head() call will very likely
complete before this kthread is created and starts running, it is
possible that the calling kthread will be delayed between the calls to
torture_create_kthread() and init_waitqueue_head(). In this case, the
new kthread will use the waitqueue head before it is properly initialized,
which is not good for the kernel's health and well-being.

The above crash happened here:

static inline void __add_wait_queue(...)
{
:
if (!(wq->flags & WQ_FLAG_PRIORITY)) <=== Crash here

The offset of flags from list_head entry in wait_queue_entry is
-0x18. If reader_tasks[i].wq.head.next is NULL as allocated reader_task
structure is zero initialized, the instruction will try to access address
0xffffffffffffffe8, which is exactly the fault address listed above.

This commit therefore invokes init_waitqueue_head() before creating
the kthread.

Fixes: 653ed64b01dc ("refperf: Add a test to measure performance of read-side synchronization")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# 6bc6e6b2 31-Jan-2023 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

refscale: Move shutdown from wait_event() to wait_event_idle()

The ref_scale_shutdown() kthread/function uses wait_event() to wait for
the refscale test to complete. However, although the read-side tests
are normally extremely fast, there is no law against specifying a very
large value for the refscale.loops module parameter or against having
a slow read-side primitive. Either way, this might well trigger the
hung-task timeout.

This commit therefore replaces those wait_event() calls with calls to
wait_event_idle(), which do not trigger the hung-task timeout.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>


# a6889bec 08-Nov-2022 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

refscale: Add tests using SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU

This commit adds three read-side-only tests of three use cases featuring
SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU: One using per-object reference counting, one using
per-object locking, and one using per-object sequence locking.

[ paulmck: Apply feedback from kernel test robot. ]

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


# 3c6496c8 06-Nov-2022 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

refscale: Provide for initialization failure

Current tests all have init() functions that are guaranteed to succeed.
But upcoming tests will need to allocate memory, thus possibly failing.
This commit therefore handles init() function failure.

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


# 7bf336fb 11-Jun-2022 Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>

refscale: Convert test_lock spinlock to raw_spinlock

In kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y, spinlocks are replaced by
rt_mutex, which can sleep. This means that acquiring a non-raw spinlock
in a critical section where preemption is disabled can trigger the
following BUG:

BUG: scheduling while atomic: ref_scale_reade/76/0x00000002
Preemption disabled at:
ref_lock_section+0x16/0x80
Call Trace:
<TASK>
dump_stack_lvl+0x5b/0x82
dump_stack+0x10/0x12
__schedule_bug.cold+0x9c/0xad
__schedule+0x839/0xc00
schedule_rtlock+0x22/0x40
rtlock_slowlock_locked+0x460/0x1350
rt_spin_lock+0x61/0xe0
ref_lock_section+0x29/0x80
rcu_scale_one_reader+0x52/0x60
ref_scale_reader+0x28d/0x490
kthread+0x128/0x150
ret_from_fork+0x22/0x30
</TASK>

This commit therefore converts spinlock to raw_spinlock.

Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# dec86781 25-Mar-2022 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

refscale: Allow refscale without RCU Tasks Rude/Trace

Currently, a CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y kernel substitutes normal RCU for
RCU Tasks Rude and RCU Tasks Trace. Unless that kernel builds refscale,
whether built-in or as a module, in which case these RCU Tasks flavors are
(unnecessarily) built in. This both increases kernel size and increases
the complexity of certain tracing operations. This commit therefore
decouples the presence of refscale from the presence of RCU Tasks Rude
and RCU Tasks Trace.

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


# 5f654af1 25-Mar-2022 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

refscale: Allow refscale without RCU Tasks

Currently, a CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y kernel substitutes normal RCU for
RCU Tasks. Unless that kernel builds refscale, whether built-in or as a
module, in which case RCU Tasks is (unnecessarily) built in. This both
increases kernel size and increases the complexity of certain tracing
operations. This commit therefore decouples the presence of refscale
from the presence of RCU Tasks.

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


# f71f22b6 29-Oct-2021 Li Zhijian <zhijianx.li@intel.com>

refscale: Add missing '\n' to flush message

Add '\n' to macros to flush message for each call.

Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian <zhijianx.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# 4feeb9d5 24-Oct-2021 Li Zhijian <lizhijian@cn.fujitsu.com>

refscale: Always log the error message

An OOM is a serious error that should be logged even in non-verbose runs.
This commit therefore adds an unconditional SCALEOUT_ERRSTRING() macro
and uses it instead of VERBOSE_SCALEOUT_ERRSTRING() when reporting an OOM.

[ paulmck: Drop do-while from SCALEOUT_ERRSTRING() due to only single statement. ]

Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# 9880eb87 24-Oct-2021 Li Zhijian <lizhijian@cn.fujitsu.com>

refscale: Prevent buffer to pr_alert() being too long

0Day/LKP observed that the refscale results fail to complete when larger
values of nrun (such as 300) are specified. The problem is that printk()
can accept at most a 1024-byte buffer. This commit therefore prints
the buffer whenever its length exceeds 800 bytes.

CC: Philip Li <philip.li@intel.com>
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# c30c8763 24-Oct-2021 Li Zhijian <lizhijian@cn.fujitsu.com>

refscale: Simplify the errexit checkpoint

There is only the one OOM error case in main_func(), so this commit
eliminates the errexit local variable in favor of a branch to cleanup
code.

Signed-off-by: Li Zhijian <lizhijian@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# ed60ad73 05-Aug-2021 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

refscale: Warn on individual ref_scale_init() error conditions

When running refscale as a module, any ref_scale_init() issues will be
reflected in the error code from modprobe or insmod, as the case may be.
However, these error codes are not available when running refscale
built-in, for example, when using the kvm.sh script. This commit
therefore adds WARN_ON_ONCE() to allow distinguishing ref_scale_init()
errors when running refscale built-in.

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


# 25f6fa53 03-May-2021 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

refscale: Add measurement of clock readout

This commit adds a "clock" type to refscale, which checks the performance
of ktime_get_real_fast_ns(). Use the "clocksource=" kernel boot parameter
to select the underlying clock source.

[ paulmck: Work around compiler false positive per kernel test robot. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# 05bc276c 10-Jun-2021 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

refscale: Avoid false-positive warnings in ref_scale_reader()

If the call to set_cpus_allowed_ptr() in ref_scale_reader()
fails, a later WARN_ONCE() complains. But with the advent of
570a752b7a9b ("lib/smp_processor_id: Use is_percpu_thread() instead of
nr_cpus_allowed"), this complaint can be drowned out by complaints from
smp_processor_id(). The rationale for this change is that refscale's
kthreads are not marked with PF_NO_SETAFFINITY, which means that a system
administrator could change affinity at any time.

However, refscale is a performance/stress test, and the system
administrator might well have a valid test-the-test reason for changing
affinity. This commit therefore changes to raw_smp_processor_id()
in order to avoid the noise, and also adds a WARN_ON_ONCE() to the
call to set_cpus_allowed_ptr() in order to directly detect immediate
failure. There is no WARN_ON_ONCE() within the test loop, allowing
human-reflex-based affinity resetting, if desired.

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


# e9b800db 10-Mar-2021 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

refscale: Add acqrel, lock, and lock-irq

This commit adds scale_type of acqrel, lock, and lock-irq to
test acquisition and release. Note that the refscale.nreaders=1
module parameter is required if you wish to test uncontended locking.
In contrast, acqrel uses a per-CPU variable, so should be just fine with
large values of the refscale.nreaders=1 module parameter.

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


# 414c116e 25-Nov-2020 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

torture: Make refscale throttle high-rate printk()s

This commit adds a short delay for verbose_batched-throttled printk()s
to further decrease console flooding.

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


# e76506f0 15-Nov-2020 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

refscale: Allow summarization of verbose output

The refscale test prints enough per-kthread console output to provoke RCU
CPU stall warnings on large systems. This commit therefore allows this
output to be summarized. For example, the refscale.verbose_batched=32
boot parameter would causes only every 32nd line of output to be logged.

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


# bc80d353 17-Sep-2020 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

refscale: Prevent hangs for invalid arguments

If an refscale torture-test run is given a bad kvm.sh argument, the
test will complain to the console, which is good. What is bad is that
from the user's perspective, it will just hang for the time specified
by the --duration argument. This commit therefore forces an immediate
kernel shutdown if a ref_scale_init()-time error occurs, thus avoiding
the appearance of a hang. It also forces a console splat in this case
to clearly indicate the presence of an error.

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


# 0c6d18d8 27-Aug-2020 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

refscale: Bounds-check module parameters

The default value for refscale.nreaders is -1, which results in the code
setting the value to three-quarters of the number of CPUs. On single-CPU
systems, this results in three-quarters of the value one, which the C
language's integer arithmetic rounds to zero. This in turn results in
a divide-by-zero error.

This commit therefore adds bounds checking to the refscale module
parameters, so that if they are less than one, they are set to the
value one.

Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Tested-by "Chen, Rong A" <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# 58db5785 16-Jul-2020 Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>

refperf: Avoid null pointer dereference when buf fails to allocate

Currently in the unlikely event that buf fails to be allocated it
is dereferenced a few times. Use the errexit flag to determine if
buf should be written to to avoid the null pointer dereferences.

Addresses-Coverity: ("Dereference after null check")
Fixes: f518f154ecef ("refperf: Dynamically allocate experiment-summary output buffer")
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# 1fbeb3a8 17-Jun-2020 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

refperf: Rename refperf.c to refscale.c and change internal names

This commit further avoids conflation of refperf with the kernel's perf
feature by renaming kernel/rcu/refperf.c to kernel/rcu/refscale.c,
and also by similarly renaming the functions and variables inside
this file. This has the side effect of changing the names of the
kernel boot parameters, so kernel-parameters.txt and ver_functions.sh
are also updated.

The rcutorture --torture type remains refperf, and this will be
addressed in a separate commit.

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