History log of /linux-master/lib/percpu-refcount.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 343a72e5 16-Oct-2022 Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>

percpu-refcount: Use call_rcu_hurry() for atomic switch

Earlier commits in this series allow battery-powered systems to build
their kernels with the default-disabled CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y Kconfig option.
This Kconfig option causes call_rcu() to delay its callbacks in order to
batch callbacks. This means that a given RCU grace period covers more
callbacks, thus reducing the number of grace periods, in turn reducing
the amount of energy consumed, which increases battery lifetime which
can be a very good thing. This is not a subtle effect: In some important
use cases, the battery lifetime is increased by more than 10%.

This CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y option is available only for CPUs that offload
callbacks, for example, CPUs mentioned in the rcu_nocbs kernel boot
parameter passed to kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y.

Delaying callbacks is normally not a problem because most callbacks do
nothing but free memory. If the system is short on memory, a shrinker
will kick all currently queued lazy callbacks out of their laziness,
thus freeing their memory in short order. Similarly, the rcu_barrier()
function, which blocks until all currently queued callbacks are invoked,
will also kick lazy callbacks, thus enabling rcu_barrier() to complete
in a timely manner.

However, there are some cases where laziness is not a good option.
For example, synchronize_rcu() invokes call_rcu(), and blocks until
the newly queued callback is invoked. It would not be a good for
synchronize_rcu() to block for ten seconds, even on an idle system.
Therefore, synchronize_rcu() invokes call_rcu_hurry() instead of
call_rcu(). The arrival of a non-lazy call_rcu_hurry() callback on a
given CPU kicks any lazy callbacks that might be already queued on that
CPU. After all, if there is going to be a grace period, all callbacks
might as well get full benefit from it.

Yes, this could be done the other way around by creating a
call_rcu_lazy(), but earlier experience with this approach and
feedback at the 2022 Linux Plumbers Conference shifted the approach
to call_rcu() being lazy with call_rcu_hurry() for the few places
where laziness is inappropriate.

And another call_rcu() instance that cannot be lazy is the one on the
percpu refcounter's "per-CPU to atomic switch" code path, which
uses RCU when switching to atomic mode. The enqueued callback
wakes up waiters waiting in the percpu_ref_switch_waitq. Allowing
this callback to be lazy would result in unacceptable slowdowns for
users of per-CPU refcounts, such as blk_pre_runtime_suspend().

Therefore, make __percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic() use call_rcu_hurry()
in order to revert to the old behavior.

[ paulmck: Apply s/call_rcu_flush/call_rcu_hurry/ feedback from Tejun Heo. ]

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>


# a9171431 18-May-2022 Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

percpu_ref_init(): clean ->percpu_count_ref on failure

That way percpu_ref_exit() is safe after failing percpu_ref_init().
At least one user (cgroup_create()) had a double-free that way;
there might be other similar bugs. Easier to fix in percpu_ref_init(),
rather than playing whack-a-mole in sloppy users...

Usual symptoms look like a messed refcounting in one of subsystems
that use percpu allocations (might be percpu-refcount, might be
something else). Having refcounts for two different objects share
memory is Not Nice(tm)...

Reported-by: syzbot+5b1e53987f858500ec00@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>


# 9e9da02a 11-May-2021 Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>

percpu_ref: Don't opencode percpu_ref_is_dying

Signed-off-by: Nikolay Borisov <nborisov@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>


# 3375efed 08-Dec-2020 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

percpu_ref: Dump mem_dump_obj() info upon reference-count underflow

Reference-count underflow for percpu_ref is detected in the RCU callback
percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic_rcu(), and the resulting warning does not
print anything allowing easy identification of which percpu_ref use
case is underflowing. This is of course not normally a problem when
developing a new percpu_ref use case because it is most likely that
the problem resides in this new use case. However, when deploying a
new kernel to a large set of servers, the underflow might well be a new
corner case in any of the old percpu_ref use cases.

This commit therefore calls mem_dump_obj() to dump out any additional
available information on the underflowing percpu_ref instance.

Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Reported-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Naresh Kamboju <naresh.kamboju@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>


# 7ea6bf2e 08-Oct-2020 Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>

percpu_ref: don't refer to ref->data if it isn't allocated

We can't check ref->data->confirm_switch directly in __percpu_ref_exit(), since
ref->data may not be allocated in one not-initialized refcount.

Fixes: 2b0d3d3e4fcf ("percpu_ref: reduce memory footprint of percpu_ref in fast path")
Reported-by: syzbot+fd15ff734dace9e16437@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 2b0d3d3e 01-Oct-2020 Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>

percpu_ref: reduce memory footprint of percpu_ref in fast path

'struct percpu_ref' is often embedded into one user structure, and the
instance is usually referenced in fast path, however actually only
'percpu_count_ptr' is needed in fast path.

So move other fields into one new structure of 'percpu_ref_data', and
allocate it dynamically via kzalloc(), then memory footprint of
'percpu_ref' in fast path is reduced a lot and becomes suitable to put
into hot cacheline of user structure.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Veronika Kabatova <vkabatov@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Sagi Grimberg <sagi@grimberg.me>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# a818e526 04-Jun-2020 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

lib/percpu-refcount.c: use a more common logging style

Remove the trailing newline from the used-once pr_fmt and add it to the
single use of pr_<level> in this code to use a more common logging style.

Miscellanea:

o Use %lu in the pr_debug format and remove the unnecessary cast

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/47372467902a047c03b0fd29aab56e0c38d3f848.camel@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# 15617dff 21-Feb-2020 Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>

percpu_ref: Fix comment regarding percpu_ref_init flags

The comment for percpu_ref_init() implies that using
PERCPU_REF_ALLOW_REINIT will cause the refcount to start at 0. But
this is not true. PERCPU_REF_ALLOW_REINIT starts the count at 1 as
if the flags were zero. Add this fact to the kernel doc comment.

Signed-off-by: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
[Dennis: reworded]
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>


# 457c8996 19-May-2019 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

treewide: Add SPDX license identifier for missed files

Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:

- Have no license information of any form

- Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the
initial scan/conversion to ignore the file

These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:

GPL-2.0-only

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>


# 7d9ab9b6 07-May-2019 Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>

percpu_ref: release percpu memory early without PERCPU_REF_ALLOW_REINIT

Release percpu memory after finishing the switch to the atomic mode
if only PERCPU_REF_ALLOW_REINIT isn't set.

Signed-off-by: Roman Gushchin <guro@fb.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>


# d75f773c 25-Mar-2019 Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>

treewide: Switch printk users from %pf and %pF to %ps and %pS, respectively

%pF and %pf are functionally equivalent to %pS and %ps conversion
specifiers. The former are deprecated, therefore switch the current users
to use the preferred variant.

The changes have been produced by the following command:

git grep -l '%p[fF]' | grep -v '^\(tools\|Documentation\)/' | \
while read i; do perl -i -pe 's/%pf/%ps/g; s/%pF/%pS/g;' $i; done

And verifying the result.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190325193229.23390-1-sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com
Cc: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-um@lists.infradead.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: drbd-dev@lists.linbit.com
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-nvdimm@lists.01.org
Cc: linux-pci@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-f2fs-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: ceph-devel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.com> (for btrfs)
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com> (for mm/memblock.c)
Acked-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> (for drivers/pci)
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>


# 36bd1a8e 06-Nov-2018 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

percpu-refcount: Replace call_rcu_sched() with call_rcu()

Now that call_rcu()'s callback is not invoked until after all
preempt-disable regions of code have completed (in addition to explicitly
marked RCU read-side critical sections), call_rcu() can be used in place
of call_rcu_sched(). This commit therefore makes that change.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>


# 18c9a6bb 26-Sep-2018 Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>

percpu-refcount: Introduce percpu_ref_resurrect()

This function will be used in a later patch to switch the struct
request_queue q_usage_counter from killed back to live. In contrast
to percpu_ref_reinit(), this new function does not require that the
refcount is zero.

Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Jianchao Wang <jianchao.w.wang@oracle.com>
Cc: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.com>
Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <jthumshirn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# b3a5d111 14-Mar-2018 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu_ref: Update doc to dissuade users from depending on internal RCU grace periods

percpu_ref internally uses sched-RCU to implement the percpu -> atomic
mode switching and the documentation suggested that this could be
depended upon. This doesn't seem like a good idea.

* percpu_ref uses sched-RCU which has different grace periods regular
RCU. Users may combine percpu_ref with regular RCU usage and
incorrectly believe that regular RCU grace periods are performed by
percpu_ref. This can lead to, for example, use-after-free due to
premature freeing.

* percpu_ref has a grace period when switching from percpu to atomic
mode. It doesn't have one between the last put and release. This
distinction is subtle and can lead to surprising bugs.

* percpu_ref allows starting in and switching to atomic mode manually
for debugging and other purposes. This means that there may not be
any grace periods from kill to release.

This patch makes it clear that the grace periods are percpu_ref's
internal implementation detail and can't be depended upon by the
users.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>


# b393e8b3 09-Oct-2017 Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

percpu: READ_ONCE() now implies smp_read_barrier_depends()

Because READ_ONCE() now implies smp_read_barrier_depends(), this commit
removes the now-redundant smp_read_barrier_depends() following the
READ_ONCE() in __ref_is_percpu().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>


# 210f7cdc 14-Mar-2017 NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>

percpu-refcount: support synchronous switch to atomic mode.

percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic_sync() schedules the switch to atomic mode, then
waits for it to complete.

Also export percpu_ref_switch_to_* so they can be used from modules.

This will be used in md/raid to count the number of pending write
requests to an array.
We occasionally need to check if the count is zero, but most often
we don't care.
We always want updates to the counter to be fast, as in some cases
we count every 4K page.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>


# a67823c1 11-Aug-2016 Roman Pen <roman.penyaev@profitbricks.com>

percpu-refcount: init ->confirm_switch member properly

This patch targets two things which are related to ->confirm_switch:

1. Init ->confirm_switch pointer with NULL on percpu_ref_init() or
kernel frightfully complains with WARN_ON_ONCE(ref->confirm_switch)
at __percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic if memory chunk was not properly
zeroed.

2. Warn if RCU callback is still in progress on percpu_ref_exit().
The race still exists, because percpu_ref_call_confirm_rcu()
drops ->confirm_switch to NULL early, but that is only a warning
and still the caller is responsible that ref is no longer in
active use. Hopefully that can help to catch incorrect usage
of percpu-refcount.

Signed-off-by: Roman Pen <roman.penyaev@profitbricks.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>


# 33e465ce 29-Sep-2015 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu_ref: allow operation mode switching operations to be called concurrently

percpu_ref initially didn't have explicit mode switching operations.
It started out in percpu mode and switched to atomic mode on kill and
then released. Ensuring that kill operation is initiated only after
init completes was naturally the caller's responsibility.

percpu_ref_reinit() was introduced later but it didn't shift the
synchronization responsibility. Reinit can't be performed until kill
is confirmed, so there was nothing to worry about
synchronization-wise. Also, as both reinit and kill manipulate the
base reference, invocations of the same function couldn't be allowed
to race each other.

The latest additions of percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic/percpu() changed
the situation. These two functions can be called any time as long as
the percpu_ref is between init and exit and thus there are valid valid
usage scenarios where these new functions race with each other or
against reinit/kill. Mostly from inertia, f47ad4578461 ("percpu_ref:
decouple switching to percpu mode and reinit") still left
synchronization among percpu mode switching operations to its users.

That the new switch functions can be freely mixed with kill/reinit but
the operations themselves should be synchronized is too subtle a
requirement and led to a very subtle race condition in blk-mq freezing
path.

This patch fixes the situation by introducing percpu_ref_switch_lock
to protect mode switching operations. This ensures that percpu-ref
users don't have to worry about mode changing operations racing
against each other, e.g. switch_to_percpu against kill, as long as the
sequence of operations is valid.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/1443287365-4244-7-git-send-email-akinobu.mita@gmail.com
Fixes: f47ad4578461 ("percpu_ref: decouple switching to percpu mode and reinit")


# 3f49bdd9 29-Sep-2015 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu_ref: restructure operation mode switching

Restructure atomic/percpu mode switching.

* The users of __percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic/percpu() now call a new
function __percpu_ref_switch_mode() which calls either of the
original switching functions depending on the current state of
ref->force_atomic and the __PERCPU_REF_DEAD flag. The callers no
longer check whether switching is necessary but always invoke
__percpu_ref_switch_mode().

* !ref->confirm_switch waiting is collected into
__percpu_ref_switch_mode().

This patch doesn't cause any behavior differences.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>


# 18808354 29-Sep-2015 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu_ref: unify staggered atomic switching wait behavior

When an atomic or percpu switching starts before the previous atomic
switching finishes, the taken behaviors are

* If the new atomic switching has confirmation callback, it waits
for the previous atomic switching to complete.

* If the new percpu switching is the first percpu switching following
the previous atomic switching, it waits the previous atomic
switching to complete.

No percpu_ref user depends on these subtleties. The only meaningful
part is that, if the caller ensures that atomic switching isn't in
progress, mode switching operations can be issued from any context.

This patch pulls the wait logic to the top of both switching functions
so that they always wait for the previous atomic switching to
complete. This makes the behavior simpler and consistent for both
directions and will help allowing concurrent invocations of mode
switching functions.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>


# b2302c7f 29-Sep-2015 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu_ref: reorganize __percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic() and relocate percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic()

Reorganize __percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic() so that it looks
structurally similar to __percpu_ref_switch_to_percpu() and relocate
percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic so that the two internal functions are
co-located.

This patch doesn't introduce any functional differences.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>


# a2f5630c 29-Sep-2015 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu_ref: remove unnecessary RCU grace period for staggered atomic switching confirmation

At the beginning, percpu_ref guaranteed a RCU grace period between a
call to percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm() and the invocation of the
confirmation callback. This guarantee exposed internal implementation
details and got rescinded while switching over to sched RCU; however,
__percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic() still inserts a full sched RCU grace
period even when it can simply wait for the previous attempt.

Remove the unnecessary grace period and perform the confirmation
synchronously for staggered atomic switching attempts. Update
comments accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>


# bdb428c8 27-Dec-2015 Bogdan Sikora <bsikora@redhat.com>

lib+mm: fix few spelling mistakes

All are in comments.

Signed-off-by: Bogdan Sikora <bsikora@redhat.com>
Cc: <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Cc: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
[jkosina@suse.cz: more fixup]
Acked-by: Rafael Aquini <aquini@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>


# 1cae13e7 24-Sep-2014 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu_ref: make INIT_ATOMIC and switch_to_atomic() sticky

Currently, a percpu_ref which is initialized with
PERPCU_REF_INIT_ATOMIC or switched to atomic mode via
switch_to_atomic() automatically reverts to percpu mode on the first
percpu_ref_reinit(). This makes the atomic mode difficult to use for
cases where a percpu_ref is used as a persistent on/off switch which
may be cycled multiple times.

This patch makes such atomic state sticky so that it survives through
kill/reinit cycles. After this patch, atomic state is cleared only by
an explicit percpu_ref_switch_to_percpu() call.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>


# 2aad2a86 24-Sep-2014 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu_ref: add PERCPU_REF_INIT_* flags

With the recent addition of percpu_ref_reinit(), percpu_ref now can be
used as a persistent switch which can be turned on and off repeatedly
where turning off maps to killing the ref and waiting for it to drain;
however, there currently isn't a way to initialize a percpu_ref in its
off (killed and drained) state, which can be inconvenient for certain
persistent switch use cases.

Similarly, percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic/percpu() allow dynamic
selection of operation mode; however, currently a newly initialized
percpu_ref is always in percpu mode making it impossible to avoid the
latency overhead of switching to atomic mode.

This patch adds @flags to percpu_ref_init() and implements the
following flags.

* PERCPU_REF_INIT_ATOMIC : start ref in atomic mode
* PERCPU_REF_INIT_DEAD : start ref killed and drained

These flags should be able to serve the above two use cases.

v2: target_core_tpg.c conversion was missing. Fixed.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>


# f47ad457 24-Sep-2014 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu_ref: decouple switching to percpu mode and reinit

percpu_ref has treated the dropping of the base reference and
switching to atomic mode as an integral operation; however, there's
nothing inherent tying the two together.

The use cases for percpu_ref have been expanding continuously. While
the current init/kill/reinit/exit model can cover a lot, the coupling
of kill/reinit with atomic/percpu mode switching is turning out to be
too restrictive for use cases where many percpu_refs are created and
destroyed back-to-back with only some of them reaching extended
operation. The coupling also makes implementing always-atomic debug
mode difficult.

This patch separates out percpu mode switching into
percpu_ref_switch_to_percpu() and reimplements percpu_ref_reinit() on
top of it.

* DEAD still requires ATOMIC. A dead ref can't be switched to percpu
mode w/o going through reinit.

v2: __percpu_ref_switch_to_percpu() was missing static. Fixed.
Reported by Fengguang aka kbuild test robot.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>


# 490c79a6 24-Sep-2014 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu_ref: decouple switching to atomic mode and killing

percpu_ref has treated the dropping of the base reference and
switching to atomic mode as an integral operation; however, there's
nothing inherent tying the two together.

The use cases for percpu_ref have been expanding continuously. While
the current init/kill/reinit/exit model can cover a lot, the coupling
of kill/reinit with atomic/percpu mode switching is turning out to be
too restrictive for use cases where many percpu_refs are created and
destroyed back-to-back with only some of them reaching extended
operation. The coupling also makes implementing always-atomic debug
mode difficult.

This patch separates out atomic mode switching into
percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic() and reimplements
percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm() on top of it.

* The handling of __PERCPU_REF_ATOMIC and __PERCPU_REF_DEAD is now
differentiated. Among get/put operations, percpu_ref_tryget_live()
is the only one which cares about DEAD.

* percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic() can be called multiple times on the
same ref. This means that multiple @confirm_switch may get queued
up which we can't do reliably without extra memory area. This is
handled by making the later invocation synchronously wait for the
completion of the previous one. This isn't particularly desirable
but such synchronous waits shouldn't happen in most cases.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>


# 27344a90 24-Sep-2014 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu_ref: add PCPU_REF_DEAD

percpu_ref will be restructured so that percpu/atomic mode switching
and reference killing are dedoupled. In preparation, add
PCPU_REF_DEAD and PCPU_REF_ATOMIC_DEAD which is OR of ATOMIC and DEAD.
For now, ATOMIC and DEAD are changed together and all PCPU_REF_ATOMIC
uses are converted to PCPU_REF_ATOMIC_DEAD without causing any
behavior changes.

percpu_ref_init() now specifies an explicit alignment when allocating
the percpu counters so that the pointer has enough unused low bits to
accomodate the flags. Note that one flag was fine as min alignment
for percpu memory is 2 bytes but two flags are already too many for
the natural alignment of unsigned longs on archs like cris and m68k.

v2: The original patch had BUILD_BUG_ON() which triggers if unsigned
long's alignment isn't enough to accomodate the flags, which
triggered on cris and m64k. percpu_ref_init() updated to specify
the required alignment explicitly. Reported by Fengguang.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>


# 9e804d1f 24-Sep-2014 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu_ref: rename things to prepare for decoupling percpu/atomic mode switch

percpu_ref will be restructured so that percpu/atomic mode switching
and reference killing are dedoupled. In preparation, do the following
renames.

* percpu_ref->confirm_kill -> percpu_ref->confirm_switch
* __PERCPU_REF_DEAD -> __PERCPU_REF_ATOMIC
* __percpu_ref_alive() -> __ref_is_percpu()

This patch is pure rename and doesn't introduce any functional
changes.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>


# eecc16ba 24-Sep-2014 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu_ref: replace pcpu_ prefix with percpu_

percpu_ref uses pcpu_ prefix for internal stuff and percpu_ for
externally visible ones. This is the same convention used in the
percpu allocator implementation. It works fine there but percpu_ref
doesn't have too much internal-only stuff and scattered usages of
pcpu_ prefix are confusing than helpful.

This patch replaces all pcpu_ prefixes with percpu_. This is pure
rename and there's no functional change. Note that PCPU_REF_DEAD is
renamed to __PERCPU_REF_DEAD to signify that the flag is internal.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>


# 6251f997 24-Sep-2014 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu_ref: minor code and comment updates

* Some comments became stale. Updated.
* percpu_ref_tryget() unnecessarily initializes @ret. Removed.
* A blank line removed from percpu_ref_kill_rcu().
* Explicit function name in a WARN format string replaced with __func__.
* WARN_ON() in percpu_ref_reinit() converted to WARN_ON_ONCE().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>


# a2237370 24-Sep-2014 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu_ref: relocate percpu_ref_reinit()

percpu_ref is gonna go through restructuring. Move
percpu_ref_reinit() after percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm(). This will
make later changes easier to follow and result in cleaner
organization.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>


# 9eca8046 24-Sep-2014 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Revert "blk-mq, percpu_ref: implement a kludge for SCSI blk-mq stall during probe"

This reverts commit 0a30288da1aec914e158c2d7a3482a85f632750f, which
was a temporary fix for SCSI blk-mq stall issue. The following
patches will fix the issue properly by introducing atomic mode to
percpu_ref.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>


# 0a30288d 23-Sep-2014 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

blk-mq, percpu_ref: implement a kludge for SCSI blk-mq stall during probe

blk-mq uses percpu_ref for its usage counter which tracks the number
of in-flight commands and used to synchronously drain the queue on
freeze. percpu_ref shutdown takes measureable wallclock time as it
involves a sched RCU grace period. This means that draining a blk-mq
takes measureable wallclock time. One would think that this shouldn't
matter as queue shutdown should be a rare event which takes place
asynchronously w.r.t. userland.

Unfortunately, SCSI probing involves synchronously setting up and then
tearing down a lot of request_queues back-to-back for non-existent
LUNs. This means that SCSI probing may take more than ten seconds
when scsi-mq is used.

This will be properly fixed by implementing a mechanism to keep
q->mq_usage_counter in atomic mode till genhd registration; however,
that involves rather big updates to percpu_ref which is difficult to
apply late in the devel cycle (v3.17-rc6 at the moment). As a
stop-gap measure till the proper fix can be implemented in the next
cycle, this patch introduces __percpu_ref_kill_expedited() and makes
blk_mq_freeze_queue() use it. This is heavy-handed but should work
for testing the experimental SCSI blk-mq implementation.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/g/20140919113815.GA10791@lst.de
Fixes: add703fda981 ("blk-mq: use percpu_ref for mq usage count")
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Tested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>


# e625305b 19-Sep-2014 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu-refcount: make percpu_ref based on longs instead of ints

percpu_ref is currently based on ints and the number of refs it can
cover is (1 << 31). This makes it impossible to use a percpu_ref to
count memory objects or pages on 64bit machines as it may overflow.
This forces those users to somehow aggregate the references before
contributing to the percpu_ref which is often cumbersome and sometimes
challenging to get the same level of performance as using the
percpu_ref directly.

While using ints for the percpu counters makes them pack tighter on
64bit machines, the possible gain from using ints instead of longs is
extremely small compared to the overall gain from per-cpu operation.
This patch makes percpu_ref based on longs so that it can be used to
directly count memory objects or pages.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>


# 4843c332 19-Sep-2014 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu-refcount: improve WARN messages

percpu_ref's WARN messages can be a lot more helpful by indicating
who's the culprit. Make them report the release function that the
offending percpu-refcount is associated with. This should make it a
lot easier to track down the reported invalid refcnting operations.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>


# a34375ef 07-Sep-2014 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu-refcount: add @gfp to percpu_ref_init()

Percpu allocator now supports allocation mask. Add @gfp to
percpu_ref_init() so that !GFP_KERNEL allocation masks can be used
with percpu_refs too.

This patch doesn't make any functional difference.

v2: blk-mq conversion was missing. Updated.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>
Cc: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>


# 2d722782 28-Jun-2014 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu-refcount: implement percpu_ref_reinit() and percpu_ref_is_zero()

Now that explicit invocation of percpu_ref_exit() is necessary to free
the percpu counter, we can implement percpu_ref_reinit() which
reinitializes a released percpu_ref. This can be used implement
scalable gating switch which can be drained and then re-opened without
worrying about memory allocation failures.

percpu_ref_is_zero() is added to be used in a sanity check in
percpu_ref_exit(). As this function will be useful for other purposes
too, make it a public interface.

v2: Use smp_read_barrier_depends() instead of smp_load_acquire(). We
only need data dep barrier and smp_load_acquire() is stronger and
heavier on some archs. Spotted by Lai Jiangshan.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>


# 9a1049da 28-Jun-2014 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu-refcount: require percpu_ref to be exited explicitly

Currently, a percpu_ref undoes percpu_ref_init() automatically by
freeing the allocated percpu area when the percpu_ref is killed.
While seemingly convenient, this has the following niggles.

* It's impossible to re-init a released reference counter without
going through re-allocation.

* In the similar vein, it's impossible to initialize a percpu_ref
count with static percpu variables.

* We need and have an explicit destructor anyway for failure paths -
percpu_ref_cancel_init().

This patch removes the automatic percpu counter freeing in
percpu_ref_kill_rcu() and repurposes percpu_ref_cancel_init() into a
generic destructor now named percpu_ref_exit(). percpu_ref_destroy()
is considered but it gets confusing with percpu_ref_kill() while
"exit" clearly indicates that it's the counterpart of
percpu_ref_init().

All percpu_ref_cancel_init() users are updated to invoke
percpu_ref_exit() instead and explicit percpu_ref_exit() calls are
added to the destruction path of all percpu_ref users.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Nicholas A. Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>
Cc: Li Zefan <lizefan@huawei.com>


# 7d742075 28-Jun-2014 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu-refcount: use unsigned long for pcpu_count pointer

percpu_ref->pcpu_count is a percpu pointer with a status flag in its
lowest bit. As such, it always goes through arithmetic operations
which is very cumbersome to do on a pointer. It has to be first
casted to unsigned long and then back.

Let's just make the field unsigned long so that we can skip the first
casts. While at it, rename it to pcpu_counter_ptr to clarify that
it's a pointer value.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>


# eae7975d 28-Jun-2014 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu-refcount: add helpers for ->percpu_count accesses

* All four percpu_ref_*() operations implemented in the header file
perform the same operation to determine whether the percpu_ref is
alive and extract the percpu pointer. Factor out the common logic
into __pcpu_ref_alive(). This doesn't change the generated code.

* There are a couple places in percpu-refcount.c which masks out
PCPU_REF_DEAD to obtain the percpu pointer. Factor it out into
pcpu_count_ptr().

* The above changes make the WARN_ON_ONCE() conditional at the top of
percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm() the only user of REF_STATUS(). Test
PCPU_REF_DEAD directly and remove REF_STATUS().

This patch doesn't introduce any functional change.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>


# d630dc4c 28-Jun-2014 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu-refcount: one bit is enough for REF_STATUS

percpu-refcount currently reserves two lowest bits of its percpu
pointer to indicate its state; however, only one bit is used for
PCPU_REF_DEAD.

Simplify it by removing PCPU_STATUS_BITS/MASK and testing
PCPU_REF_DEAD directly. This also allows the compiler to choose a
more efficient instruction depending on the architecture.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>


# 687b0ad2 06-Jan-2014 Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>

percpu-refcount: Add a WARN() for ref going negative

AIO had a missing get, which led to an ioctx leak - after percpu_ref_kill() the
ref was 0 so percpu_ref_put() never saw it hit 0.

This wasn't noticed at the time because it all happened completely silently,
this adds a WARN() which would've caught the aio bug.

tj: Used WARN_ONCE() instead of WARN().

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>


# c9e8d128 07-Nov-2013 Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>

percpu-refcount: Add EXPORT_SYMBOL to use percpu_ref from modules

This patch adds EXPORT_SYMBOL() for percpu_ref_init(),
percpu_ref_cancel_init() and percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm() so
that percpu refcounting can be used by external modules.

Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo@daterainc.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org>


# 5e9dd373 16-Oct-2013 Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me>

percpu_refcount: export symbols

Export the interface to be used within modules.

Signed-off-by: Matias Bjorling <m@bjorling.me>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>


# a4244454 16-Jun-2013 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu-refcount: use RCU-sched insted of normal RCU

percpu-refcount was incorrectly using preempt_disable/enable() for RCU
critical sections against call_rcu(). 6a24474da8 ("percpu-refcount:
consistently use plain (non-sched) RCU") fixed it by converting the
preepmtion operations with rcu_read_[un]lock() citing that there isn't
any advantage in using sched-RCU over using the usual one; however,
rcu_read_[un]lock() for the preemptible RCU implementation -
CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, chosen when CONFIG_PREEMPT - are slightly
more expensive than preempt_disable/enable().

In a contrived microbench which repeats the followings,

- percpu_ref_get()
- copy 32 bytes of data into percpu buffer
- percpu_put_get()
- copy 32 bytes of data into percpu buffer

rcu_read_[un]lock() used in percpu_ref_get/put() makes it go slower by
about 15% when compared to using sched-RCU.

As the RCU critical sections are extremely short, using sched-RCU
shouldn't have any latency implications. Convert to RCU-sched.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>


# dbece3a0 13-Jun-2013 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu-refcount: implement percpu_tryget() along with percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm()

Implement percpu_tryget() which stops giving out references once the
percpu_ref is visible as killed. Because the refcnt is per-cpu,
different CPUs will start to see a refcnt as killed at different
points in time and tryget() may continue to succeed on subset of cpus
for a while after percpu_ref_kill() returns.

For use cases where it's necessary to know when all CPUs start to see
the refcnt as dead, percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm() is added. The new
function takes an extra argument @confirm_kill which is invoked when
the refcnt is guaranteed to be viewed as killed on all CPUs.

While this isn't the prettiest interface, it doesn't force synchronous
wait and is much safer than requiring the caller to do its own
call_rcu().

v2: Patch description rephrased to emphasize that tryget() may
continue to succeed on some CPUs after kill() returns as suggested
by Kent.

v3: Function comment in percpu_ref_kill_and_confirm() updated warning
people to not depend on the implied RCU grace period from the
confirm callback as it's an implementation detail.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Slightly-Grumpily-Acked-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>


# bc497bd3 12-Jun-2013 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu-refcount: implement percpu_ref_cancel_init()

Normally, percpu_ref_init() initializes and percpu_ref_kill()
initiates destruction which completes asynchronously. The
asynchronous destruction can be problematic in init failure path where
the caller wants to destroy half-constructed object - distinguishing
half-constructed objects from the usual release method can be painful
for complex objects.

This patch implements percpu_ref_cancel_init() which synchronously
destroys the percpu_ref without invoking release. To avoid
unintentional misuses, the function requires the ref to have finished
percpu_ref_init() but never used and triggers WARN otherwise.

v2: Explain the weird name and usage restriction in the function
comment.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>


# acac7883 12-Jun-2013 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu-refcount: add __must_check to percpu_ref_init() and don't use ACCESS_ONCE() in percpu_ref_kill_rcu()

Two small changes.

* Unlike most init functions, percpu_ref_init() allocates memory and
may fail. Let's mark it with __must_check in case the caller
forgets.

* percpu_ref_kill_rcu() is unnecessarily using ACCESS_ONCE() to
dereference @ref->pcpu_count, which can be misleading. The pointer
is guaranteed to be valid and visible and can't change underneath
the function. Drop ACCESS_ONCE().

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>


# ac899061 12-Jun-2013 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

percpu-refcount: cosmetic updates

* s/percpu_ref_release/percpu_ref_func_t/ as it's customary to have _t
postfix for types and the type is gonna be used for a different type
of callback too.

* Add @ARG to function comments.

* Drop unnecessary and unaligned indentation from percpu_ref_init()
function comment.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>


# c1ae6e9b 03-Jun-2013 Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>

percpu-refcount: Don't use silly cmpxchg()

The cmpxchg() was just to ensure the debug check didn't race, which was
a bit excessive. The caller is supposed to do the appropriate
synchronization, which means percpu_ref_kill() can just do a simple
store.

Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>


# 215e262f 31-May-2013 Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>

percpu: implement generic percpu refcounting

This implements a refcount with similar semantics to
atomic_get()/atomic_dec_and_test() - but percpu.

It also implements two stage shutdown, as we need it to tear down the
percpu counts. Before dropping the initial refcount, you must call
percpu_ref_kill(); this puts the refcount in "shutting down mode" and
switches back to a single atomic refcount with the appropriate
barriers (synchronize_rcu()).

It's also legal to call percpu_ref_kill() multiple times - it only
returns true once, so callers don't have to reimplement shutdown
synchronization.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix build]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style tweak]
Signed-off-by: Kent Overstreet <koverstreet@google.com>
Cc: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <balbi@ti.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
Cc: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Asai Thambi S P <asamymuthupa@micron.com>
Cc: Selvan Mani <smani@micron.com>
Cc: Sam Bradshaw <sbradshaw@micron.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@kvack.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>