fixes.2020.04.27a: Miscellaneous fixes.
kfree_rcu.2020.04.27a: Changes related to kfree_rcu().
rcu-tasks.2020.04.27a: Addition of new RCU-tasks flavors.
stall.2020.04.27a: RCU CPU stall-warning updates.
torture.2020.05.07a: Torture-test updates.
This commit provides an rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread module parameter
to allow rcutorture to starve the grace-period kthread. This allows
testing the code that detects such starvation.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Systems running CPU-bound real-time task do not want IPIs sent to CPUs
executing nohz_full userspace tasks. Battery-powered systems don't
want IPIs sent to idle CPUs in low-power mode. Unfortunately, RCU tasks
trace can and will send such IPIs in some cases.
Both of these situations occur only when the target CPU is in RCU
dyntick-idle mode, in other words, when RCU is not watching the
target CPU. This suggests that CPUs in dyntick-idle mode should use
memory barriers in outermost invocations of rcu_read_lock_trace()
and rcu_read_unlock_trace(), which would allow the RCU tasks trace
grace period to directly read out the target CPU's read-side state.
One challenge is that RCU tasks trace is not targeting a specific
CPU, but rather a task. And that task could switch from one CPU to
another at any time.
This commit therefore uses try_invoke_on_locked_down_task()
and checks for task_curr() in trc_inspect_reader_notrunning().
When this condition holds, the target task is running and cannot move.
If CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB=y, the new rcu_dynticks_zero_in_eqs()
function can be used to check if the specified integer (in this case,
t->trc_reader_nesting) is zero while the target CPU remains in that same
dyntick-idle sojourn. If so, the target task is in a quiescent state.
If not, trc_read_check_handler() must indicate failure so that the
grace-period kthread can take appropriate action or retry after an
appropriate delay, as the case may be.
With this change, given CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB=y, if a given
CPU remains idle or a given task continues executing in nohz_full mode,
the RCU tasks trace grace-period kthread will detect this without the
need to send an IPI.
Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds state for each RCU-tasks flavor to the rcutorture
writer stall output. The initial state is minimal, but you have to
start somewhere.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
[ paulmck: Fixes based on feedback from kbuild test robot. ]
In normal production, an RCU CPU stall warning at boottime is often
just as bad as at any other time. In fact, given the desire for fast
boot, any sort of long-term stall at boot is a bad idea. However,
heavy rcutorture testing on large hyperthreaded systems can generate
boottime RCU CPU stalls as a matter of course. This commit therefore
provides a kernel boot parameter that suppresses reporting of boottime
RCU CPU stall warnings and similarly of rcutorture writer stalls.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The for_each_leaf_node_cpu_mask() and for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu()
macros must be invoked only on leaf rcu_node structures. Failing to
abide by this restriction can result in infinite loops on systems with
more than 64 CPUs (or for more than 32 CPUs on 32-bit systems). This
commit therefore adds WARN_ON_ONCE() calls to make misuse of these two
macros easier to debug.
Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The C preprocessor macros SRCU and TINY_RCU should instead be CONFIG_SRCU
and CONFIG_TINY_RCU, respectively in the #f in kernel/rcu/rcu.h. But
there is no harm when "TINY_RCU" is wrongly used, which are always
non-defined, which makes "!defined(TINY_RCU)" always true, which means
the code block is always included, and the included code block doesn't
cause any compilation error so far in CONFIG_TINY_RCU builds. It is
also the reason this change should not be taken in -stable.
This commit adds the needed "CONFIG_" prefix to both macros.
Not for -stable.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit removes kfree_rcu() special-casing and the lazy-callback
handling from Tree RCU. It moves some of this special casing to Tiny RCU,
the removal of which will be the subject of later commits.
This results in a nice negative delta.
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Add slab.h #include, thanks to kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently PREEMPT_RCU and TREE_RCU are mutually exclusive Kconfig
options. But PREEMPT_RCU actually specifies a kind of TREE_RCU,
namely a preemptible TREE_RCU. This commit therefore makes PREEMPT_RCU
be a modifer to the TREE_RCU Kconfig option. This has the benefit of
simplifying several of the #if expressions that formerly needed to
check both, but now need only check one or the other.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
New tools bring new warnings, and with v5.3 comes:
kernel/rcu/srcutree.c: warning: 'levelspread[<U aa0>]' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wuninitialized]: => 121:34
This commit suppresses this warning by initializing the full array
to INT_MIN, which will result in failures should any out-of-bounds
references appear.
Reported-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
The function rcutorture_record_progress() is declared in rcu.h, but is
never used. This commit therefore removes rcutorture_record_progress()
to clean code.
Signed-off-by: Ethan Hansen <1ethanhansen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds a rcu_cpu_stall_ftrace_dump kernel boot parameter, that,
when set, causes the trace buffer to be dumped after an RCU CPU stall
warning is printed. This kernel boot parameter is disabled by default,
maintaining compatibility with previous behavior.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
I have been showing off a trivial RCU implementation for non-preemptive
environments for some time now:
#define rcu_read_lock()
#define rcu_read_unlock()
#define rcu_dereference(p) READ_ONCE(p)
#define rcu_assign_pointer(p, v) smp_store_release(&(p), (v))
void synchronize_rcu(void)
{
int cpu;
for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
sched_setaffinity(current->pid, cpumask_of(cpu));
}
Trivial or not, as the old saying goes, "if it ain't tested, it don't
work!". This commit therefore adds a "trivial" flavor to rcutorture
and a corresponding TRIVIAL test scenario. This variant does not handle
CPU hotplug, which is unconditionally enabled on x86 for post-v5.1-rc3
kernels, which is why the TRIVIAL.boot says "rcutorture.onoff_interval=0".
This commit actually does handle CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernels, but only
because it turns back the Linux-kernel clock in order to provide these
alternative definitions (or the moral equivalent thereof):
#define rcu_read_lock() preempt_disable()
#define rcu_read_unlock() preempt_enable()
In CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernels without debugging, these are equivalent to
empty macros give or take a compiler barrier. However, the have been
successfully tested with actual empty macros as well.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Fix symbol issue reported by kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>. ]
[ paulmck: Work around sched_setaffinity() issue noted by Andrea Parri. ]
[ paulmck: Add rcutorture.shuffle_interval=0 to TRIVIAL.boot to fix
interaction with shuffler task noted by Peter Zijlstra. ]
Tested-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
- Removing of non-DYNAMIC_FTRACE from 32bit x86
- Removing of mcount support from x86
- Emulating a call from int3 on x86_64, fixes live kernel patching
- Consolidated Tracing Error logs file
Minor updates:
- Removal of klp_check_compiler_support()
- kdb ftrace dumping output changes
- Accessing and creating ftrace instances from inside the kernel
- Clean up of #define if macro
- Introduction of TRACE_EVENT_NOP() to disable trace events based on config
options
And other minor fixes and clean ups
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Merge tag 'trace-v5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"The major changes in this tracing update includes:
- Removal of non-DYNAMIC_FTRACE from 32bit x86
- Removal of mcount support from x86
- Emulating a call from int3 on x86_64, fixes live kernel patching
- Consolidated Tracing Error logs file
Minor updates:
- Removal of klp_check_compiler_support()
- kdb ftrace dumping output changes
- Accessing and creating ftrace instances from inside the kernel
- Clean up of #define if macro
- Introduction of TRACE_EVENT_NOP() to disable trace events based on
config options
And other minor fixes and clean ups"
* tag 'trace-v5.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (44 commits)
x86: Hide the int3_emulate_call/jmp functions from UML
livepatch: Remove klp_check_compiler_support()
ftrace/x86: Remove mcount support
ftrace/x86_32: Remove support for non DYNAMIC_FTRACE
tracing: Simplify "if" macro code
tracing: Fix documentation about disabling options using trace_options
tracing: Replace kzalloc with kcalloc
tracing: Fix partial reading of trace event's id file
tracing: Allow RCU to run between postponed startup tests
tracing: Fix white space issues in parse_pred() function
tracing: Eliminate const char[] auto variables
ring-buffer: Fix mispelling of Calculate
tracing: probeevent: Fix to make the type of $comm string
tracing: probeevent: Do not accumulate on ret variable
tracing: uprobes: Re-enable $comm support for uprobe events
ftrace/x86_64: Emulate call function while updating in breakpoint handler
x86_64: Allow breakpoints to emulate call instructions
x86_64: Add gap to int3 to allow for call emulation
tracing: kdb: Allow ftdump to skip all but the last few entries
tracing: Add trace_total_entries() / trace_total_entries_cpu()
...
When CONFIG_RCU_TRACE is not set, all these tracepoints are defined as
do-nothing macro.
We'd better make those inline functions that take proper arguments.
As RCU_TRACE() is defined as do-nothing marco as well when
CONFIG_RCU_TRACE is not set, so we can clean it up.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1553602391-11926-4-git-send-email-laoar.shao@gmail.com
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Yafang Shao <laoar.shao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The RCU CPU stall-warning code for normal grace periods is currently
scattered across three files, due to earlier Tiny RCU support for RCU
CPU stall warnings and for old Kconfig options that have long since
been retired. Given that it is hard for the lead RCU maintainer to
find relevant stall-warning code, it would be good to consolidate it.
This commit starts this process by moving stall-warning code from
kernel/rcu/update.c to a new kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h file.
Note that the definitions of rcu_cpu_stall_suppress and
rcu_cpu_stall_timeout must remain in kernel/rcu/update.h to provide
compatibility for kernel boot parameter lists.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
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>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This commit updates the DYNTICK_IRQ_NONIDLE header comment to remove
the obsolete commentary about unmatched rcu_irq_{enter,exit}().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Now that the RCU flavors have been consolidated, RCU_BH_FLAVOR and
RCU_SCHED_FLAVOR are no longer used. This commit therefore saves a
few lines by removing them.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit adds an OOM notifier during rcutorture forward-progress
testing. If this notifier is invoked, it dumps out some grace-period
state to help debug the forward-progress problem.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit affinities the forward-progress tests to avoid hogging a
housekeeping CPU on the theory that the offloaded callbacks will be
running on those housekeeping CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Fix NULL-pointer issue located by kbuild test robot. ]
Tested-by: Rong Chen <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
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>
This commit adds rcu_head_init() and rcu_head_after_call_rcu() functions
to help RCU users detect when another CPU has passed the specified
rcu_head structure and function to call_rcu(). The rcu_head_init()
should be invoked before making the structure visible to RCU readers,
and then the rcu_head_after_call_rcu() may be invoked from within
an RCU read-side critical section on an rcu_head structure that
was obtained during a traversal of the data structure in question.
The rcu_head_after_call_rcu() function will return true if the rcu_head
structure has already been passed (with the specified function) to
call_rcu(), otherwise it will return false.
If rcu_head_init() has not been invoked on the rcu_head structure
or if the rcu_head (AKA callback) has already been invoked, then
rcu_head_after_call_rcu() will do WARN_ON_ONCE().
Reported-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Apply neilb naming feedback. ]
This commit removes rcu_sched_get_gp_seq(), rcu_bh_get_gp_seq(),
rcu_exp_batches_completed_sched(), rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state(),
and rcu_bh_force_quiescent_state(), which are no longer used because
rcutorture no longer does "rcu_bh" and "rcu_sched" torture types.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux
kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's rcu_node
tree's accessor macros. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter
from those macros in kernel/rcu/rcu.h, and removes some now-unused rsp
local variables while in the area.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
When rcutorture is built in to the kernel, an earlier patch detects
that and raises the priority of RCU's kthreads to allow rcutorture's
RCU priority boosting tests to succeed.
However, if rcutorture is built as a module, those priorities must be
raised manually via the rcutree.kthread_prio kernel boot parameter.
If this manual step is not taken, rcutorture's RCU priority boosting
tests will fail due to kthread starvation. One approach would be to
raise the default priority, but that risks breaking existing users.
Another approach would be to allow runtime adjustment of RCU's kthread
priorities, but that introduces numerous "interesting" race conditions.
This patch therefore instead detects too-low priorities, and prints a
message and disables the RCU priority boosting tests in that case.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Back when RCU had a debugfs interface, there was a test version and
sequence number that allowed associating debugfs data with a particular
test run, where the test run started with modprobe and ended with rmmod,
which was how tests were run back on the old ABAT system within IBM.
But rcutorture testing no longer runs on ABAT, and there is no longer an
RCU debugfs interface, so there is no longer any need for test versions
and sequence numbers.
This commit therefore removes the rcutorture_record_test_transition()
and rcutorture_record_progress() functions, and along with them the
rcutorture_testseq and rcutorture_vernum variables that they update.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The current implementatation of rcu_seq_diff() follows tradition in
providing a rough-and-ready approximation of the number of elapsed grace
periods between the two rcu_seq values. However, this difference is
used to flag RCU-failure "near misses", which can be a valuable debugging
aid, so more exactitude would be an improvement. This commit therefore
improves the accuracy of rcu_seq_diff().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
rcu_seq_snap may be tricky to decipher. Lets document how it works with
an example to make it easier.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Shrink comment as suggested by Peter Zijlstra. ]
The new ->gq_seq grace-period sequence numbers must be shifted down,
which give artifacts when these numbers wrap. This commit therefore
enables rcutorture and rcuperf to handle grace-period sequence numbers
even if they do wrap. It does this by allowing a special subtraction
function to be specified, and this function subtracts before shifting.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
In the old days of ->gpnum and ->completed, the code requesting a new
grace period checked to see if that grace period had already started,
bailing early if so. The new-age ->gp_seq approach instead checks
whether the grace period has already finished. A compensating change
pushed the requested grace period down to the bottom of the tree, thus
reducing lock contention and even eliminating it in some cases. But why
not further reduce contention, especially on large systems, by doing both,
especially given that the cost of doing both is extremely small?
This commit therefore adds a new rcu_seq_started() function that checks
whether a specified grace period has already started. It then uses
this new function in place of rcu_seq_done() in the rcu_start_this_gp()
function's funnel locking code.
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
SRCU has long used ->srcu_gp_seq, and now RCU uses ->gp_seq. This
commit therefore moves the rcutorture_get_gp_data() function from
a ->gpnum / ->completed pair to ->gp_seq.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit moves __note_gp_changes(), note_gp_changes(), and
__rcu_pending() to ->gp_seq, creating new rcu_seq_completed_gp() and
rcu_seq_new_gp() functions for this purpose.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Reinstate "cpuend: trace as suggested by Joel Fernandes. ]
The rcutorture test invokes rcu_batches_started(),
rcu_batches_completed(), rcu_batches_started_bh(),
rcu_batches_completed_bh(), rcu_batches_started_sched(), and
rcu_batches_completed_sched() to do grace-period consistency checks,
and rcuperf uses the _completed variants for statistics.
These functions use ->gpnum and ->completed. This commit therefore
replaces them with rcu_get_gp_seq(), rcu_bh_get_gp_seq(), and
rcu_sched_get_gp_seq(), adjusting rcutorture and rcuperf to make
use of them.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
During expedited grace-period initialization, a work item is scheduled
for each leaf rcu_node structure. However, that initialization code
is itself (normally) executing from a workqueue, so one of the leaf
rcu_node structures could just as well be handled by that pre-existing
workqueue, and with less overhead. This commit therefore uses a
shiny new rcu_is_leaf_node() macro to execute the last leaf rcu_node
structure's initialization directly from the pre-existing workqueue.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit adds rcu_first_leaf_node() that returns a pointer to
the first leaf rcu_node structure in the specified RCU flavor and an
rcu_is_leaf_node() that returns true iff the specified rcu_node structure
is a leaf. This commit also uses these macros where appropriate.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
The latency of RCU expedited grace periods grows with increasing numbers
of CPUs, eventually failing to be all that expedited. Much of the growth
in latency is in the initialization phase, so this commit uses workqueues
to carry out this initialization concurrently on a rcu_node-by-rcu_node
basis.
This change makes use of a new rcu_par_gp_wq because flushing a work
item from another work item running from the same workqueue can result
in deadlock.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
RCU's expedited grace periods can participate in out-of-memory deadlocks
due to all available system_wq kthreads being blocked and there not being
memory available to create more. This commit prevents such deadlocks
by allocating an RCU-specific workqueue_struct at early boot time, and
providing it with a rescuer to ensure forward progress. This uses the
shiny new init_rescuer() function provided by Tejun (but indirectly).
This commit also causes SRCU to use this new RCU-specific
workqueue_struct. Note that SRCU's use of workqueues never blocks them
waiting for readers, so this should be safe from a forward-progress
viewpoint. Note that this moves SRCU from system_power_efficient_wq
to a normal workqueue. In the unlikely event that this results in
measurable degradation, a separate power-efficient workqueue will be
creates for SRCU.
Reported-by: Prateek Sood <prsood@codeaurora.org>
Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
This commit reworks the first loop in sync_rcu_exp_select_cpus()
to avoid doing unnecssary stores to other CPUs' rcu_data
structures. This speeds up that first loop by roughly a factor of
two on an old x86 system. In the case where the system is mostly
idle, this loop incurs a large fraction of the overhead of the
synchronize_rcu_expedited(). There is less benefit on busy systems
because the overhead of the smp_call_function_single() in the second
loop dominates in that case.
However, it is not unusual to do configuration chances involving
RCU grace periods (both expedited and normal) while the system is
mostly idle, so this optimization is worth doing.
While we are in the area, this commit also adds parentheses to arguments
used by the for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu() macro.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit adds more tracing of expedited grace periods to enable
improved debugging of slowdowns.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
