This commit applies ACCESS_ONCE() to an outside-of-lock access to
->gp_flags. Although it is hard to imagine any sane compiler messing
this particular case up, the documentation benefits are substantial.
Plus the definition of "sane compiler" grows ever looser.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Spurious wakeups in the force-quiescent-state loop in rcu_gp_kthread()
cause the timeout to be recalculated, which would prevent rcu_gp_fqs()
from ever being called. This would in turn would prevent the grace period
from ever ending for as long as there was at least one CPU in an extended
quiescent state that had not yet passed through a quiescent state.
This commit therefore avoids recalculating the timeout unless the
previous pass's call to wait_event_interruptible_timeout() actually
did time out, thus preventing the above scenario.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit improves grace-period start logic by checking ->gp_flags
under the lock and by issuing a warning if a grace period is already
in progress.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Because RCU's quiescent-state-forcing mechanism is used to drive the
full-system-idle state machine, and because this mechanism is executed
by RCU's grace-period kthreads, this commit forces these kthreads to
run on the timekeeping CPU (tick_do_timer_cpu). To do otherwise would
mean that the RCU grace-period kthreads would force the system into
non-idle state every time they drove the state machine, which would
be just a bit on the futile side.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit adds the state machine that takes the per-CPU idle data
as input and produces a full-system-idle indication as output. This
state machine is driven out of RCU's quiescent-state-forcing
mechanism, which invokes rcu_sysidle_check_cpu() to collect per-CPU
idle state and then rcu_sysidle_report() to drive the state machine.
The full-system-idle state is sampled using rcu_sys_is_idle(), which
also drives the state machine if RCU is idle (and does so by forcing
RCU to become non-idle). This function returns true if all but the
timekeeping CPU (tick_do_timer_cpu) are idle and have been idle long
enough to avoid memory contention on the full_sysidle_state state
variable. The rcu_sysidle_force_exit() may be called externally
to reset the state machine back into non-idle state.
For large systems the state machine is driven out of RCU's
force-quiescent-state logic, which provides good scalability at the price
of millisecond-scale latencies on the transition to full-system-idle
state. This is not so good for battery-powered systems, which are usually
small enough that they don't need to care about scalability, but which
do care deeply about energy efficiency. Small systems therefore drive
the state machine directly out of the idle-entry code. The number of
CPUs in a "small" system is defined by a new NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE_SMALL
Kconfig parameter, which defaults to 8. Note that this is a build-time
definition.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
[ paulmck: Use true and false for boolean constants per Lai Jiangshan. ]
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
[ paulmck: Simplify logic and provide better comments for memory barriers,
based on review comments and questions by Lai Jiangshan. ]
This commit drops an unneeded ACCESS_ONCE() and simplifies an "our work
is done" check in _rcu_barrier(). This applies feedback from Linus
(https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/26/777) that he gave to similar code
in an unrelated patch.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
[ paulmck: Fix comment to match code, reported by Lai Jiangshan. ]
This commit adds an isidle and jiffies argument to force_qs_rnp(),
dyntick_save_progress_counter(), and rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() to enable
RCU's force-quiescent-state process to check for full-system idle.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
[ paulmck: Use true and false for boolean constants per Lai Jiangshan. ]
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit adds the code that updates the rcu_dyntick structure's
new fields to track the per-CPU idle state based on interrupts and
transitions into and out of the idle loop (NMIs are ignored because NMI
handlers cannot cleanly read out the time anyway). This code is similar
to the code that maintains RCU's idea of per-CPU idleness, but differs
in that RCU treats CPUs running in user mode as idle, where this new
code does not.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit adds fields to the rcu_dyntick structure that are used to
detect idle CPUs. These new fields differ from the existing ones in
that the existing ones consider a CPU executing in user mode to be idle,
where the new ones consider CPUs executing in user mode to be busy.
The handling of these new fields is otherwise quite similar to that for
the exiting fields. This commit also adds the initialization required
for these fields.
So, why is usermode execution treated differently, with RCU considering
it a quiescent state equivalent to idle, while in contrast the new
full-system idle state detection considers usermode execution to be
non-idle?
It turns out that although one of RCU's quiescent states is usermode
execution, it is not a full-system idle state. This is because the
purpose of the full-system idle state is not RCU, but rather determining
when accurate timekeeping can safely be disabled. Whenever accurate
timekeeping is required in a CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL kernel, at least one
CPU must keep the scheduling-clock tick going. If even one CPU is
executing in user mode, accurate timekeeping is requires, particularly for
architectures where gettimeofday() and friends do not enter the kernel.
Only when all CPUs are really and truly idle can accurate timekeeping be
disabled, allowing all CPUs to turn off the scheduling clock interrupt,
thus greatly improving energy efficiency.
This naturally raises the question "Why is this code in RCU rather than in
timekeeping?", and the answer is that RCU has the data and infrastructure
to efficiently make this determination.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The rcu_user_enter_after_irq() and rcu_user_exit_after_irq()
functions were intended for use by adaptive ticks, but changes
in implementation have rendered them unnecessary. This commit
therefore removes them.
Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
When setting up an in-the-future "advanced" grace period, the code needs
to wake up the relevant grace-period kthread, which it currently does
unconditionally. However, this results in needless wakeups in the case
where the advanced grace period is being set up by the grace-period
kthread itself, which is a non-uncommon situation. This commit therefore
checks to see if the running thread is the grace-period kthread, and
avoids doing the irq_work_queue()-mediated wakeup in that case.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
If someone does a duplicate call_rcu(), the worst thing the second
call_rcu() could do would be to actually queue the callback the second
time because doing so corrupts whatever list the callback was already
queued on. This commit therefore makes __call_rcu() check the new
return value from debug-objects and leak the callback upon error.
This commit also substitutes rcu_leak_callback() for whatever callback
function was previously in place in order to avoid freeing the callback
out from under any readers that might still be referencing it.
These changes increase the probability that the debug-objects error
messages will actually make it somewhere visible.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ can increase grace-period durations by up to
a factor of four, which can result in long suspend and resume times.
Thus, this commit temporarily switches to expedited grace periods when
suspending the box and return to normal settings when resuming. Similar
logic is applied to hibernation.
Because expedited grace periods are of dubious benefit on very large
systems, so this commit restricts their automated use during suspend
and resume to systems of 256 or fewer CPUs. (Some day a number of
Linux-kernel facilities, including RCU's expedited grace periods,
will be more scalable, but I need to see bug reports first.)
[ paulmck: This also papers over an audio/irq bug, but hopefully that will
be fixed soon. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@mork.no>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Currently, RCU tracepoints save only a pointer to strings in the
ring buffer. When displayed via the /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/trace file
they are referenced like the printf "%s" that looks at the address
in the ring buffer and prints out the string it points too. This requires
that the strings are constant and persistent in the kernel.
The problem with this is for tools like trace-cmd and perf that read the
binary data from the buffers but have no access to the kernel memory to
find out what string is represented by the address in the buffer.
By using the tracepoint_string infrastructure, the RCU tracepoint strings
can be exported such that userspace tools can map the addresses to
the strings.
# cat /sys/kernel/debug/tracing/printk_formats
0xffffffff81a4a0e8 : "rcu_preempt"
0xffffffff81a4a0f4 : "rcu_bh"
0xffffffff81a4a100 : "rcu_sched"
0xffffffff818437a0 : "cpuqs"
0xffffffff818437a6 : "rcu_sched"
0xffffffff818437a0 : "cpuqs"
0xffffffff818437b0 : "rcu_bh"
0xffffffff818437b7 : "Start context switch"
0xffffffff818437cc : "End context switch"
0xffffffff818437a0 : "cpuqs"
[...]
Now userspaces tools can display:
rcu_utilization: Start context switch
rcu_dyntick: Start 1 0
rcu_utilization: End context switch
rcu_batch_start: rcu_preempt CBs=0/5 bl=10
rcu_dyntick: End 0 140000000000000
rcu_invoke_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880071c0d600 func=proc_i_callback
rcu_invoke_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880077b5b230 func=__d_free
rcu_dyntick: Start 140000000000000 0
rcu_invoke_callback: rcu_preempt rhp=0xffff880077563980 func=file_free_rcu
rcu_batch_end: rcu_preempt CBs-invoked=3 idle=>c<>c<>c<>c<
rcu_utilization: End RCU core
rcu_grace_period: rcu_preempt 9741 start
rcu_dyntick: Start 1 0
rcu_dyntick: End 0 140000000000000
rcu_dyntick: Start 140000000000000 0
Instead of:
rcu_utilization: ffffffff81843110
rcu_future_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 9939 9940 0 0 3 ffffffff81842f32
rcu_batch_start: ffffffff81842f1d CBs=0/4 bl=10
rcu_future_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 9939 9940 0 0 3 ffffffff81842f3c
rcu_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 ffffffff81842f80
rcu_invoke_callback: ffffffff81842f1d rhp=0xffff88007888aac0 func=file_free_rcu
rcu_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 ffffffff81842f95
rcu_invoke_callback: ffffffff81842f1d rhp=0xffff88006aeb4600 func=proc_i_callback
rcu_future_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 9939 9940 0 0 3 ffffffff81842f32
rcu_future_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 9939 9940 0 0 3 ffffffff81842f3c
rcu_invoke_callback: ffffffff81842f1d rhp=0xffff880071cb9fc0 func=__d_free
rcu_grace_period: ffffffff81842f1d 9939 ffffffff81842f80
rcu_invoke_callback: ffffffff81842f1d rhp=0xffff88007888ae80 func=file_free_rcu
rcu_batch_end: ffffffff81842f1d CBs-invoked=4 idle=>c<>c<>c<>c<
rcu_utilization: ffffffff8184311f
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER() macro is used only in the rcutree.c file
as well as the rcutree_plugin.h file. It is passed as a rvalue to
a variable of a similar name. A per_cpu variable is also created
with a similar name as well.
The uses of RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER() can be simplified to remove some
of the duplicate code that is done. Currently the three users of this
macro has this format:
struct rcu_state rcu_sched_state =
RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER(rcu_sched, call_rcu_sched);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rcu_data, rcu_sched_data);
Notice that "rcu_sched" is called three times. This is the same with
the other two users. This can be condensed to just:
RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER(rcu_sched, call_rcu_sched);
by moving the rest into the macro itself.
This also opens the door to allow the RCU tracepoint strings and
their addresses to be exported so that userspace tracing tools can
translate the contents of the pointers of the RCU tracepoints.
The change will allow for helper code to be placed in the
RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER() macro to export the name that is used.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
All the RCU tracepoints and functions that reference char pointers do
so with just 'char *' even though they do not modify the contents of
the string itself. This will cause warnings if a const char * is used
in one of these functions.
The RCU tracepoints store the pointer to the string to refer back to them
when the trace output is displayed. As this can be minutes, hours or
even days later, those strings had better be constant.
This change also opens the door to allow the RCU tracepoint strings and
their addresses to be exported so that userspace tracing tools can
translate the contents of the pointers of the RCU tracepoints.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.
After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.
This removes all the drivers/rcu uses of the __cpuinit macros
from all C files.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Calling kthread_run with a single name parameter causes it to be handled
as a format string. Many callers are passing potentially dynamic string
content, so use "%s" in those cases to avoid any potential accidents.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Systems with HZ=100 can have slow bootup times due to the default
three-jiffy delays between quiescent-state forcing attempts. This
commit therefore auto-tunes the RCU_JIFFIES_TILL_FORCE_QS value based
on the value of HZ. However, this would break very large systems that
require more time between quiescent-state forcing attempts. This
commit therefore also ups the default delay by one jiffy for each
256 CPUs that might be on the system (based off of nr_cpu_ids at
runtime, -not- NR_CPUS at build time).
Updated to collapse #ifdefs for RCU_JIFFIES_TILL_FORCE_QS into a
step-function definition as suggested by Josh Triplett.
Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The __rcu_process_callbacks() invokes note_gp_changes() immediately
before invoking rcu_check_quiescent_state(), which conditionally
invokes that same function. This commit therefore eliminates the
call to note_gp_changes() in __rcu_process_callbacks() in favor of
making unconditional to call from rcu_check_quiescent_state() to
note_gp_changes().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Given the changes that introduce note_gp_change(), rcu_start_gp_per_cpu()
is now a trivial wrapper function with only one caller. This commit
therefore inlines it into its sole call site.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
One of the calls to check_for_new_grace_period() is now redundant due to
an immediately preceding call to note_gp_changes(). Eliminating this
redundant call leaves a single caller, which is simpler if inlined.
This commit therefore eliminates the redundant call and inlines the
body of check_for_new_grace_period() into the single remaining call site.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit eliminates some duplicated code by merging
__rcu_process_gp_end() into __note_gp_changes().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Because note_gp_changes() now incorporates rcu_process_gp_end() function,
this commit switches to the former and eliminates the latter. In
addition, this commit changes external calls from __rcu_process_gp_end()
to __note_gp_changes().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Because note_new_gpnum() now also checks for the ends of old grace periods,
this commit changes its name to note_gp_changes(). Later commits will merge
rcu_process_gp_end() into note_gp_changes().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The current implementation can detect the beginning of a new grace period
before noting the end of a previous grace period. Although the current
implementation correctly handles this sort of nonsense, it would be
good to reduce RCU's state space by making such nonsense unnecessary,
which is now possible thanks to the fact that RCU's callback groups are
now numbered.
This commit therefore makes __note_new_gpnum() invoke
__rcu_process_gp_end() in order to note the ends of prior grace
periods before noting the beginnings of new grace periods.
Of course, this now means that note_new_gpnum() notes both the
beginnings and ends of grace periods, and could therefore be
used in place of rcu_process_gp_end(). But that is a job for
later commits.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The addition of callback numbering allows combining the detection of the
ends of old grace periods and the beginnings of new grace periods. This
commit moves code to set the stage for this combining.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit converts printk() calls to the corresponding pr_*() calls.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched
upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies.
Merge a common upstream merge point that has these
updates.
Conflicts:
include/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/rcutree.h
kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle are mostly related to preparatory work
for the full-dynticks work:
- Remove restrictions on no-CBs CPUs, make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take
advantage of numbered callbacks, do callback accelerations based on
numbered callbacks. Posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/18/960
- RCU documentation updates. Posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/18/570
- Miscellaneous fixes. Posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/18/594"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
rcu: Make rcu_accelerate_cbs() note need for future grace periods
rcu: Abstract rcu_start_future_gp() from rcu_nocb_wait_gp()
rcu: Rename n_nocb_gp_requests to need_future_gp
rcu: Push lock release to rcu_start_gp()'s callers
rcu: Repurpose no-CBs event tracing to future-GP events
rcu: Rearrange locking in rcu_start_gp()
rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered callbacks
rcu: Accelerate RCU callbacks at grace-period end
rcu: Export RCU_FAST_NO_HZ parameters to sysfs
rcu: Distinguish "rcuo" kthreads by RCU flavor
rcu: Add event tracing for no-CBs CPUs' grace periods
rcu: Add event tracing for no-CBs CPUs' callback registration
rcu: Introduce proper blocking to no-CBs kthreads GP waits
rcu: Provide compile-time control for no-CBs CPUs
rcu: Tone down debugging during boot-up and shutdown.
rcu: Add softirq-stall indications to stall-warning messages
rcu: Documentation update
rcu: Make bugginess of code sample more evident
rcu: Fix hlist_bl_set_first_rcu() annotation
rcu: Delete unused rcu_node "wakemask" field
...
Use preferable function name which implies using a pseudo-random
number generator.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
We need full dynticks CPU to also be RCU nocb so
that we don't have to keep the tick to handle RCU
callbacks.
Make sure the range passed to nohz_full= boot
parameter is a subset of rcu_nocbs=
The CPUs that fail to meet this requirement will be
excluded from the nohz_full range. This is checked
early in boot time, before any CPU has the opportunity
to stop its tick.
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Adaptive-ticks CPUs inform RCU when they enter kernel mode, but they do
not necessarily turn the scheduler-clock tick back on. This state of
affairs could result in RCU waiting on an adaptive-ticks CPU running
for an extended period in kernel mode. Such a CPU will never run the
RCU state machine, and could therefore indefinitely extend the RCU state
machine, sooner or later resulting in an OOM condition.
This patch, inspired by an earlier patch by Frederic Weisbecker, therefore
causes RCU's force-quiescent-state processing to check for this condition
and to send an IPI to CPUs that remain in that state for too long.
"Too long" currently means about three jiffies by default, which is
quite some time for a CPU to remain in the kernel without blocking.
The rcu_tree.jiffies_till_first_fqs and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs
sysfs variables may be used to tune "too long" if needed.
Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
doc.2013.03.12a: Documentation changes.
fixes.2013.03.13a: Miscellaneous fixes.
idlenocb.2013.03.26b: Remove restrictions on no-CBs CPUs, make
RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered callbacks, add
callback acceleration based on numbered callbacks.
Now that rcu_start_future_gp() has been abstracted from
rcu_nocb_wait_gp(), rcu_accelerate_cbs() can invoke rcu_start_future_gp()
so as to register the need for any future grace periods needed by a
CPU about to enter dyntick-idle mode. This commit makes this change.
Note that some refactoring of rcu_start_gp() is carried out to avoid
recursion and subsequent self-deadlocks.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CPUs going idle will need to record the need for a future grace
period, but won't actually need to block waiting on it. This commit
therefore splits rcu_start_future_gp(), which does the recording, from
rcu_nocb_wait_gp(), which now invokes rcu_start_future_gp() to do the
recording, after which rcu_nocb_wait_gp() does the waiting.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
If CPUs are to give prior notice of needed grace periods, it will be
necessary to invoke rcu_start_gp() without dropping the root rcu_node
structure's ->lock. This commit takes a second step in this direction
by moving the release of this lock to rcu_start_gp()'s callers.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
If CPUs are to give prior notice of needed grace periods, it will be
necessary to invoke rcu_start_gp() without dropping the root rcu_node
structure's ->lock. This commit takes a first step in this direction
by moving the release of this lock to the end of rcu_start_gp().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Because RCU callbacks are now associated with the number of the grace
period that they must wait for, CPUs can now take advance callbacks
corresponding to grace periods that ended while a given CPU was in
dyntick-idle mode. This eliminates the need to try forcing the RCU
state machine while entering idle, thus reducing the CPU intensiveness
of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ, which should increase its energy efficiency.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Now that callback acceleration is idempotent, it is safe to accelerate
callbacks during grace-period cleanup on any CPUs that the kthread happens
to be running on. This commit therefore propagates the completion
of the grace period to the per-CPU data structures, and also adds an
rcu_advance_cbs() just before the cpu_needs_another_gp() check in order
to reduce false-positive grace periods.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, the per-no-CBs-CPU kthreads are named "rcuo" followed by
the CPU number, for example, "rcuo". This is problematic given that
there are either two or three RCU flavors, each of which gets a per-CPU
kthread with exactly the same name. This commit therefore introduces
a one-letter abbreviation for each RCU flavor, namely 'b' for RCU-bh,
'p' for RCU-preempt, and 's' for RCU-sched. This abbreviation is used
to distinguish the "rcuo" kthreads, for example, for CPU 0 we would have
"rcuob/0", "rcuop/0", and "rcuos/0".
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Currently, the no-CBs kthreads do repeated timed waits for grace periods
to elapse. This is crude and energy inefficient, so this commit allows
no-CBs kthreads to specify exactly which grace period they are waiting
for and also allows them to block for the entire duration until the
desired grace period completes.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
In some situations, randomly delaying RCU grace-period initialization
can cause more trouble than help. This commit therefore restricts this
type of RCU self-torture to runtime, giving it a rest during boot and
shutdown.
Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Although it used to be that CPU_DYING notifiers executed on the outgoing
CPU with interrupts disabled and with all other CPUs spinning, this is
no longer the case. This commit therefore removes this obsolete comment.
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Offline CPUs transition through the scheduler to the idle loop one
last time before being shut down. This can result in RCU raising
softirq on this CPU, which is at best useless given that the CPU's
callbacks will be offloaded at CPU_DEAD time. This commit therefore
avoids raising softirq on offline CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
