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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> |
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Linux kernel
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