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Now that RCU-preempt knows about preemption disabling, its implementation
of synchronize_rcu() works for synchronize_sched(), and likewise for the
other RCU-sched update-side API members. This commit therefore confines
the RCU-sched update-side code to CONFIG_PREEMPT=n builds, and defines
RCU-sched's update-side API members in terms of those of RCU-preempt.
This means that any given build of the Linux kernel has only one
update-side flavor of RCU, namely RCU-preempt for CONFIG_PREEMPT=y builds
and RCU-sched for CONFIG_PREEMPT=n builds. This in turn means that kernels
built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y have only one rcuo kthread per CPU.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
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Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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The rcu_report_exp_rdp() function is always invoked with its "wake"
argument set to "true", so this commit drops this parameter. The only
potential call site that would use "false" is in the code driving the
expedited grace period, and that code uses rcu_report_exp_cpu_mult()
instead, which therefore retains its "wake" parameter.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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This commit updates comments and help text to account for the fact that
RCU-bh update-side functions are now simple wrappers for their RCU or
RCU-sched counterparts.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Now that the main RCU API knows about softirq disabling and softirq's
quiescent states, the RCU-bh update code can be dispensed with.
This commit therefore removes the RCU-bh update-side implementation and
defines RCU-bh's update-side API in terms of that of either RCU-preempt or
RCU-sched, depending on the setting of the CONFIG_PREEMPT Kconfig option.
In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y this has the knock-on effect
of reducing by one the number of rcuo kthreads per CPU.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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This commit reduces the latency of expedited RCU grace periods by
reporting a quiescent state for the CPU at context-switch time.
In CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernels, if the outgoing task is still within an
RCU read-side critical section (and thus still blocking some grace
period, perhaps including this expedited grace period), then that task
will already have been placed on one of the leaf rcu_node structures'
->blkd_tasks list.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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One necessary step towards consolidating the three flavors of RCU is to
make sure that the resulting consolidated "one flavor to rule them all"
correctly handles networking denial-of-service attacks. One thing that
allows RCU-bh to do so is that __do_softirq() invokes rcu_bh_qs() every
so often, and so something similar has to happen for consolidated RCU.
This must be done carefully. For example, if a preemption-disabled
region of code takes an interrupt which does softirq processing before
returning, consolidated RCU must ignore the resulting rcu_bh_qs()
invocations -- preemption is still disabled, and that means an RCU
reader for the consolidated flavor.
This commit therefore creates a new rcu_softirq_qs() that is called only
from the ksoftirqd task, thus avoiding the interrupted-a-preempted-region
problem. This new rcu_softirq_qs() function invokes rcu_sched_qs(),
rcu_preempt_qs(), and rcu_preempt_deferred_qs(). The latter call handles
any deferred quiescent states.
Note that __do_softirq() still invokes rcu_bh_qs(). It will continue to
do so until a later stage of cleanup when the RCU-bh flavor is removed.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Fix !SMP issue located by kbuild test robot. ]
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RCU's dyntick-idle code is written to tolerate half-interrupts, that it,
either an interrupt that invokes rcu_irq_enter() but never invokes the
corresponding rcu_irq_exit() on the one hand, or an interrupt that never
invokes rcu_irq_enter() but does invoke the "corresponding" rcu_irq_exit()
on the other. These things really did happen at one time, as evidenced
by this ca-2011 LKML post:
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111014170019.GE2428@linux.vnet.ibm.com
The reason why RCU tolerates half-interrupts is that usermode helpers
used exceptions to invoke a system call from within the kernel such that
the system call did a normal return (not a return from exception) to
the calling context. This caused rcu_irq_enter() to be invoked without
a matching rcu_irq_exit(). However, usermode helpers have since been
rewritten to make much more housebroken use of workqueues, kernel threads,
and do_execve(), and therefore should no longer produce half-interrupts.
No one knows of any other source of half-interrupts, but then again,
no one seems insane enough to go audit the entire kernel to verify that
half-interrupts really are a relic of the past.
This commit therefore adds a pair of WARN_ON_ONCE() calls that will
trigger in the presence of half interrupts, which the code will continue
to handle correctly. If neither of these WARN_ON_ONCE() trigger by
mid-2021, then perhaps RCU can stop handling half-interrupts, which
would be a considerable simplification.
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
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The ->b.exp_need_qs field is now set only to false, so this commit
removes it. The job this field used to do is now done by the rcu_data
structure's ->deferred_qs field, which is a consequence of a better
split between task-based (the rcu_node structure's ->exp_tasks field) and
CPU-based (the aforementioned rcu_data structure's ->deferred_qs field)
tracking of quiescent states for RCU-preempt expedited grace periods.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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If an RCU-preempt read-side critical section is exiting, that is,
->rcu_read_lock_nesting is negative, then it is a good time to look
at the possibility of reporting deferred quiescent states. This
commit therefore updates the checks in rcu_preempt_need_deferred_qs()
to allow exiting critical sections to report deferred quiescent states.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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This commit makes the "rcu" torture type test extended read-side
critical sections in order to test the deferral of RCU-preempt
quiescent-state testing.
In CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernels, this simply duplicates the setup already
in place for the "sched" torture type.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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This commit defers reporting of RCU-preempt quiescent states at
rcu_read_unlock_special() time when any of interrupts, softirq, or
preemption are disabled. These deferred quiescent states are reported
at a later RCU_SOFTIRQ, context switch, idle entry, or CPU-hotplug
offline operation. Of course, if another RCU read-side critical
section has started in the meantime, the reporting of the quiescent
state will be further deferred.
This also means that disabling preemption, interrupts, and/or
softirqs will act as an RCU-preempt read-side critical section.
This is enforced by checking preempt_count() as needed.
Some special cases must be handled on an ad-hoc basis, for example,
context switch is a quiescent state even though both the scheduler and
do_exit() disable preemption. In these cases, additional calls to
rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() override the preemption disabling. Similar
logic overrides disabled interrupts in rcu_preempt_check_callbacks()
because in this case the quiescent state happened just before the
corresponding scheduling-clock interrupt.
In theory, this change lifts a long-standing restriction that required
that if interrupts were disabled across a call to rcu_read_unlock()
that the matching rcu_read_lock() also be contained within that
interrupts-disabled region of code. Because the reporting of the
corresponding RCU-preempt quiescent state is now deferred until
after interrupts have been enabled, it is no longer possible for this
situation to result in deadlocks involving the scheduler's runqueue and
priority-inheritance locks. This may allow some code simplification that
might reduce interrupt latency a bit. Unfortunately, in practice this
would also defer deboosting a low-priority task that had been subjected
to RCU priority boosting, so real-time-response considerations might
well force this restriction to remain in place.
Because RCU-preempt grace periods are now blocked not only by RCU
read-side critical sections, but also by disabling of interrupts,
preemption, and softirqs, it will be possible to eliminate RCU-bh and
RCU-sched in favor of RCU-preempt in CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernels. This may
require some additional plumbing to provide the network denial-of-service
guarantees that have been traditionally provided by RCU-bh. Once these
are in place, CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernels will be able to fold RCU-bh
into RCU-sched. This would mean that all kernels would have but
one flavor of RCU, which would open the door to significant code
cleanup.
Moving to a single flavor of RCU would also have the beneficial effect
of reducing the NOCB kthreads by at least a factor of two.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Apply rcu_read_unlock_special() preempt_count() feedback
from Joel Fernandes. ]
[ paulmck: Adjust rcu_eqs_enter() call to rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() in
response to bug reports from kbuild test robot. ]
[ paulmck: Fix bug located by kbuild test robot involving recursion
via rcu_preempt_deferred_qs(). ]
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When entering or exiting irq or NMI handlers, the current code uses
->dynticks_nmi_nesting to detect if it is in the outermost handler,
that is, the one interrupting or returning to an RCU-idle context (the
idle loop or nohz_full usermode execution). When entering the outermost
handler via an interrupt (as opposed to NMI), it is necessary to invoke
rcu_dynticks_task_exit() just before the CPU is marked non-idle from an
RCU perspective and to invoke rcu_cleanup_after_idle() just after the
CPU is marked non-idle. Similarly, when exiting the outermost handler
via an interrupt, it is necessary to invoke rcu_prepare_for_idle() just
before marking the CPU idle and to invoke rcu_dynticks_task_enter()
just after marking the CPU idle.
The decision to execute these four functions is currently taken in
rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit() as follows:
rcu_irq_enter()
/* A conditional branch with ->dynticks_nmi_nesting */
rcu_nmi_enter()
/* A conditional branch with ->dynticks */
/* A conditional branch with ->dynticks_nmi_nesting */
rcu_irq_exit()
/* A conditional branch with ->dynticks_nmi_nesting */
rcu_nmi_exit()
/* A conditional branch with ->dynticks_nmi_nesting */
/* A conditional branch with ->dynticks_nmi_nesting */
rcu_nmi_enter()
/* A conditional branch with ->dynticks */
rcu_nmi_exit()
/* A conditional branch with ->dynticks_nmi_nesting */
This works, but the conditional branches in rcu_irq_enter() and
rcu_irq_exit() are redundant with those in rcu_nmi_enter() and
rcu_nmi_exit(), respectively. Redundant branches are not something
we want in the to/from-idle fastpaths, so this commit refactors
rcu_{nmi,irq}_{enter,exit}() so they use a common inlined function passed
a constant argument as follows:
rcu_irq_enter() inlining rcu_nmi_enter_common(irq=true)
/* A conditional branch with ->dynticks */
rcu_irq_exit() inlining rcu_nmi_exit_common(irq=true)
/* A conditional branch with ->dynticks_nmi_nesting */
rcu_nmi_enter() inlining rcu_nmi_enter_common(irq=false)
/* A conditional branch with ->dynticks */
rcu_nmi_exit() inlining rcu_nmi_exit_common(irq=false)
/* A conditional branch with ->dynticks_nmi_nesting */
The combination of the constant function argument and the inlining allows
the compiler to discard the conditionals that previously controlled
execution of rcu_dynticks_task_exit(), rcu_cleanup_after_idle(),
rcu_prepare_for_idle(), and rcu_dynticks_task_enter(). This reduces both
the to-idle and from-idle path lengths by two conditional branches each,
and improves readability as well.
This commit also changes order of execution from this:
rcu_dynticks_task_exit();
rcu_dynticks_eqs_exit();
trace_rcu_dyntick();
rcu_cleanup_after_idle();
To this:
rcu_dynticks_task_exit();
rcu_dynticks_eqs_exit();
rcu_cleanup_after_idle();
trace_rcu_dyntick();
In other words, the calls to rcu_cleanup_after_idle() and
trace_rcu_dyntick() are reversed. This has no functional effect because
the real concern is whether a given call is before or after the call to
rcu_dynticks_eqs_exit(), and this patch does not change that. Before the
call to rcu_dynticks_eqs_exit(), RCU is not yet watching the current
CPU and after that call RCU is watching.
A similar switch in calling order happens on the idle-entry path, with
similar lack of effect for the same reasons.
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Applied Steven Rostedt feedback. ]
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
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The current forward-progress testing maintains a self-propagating
callback during the full test. This could result in false negatives
for stutter-end checking, where it might appear that RCU was clearing
out old callbacks only because it was being continually motivated by
the self-propagating callback. This commit therefore shuts down the
self-propagating callback at the end of each forward-progress test
interval.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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The rcu_torture_writer() function invokes stutter_wait() at the end of
each writer pass, which occasionally blocks for an extended time period
in order to ensure that RCU can handle intermittent loads. But part of
handling a busy period is invoking all the callbacks before the end of
the idle period induced by stutter_wait().
This commit therefore adds a return value to stutter_wait() indicating
whether stutter_wait() actually waited. In addition, this commit causes
rcu_torture_writer() to test this value and if set, checks that all the
elements of the rcu_tortures[] array have been freed up.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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This commit prints the duration of the forward-progress test interval in
the case that no forward progress was observed as an aid to debugging.
When forward progress does happen, it prints out the number of
rcu_torture_writer() versions and grace periods that elapsed during the
forward-progress test. At the end of the run, it also prints the number
of attempted and actual forward-progress tests.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Currently, rcutorture provisions rcu_torture_reader() kthreads based
on the initial number of CPUs. This can be problematic when CPU hotplug
is enabled, as a system with a very large number of CPUs will provision
a very large number of rcu_torture_reader() kthreads. All of these
kthreads will continue running even if the CPU-hotplug operations result
in only one remaining online CPU. This can result in all sorts of strange
artifacts due simply to massive overload.
This commit therefore causes the rcu_torture_reader() kthreads to start
blocking as the number of online CPUs decreases. This is accomplished
by numbering these kthreads, and having each check to make sure that the
number of online CPUs is at least as large as its assigned number.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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On !SMP tests, the forward-progress kthread might prevent RCU's
grace-period kthread from running, which would defeat RCU's
forward-progress measures. On PREEMPT tests without RCU priority
boosting, the forward-progress kthread might preempt a reader for an
extended time period, which would also defeat RCU's forward-progress
measures. This commit therefore reduced rcutorture's forward-progress
kthread's priority in those cases.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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There are debug checks in some environments that will complain if the
duration of a bh-disabled region of code exceeds about 50 milliseconds.
Because rcu_read_delay() can produce a 50-millisecond delay and because
there could be up to eight reader segments with such delays, this commit
limits the maximum delay to 10 milliseconds if either interrupts or
softirqs are disabled.
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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RCU now takes certain actions 100 and 200 milliseconds into a grace period
by default, but rcutorture only runs RCU read-side critical sections
with durations up to 50 milliseconds. This commit therefore increases
test coverage by increasing the maximum critical-section duration to
300 milliseconds. Note that the existing code automatically dials down
the probability of long delays based on the maximum duration, which means
that this change should not significantly change the rate of execution
of RCU read-side critical sections.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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If rcutorture is run on a quiet system with the rcutorture.stutter module
parameter set high, then there can legitimately be an extended period
during which no RCU forward progress takes place. This can result
in false-positive no-forward-progress splats. This commit therefore
makes rcu_torture_fwd_prog() create a self-propagating RCU callback
to ensure that grace periods are in progress for the duration of the
forward-progress test.
Note that the RCU flavor under test must define ->call(), ->sync(),
and ->cb_barrier() for this self-propagating callback to be created.
If one or more of those rcu_torture_ops fields are NULL, then the
rcu_torture_fwd_prog() function will silently proceed without creating
the self-propagating callback.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Some of the Linux kernel's RCU implementations provide several mechanisms
to promote forward progress that operate over different timeframes.
This commit therefore causes rcu_torture_fwd_prog() to vary the duration
of its forward-progress testing in order to test each such mechanism.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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In a too-short test, random delays can cause each attempt to do
forward-progress testing to fail to complete, thus resulting in
spurious splats. This commit therefore requires at least five tries
before complaining about rcutorture runs that failed to produce at
least one valid forward-progress testing attempt. Note that actual
forward-progress failures will splat regardless of the number of tries.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Currently, rcutorture relies solely on the progress of
rcu_torture_writer() to judge grace-period forward progress. In theory,
this is the gold standard of forward progress, but in practice rcutorture
separately detects and reports rcu_torture_writer() stalls. This commit
therefore adds the grace-period sequence number (when provided) to the
judgment of grace-period forward progress, which makes it easier to
distinguish between failure of actual grace periods to progress on the
one hand and downstream forward-progress failures on the other.
For example, given this change, if rcu_torture_writer() stalls,
but rcu_torture_fwd_prog() does not complain, then the grace-period
computation is working, which is a hint that the failure lies in callback
processing, wakeup of the rcu_torture_writer() kthread, or similar.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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This commit adds a kthread that loops going into and out of RCU
read-side critical sections, but also including a cond_resched(),
optionally guarded by a check of need_resched(), in that same loop.
This commit relies solely on rcu_torture_writer() progress to judge
the forward progress of grace periods.
Note that Tasks RCU and SRCU are exempted from forward-progress testing
due their (intentionally) less-robust forward-progress guarantees.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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When running a built-in rcuperf test, specifying an invalid perf type
results in what looks like a hard hang, with the error messages hidden
by other boot-time output. This commit therefore executes a WARN_ON()
in this case so that the splat appears just following the error messages.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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When running a built-in rcutorture test, specifying an invalid torture
type results in what looks like a hard hang, with the error messages
hidden by other boot-time output. This commit therefore executes a
WARN_ON() in this case so that the splat appears just following the
error messages.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Deferred quiescent states can interact with the scheduler, but
rcu_torture_reader() does not force such interaction all that frequently.
This commit therefore blocks for one jiffy after ten jiffies of read-side
runtime. This has the beneficial effect of being most likely to block
just after long-running readers, and it is exactly these readers that
are most likely to have been preempted (in CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernels).
This in turn helps increase the probability that a deferred quiescent
state will be seen by RCU's context-switch hooks.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Cleanup and improvement of NUMA balancing
- Refactoring and improvements to the PELT (Per Entity Load Tracking)
code
- Watchdog simplification and related cleanups
- The usual pile of small incremental fixes and improvements
* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (41 commits)
watchdog: Reduce message verbosity
stop_machine: Reflow cpu_stop_queue_two_works()
sched/numa: Move task_numa_placement() closer to numa_migrate_preferred()
sched/numa: Use group_weights to identify if migration degrades locality
sched/numa: Update the scan period without holding the numa_group lock
sched/numa: Remove numa_has_capacity()
sched/numa: Modify migrate_swap() to accept additional parameters
sched/numa: Remove unused task_capacity from 'struct numa_stats'
sched/numa: Skip nodes that are at 'hoplimit'
sched/debug: Reverse the order of printing faults
sched/numa: Use task faults only if numa_group is not yet set up
sched/numa: Set preferred_node based on best_cpu
sched/numa: Simplify load_too_imbalanced()
sched/numa: Evaluate move once per node
sched/numa: Remove redundant field
sched/debug: Show the sum wait time of a task group
sched/fair: Remove #ifdefs from scale_rt_capacity()
sched/core: Remove get_cpu() from sched_fork()
sched/cpufreq: Clarify sugov_get_util()
sched/sysctl: Remove unused sched_time_avg_ms sysctl
...
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fixes1.2018.07.12b: Post-gp_seq miscellaneous fixes
torture1.2018.07.12b: Post-gp_seq torture-test updates
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The rcutorture test module currently increments both successes and error
for the barrier test upon error, which results in misleading statistics
being printed. This commit therefore changes the code to increment the
success counter only when the test actually passes.
This change was tested by by returning from the barrier callback without
incrementing the callback counter, thus introducing what appeared to
rcutorture to be rcu_barrier() failures.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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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>
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The get_seconds() call is deprecated because it overflows on 32-bit
architectures. The algorithm in rcu_torture_stall() can deal with
the overflow, but another problem here is that using a CLOCK_REALTIME
stamp can lead to a false-positive stall warning when a settimeofday()
happens concurrently.
Using ktime_get_seconds() instead avoids those issues and will never
overflow. The added cast to 'unsigned long' however is necessary to
make ULONG_CMP_LT() work correctly.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Currently, with RCU_BOOST disabled, I get no failures when forcing
rcutorture to test RCU boost priority inversion. The reason seems to be
that we don't check for failures if the callback never ran at all for
the duration of the boost-test loop.
Further, the 'rtb' and 'rtbf' counters seem to be used inconsistently.
'rtb' is incremented at the start of each test and 'rtbf' is incremented
per-cpu on each failure of call_rcu. So its possible 'rtbf' > 'rtb'.
To test the boost with rcutorture, I did following on a 4-CPU x86 machine:
modprobe rcutorture test_boost=2
sleep 20
rmmod rcutorture
With patch:
rtbf: 8 rtb: 12
Without patch:
rtbf: 0 rtb: 2
In summary this patch:
- Increments failed and total test counters once per boost-test.
- Checks for failure cases correctly.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Currently rcutorture is not able to torture RCU boosting properly. This
is because the rcutorture's boost threads which are doing the torturing
may be throttled due to RT throttling.
This patch makes rcutorture use the right torture technique (unthrottled
rcutorture boost tasks) for torturing RCU so that the test fails
correctly when no boost is available.
Currently this requires accessing sysctl_sched_rt_runtime directly, but
that should be Ok since rcutorture is test code. Such direct access is
also only possible if rcutorture is used as a built-in so make it
conditional on that.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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For RCU implementations supporting multiple types of reader protection,
rcutorture currently randomly selects the combinations of types of
protection for each phase of each reader. The problem with this,
for example, given the four kinds of protection for RCU-sched
(local_irq_disable(), local_bh_disable(), preempt_disable(), and
rcu_read_lock_sched()), the reader will be protected by a single
mechanism only 25% of the time. We really heavier testing of single
read-side mechanisms.
This commit therefore uses only a single mechanism about 60% of the time,
half of the time explicitly and one-eighth of the time by chance.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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This commit enables rcutorture to test whether RCU properly aggregates
different types of read-side critical sections into a larger section
covering the set. It does this by extending an initial read-side
critical section randomly for a random number of extensions. There is
a new rcu_torture_ops field ->extendable that specifies what extensions
are permitted for a given flavor of RCU (for example, SRCU does not
permit any extensions, while RCU-sched permits all types). Note that
if a given operation (for example, local_bh_disable()) extends an RCU
read-side critical section, then rcutorture feels free to also start
and end the critical section with that operation's type of disabling.
Disabling operations include local_bh_disable(), local_irq_disable(),
and preempt_disable(). This commit also adds a new "busted_srcud"
torture type, which verifies rcutorture's ability to detect extensions
of RCU read-side critical sections that are not handled. Gotta test
the test, after all!
Note that it is not legal to invoke local_bh_disable() with interrupts
disabled, and this transition is avoided by overriding the random-number
generator when it wants to call local_bh_disable() while interrupts
are disabled. The code instead leaves both interrupts and bh/softirq
disabled in this case.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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This commit saves a few lines of code by making rcu_torture_timer()
invoke rcu_torture_one_read(), thus completing the consolidation of
code between rcu_torture_timer() and rcu_torture_reader().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Currently, the rcu_torture_timer() function uses a single global
torture_random_state structure protected by a single global lock.
This conflicts to some extent with performance and scalability,
but even more with the goal of consolidating read-side testing
with rcu_torture_reader(). This commit therefore creates a per-CPU
torture_random_state structure for use by rcu_torture_timer() and
eliminates the lock.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Make rcu_torture_timer_rand static, per 0day Test Robot report. ]
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Currently, rcu_torture_timer() relies on a lock to guard updates to
n_rcu_torture_timers. Unfortunately, consolidating code with
rcu_torture_reader() will dispense with this lock. This commit
therefore makes n_rcu_torture_timers be an atomic_long_t and uses
atomic_long_inc() to carry out the update.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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This commit extracts the code executed on each pass through the loop
in rcu_torture_reader() into a new rcu_torture_one_read() function.
This new function will also be used by rcu_torture_timer().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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The torturing_tasks() function in rcuperf.c is not used, so this commit
removes it.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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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>
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Some RCU bugs have been sensitive to the frequency of CPU-hotplug
operations, which have been gradually increased over time. But this
frequency is now at the one-second lower limit that can be specified using
the rcutorture.onoff_interval kernel parameter. This commit therefore
changes the units of rcutorture.onoff_interval from seconds to jiffies,
and also sets the value specified for this kernel parameter in the TREE03
rcutorture scenario to 200, which is 200 milliseconds for HZ=1000.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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The rcutorture RCU priority boosting tests fail even with CONFIG_RCU_BOOST
set because rcutorture's threads run at the same priority as the default
RCU kthreads (RT class with priority of 1).
This patch checks if RCU torture is built into the kernel and if so,
assigns RT priority 1 to the RCU threads, allowing the rcutorture boost
tests to pass.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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This commit adds the SRCU grace-period number to the rcutorture statistics
printout, which allows it to be compared to the rcutorture "Writer stall
state" message.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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The ->dynticks_nmi_nesting field records the nesting depth of both
interrupt and NMI handlers. Because the kernel can enter interrupts
and never leave them (and vice versa) and because NMIs can interrupt
manipulation of the ->dynticks_nmi_nesting field, the values in this
field must be both chosen and maniupated very carefully. As a result,
although the value is zero when the corresponding CPU is executing
neither an interrupt nor an NMI handler, it is 4,611,686,018,427,387,906
on 64-bit systems when there is a single level of interrupt/NMI handling
in progress.
This number is difficult to remember and interpret, so this commit
switches the output to hexadecimal, resulting in the much nicer
0x4000000000000002.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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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>
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Currently, the range of jiffies_till_{first,next}_fqs are checked and
adjusted on and on in the loop of rcu_gp_kthread on runtime.
However, it's enough to check them only when setting them, not every
time in the loop. So make them handled on a setting time via sysfs.
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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This commit adds any in-the-future ->gp_seq_needed fields to the
diagnostics for an rcutorture writer stall warning message.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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