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2015-03-03rcu: Move early boot callback tests earlierPaul E. McKenney
Because callbacks can now be posted quite early in boot, move the early boot callback tests to precede RCU initialization. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-03rcu: Move early-boot callbacks to no-CBs lists for no-CBs CPUsPaul E. McKenney
When a CPU is first determined to be a no-CBs CPUs, this commit causes any early boot callbacks to be moved to the no-CBs callback list, allowing them to be invoked. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26rcu: Tighten up affinity and check for sysidlePaul E. McKenney
If the RCU grace-period kthread invoking rcu_sysidle_check_cpu() happens to be running on the tick_do_timer_cpu initially, then rcu_bind_gp_kthread() won't bind it. This kthread might then migrate before invoking rcu_gp_fqs(), which will trigger the WARN_ON_ONCE() in rcu_sysidle_check_cpu(). This commit therefore makes rcu_bind_gp_kthread() do the binding even if the kthread is currently on the same CPU. Because this incurs added overhead, this commit also causes each RCU grace-period kthread to invoke rcu_bind_gp_kthread() once at boot rather than at the beginning of each grace period. And as long as rcu_bind_gp_kthread() is being modified, this commit eliminates its #ifdef. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26rcu: Remove fastpath from __rcu_process_callbacks()Alexander Gordeev
The standard code path accommodates a condition when no RCU callbacks are ready to invoke. Since size of the code is a priority for tiny RCU, remove the fast path. Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26rcu: Remove unnecessary condition check in rcu_qsctr_help()Alexander Gordeev
When the ->curtail and ->donetail pointers differ, ->rcucblist always points to the beginning of the current list and thus cannot be NULL. Therefore, the check ->rcucblist != NULL is redundant and this commit removes it. Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26rcu: Fixes to NO_HZ_FULL sysidle accountingPaul E. McKenney
On second and subsequent passes through quiescent-state forcing, the isidle variable was initialized to false, which would prevent full sysidle state from being reached if a grace period needed more than one round of quiescent-state forcing (which most should not). However, the check for offline CPUs in the quiescent-state forcing main loop had the wrong sense, which could prevent CPUs from ever entering full sysidle state. This commit fixes both of these bugs. Given that sysidle is not yet wired up, this has no effect in old kernels, but might have proven frustrating had anyone attempted to wire it up. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26rcutorture: Make consistent use of variablesPaul E. McKenney
The "if" statement at the beginning of rcu_torture_writer() should use the same set of variables. In theory, this does not matter because the corresponding variables (gp_sync and gp_sync1) have the same value at this point in the code, but in practice such puzzles should be removed. This commit therefore makes the use of variables consistent. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26rcu: Add Kconfig option to expedite grace periods during bootPaul E. McKenney
This commit adds a CONFIG_RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT Kconfig parameter that emulates a very early boot rcu_expedite_gp(). A late-boot call to rcu_end_inkernel_boot() will provide the corresponding rcu_unexpedite_gp(). The late-boot call to rcu_end_inkernel_boot() should be made just before init is spawned. According to Arjan: > To show the boot time, I'm using the timestamp of the "Write protecting" > line, that's pretty much the last thing we print prior to ring 3 execution. > > A kernel with default RCU behavior (inside KVM, only virtual devices) > looks like this: > > [ 0.038724] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 10240k > > a kernel with expedited RCU (using the command line option, so that I > don't have to recompile between measurements and thus am completely > oranges-to-oranges) > > [ 0.031768] Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 10240k > > which, in percentage, is an 18% improvement. Reported-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
2015-02-26rcu: Update from rcu_expedited variable to rcu_gp_is_expedited()Paul E. McKenney
This commit updates open-coded tests of the rcu_expedited variable to instead use rcu_gp_is_expedited(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26rcu: Add rcu_expedite_gp() and rcu_unexpedite_gp() to rcutorturePaul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26rcu: Provide rcu_expedite_gp() and rcu_unexpedite_gp()Paul E. McKenney
Currently, expediting of normal synchronous grace-period primitives (synchronize_rcu() and friends) is controlled by the rcu_expedited() boot/sysfs parameter. This works well, but does not handle nesting. This commit therefore provides rcu_expedite_gp() to enable expediting and rcu_unexpedite_gp() to cancel a prior rcu_expedite_gp(), both of which support nesting. Reported-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26rcu: Fix a couple of typos in rcu_all_qs() comment headerPaul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26rcu: Avoid clobbering early boot callbacksPaul E. McKenney
When a CPU comes online, it initializes its callback list. This is a bad thing if this is the first time that the CPU has come online and if that CPU has early boot callbacks. This commit therefore avoid initializing the callback list if there are callbacks present, in which case the initial call_rcu() did the initialization for us. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26rcu: Refine diagnostics for lacking kthread for no-CBs callbacksPaul E. McKenney
Some diagnostics under CONFIG_PROVE_RCU in rcu_nocb_cpu_needs_barrier() assume that there can be no early-boot callbacks. This commit therefore qualifies the diagnostic with rcu_scheduler_fully_active to permit early boot callbacks to avoid this splat. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26rcu: Prevent early-boot RCU callbacks from splattingPaul E. McKenney
Currently, a call_rcu() that precedes rcu_init() will splat due to the callback lists not having yet been initialized. This commit causes the first such callback to initialize the boot CPU's RCU callback list. Note that this commit does not change rcu_init()-time initialization, which means that the callback will be discarded at rcu_init() time. Fixing this is the job of later commits. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26rcu: Wire ->rda pointers at compile timePaul E. McKenney
This commit wires up the rcu_state structures' ->rda pointers to the per-CPU rcu_data structures at compile time, thus ensuring that this linkage is present at early boot, in turn allowing posting of callbacks before rcu_init() is executed. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26rcu: Abstract default callback-list initialization from init_callback_list()Paul E. McKenney
In preparation for early-boot posting of callbacks, this commit abstracts initialization of the default (non-no-CB) callbacks list from the init_callback_list() function into a new init_default_callback_list() function. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-25rcu_tree: Avoid touching rnp->completed when a new GP is startedLai Jiangshan
In rcu_gp_init(), rnp->completed equals to rsp->completed in THEORY, we don't need to touch it normally. If something goes wrong, it will complain and fixup rnp->completed and avoid oops. This commit thus avoids the normal needless store to rnp->completed. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-25rcu: Consolidate rcu_synchronize and wakeme_after_rcu()Paul E. McKenney
There are currently duplicate identical definitions of the rcu_synchronize() structure and the wakeme_after_rcu() function. Thie commit therefore consolidates them. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-21Merge branches 'core-urgent-for-linus' and 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull rcu fix and x86 irq fix from Ingo Molnar: - Fix a bug that caused an RCU warning splat. - Two x86 irq related fixes: a hotplug crash fix and an ACPI IRQ registry fix. * 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: rcu: Clear need_qs flag to prevent splat * 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: x86/irq: Check for valid irq descriptor in check_irq_vectors_for_cpu_disable() x86/irq: Fix regression caused by commit b568b8601f05
2015-02-13rcu: use %*pb[l] to print bitmaps including cpumasks and nodemasksTejun Heo
printk and friends can now format bitmaps using '%*pb[l]'. cpumask and nodemask also provide cpumask_pr_args() and nodemask_pr_args() respectively which can be used to generate the two printf arguments necessary to format the specified cpu/nodemask. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2015-02-11rcu: Clear need_qs flag to prevent splatPaul E. McKenney
If the scheduling-clock interrupt sets the current tasks need_qs flag, but if the current CPU passes through a quiescent state in the meantime, then rcu_preempt_qs() will fail to clear the need_qs flag, which can fool RCU into thinking that additional rcu_read_unlock_special() processing is needed. This commit therefore clears the need_qs flag before checking for additional processing. For this problem to occur, we need rcu_preempt_data.passed_quiesce equal to true and current->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs also equal to true. This condition can occur as follows: 1. CPU 0 is aware of the current preemptible RCU grace period, but has not yet passed through a quiescent state. Among other things, this means that rcu_preempt_data.passed_quiesce is false. 2. Task A running on CPU 0 enters a preemptible RCU read-side critical section. 3. CPU 0 takes a scheduling-clock interrupt, which notices the RCU read-side critical section and the need for a quiescent state, and thus sets current->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs to true. 4. Task A is preempted, enters the scheduler, eventually invoking rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() which in turn invokes rcu_preempt_qs(). Because rcu_preempt_data.passed_quiesce is false, control enters the body of the "if" statement, which sets rcu_preempt_data.passed_quiesce to true. 5. At this point, CPU 0 takes an interrupt. The interrupt handler contains an RCU read-side critical section, and the rcu_read_unlock() notes that current->rcu_read_unlock_special is nonzero, and thus invokes rcu_read_unlock_special(). 6. Once in rcu_read_unlock_special(), the fact that current->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs is true becomes apparent, so rcu_read_unlock_special() invokes rcu_preempt_qs(). Recursively, given that we interrupted out of that same function in the preceding step. 7. Because rcu_preempt_data.passed_quiesce is now true, rcu_preempt_qs() does nothing, and simply returns. 8. Upon return to rcu_read_unlock_special(), it is noted that current->rcu_read_unlock_special is still nonzero (because the interrupted rcu_preempt_qs() had not yet gotten around to clearing current->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs). 9. Execution proceeds to the WARN_ON_ONCE(), which notes that we are in an interrupt handler and thus duly splats. The solution, as noted above, is to make rcu_read_unlock_special() clear out current->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs after calling rcu_preempt_qs(). The interrupted rcu_preempt_qs() will clear it again, but this is harmless. The worst that happens is that we clobber another attempt to set this field, but this is not a problem because we just got done reporting a quiescent state. Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Fix embarrassing build bug noted by Sasha Levin. ] Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
2015-01-15Merge branches 'doc.2015.01.07a', 'fixes.2015.01.15a', ↵Paul E. McKenney
'preempt.2015.01.06a', 'srcu.2015.01.06a', 'stall.2015.01.16a' and 'torture.2015.01.11a' into HEAD doc.2015.01.07a: Documentation updates. fixes.2015.01.15a: Miscellaneous fixes. preempt.2015.01.06a: Changes to handling of lists of preempted tasks. srcu.2015.01.06a: SRCU updates. stall.2015.01.16a: RCU CPU stall-warning updates and fixes. torture.2015.01.11a: RCU torture-test updates and fixes.
2015-01-15rcu: Initialize tiny RCU stall-warning timeouts at bootPaul E. McKenney
The current tiny RCU stall-warning code assumes that the jiffies counter starts at zero, however, it is sometimes initialized to other values, for example, -30,000. This commit therefore changes rcu_init() to invoke reset_cpu_stall_ticks() for both flavors of RCU to initialize the stall-warning times properly at boot. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-15rcu: Fix RCU CPU stall detection in tiny implementationMiroslav Benes
The tiny RCU CPU stall detection depends on *rcp->curtail not being NULL. It is however a tail pointer and thus NULL by definition. Instead we should check rcp->rcucblist for the presence of pending callbacks which need to be processed. With this fix INFO about the stall is printed and jiffies_stall (jiffies at next stall) correctly updated. Note that the check for pending callback is necessary to avoid spurious warnings if there are no pendings callbacks. Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> [ paulmck: Fused identical "if" statements, ported to -rcu. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-15rcu: Add GP-kthread-starvation checks to CPU stall warningsPaul E. McKenney
This commit adds a message that is printed if the relevant grace-period kthread has not been able to run for the two seconds preceding the stall warning. (The two seconds is double the maximum interval between successive bouts of quiescent-state forcing.) Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-15rcu: Make cond_resched_rcu_qs() apply to normal RCU flavorsPaul E. McKenney
Although cond_resched_rcu_qs() only applies to TASKS_RCU, it is used in places where it would be useful for it to apply to the normal RCU flavors, rcu_preempt, rcu_sched, and rcu_bh. This is especially the case for workloads that aggressively overload the system, particularly those that generate large numbers of RCU updates on systems running NO_HZ_FULL CPUs. This commit therefore communicates quiescent states from cond_resched_rcu_qs() to the normal RCU flavors. Note that it is unfortunately necessary to leave the old ->passed_quiesce mechanism in place to allow quiescent states that apply to only one flavor to be recorded. (Yes, we could decrement ->rcu_qs_ctr_snap in that case, but that is not so good for debugging of RCU internals.) In addition, if one of the RCU flavor's grace period has stalled, this will invoke rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle(), resulting in a heavy-weight quiescent state visible from other CPUs. Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Merge commit from Sasha Levin fixing a bug where __this_cpu() was used in preemptible code. ]
2015-01-15rcu: Optionally run grace-period kthreads at real-time priorityPaul E. McKenney
Recent testing has shown that under heavy load, running RCU's grace-period kthreads at real-time priority can improve performance (according to 0day test robot) and reduce the incidence of RCU CPU stall warnings. However, most systems do just fine with the default non-realtime priorities for these kthreads, and it does not make sense to expose the entire user base to any risk stemming from this change, given that this change is of use only to a few users running extremely heavy workloads. Therefore, this commit allows users to specify realtime priorities for the grace-period kthreads, but leaves them running SCHED_OTHER by default. The realtime priority may be specified at build time via the RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO Kconfig parameter, or at boot time via the rcutree.kthread_prio parameter. Either way, 0 says to continue the default SCHED_OTHER behavior and values from 1-99 specify that priority of SCHED_FIFO behavior. Note that a value of 0 is not permitted when the RCU_BOOST Kconfig parameter is specified. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-10rcutorture: Add more diagnostics in rcu_barrier() test failure casePaul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-10rcutorture: Check from beginning to end of grace periodPaul E. McKenney
Currently, rcutorture's Reader Batch checks measure from the end of the previous grace period to the end of the current one. This commit tightens up these checks by measuring from the start and end of the same grace period. This involves adding rcu_batches_started() and friends corresponding to the existing rcu_batches_completed() and friends. We leave SRCU alone for the moment, as it does not yet have a way of tracking both ends of its grace periods. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-10rcu: Remove redundant rcu_batches_completed() declarationPaul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-10rcutorture: Drop rcu_torture_completed() and friendsPaul E. McKenney
Now that the return type of rcu_batches_completed() and friends matches that of the rcu_torture_ops structure's ->completed field, the wrapper functions can be deleted. This commit carries out that deletion, while also wiring "sched"'s ->completed field to rcu_batches_completed_sched(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-10rcutorture: Use unsigned for Reader Batch computationsPaul E. McKenney
The counter returned by the various ->completed functions is subject to overflow, which means that subtracting two such counters might result in overflow, which invokes undefined behavior in the C standard. This commit therefore changes these functions and variables to unsigned to avoid this undefined behavior. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-10rcu: Make _batches_completed() functions return unsigned longPaul E. McKenney
Long ago, the various ->completed fields were of type long, but now are unsigned long due to signed-integer-overflow concerns. However, the various _batches_completed() functions remained of type long, even though their only purpose in life is to return the corresponding ->completed field. This patch cleans this up by changing these functions' return types to unsigned long. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06rcu: Handle gpnum/completed wrap while dyntick idlePaul E. McKenney
Subtle race conditions can result if a CPU stays in dyntick-idle mode long enough for the ->gpnum and ->completed fields to wrap. For example, consider the following sequence of events: o CPU 1 encounters a quiescent state while waiting for grace period 5 to complete, but then enters dyntick-idle mode. o While CPU 1 is in dyntick-idle mode, the grace-period counters wrap around so that the grace period number is now 4. o Just as CPU 1 exits dyntick-idle mode, grace period 4 completes and grace period 5 begins. o The quiescent state that CPU 1 passed through during the old grace period 5 looks like it applies to the new grace period 5. Therefore, the new grace period 5 completes without CPU 1 having passed through a quiescent state. This could clearly be a fatal surprise to any long-running RCU read-side critical section that happened to be running on CPU 1 at the time. At one time, this was not a problem, given that it takes significant time for the grace-period counters to overflow even on 32-bit systems. However, with the advent of NO_HZ_FULL and SMP embedded systems, arbitrarily long idle periods are now becoming quite feasible. It is therefore time to close this race. This commit therefore avoids this race condition by having the quiescent-state forcing code detect when a CPU is falling too far behind, and setting a new rcu_data field ->gpwrap when this happens. Whenever this new ->gpwrap field is set, the CPU's ->gpnum and ->completed fields are known to be untrustworthy, and can be ignored, along with any associated quiescent states. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06rcu: Improve diagnostics for spurious RCU CPU stall warningsPaul E. McKenney
The current RCU CPU stall warning code will print "Stall ended before state dump start" any time that the stall-warning code is triggered on a CPU that has already reported a quiescent state for the current grace period and if all quiescent states have been reported for the current grace period. However, a true stall can result in these symptoms, for example, by preventing RCU's grace-period kthreads from ever running This commit therefore checks for this condition, reporting the end of the stall only if one of the grace-period counters has actually advanced. Otherwise, it reports the last time that the grace-period kthread made meaningful progress. (In normal situations, the grace-period kthread should make meaningful progress at least every jiffies_till_next_fqs jiffies.) Reported-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
2015-01-06rcu: Make RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO include number of fqs attemptsPaul E. McKenney
One way that an RCU CPU stall warning can happen is if the grace-period kthread is not allowed to execute. One proxy for this kthread's forward progress is the number of force-quiescent-state (fqs) scans. This commit therefore adds the number of fqs scans to the RCU CPU stall warning printouts when CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO=y. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06rcu: Make SRCU optional by using CONFIG_SRCUPranith Kumar
SRCU is not necessary to be compiled by default in all cases. For tinification efforts not compiling SRCU unless necessary is desirable. The current patch tries to make compiling SRCU optional by introducing a new Kconfig option CONFIG_SRCU which is selected when any of the components making use of SRCU are selected. If we do not select CONFIG_SRCU, srcu.o will not be compiled at all. text data bss dec hex filename 2007 0 0 2007 7d7 kernel/rcu/srcu.o Size of arch/powerpc/boot/zImage changes from text data bss dec hex filename 831552 64180 23944 919676 e087c arch/powerpc/boot/zImage : before 829504 64180 23952 917636 e0084 arch/powerpc/boot/zImage : after so the savings are about ~2000 bytes. Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> CC: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> CC: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> CC: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: resolve conflict due to removal of arch/ia64/kvm/Kconfig. ]
2015-01-06rcu: Expand SRCU ->completed to 64 bitsPaul E. McKenney
When rcutorture used only the low-order 32 bits of the grace-period number, it was not a problem for SRCU to use a 32-bit completed field. However, rcutorture now uses the full 64 bits on 64-bit systems, so this commit converts SRCU's ->completed field to unsigned long so as to provide 64 bits on 64-bit systems. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06rcu: Remove redundant callback-list initializationPaul E. McKenney
The RCU callback lists are initialized in both rcu_boot_init_percpu_data() and rcu_init_percpu_data(). The former is intended for initializing immutable data, so this commit removes the initialization from rcu_boot_init_percpu_data() and leaves it in rcu_init_percpu_data(). This change prepares for permitting callbacks to be queued very early in boot. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06rcu: Don't scan root rcu_node structure for stalled tasksPaul E. McKenney
Now that blocked tasks are no longer migrated to the root rcu_node structure, there is no need to scan the root rcu_node structure for blocked tasks stalling the current grace period. This commit therefore removes this scan. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06rcu: Revert "Allow post-unlock reference for rt_mutex" to avoid ↵Lai Jiangshan
priority-inversion The patch dfeb9765ce3c ("Allow post-unlock reference for rt_mutex") ensured rcu-boost safe even the rt_mutex has post-unlock reference. But rt_mutex allowing post-unlock reference is definitely a bug and it was fixed by the commit 27e35715df54 ("rtmutex: Plug slow unlock race"). This fix made the previous patch (dfeb9765ce3c) useless. And even worse, the priority-inversion introduced by the the previous patch still exists. rcu_read_unlock_special() { rt_mutex_unlock(&rnp->boost_mtx); /* Priority-Inversion: * the current task had been deboosted and preempted as a low * priority task immediately, it could wait long before reschedule in, * and the rcu-booster also waits on this low priority task and sleeps. * This priority-inversion makes rcu-booster can't work * as expected. */ complete(&rnp->boost_completion); } Just revert the patch to avoid it. Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06rcu: Note quiescent state when CPU goes offlinePaul E. McKenney
The rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu() function (called after a CPU has gone completely offline) has not reported a quiescent state because there was probably at least one synchronize_rcu() between the time the CPU went offline and the CPU_DEAD notifier, and this would have detected the CPU's offline state via quiescent-state forcing. However, the plan is for CPUs to take themselves offline, at which point it makes sense for them to report their own quiescent state. This commit makes this change in preparation for the new CPU-hotplug setup. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06rcu: Don't bother affinitying rcub kthreads away from offline CPUsPaul E. McKenney
When rcu_boost_kthread_setaffinity() sees that all CPUs for a given rcu_node structure are now offline, it affinities the corresponding RCU-boost ("rcub") kthread away from those CPUs. This is pointless because the kthread cannot run on those offline CPUs in any case. This commit therefore removes this unneeded code. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06rcu: Don't initiate RCU priority boosting on root rcu_nodePaul E. McKenney
Because there is no longer any preempted tasks on the root rcu_node, and because there is no longer ever an rcub kthread for the root rcu_node, this commit drops the code in force_qs_rnp() that attempts to awaken the non-existent root rcub kthread. This is strictly a performance enhancement, removing a root rcu_node ->lock acquisition and release along with some tests in rcu_initiate_boost(), ending with the test that notes that there is no rcub kthread. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06rcu: Don't spawn rcub kthreads on root rcu_node structurePaul E. McKenney
Now that offlining CPUs no longer moves leaf rcu_node structures' ->blkd_tasks lists to the root, there is no way for the root rcu_node structure's ->blkd_task list to be nonempty, unless the root node is also the sole leaf node. This commit therefore refrains from creating an rcub kthread for the root rcu_node structure unless it is also the sole leaf. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06rcu: Make use of rcu_preempt_has_tasks()Paul E. McKenney
Given that there is now arcu_preempt_has_tasks() function that checks to see if the ->blkd_tasks list is non-empty, this commit makes use of it. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06rcu: Shorten irq-disable region in rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu()Paul E. McKenney
Now that we are not migrating callbacks, there is no need to hold the ->orphan_lock across the the ->qsmaskinit bit-clearing process. This commit therefore releases ->orphan_lock immediately after adopting the orphaned RCU callbacks. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06rcu: Don't migrate blocked tasks even if all corresponding CPUs offlinePaul E. McKenney
When the last CPU associated with a given leaf rcu_node structure goes offline, something must be done about the tasks queued on that rcu_node structure. Each of these tasks has been preempted on one of the leaf rcu_node structure's CPUs while in an RCU read-side critical section that it have not yet exited. Handling these tasks is the job of rcu_preempt_offline_tasks(), which migrates them from the leaf rcu_node structure to the root rcu_node structure. Unfortunately, this migration has to be done one task at a time because each tasks allegiance must be shifted from the original leaf rcu_node to the root, so that future attempts to deal with these tasks will acquire the root rcu_node structure's ->lock rather than that of the leaf. Worse yet, this migration must be done with interrupts disabled, which is not so good for realtime response, especially given that there is no bound on the number of tasks on a given rcu_node structure's list. (OK, OK, there is a bound, it is just that it is unreasonably large, especially on 64-bit systems.) This was not considered a problem back when rcu_preempt_offline_tasks() was first written because realtime systems were assumed not to do CPU-hotplug operations while real-time applications were running. This assumption has proved of dubious validity given that people are starting to run multiple realtime applications on a single SMP system and that it is common practice to offline then online a CPU before starting its real-time application in order to clear extraneous processing off of that CPU. So we now need CPU hotplug operations to avoid undue latencies. This commit therefore avoids migrating these tasks, instead letting them be dequeued one by one from the original leaf rcu_node structure by rcu_read_unlock_special(). This means that the clearing of bits from the upper-level rcu_node structures must be deferred until the last such task has been dequeued, because otherwise subsequent grace periods won't wait on them. This commit has the beneficial side effect of simplifying the CPU-hotplug code for TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, especially in CONFIG_RCU_BOOST builds. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06rcu: Make rcu_read_unlock_special() propagate ->qsmaskinit bit clearingPaul E. McKenney
This commit causes rcu_read_unlock_special() to propagate ->qsmaskinit bit clearing up the rcu_node tree once a given rcu_node structure's blkd_tasks list becomes empty. This is the final commit in preparation for the rework of RCU priority boosting: It enables preempted tasks to remain queued on their rcu_node structure even after all of that rcu_node structure's CPUs have gone offline. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>