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2019-02-09Merge branches 'doc.2019.01.26a', 'fixes.2019.01.26a', 'sil.2019.01.26a', ↵Paul E. McKenney
'spdx.2019.02.09a', 'srcu.2019.01.26a' and 'torture.2019.01.26a' into HEAD doc.2019.01.26a: Documentation updates. fixes.2019.01.26a: Miscellaneous fixes. sil.2019.01.26a: Removal of a few more spin_is_locked() instances. spdx.2019.02.09a: Add SPDX identifiers to RCU files srcu.2019.01.26a: SRCU updates. torture.2019.01.26a: Torture-test updates.
2019-02-09rcu/tree: Convert to SPDX license identifierPaul E. McKenney
Replace the license boiler plate with a SPDX license identifier. While in the area, update an email address. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Update .h file SPDX comment format per Joe Perches. ] Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2019-01-25srcu: Remove srcu_queue_delayed_work_on()Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
srcu_queue_delayed_work_on() disables preemption (and therefore CPU hotplug in RCU's case) and then checks based on its own accounting if a CPU is online. If the CPU is online it uses queue_delayed_work_on() otherwise it fallbacks to queue_delayed_work(). The problem here is that queue_work() on -RT does not work with disabled preemption. queue_work_on() works also on an offlined CPU. queue_delayed_work_on() has the problem that it is possible to program a timer on an offlined CPU. This timer will fire once the CPU is online again. But until then, the timer remains programmed and nothing will happen. Add a local timer which will fire (as requested per delay) on the local CPU and then enqueue the work on the specific CPU. RCUtorture testing with SRCU-P for 24h showed no problems. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
2019-01-25rcu: Rename rcu_check_callbacks() to rcu_sched_clock_irq()Paul E. McKenney
The name rcu_check_callbacks() arguably made sense back in the early 2000s when RCU was quite a bit simpler than it is today, but it has become quite misleading, especially with the advent of dyntick-idle and NO_HZ_FULL. The rcu_check_callbacks() function is RCU's hook into the scheduling-clock interrupt, and is now but one of many ways that callbacks get promoted to invocable state. This commit therefore changes the name to rcu_sched_clock_irq(), which is the same number of characters and clearly indicates this function's relation to the rest of the Linux kernel. In addition, for the sake of consistency, rcu_flavor_check_callbacks() is also renamed to rcu_flavor_sched_clock_irq(). While in the area, the header comments for both functions are reworked. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
2019-01-25Merge branches 'consolidate.2019.01.26a' and 'fwd.2019.01.26a' into HEADPaul E. McKenney
consolidate.2019.01.26a: RCU flavor consolidation cleanups. fwd.2019.01.26a: RCU grace-period forward-progress fixes.
2019-01-25rcu: Improve diagnostics for failed RCU grace-period startPaul E. McKenney
If a grace period fails to start (for example, because you commented out the last two lines of rcu_accelerate_cbs_unlocked()), rcu_core() will invoke rcu_check_gp_start_stall(), which will notice and complain. However, this complaint is lacking crucial debugging information such as when the last wakeup executed and what the value of ->gp_seq was at that time. This commit therefore removes the current pr_alert() from rcu_check_gp_start_stall(), instead invoking show_rcu_gp_kthreads(), which has been updated to print the needed information, which is collected by rcu_gp_kthread_wake(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
2019-01-25rcu: Remove unused rcu_cpu_kthread_cpu per-CPU variablePaul E. McKenney
The rcu_cpu_kthread_cpu used to provide debugfs information, but is no longer used. This commit therefore removes it. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
2019-01-25rcu: Move rcu_cpu_has_work to rcu_data structurePaul E. McKenney
Given that RCU has a perfectly good per-CPU rcu_data structure, most per-CPU quantities should be stored there. This commit therefore moves the rcu_cpu_has_work per-CPU variable to the rcu_data structure. This also makes this variable unconditionally present, which should be acceptable given the memory reduction due to the RCU flavor consolidation and also due to simplifications this will enable. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
2019-01-25rcu: Remove unused rcu_cpu_kthread_loops per-CPU variablePaul E. McKenney
The rcu_cpu_kthread_loops variable used to provide debugfs information, but is no longer used. This commit therefore removes it. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
2019-01-25rcu: Move rcu_cpu_kthread_status to rcu_data structurePaul E. McKenney
Given that RCU has a perfectly good per-CPU rcu_data structure, most per-CPU quantities should be stored there. This commit therefore moves the rcu_cpu_kthread_status per-CPU variable to the rcu_data structure. This also makes this variable unconditionally present, which should be acceptable given the memory reduction due to the RCU flavor consolidation and also due to simplifications this will enable. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
2019-01-25rcu: Move rcu_cpu_kthread_task to rcu_data structurePaul E. McKenney
Given that RCU has a perfectly good per-CPU rcu_data structure, most per-CPU quantities should be stored there. This commit therefore moves the rcu_cpu_kthread_task per-CPU variable to the rcu_data structure. This also makes this variable unconditionally present, which should be acceptable given the memory reduction due to the RCU flavor consolidation and also due to simplifications this will enable. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
2019-01-25rcu: Discard separate per-CPU callback countsPaul E. McKenney
Back when there were multiple flavors of RCU, it was necessary to separately count lazy and non-lazy callbacks for each CPU. These counts were used in CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ kernels to determine how long a newly idle CPU should be allowed to sleep before handling its RCU callbacks. But now that there is only one flavor, the callback counts for a given CPU's sole rcu_data structure are the counts for that CPU. This commit therefore removes the rcu_data structure's ->nonlazy_posted and ->nonlazy_posted_snap fields, the rcu_idle_count_callbacks_posted() and rcu_cpu_has_callbacks() functions, repurposes the rcu_data structure's ->all_lazy field to record the laziness state at the beginning of the latest idle sojourn, and modifies CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ RCU CPU stall warnings accordingly. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
2019-01-25rcu: Determine expedited-GP IPI handler at build timePaul E. McKenney
Back when there could be multiple RCU flavors running in the same kernel at the same time, it was necessary to specify the expedited grace-period IPI handler at runtime. Now that there is only one RCU flavor, the IPI handler can be determined at build time. There is therefore no longer any reason for the RCU-preempt and RCU-sched IPI handlers to have different names, nor is there any reason to pass these handlers in function arguments and in the data structures enclosing workqueues. This commit therefore makes all these changes, pushing the specification of the expedited grace-period IPI handler down to the point of use. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
2019-01-25rcu: Rename and comment changes due to only one rcuo kthread per CPUPaul E. McKenney
Given RCU flavor consolidation, the name rcu_spawn_all_nocb_kthreads() is quite misleading. It no longer ever creates more than one kthread, and it does so only for the specified CPU. This commit therefore changes this name to the more descriptive rcu_spawn_cpu_nocb_kthread(), and also fixes up a similar issue in its header comment while in the area. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
2018-12-01rcutorture: Print time since GP end upon forward-progress failurePaul E. McKenney
If rcutorture's forward-progress tests fail while a grace period is not in progress, it is useful to print the time since the last grace period ended as a way to detect failure to launch a new grace period. This commit therefore makes this change. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
2018-12-01rcu: Account for nocb-CPU callback counts in RCU CPU stall warningsPaul E. McKenney
The RCU CPU stall warnings print an estimate of the total number of RCU callbacks queued in the system, but this estimate leaves out the callbacks queued for nocbs CPUs. This commit therefore introduces rcu_get_n_cbs_cpu(), which gives an accurate callback estimate for both nocbs and normal CPUs, and uses this new function as needed. This commit also introduces a rcu_get_n_cbs_nocb_cpu() helper function that returns the number of callbacks for nocbs CPUs or zero otherwise, and also uses this function in place of direct access to ->nocb_q_count while in the area (fewer characters, you see). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
2018-11-08rcu: Fix rcu_{node,data} comments about gp_seq_neededJoel Fernandes (Google)
Recent changes have removed the old ->gp_seq_needed field from the rcu_state structure, which in turn obsoleted a couple of comments in the rcu_node and rcu_data structures. This commit therefore updates these comments accordingly. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: <kernel-team@android.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
2018-11-08rcu: Remove unused rcu_state externsJoel Fernandes (Google)
The rcu_bh_state and rcu_sched_state variables were removed during the RCU flavor consolidations, but external declarations remain in tree.h. This commit therefore removes these obsolete declarations. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: <kernel-team@android.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Convert rcu_state.ofl_lock to raw_spinlock_tMike Galbraith
1e64b15a4b10 ("rcu: Fix grace-period hangs due to race with CPU offline") added spinlock_t ofl_lock to the rcu_state structure, then takes it with preemption disabled during CPU offline, which gives the -rt patchset's sleeping spinlock heartburn. This commit therefore converts ->ofl_lock to raw_spinlock_t. Signed-off-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove obsolete ->dynticks_fqs and ->cond_resched_completedPaul E. McKenney
The rcu_data structure's ->dynticks_fqs is incremented but never accesses. Its ->cond_resched_completed field isn't used at all. This commit therefore removes both fields. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Switch ->dynticks to rcu_data structure, remove rcu_dynticksPaul E. McKenney
This commit move ->dynticks from the rcu_dynticks structure to the rcu_data structure, replacing the field of the same name. It also updates the code to access ->dynticks from the rcu_data structure and to use the rcu_data structure rather than following to now-gone ->dynticks field to the now-gone rcu_dynticks structure. While in the area, this commit also fixes up comments. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Switch dyntick nesting counters to rcu_data structurePaul E. McKenney
This commit removes ->dynticks_nesting and ->dynticks_nmi_nesting from the rcu_dynticks structure and updates the code to access them from the rcu_data structure. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Switch urgent quiescent-state requests to rcu_data structurePaul E. McKenney
This commit removes ->rcu_need_heavy_qs and ->rcu_urgent_qs from the rcu_dynticks structure and updates the code to access them from the rcu_data structure. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Switch lazy counts to rcu_data structurePaul E. McKenney
This commit removes ->all_lazy, ->nonlazy_posted and ->nonlazy_posted_snap from the rcu_dynticks structure and updates the code to access them from the rcu_data structure. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Switch last accelerate/advance to rcu_data structurePaul E. McKenney
This commit removes ->last_accelerate and ->last_advance_all from the rcu_dynticks structure and updates the code to access them from the rcu_data structure. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Switch ->tick_nohz_enabled_snap to rcu_data structurePaul E. McKenney
This commit removes ->tick_nohz_enabled_snap from the rcu_dynticks structure and updates the code to access it from the rcu_data structure. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Merge rcu_dynticks structure into rcu_data structurePaul E. McKenney
Now that there is only ever one rcu_data structure per CPU, there is no need for a separate rcu_dynticks structure. This commit therefore adds the rcu_dynticks fields into the rcu_data structure in preparation for removing the rcu_dynticks structure entirely. Note that the ->dynticks field will be handled specially because there is a field by that name in both structures. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Convert "1UL << x" to "BIT(x)"Paul E. McKenney
This commit saves a few characters by converting "1UL << x" to "BIT(x)". Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: More aggressively enlist scheduler aid for nohz_full CPUsPaul E. McKenney
Because nohz_full CPUs can leave the scheduler-clock interrupt disabled even when in kernel mode, RCU cannot rely on rcu_check_callbacks() to enlist the scheduler's aid in extracting a quiescent state from such CPUs. This commit therefore more aggressively uses resched_cpu() on nohz_full CPUs that fail to pass through a quiescent state in a timely manner. By default, the resched_cpu() beating starts 300 milliseconds into the quiescent state. While in the neighborhood, add a ->last_fqs_resched field to the rcu_data structure in order to rate-limit resched_cpu() calls from the RCU grace-period kthread. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Eliminate ->rcu_qs_ctr from the rcu_dynticks structurePaul E. McKenney
The ->rcu_qs_ctr counter was intended to allow providing a lightweight report of a quiescent state to all RCU flavors. But now that there is only one flavor of RCU in any one running kernel, there is no point in having this feature. This commit therefore removes the ->rcu_qs_ctr field from the rcu_dynticks structure and the ->rcu_qs_ctr_snap field from the rcu_data structure. This results in the "rqc" option to the rcu_fqs trace event no longer being used, so this commit also removes the "rqc" description from the header comment. While in the neighborhood, this commit also causes the forward-progress request .rcu_need_heavy_qs be set one jiffies_till_sched_qs interval later in the grace period than the first setting of .rcu_urgent_qs. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Inline _rcu_barrier() into its sole remaining callerPaul E. McKenney
Because rcu_barrier() is a one-line wrapper function for _rcu_barrier() and because nothing else calls _rcu_barrier(), this commit inlines _rcu_barrier() into rcu_barrier(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Inline increment_cpu_stall_ticks() into its sole callerPaul E. McKenney
Consolidation of the RCU flavors into one makes increment_cpu_stall_ticks() a trivial one-line function with only one caller. This commit therefore inlines it. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove for_each_rcu_flavor() flavor-traversal macroPaul E. McKenney
Now that there is only ever a single flavor of RCU in a given kernel build, there isn't a whole lot of point in having a flavor-traversal macro. This commit therefore removes it and converts calls to it to straightline code, inlining trivial functions as appropriate. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rcu_data structure's ->rsp fieldPaul E. McKenney
Now that there is only one rcu_state structure, there is no need for the rcu_data structure to indicate which it corresponds to. This commit therefore removes the rcu_data structure's ->rsp field, replacing all remaining uses of it with &rcu_state. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from expedited grace-period functionsPaul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from the code in kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h, and removes all of the rsp local variables while in the area. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from no-CBs CPU functionsPaul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from rcu_nocb_cpu_needs_barrier(), rcu_spawn_one_nocb_kthread(), rcu_organize_nocb_kthreads(), rcu_nocb_cpu_needs_barrier(), and rcu_nohz_full_cpu(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from print_cpu_stall_info()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from print_cpu_stall_info(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from dump_blkd_tasks() and friendPaul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from dump_blkd_tasks() and rcu_preempt_blocked_readers_cgp(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from rcu_print_detail_task_stall()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from rcu_print_detail_task_stall(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rcu_state structure's ->rda fieldPaul E. McKenney
The rcu_state structure's ->rda field was used to find the per-CPU rcu_data structures corresponding to that rcu_state structure. But now there is only one rcu_state structure (creatively named "rcu_state") and one set of per-CPU rcu_data structures (creatively named "rcu_data"). Therefore, uses of the ->rda field can always be replaced by "rcu_data, and this commit makes that change and removes the ->rda field. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Eliminate rcu_state structure's ->call fieldPaul E. McKenney
The rcu_state structure's ->call field references the corresponding RCU flavor's call_rcu() function. However, now that there is only ever one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, and that flavor uses plain old call_rcu(), there is not a lot of point in continuing to have the ->call field. This commit therefore removes it. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER()Paul E. McKenney
Now that a given build of the Linux kernel has only one set of rcu_state, rcu_node, and rcu_data structures, there is no point in creating a macro to declare and compile-time initialize them. This commit therefore just does normal declaration and compile-time initialization of these structures. While in the area, this commit also removes #ifndefs of the no-longer-ever-defined preprocessor macro RCU_TREE_NONCORE. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Define RCU-sched API in terms of RCU for Tree RCU PREEMPT buildsPaul E. McKenney
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>
2018-08-30rcu: Apply RCU-bh QSes to RCU-sched and RCU-preempt when safePaul E. McKenney
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. ]
2018-08-30rcu: Defer reporting RCU-preempt quiescent states when disabledPaul E. McKenney
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(). ]
2018-07-12rcu: Remove unused rcu_kick_nohz_cpu() functionPaul E. McKenney
The rcu_kick_nohz_cpu() function is no longer used, and the functionality it used to provide is now provided by a call to resched_cpu() in the force-quiescent-state function rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs(). This commit therefore removes rcu_kick_nohz_cpu(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-07-12rcu: Add diagnostics for offline CPUs failing to report QSPaul E. McKenney
CPUs are expected to report quiescent states when coming online and when going offline, and grace-period initialization is supposed to handle any race conditions where a CPU's ->qsmask bit is set just after it goes offline. This commit adds diagnostics for the case where an offline CPU nevertheless has a grace period waiting on it. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-07-12rcu: Record ->gp_state for both phases of grace-period initializationPaul E. McKenney
Grace-period initialization first processes any recent CPU-hotplug operations, and then initializes state for the new grace period. These two phases of initialization are currently not distinguished in debug prints, but the distinction is valuable in a number of debug situations. This commit therefore introduces two new values for ->gp_state, RCU_GP_ONOFF and RCU_GP_INIT, in order to make this distinction. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-07-12rcu: Add CPU online/offline state to dump_blkd_tasks()Paul E. McKenney
Interactions between CPU-hotplug operations and grace-period initialization can result in dump_blkd_tasks(). One of the first debugging actions in this case is to search back in dmesg to work out which of the affected rcu_node structure's CPUs are online and to determine the last CPU-hotplug operation affecting any of those CPUs. This can be laborious and error-prone, especially when console output is lost. This commit therefore causes dump_blkd_tasks() to dump the state of the affected rcu_node structure's CPUs and the last grace period during which the last offline and online operation affected each of these CPUs. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>