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Paul E. McKenney d9eba76883 rcutorture: Better bounds checking for n_barrier_cbs
A negative value for rcutorture.n_barrier_cbs can pass a negative value
to the memory allocator, so this commit instead causes rcu_barrier()
testing to be disabled in this case.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-07-15 14:47:14 -07:00
Alexander Gordeev 426216970e rcu: Simplify arithmetic to calculate number of RCU nodes
This update makes arithmetic to calculate number of RCU nodes
more straight and easy to read.

Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-07-15 14:45:21 -07:00
Alexander Gordeev cb00710239 rcu: Limit count of static data to the number of RCU levels
Although a number of RCU levels may be less than the current
maximum of four, some static data associated with each level
are allocated for all four levels. As result, the extra data
never get accessed and just wast memory. This update limits
count of allocated items to the number of used RCU levels.

Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-07-15 14:45:20 -07:00
Alexander Gordeev 199977bff9 rcu: Remove unnecessary fields from rcu_state structure
Members rcu_state::levelcnt[] and rcu_state::levelspread[]
are only used at init. There is no reason to keep them
afterwards.

Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-07-15 14:45:19 -07:00
Alexander Gordeev 05b84aec46 rcu: Limit rcu_capacity[] size to RCU_NUM_LVLS items
Number of items in rcu_capacity[] array is defined by macro
MAX_RCU_LVLS. However, that array is never accessed beyond
RCU_NUM_LVLS index. Therefore, we can limit the array to
RCU_NUM_LVLS items and eliminate MAX_RCU_LVLS. As result,
in most cases the memory is conserved.

Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-07-15 14:45:18 -07:00
Alexander Gordeev a6d77081e2 rcu: Limit rcu_state::levelcnt[] to RCU_NUM_LVLS items
Variable rcu_num_lvls is limited by RCU_NUM_LVLS macro.
In turn, rcu_state::levelcnt[] array is never accessed
beyond rcu_num_lvls. Thus, rcu_state::levelcnt[] is safe
to limit to RCU_NUM_LVLS items.

Since rcu_num_lvls could be changed during boot (as result
of rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf kernel parameter update) one might
assume a new value could overflow the value of RCU_NUM_LVLS.
However, that is not the case, since leaf-level fanout is only
permitted to increase, resulting in rcu_num_lvls possibly to
decrease.

Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-07-15 14:45:16 -07:00
Alexander Gordeev 9618138b09 rcu: Simplify rcu_init_geometry() capacity arithmetics
Current code suggests that introducing the extra level to
rcu_capacity[] array makes some of the arithmetic easier.
Well, in fact it appears rather confusing and unnecessary.

Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-07-15 14:45:15 -07:00
Alexander Gordeev 679f9858b1 rcu: Cleanup rcu_init_geometry() code and arithmetics
This update simplifies rcu_init_geometry() code flow
and makes calculation of the total number of rcu_node
structures more easy to read.

The update relies on the fact num_rcu_lvl[] is never
accessed beyond rcu_num_lvls index by the rest of the
code. Therefore, there is no need initialize the whole
num_rcu_lvl[].

Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-07-15 14:45:14 -07:00
Alexander Gordeev 372b0ec24f rcu: Remove superfluous local variable in rcu_init_geometry()
Local variable 'n' mimics 'nr_cpu_ids' while the both are
used within one function. There is no reason for 'n' to
exist whatsoever.

Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-07-15 14:45:13 -07:00
Alexander Gordeev 75cf15a4c0 rcu: Panic if RCU tree can not accommodate all CPUs
Currently a condition when RCU tree is unable to accommodate
the configured number of CPUs is not permitted and causes
a fall back to compile-time values. However, the code has no
means to exceed the RCU tree capacity neither at compile-time
nor in run-time. Therefore, if the condition is met in run-
time then it indicates a serios problem elsewhere and should
be handled with a panic.

Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-07-15 14:45:12 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 319362c90f rcu: Provide more diagnostics for stalled GP kthread
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-07-15 14:45:10 -07:00
Nicholas Mc Guire f765d11307 rcu: Change return type to bool
Type-checking coccinelle spatches are being used to locate type mismatches
between function signatures and return values in this case this produced:
./kernel/rcu/srcu.c:271 WARNING: return of wrong type
        int != unsigned long,

srcu_readers_active() returns an int that is the sum of per_cpu unsigned
long but the only user is cleanup_srcu_struct() which is using it as a
boolean (condition) to see if there is any readers rather than actually
using the approximate number of readers. The theoretically possible
unsigned long overflow case does not need to be handled explicitly - if
we had 4G++ readers then something else went wrong a long time ago.

proposal: change the return type to boolean. The function name is left
          unchanged as it fits the naming expectation for a boolean.

patch was compile tested for x86_64_defconfig (implies CONFIG_SRCU=y)

patch is against 4.1-rc5 (localversion-next is -next-20150525)

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-07-15 14:43:53 -07:00
Denys Vlasenko d5671f6bf2 rcu: Deinline rcu_read_lock_sched_held() if DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y is not a production setting, but it is
not very unusual either. Many developers routinely
use kernels built with it enabled.

Apart from being selected by hand, it is also auto-selected by
PROVE_LOCKING "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness" and
LOCK_STAT "Lock usage statistics" config options.
LOCK STAT is necessary for "perf lock" to work.

I wouldn't spend too much time optimizing it, but this particular
function has a very large cost in code size: when it is deinlined,
code size decreases by 830,000 bytes:

    text     data      bss       dec     hex filename
85674192 22294776 20627456 128596424 7aa39c8 vmlinux.before
84837612 22294424 20627456 127759492 79d7484 vmlinux

(with this config: http://busybox.net/~vda/kernel_config)

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
CC: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
CC: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
CC: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
CC: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-07-15 14:43:52 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney d1ec4c34c7 rcu: Drop RCU_USER_QS in favor of NO_HZ_FULL
The RCU_USER_QS Kconfig parameter is now just a synonym for NO_HZ_FULL,
so this commit eliminates RCU_USER_QS, replacing all uses with NO_HZ_FULL.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2015-07-06 13:52:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds e382608254 This patch series contains several clean ups and even a new trace clock
"monitonic raw". Also some enhancements to make the ring buffer even
 faster. But the biggest and most noticeable change is the renaming of
 the ftrace* files, structures and variables that have to deal with
 trace events.
 
 Over the years I've had several developers tell me about their confusion
 with what ftrace is compared to events. Technically, "ftrace" is the
 infrastructure to do the function hooks, which include tracing and also
 helps with live kernel patching. But the trace events are a separate
 entity altogether, and the files that affect the trace events should
 not be named "ftrace". These include:
 
   include/trace/ftrace.h	->	include/trace/trace_events.h
   include/linux/ftrace_event.h	->	include/linux/trace_events.h
 
 Also, functions that are specific for trace events have also been renamed:
 
   ftrace_print_*()		->	trace_print_*()
   (un)register_ftrace_event()	->	(un)register_trace_event()
   ftrace_event_name()		->	trace_event_name()
   ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled()->	trace_trigger_soft_disabled()
   ftrace_define_fields_##call() ->	trace_define_fields_##call()
   ftrace_get_offsets_##call()	->	trace_get_offsets_##call()
 
 Structures have been renamed:
 
   ftrace_event_file		->	trace_event_file
   ftrace_event_{call,class}	->	trace_event_{call,class}
   ftrace_event_buffer		->	trace_event_buffer
   ftrace_subsystem_dir		->	trace_subsystem_dir
   ftrace_event_raw_##call	->	trace_event_raw_##call
   ftrace_event_data_offset_##call->	trace_event_data_offset_##call
   ftrace_event_type_funcs_##call ->	trace_event_type_funcs_##call
 
 And a few various variables and flags have also been updated.
 
 This has been sitting in linux-next for some time, and I have not heard
 a single complaint about this rename breaking anything. Mostly because
 these functions, variables and structures are mostly internal to the
 tracing system and are seldom (if ever) used by anything external to that.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace

Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
 "This patch series contains several clean ups and even a new trace
  clock "monitonic raw".  Also some enhancements to make the ring buffer
  even faster.  But the biggest and most noticeable change is the
  renaming of the ftrace* files, structures and variables that have to
  deal with trace events.

  Over the years I've had several developers tell me about their
  confusion with what ftrace is compared to events.  Technically,
  "ftrace" is the infrastructure to do the function hooks, which include
  tracing and also helps with live kernel patching.  But the trace
  events are a separate entity altogether, and the files that affect the
  trace events should not be named "ftrace".  These include:

    include/trace/ftrace.h         ->    include/trace/trace_events.h
    include/linux/ftrace_event.h   ->    include/linux/trace_events.h

  Also, functions that are specific for trace events have also been renamed:

    ftrace_print_*()               ->    trace_print_*()
    (un)register_ftrace_event()    ->    (un)register_trace_event()
    ftrace_event_name()            ->    trace_event_name()
    ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled() ->    trace_trigger_soft_disabled()
    ftrace_define_fields_##call()  ->    trace_define_fields_##call()
    ftrace_get_offsets_##call()    ->    trace_get_offsets_##call()

  Structures have been renamed:

    ftrace_event_file              ->    trace_event_file
    ftrace_event_{call,class}      ->    trace_event_{call,class}
    ftrace_event_buffer            ->    trace_event_buffer
    ftrace_subsystem_dir           ->    trace_subsystem_dir
    ftrace_event_raw_##call        ->    trace_event_raw_##call
    ftrace_event_data_offset_##call->    trace_event_data_offset_##call
    ftrace_event_type_funcs_##call ->    trace_event_type_funcs_##call

  And a few various variables and flags have also been updated.

  This has been sitting in linux-next for some time, and I have not
  heard a single complaint about this rename breaking anything.  Mostly
  because these functions, variables and structures are mostly internal
  to the tracing system and are seldom (if ever) used by anything
  external to that"

* tag 'trace-v4.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (33 commits)
  ring_buffer: Allow to exit the ring buffer benchmark immediately
  ring-buffer-benchmark: Fix the wrong type
  ring-buffer-benchmark: Fix the wrong param in module_param
  ring-buffer: Add enum names for the context levels
  ring-buffer: Remove useless unused tracing_off_permanent()
  ring-buffer: Give NMIs a chance to lock the reader_lock
  ring-buffer: Add trace_recursive checks to ring_buffer_write()
  ring-buffer: Allways do the trace_recursive checks
  ring-buffer: Move recursive check to per_cpu descriptor
  ring-buffer: Add unlikelys to make fast path the default
  tracing: Rename ftrace_get_offsets_##call() to trace_event_get_offsets_##call()
  tracing: Rename ftrace_define_fields_##call() to trace_event_define_fields_##call()
  tracing: Rename ftrace_event_type_funcs_##call to trace_event_type_funcs_##call
  tracing: Rename ftrace_data_offset_##call to trace_event_data_offset_##call
  tracing: Rename ftrace_raw_##call event structures to trace_event_raw_##call
  tracing: Rename ftrace_trigger_soft_disabled() to trace_trigger_soft_disabled()
  tracing: Rename FTRACE_EVENT_FL_* flags to EVENT_FILE_FL_*
  tracing: Rename struct ftrace_subsystem_dir to trace_subsystem_dir
  tracing: Rename ftrace_event_name() to trace_event_name()
  tracing: Rename FTRACE_MAX_EVENT to TRACE_EVENT_TYPE_MAX
  ...
2015-06-26 14:02:43 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 43224b96af Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner:
 "A rather largish update for everything time and timer related:

   - Cache footprint optimizations for both hrtimers and timer wheel

   - Lower the NOHZ impact on systems which have NOHZ or timer migration
     disabled at runtime.

   - Optimize run time overhead of hrtimer interrupt by making the clock
     offset updates smarter

   - hrtimer cleanups and removal of restrictions to tackle some
     problems in sched/perf

   - Some more leap second tweaks

   - Another round of changes addressing the 2038 problem

   - First step to change the internals of clock event devices by
     introducing the necessary infrastructure

   - Allow constant folding for usecs/msecs_to_jiffies()

   - The usual pile of clockevent/clocksource driver updates

  The hrtimer changes contain updates to sched, perf and x86 as they
  depend on them plus changes all over the tree to cleanup API changes
  and redundant code, which got copied all over the place.  The y2038
  changes touch s390 to remove the last non 2038 safe code related to
  boot/persistant clock"

* 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (114 commits)
  clocksource: Increase dependencies of timer-stm32 to limit build wreckage
  timer: Minimize nohz off overhead
  timer: Reduce timer migration overhead if disabled
  timer: Stats: Simplify the flags handling
  timer: Replace timer base by a cpu index
  timer: Use hlist for the timer wheel hash buckets
  timer: Remove FIFO "guarantee"
  timers: Sanitize catchup_timer_jiffies() usage
  hrtimer: Allow hrtimer::function() to free the timer
  seqcount: Introduce raw_write_seqcount_barrier()
  seqcount: Rename write_seqcount_barrier()
  hrtimer: Fix hrtimer_is_queued() hole
  hrtimer: Remove HRTIMER_STATE_MIGRATE
  selftest: Timers: Avoid signal deadlock in leap-a-day
  timekeeping: Copy the shadow-timekeeper over the real timekeeper last
  clockevents: Check state instead of mode in suspend/resume path
  selftests: timers: Add leap-second timer edge testing to leap-a-day.c
  ntp: Do leapsecond adjustment in adjtimex read path
  time: Prevent early expiry of hrtimers[CLOCK_REALTIME] at the leap second edge
  ntp: Introduce and use SECS_PER_DAY macro instead of 86400
  ...
2015-06-22 18:57:44 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner bc7a34b8b9 timer: Reduce timer migration overhead if disabled
Eric reported that the timer_migration sysctl is not really nice
performance wise as it needs to check at every timer insertion whether
the feature is enabled or not. Further the check does not live in the
timer code, so we have an extra function call which checks an extra
cache line to figure out that it is disabled.

We can do better and store that information in the per cpu (hr)timer
bases. I pondered to use a static key, but that's a nightmare to
update from the nohz code and the timer base cache line is hot anyway
when we select a timer base.

The old logic enabled the timer migration unconditionally if
CONFIG_NO_HZ was set even if nohz was disabled on the kernel command
line.

With this modification, we start off with migration disabled. The user
visible sysctl is still set to enabled. If the kernel switches to NOHZ
migration is enabled, if the user did not disable it via the sysctl
prior to the switch. If nohz=off is on the kernel command line,
migration stays disabled no matter what.

Before:
  47.76%  hog       [.] main
  14.84%  [kernel]  [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
   9.55%  [kernel]  [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
   6.71%  [kernel]  [k] mod_timer
   6.24%  [kernel]  [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38
   3.76%  [kernel]  [k] detach_if_pending
   3.71%  [kernel]  [k] del_timer
   2.50%  [kernel]  [k] internal_add_timer
   1.51%  [kernel]  [k] get_nohz_timer_target
   1.28%  [kernel]  [k] __internal_add_timer
   0.78%  [kernel]  [k] timerfn
   0.48%  [kernel]  [k] wake_up_nohz_cpu

After:
  48.10%  hog       [.] main
  15.25%  [kernel]  [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave
   9.76%  [kernel]  [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore
   6.50%  [kernel]  [k] mod_timer
   6.44%  [kernel]  [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38
   3.87%  [kernel]  [k] detach_if_pending
   3.80%  [kernel]  [k] del_timer
   2.67%  [kernel]  [k] internal_add_timer
   1.33%  [kernel]  [k] __internal_add_timer
   0.73%  [kernel]  [k] timerfn
   0.54%  [kernel]  [k] wake_up_nohz_cpu


Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Wenbo Wang <wenbo.wang@memblaze.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150526224512.127050787@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-06-19 15:18:28 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney 0868aa2216 Merge branches 'array.2015.05.27a', 'doc.2015.05.27a', 'fixes.2015.05.27a', 'hotplug.2015.05.27a', 'init.2015.05.27a', 'tiny.2015.05.27a' and 'torture.2015.05.27a' into HEAD
array.2015.05.27a:  Remove all uses of RCU-protected array indexes.
doc.2015.05.27a:  Docuemntation updates.
fixes.2015.05.27a:  Miscellaneous fixes.
hotplug.2015.05.27a:  CPU-hotplug updates.
init.2015.05.27a:  Initialization/Kconfig updates.
tiny.2015.05.27a:  Updates to Tiny RCU.
torture.2015.05.27a:  Torture-testing updates.
2015-05-27 13:00:49 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney ca1d51ed98 rcutorture: Test SRCU cleanup code path
The current rcutorture testing does not do any cleanup operations.
This works because the srcu_struct is statically allocated, but it
does represent a memory leak of the associated dynamically allocated
->per_cpu_ref per-CPU variables.  However, rcutorture currently uses
a statically allocated srcu_struct, which cannot legally be passed to
cleanup_srcu_struct().  Therefore, this commit adds a second form
of srcu (called srcud) that dynamically allocates and frees the
associated per-CPU variables.  This commit also adds a ->cleanup()
member to rcu_torture_ops that is invoked at the end of the test,
after ->cb_barriers().  This ->cleanup() pointer is NULL for all
existing tests, and thus only used for scrud.  Finally, the SRCU-P
torture-test configuration selects scrud instead of srcu, with SRCU-N
continuing to use srcu, thereby testing both static and dynamic
srcu_struct structures.

Reported-by: "Ahmed, Iftekhar" <ahmedi@onid.oregonstate.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-05-27 12:59:58 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 6c7ed42c81 rcutorture: Replace barriers with smp_store_release() and smp_load_acquire()
The rcutorture.c file uses several explicit memory barriers that can
easily be converted to smp_store_release() and smp_load_acquire(), which
improves maintainability and also improves performance a bit.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-05-27 12:59:58 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 3838cc1850 rcutorture: Allow negative values of nreaders to oversubscribe
By default, with rcutorture.nreaders equal to -1, rcutorture provisions
N-1 reader kthreads, where N is the number of CPUs.  This avoids
rcutorture-induced stalls, but also avoids heavier levels of torture.
This commit therefore allows negative values of rcutorture.nreaders
to specify larger numbers of reader kthreads, so that for example
rcutorture.nreaders=-2 provisions N kthreads and rcutorture.nreaders=-5
provisions N+3 kthreads.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Update documentation, as suggested by Josh Triplett. ]
2015-05-27 12:59:57 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 6e91f8cb13 rcu: Correctly handle non-empty Tiny RCU callback list with none ready
If, at the time __rcu_process_callbacks() is invoked,  there are callbacks
in Tiny RCU's callback list, but none of them are ready to be invoked,
the current list-management code will knit the non-ready callbacks out
of the list.  This can result in hangs and possibly worse.  This commit
therefore inserts a check for there being no callbacks that can be
invoked immediately.

This bug is unlikely to occur -- you have to get a new callback between
the time rcu_sched_qs() or rcu_bh_qs() was called, but before we get to
__rcu_process_callbacks().  It was detected by the addition of RCU-bh
testing to rcutorture, which in turn was instigated by Iftekhar Ahmed's
mutation testing.  Although this bug was made much more likely by
915e8a4fe4 (rcu: Remove fastpath from __rcu_process_callbacks()), this
did not cause the bug, but rather made it much more probable.   That
said, it takes more than 40 hours of rcutorture testing, on average,
for this bug to appear, so this fix cannot be considered an emergency.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-05-27 12:59:32 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 51952bc633 rcu: Further shrink Tiny RCU by making empty functions static inlines
The Tiny RCU counterparts to rcu_idle_enter(), rcu_idle_exit(),
rcu_irq_enter(), and rcu_irq_exit() are empty functions, but each has
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), which needlessly consumes extra memory, especially
in kernels built with module support.  This commit therefore moves these
functions to static inlines in rcutiny.h, removing the need for exports.

This won't affect the size of the tiniest kernels, which are likely
built without module support, but might help semi-tiny kernels that
might include module support.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-05-27 12:59:31 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 1ce46ee597 rcu: Conditionally compile RCU's eqs warnings
This commit applies some warning-omission micro-optimizations to RCU's
various extended-quiescent-state functions, which are on the kernel/user
hotpath for CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y.

Reported-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Reported by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:59:07 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 26730f55c2 rcu: Make RCU able to tolerate undefined CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
This commit updates the initialization of the kthread_prio boot parameter
so that RCU will build even when CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO is undefined.
The kthread_prio boot parameter is set to CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO if
that is defined, otherwise to 1 if CONFIG_RCU_BOOST is defined and
to zero otherwise.  This commit then makes CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO
depend on CONFIG_RCU_EXPERT, so that Kconfig users won't be asked about
CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO unless they want to be.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2015-05-27 12:59:06 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 47d631af58 rcu: Make RCU able to tolerate undefined CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
This commit introduces an RCU_FANOUT_LEAF C-preprocessor macro so
that RCU will build even when CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF is undefined.
The RCU_FANOUT_LEAF macro is set to the value of CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
when defined, otherwise it is set to 32 for 32-bit systems and 64 for
64-bit systems.  This commit then makes CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF depend
on CONFIG_RCU_EXPERT, so that Kconfig users won't be asked about
CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF unless they want to be.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2015-05-27 12:59:05 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 05c5df31af rcu: Make RCU able to tolerate undefined CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT
This commit introduces an RCU_FANOUT C-preprocessor macro so that RCU will
build even when CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT is undefined.  The RCU_FANOUT macro is
set to the value of CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT when defined, otherwise it is set
to 32 for 32-bit systems and 64 for 64-bit systems.  This commit then
makes CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT depend on CONFIG_RCU_EXPERT, so that Kconfig
users won't be asked about CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT unless they want to be.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2015-05-27 12:59:05 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney a3dc2948ce rcu: Enable diagnostic dump of rcu_node combining tree
The purpose of this commit is to make it easier to verify that RCU's
combining tree is set up correctly, which is useful to have when making
changes in how that tree is initialized.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Fold fix found by Fengguang's 0-day test robot. ]
2015-05-27 12:59:04 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 7fa270010e rcu: Convert CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT to boot parameter
The CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT Kconfig parameter is used primarily (and
perhaps only) by rcutorture to verify that RCU works correctly in specific
rcu_node combining-tree configurations.  It therefore does not make
much sense have this as a question to people attempting to configure
their kernels.  So this commit creates an rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact=
boot parameter that rcutorture can use, and eliminates the original
CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT Kconfig parameter.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2015-05-27 12:59:04 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 0f41c0ddad rcu: Provide diagnostic option to slow down grace-period scans
Grace-period scans of the rcu_node combining tree normally
proceed quite quickly, so that it is very difficult to reproduce
races against them.  This commit therefore allows grace-period
pre-initialization and cleanup to be artificially slowed down,
increasing race-reproduction probability.  A pair of pairs of new
Kconfig parameters are provided, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT to
enable the slowing down of propagating CPU-hotplug changes up the
combining tree along with RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY to
specify the delay in jiffies, and RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP
to enable the slowing down of the end-of-grace-period cleanup scan
along with RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP_DELAY to specify the delay
in jiffies.  Boot-time parameters named rcutree.gp_preinit_delay and
rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay allow these delays to be specified at boot time.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:59:02 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 3eaaaf6cd6 rcu: Shut up spurious gcc uninitialized-variable warning
Because gcc doesn't realize that rcu_num_lvls must be strictly greater
than zero, some versions give a spurious warning about levelcnt[0] being
uninitialized in rcu_init_one().  This commit updates the condition on
the pre-existing panic() in order to educate gcc on this point.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:59:02 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney eab128e830 rcu: Modulate grace-period slow init to normalize delay
Currently, the larger the gp_init_delay boot parameter, the slower
rcutorture will sequence through grace periods.  This commit avoids this
issue by decreasing the probability of slowing initialization of a given
grace period as the degree of slowness increases.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:59:01 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney a738eec6c6 rcu: Correctly initialize ->rcu_qs_ctr_snap at online time
The rcu_data structure's ->rcu_qs_ctr_snap field is initialized at
CPU-online time from the current CPU's element of the per-CPU rcu_qs_ctr
variable.  Unfortunately, this is at CPU_UP_PREPARE time, so has nothing
to do with the CPU being onlined.  This commit therefore initializes
this variable from the incoming CPU's element of rcu_qs_ctr.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:58:38 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney cce7f1fc01 rcu: Remove redundant offline check
Because offline CPUs are propagated up the rcu_node tree's ->qsmaskinit
bits just before each grace period starts, the ->qsmaskinit bit cannot
be clear when the corresponding ->qsmask bit is set.  Furthermore, this
condition used to correspond to a CPU that was on its way offline, and
making RCU's notion of an offline CPU more precise has eliminated this
situation.  This commit therefore removes the now-redundant offline
check from force_qs_rnp().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:58:38 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney c5b5539506 rcu: Remove dead code from force_qs_rnp()
Because force_qs_rnp() is invoked only from the force-quiescent-state
code which runs only in the context of the grace-period kthread, a grace
period must always be in progress throughout force_qs_rnp()'s execution.
This commit therefore removes the rcu_gp_in_progress() check and the
associated dead code.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:58:37 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 0a0ba1c93f rcu: Adjust ->lock acquisition for tasks no longer migrating
Tasks are no longer migrated away from a given rcu_node structure
when all CPUs corresponding to that rcu_node structure have gone offline.
This means that rcu_read_unlock_special() no longer needs to loop
retrying rcu_node ->lock acquisition because the current task is
guaranteed to stay put.

This commit takes a small and paranoid step towards relying on this
guarantee by placing a WARN_ON_ONCE() just after the early exit from
the lock-acquisition loop.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:58:37 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney ea46351cea rcu: Eliminate HOTPLUG_CPU #ifdef in favor of IS_ENABLED()
This commit removes a HOTPLUG_CPU #ifdef, replacing it with
IS_ENABLED()-protected return statements.  This relies on the
optimizer to remove any resulting dead code.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:58:37 -07:00
Nicholas Mc Guire 82072c4fcf rcu: Change function declaration to bool
rcu_cpu_has_callbacks() is declared int. The current declaration was introduced
in commit c0f4dfd4f9 (rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered
callbacks). But it is actually returning bool and as the function description
states " * Return true if the specified CPU has any callback....", this probably
should be a bool as all (3) call-sites currently treat it as bool.

Type-checking coccinelle spatches are being used to locate type mismatches
between function signatures and return values in this case this produced:
./kernel/rcu/tree.c:3538 WARNING: return of wrong type
                    int != bool,

Patch was compile tested with x86_64_defconfig (implies CONFIG_TREE_RCU=y)

Patch is against 4.1-rc3 (localversion-next is -next-20150511) and fixes

Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:58:04 -07:00
Nicolas Iooss c92fb05795 rcu: Make rcu_*_data variables static
rcu_bh_data, rcu_sched_data and rcu_preempt_data are never used outside
kernel/rcu/tree.c and thus can be made static.

Doing so fixes a section mismatch warning reported by clang when
building LLVMLinux with -Wsection, because these variables were declared
in .data..percpu and defined in .data..percpu..shared_aligned since
commit 11bbb235c2 ("rcu: Use DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED for
rcu_data").

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:58:03 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 30ff1533b8 rcu: Make synchronize_sched_expedited() call wait_rcu_gp()
Currently, synchronize_sched_expedited() will call synchronize_sched()
if there is danger of counter wrap.  But if configuration says to
always do expedited grace periods, synchronize_sched() will just
call synchronize_sched_expedited() right back again.  In theory,
the old expedited operations will complete, the counters will
get back in synch, and the recursion will end.  But we could
easily run out of stack long before that time.  This commit
therefore makes synchronize_sched_expedited() invoke the underlying
wait_rcu_gp(call_rcu_sched) instead of synchronize_sched(), the same as
all the other calls out from synchronize_sched_expedited().

This bug was introduced by commit 1924bcb025 (Avoid counter wrap in
synchronize_sched_expedited()).

Reported-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:58:03 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 81e701e437 rcu: Add more debug info on "kthread starved" RCU CPU stall warnings
This commit adds grace number and command-flags information to the
"kthread starved" message that is sometimes printed out as part of
RCU CPU stall warnings.  This message is caused by the corresponding
RCU grace-period kthread not having run for at least two seconds, and
this added information can be helpful when debugging.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:58:02 -07:00
Patrick Daly 82efed06d5 rcu: Fix missing task information during rcu-preempt stall
The first item list_for_each_entry_continue(alist) iterates over is
alist->next, rather than alist itself. Consequently,
rcu_print_detail_task_stall_rnp() skips the task referenced by gp_tasks.

Use gp_tasks->prev as the argument to list_for_each_entry_continue()
instead.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Daly <pdaly@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:58:02 -07:00
Joe Perches 5ce035fb7d rcu: tree_plugin: Use bool function return values of true/false not 1/0
Use the normal return values for bool functions

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:58:01 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney cd73ca21cd rcu: Force wakeup of rcu_gp_kthread at grace-period end
The rcu_gp_kthread_wake() refuses to do a wakeup unless at least
one of the ->gp_flags bits are set, which normally will not be the
case when the last quiescent state is reported.  This results in
up to a 3-jiffy delay given default Kconfig settings.  This commit
therefore has rcu_report_qs_rsp() set RCU_GP_FLAG_FQS before invoking
rcu_gp_kthread_wake() in order to force a more immediate wakeup at
grace-period end, thus reducing grace-period latencies.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:58:01 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 3382adbc1b rcu: Eliminate a few CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL #ifdefs
This commit converts several CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL #ifdefs to
instead use IS_ENABLED().  This change should help avoid hiding
code from compiler diagnostics.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:58:00 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 2927a689e8 rcu: Create an immutable rcu_data_p pointer to default rcu_data structure
This commit creates an immutable rcu_data_p pointer that references
rcu_preempt_data for TREE_PREEMPT_RCU builds and that references
rcu_sched_data for TREE_RCU builds.  This rcu_data_p pointer will enable
more code to move from #ifdef to IS_ENABLED().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:58:00 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney b28a7c0166 rcu: Tell the compiler that rcu_state_p is immutable
This commit adds a "const" tag to the declarations of rcu_state_p,
which should allow the compiler to generate better code and also to
catch erroneous assignments to this variable.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:57:59 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 727b705baf rcu: Eliminate a few RCU_BOOST #ifdefs in favor of IS_ENABLED()
This commit removes a few RCU_BOOST #ifdefs, replacing them with
IS_ENABLED()-protected return statements.  This relies on the
optimizer to remove any resulting dead code.  There are several other
RCU_BOOST #ifdefs, however these rely on some per-CPU variables that
are available only under RCU_BOOST.  These might be converted later,
if the simplification proves to outweigh the increase in memory footprint.
One hoped-for advantage is more easily locating compiler errors in
obscure combinations of Kconfig parameters.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>
2015-05-27 12:57:59 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney e63c887cfe rcu: Convert from rcu_preempt_state to *rcu_state_p
It would be good to move more code from #ifdef to IS_ENABLED(), but
that does not work if the body of the IS_ENABLED() "if" statement
references a variable (such as rcu_preempt_state) that does not
exist if the IS_ENABLED() Kconfig variable is not set.  This commit
therefore substitutes *rcu_state_p for all uses of rcu_preempt_state
in kernel/rcu/tree_preempt.h, which should enable elimination of
a few #ifdefs.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27 12:57:59 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 7d0ae8086b rcu: Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE()
This commit moves from the old ACCESS_ONCE() API to the new READ_ONCE()
and WRITE_ONCE() APIs.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck:  Updated to include kernel/torture.c as suggested by Jason Low. ]
2015-05-27 12:56:15 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner c3b5d3cea5 Merge branch 'linus' into timers/core
Make sure the upstream fixes are applied before adding further
modifications.
2015-05-19 16:12:32 +02:00
Steven Rostedt (Red Hat) af658dca22 tracing: Rename ftrace_event.h to trace_events.h
The term "ftrace" is really the infrastructure of the function hooks,
and not the trace events. Rename ftrace_event.h to trace_events.h to
represent the trace_event infrastructure and decouple the term ftrace
from it.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2015-05-13 14:05:12 -04:00
Thomas Gleixner c1ad348b45 tick: Nohz: Rework next timer evaluation
The evaluation of the next timer in the nohz code is based on jiffies
while all the tick internals are nano seconds based. We have also to
convert hrtimer nanoseconds to jiffies in the !highres case. That's
just wrong and introduces interesting corner cases.

Turn it around and convert the next timer wheel timer expiry and the
rcu event to clock monotonic and base all calculations on
nanoseconds. That identifies the case where no timer is pending
clearly with an absolute expiry value of KTIME_MAX.

Makes the code more readable and gets rid of the jiffies magic in the
nohz code.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150414203502.184198593@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2015-04-22 17:06:50 +02:00
Paul E. McKenney 8d7dc9283f rcu: Control grace-period delays directly from value
In a misguided attempt to avoid an #ifdef, the use of the
gp_init_delay module parameter was conditioned on the corresponding
RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT Kconfig variable, using IS_ENABLED() at
the point of use in the code.  This meant that the compiler always saw
the delay, which meant that RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY had to be
unconditionally defined.  This in turn caused "make oldconfig" to ask
pointless questions about the value of RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY
in cases where it was not even used.

This commit avoids these pointless questions by defining gp_init_delay
under #ifdef.  In one branch, gp_init_delay is initialized to
RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY and is also a module parameter (thus
allowing boot-time modification), and in the other branch gp_init_delay
is a const variable initialized by default to zero.

This approach also simplifies the code at the delay point by eliminating
the IS_DEFINED().  Because gp_init_delay is constant zero in the no-delay
case intended for production use, the "gp_init_delay > 0" check causes
the delay to become dead code, as desired in this case.  In addition,
this commit replaces magic constant "10" with the preprocessor variable
PER_RCU_NODE_PERIOD, which controls the number of grace periods that
are allowed to elapse at full speed before a delay is inserted.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-04-14 19:33:59 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 42528795ac Merge branches 'doc.2015.02.26a', 'earlycb.2015.03.03a', 'fixes.2015.03.03a', 'gpexp.2015.02.26a', 'hotplug.2015.03.20a', 'sysidle.2015.02.26b' and 'tiny.2015.02.26a' into HEAD
doc.2015.02.26a:  Documentation changes
earlycb.2015.03.03a:  Permit early-boot RCU callbacks
fixes.2015.03.03a:  Miscellaneous fixes
gpexp.2015.02.26a:  In-kernel expediting of normal grace periods
hotplug.2015.03.20a:  CPU hotplug fixes
sysidle.2015.02.26b:  NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE fixes
tiny.2015.02.26a:  TINY_RCU fixes
2015-03-20 08:31:01 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 654e953340 rcu: Associate quiescent-state reports with grace period
As noted in earlier commit logs, CPU hotplug operations running
concurrently with grace-period initialization can result in a given
leaf rcu_node structure having all CPUs offline and no blocked readers,
but with this rcu_node structure nevertheless blocking the current
grace period.  Therefore, the quiescent-state forcing code now checks
for this situation and repairs it.

Unfortunately, this checking can result in false positives, for example,
when the last task has just removed itself from this leaf rcu_node
structure, but has not yet started clearing the ->qsmask bits further
up the structure.  This means that the grace-period kthread (which
forces quiescent states) and some other task might be attempting to
concurrently clear these ->qsmask bits.  This is usually not a problem:
One of these tasks will be the first to acquire the upper-level rcu_node
structure's lock and with therefore clear the bit, and the other task,
seeing the bit already cleared, will stop trying to clear bits.

Sadly, this means that the following unusual sequence of events -can-
result in a problem:

1.	The grace-period kthread wins, and clears the ->qsmask bits.

2.	This is the last thing blocking the current grace period, so
	that the grace-period kthread clears ->qsmask bits all the way
	to the root and finds that the root ->qsmask field is now zero.

3.	Another grace period is required, so that the grace period kthread
	initializes it, including setting all the needed qsmask bits.

4.	The leaf rcu_node structure (the one that started this whole
	mess) is blocking this new grace period, either because it
	has at least one online CPU or because there is at least one
	task that had blocked within an RCU read-side critical section
	while running on one of this leaf rcu_node structure's CPUs.
	(And yes, that CPU might well have gone offline before the
	grace period in step (3) above started, which can mean that
	there is a task on the leaf rcu_node structure's ->blkd_tasks
	list, but ->qsmask equal to zero.)

5.	The other kthread didn't get around to trying to clear the upper
	level ->qsmask bits until all the above had happened.  This means
	that it now sees bits set in the upper-level ->qsmask field, so it
	proceeds to clear them.  Too bad that it is doing so on behalf of
	a quiescent state that does not apply to the current grace period!

This sequence of events can result in the new grace period being too
short.  It can also result in the new grace period ending before the
leaf rcu_node structure's ->qsmask bits have been cleared, which will
result in splats during initialization of the next grace period.  In
addition, it can result in tasks blocking the new grace period still
being queued at the start of the next grace period, which will result
in other splats.  Sasha's testing turned up another of these splats,
as did rcutorture testing.  (And yes, rcutorture is being adjusted to
make these splats show up more quickly.  Which probably is having the
undesirable side effect of making other problems show up less quickly.
Can't have everything!)

Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.0.x
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
2015-03-20 08:28:25 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney a77da14ce9 rcu: Yet another fix for preemption and CPU hotplug
As noted earlier, the following sequence of events can occur when
running PREEMPT_RCU and HOTPLUG_CPU on a system with a multi-level
rcu_node combining tree:

1.	A group of tasks block on CPUs corresponding to a given leaf
	rcu_node structure while within RCU read-side critical sections.
2.	All CPUs corrsponding to that rcu_node structure go offline.
3.	The next grace period starts, but because there are still tasks
	blocked, the upper-level bits corresponding to this leaf rcu_node
	structure remain set.
4.	All the tasks exit their RCU read-side critical sections and
	remove themselves from the leaf rcu_node structure's list,
	leaving it empty.
5.	But because there now is code to check for this condition at
	force-quiescent-state time, the upper bits are cleared and the
	grace period completes.

However, there is another complication that can occur following step 4 above:

4a.	The grace period starts, and the leaf rcu_node structure's
	gp_tasks pointer is set to NULL because there are no tasks
	blocked on this structure.
4b.	One of the CPUs corresponding to the leaf rcu_node structure
	comes back online.
4b.	An endless stream of tasks are preempted within RCU read-side
	critical sections on this CPU, such that the ->blkd_tasks
	list is always non-empty.

The grace period will never end.

This commit therefore makes the force-quiescent-state processing check only
for absence of tasks blocking the current grace period rather than absence
of tasks altogether.  This will cause a quiescent state to be reported if
the current leaf rcu_node structure is not blocking the current grace period
and its parent thinks that it is, regardless of how RCU managed to get
itself into this state.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.0.x
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
2015-03-20 08:27:33 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 5c60d25fa1 rcu: Add diagnostics to grace-period cleanup
At grace-period initialization time, RCU checks that all quiescent
states were really reported for the previous grace period.  Now that
grace-period cleanup has been split out of grace-period initialization,
this commit also performs those checks at grace-period cleanup time.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-12 15:19:38 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 88428cc5c2 rcu: Handle outgoing CPUs on exit from idle loop
This commit informs RCU of an outgoing CPU just before that CPU invokes
arch_cpu_idle_dead() during its last pass through the idle loop (via a
new CPU_DYING_IDLE notifier value).  This change means that RCU need not
deal with outgoing CPUs passing through the scheduler after informing
RCU that they are no longer online.  Note that removing the CPU from
the rcu_node ->qsmaskinit bit masks is done at CPU_DYING_IDLE time,
and orphaning callbacks is still done at CPU_DEAD time, the reason being
that at CPU_DEAD time we have another CPU that can adopt them.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-12 15:19:38 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney c199068913 rcu: Eliminate ->onoff_mutex from rcu_node structure
Because that RCU grace-period initialization need no longer exclude
CPU-hotplug operations, this commit eliminates the ->onoff_mutex and
its uses.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-12 15:19:37 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 0aa04b055e rcu: Process offlining and onlining only at grace-period start
Races between CPU hotplug and grace periods can be difficult to resolve,
so the ->onoff_mutex is used to exclude the two events.  Unfortunately,
this means that it is impossible for an outgoing CPU to perform the
last bits of its offlining from its last pass through the idle loop,
because sleeplocks cannot be acquired in that context.

This commit avoids these problems by buffering online and offline events
in a new ->qsmaskinitnext field in the leaf rcu_node structures.  When a
grace period starts, the events accumulated in this mask are applied to
the ->qsmaskinit field, and, if needed, up the rcu_node tree.  The special
case of all CPUs corresponding to a given leaf rcu_node structure being
offline while there are still elements in that structure's ->blkd_tasks
list is handled using a new ->wait_blkd_tasks field.  In this case,
propagating the offline bits up the tree is deferred until the beginning
of the grace period after all of the tasks have exited their RCU read-side
critical sections and removed themselves from the list, at which point
the ->wait_blkd_tasks flag is cleared.  If one of that leaf rcu_node
structure's CPUs comes back online before the list empties, then the
->wait_blkd_tasks flag is simply cleared.

This of course means that RCU's notion of which CPUs are offline can be
out of date.  This is OK because RCU need only wait on CPUs that were
online at the time that the grace period started.  In addition, RCU's
force-quiescent-state actions will handle the case where a CPU goes
offline after the grace period starts.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-12 15:19:37 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney cc99a310ca rcu: Move rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() to common code
The rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() function is invoked when the
last task blocking the current grace period exits its outermost
RCU read-side critical section.  Previously, this was called only
from rcu_read_unlock_special(), and was therefore defined only when
CONFIG_RCU_PREEMPT=y.  However, this function will be invoked even when
CONFIG_RCU_PREEMPT=n once CPU-hotplug operations are processed only at
the beginnings of RCU grace periods.  The reason for this change is that
the last task on a given leaf rcu_node structure's ->blkd_tasks list
might well exit its RCU read-side critical section between the time that
recent CPU-hotplug operations were applied and when the new grace period
was initialized.  This situation could result in RCU waiting forever on
that leaf rcu_node structure, because if all that structure's CPUs were
already offline, there would be no quiescent-state events to drive that
structure's part of the grace period.

This commit therefore moves rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() to common code
that is built unconditionally so that the quiescent-state-forcing code
can clean up after this situation, avoiding the grace-period stall.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-12 15:19:36 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 8eb74b2b29 rcu: Rework preemptible expedited bitmask handling
Currently, the rcu_node tree ->expmask bitmasks are initially set to
reflect the online CPUs.  This is pointless, because only the CPUs
preempted within RCU read-side critical sections by the preceding
synchronize_sched_expedited() need to be tracked.  This commit therefore
instead sets up these bitmasks based on the state of the ->blkd_tasks
lists.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-12 15:18:42 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 999c286347 rcu: Remove event tracing from rcu_cpu_notify(), used by offline CPUs
Offline CPUs cannot safely invoke trace events, but such CPUs do execute
within rcu_cpu_notify().  Therefore, this commit removes the trace events
from rcu_cpu_notify().  These trace events are for utilization, against
which rcu_cpu_notify() execution time should be negligible.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-11 13:22:39 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 37745d2810 rcu: Provide diagnostic option to slow down grace-period initialization
Grace-period initialization normally proceeds quite quickly, so
that it is very difficult to reproduce races against grace-period
initialization.  This commit therefore allows grace-period
initialization to be artificially slowed down, increasing
race-reproduction probability.  A pair of new Kconfig parameters are
provided, CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT to enable the slowdowns, and
CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY to specify the number of jiffies
of slowdown to apply.  A boot-time parameter named rcutree.gp_init_delay
allows boot-time delay to be specified.  By default, no delay will be
applied even if CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT is set.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-11 13:22:38 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 237a0f2193 rcu: Detect stalls caused by failure to propagate up rcu_node tree
If all CPUs have passed through quiescent states, then stalls might be
due to starvation of the grace-period kthread or to failure to propagate
the quiescent states up the rcu_node combining tree.  The current stall
warning messages do not differentiate, so this commit adds a printout
of the root rcu_node structure's ->qsmask field.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-11 13:22:38 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 18c629eaeb rcu: Eliminate empty HOTPLUG_CPU ifdef
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-11 13:22:37 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney c8aead6a9b rcu: Simplify sync_rcu_preempt_exp_init()
This commit eliminates a boolean and associated "if" statement by
rearranging the code.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-11 13:22:37 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 78043c467a rcu: Put all orphan-callback-related code under same comment
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-11 13:22:37 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney b33078b609 rcu: Consolidate offline-CPU callback initialization
Currently, both rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu() and rcu_send_cbs_to_orphanage()
initialize the outgoing CPU's callback list.  However, only
rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu() invokes rcu_send_cbs_to_orphanage(), and
it does so unconditionally, which means that only one of these
initializations is required.  This commit therefore consolidates the
callback-list initialization with the rest of the callback handling in
rcu_send_cbs_to_orphanage().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-11 13:22:36 -07:00
Yao Dongdong 9910affa89 rcu: Remove redundant check of cpu_online()
Because invoke_cpu_core() checks whether the current CPU is online,
there is no need for __call_rcu_core() to redundantly check it.
There should not be any performance degradation because the called
function is visible to the compiler.  This commit therefore removes
the redundant check.

Signed-off-by: Yao Dongdong <yaodongdong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-03 11:17:34 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney e7580f3388 rcu: Get rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state() where it belongs
The very similar functions rcu_force_quiescent_state(),
rcu_bh_force_quiescent_state(), and rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state()
are supposed to be together, but have drifted apart.  This commit
restores rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state() to its rightful place.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-03 11:17:19 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney a3bd2c09ad rcu: Add boot-up check for non-default CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF values
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-03 11:16:31 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney ab6f5bd674 rcu: Use IS_ENABLED() to simplify rcu_bootup_announce_oddness()
This commit gets rid of some inline #ifdefs by replacing them with
IS_ENABLED.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-03 11:16:20 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney d24209bb68 rcu: Improve diagnostics for blocked critical sections in irq
If an RCU read-side critical section occurs within an interrupt handler
or a softirq handler, it cannot have been preempted.  Therefore, there is
a check in rcu_read_unlock_special() checking for this error.  However,
when this check triggers, it lacks diagnostic information.  This commit
therefore moves rcu_read_unlock()'s lockdep annotation to follow the
call to __rcu_read_unlock() and changes rcu_read_unlock_special()'s
WARN_ON_ONCE() to an lockdep_rcu_suspicious() in order to locate where
the offending RCU read-side critical section began.  In addition, the
value of the ->rcu_read_unlock_special field is printed.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-03 11:16:00 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 6629240575 rcu: Use IS_ENABLED() to CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT #ifdef
This commit uses IS_ENABLED() to remove the #ifdef from the
rcu_init_levelspread() functions.  No effect on executable code.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-03 11:14:08 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 4762767810 rcu: Move early boot callback tests earlier
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>
2015-03-03 11:06:22 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 34404ca8fb rcu: Move early-boot callbacks to no-CBs lists for no-CBs CPUs
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>
2015-03-03 11:06:02 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 5871968d53 rcu: Tighten up affinity and check for sysidle
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>
2015-02-26 16:04:37 -08:00
Alexander Gordeev 915e8a4fe4 rcu: Remove fastpath from __rcu_process_callbacks()
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>
2015-02-26 12:11:53 -08:00
Alexander Gordeev 27153acbe1 rcu: Remove unnecessary condition check in rcu_qsctr_help()
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>
2015-02-26 12:11:52 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 675da67f24 rcu: Fixes to NO_HZ_FULL sysidle accounting
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>
2015-02-26 12:11:03 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney c136f99104 rcutorture: Make consistent use of variables
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>
2015-02-26 12:03:04 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney ee42571f43 rcu: Add Kconfig option to expedite grace periods during boot
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>
2015-02-26 12:03:03 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 5afff48bdf rcu: Update from rcu_expedited variable to rcu_gp_is_expedited()
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>
2015-02-26 12:03:01 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 4bb3c5f414 rcu: Add rcu_expedite_gp() and rcu_unexpedite_gp() to rcutorture
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26 12:03:00 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 0d39482c3d rcu: Provide rcu_expedite_gp() and rcu_unexpedite_gp()
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>
2015-02-26 12:02:59 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 1925d1967c rcu: Fix a couple of typos in rcu_all_qs() comment header
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26 12:02:10 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 39c8d313c3 rcu: Avoid clobbering early boot callbacks
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>
2015-02-26 12:01:30 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 59f792d1ef rcu: Refine diagnostics for lacking kthread for no-CBs callbacks
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>
2015-02-26 12:01:29 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 143da9c2fc rcu: Prevent early-boot RCU callbacks from splatting
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>
2015-02-26 12:01:28 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 2723249a31 rcu: Wire ->rda pointers at compile time
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>
2015-02-26 12:01:27 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney d3f3f3f25b rcu: Abstract default callback-list initialization from init_callback_list()
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>
2015-02-26 12:01:25 -08:00
Lai Jiangshan 3f47da0f32 rcu_tree: Avoid touching rnp->completed when a new GP is started
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>
2015-02-25 17:03:05 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney ee376dbdf2 rcu: Consolidate rcu_synchronize and wakeme_after_rcu()
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>
2015-02-25 17:03:03 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 3f4d9925e9 Merge branches 'core-urgent-for-linus' and 'irq-urgent-for-linus' of 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 b568b8601f
2015-02-21 10:36:06 -08:00
Tejun Heo ad853b48cb rcu: use %*pb[l] to print bitmaps including cpumasks and nodemasks
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>
2015-02-13 21:21:37 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney c0135d07b0 rcu: Clear need_qs flag to prevent splat
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>
2015-02-11 15:46:43 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 78e691f4ae Merge branches 'doc.2015.01.07a', 'fixes.2015.01.15a', '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.
2015-01-15 23:34:34 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 630181c4a9 rcu: Initialize tiny RCU stall-warning timeouts at boot
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>
2015-01-15 23:33:17 -08:00
Miroslav Benes ec1fe396ff rcu: Fix RCU CPU stall detection in tiny implementation
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>
2015-01-15 23:33:16 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney fb81a44b88 rcu: Add GP-kthread-starvation checks to CPU stall warnings
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>
2015-01-15 23:33:15 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 5cd37193ce rcu: Make cond_resched_rcu_qs() apply to normal RCU flavors
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. ]
2015-01-15 23:33:14 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney a94844b22a rcu: Optionally run grace-period kthreads at real-time priority
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>
2015-01-15 23:25:04 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 7602de4af1 rcutorture: Add more diagnostics in rcu_barrier() test failure case
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-10 19:08:06 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 917963d0b3 rcutorture: Check from beginning to end of grace period
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>
2015-01-10 19:08:02 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney f9103c3902 rcu: Remove redundant rcu_batches_completed() declaration
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-10 19:08:01 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 1e32eaee4c rcutorture: Drop rcu_torture_completed() and friends
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>
2015-01-10 19:08:00 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 6b80da42c0 rcutorture: Use unsigned for Reader Batch computations
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>
2015-01-10 19:07:58 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 9733e4f0a9 rcu: Make _batches_completed() functions return unsigned long
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>
2015-01-10 19:07:56 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney e3663b1024 rcu: Handle gpnum/completed wrap while dyntick idle
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>
2015-01-06 11:05:28 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 6ccd2ecd42 rcu: Improve diagnostics for spurious RCU CPU stall warnings
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>
2015-01-06 11:05:27 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney fc908ed33e rcu: Make RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO include number of fqs attempts
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>
2015-01-06 11:05:25 -08:00
Pranith Kumar 83fe27ea53 rcu: Make SRCU optional by using CONFIG_SRCU
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. ]
2015-01-06 11:04:29 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney a5c198f4f7 rcu: Expand SRCU ->completed to 64 bits
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>
2015-01-06 11:04:26 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney ab954c167e rcu: Remove redundant callback-list initialization
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>
2015-01-06 11:02:54 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 6cd534ef8b rcu: Don't scan root rcu_node structure for stalled tasks
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>
2015-01-06 11:02:53 -08:00
Lai Jiangshan abaf3f9d27 rcu: Revert "Allow post-unlock reference for rt_mutex" to avoid priority-inversion
The patch dfeb9765ce ("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 27e35715df ("rtmutex: Plug slow unlock race").
This fix made the previous patch (dfeb9765ce) 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>
2015-01-06 11:02:52 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 3ba4d0e09b rcu: Note quiescent state when CPU goes offline
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>
2015-01-06 11:02:51 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 5d0b024973 rcu: Don't bother affinitying rcub kthreads away from offline CPUs
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>
2015-01-06 11:02:50 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 1be0085b51 rcu: Don't initiate RCU priority boosting on root rcu_node
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>
2015-01-06 11:02:48 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 3e9f5c70d8 rcu: Don't spawn rcub kthreads on root rcu_node structure
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>
2015-01-06 11:02:47 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 96e92021d4 rcu: Make use of rcu_preempt_has_tasks()
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>
2015-01-06 11:02:46 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney a8f4cbadfb rcu: Shorten irq-disable region in rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu()
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>
2015-01-06 11:02:45 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney d19fb8d1f3 rcu: Don't migrate blocked tasks even if all corresponding CPUs offline
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>
2015-01-06 11:02:44 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney b6a932d1d9 rcu: Make rcu_read_unlock_special() propagate ->qsmaskinit bit clearing
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>
2015-01-06 11:02:43 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 8af3a5e78c rcu: Abstract rcu_cleanup_dead_rnp() from rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu()
This commit abstracts rcu_cleanup_dead_rnp() from rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu()
in preparation for the rework of RCU priority boosting.  This new function
will be invoked from rcu_read_unlock_special() in the reworked scheme,
which is why rcu_cleanup_dead_rnp() assumes that the leaf rcu_node
structure's ->qsmaskinit field has already been updated.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:41 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 74e871ac6c rcu: Rename "empty" to "empty_norm" in preparation for boost rework
This commit undertakes a simple variable renaming to make way for
some rework of RCU priority boosting.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:40 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney b08ea27d95 rcu: Protect rcu_boost() lockless accesses with ACCESS_ONCE()
This commit prevents random compiler optimizations by applying
ACCESS_ONCE() to lockless accesses.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:39 -08:00
Lai Jiangshan 5a43b88e98 rcu: Remove "select IRQ_WORK" from config TREE_RCU
The 48a7639ce8 ("rcu: Make callers awaken grace-period kthread")
removed the irq_work_queue(), so the TREE_RCU doesn't need
irq work any more.  This commit therefore updates RCU's Kconfig and

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:01:17 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 41050a0096 rcu: Fix rcu_barrier() race that could result in too-short wait
The rcu_barrier() no-callbacks check for no-CBs CPUs has race conditions.
It checks a given CPU's lists of callbacks, and if all three no-CBs lists
are empty, ignores that CPU.  However, these three lists could potentially
be empty even when callbacks are present if the check executed just as
the callbacks were being moved from one list to another.  It turns out
that recent versions of rcutorture can spot this race.

This commit plugs this hole by consolidating the per-list counts of
no-CBs callbacks into a single count, which is incremented before
the corresponding callback is posted and after it is invoked.  Then
rcu_barrier() checks this single count to reliably determine whether
the corresponding CPU has no-CBs callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:01:15 -08:00
Lai Jiangshan 5f6130fa52 tiny_rcu: Directly force QS when call_rcu_[bh|sched]() on idle_task
For RCU in UP, context-switch = QS = GP, thus we can force a
context-switch when any call_rcu_[bh|sched]() is happened on idle_task.
After doing so, rcu_idle/irq_enter/exit() are useless, so we can simply
make these functions empty.

More important, this change does not change the functionality logically.
Note: raise_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ)/rcu_sched_qs() in rcu_idle_enter() and
outmost rcu_irq_exit() will have to wake up the ksoftirqd
(due to in_interrupt() == 0).

Before this patch		After this patch:
call_rcu_sched() in idle;	call_rcu_sched() in idle
				  set resched
do other stuffs;		do other stuffs
outmost rcu_irq_exit()		outmost rcu_irq_exit() (empty function)
  (or rcu_idle_enter())		  (or rcu_idle_enter(), also empty function)
				start to resched. (see above)
  rcu_sched_qs()		rcu_sched_qs()
    QS,and GP and advance cb	  QS,and GP and advance cb
    wake up the ksoftirqd	    wake up the ksoftirqd
      set resched
resched to ksoftirqd (or other)	resched to ksoftirqd (or other)

These two code patches are almost the same.

Size changed after patched:

size kernel/rcu/tiny-old.o kernel/rcu/tiny-patched.o
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   3449	    206	      8	   3663	    e4f	kernel/rcu/tiny-old.o
   2406	    144	      8	   2558	    9fe	kernel/rcu/tiny-patched.o

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:01:12 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 924df8a011 rcu: Fix invoke_rcu_callbacks() comment
Despite what the comment says, it is only softirqs that are disabled,
not interrupts.  This commit therefore fixes the comment.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-12-30 17:40:19 -08:00
Alexander Gordeev ca9558a33f rcu: Remove redundant rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle() from tiny RCU
Let's start assuming that something in the idle loop posts a callback,
and scheduling-clock interrupt occurs:

1. The system is idle and stays that way, no runnable tasks.

2. Scheduling-clock interrupt occurs, rcu_check_callbacks() is called
   as result, which in turn calls rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle().

3. rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle() reports the CPU was interrupted from
   idle, which results in rcu_sched_qs() call, which does a
   raise_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ).

4. Upon return from interrupt, rcu_irq_exit() is invoked, which calls
   rcu_idle_enter_common(), which in turn calls rcu_sched_qs() again,
   which does another raise_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ).

5. The softirq happens shortly and invokes rcu_process_callbacks(),
   which invokes __rcu_process_callbacks().

6. So now callbacks can be invoked. At least they can be if
   ->donetail has been updated. Which it will have been because
   rcu_sched_qs() invokes rcu_qsctr_help().

In the described scenario rcu_sched_qs() and raise_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ)
get called twice in steps 3 and 4. This redundancy could be eliminated
by removing rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle() function.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-12-30 17:40:18 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 734d168013 rcu: Make rcu_nmi_enter() handle nesting
The x86 architecture has multiple types of NMI-like interrupts: real
NMIs, machine checks, and, for some values of NMI-like, debugging
and breakpoint interrupts.  These interrupts can nest inside each
other.  Andy Lutomirski is adding RCU support to these interrupts,
so rcu_nmi_enter() and rcu_nmi_exit() must now correctly handle nesting.

This commit therefore introduces nesting, using a clever NMI-coordination
algorithm suggested by Andy.  The trick is to atomically increment
->dynticks (if needed) before manipulating ->dynticks_nmi_nesting on entry
(and, accordingly, after on exit).  In addition, ->dynticks_nmi_nesting
is incremented by one if ->dynticks was incremented and by two otherwise.
This means that when rcu_nmi_exit() sees ->dynticks_nmi_nesting equal
to one, it knows that ->dynticks must be atomically incremented.

This NMI-coordination algorithms has been validated by the following
Promela model:

------------------------------------------------------------------------

/*
 * Promela model for Andy Lutomirski's suggested change to rcu_nmi_enter()
 * that allows nesting.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, you can access it online at
 * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html.
 *
 * Copyright IBM Corporation, 2014
 *
 * Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
 */

byte dynticks_nmi_nesting = 0;
byte dynticks = 0;

/*
 * Promela verision of rcu_nmi_enter().
 */
inline rcu_nmi_enter()
{
	byte incby;
	byte tmp;

	incby = BUSY_INCBY;
	assert(dynticks_nmi_nesting >= 0);
	if
	:: (dynticks & 1) == 0 ->
		atomic {
			dynticks = dynticks + 1;
		}
		assert((dynticks & 1) == 1);
		incby = 1;
	:: else ->
		skip;
	fi;
	tmp = dynticks_nmi_nesting;
	tmp = tmp + incby;
	dynticks_nmi_nesting = tmp;
	assert(dynticks_nmi_nesting >= 1);
}

/*
 * Promela verision of rcu_nmi_exit().
 */
inline rcu_nmi_exit()
{
	byte tmp;

	assert(dynticks_nmi_nesting > 0);
	assert((dynticks & 1) != 0);
	if
	:: dynticks_nmi_nesting != 1 ->
		tmp = dynticks_nmi_nesting;
		tmp = tmp - BUSY_INCBY;
		dynticks_nmi_nesting = tmp;
	:: else ->
		dynticks_nmi_nesting = 0;
		atomic {
			dynticks = dynticks + 1;
		}
		assert((dynticks & 1) == 0);
	fi;
}

/*
 * Base-level NMI runs non-atomically.  Crudely emulates process-level
 * dynticks-idle entry/exit.
 */
proctype base_NMI()
{
	byte busy;

	busy = 0;
	do
	::	/* Emulate base-level dynticks and not. */
		if
		:: 1 ->	atomic {
				dynticks = dynticks + 1;
			}
			busy = 1;
		:: 1 ->	skip;
		fi;

		/* Verify that we only sometimes have base-level dynticks. */
		if
		:: busy == 0 -> skip;
		:: busy == 1 -> skip;
		fi;

		/* Model RCU's NMI entry and exit actions. */
		rcu_nmi_enter();
		assert((dynticks & 1) == 1);
		rcu_nmi_exit();

		/* Emulated re-entering base-level dynticks and not. */
		if
		:: !busy -> skip;
		:: busy ->
			atomic {
				dynticks = dynticks + 1;
			}
			busy = 0;
		fi;

		/* We had better now be in dyntick-idle mode. */
		assert((dynticks & 1) == 0);
	od;
}

/*
 * Nested NMI runs atomically to emulate interrupting base_level().
 */
proctype nested_NMI()
{
	do
	::	/*
		 * Use an atomic section to model a nested NMI.  This is
		 * guaranteed to interleave into base_NMI() between a pair
		 * of base_NMI() statements, just as a nested NMI would.
		 */
		atomic {
			/* Verify that we only sometimes are in dynticks. */
			if
			:: (dynticks & 1) == 0 -> skip;
			:: (dynticks & 1) == 1 -> skip;
			fi;

			/* Model RCU's NMI entry and exit actions. */
			rcu_nmi_enter();
			assert((dynticks & 1) == 1);
			rcu_nmi_exit();
		}
	od;
}

init {
	run base_NMI();
	run nested_NMI();
}

------------------------------------------------------------------------

The following script can be used to run this model if placed in
rcu_nmi.spin:

------------------------------------------------------------------------

if ! spin -a rcu_nmi.spin
then
	echo Spin errors!!!
	exit 1
fi
if ! cc -DSAFETY -o pan pan.c
then
	echo Compilation errors!!!
	exit 1
fi
./pan -m100000

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-12-30 17:40:16 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 9ea6c58856 Merge branches 'torture.2014.11.03a', 'cpu.2014.11.03a', 'doc.2014.11.13a', 'fixes.2014.11.13a', 'signal.2014.10.29a' and 'rt.2014.10.29a' into HEAD
cpu.2014.11.03a: Changes for per-CPU variables.
doc.2014.11.13a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2014.11.13a: Miscellaneous fixes.
signal.2014.10.29a: Signal changes.
rt.2014.10.29a: Real-time changes.
torture.2014.11.03a: torture-test changes.
2014-11-13 10:39:04 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 60ced4950c rcu: Fix FIXME in rcu_tasks_kthread()
This commit affines rcu_tasks_kthread() to the housekeeping CPUs
in CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL builds.  This is just a default, so systems
administrators are free to put this kthread somewhere else if they wish.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-11-13 10:35:41 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney b8969d1a50 rcutorture: Fix rcu_torture_cbflood() memory leak
Commit 38706bc5a2 (rcutorture: Add callback-flood test) vmalloc()ed
a bunch of RCU callbacks, but failed to free them.  This commit fixes
that oversight.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03 19:26:41 -08:00
Pranith Kumar aa23c6fbc5 rcutorture: Add early boot self tests
Add early boot self tests for RCU under CONFIG_PROVE_RCU.

Currently the only test is adding a dummy callback which increments a counter
which we then later verify after calling rcu_barrier*().

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-11-03 19:26:37 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 8fa7845df5 rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_cleanup_after_idle()
The "cpu" argument to rcu_cleanup_after_idle() is always the current
CPU, so drop it.  This moves the smp_processor_id() from the caller to
rcu_cleanup_after_idle(), saving argument-passing overhead.  Again,
the anticipated cross-CPU uses of these functions has been replaced
by NO_HZ_FULL.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03 19:20:56 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 198bbf8127 rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_prepare_for_idle()
The "cpu" argument to rcu_prepare_for_idle() is always the current
CPU, so drop it.  This in turn allows two of the uses of "cpu" in
this function to be replaced with a this_cpu_ptr() and the third by
smp_processor_id(), replacing that of the call to rcu_prepare_for_idle().
Again, the anticipated cross-CPU uses of these functions has been replaced
by NO_HZ_FULL.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03 19:20:49 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney aa6da5140b rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_needs_cpu()
The "cpu" argument to rcu_needs_cpu() is always the current CPU, so drop
it.  This in turn allows the "cpu" argument to rcu_cpu_has_callbacks()
to be removed, which allows the uses of "cpu" in both functions to be
replaced with a this_cpu_ptr().  Again, the anticipated cross-CPU uses
of these functions has been replaced by NO_HZ_FULL.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03 19:20:43 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 38200cf247 rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_note_context_switch()
The "cpu" argument to rcu_note_context_switch() is always the current
CPU, so drop it.  This in turn allows the "cpu" argument to
rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() to be removed, which allows the sole
use of "cpu" in both functions to be replaced with a this_cpu_ptr().
Again, the anticipated cross-CPU uses of these functions has been
replaced by NO_HZ_FULL.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03 19:20:34 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 86aea0e6e7 rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_preempt_check_callbacks()
Because rcu_preempt_check_callbacks()'s argument is guaranteed to
always be the current CPU, drop the argument and replace per_cpu()
with __this_cpu_read().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03 19:20:26 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney e3950ecd55 rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_pending()
Because rcu_pending()'s argument is guaranteed to always be the current
CPU, drop the argument and replace per_cpu_ptr() with this_cpu_ptr().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03 19:20:18 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney c3377c2da6 rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_check_callbacks()
The "cpu" argument was kept around on the off-chance that RCU might
offload scheduler-clock interrupts.  However, this offload approach
has been replaced by NO_HZ_FULL, which offloads -all- RCU processing
from qualifying CPUs.  It is therefore time to remove the "cpu" argument
to rcu_check_callbacks(), which this commit does.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03 19:20:11 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 11bbb235c2 rcu: Use DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED for rcu_data
The rcu_data per-CPU variable has a number of fields that are atomically
manipulated, potentially by any CPU.  This situation can result in false
sharing with per-CPU variables that have the misfortune of being allocated
adjacent to rcu_data in memory.  This commit therefore changes the
DEFINE_PER_CPU() to DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED() in order to avoid
this false sharing.

Reported-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03 19:20:03 -08:00
Christoph Lameter 28ced795cb rcu: Remove rcu_dynticks * parameters when they are always this_cpu_ptr(&rcu_dynticks)
For some functions in kernel/rcu/tree* the rdtp parameter is always
this_cpu_ptr(rdtp).  Remove the parameter if constant and calculate the
pointer in function.

This will have the advantage that it is obvious that the address are
all per cpu offsets and thus it will enable the use of this_cpu_ops in
the future.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
[ paulmck: Forward-ported to rcu/dev, whitespace adjustment. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-11-03 19:19:26 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney bbe5d7a93a rcu: Fix for rcuo online-time-creation reorganization bug
Commit 35ce7f29a4 (rcu: Create rcuo kthreads only for onlined CPUs)
contains checks for the case where CPUs are brought online out of
order, re-wiring the rcuo leader-follower relationships as needed.
Unfortunately, this rewiring was broken.  This apparently went undetected
due to the tendency of systems to bring CPUs online in order.  This commit
nevertheless fixes the rewiring.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-10-29 10:20:08 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 776d680711 rcu: Kick rcuo kthreads after their CPU goes offline
If a no-CBs CPU were to post an RCU callback with interrupts disabled
after it entered the idle loop for the last time, there might be no
deferred wakeup for the corresponding rcuo kthreads.  This commit
therefore adds a set of calls to do_nocb_deferred_wakeup() after the
CPU has gone completely offline.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-10-29 10:20:07 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 28f6569ab7 rcu: Remove redundant TREE_PREEMPT_RCU config option
PREEMPT_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU serve the same function after
TINY_PREEMPT_RCU has been removed. This patch removes TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
and uses PREEMPT_RCU config option in its place.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-10-29 10:20:05 -07:00
Clark Williams 21871d7eff rcu: Unify boost and kthread priorities
Rename CONFIG_RCU_BOOST_PRIO to CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO and use this
value for both the per-CPU kthreads (rcuc/N) and the rcu boosting
threads (rcub/n).

Also, create the module_parameter rcutree.kthread_prio to be used on
the kernel command line at boot to set a new value (rcutree.kthread_prio=N).

Signed-off-by: Clark Williams <clark.williams@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Ported to rcu/dev, applied Paul Bolle and Peter Zijlstra feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-10-29 10:19:41 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney e0775cefb5 rcu: Avoid IPIing idle CPUs from synchronize_sched_expedited()
Currently, synchronize_sched_expedited() sends IPIs to all online CPUs,
even those that are idle or executing in nohz_full= userspace.  Because
idle CPUs and nohz_full= userspace CPUs are in extended quiescent states,
there is no need to IPI them in the first place.  This commit therefore
avoids IPIing CPUs that are already in extended quiescent states.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-10-28 13:49:30 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 61cfd0970e rcu: Move RCU_BOOST variable declarations, eliminating #ifdef
There are some RCU_BOOST-specific per-CPU variable declarations that
are needlessly defined under #ifdef in kernel/rcu/tree.c.  This commit
therefore moves these declarations into a pre-existing #ifdef in
kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-10-28 13:49:28 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 0eafa46823 rcu: Remove CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE
The CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE Kconfig parameter causes preemptible
RCU's CPU stall warnings to dump out any preempted tasks that are blocking
the current RCU grace period.  This information is useful, and the default
has been CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE=y for some years.  It is therefore
time for this commit to remove this Kconfig parameter, so that future
kernel builds will always act as if CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE=y.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-10-28 13:48:13 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney d7e2993396 rcu: Make rcu_barrier() understand about missing rcuo kthreads
Commit 35ce7f29a4 (rcu: Create rcuo kthreads only for onlined CPUs)
avoids creating rcuo kthreads for CPUs that never come online.  This
fixes a bug in many instances of firmware: Instead of lying about their
age, these systems instead lie about the number of CPUs that they have.
Before commit 35ce7f29a4, this could result in huge numbers of useless
rcuo kthreads being created.

It appears that experience indicates that I should have told the
people suffering from this problem to fix their broken firmware, but
I instead produced what turned out to be a partial fix.   The missing
piece supplied by this commit makes sure that rcu_barrier() knows not to
post callbacks for no-CBs CPUs that have not yet come online, because
otherwise rcu_barrier() will hang on systems having firmware that lies
about the number of CPUs.

It is tempting to simply have rcu_barrier() refuse to post a callback on
any no-CBs CPU that does not have an rcuo kthread.  This unfortunately
does not work because rcu_barrier() is required to wait for all pending
callbacks.  It is therefore required to wait even for those callbacks
that cannot possibly be invoked.  Even if doing so hangs the system.

Given that posting a callback to a no-CBs CPU that does not yet have an
rcuo kthread can hang rcu_barrier(), It is tempting to report an error
in this case.  Unfortunately, this will result in false positives at
boot time, when it is perfectly legal to post callbacks to the boot CPU
before the scheduler has started, in other words, before it is legal
to invoke rcu_barrier().

So this commit instead has rcu_barrier() avoid posting callbacks to
CPUs having neither rcuo kthread nor pending callbacks, and has it
complain bitterly if it finds CPUs having no rcuo kthread but some
pending callbacks.  And when rcu_barrier() does find CPUs having no rcuo
kthread but pending callbacks, as noted earlier, it has no choice but
to hang indefinitely.

Reported-by: Yanko Kaneti <yaneti@declera.com>
Reported-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
Reported-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
Reported-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com>
Tested-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
Tested-by: Yanko Kaneti <yaneti@declera.com>
Tested-by: Kevin Fenzi <kevin@scrye.com>
Tested-by: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
2014-10-28 13:24:13 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney dd56af42bd rcu: Eliminate deadlock between CPU hotplug and expedited grace periods
Currently, the expedited grace-period primitives do get_online_cpus().
This greatly simplifies their implementation, but means that calls
to them holding locks that are acquired by CPU-hotplug notifiers (to
say nothing of calls to these primitives from CPU-hotplug notifiers)
can deadlock.  But this is starting to become inconvenient, as can be
seen here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/5/754.  The problem in this
case is that some developers need to acquire a mutex from a CPU-hotplug
notifier, but also need to hold it across a synchronize_rcu_expedited().
As noted above, this currently results in deadlock.

This commit avoids the deadlock and retains the simplicity by creating
a try_get_online_cpus(), which returns false if the get_online_cpus()
reference count could not immediately be incremented.  If a call to
try_get_online_cpus() returns true, the expedited primitives operate as
before.  If a call returns false, the expedited primitives fall back to
normal grace-period operations.  This falling back of course results in
increased grace-period latency, but only during times when CPU hotplug
operations are actually in flight.  The effect should therefore be
negligible during normal operation.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
Tested-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
2014-09-18 16:22:27 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 59da22a020 rcutorture: Rename rcutorture_runnable parameter
This commit changes rcutorture_runnable to torture_runnable, which is
consistent with the names of the other parameters and is a bit shorter
as well.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-16 13:41:44 -07:00
Davidlohr Bueso d36a7a0d5e torture: Address race in module cleanup
When performing module cleanups by calling torture_cleanup() the
'torture_type' string in nullified However, callers are not necessarily
done, and might still need to reference the variable. This impacts
both rcutorture and locktorture, causing printing things like:

[   94.226618] (null)-torture: Stopping lock_torture_writer task
[   94.226624] (null)-torture: Stopping lock_torture_stats task

Thus delay this operation until the very end of the cleanup process.
The consequence (which shouldn't matter for this kid of program) is,
of course, that we delay the window between rmmod and modprobing,
for instance in module_torture_begin().

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-16 13:41:06 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 96b4672703 Merge branch 'rcu-tasks.2014.09.10a' into HEAD
rcu-tasks.2014.09.10a: Add RCU-tasks flavor of RCU.
2014-09-16 10:10:44 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney e98d06dd6c Merge branches 'doc.2014.09.07a', 'fixes.2014.09.10a', 'nocb-nohz.2014.09.16b' and 'torture.2014.09.07a' into HEAD
doc.2014.09.07a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2014.09.10a: Miscellaneous fixes.
nocb-nohz.2014.09.16b: No-CBs CPUs and NO_HZ_FULL updates.
torture.2014.09.07a: Torture-test updates.
2014-09-16 10:08:34 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney c847f14217 rcu: Avoid misordering in nocb_leader_wait()
The NOCB follower wakeup ordering depends on the store to the tail
pointer happening before the wakeup.  However, because atomic_long_add()
does not return a value, it does not provide ordering guarantees, and
the locking in wake_up() only guarantees that the store will happen
before the unlock, which might be too late.  Even though this is only a
theoretical issue, this commit adds a smp_mb__after_atomic() after the
final atomic_long_add() to provide the needed ordering guarantee.

Reported-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:03 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 1772947bd0 rcu: Handle NOCB callbacks from irq-disabled idle code
If an RCU callback is queued on a no-CBs CPU from idle code with irqs
disabled, and if that CPU stays idle forever after, the callback will
never be invoked.  This commit therefore adds a check for this situation
in ____call_rcu_nocb(), invoking the RCU core solely for the purpose
of the ensuing return-to-idle transition.  (If the CPU doesn't return
to idle, the next scheduling-clock interrupt will fix things up.)

Reported-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:03 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 39953dfd40 rcu: Avoid misordering in __call_rcu_nocb_enqueue()
The NOCB leader wakeup ordering depends on the store to the header
happening before the check for the leader already being awake.  However,
because atomic_long_add() does not return a value, it does not provide
ordering guarantees, the incorrect comment in wake_nocb_leader()
notwithstanding.  This commit therefore adds a smp_mb__after_atomic()
after the final atomic_long_add() to provide the needed ordering
guarantee.

Reported-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:03 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 663e131090 rcu: Don't track sysidle state if no nohz_full= CPUs
If there are no nohz_full= CPUs, then there is currently no reason to
track sysidle state.  This commit therefore short-circuits this state
tracking if !tick_nohz_full_enabled().

Note that these checks will need to be revisited if nohz_full= state
can ever be changed at runtime.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:02 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 417e8d2655 rcu: Eliminate redundant rcu_sysidle_state variable
Now that we have rcu_state_p, which references rcu_preempt_state for
TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and rcu_sched_state for TREE_RCU, we don't need a
separate rcu_sysidle_state variable.  This commit therefore eliminates
rcu_preempt_state in favor of rcu_state_p.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:02 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 22c2f66961 rcu: Check for have_rcu_nocb_mask instead of rcu_nocb_mask
If we configure a kernel with CONFIG_NOCB_CPU=y, CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE=y and
CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=n and do not pass in a rcu_nocb= boot parameter, the
cpumask rcu_nocb_mask can be garbage instead of NULL.

Hence this commit replaces checks for rcu_nocb_mask == NULL with a check for
have_rcu_nocb_mask.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:02 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 35ce7f29a4 rcu: Create rcuo kthreads only for onlined CPUs
RCU currently uses for_each_possible_cpu() to spawn rcuo kthreads,
which can result in more rcuo kthreads than one would expect, for
example, derRichard reported 64 CPUs worth of rcuo kthreads on an
8-CPU image.  This commit therefore creates rcuo kthreads only for
those CPUs that actually come online.

This was reported by derRichard on the OFTC IRC network.

Reported-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:02 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 9386c0b75d rcu: Rationalize kthread spawning
Currently, RCU spawns kthreads from several different early_initcall()
functions.  Although this has served RCU well for quite some time,
as more kthreads are added a more deterministic approach is required.
This commit therefore causes all of RCU's early-boot kthreads to be
spawned from a single early_initcall() function.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:01 -07:00
Pranith Kumar f4aa84ba24 rcu: Return false instead of 0 in rcu_nocb_adopt_orphan_cbs()
Return false instead of 0 in rcu_nocb_adopt_orphan_cbs() as this has
bool as return type.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:01 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 4afc7e269b rcu: Use false for return in __call_rcu_nocb()
Return false instead of 0 in __call_rcu_nocb() as this has bool as
return type.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:01 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 0a9e1e111b rcu: Use true/false for return in rcu_nocb_adopt_orphan_cbs()
Return true/false in rcu_nocb_adopt_orphan_cbs() instead of 0/1 as
this function has return type of bool.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:00 -07:00
Pranith Kumar c271d3a957 rcu: Use true/false for return in __call_rcu_nocb()
Return true/false instead of 0/1 in __call_rcu_nocb() as this returns a
bool type.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:00 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 949cccdbe6 rcu: Check the return value of zalloc_cpumask_var()
This commit checks the return value of the zalloc_cpumask_var() used for
allocating cpumask for rcu_nocb_mask.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:08:00 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney f4579fc57c rcu: Fix attempt to avoid unsolicited offloading of callbacks
Commit b58cc46c5f (rcu: Don't offload callbacks unless specifically
requested) failed to adjust the callback lists of the CPUs that are
known to be no-CBs CPUs only because they are also nohz_full= CPUs.
This failure can result in callbacks that are posted during early boot
getting stranded on nxtlist for CPUs whose no-CBs property becomes
apparent late, and there can also be spurious warnings about offline
CPUs posting callbacks.

This commit fixes these problems by adding an early-boot rcu_init_nohz()
that properly initializes the no-CBs CPUs.

Note that kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y or with
CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=n do not exhibit this bug.  Neither do kernels
booted without the nohz_full= boot parameter.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2014-09-16 10:07:59 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 284a8c93af rcu: Per-CPU operation cleanups to rcu_*_qs() functions
The rcu_bh_qs(), rcu_preempt_qs(), and rcu_sched_qs() functions use
old-style per-CPU variable access and write to ->passed_quiesce even
if it is already set.  This commit therefore updates to use the new-style
per-CPU variable access functions and avoids the spurious writes.
This commit also eliminates the "cpu" argument to these functions because
they are always invoked on the indicated CPU.

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:27:35 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 1d082fd061 rcu: Remove local_irq_disable() in rcu_preempt_note_context_switch()
The rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() function is on a scheduling fast
path, so it would be good to avoid disabling irqs.  The reason that irqs
are disabled is to synchronize process-level and irq-handler access to
the task_struct ->rcu_read_unlock_special bitmask.  This commit therefore
makes ->rcu_read_unlock_special instead be a union of bools with a short
allowing single-access checks in RCU's __rcu_read_unlock().  This results
in the process-level and irq-handler accesses being simple loads and
stores, so that irqs need no longer be disabled.  This commit therefore
removes the irq disabling from rcu_preempt_note_context_switch().

Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:27:34 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 4ff475ed4c rcu: Additional information on RCU-tasks stall-warning messages
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:27:33 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 8f20a5e83d rcu: Make rcu_tasks_kthread()'s GP-wait loop allow preemption
The grace-period-wait loop in rcu_tasks_kthread() is under (unnecessary)
RCU protection, and therefore has no preemption points in a PREEMPT=n
kernel.  This commit therefore removes the RCU protection and inserts
cond_resched().

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:27:31 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 176f8f7a52 rcu: Make TASKS_RCU handle nohz_full= CPUs
Currently TASKS_RCU would ignore a CPU running a task in nohz_full=
usermode execution.  There would be neither a context switch nor a
scheduling-clock interrupt to tell TASKS_RCU that the task in question
had passed through a quiescent state.  The grace period would therefore
extend indefinitely.  This commit therefore makes RCU's dyntick-idle
subsystem record the task_struct structure of the task that is running
in dyntick-idle mode on each CPU.  The TASKS_RCU grace period can
then access this information and record a quiescent state on
behalf of any CPU running in dyntick-idle usermode.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:27:30 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 84a8f446ff rcu: Defer rcu_tasks_kthread() creation till first call_rcu_tasks()
It is expected that many sites will have CONFIG_TASKS_RCU=y, but
will never actually invoke call_rcu_tasks().  For such sites, creating
rcu_tasks_kthread() at boot is wasteful.  This commit therefore defers
creation of this kthread until the time of the first call_rcu_tasks().

This of course means that the first call_rcu_tasks() must be invoked
from process context after the scheduler is fully operational.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:27:29 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney c7b24d2b9a rcu: Improve RCU-tasks energy efficiency
The current RCU-tasks implementation uses strict polling to detect
callback arrivals.  This works quite well, but is not so good for
energy efficiency.  This commit therefore replaces the strict polling
with a wait queue.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:27:27 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 52db30ab23 rcu: Add stall-warning checks for RCU-tasks
This commit adds a ten-minute RCU-tasks stall warning.  The actual
time is controlled by the boot/sysfs parameter rcu_task_stall_timeout,
with values less than or equal to zero disabling the stall warnings.
The default value is ten minutes, which means that the tasks that have
not yet responded will get their stacks dumped every ten minutes, until
they pass through a voluntary context switch.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:27:26 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 69c604557c rcutorture: Add torture tests for RCU-tasks
This commit adds torture tests for RCU-tasks.  It also fixes a bug that
would segfault for an RCU flavor lacking a callback-barrier function.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-09-07 16:27:24 -07:00
Steven Rostedt 06c2a9238f rcu: Export RCU-tasks APIs to GPL modules
This commit exports the RCU-tasks synchronous APIs,
synchronize_rcu_tasks() and rcu_barrier_tasks(), to
GPL-licensed kernel modules.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-09-07 16:27:23 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 3f95aa81d2 rcu: Make TASKS_RCU handle tasks that are almost done exiting
Once a task has passed exit_notify() in the do_exit() code path, it
is no longer on the task lists, and is therefore no longer visible
to rcu_tasks_kthread().  This means that an almost-exited task might
be preempted while within a trampoline, and this task won't be waited
on by rcu_tasks_kthread().  This commit fixes this bug by adding an
srcu_struct.  An exiting task does srcu_read_lock() just before calling
exit_notify(), and does the corresponding srcu_read_unlock() after
doing the final preempt_disable().  This means that rcu_tasks_kthread()
can do synchronize_srcu() to wait for all mostly-exited tasks to reach
their final preempt_disable() region, and then use synchronize_sched()
to wait for those tasks to finish exiting.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:27:22 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 53c6d4edf8 rcu: Add synchronous grace-period waiting for RCU-tasks
It turns out to be easier to add the synchronous grace-period waiting
functions to RCU-tasks than to work around their absense in rcutorture,
so this commit adds them.  The key point is that the existence of
call_rcu_tasks() means that rcutorture needs an rcu_barrier_tasks().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:27:21 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney bde6c3aa99 rcu: Provide cond_resched_rcu_qs() to force quiescent states in long loops
RCU-tasks requires the occasional voluntary context switch
from CPU-bound in-kernel tasks.  In some cases, this requires
instrumenting cond_resched().  However, there is some reluctance
to countenance unconditionally instrumenting cond_resched() (see
http://lwn.net/Articles/603252/), so this commit creates a separate
cond_resched_rcu_qs() that may be used in place of cond_resched() in
locations prone to long-duration in-kernel looping.

This commit currently instruments only RCU-tasks.  Future possibilities
include also instrumenting RCU, RCU-bh, and RCU-sched in order to reduce
IPI usage.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:27:20 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 8315f42295 rcu: Add call_rcu_tasks()
This commit adds a new RCU-tasks flavor of RCU, which provides
call_rcu_tasks().  This RCU flavor's quiescent states are voluntary
context switch (not preemption!) and userspace execution (not the idle
loop -- use some sort of schedule_on_each_cpu() if you need to handle the
idle tasks.  Note that unlike other RCU flavors, these quiescent states
occur in tasks, not necessarily CPUs.  Includes fixes from Steven Rostedt.

This RCU flavor is assumed to have very infrequent latency-tolerant
updaters.  This assumption permits significant simplifications, including
a single global callback list protected by a single global lock, along
with a single task-private linked list containing all tasks that have not
yet passed through a quiescent state.  If experience shows this assumption
to be incorrect, the required additional complexity will be added.

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:27:19 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 38706bc5a2 rcutorture: Add callback-flood test
Although RCU is designed to handle arbitrary floods of callbacks, this
capability is not routinely tested.   This commit therefore adds a
cbflood capability in which kthreads repeatedly registers large numbers
of callbacks.  One such kthread is created for each four CPUs (rounding
up), and the test may be controlled by several cbflood_* kernel boot
parameters, which control the number of bursts per flood, the number
of callbacks per burst, the time between bursts, and the time between
floods.  The default values are large enough to exercise RCU's emergency
responses to callback flooding.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-09-07 16:24:48 -07:00
Joe Perches eea203fea3 rcu: Use pr_alert/pr_cont for printing logs
User pr_alert/pr_cont for printing the logs from rcutorture module directly
instead of writing it to a buffer and then printing it. This allows us from not
having to allocate such buffers. Also remove a resulting empty function.

I tested this using the parse-torture.sh script as follows:

$ dmesg | grep torture > log.txt
$ bash parse-torture.sh log.txt test
$

There were no warnings which means that parsing went fine.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:24:47 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 58ade2dbe9 rcutorture: Fix a sparse warning by marking boost_mutex static
This commit fixes the following sparse warning by marking boost_mutex
static:

kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c:185:1: warning: symbol 'boost_mutex' was not declared. Should it be static?

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-09-07 16:24:17 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 73a860cd58 rcu: Replace flush_signals() with WARN_ON(signal_pending())
Currently, when RCU awakens from a wait_event_interruptible() that
might have awakened prematurely, it does a flush_signals(). This is
done on the off-chance that someone figured out how to deliver a signal
to a kthread, which is supposed to be impossible.  Given that this
is supposed to be impossible, this commit changes the flush_signals()
calls into WARN_ON(signal_pending()).

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:18:20 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 2aa792e6fa rcu: Use rcu_gp_kthread_wake() to wake up grace period kthreads
The rcu_gp_kthread_wake() function checks for three conditions before
waking up grace period kthreads:

*  Is the thread we are trying to wake up the current thread?
*  Are the gp_flags zero? (all threads wait on non-zero gp_flags condition)
*  Is there no thread created for this flavour, hence nothing to wake up?

If any one of these condition is true, we do not call wake_up().
It was found that there are quite a few avoidable wake ups both during
idle time and under stress induced by rcutorture.

Idle:

Total:66000, unnecessary:66000, case1:61827, case2:66000, case3:0
Total:68000, unnecessary:68000, case1:63696, case2:68000, case3:0

rcutorture:

Total:254000, unnecessary:254000, case1:199913, case2:254000, case3:0
Total:256000, unnecessary:256000, case1:201784, case2:256000, case3:0

Here case{1-3} are the cases listed above. We can avoid these wake
ups by using rcu_gp_kthread_wake() to conditionally wake up the grace
period kthreads.

There is a comment about an implied barrier supplied by the wake_up()
logic.  This barrier is necessary for the awakened thread to see the
updated ->gp_flags.  This flag is always being updated with the root node
lock held. Also, the awakened thread tries to acquire the root node lock
before reading ->gp_flags because of which there is proper ordering.

Hence this commit tries to avoid calling wake_up() whenever we can by
using rcu_gp_kthread_wake() function.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
CC: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:18:19 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney ade9862470 rcu: Make TINY_RCU tinier by putting error checks under #ifdef
The rcu_idle_enter_common() and rcu_idle_exit_common() functions contain
error checks that have to the best of my knowledge have never triggered
over the past several years.  These are nevertheless valuable when
creating new architectures or doing other low-level changes, so the
checks should not be deleted.  This commit instead places these checks
under #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TRACE so that they are executed only when
specifically requested.

The savings are significant:

	Before:

	   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
	   1749      39       0    1788     6fc /tmp/b/kernel/rcu/tiny.o
	    632     152       0     784     310 /tmp/b/kernel/rcu/update.o
				   ----
				   2572

	After:

	   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
	   1281      37       0    1318     526 /tmp/b/kernel/rcu/tiny.o
	    632     152       0     784     310 /tmp/b/kernel/rcu/update.o
				   ----
				   2102

This amounts to 470 bytes, or 18% of the original.

Switched from #ifdef to IS_ENABLED() on Josh Triplett's advice.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-09-07 16:18:18 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 9fdd3bc900 rcu: Break more call_rcu() deadlock involving scheduler and perf
Commit 96d3fd0d31 (rcu: Break call_rcu() deadlock involving scheduler
and perf) covered the case where __call_rcu_nocb_enqueue() needs to wake
the rcuo kthread due to the queue being initially empty, but did not
do anything for the case where the queue was overflowing.  This commit
therefore also defers wakeup for the overflow case.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:18:17 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 66d701ea7e rcu: Remove stale comment in tree.c
This commit removes a stale comment in rcu/tree.c which was left
out when some code was moved around previously in commit 2036d94a7b
("rcu:  Rework detection of use of RCU by offline CPUs") For reference,
the following updated comment exists a few lines below this which means
the same:

/* Remove the outgoing CPU from the masks in the rcu_node hierarchy. */

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:18:16 -07:00
Pranith Kumar fafb6e843f rcu: Update tiny.c references to tree.c
This commit updates the references to rcutree.c which is now rcu/tree.c

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:18:15 -07:00
Ard Biesheuvel a8a29b3b7b rcu: Define tracepoint strings only if CONFIG_TRACING is set
Commit f7f7bac9cb ("rcu: Have the RCU tracepoints use the tracepoint_string
infrastructure") unconditionally populates the __tracepoint_str input section,
but this section is not assigned an output section if CONFIG_TRACING is not set.
This results in the __tracepoint_str turning up in unexpected places, i.e.,
after _edata.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:18:14 -07:00
Oleg Nesterov 85b39d305b rcu: Uninline rcu_read_lock_held()
This commit uninlines rcu_read_lock_held(). According to "size vmlinux"
this saves 28549 in .text:

	- 5541731 3014560 14757888 23314179
	+ 5513182 3026848 14757888 23297918

Note: it looks as if the data grows by 12288 bytes but this is not true,
it does not actually grow. But .data starts with ALIGN(THREAD_SIZE) and
since .text shrinks the padding grows, and thus .data grows too as it
seen by /bin/size. diff System.map:

	- ffffffff81510000 D _sdata
	- ffffffff81510000 D init_thread_union
	+ ffffffff81509000 D _sdata
	+ ffffffff8150c000 D init_thread_union

Perhaps we can change vmlinux.lds.S to .data itself, so that /bin/size
can't "wrongly" report that .data grows if .text shinks.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:18:13 -07:00
Pranith Kumar e02b2edfa1 rcu: Use true/false instead of 1/0 for a bool type
This commit uses true/false instead of 1/0 for bool types in rcu_gp_fqs()
and force_qs_rnp().

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:18:12 -07:00
Pranith Kumar d0bc90fd37 rcu: Return bool type for rcu_try_advance_all_cbs()
Return a bool type instead of 0 in rcu_try_advance_all_cbs().

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:18:10 -07:00
Pranith Kumar f534ed1fd7 rcu: Use bool type for return value in rcu_is_watching()
Use a bool type for return in rcu_is_watching().

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:18:09 -07:00
Pranith Kumar bf33eb1aef rcu: Fix sparse warning about rcu_batches_completed_preempt() being non-static
fix sparse warning about rcu_batches_completed_preempt() being non-static by
marking it as static

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:18:08 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 4de376a1b1 rcu: Remove remaining read-modify-write ACCESS_ONCE() calls
Change the remaining uses of ACCESS_ONCE() so that each ACCESS_ONCE() either does a load or a store, but not both.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-09-07 16:18:07 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 11ed7f934c rcu: Make nocb leader kthreads process pending callbacks after spawning
The nocb callbacks generated before the nocb kthreads are spawned are
enqueued in the nocb queue for later processing. Commit fbce7497ee ("rcu:
Parallelize and economize NOCB kthread wakeups") introduced nocb leader kthreads
which checked the nocb_leader_wake flag to see if there were any such pending
callbacks. A case was reported in which newly spawned leader kthreads were not
processing the pending callbacks as this flag was not set, which led to a boot
hang.

The following commit ensures that the newly spawned nocb kthreads process the
pending callbacks by allowing the kthreads to run immediately after spawning
instead of waiting. This is done by inverting the logic of nocb_leader_wake
tests to nocb_leader_sleep which allows us to use the default initialization of
this flag to 0 to let the kthreads run.

Reported-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Link: http://www.spinics.net/lists/kernel/msg1802899.html
[ paulmck: Backported to v3.17-rc2. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
2014-08-28 05:59:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 5bda4f638f Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molar:
 "The main changes:

   - torture-test updates
   - callback-offloading changes
   - maintainership changes
   - update RCU documentation
   - miscellaneous fixes"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
  rcu: Allow for NULL tick_nohz_full_mask when nohz_full= missing
  rcu: Fix a sparse warning in rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp()
  rcu: Fix a sparse warning in rcu_initiate_boost()
  rcu: Fix __rcu_reclaim() to use true/false for bool
  rcu: Remove CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAY
  rcu: Use __this_cpu_read() instead of per_cpu_ptr()
  rcu: Don't use NMIs to dump other CPUs' stacks
  rcu: Bind grace-period kthreads to non-NO_HZ_FULL CPUs
  rcu: Simplify priority boosting by putting rt_mutex in rcu_node
  rcu: Check both root and current rcu_node when setting up future grace period
  rcu: Allow post-unlock reference for rt_mutex
  rcu: Loosen __call_rcu()'s rcu_head alignment constraint
  rcu: Eliminate read-modify-write ACCESS_ONCE() calls
  rcu: Remove redundant ACCESS_ONCE() from tick_do_timer_cpu
  rcu: Make rcu node arrays static const char * const
  signal: Explain local_irq_save() call
  rcu: Handle obsolete references to TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
  rcu: Document deadlock-avoidance information for rcu_read_unlock()
  scripts: Teach get_maintainer.pl about the new "R:" tag
  rcu: Update rcu torture maintainership filename patterns
  ...
2014-08-04 15:55:08 -07:00
Josh Triplett e0198b290d Josh has moved
My IBM email addresses haven't worked for years; also map some
old-but-functional forwarding addresses to my canonical address.

Update my GPG key fingerprint; I moved to 4096R a long time ago.

Update description.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.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>
2014-07-30 17:16:13 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 187497fa5e rcu: Allow for NULL tick_nohz_full_mask when nohz_full= missing
If there isn't a nohz_full= kernel parameter specified, then
tick_nohz_full_mask can legitimately be NULL.  This can cause
problems when RCU's boot code tries to cpumask_or() this value into
rcu_nocb_mask.  In addition, if NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y, there is no point
in doing the cpumask_or() in the first place because this will cause
RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y, which in turn will have all bits already set in
rcu_nocb_mask.

This commit therefore avoids the cpumask_or() if NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y
and checks for !tick_nohz_full_running otherwise, this latter check
catching cases when there was no nohz_full= kernel parameter specified.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-16 10:44:46 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 1823172ab5 Merge branches 'doc.2014.07.08a', 'fixes.2014.07.09a', 'maintainers.2014.07.08b', 'nocbs.2014.07.07a' and 'torture.2014.07.07a' into HEAD
doc.2014.07.08a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2014.07.09a: Miscellaneous fixes.
maintainers.2014.07.08b: Maintainership updates.
nocbs.2014.07.07a: Callback-offloading fixes.
torture.2014.07.07a: Torture-test updates.
2014-07-09 09:16:54 -07:00
Pranith Kumar b41d1b924d rcu: Fix a sparse warning in rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp()
This commit annotates rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() in order to fix the
following sparse warning:

kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:990:13: warning: context imbalance in 'rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp' - unexpected unlock

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-09 09:15:51 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 615e41c605 rcu: Fix a sparse warning in rcu_initiate_boost()
This commit annotates rcu_initiate_boost() fixes the following sparse
warning:

	kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:1494:13: warning: context imbalance in 'rcu_initiate_boost' - unexpected unlock

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-09 09:15:45 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 406e3e5365 rcu: Fix __rcu_reclaim() to use true/false for bool
The __rcu_reclaim() function returned 0/1, which is not proper for a
function of type bool.  This commit therefore converts to false/true.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-09 09:15:32 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 11992c703a rcu: Remove CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAY
The CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAY Kconfig parameter doesn't appear to be very
effective at finding race conditions, so this commit removes it.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
[ paulmck: Remove definition and uses as noted by Paul Bolle. ]
2014-07-09 09:15:31 -07:00
Shan Wei d860d40327 rcu: Use __this_cpu_read() instead of per_cpu_ptr()
The __this_cpu_read() function produces better code than does
per_cpu_ptr() on both ARM and x86.  For example, gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro
4.7.3-12ubuntu1) 4.7.3 produces the following:

ARMv7 per_cpu_ptr():

force_quiescent_state:
    mov    r3, sp    @,
    bic    r1, r3, #8128    @ tmp171,,
    ldr    r2, .L98    @ tmp169,
    bic    r1, r1, #63    @ tmp170, tmp171,
    ldr    r3, [r0, #220]    @ __ptr, rsp_6(D)->rda
    ldr    r1, [r1, #20]    @ D.35903_68->cpu, D.35903_68->cpu
    mov    r6, r0    @ rsp, rsp
    ldr    r2, [r2, r1, asl #2]    @ tmp173, __per_cpu_offset
    add    r3, r3, r2    @ tmp175, __ptr, tmp173
    ldr    r5, [r3, #12]    @ rnp_old, D.29162_13->mynode

ARMv7 __this_cpu_read():

force_quiescent_state:
    ldr    r3, [r0, #220]    @ rsp_7(D)->rda, rsp_7(D)->rda
    mov    r6, r0    @ rsp, rsp
    add    r3, r3, #12    @ __ptr, rsp_7(D)->rda,
    ldr    r5, [r2, r3]    @ rnp_old, *D.29176_13

Using gcc 4.8.2:

x86_64 per_cpu_ptr():

    movl %gs:cpu_number,%edx    # cpu_number, pscr_ret__
    movslq    %edx, %rdx    # pscr_ret__, pscr_ret__
    movq    __per_cpu_offset(,%rdx,8), %rdx    # __per_cpu_offset, tmp93
    movq    %rdi, %r13    # rsp, rsp
    movq    1000(%rdi), %rax    # rsp_9(D)->rda, __ptr
    movq    24(%rdx,%rax), %r12    # _15->mynode, rnp_old

x86_64 __this_cpu_read():

    movq    %rdi, %r13    # rsp, rsp
    movq    1000(%rdi), %rax    # rsp_9(D)->rda, rsp_9(D)->rda
    movq %gs:24(%rax),%r12    # _10->mynode, rnp_old

Because this change produces significant benefits for these two very
diverse architectures, this commit makes this change.

Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <davidshan@tencent.com>
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-09 09:15:21 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney bc1dce514e rcu: Don't use NMIs to dump other CPUs' stacks
Although NMI-based stack dumps are in principle more accurate, they are
also more likely to trigger deadlocks.  This commit therefore replaces
all uses of trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() with rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(), so
that the CPU detecting an RCU CPU stall does the stack dumping.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-09 09:15:04 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney c0f489d2c6 rcu: Bind grace-period kthreads to non-NO_HZ_FULL CPUs
Binding the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping CPU resulted in
significant performance decreases for some workloads.  For more detail,
see:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/3/395 for benchmark numbers

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/4/218 for CPU statistics

It turns out that it is necessary to bind the grace-period kthreads
to the timekeeping CPU only when all but CPU 0 is a nohz_full CPU
on the one hand or if CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=y on the other.
In other cases, it suffices to bind the grace-period kthreads to the
set of non-nohz_full CPUs.

This commit therefore creates a tick_nohz_not_full_mask that is the
complement of tick_nohz_full_mask, and then binds the grace-period
kthread to the set of CPUs indicated by this new mask, which covers
the CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=n case.  The CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=y
case still binds the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping CPU.
This commit also includes the tick_nohz_full_enabled() check suggested
by Frederic Weisbecker.

Reported-by: Jet Chen <jet.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Created housekeeping_affine() and housekeeping_mask per
  fweisbec feedback. ]
2014-07-09 09:15:02 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney abaa93d9e1 rcu: Simplify priority boosting by putting rt_mutex in rcu_node
RCU priority boosting currently checks for boosting via a pointer in
task_struct.  However, this is not needed: As Oleg noted, if the
rt_mutex is placed in the rcu_node instead of on the booster's stack,
the boostee can simply check it see if it owns the lock.  This commit
makes this change, shrinking task_struct by one pointer and the kernel
by thirteen lines.

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-09 09:15:01 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 48bd8e9b82 rcu: Check both root and current rcu_node when setting up future grace period
The rcu_start_future_gp() function checks the current rcu_node's ->gpnum
and ->completed twice, once without ACCESS_ONCE() and once with it.
Which is pointless because we hold that rcu_node's ->lock at that point.
The intent was to check the current rcu_node structure and the root
rcu_node structure, the latter locklessly with ACCESS_ONCE().  This
commit therefore makes that change.

The reason that it is safe to locklessly check the root rcu_nodes's
->gpnum and ->completed fields is that we hold the current rcu_node's
->lock, which constrains the root rcu_node's ability to change its
->gpnum and ->completed fields.  Of course, if there is a single rcu_node
structure, then rnp_root==rnp, and holding the lock prevents all changes.
If there is more than one rcu_node structure, then the code updates the
fields in the following order:

1.	Increment rnp_root->gpnum to start new grace period.
2.	Increment rnp->gpnum to initialize the current rcu_node,
	continuing initialization for the new grace period.
3.	Increment rnp_root->completed to end the current grace period.
4.	Increment rnp->completed to continue cleaning up after the
	old grace period.

So there are four possible combinations of relative values of these
four fields:

N   N   N   N:  RCU idle, new grace period must be initiated.
		Although rnp_root->gpnum might be incremented immediately
		after we check, that will just result in unnecessary work.
		The grace period already started, and we try to start it.

N+1 N   N   N:  RCU grace period just started.  No further change is
		possible because we hold rnp->lock, so the checks of
		rnp_root->gpnum and rnp_root->completed are stable.
		We know that our request for a future grace period will
		be seen during grace-period cleanup.

N+1 N   N+1 N:  RCU grace period is ongoing.  Because rnp->gpnum is
		different than rnp->completed, we won't even look at
		rnp_root->gpnum and rnp_root->completed, so the possible
		concurrent change to rnp_root->completed does not matter.
		We know that our request for a future grace period will
		be seen during grace-period cleanup, which cannot pass
		this rcu_node because we hold its ->lock.

N+1 N+1 N+1 N:  RCU grace period has ended, but not yet been cleaned up.
		Because rnp->gpnum is different than rnp->completed, we
		won't look at rnp_root->gpnum and rnp_root->completed, so
		the possible concurrent change to rnp_root->completed does
		not matter.  We know that our request for a future grace
		period will be seen during grace-period cleanup, which
		cannot pass this rcu_node because we hold its ->lock.

Therefore, despite initial appearances, the lockless check is safe.

Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Update comment to say why the lockless check is safe. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-09 09:15:01 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney dfeb9765ce rcu: Allow post-unlock reference for rt_mutex
The current approach to RCU priority boosting uses an rt_mutex strictly
for its priority-boosting side effects.  The rt_mutex_init_proxy_locked()
function is used by the booster to initialize the lock as held by the
boostee.  The booster then uses rt_mutex_lock() to acquire this rt_mutex,
which priority-boosts the boostee.  When the boostee reaches the end
of its outermost RCU read-side critical section, it checks a field in
its task structure to see whether it has been boosted, and, if so, uses
rt_mutex_unlock() to release the rt_mutex.  The booster can then go on
to boost the next task that is blocking the current RCU grace period.

But reasonable implementations of rt_mutex_unlock() might result in the
boostee referencing the rt_mutex's data after releasing it.  But the
booster might have re-initialized the rt_mutex between the time that the
boostee released it and the time that it later referenced it.  This is
clearly asking for trouble, so this commit introduces a completion that
forces the booster to wait until the boostee has completely finished with
the rt_mutex, thus avoiding the case where the booster is re-initializing
the rt_mutex before the last boostee's last reference to that rt_mutex.

This of course does introduce some overhead, but the priority-boosting
code paths are miles from any possible fastpath, and the overhead of
executing the completion will normally be quite small compared to the
overhead of priority boosting and deboosting, so this should be OK.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-09 09:15:00 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 1146edcbef rcu: Loosen __call_rcu()'s rcu_head alignment constraint
The m68k architecture aligns only to 16-bit boundaries, which can cause
the align-to-32-bits check in __call_rcu() to trigger.  Because there is
currently no known potential need for more than one low-order bit, this
commit loosens the check to 16-bit boundaries.

Reported-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-09 09:14:50 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney a792563bd4 rcu: Eliminate read-modify-write ACCESS_ONCE() calls
RCU contains code of the following forms:

	ACCESS_ONCE(x)++;
	ACCESS_ONCE(x) += y;
	ACCESS_ONCE(x) -= y;

Now these constructs do operate correctly, but they really result in a
pair of volatile accesses, one to do the load and another to do the store.
This can be confusing, as the casual reader might well assume that (for
example) gcc might generate a memory-to-memory add instruction for each
of these three cases.  In fact, gcc will do no such thing.  Also, there
is a good chance that the kernel will move to separate load and store
variants of ACCESS_ONCE(), and constructs like the above could easily
confuse both people and scripts attempting to make that sort of change.
Finally, most of RCU's read-modify-write uses of ACCESS_ONCE() really
only need the store to be volatile, so that the read-modify-write form
might be misleading.

This commit therefore changes the above forms in RCU so that each instance
of ACCESS_ONCE() either does a load or a store, but not both.  In a few
cases, ACCESS_ONCE() was not critical, for example, for maintaining
statisitics.  In these cases, ACCESS_ONCE() has been dispensed with
entirely.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-09 09:14:49 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 4da117cfa7 rcu: Remove redundant ACCESS_ONCE() from tick_do_timer_cpu
In kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL, tick_do_timer_cpu is constant
once boot completes.  Thus, there is no need to wrap it in ACCESS_ONCE()
in code that is built only when CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL.  This commit therefore
removes the redundant ACCESS_ONCE().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-07-09 09:14:35 -07:00
Fabian Frederick b4426b49c6 rcu: Make rcu node arrays static const char * const
Those two arrays are being passed to lockdep_init_map(), which expects
const char *, and are stored in lockdep_map the same way.

Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-09 09:14:34 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney b58cc46c5f rcu: Don't offload callbacks unless specifically requested
Enabling NO_HZ_FULL currently has the side effect of enabling callback
offloading on all CPUs.  This results in lots of additional rcuo kthreads,
and can also increase context switching and wakeups, even in cases where
callback offloading is neither needed nor particularly desirable.  This
commit therefore enables callback offloading on a given CPU only if
specifically requested at build time or boot time, or if that CPU has
been specifically designated (again, either at build time or boot time)
as a nohz_full CPU.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-07 15:13:44 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney fbce7497ee rcu: Parallelize and economize NOCB kthread wakeups
An 80-CPU system with a context-switch-heavy workload can require so
many NOCB kthread wakeups that the RCU grace-period kthreads spend several
tens of percent of a CPU just awakening things.  This clearly will not
scale well: If you add enough CPUs, the RCU grace-period kthreads would
get behind, increasing grace-period latency.

To avoid this problem, this commit divides the NOCB kthreads into leaders
and followers, where the grace-period kthreads awaken the leaders each of
whom in turn awakens its followers.  By default, the number of groups of
kthreads is the square root of the number of CPUs, but this default may
be overridden using the rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride boot parameter.
This reduces the number of wakeups done per grace period by the RCU
grace-period kthread by the square root of the number of CPUs, but of
course by shifting those wakeups to the leaders.  In addition, because
the leaders do grace periods on behalf of their respective followers,
the number of wakeups of the followers decreases by up to a factor of two.
Instead of being awakened once when new callbacks arrive and again
at the end of the grace period, the followers are awakened only at
the end of the grace period.

For a numerical example, in a 4096-CPU system, the grace-period kthread
would awaken 64 leaders, each of which would awaken its 63 followers
at the end of the grace period.  This compares favorably with the 79
wakeups for the grace-period kthread on an 80-CPU system.

Reported-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-07-07 15:13:44 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 4a81e8328d rcu: Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU
Commit ac1bea8578 (Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent states)
fixed a problem where a CPU looping in the kernel with but one runnable
task would give RCU CPU stall warnings, even if the in-kernel loop
contained cond_resched() calls.  Unfortunately, in so doing, it introduced
performance regressions in Anton Blanchard's will-it-scale "open1" test.
The problem appears to be not so much the increased cond_resched() path
length as an increase in the rate at which grace periods complete, which
increased per-update grace-period overhead.

This commit takes a different approach to fixing this bug, mainly by
moving the RCU-visible quiescent state from cond_resched() to
rcu_note_context_switch(), and by further reducing the check to a
simple non-zero test of a single per-CPU variable.  However, this
approach requires that the force-quiescent-state processing send
resched IPIs to the offending CPUs.  These will be sent only once
the grace period has reached an age specified by the boot/sysfs
parameter rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs, or once the grace period
reaches an age halfway to the point at which RCU CPU stall warnings
will be emitted, whichever comes first.

Reported-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
[ paulmck: Made rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle() as suggested by the
  ktest build robot.  Also fixed smp_mb() comment as noted by
  Oleg Nesterov. ]

Merge with e552592e (Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU)

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-06-23 11:19:32 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 546a9d8519 rcu: Export debug_init_rcu_head() and and debug_init_rcu_head()
Currently, call_rcu() relies on implicit allocation and initialization
for the debug-objects handling of RCU callbacks.  If you hammer the
kernel hard enough with Sasha's modified version of trinity, you can end
up with the sl*b allocators recursing into themselves via this implicit
call_rcu() allocation.

This commit therefore exports the debug_init_rcu_head() and
debug_rcu_head_free() functions, which permits the allocators to allocated
and pre-initialize the debug-objects information, so that there no longer
any need for call_rcu() to do that initialization, which in turn prevents
the recursion into the memory allocators.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Looks-good-to: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
2014-06-23 11:19:29 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 776edb5931 Merge branch 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip into next
Pull core locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes in this cycle were:

   - reduced/streamlined smp_mb__*() interface that allows more usecases
     and makes the existing ones less buggy, especially in rarer
     architectures

   - add rwsem implementation comments

   - bump up lockdep limits"

* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (33 commits)
  rwsem: Add comments to explain the meaning of the rwsem's count field
  lockdep: Increase static allocations
  arch: Mass conversion of smp_mb__*()
  arch,doc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,xtensa: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,x86: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,tile: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,sparc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,sh: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,score: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,s390: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,powerpc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,parisc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,openrisc: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,mn10300: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,mips: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,metag: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,m68k: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,m32r: Convert smp_mb__*()
  arch,ia64: Convert smp_mb__*()
  ...
2014-06-03 12:57:53 -07:00
Rik van Riel 61f38db3e3 rcu: Provide API to suppress stall warnings while sysrc runs
Some sysrq handlers can run for a long time, because they dump a lot
of data onto a serial console. Having RCU stall warnings pop up in
the middle of them only makes the problem worse.

This commit provides rcu_sysrq_start() and rcu_sysrq_end() APIs to
temporarily suppress RCU CPU stall warnings while a sysrq request is
handled.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
[ paulmck: Fix TINY_RCU build error. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-05-19 10:52:04 -07:00
Uma Sharma e534165bbf rcu: Variable name changed in tree_plugin.h and used in tree.c
The variable and struct both having the name "rcu_state" confuses
sparse in some situations, so this commit changes the variable to
"rcu_state_p" in order to avoid this confusion.  This also makes
things easier for human readers.

Signed-off-by: Uma Sharma <uma.sharma523@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Changed the declaration and several additional uses. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-05-14 11:41:04 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney f5d2a0450d Merge branches 'doc.2014.04.29a', 'fixes.2014.04.29a' and 'torture.2014.05.14a' into HEAD
doc.2014.04.29a:  Documentation updates.
fixes.2014.04.29a:  Miscellaneous fixes.
torture.2014.05.14a:  RCU/Lock torture tests.
2014-05-14 10:57:31 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 5228084eed torture: Check for multiple concurrent torture tests
The torture tests are designed to run in isolation, but do not enforce
this isolation.  This commit therefore checks for concurrent torture
tests, and refuses to start new tests while old tests are running.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-05-14 09:46:29 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 48d684fdad rcutorture: Run rcu_torture_writer at normal priority
There are usually lots of readers and only one writer, so if there has
to be a choice, we would want rcu_torture_writer to win.  This commit
therefore removes the set_user_nice() from rcu_torture_writer().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-05-14 09:46:26 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner 424c1b6820 rcutorture: Add missing destroy_timer_on_stack()
The rcu_torture_reader() function uses an on-stack timer_list structure
which it initializes with setup_timer_on_stack().  However, it fails to
use destroy_timer_on_stack() before exiting, which results in leaking a
tracking object if DEBUG_OBJECTS is enabled.  This commit therefore
invokes destroy_timer_on_stack() to avoid this leakage.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-05-14 09:46:24 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney f0bf8fab4f rcutorture: Explicitly test synchronous grace-period primitives
The original rcu_torture_writer() avoided testing the synchronous
grace-period primitives because they were simply wrappers around
call_rcu() invocations.  The testing of these synchronous primitives
was delegated to the fake writers.  However, there really is no excuse
not to test them, especially in the case of SRCU, where the wrappering
is somewhat more elaborate.  This commit therefore makes the default
rcutorture parameters cause rcu_torture_writer() to include synchronous
grace-period primitives in its testing.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-05-14 09:46:22 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney a48f3fad4f rcutorture: Add tests for get_state_synchronize_rcu()
This commit adds rcutorture testing for get_state_synchronize_rcu()
and cond_synchronize_rcu().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-05-14 09:46:21 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney d0d0606e2c rcutorture: Check for rcu_torture_fqs creation errors
The return value from torture_create_kthread() is currently ignored
when creating the rcu_torture_fqs kthread.  This commit therefore
captures the return value so that it can be tested for errors.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-05-14 09:46:17 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 64e4b43ae0 rcutorture: Make rcu_torture_reader() use cond_resched()
The rcu_torture_reader() function currently uses schedule().  This commit
therefore speeds things up a bit by substituting cond_resched().
This change makes rcu_torture_reader() more CPU-bound, so this commit
also adjusts the number of readers (the "nreaders" module parameter,
which feeds into the "nrealreaders" variable) to allow one CPU to be
free of readers on SMP systems.  The point of this is to increase the
probability that readers will be watching while an updater makes a change.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-05-14 09:46:13 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney ac1bea8578 sched,rcu: Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent states
Given a CPU running a loop containing cond_resched(), with no
other tasks runnable on that CPU, RCU will eventually report RCU
CPU stall warnings due to lack of quiescent states.  Fortunately,
every call to cond_resched() is a perfectly good quiescent state.
Unfortunately, invoking rcu_note_context_switch() is a bit heavyweight
for cond_resched(), especially given the need to disable preemption,
and, for RCU-preempt, interrupts as well.

This commit therefore maintains a per-CPU counter that causes
cond_resched(), cond_resched_lock(), and cond_resched_softirq() to call
rcu_note_context_switch(), but only about once per 256 invocations.
This ratio was chosen in keeping with the relative time constants of
RCU grace periods.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-05-14 09:46:11 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney afea227fd4 rcutorture: Export RCU grace-period kthread wait state to rcutorture
This commit allows rcutorture to print additional state for the
RCU grace-period kthreads in cases where RCU seems reluctant to
start a new grace period.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-05-14 09:46:09 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 945fa9c631 torture: Dump ftrace buffer when the RCU grace period stalls
This commit adds a call to rcutorture_trace_dump() to dump the ftrace
buffer when the RCU grace period stalls in order to help debug the
stall.  Note that this is different than the RCU CPU stall warning,
as it is rcutorture detecting the stall rather than the underlying RCU
implementation.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-05-14 09:46:07 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 589a8f5950 rcutorture: Print negatives for SRCU counter wraparound
The srcu_torture_stats() function prints SRCU's per-CPU c[] array with
an unsigned format, which means that the number one less than zero is
a very large number.  This commit therefore prints this array with a
signed format in order to improve readability of the rcutorture output.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-05-14 09:45:58 -07:00
Rashika Kheria b3b8a4d42b rcutorture: Mark function as static in kernel/rcu/torture.c
Mark functions as static in kernel/rcu/torture.c because they are not
used outside this file.

This eliminates the following warning in kernel/rcu/torture.c:
kernel/rcu/torture.c:902:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘rcutorture_trace_dump’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]
kernel/rcu/torture.c:1572:6: warning: no previous prototype for ‘rcu_torture_barrier_cbf’ [-Wmissing-prototypes]

Signed-off-by: Rashika Kheria <rashika.kheria@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-05-14 09:45:53 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney ad0dc7f94d rcutorture: Add forward-progress checking for writer
The rcutorture output currently does not distinguish between stalls in
the RCU implementation and stalls in the rcu_torture_writer() kthreads.
This commit therefore adds some diagnostics to help distinguish between
these two conditions, at least for the non-SRCU implementations.  (SRCU
does not provide evidence of update-side forward progress by design.)

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-05-13 11:18:18 -07:00
Christoph Lameter fa07a58f71 rcu: Replace __this_cpu_ptr() uses with raw_cpu_ptr()
__this_cpu_ptr is being phased out.

One special case is increment_cpu_stall_ticks().
A per cpu variable is incremented so use raw_cpu_inc().

Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-04-29 08:45:35 -07:00
Pranith Kumar 8c96ae1dfa rcu: Remove duplicate resched_cpu() declaration
Signed-off-by: Pranith Kumar <pranith@gatech.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-04-29 08:45:29 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney becb41bfe0 rcu: Make large and small sysidle systems use same state machine
Currently, small systems move back into RCU_SYSIDLE_NOT from
RCU_SYSIDLE_SHORT and large systems do not.  This works because moving
aggressively to RCU_SYSIDLE_NOT affects only performance, not correctness,
and on small systems, the performance impact should be negligible.  That
said, this difference does make RCU a bit more complex, and RCU does not
seem to be suffering from any lack of complexity.  This commit therefore
adjusts small-system operation to match that of large systems, so that
the state never moves back to RCU_SYSIDLE_NOT from RCU_SYSIDLE_SHORT.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-04-29 08:45:24 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 5057f55e54 rcu: Bind RCU grace-period kthreads if NO_HZ_FULL
Currently, RCU binds the grace-period kthreads to the timekeeping
CPU only if CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=y.  This means that these
kthreads must be bound manually when CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=n and
CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y: Otherwise, these kthreads will induce OS jitter on
random CPUs.  Given that we are trying to reduce the amount of manual
tweaking required to make CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y work nicely, this commit
makes this binding happen when CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y, even in cases where
CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE=n.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-04-29 08:45:19 -07:00
Andreea-Cristina Bernat a381d757d9 rcu: Merge rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state() with rcu_force_quiescent_state()
This patch merges the function rcu_force_quiescent_state() with
rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state(), using the rcu_state pointer.  Firstly,
the rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state() function is deleted from the file
kernel/rcu/tree.c. Also, the rcu_force_quiescent_state() function that was
calling force_quiescent_state with the argument rcu_preempt_state pointer
was deleted as well.  The new function that combines the old ones uses
the rcu_state pointer and is located after rcu_batches_completed_bh()
in kernel/rcu/tree.c.

Signed-off-by: Andreea-Cristina Bernat <bernat.ada@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-04-29 08:45:07 -07:00