This commit fixes the following sparse warning:
kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c:1695:16: warning: symbol 'rcu_fwds' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c:1696:6: warning: symbol 'rcu_fwd_emergency_stop' was not declared. Should it be static?
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Yan <yanaijie@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit provides an rcutorture.stall_gp_kthread module parameter
to allow rcutorture to starve the grace-period kthread. This allows
testing the code that detects such starvation.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit aids testing of RCU task stall warning messages by adding
an rcutorture.stall_cpu_block module parameter that results in the
induced stall sleeping within the RCU read-side critical section.
Spinning with interrupts disabled is still available via the
rcutorture.stall_cpu_irqsoff module parameter, and specifying neither
of these two module parameters will spin with preemption disabled.
Note that sleeping (as opposed to preemption) results in additional
complaints from RCU at context-switch time, so yet more testing.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The n_barrier_successes, n_barrier_attempts, and
n_rcu_torture_barrier_error variables are updated (without access
markings) by the main rcu_barrier() test kthread, and accessed (also
without access markings) by the rcu_torture_stats() kthread. This of
course can result in KCSAN complaints.
Because the accesses are in diagnostic prints, this commit uses
data_race() to excuse the diagnostic prints from the data race. If this
were to ever cause bogus statistics prints (for example, due to store
tearing), any misleading information would be disambiguated by the
presence or absence of an rcutorture splat.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely and due to the mild consequences of the
failure, namely a confusing rcutorture console message.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
This commit adds stubs for KCSAN's data_race(), ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_WRITER(),
and ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_ACCESS() macros to allow code using these macros to
move ahead.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
When all quiescent states have been seen, it is normally the grace-period
kthread that is in trouble. Although the existing stack trace from
the current CPU might possibly provide useful information, experience
indicates that there is too much noise for this to be worthwhile.
This commit therefore removes this stack trace from the output.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
If the grace-period kthread is starved, idle threads' extended quiescent
states are not reported. These idle threads thus wrongly appear to
be blocking the current grace period. This commit therefore tags such
idle threads as probable false positives when the grace-period kthread
is being starved.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Although the accesses used to determine whether or not an expedited
stall should be printed are an integral part of the concurrency algorithm
governing use of the corresponding variables, the values that are simply
printed are ancillary. As such, it is best to use data_race() for these
accesses in order to provide the greatest latitude in the use of KCSAN
for the other accesses that are an integral part of the algorithm. This
commit therefore changes the relevant uses of READ_ONCE() to data_race().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit allows TASKS_TRACE_RCU to be used independently of TASKS_RCU
and vice versa.
[ paulmck: Fix conditional compilation per kbuild test robot feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds a failure-return count for smp_call_function_single(),
and adds this to the console messages for rcutorture writer stalls and at
the end of rcutorture testing.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds a counter for the number of times the quiescent state
was an idle task associated with an offline CPU, and prints this count
at the end of rcutorture runs and at stall time.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds counts of the number of calls and number of successful
calls to rcu_dynticks_zero_in_eqs(), which are printed at the end
of rcutorture runs and at stall time. This allows evaluation of the
effectiveness of rcu_dynticks_zero_in_eqs().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit scans the CPUs, adding each CPU's idle task to the list of
tasks that need quiescent states.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The idle task corresponding to an offline CPU can appear to be running
while that CPU is offline. This commit therefore adds checks for this
situation, treating it as a quiescent state. Because the tasklist scan
and the holdout-list scan now exclude CPU-hotplug operations, readers
on the CPU-hotplug paths are still waited for.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit disables CPU hotplug across RCU tasks trace scans, which
is a first step towards correctly recognizing idle tasks "running" on
offline CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_read_unlock_trace() can invoke rcu_read_unlock_trace_special(),
which in turn can call wake_up(). Therefore, if any scheduler lock is
held across a call to rcu_read_unlock_trace(), self-deadlock can occur.
This commit therefore uses the irq_work facility to defer the wake_up()
to a clean environment where no scheduler locks will be held.
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ paulmck: Update #includes for m68k per kbuild test robot. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Systems running CPU-bound real-time task do not want IPIs sent to CPUs
executing nohz_full userspace tasks. Battery-powered systems don't
want IPIs sent to idle CPUs in low-power mode. Unfortunately, RCU tasks
trace can and will send such IPIs in some cases.
Both of these situations occur only when the target CPU is in RCU
dyntick-idle mode, in other words, when RCU is not watching the
target CPU. This suggests that CPUs in dyntick-idle mode should use
memory barriers in outermost invocations of rcu_read_lock_trace()
and rcu_read_unlock_trace(), which would allow the RCU tasks trace
grace period to directly read out the target CPU's read-side state.
One challenge is that RCU tasks trace is not targeting a specific
CPU, but rather a task. And that task could switch from one CPU to
another at any time.
This commit therefore uses try_invoke_on_locked_down_task()
and checks for task_curr() in trc_inspect_reader_notrunning().
When this condition holds, the target task is running and cannot move.
If CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB=y, the new rcu_dynticks_zero_in_eqs()
function can be used to check if the specified integer (in this case,
t->trc_reader_nesting) is zero while the target CPU remains in that same
dyntick-idle sojourn. If so, the target task is in a quiescent state.
If not, trc_read_check_handler() must indicate failure so that the
grace-period kthread can take appropriate action or retry after an
appropriate delay, as the case may be.
With this change, given CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB=y, if a given
CPU remains idle or a given task continues executing in nohz_full mode,
the RCU tasks trace grace-period kthread will detect this without the
need to send an IPI.
Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit provides a new TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB Kconfig option that
enables use of read-side memory barriers by both rcu_read_lock_trace()
and rcu_read_unlock_trace() when the are executed with the
current->trc_reader_special.b.need_mb flag set. This flag is currently
never set. Doing that is the subject of a later commit.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds a grace-period count and a count of IPIs sent since
boot, which is printed in response to rcutorture writer stalls and at
the end of rcutorture testing. These counts will be used to evaluate
various schemes to reduce the number of IPIs sent.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit splits ->trc_reader_need_end by using the rcu_special union.
This change permits readers to check to see if a memory barrier is
required without any added overhead in the common case where no such
barrier is required. This commit also adds the read-side checking.
Later commits will add the machinery to properly set the new
->trc_reader_special.b.need_mb field.
This commit also makes rcu_read_unlock_trace_special() tolerate nested
read-side critical sections within interrupt and NMI handlers.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit provides a rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay kernel boot parameter
that specifies how old the RCU tasks trace grace period must be before
the grace-period kthread starts sending IPIs. This delay allows more
tasks to pass through rcu_tasks_qs() quiescent states, thus reducing
(or even eliminating) the number of IPIs that must be sent.
On a short rcutorture test setting this kernel boot parameter to HZ/2
resulted in zero IPIs for all 877 RCU-tasks trace grace periods that
elapsed during that test.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds a place to record the grace-period start in jiffies.
This will be used by later commits for debugging purposes and to throttle
IPIs early in the grace period.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit makes the calls to rcu_tasks_qs() detect and report
quiescent states for RCU tasks trace. If the task is in a quiescent
state and if ->trc_reader_checked is not yet set, the task sets its own
->trc_reader_checked. This will cause the grace-period kthread to
remove it from the holdout list if it still remains there.
[ paulmck: Fix conditional compilation per kbuild test robot feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds state for each RCU-tasks flavor to the rcutorture
writer stall output. The initial state is minimal, but you have to
start somewhere.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
[ paulmck: Fixes based on feedback from kbuild test robot. ]
This commit pushes the #ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_GENERIC from
kernel/rcu/update.c to kernel/rcu/tasks.h in order to improve
readability as more APIs are added.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds RCU CPU stall warnings for RCU Tasks Trace. These
dump out any tasks blocking the current grace period, as well as any
CPUs that have not responded to an IPI request. This happens in two
phases, when initially extracting state from the tasks and later when
waiting for any holdout tasks to check in.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Because RCU does not watch exception early-entry/late-exit, idle-loop,
or CPU-hotplug execution, protection of tracing and BPF operations is
needlessly complicated. This commit therefore adds a variant of
Tasks RCU that:
o Has explicit read-side markers to allow finite grace periods in
the face of in-kernel loops for PREEMPT=n builds. These markers
are rcu_read_lock_trace() and rcu_read_unlock_trace().
o Protects code in the idle loop, exception entry/exit, and
CPU-hotplug code paths. In this respect, RCU-tasks trace is
similar to SRCU, but with lighter-weight readers.
o Avoids expensive read-side instruction, having overhead similar
to that of Preemptible RCU.
There are of course downsides:
o The grace-period code can send IPIs to CPUs, even when those
CPUs are in the idle loop or in nohz_full userspace. This is
mitigated by later commits.
o It is necessary to scan the full tasklist, much as for Tasks RCU.
o There is a single callback queue guarded by a single lock,
again, much as for Tasks RCU. However, those early use cases
that request multiple grace periods in quick succession are
expected to do so from a single task, which makes the single
lock almost irrelevant. If needed, multiple callback queues
can be provided using any number of schemes.
Perhaps most important, this variant of RCU does not affect the vanilla
flavors, rcu_preempt and rcu_sched. The fact that RCU Tasks Trace
readers can operate from idle, offline, and exception entry/exit in no
way enables rcu_preempt and rcu_sched readers to do so.
The memory ordering was outlined here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200319034030.GX3199@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72/
This effort benefited greatly from off-list discussions of BPF
requirements with Alexei Starovoitov and Andrii Nakryiko. At least
some of the on-list discussions are captured in the Link: tags below.
In addition, KCSAN was quite helpful in finding some early bugs.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200219150744.428764577@infradead.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87mu8p797b.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200225221305.605144982@linutronix.de/
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
[ paulmck: Apply feedback from Steve Rostedt and Joel Fernandes. ]
[ paulmck: Decrement trc_n_readers_need_end upon IPI failure. ]
[ paulmck: Fix locking issue reported by rcutorture. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit refactors RCU tasks to allow variants to be added. These
variants will share the current Tasks-RCU tasklist scan and the holdout
list processing.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit causes the flavors of RCU Tasks to use different names
for their kthreads and in their console messages.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds a "rude" variant of RCU-tasks that has as quiescent
states schedule(), cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs(), userspace execution,
and (in theory, anyway) cond_resched(). In other words, RCU-tasks rude
readers are regions of code with preemption disabled, but excluding code
early in the CPU-online sequence and late in the CPU-offline sequence.
Updates make use of IPIs and force an IPI and a context switch on each
online CPU. This variant is useful in some situations in tracing.
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ paulmck: Apply EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() feedback from Qiujun Huang. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
[ paulmck: Apply review feedback from Steve Rostedt. ]
This commit splits out generic processing from RCU-tasks-specific
processing in order to allow additional flavors to be added. It also
adds a def_bool TASKS_RCU_GENERIC to enable the common RCU-tasks
infrastructure code.
This is primarily, but not entirely, a code-movement commit.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds a crude test for synchronize_rcu_mult(). This is
currently a smoke test rather than a high-quality stress test.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit creates an rcu_tasks struct to hold state information for
RCU Tasks. This is a preparation commit for adding additional flavors
of Tasks RCU, each of which would have its own rcu_tasks struct.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This code-movement-only commit is in preparation for adding an additional
flavor of Tasks RCU, which relies on workqueues to detect grace periods.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, an RCU-preempt CPU stall warning simply lists the PIDs of
those tasks holding up the current grace period. This can be helpful,
but more can be even more helpful.
To this end, this commit adds the nesting level, whether the task
thinks it was preempted in its current RCU read-side critical section,
whether RCU core has asked this task for a quiescent state, whether the
expedited-grace-period hint is set, and whether the task believes that
it is on the blocked-tasks list (it must be, or it would not be printed,
but if things are broken, best not to take too much for granted).
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, the PREEMPT=y version of rcu_note_context_switch() does not
invoke rcu_tasks_qs(), and we need it to in order to keep RCU Tasks
Trace's IPIs down to a dull roar. This commit therefore enables this
hook.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
It is not as clear as it might be just where in RCU's idle entry/exit
code RCU stops and starts watching the current CPU. This commit therefore
adds comments calling out the transitions.
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Now that it should be safe to hold scheduler locks across
rcu_read_unlock(), even in cases where the corresponding RCU read-side
critical section might have been preempted and boosted, the commit adds
a test of this capability to rcutorture. This has been tested on current
mainline (which can deadlock in this situation), and lockdep duly reported
the expected deadlock. On -rcu, lockdep is silent, thus far, anyway.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Now that RCU flavors have been consolidated, an RCU-preempt
rcu_read_unlock() in an interrupt or softirq handler cannot possibly
end the RCU read-side critical section. Consider the old vulnerability
involving rcu_read_unlock() being invoked within such a handler that
interrupted an __rcu_read_unlock_special(), in which a wakeup might be
invoked with a scheduler lock held. Because rcu_read_unlock_special()
no longer does wakeups in such situations, it is no longer necessary
for __rcu_read_unlock() to set the nesting level negative.
This commit therefore removes this recursion-protection code from
__rcu_read_unlock().
[ paulmck: Let rcu_exp_handler() continue to call rcu_report_exp_rdp(). ]
[ paulmck: Adjust other checks given no more negative nesting. ]
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The ->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.deferred_qs field is set to true in
rcu_read_unlock_special() but never set to false. This is not
particularly useful, so this commit removes this field.
The only possible justification for this field is to ease debugging
of RCU deferred quiscent states, but the combination of the other
->rcu_read_unlock_special fields plus ->rcu_blocked_node and of course
->rcu_read_lock_nesting should cover debugging needs. And if this last
proves incorrect, this patch can always be reverted, along with the
required setting of ->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.deferred_qs to false
in rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_irqrestore().
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Now that RCU flavors have been consolidated, an RCU-preempt
rcu_read_unlock() in an interrupt or softirq handler cannot possibly
end the RCU read-side critical section. Consider the old vulnerability
involving rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() being invoked within such a handler
that interrupted an extended RCU read-side critical section, in which
a wakeup might be invoked with a scheduler lock held. Because
rcu_read_unlock_special() no longer does wakeups in such situations,
it is no longer necessary for rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() to set the
nesting level negative.
This commit therefore removes this recursion-protection code from
rcu_preempt_deferred_qs().
[ paulmck: Fix typo in commit log per Steve Rostedt. ]
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The scheduler is currently required to hold rq/pi locks across the entire
RCU read-side critical section or not at all. This is inconvenient and
leaves traps for the unwary, including the author of this commit.
But now that excessively long grace periods enable scheduling-clock
interrupts for holdout nohz_full CPUs, the nohz_full rescue logic in
rcu_read_unlock_special() can be dispensed with. In other words, the
rcu_read_unlock_special() function can refrain from doing wakeups unless
such wakeups are guaranteed safe.
This commit therefore avoids unsafe wakeups, freeing the scheduler to
hold rq/pi locks across rcu_read_unlock() even if the corresponding RCU
read-side critical section might have been preempted. This commit also
updates RCU's requirements documentation.
This commit is inspired by a patch from Lai Jiangshan:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191102124559.1135-2-laijs@linux.alibaba.com
This commit is further intended to be a step towards his goal of permitting
the inlining of RCU-preempt's rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock().
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds stubs for KCSAN's data_race(), ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_WRITER(),
and ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_ACCESS() macros to allow code using these macros
to move ahead.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds rcu_gp_might_be_stalled(), which returns true if there
is some reason to believe that the RCU grace period is stalled. The use
case is where an RCU free-memory path needs to allocate memory in order
to free it, a situation that should be avoided where possible.
But where it is necessary, there is always the alternative of using
synchronize_rcu() to wait for a grace period in order to avoid the
allocation. And if the grace period is stalled, allocating memory to
asynchronously wait for it is a bad idea of epic proportions: Far better
to let others use the memory, because these others might actually be
able to free that memory before the grace period ends.
Thus, rcu_gp_might_be_stalled() can be used to help decide whether
allocating memory on an RCU free path is a semi-reasonable course
of action.
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
We can relax the correctness of counting of number of queued objects in
favor of not hurting performance, by locklessly sampling per-cpu
counters. This should be Ok since under high memory pressure, it should not
matter if we are off by a few objects while counting. The shrinker will
still do the reclaim.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Remove unused "flags" variable. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
To reduce grace periods and improve kfree() performance, we have done
batching recently dramatically bringing down the number of grace periods
while giving us the ability to use kfree_bulk() for efficient kfree'ing.
However, this has increased the likelihood of OOM condition under heavy
kfree_rcu() flood on small memory systems. This patch introduces a
shrinker which starts grace periods right away if the system is under
memory pressure due to existence of objects that have still not started
a grace period.
With this patch, I do not observe an OOM anymore on a system with 512MB
RAM and 8 CPUs, with the following rcuperf options:
rcuperf.kfree_loops=20000 rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num=8000
rcuperf.kfree_rcu_test=1 rcuperf.kfree_mult=2
Otherwise it easily OOMs with the above parameters.
NOTE:
1. On systems with no memory pressure, the patch has no effect as intended.
2. In the future, we can use this same mechanism to prevent grace periods
from happening even more, by relying on shrinkers carefully.
Cc: urezki@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This allows us to increase memory pressure dynamically using a new
rcuperf boot command line parameter called 'rcumult'.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit converts the ULONG_CMP_LT() in rcu_nohz_full_cpu() to
time_before() to reflect the fact that it is comparing a timestamp to
the jiffies counter.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit converts the ULONG_CMP_GE() in rcu_initiate_boost() to
time_after() to reflect the fact that it is comparing a timestamp to
the jiffies counter.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit converts the ULONG_CMP_GE() in rcu_gp_fqs_loop() to
time_after() to reflect the fact that it is comparing a timestamp to
the jiffies counter.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Coccinelle reports a warning at use_softirq declaration
WARNING: Assignment of 0/1 to bool variable
The root cause is
use_softirq a variable of bool type is initialised with the integer 1
Replacing 1 with value true solve the issue.
Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Coccinelle reports warnings at rcu_read_lock_held_common()
WARNING: Assignment of 0/1 to bool variable
To fix this,
the assigned pointer ret values are replaced by corresponding boolean value.
Given that ret is a pointer of bool type
Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_state structure's gp_seq field is only to be modified by the RCU
grace-period kthread, which is single-threaded. This commit therefore
enlists KCSAN's help in enforcing this restriction. This commit applies
KCSAN-specific primitives, so cannot go upstream until KCSAN does.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit escapes *ret, because otherwise the documentation system
thinks that this is an incomplete emphasis block:
./kernel/rcu/update.c:65: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
./kernel/rcu/update.c:65: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
./kernel/rcu/update.c:70: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
./kernel/rcu/update.c:82: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
It is possible that an over-long grace period will end while the RCU
CPU stall warning message is printing. In this case, the estimate of
the offending grace period's duration can be erroneous due to refetching
of rcu_state.gp_start, which will now be the time of the newly started
grace period. Computation of this duration clearly needs to use the
start time for the old over-long grace period, not the fresh new one.
This commit avoids such errors by causing both print_other_cpu_stall() and
print_cpu_stall() to reuse the value previously fetched by their caller.
Signed-off-by: Zhaolong Zhang <zhangzl2013@126.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Even if some CPUs have excessive numbers of callbacks, RCU's grace-period
kthread will still wait normally between successive force-quiescent-state
scans. The first two are the most important, as they are the ones that
enlist aid from the scheduler when overloaded. This commit therefore
omits the wait before the first and the second force-quiescent-state
scan under callback-overload conditions.
This approach was inspired by a discussion with Jeff Roberson.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Although the accesses used to determine whether or not a stall should
be printed are an integral part of the concurrency algorithm governing
use of the corresponding variables, the values that are simply printed
are ancillary. As such, it is best to use data_race() for these accesses
in order to provide the greatest latitude in the use of KCSAN for the
other accesses that are an integral part of the algorithm. This commit
therefore changes the relevant uses of READ_ONCE() to data_race().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_node structure's ->boost_tasks field is read locklessly, so this
commit adds the WRITE_ONCE() to an update in order to provide proper
documentation and READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() pairing.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The srcu_data structure's ->srcu_lock_count and ->srcu_unlock_count arrays
are read and written locklessly, so this commit adds the data_race()
to the diagnostic-print loads from these arrays in order mark them as
known and approved data-racy accesses.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting due
to failure being unlikely and due to this being used only by rcutorture.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_node structure's ->boost_tasks field is read locklessly, so this
commit adds the READ_ONCE() to one load in order to avoid destructive
compiler optimizations. The other load is from a diagnostic print,
so data_race() suffices.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
There are lockless loads from the rcu_node structure's ->exp_tasks field,
so this commit causes all stores to use WRITE_ONCE() and all lockless
loads to use READ_ONCE() or data_race(), with the latter for debug
prints. This code also did a unprotected traversal of the linked list
pointed into by ->exp_tasks, so this commit also acquires the rcu_node
structure's ->lock to properly protect this traversal. This list was
traversed unprotected only when printing an RCU CPU stall warning for
an expedited grace period, so the odds of seeing this in production are
not all that high.
This data race was reported by KCSAN.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_state structure's ncpus field is only to be modified by the
CPU-hotplug CPU-online code path, which is single-threaded. This
commit therefore enlists KCSAN's help in enforcing this restriction.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds stubs for KCSAN's data_race(), ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_WRITER(),
and ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_ACCESS() macros to allow code using these macros to
move ahead.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds stubs for KCSAN's data_race(), ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_WRITER(),
and ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_ACCESS() macros to allow code using these macros to
move ahead.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_nmi_enter_common() function can be invoked both in interrupt
and NMI handlers. If it is invoked from process context (as opposed
to userspace or idle context) on a nohz_full CPU, it might acquire the
CPU's leaf rcu_node structure's ->lock. Because this lock is held only
with interrupts disabled, this is safe from an interrupt handler, but
doing so from an NMI handler can result in self-deadlock.
This commit therefore adds "irq" to the "if" condition so as to only
acquire the ->lock from irq handlers or process context, never from
an NMI handler.
Fixes: 5b14557b07 ("rcu: Avoid tick_dep_set_cpu() misordering")
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.5.x
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- Continued user-access cleanups in the futex code.
- percpu-rwsem rewrite that uses its own waitqueue and atomic_t
instead of an embedded rwsem. This addresses a couple of
weaknesses, but the primary motivation was complications on the -rt
kernel.
- Introduce raw lock nesting detection on lockdep
(CONFIG_PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING=y), document the raw_lock vs. normal
lock differences. This too originates from -rt.
- Reuse lockdep zapped chain_hlocks entries, to conserve RAM
footprint on distro-ish kernels running into the "BUG:
MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAIN_HLOCKS too low!" depletion of the lockdep
chain-entries pool.
- Misc cleanups, smaller fixes and enhancements - see the changelog
for details"
* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (55 commits)
fs/buffer: Make BH_Uptodate_Lock bit_spin_lock a regular spinlock_t
thermal/x86_pkg_temp: Make pkg_temp_lock a raw_spinlock_t
Documentation/locking/locktypes: Minor copy editor fixes
Documentation/locking/locktypes: Further clarifications and wordsmithing
m68knommu: Remove mm.h include from uaccess_no.h
x86: get rid of user_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
generic arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser() doesn't need access_ok()
x86: don't reload after cmpxchg in unsafe_atomic_op2() loop
x86: convert arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser() to user_access_begin/user_access_end()
objtool: whitelist __sanitizer_cov_trace_switch()
[parisc, s390, sparc64] no need for access_ok() in futex handling
sh: no need of access_ok() in arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser()
futex: arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser() calling conventions change
completion: Use lockdep_assert_RT_in_threaded_ctx() in complete_all()
lockdep: Add posixtimer context tracing bits
lockdep: Annotate irq_work
lockdep: Add hrtimer context tracing bits
lockdep: Introduce wait-type checks
completion: Use simple wait queues
sched/swait: Prepare usage in completions
...
Currently, rcu_barrier() ignores offline CPUs, However, it is possible
for an offline no-CBs CPU to have callbacks queued, and rcu_barrier()
must wait for those callbacks. This commit therefore makes rcu_barrier()
directly invoke the rcu_barrier_func() with interrupts disabled for such
CPUs. This requires passing the CPU number into this function so that
it can entrain the rcu_barrier() callback onto the correct CPU's callback
list, given that the code must instead execute on the current CPU.
While in the area, this commit fixes a bug where the first CPU's callback
might have been invoked before rcu_segcblist_entrain() returned, which
would also result in an early wakeup.
Fixes: 5d6742b377 ("rcu/nocb: Use rcu_segcblist for no-CBs CPUs")
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
[ paulmck: Apply optimization feedback from Boqun Feng. ]
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.5.x
The rcu_state structure's gp_seq field is only to be modified by the RCU
grace-period kthread, which is single-threaded. This commit therefore
enlists KCSAN's help in enforcing this restriction.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Mark irq_work items with IRQ_WORK_HARD_IRQ which should be invoked in
hardirq context even on PREEMPT_RT. IRQ_WORK without this flag will be
invoked in softirq context on PREEMPT_RT.
Set ->irq_config to 1 for the IRQ_WORK items which are invoked in softirq
context so lockdep knows that these can safely acquire a spinlock_t.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200321113242.643576700@linutronix.de
Extend lockdep to validate lock wait-type context.
The current wait-types are:
LD_WAIT_FREE, /* wait free, rcu etc.. */
LD_WAIT_SPIN, /* spin loops, raw_spinlock_t etc.. */
LD_WAIT_CONFIG, /* CONFIG_PREEMPT_LOCK, spinlock_t etc.. */
LD_WAIT_SLEEP, /* sleeping locks, mutex_t etc.. */
Where lockdep validates that the current lock (the one being acquired)
fits in the current wait-context (as generated by the held stack).
This ensures that there is no attempt to acquire mutexes while holding
spinlocks, to acquire spinlocks while holding raw_spinlocks and so on. In
other words, its a more fancy might_sleep().
Obviously RCU made the entire ordeal more complex than a simple single
value test because RCU can be acquired in (pretty much) any context and
while it presents a context to nested locks it is not the same as it
got acquired in.
Therefore its necessary to split the wait_type into two values, one
representing the acquire (outer) and one representing the nested context
(inner). For most 'normal' locks these two are the same.
[ To make static initialization easier we have the rule that:
.outer == INV means .outer == .inner; because INV == 0. ]
It further means that its required to find the minimal .inner of the held
stack to compare against the outer of the new lock; because while 'normal'
RCU presents a CONFIG type to nested locks, if it is taken while already
holding a SPIN type it obviously doesn't relax the rules.
Below is an example output generated by the trivial test code:
raw_spin_lock(&foo);
spin_lock(&bar);
spin_unlock(&bar);
raw_spin_unlock(&foo);
[ BUG: Invalid wait context ]
-----------------------------
swapper/0/1 is trying to lock:
ffffc90000013f20 (&bar){....}-{3:3}, at: kernel_init+0xdb/0x187
other info that might help us debug this:
1 lock held by swapper/0/1:
#0: ffffc90000013ee0 (&foo){+.+.}-{2:2}, at: kernel_init+0xd1/0x187
The way to read it is to look at the new -{n,m} part in the lock
description; -{3:3} for the attempted lock, and try and match that up to
the held locks, which in this case is the one: -{2,2}.
This tells that the acquiring lock requires a more relaxed environment than
presented by the lock stack.
Currently only the normal locks and RCU are converted, the rest of the
lockdep users defaults to .inner = INV which is ignored. More conversions
can be done when desired.
The check for spinlock_t nesting is not enabled by default. It's a separate
config option for now as there are known problems which are currently
addressed. The config option allows to identify these problems and to
verify that the solutions found are indeed solving them.
The config switch will be removed and the checks will permanently enabled
once the vast majority of issues has been addressed.
[ bigeasy: Move LD_WAIT_FREE,… out of CONFIG_LOCKDEP to avoid compile
failure with CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK + !CONFIG_LOCKDEP]
[ tglx: Add the config option ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200321113242.427089655@linutronix.de
Currently, if rcu_barrier() returns too soon, the test waits 100ms and
then does another instance of the test. However, if rcu_barrier() were
to have waited for more than 100ms too short a time, this could cause
the test's rcu_head structures to be reused while they were still on
RCU's callback lists. This can result in knock-on errors that obscure
the original rcu_barrier() test failure.
This commit therefore adds code that attempts to wait until all of
the test's callbacks have been invoked. Of course, if RCU completely
lost track of the corresponding rcu_head structures, this wait could be
forever. This commit therefore also complains if this attempted recovery
takes more than one second, and it also gives up when the test ends.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, rcu_torture_barrier_cbs() posts callbacks from whatever CPU
it is running on, which means that all these kthreads might well be
posting from the same CPU, which would drastically reduce the effectiveness
of this test. This commit therefore uses IPIs to make the callbacks be
posted from the corresponding CPU (given by local variable myid).
If the IPI fails (which can happen if the target CPU is offline or does
not exist at all), the callback is posted on whatever CPU is currently
running.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
During changes to kfree_rcu() code, we often check the amount of free
memory. As an alternative to checking this manually, this commit adds a
measurement in the test itself. It measures four times during the test
for available memory, digitally filters these measurements to produce a
running average with a weight of 0.5, and compares this digitally filtered
value with the amount of available memory at the beginning of the test.
Something like the following is printed at the end of the run:
Total time taken by all kfree'ers: 6369738407 ns, loops: 10000, batches: 764, memory footprint: 216MB
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcutorture global variable rcu_torture_current is accessed locklessly,
so it must use the RCU pointer load/store primitives. This commit
therefore adds several that were missed.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting due
to failure being unlikely and due to this being used only by rcutorture.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcutorture rcu_torture_count and rcu_torture_batch per-CPU variables
are read locklessly, so this commit adds the READ_ONCE() to a load in
order to avoid various types of compiler vandalism^Woptimization.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely and due to this being rcutorture.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_fwd_cb_nodelay variable suppresses excessively long read-side
delays while carrying out an rcutorture forward-progress test. As such,
it is accessed both by readers and updaters, and most of the accesses
therefore use *_ONCE(). Except for one in rcu_read_delay(), which this
commit fixes.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to this being rcutorture.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The ->rtort_pipe_count field in the rcu_torture structure checks for
too-short grace periods, and is therefore read by rcutorture's readers
while being updated by rcutorture's writers. This commit therefore
adds the needed READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() invocations.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely and due to this being rcutorture.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
In normal production, an excessively long wait on a grace period
(synchronize_rcu(), for example) at boottime is often just as bad
as at any other time. In fact, given the desire for fast boot, any
sort of long wait at boot is a bad idea. However, heavy rcutorture
testing on large hyperthreaded systems can generate such long waits
during boot as a matter of course. This commit therefore causes
the rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress_at_boot kernel boot parameter to
suppress reporting of bootime bad-sequence warning due to excessively
long grace-period waits.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
In normal production, an RCU CPU stall warning at boottime is often
just as bad as at any other time. In fact, given the desire for fast
boot, any sort of long-term stall at boot is a bad idea. However,
heavy rcutorture testing on large hyperthreaded systems can generate
boottime RCU CPU stalls as a matter of course. This commit therefore
provides a kernel boot parameter that suppresses reporting of boottime
RCU CPU stall warnings and similarly of rcutorture writer stalls.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Additional rcutorture aggression can result in, believe it or not,
boot times in excess of three minutes on large hyperthreaded systems.
This is long enough for rcutorture to decide to do some callback flooding,
which seems a bit excessive given that userspace cannot have started
until long after boot, and it is userspace that does the real-world
callback flooding. Worse yet, because Tiny RCU lacks forward-progress
functionality, the looping-in-the-kernel tests can also be problematic
during early boot.
This commit therefore causes rcutorture to hold off on callback
flooding until about the time that init is spawned, and the same
for looping-in-the-kernel tests for Tiny RCU.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Some larger systems can take in excess of 50 seconds to complete their
early boot initcalls prior to spawing init. This does not in any way
help the forward-progress judgments of built-in rcutorture (when
rcutorture is built as a module, the insmod or modprobe command normally
cannot happen until some time after boot completes). This commit
therefore suppresses such complaints until about the time that init
is spawned.
This also includes a fix to a stupid error located by kbuild test robot.
[ paulmck: Apply kbuild test robot feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
[ paulmck: Fix to nohz_full slow-expediting recovery logic, per bpetkov. ]
[ paulmck: Restrict splat to CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels and simplify. ]
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
A read of the srcu_struct structure's ->srcu_gp_seq field should not
need READ_ONCE() when that structure's ->lock is held. Except that this
lock is not always held when updating this field. This commit therefore
acquires the lock around updates and removes a now-unneeded READ_ONCE().
This data race was reported by KCSAN.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
[ paulmck: Switch from READ_ONCE() to lock per Peter Zilstra question. ]
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
The srcu_struct structure's ->srcu_idx field is accessed locklessly,
so reads must use READ_ONCE(). This commit therefore adds the needed
READ_ONCE() invocation where it was missed.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The srcu_struct structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed_exp field is accessed
locklessly, so updates must use WRITE_ONCE(). This commit therefore
adds the needed WRITE_ONCE() invocations.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The srcu_node structure's ->srcu_gp_seq_needed_exp field is accessed
locklessly, so updates must use WRITE_ONCE(). This commit therefore
adds the needed WRITE_ONCE() invocations.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Sparse reports a warning at exit_tasks_rcu_finish(void)
|warning: context imbalance in exit_tasks_rcu_finish()
|- wrong count at exit
To fix this, this commit adds a __releases(&tasks_rcu_exit_srcu).
Given that exit_tasks_rcu_finish() does actually call __srcu_read_lock(),
this not only fixes the warning but also improves on the readability of
the code.
Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Sparse reports a warning at exit_tasks_rcu_start(void)
|warning: context imbalance in exit_tasks_rcu_start() - wrong count at exit
To fix this, this commit adds an __acquires(&tasks_rcu_exit_srcu).
Given that exit_tasks_rcu_start() does actually call __srcu_read_lock(),
this not only fixes the warning but also improves on the readability of
the code.
Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
The RCU tasks list of callbacks, rcu_tasks_cbs_head, is sampled locklessly
by rcu_tasks_kthread() when waiting for work to do. This commit therefore
applies READ_ONCE() to that lockless sampling and WRITE_ONCE() to the
single potential store outside of rcu_tasks_kthread.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The __call_rcu() function's header comment refers to a cpu argument
that no longer exists, and the comment of the return path from
rcu_nocb_try_bypass() ignores the non-no-CBs CPU case. This commit
therefore update both comments.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit fixes a spelling mistake in a pr_info() message.
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
RCU priority boosting currently is not applied until the grace period
is at least 250 milliseconds old (or the number of milliseconds specified
by the CONFIG_RCU_BOOST_DELAY Kconfig option). Although this has worked
well, it can result in OOM under conditions of RCU callback flooding.
One can argue that the real-time systems using RCU priority boosting
should carefully avoid RCU callback flooding, but one can just as well
argue that an OOM is a rather obnoxious error message.
This commit therefore disables the RCU priority boosting delay when
there are excessive numbers of callbacks queued.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
In default configutions, RCU currently waits at least 100 milliseconds
before asking cond_resched() and/or resched_rcu() for help seeking
quiescent states to end a grace period. But 100 milliseconds can be
one good long time during an RCU callback flood, for example, as can
happen when user processes repeatedly open and close files in a tight
loop. These 100-millisecond gaps in successive grace periods during a
callback flood can result in excessive numbers of callbacks piling up,
unnecessarily increasing memory footprint.
This commit therefore asks cond_resched() and/or resched_rcu() for help
as early as the first FQS scan when at least one of the CPUs has more
than 20,000 callbacks queued, a number that can be changed using the new
rcutree.qovld kernel boot parameter. An auxiliary qovld_calc variable
is used to avoid acquisition of locks that have not yet been initialized.
Early tests indicate that this reduces the RCU-callback memory footprint
during rcutorture floods by from 50% to 4x, depending on configuration.
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
[ paulmck: Fix bug located by Qian Cai. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Tested-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
The rcu_data structure's ->core_needs_qs field does not necessarily get
cleared in a timely fashion after the corresponding CPUs' quiescent state
has been reported. From a functional viewpoint, no harm done, but this
can result in excessive invocation of RCU core processing, as witnessed
by the kernel test robot, which saw greatly increased softirq overhead.
This commit therefore restores the rcu_report_qs_rdp() function's
clearing of this field, but only when running on the corresponding CPU.
Cases where some other CPU reports the quiescent state (for example, on
behalf of an idle CPU) are handled by setting this field appropriately
within the __note_gp_changes() function's end-of-grace-period checks.
This handling is carried out regardless of whether the end of a grace
period actually happened, thus handling the case where a CPU goes non-idle
after a quiescent state is reported on its behalf, but before the grace
period ends. This fix also avoids cross-CPU updates to ->core_needs_qs,
While in the area, this commit changes the __note_gp_changes() need_gp
variable's name to need_qs because it is a quiescent state that is needed
from the CPU in question.
Fixes: ed93dfc6bc ("rcu: Confine ->core_needs_qs accesses to the corresponding CPU")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The event is given three parameters, first one is the name
of RCU flavour, second one is the number of elements in array
for free and last one is an address of the array holding
pointers to be freed by the kfree_bulk() function.
To enable the trace event your kernel has to be build with
CONFIG_RCU_TRACE=y, after that it is possible to track the
events using ftrace subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The kfree_rcu() logic can be improved further by using kfree_bulk()
interface along with "basic batching support" introduced earlier.
The are at least two advantages of using "bulk" interface:
- in case of large number of kfree_rcu() requests kfree_bulk()
reduces the per-object overhead caused by calling kfree()
per-object.
- reduces the number of cache-misses due to "pointer chasing"
between objects which can be far spread between each other.
This approach defines a new kfree_rcu_bulk_data structure that
stores pointers in an array with a specific size. Number of entries
in that array depends on PAGE_SIZE making kfree_rcu_bulk_data
structure to be exactly one page.
Since it deals with "block-chain" technique there is an extra
need in dynamic allocation when a new block is required. Memory
is allocated with GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN flags, i.e. that
allows to skip direct reclaim under low memory condition to
prevent stalling and fails silently under high memory pressure.
The "emergency path" gets maintained when a system is run out of
memory. In that case objects are linked into regular list.
The "rcuperf" was run to analyze this change in terms of memory
consumption and kfree_bulk() throughput.
1) Testing on the Intel(R) Xeon(R) W-2135 CPU @ 3.70GHz, 12xCPUs
with following parameters:
kfree_loops=200000 kfree_alloc_num=1000 kfree_rcu_test=1 kfree_vary_obj_size=1
dev.2020.01.10a branch
Default / CONFIG_SLAB
53607352517 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 1885, memory footprint: 1248MB
53529637912 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 1921, memory footprint: 1193MB
53570175705 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 1929, memory footprint: 1250MB
Patch / CONFIG_SLAB
23981587315 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 810, memory footprint: 1219MB
23879375281 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 822, memory footprint: 1190MB
24086841707 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 794, memory footprint: 1380MB
Default / CONFIG_SLUB
51291025022 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 1713, memory footprint: 741MB
51278911477 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 1671, memory footprint: 719MB
51256183045 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 1719, memory footprint: 647MB
Patch / CONFIG_SLUB
50709919132 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 1618, memory footprint: 456MB
50736297452 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 1633, memory footprint: 507MB
50660403893 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 1628, memory footprint: 429MB
in case of CONFIG_SLAB there is double increase in performance and
slightly higher memory usage. As for CONFIG_SLUB, the performance
figures are better together with lower memory usage.
2) Testing on the HiKey-960, arm64, 8xCPUs with below parameters:
CONFIG_SLAB=y
kfree_loops=200000 kfree_alloc_num=1000 kfree_rcu_test=1
102898760401 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 5822, memory footprint: 158MB
89947009882 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 6715, memory footprint: 115MB
rcuperf shows approximately ~12% better throughput in case of
using "bulk" interface. The "drain logic" or its RCU callback
does the work faster that leads to better throughput.
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, nocb_gp_wait() unconditionally complains if there is a
callback not already associated with a grace period. This assumes that
either there was no such callback initially on the one hand, or that
the rcu_advance_cbs() function assigned all such callbacks to a grace
period on the other. However, in theory there are some situations that
would prevent rcu_advance_cbs() from assigning all of the callbacks.
This commit therefore checks for unassociated callbacks immediately after
rcu_advance_cbs() returns, while the corresponding rcu_node structure's
->lock is still held. If there are unassociated callbacks at that point,
the subsequent WARN_ON_ONCE() is disabled.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The ->nocb_lock lockdep assertion is currently guarded by cpu_online(),
which is incorrect for no-CBs CPUs, whose callback lists must be
protected by ->nocb_lock regardless of whether or not the corresponding
CPU is online. This situation could result in failure to detect bugs
resulting from failing to hold ->nocb_lock for offline CPUs.
This commit therefore removes the cpu_online() guard.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit reworks the atomic_cmpxchg() loop in rcu_eqs_special_set()
to do only the initial read from the current CPU's rcu_data structure's
->dynticks field explicitly. On subsequent passes, this value is instead
retained from the failing atomic_cmpxchg() operation.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Sparse reports warning at rcu_nocb_bypass_unlock()
warning: context imbalance in rcu_nocb_bypass_unlock() - unexpected unlock
The root cause is a missing annotation of rcu_nocb_bypass_unlock()
which causes the warning.
This commit therefore adds the missing __releases(&rdp->nocb_bypass_lock)
annotation.
Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Sparse reports warning at rcu_nocb_bypass_lock()
|warning: context imbalance in rcu_nocb_bypass_lock() - wrong count at exit
To fix this, this commit adds an __acquires(&rdp->nocb_bypass_lock).
Given that rcu_nocb_bypass_lock() does actually call raw_spin_lock()
when raw_spin_trylock() fails, this not only fixes the warning but also
improves on the readability of the code.
Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently rcu_check_gp_start_stall() complains if a grace period takes
too long to start, where "too long" is roughly one RCU CPU stall-warning
interval. This has worked well, but there are some debugging Kconfig
options (such as CONFIG_EFI_PGT_DUMP=y) that can make booting take a
very long time, so much so that the stall-warning interval has expired
before RCU's grace-period kthread has even been spawned.
This commit therefore resets the rcu_state.gp_req_activity and
rcu_state.gp_activity timestamps just before the grace-period kthread
is spawned, and modifies the checks and adds ordering to ensure that
if rcu_check_gp_start_stall() sees that the grace-period kthread
has been spawned, that it will also see the resets applied to the
rcu_state.gp_req_activity and rcu_state.gp_activity timestamps.
Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
[ paulmck: Fix whitespace issues reported by Qian Cai. ]
Tested-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
[ paulmck: Simplify grace-period wakeup check per Steve Rostedt feedback. ]
The rcu_barrier_callback() function does an atomic_dec_and_test(), and
if it is the last CPU to check in, does the required wakeup. Either way,
it does an event trace. Unfortunately, this is susceptible to the
following sequence of events:
o CPU 0 invokes rcu_barrier_callback(), but atomic_dec_and_test()
says that it is not last. But at this point, CPU 0 is delayed,
perhaps due to an NMI, SMI, or vCPU preemption.
o CPU 1 invokes rcu_barrier_callback(), and atomic_dec_and_test()
says that it is last. So CPU 1 traces completion and does
the needed wakeup.
o The awakened rcu_barrier() function does cleanup and releases
rcu_state.barrier_mutex.
o Another CPU now acquires rcu_state.barrier_mutex and starts
another round of rcu_barrier() processing, including updating
rcu_state.barrier_sequence.
o CPU 0 gets its act back together and does its tracing. Except
that rcu_state.barrier_sequence has already been updated, so
its tracing is incorrect and probably quite confusing.
(Wait! Why did this CPU check in twice for one rcu_barrier()
invocation???)
This commit therefore causes rcu_barrier_callback() to take a
snapshot of the value of rcu_state.barrier_sequence before invoking
atomic_dec_and_test(), thus guaranteeing that the event-trace output
is sensible, even if the timing of the event-trace output might still
be confusing. (Wait! Why did the old rcu_barrier() complete before
all of its CPUs checked in???) But being that this is RCU, only so much
confusion can reasonably be eliminated.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely and due to the mild consequences of the
failure, namely a confusing event trace.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_state structure's ->gp_start field is read locklessly, so this
commit adds the WRITE_ONCE() to an update in order to provide proper
documentation and READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() pairing.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_segcblist_insert_pend_cbs() function currently (partially)
initializes the rcu_cblist that it pulls callbacks from. However, all
the resulting stores are dead because all callers pass in the address of
an on-stack cblist that is not used afterwards. This commit therefore
removes this pointless initialization.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_node structure's ->boost_kthread_status field is accessed
locklessly, so this commit causes all updates to use WRITE_ONCE() and
all reads to use READ_ONCE().
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_data structure's ->rcu_forced_tick field is read locklessly, so
this commit adds WRITE_ONCE() to all updates and READ_ONCE() to all
lockless reads.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_data structure's ->gpwrap field is read locklessly, and so
this commit adds the required READ_ONCE() to a pair of laods in order
to avoid destructive compiler optimizations.
This data race was reported by KCSAN.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Convert to plural and add a note that this is for Tree RCU.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The various RCU structures' ->gp_seq, ->gp_seq_needed, ->gp_req_activity,
and ->gp_activity fields are read locklessly, so they must be updated with
WRITE_ONCE() and, when read locklessly, with READ_ONCE(). This commit makes
these changes.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_segcblist structure's ->tails[] array entries are read
locklessly, so this commit adds the READ_ONCE() to a load in order to
avoid destructive compiler optimizations.
This data race was reported by KCSAN.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_state structure's ->qsmaskinitnext field is read locklessly,
so this commit adds the WRITE_ONCE() to an update in order to provide
proper documentation and READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() pairing.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely for systems not doing incessant CPU-hotplug
operations.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_state structure's ->gp_req_activity field is read locklessly,
so this commit adds the WRITE_ONCE() to an update in order to provide
proper documentation and READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() pairing.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_node structure's ->gp_seq field is read locklessly, so this
commit adds the READ_ONCE() to several loads in order to avoid
destructive compiler optimizations.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
because this affects only tracing and warnings.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_node structure's ->exp_seq_rq field is read locklessly, so
this commit adds the WRITE_ONCE() to a load in order to provide proper
documentation and READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() pairing.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_node structure's ->qsmask field is read locklessly, so this
commit adds the WRITE_ONCE() to an update in order to provide proper
documentation and READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() pairing.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds "-g -fno-omit-frame-pointer" to ease interpretation
of KCSAN output, but only for CONFIG_KCSAN=y kerrnels.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_node structure's ->exp_seq_rq field is accessed locklessly, so
updates must use WRITE_ONCE(). This commit therefore adds the needed
WRITE_ONCE() invocation where it was missed.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The for_each_leaf_node_cpu_mask() and for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu()
macros must be invoked only on leaf rcu_node structures. Failing to
abide by this restriction can result in infinite loops on systems with
more than 64 CPUs (or for more than 32 CPUs on 32-bit systems). This
commit therefore adds WARN_ON_ONCE() calls to make misuse of these two
macros easier to debug.
Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Boot-time processing often loops in the kernel longer than one might
prefer, which can prevent expedited grace periods from completing in
a timely manner. This in turn triggers a splat In nohz_full CPUs One
could argue that long-looping code should be fixed, but on the other hand,
boot time is a bit special.
This commit therefore removes the splat. Later commits will add the
splat back in, but in a way that removes false positives.
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Long ago, RCU used the stop-machine mechanism to implement expedited
grace periods, but no longer does so. This commit therefore removes
the no-longer-needed #includes of linux/stop_machine.h.
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/805317/
Reported-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The ->srcu_last_gp_end field is accessed from any CPU at any time
by synchronize_srcu(), so non-initialization references need to use
READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE(). This commit therefore makes that change.
Reported-by: syzbot+08f3e9d26e5541e1ecf2@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, force_qs_rnp() uses a for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu()
loop containing a check of the current CPU's bit in ->qsmask.
This works, but this commit saves three lines by instead using
for_each_leaf_node_cpu_mask(), which combines the functionality of
for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu() and leaf_node_cpu_bit(). This commit
also replaces the use of the local variable "bit" with rdp->grpmask.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit moves the rcu_{expedited,normal} definitions from
kernel/rcu/update.c to include/linux/rcupdate.h to make sure they are
in sync, and also to avoid the following warning from sparse:
kernel/ksysfs.c:150:5: warning: symbol 'rcu_expedited' was not declared. Should it be static?
kernel/ksysfs.c:167:5: warning: symbol 'rcu_normal' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Only tree_stall.h needs to get name from GP state, so this commit
moves the gp_state_names[] array and the gp_state_getname()
from kernel/rcu/tree.h and kernel/rcu/tree.c, respectively, to
kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h. While moving gp_state_names[], this commit
uses the GCC syntax to ensure that the right string is associated with
the right CPP macro.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The call_rcu() function is an external RCU API that is declared in
include/linux/rcupdate.h. There is thus no point in redeclaring it
in kernel/rcu/tree.h, so this commit removes that redundant declaration.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
In the call to trace_rcu_utilization() at the start of the loop in
rcu_cpu_kthread(), "rcu_wait" is incorrect, plus this trace event needs
to be hoisted above the loop to balance with either the "rcu_wait" or
"rcu_yield", depending on how the loop exits. This commit therefore
makes these changes.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The C preprocessor macros SRCU and TINY_RCU should instead be CONFIG_SRCU
and CONFIG_TINY_RCU, respectively in the #f in kernel/rcu/rcu.h. But
there is no harm when "TINY_RCU" is wrongly used, which are always
non-defined, which makes "!defined(TINY_RCU)" always true, which means
the code block is always included, and the included code block doesn't
cause any compilation error so far in CONFIG_TINY_RCU builds. It is
also the reason this change should not be taken in -stable.
This commit adds the needed "CONFIG_" prefix to both macros.
Not for -stable.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
In the current code, rcu_nmi_enter_common() might decide to turn on
the tick using tick_dep_set_cpu(), but be delayed just before doing so.
Then the grace-period kthread might notice that the CPU in question had
in fact gone through a quiescent state, thus turning off the tick using
tick_dep_clear_cpu(). The later invocation of tick_dep_set_cpu() would
then incorrectly leave the tick on.
This commit therefore enlists the aid of the leaf rcu_node structure's
->lock to ensure that decisions to enable or disable the tick are
carried out before they can be reversed.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit provides wrapper functions for uses of ->rcu_read_lock_nesting
to improve readability and to ease future changes to support inlining
of __rcu_read_lock() and __rcu_read_unlock().
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_node structure's ->expmask field is updated only when holding the
->lock, but is also accessed locklessly. This means that all ->expmask
updates must use WRITE_ONCE() and all reads carried out without holding
->lock must use READ_ONCE(). This commit therefore changes the lockless
->expmask read in rcu_read_unlock_special() to use READ_ONCE().
Reported-by: syzbot+99f4ddade3c22ab0cf23@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
In rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_irqrestore(), ->rcu_read_unlock_special is
cleared one piece at a time. Given that the "if" statements in this
function use the copy in "special", this commit removes the clearing
of the individual pieces in favor of clearing ->rcu_read_unlock_special
in one go just after it has been determined to be non-zero.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, the .exp_hint flag is cleared in rcu_read_unlock_special(),
which works, but which can also prevent subsequent rcu_read_unlock() calls
from helping expedite the quiescent state needed by an ongoing expedited
RCU grace period. This commit therefore defers clearing of .exp_hint
from rcu_read_unlock_special() to rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_irqrestore(),
thus ensuring that intervening calls to rcu_read_unlock() have a chance
to help end the expedited grace period.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
CONFIG_PREEMPTION and CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU are always identical,
but some code depends on CONFIG_PREEMPTION to access to
rcu_preempt functionality. This patch changes CONFIG_PREEMPTION
to CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU in these cases.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Now that the kfree_rcu() special-casing has been removed from tree RCU,
this commit removes kfree_call_rcu_nobatch() since it is no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit removes kfree_rcu() special-casing and the lazy-callback
handling from Tree RCU. It moves some of this special casing to Tiny RCU,
the removal of which will be the subject of later commits.
This results in a nice negative delta.
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Add slab.h #include, thanks to kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit applies RCU's debug_objects debugging to the new batched
kfree_rcu() implementations. The object is queued at the kfree_rcu()
call and dequeued during reclaim.
Tested that enabling CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD successfully detects
double kfree_rcu() calls.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Fix IRQ per kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
During testing, it was observed that amount of memory consumed due
kfree_rcu() batching is 300-400MB. Previously we had only a single
head_free pointer pointing to the list of rcu_head(s) that are to be
freed after a grace period. Until this list is drained, we cannot queue
any more objects on it since such objects may not be ready to be
reclaimed when the worker thread eventually gets to drainin g the
head_free list.
We can do better by maintaining multiple lists as done by this patch.
Testing shows that memory consumption came down by around 100-150MB with
just adding another list. Adding more than 1 additional list did not
show any improvement.
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Code style and initialization handling. ]
[ paulmck: Fix field name, reported by kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Because the ->monitor_todo field is always protected by krcp->lock,
this commit downgrades from xchg() to non-atomic unmarked assignment
statements.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Update to include early-boot kick code. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This test runs kfree_rcu() in a loop to measure performance of the new
kfree_rcu() batching functionality.
The following table shows results when booting with arguments:
rcuperf.kfree_loops=20000 rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num=8000
rcuperf.kfree_rcu_test=1 rcuperf.kfree_no_batch=X
rcuperf.kfree_no_batch=X # Grace Periods Test Duration (s)
X=1 (old behavior) 9133 11.5
X=0 (new behavior) 1732 12.5
On a 16 CPU system with the above boot parameters, we see that the total
number of grace periods that elapse during the test drops from 9133 when
not batching to 1732 when batching (a 5X improvement). The kfree_rcu()
flood itself slows down a bit when batching, though, as shown.
Note that the active memory consumption during the kfree_rcu() flood
does increase to around 200-250MB due to the batching (from around 50MB
without batching). However, this memory consumption is relatively
constant. In other words, the system is able to keep up with the
kfree_rcu() load. The memory consumption comes down considerably if
KFREE_DRAIN_JIFFIES is increased from HZ/50 to HZ/80. A later patch will
reduce memory consumption further by using multiple lists.
Also, when running the test, please disable CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT and
CONFIG_PROVE_RCU for realistic comparisons with/without batching.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Recently a discussion about stability and performance of a system
involving a high rate of kfree_rcu() calls surfaced on the list [1]
which led to another discussion how to prepare for this situation.
This patch adds basic batching support for kfree_rcu(). It is "basic"
because we do none of the slab management, dynamic allocation, code
moving or any of the other things, some of which previous attempts did
[2]. These fancier improvements can be follow-up patches and there are
different ideas being discussed in those regards. This is an effort to
start simple, and build up from there. In the future, an extension to
use kfree_bulk and possibly per-slab batching could be done to further
improve performance due to cache-locality and slab-specific bulk free
optimizations. By using an array of pointers, the worker thread
processing the work would need to read lesser data since it does not
need to deal with large rcu_head(s) any longer.
Torture tests follow in the next patch and show improvements of around
5x reduction in number of grace periods on a 16 CPU system. More
details and test data are in that patch.
There is an implication with rcu_barrier() with this patch. Since the
kfree_rcu() calls can be batched, and may not be handed yet to the RCU
machinery in fact, the monitor may not have even run yet to do the
queue_rcu_work(), there seems no easy way of implementing rcu_barrier()
to wait for those kfree_rcu()s that are already made. So this means a
kfree_rcu() followed by an rcu_barrier() does not imply that memory will
be freed once rcu_barrier() returns.
Another implication is higher active memory usage (although not
run-away..) until the kfree_rcu() flooding ends, in comparison to
without batching. More details about this are in the second patch which
adds an rcuperf test.
Finally, in the near future we will get rid of kfree_rcu() special casing
within RCU such as in rcu_do_batch and switch everything to just
batching. Currently we don't do that since timer subsystem is not yet up
and we cannot schedule the kfree_rcu() monitor as the timer subsystem's
lock are not initialized. That would also mean getting rid of
kfree_call_rcu_nobatch() entirely.
[1] http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190723035725-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/19/824
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Cc: kernel-team@lge.com
Co-developed-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Applied 0day and Paul Walmsley feedback on ->monitor_todo. ]
[ paulmck: Make it work during early boot. ]
[ paulmck: Add a crude early boot self-test. ]
[ paulmck: Style adjustments and experimental docbook structure header. ]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/alpine.DEB.2.21.9999.1908161931110.32497@viisi.sifive.com/T/#me9956f66cb611b95d26ae92700e1d901f46e8c59
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Each of rcu_state, rcu_rnp_online_cpus(), rcu_dynticks_curr_cpu_in_eqs(),
and rcu_dynticks_snap() are used only in the kernel/rcu/tree.o translation
unit, and may thus be marked static. This commit therefore makes this
change.
Reported-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
This commit switches from static structure to dynamic allocation
for rcu_fwds as another step towards providing multiple call_rcu()
forward-progress kthreads.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit threads pointers to rcu_fwd structures through the remaining
functions using rcu_fwds directly, namely rcu_torture_fwd_prog_cbfree(),
rcutorture_oom_notify() and rcu_torture_fwd_prog_init().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Jason Yan