Invoking trc_del_holdout() from within trc_wait_for_one_reader() is
only a performance optimization because the RCU Tasks Trace grace-period
kthread will eventually do this within check_all_holdout_tasks_trace().
But it is not a particularly important performance optimization because
it only applies to the grace-period kthread, of which there is but one.
This commit therefore removes this invocation of trc_del_holdout() in
favor of the one in check_all_holdout_tasks_trace() in the grace-period
kthread.
Reported-by: "Xu, Yanfei" <yanfei.xu@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
As Yanfei pointed out, although invoking trc_del_holdout() is safe
from the viewpoint of the integrity of the holdout list itself,
the put_task_struct() invoked by trc_del_holdout() can result in
use-after-free errors due to later accesses to this task_struct structure
by the RCU Tasks Trace grace-period kthread.
This commit therefore removes this call to trc_del_holdout() from
trc_inspect_reader() in favor of the grace-period thread's existing call
to trc_del_holdout(), thus eliminating that particular class of
use-after-free errors.
Reported-by: "Xu, Yanfei" <yanfei.xu@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
In some architectures, the no-op variant of show_rcu_tasks_gp_kthreads()
get "no previous prototype" compiler warnings. These are false positives
given that kernel/rcu/tasks.h is included only once. But why put up
with the compiler noise?
This commit therefore adds "static inline" to this definition to force
the compiler to accept this situation, while also moving it to its proper
place in kernel/rcu/rcu.h.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>
[ paulmck: Update per Stephen Rothwell feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Fix ~12 single-word typos in RCU code comments.
[ paulmck: Apply feedback from Randy Dunlap. ]
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds a block comment that gives a high-level overview of
how RCU Rude grace periods progress. It also gives an overview of the
memory ordering.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds a block comment that gives a high-level overview of how
RCU tasks grace periods progress. It also adds a note about how exiting
tasks are handled, plus it gives an overview of the memory ordering.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds a block comment that gives a high-level overview of
how RCU tasks trace grace periods progress. It also adds a note about
how exiting tasks are handled, plus it gives an overview of the memory
ordering.
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
[ paulmck: Fix commit log per Mathieu Desnoyers feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The command 'find ./kernel/rcu/ | xargs ./scripts/kernel-doc -none'
reported an issue with the kernel-doc of struct rcu_tasks.
This commit rectifies the kernel-doc, such that no issues remain for
./kernel/rcu/.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds self tests for early-boot use of RCU-tasks grace periods.
It tests all three variants (Rude, Tasks, and Tasks Trace) and covers
both synchronous (e.g., synchronize_rcu_tasks()) and asynchronous (e.g.,
call_rcu_tasks()) grace-period APIs.
Self-tests are run only in kernels built with CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y.
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
[ paulmck: Handle CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=n and identify test cases' callbacks. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
PowerPC testing encountered boot failures due to RCU Tasks not being
fully initialized until core_initcall() time. This commit therefore
initializes RCU Tasks (along with Rude RCU and RCU Tasks Trace) just
before early_initcall() time, thus allowing waiting on RCU Tasks grace
periods from early_initcall() handlers.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/87eekfh80a.fsf@dja-thinkpad.axtens.net/
Fixes: 36dadef23f ("kprobes: Init kprobes in early_initcall")
Tested-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, the units of ->init_fract are milliseconds while those of
->gp_sleep are jiffies. For consistency with each other and with the
argument of schedule_timeout_idle(), this commit changes the units of
->init_fract to jiffies.
This change does affect the backoff algorithm, but only on systems where
HZ is not 1000, and even there the change makes more sense, given that the
current setup would "back off" to the same number of jiffies repeatedly.
In contrast, with this change, the number of jiffies waited increases
on each pass through the loop in the rcu_tasks_wait_gp() function.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
At the end of the test and after rcu_torture_writer() stalls, rcutorture
invokes show_rcu_gp_kthreads() in order to dump out information on the
RCU grace-period kthread. This makes a lot of sense when testing vanilla
RCU, but not so much for the other flavors. This commit therefore allows
per-flavor kthread-dump functions to be specified.
[ paulmck: Apply feedback from kernel test robot <lkp@intel.com>. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The infinite for-loop in rcu_tasks_wait_gp() has its only exit at the
top of the loop, so this commit does the straightforward conversion to
a while-loop, thus saving a few lines.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_tasks_trace_postgp() function uses for_each_process_thread()
to scan the task list without the benefit of RCU read-side protection,
which can result in use-after-free errors on task_struct structures.
This error was missed because the TRACE01 rcutorture scenario enables
lockdep, but also builds with CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y. In this situation,
preemption is disabled everywhere, so lockdep thinks everywhere can
be a legitimate RCU reader. This commit therefore adds the needed
rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock().
Note that this bug can occur only after an RCU Tasks Trace CPU stall
warning, which by default only happens after a grace period has extended
for ten minutes (yes, not a typo, minutes).
Fixes: 4593e772b5 ("rcu-tasks: Add stall warnings for RCU Tasks Trace")
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.7.x
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
When rcu_tasks_trace_postgp() function detects an RCU Tasks Trace
CPU stall, it adds all tasks blocking the current grace period to
a list, invoking get_task_struct() on each to prevent them from
being freed while on the list. It then traverses that list,
printing stall-warning messages for each one that is still blocking
the current grace period and removing it from the list. The list
removal invokes the matching put_task_struct().
This of course means that in the admittedly unlikely event that some
task executes its outermost rcu_read_unlock_trace() in the meantime, it
won't be removed from the list and put_task_struct() won't be executing,
resulting in a task_struct leak. This commit therefore makes the list
removal and put_task_struct() unconditional, stopping the leak.
Note further that this bug can occur only after an RCU Tasks Trace CPU
stall warning, which by default only happens after a grace period has
extended for ten minutes (yes, not a typo, minutes).
Fixes: 4593e772b5 ("rcu-tasks: Add stall warnings for RCU Tasks Trace")
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.7.x
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The more intense grace-period processing resulting from the 50x RCU
Tasks Trace grace-period speedups exposed the following race condition:
o Task A running on CPU 0 executes rcu_read_lock_trace(),
entering a read-side critical section.
o When Task A eventually invokes rcu_read_unlock_trace()
to exit its read-side critical section, this function
notes that the ->trc_reader_special.s flag is zero and
and therefore invoke wil set ->trc_reader_nesting to zero
using WRITE_ONCE(). But before that happens...
o The RCU Tasks Trace grace-period kthread running on some other
CPU interrogates Task A, but this fails because this task is
currently running. This kthread therefore sends an IPI to CPU 0.
o CPU 0 receives the IPI, and thus invokes trc_read_check_handler().
Because Task A has not yet cleared its ->trc_reader_nesting
counter, this function sees that Task A is still within its
read-side critical section. This function therefore sets the
->trc_reader_nesting.b.need_qs flag, AKA the .need_qs flag.
Except that Task A has already checked the .need_qs flag, which
is part of the ->trc_reader_special.s flag. The .need_qs flag
therefore remains set until Task A's next rcu_read_unlock_trace().
o Task A now invokes synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace(), which cannot
start a new grace period until the current grace period completes.
And thus cannot return until after that time.
But Task A's .need_qs flag is still set, which prevents the current
grace period from completing. And because Task A is blocked, it
will never execute rcu_read_unlock_trace() until its call to
synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace() returns.
We are therefore deadlocked.
This race is improbable, but 80 hours of rcutorture made it happen twice.
The race was possible before the grace-period speedup, but roughly 50x
less probable. Several thousand hours of rcutorture would have been
necessary to have a reasonable chance of making this happen before this
50x speedup.
This commit therefore eliminates this deadlock by setting
->trc_reader_nesting to a large negative number before checking the
.need_qs and zeroing (or decrementing with respect to its initial
value) ->trc_reader_nesting. For its part, the IPI handler's
trc_read_check_handler() function adds a check for negative values,
deferring evaluation of the task in this case. Taken together, these
changes avoid this deadlock scenario.
Fixes: 276c410448 ("rcu-tasks: Split ->trc_reader_need_end")
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.7.x
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The various RCU tasks flavors currently wait 100 milliseconds between each
grace period in order to prevent CPU-bound loops and to favor efficiency
over latency. However, RCU Tasks Trace needs to have a grace-period
latency of roughly 25 milliseconds, which is completely infeasible given
the 100-millisecond per-grace-period sleep. This commit therefore reduces
this sleep duration to 5 milliseconds (or one jiffy, whichever is longer)
in kernels built with CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB=y.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAADnVQK_AiX+S_L_A4CQWT11XyveppBbQSQgH_qWGyzu_E8Yeg@mail.gmail.com/
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Many workloads are quite sensitive to IPIs, and such workloads should
build kernels with CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB=y to prevent RCU
Tasks Trace from using them under normal conditions. However, other
workloads are quite happy to permit more IPIs if doing so makes BPF
program updates go faster. This commit therefore sets the default
value for the rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay kernel parameter to zero for
kernels that have been built with CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB=n,
while retaining the old default of (HZ / 10) for kernels that have
indicated an aversion to IPIs via CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB=y.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAADnVQK_AiX+S_L_A4CQWT11XyveppBbQSQgH_qWGyzu_E8Yeg@mail.gmail.com/
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The RCU Tasks Trace grace periods are too slow, as in 40x slower than
those of RCU Tasks. This is due to my having assumed a one-second grace
period was OK, and thus not having optimized any further. This commit
provides the first step in this optimization process, namely by allowing
the task_list scan backoff interval to be specified on a per-flavor basis,
and then speeding up the scans for RCU Tasks Trace. However, kernels
built with CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB=y continue to use the old slower
backoff, consistent with that Kconfig option's goal of reducing IPIs.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/CAADnVQK_AiX+S_L_A4CQWT11XyveppBbQSQgH_qWGyzu_E8Yeg@mail.gmail.com/
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The n_heavy_reader_attempts, n_heavy_reader_updates, and
n_heavy_reader_ofl_updates variables are not used outside of their
translation unit, so this commit marks them static.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Commit 8344496e8b ("rcu-tasks: Conditionally compile
show_rcu_tasks_gp_kthreads()") introduced conditional
compilation of several functions, but forgot one occurrence of
show_rcu_tasks_classic_gp_kthread() that causes the compiler to warn of
an unused static function. This commit uses "static inline" to avoid
these complaints and possibly also to avoid emitting an actual definition
of this function.
Fixes: 8344496e8b ("rcu-tasks: Conditionally compile show_rcu_tasks_gp_kthreads()")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.8.x
Reported-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The synchronize_rcu_tasks_trace() header comment incorrectly claims that
any number of things delimit RCU Tasks Trace read-side critical sections,
when in fact only rcu_read_lock_trace() and rcu_read_unlock_trace() do so.
This commit therefore fixes this comment, and, while in the area, fixes
a typo in the rcu_read_lock_trace() header comment.
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit declares trc_n_readers_need_end and trc_wait static and
replaced a "&" with "&&". The "&" happened to work because the values
are bool, but accidents waiting to happen and all that...
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The show_rcu_tasks_gp_kthreads() function is not invoked by Tiny RCU,
but is nevertheless defined in Tiny RCU builds that enable Tasks Trace
RCU. This commit therefore conditionally compiles this function so
that it is defined only in builds that actually use it.
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_tasks_postscan() function is not used outside of RCU's tasks.h
file, so this commit makes it be static.
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit converts the long-standing schedule_timeout_interruptible()
and schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() calls used by the various Tasks
RCU's grace-period kthreads to schedule_timeout_idle(). This conversion
avoids polluting the load-average with Tasks-RCU-related sleeping.
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/
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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>
Paul E. McKenney