Without special fail-safe quiescent-state-propagation checks, grace-period
hangs can result from the following scenario:
1. A task running on a given CPU is preempted in its RCU read-side
critical section.
2. That CPU goes offline, and there are now no online CPUs
corresponding to that CPU's leaf rcu_node structure.
3. The rcu_gp_init() function does the first phase of grace-period
initialization, and sets the aforementioned leaf rcu_node
structure's ->qsmaskinit field to all zeroes. Because there
is a blocked task, it does not propagate the zeroing of either
->qsmaskinit or ->qsmaskinitnext up the rcu_node tree.
4. The task resumes on some other CPU and exits its critical section.
There is no grace period in progress, so the resulting quiescent
state is not reported up the tree.
5. The rcu_gp_init() function does the second phase of grace-period
initialization, which results in the leaf rcu_node structure
being initialized to expect no further quiescent states, but
with that structure's parent expecting a quiescent-state report.
The parent will never receive a quiescent state from this leaf
rcu_node structure, so the grace period will hang, resulting in
RCU CPU stall warnings.
It would be good to get rid of the special fail-safe quiescent-state
propagation checks. This commit therefore checks the leaf rcu_node
structure's ->wait_blkd_tasks field during grace-period initialization.
If this flag is set, the rcu_report_qs_rnp() is invoked to immediately
report the possible quiescent state. While in the neighborhood, this
commit also report quiescent states for any CPUs that went offline between
the two phases of grace-period initialization, thus reducing grace-period
delays and hopefully eventually allowing removal of offline-CPU checks
from the force-quiescent-state code path.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Consider the following sequence of events in a PREEMPT=y kernel:
1. All but one of the CPUs corresponding to a given leaf rcu_node
structure go offline. Each of these CPUs clears its bit in that
structure's ->qsmaskinitnext field.
2. A new grace period starts, and rcu_gp_init() scans the leaf
rcu_node structures, applying CPU-hotplug changes since the
start of the previous grace period, including those changes in
#1 above. This copies each leaf structure's ->qsmaskinitnext
to its ->qsmask field, which represents the CPUs that this new
grace period will wait on. Each copy operation is done holding
the corresponding leaf rcu_node structure's ->lock, and at the
end of this scan, rcu_gp_init() holds no locks.
3. The last CPU corresponding to #1's leaf rcu_node structure goes
offline, clearing its bit in that structure's ->qsmaskinitnext
field, but not touching the ->qsmaskinit field. Note that
rcu_gp_init() is not currently holding any locks! This CPU does
-not- report a quiescent state because the grace period has not
yet initialized itself sufficiently to have set any bits in any
of the leaf rcu_node structures' ->qsmask fields.
4. The rcu_gp_init() function continues initializing the new grace
period, copying each leaf rcu_node structure's ->qsmaskinit
field to its ->qsmask field while holding the corresponding ->lock.
This sets the ->qsmask bit corresponding to #3's CPU.
5. Before the grace period ends, #3's CPU comes back online.
Because te grace period has not yet done any force-quiescent-state
scans (which would report a quiescent state on behalf of any
offline CPUs), this CPU's ->qsmask bit is still set.
6. A task running on the newly onlined CPU is preempted while in
an RCU read-side critical section. Because this CPU's ->qsmask
bit is net, not only does this task queue itself on the leaf
rcu_node structure's ->blkd_tasks list, it also sets that
structure's ->gp_tasks pointer to reference it.
7. The grace period started in #1 above comes to an end. This
results in rcu_gp_cleanup() being invoked, which, among other
things, checks to make sure that there are no tasks blocking the
just-ended grace period, that is, that all ->gp_tasks pointers
are NULL. The ->gp_tasks pointer corresponding to the task
preempted in #3 above is non-NULL, which results in a splat.
This splat is a false positive. The task's RCU read-side critical
section cannot have begun before the just-ended grace period because
this would mean either: (1) The CPU came online before the grace period
started, which cannot have happened because the grace period started
before that CPU went offline, or (2) The task started its RCU read-side
critical section on some other CPU, but then it would have had to have
been preempted before migrating to this CPU, which would mean that it
would have instead queued itself on that other CPU's rcu_node structure.
RCU's grace periods thus are working correctly. Or, more accurately,
that remaining bugs in RCU's grace periods are elsewhere.
This commit eliminates this false positive by adding code to the end
of rcu_cpu_starting() that reports a quiescent state to RCU, which has
the side-effect of clearing that CPU's ->qsmask bit, preventing the
above scenario. This approach has the added benefit of more promptly
reporting quiescent states corresponding to offline CPUs. Nevertheless,
this commit does -not- remove the need for the force-quiescent-state
scans to check for offline CPUs, given that a CPU might remain offline
indefinitely. And without the checks in the force-quiescent-state scans,
the grace period would also persist indefinitely, which could result in
hangs or memory exhaustion.
Note well that the call to rcu_report_qs_rnp() reporting the quiescent
state must come -after- the setting of this CPU's bit in the leaf rcu_node
structure's ->qsmaskinitnext field. Otherwise, lockdep-RCU will complain
bitterly about quiescent states coming from an offline CPU.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Consider the following sequence of events in a PREEMPT=y kernel:
1. All CPUs corresponding to a given rcu_node structure go offline.
A new grace period starts just after the CPU-hotplug code path
does its synchronize_rcu() for the last CPU, so at least this
CPU is present in that structure's ->qsmask.
2. Before the grace period ends, a CPU comes back online, and not
just any CPU, but the one corresponding to a non-zero bit in
the leaf rcu_node structure's ->qsmask.
3. A task running on the newly onlined CPU is preempted while in
an RCU read-side critical section. Because this CPU's ->qsmask
bit is net, not only does this task queue itself on the leaf
rcu_node structure's ->blkd_tasks list, it also sets that
structure's ->gp_tasks pointer to reference it.
4. The grace period started in #1 above comes to an end. This
results in rcu_gp_cleanup() being invoked, which, among other
things, checks to make sure that there are no tasks blocking the
just-ended grace period, that is, that all ->gp_tasks pointers
are NULL. The ->gp_tasks pointer corresponding to the task
preempted in #3 above is non-NULL, which results in a splat.
This splat is a false positive. The task's RCU read-side critical
section cannot have begun before the just-ended grace period because
this would mean either: (1) The CPU came online before the grace period
started, which cannot have happened because the grace period started
before that CPU was all the way offline, or (2) The task started its
RCU read-side critical section on some other CPU, but then it would
have had to have been preempted before migrating to this CPU, which
would mean that it would have instead queued itself on that other CPU's
rcu_node structure.
This commit eliminates this false positive by adding code to the end
of rcu_cleanup_dying_idle_cpu() that reports a quiescent state to RCU,
which has the side-effect of clearing that CPU's ->qsmask bit, preventing
the above scenario. This approach has the added benefit of more promptly
reporting quiescent states corresponding to offline CPUs.
Note well that the call to rcu_report_qs_rnp() reporting the quiescent
state must come -before- the clearing of this CPU's bit in the leaf
rcu_node structure's ->qsmaskinitnext field. Otherwise, lockdep-RCU
will complain bitterly about quiescent states coming from an offline CPU.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_lockdep_current_cpu_online() function currently checks only the
RCU-sched data structures to determine whether or not RCU believes that a
given CPU is offline. Unfortunately, there are multiple flavors of RCU,
which means that there is a short window of time during which the various
flavors disagree as to whether or not a given CPU is offline. This can
result in false-positive lockdep-RCU splats in which some other flavor
of RCU tries to do something based on its view that the CPU is online,
only to get hit with a lockdep-RCU splat because RCU-sched instead
believes that the CPU is offline.
This commit therefore changes rcu_lockdep_current_cpu_online() to scan
all RCU flavors and to consider a given CPU to be online if any of the
RCU flavors believe it to be online, thus preventing these false-positive
splats.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The force_qs_rnp() function checks for ->qsmask being all zero, that is,
all CPUs for the current rcu_node structure having already passed through
quiescent states. But with RCU-preempt, this is not sufficient to report
quiescent states further up the tree, so there are further checks that
can initiate RCU priority boosting and also for races with CPU-hotplug
operations. However, if neither of these further checks apply, the code
proceeds to carry out a useless scan of an all-zero ->qsmask.
This commit therefore adds code to release the current rcu_node
structure's lock and continue on to the next rcu_node structure, thereby
avoiding this useless scan.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit gets rid of the smp_wmb() in record_gp_stall_check_time()
in favor of an smp_store_release().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit fixes a typo and adds some additional debugging to the
message emitted when a task blocking the current grace period is listed
as blocking it when either that grace period ends or the next grace
period begins. This commit also reformats the console message for
readability.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
If rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() is invoked on something other than
preemptible RCU or if there are still preempted tasks blocking the
current grace period, something went badly wrong in the caller.
This commit therefore adds WARN_ON_ONCE() to these conditions, but
leaving the legitimate reason for early exit (rnp->qsmask != 0)
unwarned.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, rcu_init_new_rnp() walks up the rcu_node combining tree,
setting bits in the ->qsmaskinit fields on the way up. It walks up
unconditionally, regardless of the initial state of these bits. This is
OK because only the corresponding RCU grace-period kthread ever tests
or sets these bits during runtime. However, it is also pointless, and
it increases both memory and lock contention (albeit only slightly), so
this commit stops the walk as soon as an already-set bit is encountered.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Back in the old days, when grace-period initialization blocked CPU
hotplug, the ->qsmaskinit mask was indeed updated at the time that
a given CPU went offline. However, with the deferral of these updates
until the beginning of the next grace period in commit 0aa04b055e
("rcu: Process offlining and onlining only at grace-period start"),
it is instead ->qsmaskinitnext that gets updated at that time.
This commit therefore updates the obsolete comment. It also fixes
punctuation while on the topic of comments mentioning ->qsmaskinit.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Commit 0aa04b055e ("rcu: Process offlining and onlining only at
grace-period start") deferred handling of CPU-hotplug events until the
start of the next grace period, but consider the following sequence
of events:
1. A task is preempted within an RCU-preempt read-side critical
section.
2. The CPU that this task was running on goes offline, along with all
other CPUs sharing the corresponding leaf rcu_node structure.
3. The task resumes execution.
4. One of those CPUs comes back online before a new grace period starts.
In step 2, the code in the next rcu_gp_init() invocation will (correctly)
defer removing the leaf rcu_node structure from the upper-level bitmasks,
and will (correctly) set that structure's ->wait_blkd_tasks field. During
the ensuing interval, RCU will (correctly) track the tasks preempted on
that structure because they must block any subsequent grace period.
In step 3, the code in rcu_read_unlock_special() will (correctly) remove
the task from the leaf rcu_node structure. From this point forward, RCU
need not pay attention to this structure, at least not until one of the
corresponding CPUs comes back online.
In step 4, the code in the next rcu_gp_init() invocation will
(incorrectly) invoke rcu_init_new_rnp(). This is incorrect because
the corresponding rcu_cleanup_dead_rnp() was never invoked. This is
nevertheless harmless because the upper-level bits are still set.
So, no harm, no foul, right?
At least, all is well until a little further into rcu_gp_init()
invocation, which will notice that there are no longer any tasks blocked
on the leaf rcu_node structure, conclude that there is no longer anything
left over from step 2's offline operation, and will therefore invoke
rcu_cleanup_dead_rnp(). But this invocation of rcu_cleanup_dead_rnp()
is for the beginning of the earlier offline interval, and the previous
invocation of rcu_init_new_rnp() is for the end of that same interval.
That is right, they are invoked out of order.
That cannot be good, can it?
It turns out that this is not a (correctness!) problem because
rcu_cleanup_dead_rnp() checks to see if any of the corresponding CPUs
are online, and refuses to do anything if so. In other words, in the
case where rcu_init_new_rnp() and rcu_cleanup_dead_rnp() execute out of
order, they both have no effect.
But this is at best an accident waiting to happen.
This commit therefore adds logic to rcu_gp_init() so that
rcu_init_new_rnp() and rcu_cleanup_dead_rnp() are always invoked in
order, and so that neither are invoked at all in cases where RCU had to
pay attention to the leaf rcu_node structure during the entire time that
all corresponding CPUs were offline.
And, while in the area, this commit reduces confusion by using formal
parameters rather than local variables that just happen to have the same
value at that particular point in the code.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There's no need to keep checking the same starting node for whether a
grace period is in progress as we advance up the funnel lock loop. Its
sufficient if we just checked it in the start, and then subsequently
checked the internal nodes as we advanced up the combining tree. This
also makes sense because the grace-period updates propogate from the
root to the leaf, so there's a chance we may find a grace period has
started as we advance up, lets check for the same.
Reported-by: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The funnel locking loop in rcu_start_this_gp uses rcu_root as a
temporary variable while walking the combining tree. This causes a
tiresome exercise of a code reader reminding themselves that rcu_root
may not be root. Lets just call it rnp, and rename other variables as
well to be more appropriate.
Original patch: https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10396577/
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Fix name in comment as well. ]
The name 'c' is used for variables and parameters holding the requested
grace-period sequence number. However it is no longer very meaningful
given the conversions from ->gpnum and (especially) ->completed to
->gp_seq. This commit therefore renames 'c' to 'gp_seq_req'.
Previous patch discussion is at:
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10396579/
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_data structure's ->gpwrap indicator is currently reset only
when the CPU in question detects a new grace period. This is in theory
sufficient because any CPU that has been out of action for long enough
that its ->gpwrap indicator is set is guaranteed to see both the end
of an old grace period and the start of a new one.
However, the current code leaves a short window during which the ->gpwrap
indicator has been reset but the corresponding ->gp_seq counter has not
yet been brought up to date. This is harmless because interrupts are
disabled, but it is likely to (at the very least) cause confusion.
This commit therefore moves the resetting of ->gpwrap to follow the
updating of ->gp_seq. While in the area, it also resets ->gp_seq_needed.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The new ->gq_seq grace-period sequence numbers must be shifted down,
which give artifacts when these numbers wrap. This commit therefore
enables rcutorture and rcuperf to handle grace-period sequence numbers
even if they do wrap. It does this by allowing a special subtraction
function to be specified, and this function subtracts before shifting.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
In the old days of ->gpnum and ->completed, the code requesting a new
grace period checked to see if that grace period had already started,
bailing early if so. The new-age ->gp_seq approach instead checks
whether the grace period has already finished. A compensating change
pushed the requested grace period down to the bottom of the tree, thus
reducing lock contention and even eliminating it in some cases. But why
not further reduce contention, especially on large systems, by doing both,
especially given that the cost of doing both is extremely small?
This commit therefore adds a new rcu_seq_started() function that checks
whether a specified grace period has already started. It then uses
this new function in place of rcu_seq_done() in the rcu_start_this_gp()
function's funnel locking code.
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The "cpustart" trace event shows a stale gp_seq. This is because it uses
rdp->gp_seq, which is updated only at the end of the __note_gp_changes()
function. This commit therefore instead uses rnp->gp_seq.
An alternative fix would be to update rdp->gp_seq earlier, but this would
break RCU's detection of the beginning of a new-to-this-CPU grace period.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently Tree RCU's clean-up code emits a "CleanupMore" trace event in
response to late-arriving grace-period requests even if the grace period
was already requested. This makes "CleanupMore" show up an extra time (in
addition to once for each rcu_node structure that was previously marked
with the request), and for no good reason. This commit therefore avoids
emitting this trace message unless the the only request for this next
grace period arrived during or after the cleanup scan of the rcu_node
structures.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The old grace-period start code would acquire only the leaf's rcu_node
structure's ->lock if that structure believed that a grace period was
in progress. The new code advances to the leaf's parent in this case,
needlessly acquiring then leaf's parent's ->lock. This commit therefore
checks the grace-period state after marking the leaf with the need for
the specified grace period, and if the leaf believes that a grace period
is in progress, takes an early exit.
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Add "Startedleaf" tracing as suggested by Joel Fernandes. ]
Now that the rcu_data structure contains ->gp_seq_needed, create an
rcu_accelerate_cbs_unlocked() helper function that locklessly checks to
see if new callbacks' required grace period has already been requested.
If so, update the callback list locally and again locklessly. (Though
interrupts must be and are disabled to avoid racing with conflicting
updates in interrupt handlers.)
Otherwise, call rcu_accelerate_cbs() as before.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Now that everything has been converted to use ->gp_seq instead of
->gpnum and ->completed, this commit removes ->gpnum and ->completed.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit makes the rcu_quiescent_state_report tracepoint use ->gp_seq
instead of ->gpnum.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit makes the rcu_future_grace_period tracepoint use gp_seq
instead of ->gpnum and ->completed.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit makes the rcu_grace_period tracepoint use gp_seq instead
of ->gpnum or ->completed. It also introduces a "cpuofl-bgp" string to
less obscurely indicate when a CPU has gone offline while a grace period
is waiting on it.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit makes rcu_nocb_wait_gp() check rdp->gp_seq_needed to see
if the current CPU already knows about the needed grace period having
already been requested. If so, it avoids acquiring the corresponding
leaf rcu_node structure's ->lock, thus decreasing contention. This
optimization is intended for cases where either multiple leader rcuo
kthreads are running on the same CPU or these kthreads are running on
a non-offloaded (e.g., housekeeping) CPU.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Move lock release past "if" as suggested by Joel Fernandes. ]
[ paulmck: Fix caching of furthest-future requested grace period. ]
One problem with the ->need_future_gp[] array is that the grace-period
assignment of each element changes as the grace periods complete.
This means that it is necessary to hold a lock when checking this
array to learn if a given grace period has already been requested.
This increase lock contention, which is the opposite of helpful.
This commit therefore replaces the ->need_future_gp[] with a single
->gp_seq_needed value and keeps it updated in the rcu_data structure.
This will enable reliable lockless checking of whether or not a given
grace period has already been requested.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
SRCU has long used ->srcu_gp_seq, and now RCU uses ->gp_seq. This
commit therefore moves the rcutorture_get_gp_data() function from
a ->gpnum / ->completed pair to ->gp_seq.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit makes the RCU CPU stall-warning code in print_other_cpu_stall(),
print_cpu_stall(), and check_cpu_stall() use ->gp_seq instead of ->gpnum
and ->completed.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit converts the grace-period request code paths from ->completed
and ->gpnum to ->gp_seq. The need_future_gp_element() macro encapsulates
the shift operation required to use ->gp_seq as an index to the
->need_future_gp[] array. The rcu_cbs_completed() function is removed
in favor of the rcu_seq_snap() function. The rcu_start_this_gp()
gets some temporary consistency checks and uses rcu_seq_done(),
rcu_seq_current(), rcu_seq_state(), and rcu_gp_in_progress() in place
of the earlier open-coded comparisons of ->gpnum and ->completed.
The rcu_future_gp_cleanup() function replaces use of ->completed
with ->gp_seq. The rcu_accelerate_cbs() function replaces a call to
rcu_cbs_completed() with one to rcu_seq_snap(). The rcu_advance_cbs()
function replaces an access to >completed with one to ->gp_seq and adds
some temporary warnings. The rcu_nocb_wait_gp() function replaces a
call to rcu_cbs_completed() with one to rcu_seq_snap() and an open-coded
comparison with rcu_seq_done().
The temporary warnings will be removed when the various ->gpnum and
->completed fields are removed. Their purpose is to locate code who
might still be using ->gpnum and ->completed. (Much easier that way
than trying to trace down the causes of too-short grace periods and
grace-period hangs!)
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit switches the quiescent-state no-backtracking checks from
->gpnum and ->completed to ->gp_seq.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit switches the interrupt-disabled detection mechanism to
->gp_seq. This mechanism is used as part of RCU CPU stall warnings,
and detects cases where the stall is due to a CPU having interrupts
disabled.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit makes rcu_gp_in_progress() use ->gp_seq instead of
->completed and ->gpnum. The READ_ONCE() invocations are buried
in rcu_seq_current().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit makes rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() use ->gp_seq, with the
exception of tracing, which will be converted later.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit converts rcu_gpnum_ovf() to use ->gp_seq instead of ->gpnum.
Same size unsigned long, so same approach.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit moves __note_gp_changes(), note_gp_changes(), and
__rcu_pending() to ->gp_seq, creating new rcu_seq_completed_gp() and
rcu_seq_new_gp() functions for this purpose.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Reinstate "cpuend: trace as suggested by Joel Fernandes. ]
This commit converts get_state_synchronize_rcu(), cond_synchronize_rcu(),
get_state_synchronize_sched(), and cond_synchronize_sched() from ->gpnum
and ->completed to ->gp_seq. Note that this also introduces a full
memory barrier in the already-done paths off cond_synchronize_rcu() and
cond_synchronize_sched(), as work with LKMM indicates that the earlier
smp_load_acquire() were insufficiently strong in some situations where
these two functions were called just as the grace period ended. In such
cases, these two functions would not gain the benefit of memory ordering
at the end of the grace period.
Please note that the performance impact is negligible, as you shouldn't
be using either function anywhere near a fastpath in any case.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit switches the functions reporting quiescent states from
use of ->gpnum to ->gp_seq. In either case, the point is to handle
races where a given grace period ends before a quiescent state can
be reported. Failing to catch these races would result in too-short
grace periods, hence the checking.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit switches rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation() from printing
->gpnum and ->completed to printing ->gp_seq upon detecting a starving
RCU grace-period kthread during an RCU CPU stall warning.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcutorture test invokes rcu_batches_started(),
rcu_batches_completed(), rcu_batches_started_bh(),
rcu_batches_completed_bh(), rcu_batches_started_sched(), and
rcu_batches_completed_sched() to do grace-period consistency checks,
and rcuperf uses the _completed variants for statistics.
These functions use ->gpnum and ->completed. This commit therefore
replaces them with rcu_get_gp_seq(), rcu_bh_get_gp_seq(), and
rcu_sched_get_gp_seq(), adjusting rcutorture and rcuperf to make
use of them.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit moves rcu_gp_slow() to ->gp_seq. This function only uses
the grace-period number to modulate delay, so rcu_seq_ctr(rsp->gp_seq)
gets the same effect, at least in cases where the delay is to happen
more than four times per wrap of an unsigned long.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit adds grace-period sequence numbers (->gp_seq) to the
rcu_state, rcu_node, and rcu_data structures, and updates them.
It also checks for consistency between rsp->gpnum and rsp->gp_seq.
These ->gp_seq counters will eventually replace the existing ->gpnum
and ->completed counters, allowing a single memory access to determine
whether or not a grace period is in progress and if so, which one.
This in turn will enable changes that will reduce ->lock contention on
the leaf rcu_node structures.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
At the end of rcu_gp_cleanup(), if another grace period is needed, but
not via rcu_accelerate_cbs(), the ->gp_flags field is written twice,
once when making the new grace-period request, and once when clearing
all other types of requests. This commit therefore adds an else-clause
to avoid this double write.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit causes a splat if RCU is idle and a request for a new grace
period is ignored for more than one second. This splat normally indicates
that some code path asked for a new grace period, but failed to wake up
the RCU grace-period kthread.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Fix bug located by Dan Carpenter and his static checker. ]
[ paulmck: Fix self-deadlock bug located 0day test robot. ]
[ paulmck: Disable unless CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y. ]
There is a two-jiffy delay between the time that a CPU will self-report
an RCU CPU stall warning and the time that some other CPU will report a
warning on behalf of the first CPU. This has worked well in the past,
but on busy systems, it is possible for the two warnings to overlap,
which makes interpreting them extremely difficult.
This commit therefore uses a cmpxchg-based timing decision that
allows only one report in a given one-minute period (assuming default
stall-warning Kconfig parameters). This approach will of course fail
if you are seeing minute-long vCPU preemption, but in that case the
overlapping RCU CPU stall warnings are the least of your worries.
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The WARN_ON_ONCE(rcu_preempt_blocked_readers_cgp()) in
rcu_gp_cleanup() triggers (inexplicably, of course) every so often.
This commit therefore extracts more information.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The x86/mtrr code does horrific things because hardware. It uses
stop_machine_from_inactive_cpu(), which does a wakeup (of the stopper
thread on another CPU), which uses RCU, all before the CPU is onlined.
RCU complains about this, because wakeups use RCU and RCU does
(rightfully) not consider offline CPUs for grace-periods.
Fix this by initializing RCU way early in the MTRR case.
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Add !SMP support, per 0day Test Robot report. ]
Now that grace-period requests use funnel locking and now that they
set ->gp_flags to RCU_GP_FLAG_INIT even when the RCU grace-period
kthread has not yet started, rcu_gp_kthread() no longer needs to check
need_any_future_gp() at startup time. This commit therefore removes
this check.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Paul E. McKenney