From 92aa39e9dc77481b90cbef25e547d66cab901496 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2018 13:47:30 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] rcu: Make need_resched() respond to urgent RCU-QS needs The per-CPU rcu_dynticks.rcu_urgent_qs variable communicates an urgent need for an RCU quiescent state from the force-quiescent-state processing within the grace-period kthread to context switches and to cond_resched(). Unfortunately, such urgent needs are not communicated to need_resched(), which is sometimes used to decide when to invoke cond_resched(), for but one example, within the KVM vcpu_run() function. As of v4.15, this can result in synchronize_sched() being delayed by up to ten seconds, which can be problematic, to say nothing of annoying. This commit therefore checks rcu_dynticks.rcu_urgent_qs from within rcu_check_callbacks(), which is invoked from the scheduling-clock interrupt handler. If the current task is not an idle task and is not executing in usermode, a context switch is forced, and either way, the rcu_dynticks.rcu_urgent_qs variable is set to false. If the current task is an idle task, then RCU's dyntick-idle code will detect the quiescent state, so no further action is required. Similarly, if the task is executing in usermode, other code in rcu_check_callbacks() and its called functions will report the corresponding quiescent state. Reported-by: Marius Hillenbrand Reported-by: David Woodhouse Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- kernel/rcu/tree.c | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c index ce16b8da2c6f..f47ac7a4719f 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c @@ -2471,6 +2471,15 @@ void rcu_check_callbacks(int user) { trace_rcu_utilization(TPS("Start scheduler-tick")); raw_cpu_inc(rcu_data.ticks_this_gp); + /* The load-acquire pairs with the store-release setting to true. */ + if (smp_load_acquire(this_cpu_ptr(&rcu_dynticks.rcu_urgent_qs))) { + /* Idle and userspace execution already are quiescent states. */ + if (!is_idle_task(current) && !user) { + set_tsk_need_resched(current); + set_preempt_need_resched(); + } + __this_cpu_write(rcu_dynticks.rcu_urgent_qs, false); + } rcu_flavor_check_callbacks(user); if (rcu_pending()) invoke_rcu_core();