The ->dynticks_nmi_nesting field records the nesting depth of both
interrupt and NMI handlers. Because the kernel can enter interrupts
and never leave them (and vice versa) and because NMIs can interrupt
manipulation of the ->dynticks_nmi_nesting field, the values in this
field must be both chosen and maniupated very carefully. As a result,
although the value is zero when the corresponding CPU is executing
neither an interrupt nor an NMI handler, it is 4,611,686,018,427,387,906
on 64-bit systems when there is a single level of interrupt/NMI handling
in progress.
This number is difficult to remember and interpret, so this commit
switches the output to hexadecimal, resulting in the much nicer
0x4000000000000002.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The current implementatation of rcu_seq_diff() follows tradition in
providing a rough-and-ready approximation of the number of elapsed grace
periods between the two rcu_seq values. However, this difference is
used to flag RCU-failure "near misses", which can be a valuable debugging
aid, so more exactitude would be an improvement. This commit therefore
improves the accuracy of rcu_seq_diff().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, the range of jiffies_till_{first,next}_fqs are checked and
adjusted on and on in the loop of rcu_gp_kthread on runtime.
However, it's enough to check them only when setting them, not every
time in the loop. So make them handled on a setting time via sysfs.
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit adds any in-the-future ->gp_seq_needed fields to the
diagnostics for an rcutorture writer stall warning message.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
At the end of rcu_tasks_kthread() there's a lonely
schedule_timeout_uninterruptible() call with no apparent rationale for
its existence. But there is. It is to keep the thread from going into
a tight loop if there's some anomaly. That really needs a comment.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180524223839.GU3803@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Joel Fernandes found that the synchronize_rcu_tasks() was taking a
significant amount of time. He demonstrated it with the following test:
# cd /sys/kernel/tracing
# while [ 1 ]; do x=1; done &
# echo '__schedule_bug:traceon' > set_ftrace_filter
# time echo '!__schedule_bug:traceon' > set_ftrace_filter;
real 0m1.064s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.004s
Where it takes a little over a second to perform the synchronize,
because there's a loop that waits 1 second at a time for tasks to get
through their quiescent points when there's a task that must be waited
for.
After discussion we came up with a simple way to wait for holdouts but
increase the time for each iteration of the loop but no more than a
full second.
With the new patch we have:
# time echo '!__schedule_bug:traceon' > set_ftrace_filter;
real 0m0.131s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.004s
Which drops it down to 13% of what the original wait time was.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180523063815.198302-2-joel@joelfernandes.org
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Suggested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
rcu_seq_snap may be tricky to decipher. Lets document how it works with
an example to make it easier.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Shrink comment as suggested by Peter Zijlstra. ]
Currently, rcu_check_gp_start_stall() waits for one second after the first
request before complaining that a grace period has not yet started. This
was desirable while testing the conversion from ->future_gp_needed[] to
->gp_seq_needed, but it is a bit on the hair-trigger side for production
use under heavy load. This commit therefore makes this wait time be
exactly that of the RCU CPU stall warning, allowing easy adjustment of
both timeouts to suit the distribution or installation at hand.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_cpu_has_callbacks() function is now used in all configurations,
so this commit removes the __maybe_unused.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This function is in rcuperf.c, which is not an include file, so there
is no problem dropping the "inline", especially given that this function
is invoked only twice per rcuperf run. This commit therefore delegates
the inlining decision to the compiler by dropping the "inline".
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This function is in rcutorture.c, which is not an include file, so there
is no problem dropping the "inline", especially given that this function
is invoked only twice per rcutorture run. This commit therefore delegates
the inlining decision to the compiler by dropping the "inline".
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
These functions are in kernel/rcu/tree.c, which is not an include file,
so there is no problem dropping the "inline", especially given that these
functions are nowhere near a fastpath. This commit therefore delegates
the inlining decision to the compiler by dropping the "inline".
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
One danger of using __maybe_unused is that the compiler doesn't yell
at you when you remove the last reference, witness rcu_bind_gp_kthread()
and its local variable "cpu". This commit removes this local variable.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_kick_nohz_cpu() function is no longer used, and the functionality
it used to provide is now provided by a call to resched_cpu() in the
force-quiescent-state function rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs(). This commit
therefore removes rcu_kick_nohz_cpu().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_preempt_qs() function only applies to the CPU, not the task.
A task really is allowed to invoke this function while in an RCU-preempt
read-side critical section, but only if it has first added itself to
some leaf rcu_node structure's ->blkd_tasks list.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_dynticks_momentary_idle() function is invoked only from
rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle(), and neither function is particularly
large. This commit therefore saves a few lines by inlining
rcu_dynticks_momentary_idle() into rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
If any scheduling-clock interrupt interrupts an RCU-preempt read-side
critical section, the interrupted task's ->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs
field is set. This causes the outermost rcu_read_unlock() to incur the
extra overhead of calling into rcu_read_unlock_special(). This commit
reduces that overhead by setting ->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs only
if the grace period has been in effect for more than one second.
Why one second? Because this is comfortably smaller than the minimum
RCU CPU stall-warning timeout of three seconds, but long enough that the
.need_qs marking should happen quite rarely. And if your RCU read-side
critical section has run on-CPU for a full second, it is not unreasonable
to invest some CPU time in ending the grace period quickly.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The naming and comments associated with some RCU-tasks code make
the faulty assumption that context switches due to cond_resched()
are voluntary. As several people pointed out, this is not the case.
This commit therefore updates function names and comments to better
reflect current reality.
Reported-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit also adjusts some whitespace while in the area.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Revert string-breaking %s as requested by Andy Shevchenko. ]
We expect a quiescent state of TASKS_RCU when cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs()
is called, no matter whether it actually be scheduled or not. However,
it currently doesn't report the quiescent state when the task enters
into __schedule() as it's called with preempt = true. So make it report
the quiescent state unconditionally when cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() is
called.
And in TINY_RCU, even though the quiescent state of rcu_bh also should
be reported when the tick interrupt comes from user, it doesn't. So make
it reported.
Lastly in TREE_RCU, rcu_note_voluntary_context_switch() should be
reported when the tick interrupt comes from not only user but also idle,
as an extended quiescent state.
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Simplify rcutiny portion given no RCU-tasks for !PREEMPT. ]
Because rcu_read_unlock_special() is no longer used outside of
kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h, this commit makes it static.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CPUs are expected to report quiescent states when coming online and
when going offline, and grace-period initialization is supposed to
handle any race conditions where a CPU's ->qsmask bit is set just after
it goes offline. This commit adds diagnostics for the case where an
offline CPU nevertheless has a grace period waiting on it.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Grace-period initialization first processes any recent CPU-hotplug
operations, and then initializes state for the new grace period. These
two phases of initialization are currently not distinguished in debug
prints, but the distinction is valuable in a number of debug situations.
This commit therefore introduces two new values for ->gp_state,
RCU_GP_ONOFF and RCU_GP_INIT, in order to make this distinction.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Interactions between CPU-hotplug operations and grace-period
initialization can result in dump_blkd_tasks(). One of the first
debugging actions in this case is to search back in dmesg to work
out which of the affected rcu_node structure's CPUs are online and to
determine the last CPU-hotplug operation affecting any of those CPUs.
This can be laborious and error-prone, especially when console output
is lost.
This commit therefore causes dump_blkd_tasks() to dump the state of
the affected rcu_node structure's CPUs and the last grace period during
which the last offline and online operation affected each of these CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit updates dump_blkd_tasks() to print out quiescent-state
bitmasks for the rcu_node structures further up the tree. This
information helps debugging of interactions between CPU-hotplug
operations and RCU grace-period initialization.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Now that quiescent states for newly offlined CPUs are reported either
when that CPU goes offline or at the end of grace-period initialization,
the CPU-hotplug failsafe in the force-quiescent-state code path is no
longer needed.
This commit therefore removes this failsafe.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Now that quiescent-state reporting is fully event-driven, this commit
removes the check for a lost quiescent state from force_qs_rnp().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The main race with the early part of grace-period initialization appears
to be with CPU hotplug. To more fully open this race window, this commit
moves the rcu_gp_slow() from the beginning of the early initialization
loop to follow that loop, thus widening the race window, especially for
the rcu_node structures that are initialized last. This commit also
expands rcutree.gp_preinit_delay from 3 to 12, giving the same overall
delay in the grace period, but concentrated in the spot where it will
do the most good.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
RCU should only be waiting on CPUs that were online at the time that the
current grace period started. Failure to abide by this rule can result
in confusing splats during grace-period cleanup and initialization.
This commit therefore adds a check to RCU-preempt's preempted-task
queuing that checks for waiting on newly onlined CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Without special fail-safe quiescent-state-propagation checks, grace-period
hangs can result from the following scenario:
1. CPU 1 goes offline.
2. Because CPU 1 is the only CPU in the system blocking the current
grace period, the grace period ends as soon as
rcu_cleanup_dying_idle_cpu()'s call to rcu_report_qs_rnp()
returns.
3. At this point, the leaf rcu_node structure's ->lock is no longer
held: rcu_report_qs_rnp() has released it, as it must in order
to awaken the RCU grace-period kthread.
4. At this point, that same leaf rcu_node structure's ->qsmaskinitnext
field still records CPU 1 as being online. This is absolutely
necessary because the scheduler uses RCU (in this case on the
wake-up path while awakening RCU's grace-period kthread), and
->qsmaskinitnext contains RCU's idea as to which CPUs are online.
Therefore, invoking rcu_report_qs_rnp() after clearing CPU 1's
bit from ->qsmaskinitnext would result in a lockdep-RCU splat
due to RCU being used from an offline CPU.
5. RCU's grace-period kthread awakens, sees that the old grace period
has completed and that a new one is needed. It therefore starts
a new grace period, but because CPU 1's leaf rcu_node structure's
->qsmaskinitnext field still shows CPU 1 as being online, this new
grace period is initialized to wait for a quiescent state from the
now-offline CPU 1.
6. Without the fail-safe force-quiescent-state checks, there would
be no quiescent state from the now-offline CPU 1, which would
eventually result in RCU CPU stall warnings and memory exhaustion.
It would be good to get rid of the special fail-safe quiescent-state
propagation checks, and thus it would be good to fix things so that
the above scenario cannot happen. This commit therefore adds a new
->ofl_lock to the rcu_state structure. This lock is held by rcu_gp_init()
across the applying of buffered online and offline operations to the
rcu_node tree, and it is also held by rcu_cleanup_dying_idle_cpu()
when buffering a new offline operation. This prevents rcu_gp_init()
from acquiring the leaf rcu_node structure's lock during the interval
between when rcu_cleanup_dying_idle_cpu() invokes rcu_report_qs_rnp(),
which releases ->lock and the re-acquisition of that same lock.
This in turn prevents the failure scenario outlined above, and will
hopefully eventually allow removal of the offline-CPU checks from the
force-quiescent-state code path.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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 CPUs corresponding to a given leaf rcu_node structure are
offline.
2. The first phase of the rcu_gp_init() function's grace-period
initialization runs, and sets that rcu_node structure's
->qsmaskinit to zero, as it should.
3. One of the CPUs corresponding to that rcu_node structure comes
back online. Note that because this CPU came online after the
grace period started, this grace period can safely ignore this
newly onlined CPU.
4. A task running on the newly onlined CPU enters an RCU-preempt
read-side critical section, and is then preempted. Because
the corresponding rcu_node structure's ->qsmask is zero,
rcu_preempt_ctxt_queue() leaves the rcu_node structure's
->gp_tasks field NULL, as it should.
5. The rcu_gp_init() function continues running the second phase of
grace-period initialization. The ->qsmask field of the parent of
the aforementioned leaf rcu_node structure is set to not expect
a quiescent state from the leaf, as is only right and proper.
However, when rcu_gp_init() reaches the leaf, it invokes
rcu_preempt_check_blocked_tasks(), which sees that the leaf's
->blkd_tasks list is non-empty, and therefore sets the leaf's
->gp_tasks field to reference the first task on that list.
6. The grace period ends before the preempted task resumes, which
is perfectly fine, given that this grace period was under no
obligation to wait for that task to exit its late-starting
RCU-preempt read-side critical section. Unfortunately, the
leaf's ->gp_tasks field is non-NULL, so rcu_gp_cleanup() splats.
After all, it appears to rcu_gp_cleanup() that the grace period
failed to wait for a task that was supposed to be blocking that
grace period.
This commit avoids this false-positive splat by adding a check of both
->qsmaskinit and ->wait_blkd_tasks to rcu_preempt_check_blocked_tasks().
If both ->qsmaskinit and ->wait_blkd_tasks are zero, then the task must
have entered its RCU-preempt read-side critical section late (after all,
the CPU that it is running on was not online at that time), which means
that the upper-level rcu_node structure won't be waiting for anything
on the leaf anyway.
If ->wait_blkd_tasks is non-zero, then there is at least one task on
ths rcu_node structure's ->blkd_tasks list whose RCU read-side
critical section predates the current grace period. If ->qsmaskinit
is non-zero, there is at least one CPU that was online at the start
of the current grace period. Thus, if both are zero, there is nothing
to wait for.
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>
