The rcu_all_qs() and rcu_note_context_switch() do a series of checks,
taking various actions to supply RCU with quiescent states, depending
on the outcomes of the various checks. This is a bit much for scheduling
fastpaths, so this commit creates a separate ->rcu_urgent_qs field in
the rcu_dynticks structure that acts as a global guard for these checks.
Thus, in the common case, rcu_all_qs() and rcu_note_context_switch()
check the ->rcu_urgent_qs field, find it false, and simply return.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
The rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle() function scans the RCU flavors, checking
that one of them still needs a quiescent state before doing an expensive
atomic operation on the ->dynticks counter. However, this check reduces
overhead only after a rare race condition, and increases complexity. This
commit therefore removes the scan and the mechanism enabling the scan.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_qs_ctr variable is yet another isolated per-CPU variable,
so this commit pulls it into the pre-existing rcu_dynticks per-CPU
structure.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_sched_qs_mask variable is yet another isolated per-CPU variable,
so this commit pulls it into the pre-existing rcu_dynticks per-CPU
structure.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The current use of "RCU_TRACE(statement);" can cause odd bugs, especially
where "statement" is a local-variable declaration, as it can leave a
misplaced ";" in the source code. This commit therefore converts these
to "RCU_TRACE(statement;)", which avoids the misplaced ";".
Reported-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, IPIs are used to force other CPUs to invalidate their TLBs
in response to a kernel virtual-memory mapping change. This works, but
degrades both battery lifetime (for idle CPUs) and real-time response
(for nohz_full CPUs), and in addition results in unnecessary IPIs due to
the fact that CPUs executing in usermode are unaffected by stale kernel
mappings. It would be better to cause a CPU executing in usermode to
wait until it is entering kernel mode to do the flush, first to avoid
interrupting usemode tasks and second to handle multiple flush requests
with a single flush in the case of a long-running user task.
This commit therefore reserves a bit at the bottom of the ->dynticks
counter, which is checked upon exit from extended quiescent states.
If it is set, it is cleared and then a new rcu_eqs_special_exit() macro is
invoked, which, if not supplied, is an empty single-pass do-while loop.
If this bottom bit is set on -entry- to an extended quiescent state,
then a WARN_ON_ONCE() triggers.
This bottom bit may be set using a new rcu_eqs_special_set() function,
which returns true if the bit was set, or false if the CPU turned
out to not be in an extended quiescent state. Please note that this
function refuses to set the bit for a non-nohz_full CPU when that CPU
is executing in usermode because usermode execution is tracked by RCU
as a dyntick-idle extended quiescent state only for nohz_full CPUs.
Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
We are going to split <linux/sched/debug.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.
Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/debug.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
We are going to move scheduler ABI details to <uapi/linux/sched/types.h>,
which will be used from a number of .c files.
Create empty placeholder header that maps to <linux/types.h>.
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
So rcupdate.h is a pretty complex header, in particular it includes
<linux/completion.h> which includes <linux/wait.h> - creating a
dependency that includes <linux/wait.h> in <linux/sched.h>,
which prevents the isolation of <linux/sched.h> from the derived
<linux/wait.h> header.
Solve part of the problem by decoupling rcupdate.h from completions:
this can be done by separating out the rcu_synchronize types and APIs,
and updating their usage sites.
Since this is a mostly RCU-internal types this will not just simplify
<linux/sched.h>'s dependencies, but will make all the hundreds of
.c files that include rcupdate.h but not completions or wait.h build
faster.
( For rcutiny this means that two dependent APIs have to be uninlined,
but that shouldn't be much of a problem as they are rare variants. )
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Commit 7ec99de36f ("rcu: Provide exact CPU-online tracking for RCU"),
as its title suggests, got rid of RCU's remaining CPU-hotplug timing
guesswork. This commit therefore removes the one-jiffy kludge that was
used to paper over this guesswork.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Commit 4a81e8328d ("rcu: Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks
for RCU") moved quiescent-state generation out of cond_resched()
and commit bde6c3aa99 ("rcu: Provide cond_resched_rcu_qs() to force
quiescent states in long loops") introduced cond_resched_rcu_qs(), and
commit 5cd37193ce ("rcu: Make cond_resched_rcu_qs() apply to normal RCU
flavors") introduced the per-CPU rcu_qs_ctr variable, which is frequently
polled by the RCU core state machine.
This frequent polling can increase grace-period rate, which in turn
increases grace-period overhead, which is visible in some benchmarks
(for example, the "open1" benchmark in Anton Blanchard's "will it scale"
suite). This commit therefore reduces the rate at which rcu_qs_ctr
is polled by moving that polling into the force-quiescent-state (FQS)
machinery, and by further polling it only after the grace period has
been in effect for at least jiffies_till_sched_qs jiffies.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit is the fourth step towards full abstraction of all accesses
to the ->dynticks counter, implementing previously open-coded checks and
comparisons in new rcu_dynticks_in_eqs() and rcu_dynticks_in_eqs_since()
functions. This abstraction will ease changes to the ->dynticks counter
operation.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit is the third step towards full abstraction of all accesses
to the ->dynticks counter, implementing the previously open-coded atomic
add of 1 and entry checks in a new rcu_dynticks_eqs_enter() function, and
the same but with exit checks in a new rcu_dynticks_eqs_exit() function.
This abstraction will ease changes to the ->dynticks counter operation.
Note that this commit gets rid of the smp_mb__before_atomic() and the
smp_mb__after_atomic() calls that were previously present. The reason
that this is OK from a memory-ordering perspective is that the atomic
operation is now atomic_add_return(), which, as a value-returning atomic,
guarantees full ordering.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Fixed RCU_TRACE() statements added by this commit. ]
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The rcu_cpu_starting() function uses this_cpu_ptr() to locate the
incoming CPU's rcu_data structure. This works for the boot CPU and for
all CPUs onlined after rcu_init() executes (during very early boot).
Currently, this is the full set of CPUs, so all is well. But if
anyone ever parallelizes boot before rcu_init() time, it will fail.
This commit therefore substitutes the rcu_cpu_starting() function's
this_cpu_pointer() for per_cpu_ptr(), future-proofing the code and
(arguably) improving readability.
This commit inadvertently fixes a latent bug: If there ever had been
more than just the boot CPU online at rcu_init() time, the old code
would not initialize the non-boot CPUs, but rather would repeatedly
initialize the boot CPU.
Reported-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Chris Friesen notice that rcuc/X kthreads were consuming CPU even on
NOCB CPUs. This makes no sense because the only purpose or these
kthreads is to invoke normal (non-offloaded) callbacks, of which there
will never be any on NOCB CPUs. This problem was due to a bug in
cpu_has_callbacks_ready_to_invoke(), which should have been checking
->nxttail[RCU_NEXT_TAIL] for NULL, but which was instead (incorrectly)
checking ->nxttail[RCU_DONE_TAIL]. Because ->nxttail[RCU_DONE_TAIL] is
never NULL, the only effect is to cause the rcuc/X kthread to execute
when it should not do so.
This commit therefore checks ->nxttail[RCU_NEXT_TAIL], which is NULL
for NOCB CPUs.
Reported-by: Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit is for all intents and purposes a revert of bc1dce514e
("rcu: Don't use NMIs to dump other CPUs' stacks"). The reason to suppose
that this can now safely be reverted is the presence of 42a0bb3f71
("printk/nmi: generic solution for safe printk in NMI"), which is said
to have made NMI-based stack dumps safe.
However, this reversion keeps one nice property of bc1dce514e
("rcu: Don't use NMIs to dump other CPUs' stacks"), namely that
only those CPUs blocking the grace period are dumped. The new
trigger_single_cpu_backtrace() is used to make this happen, as
suggested by Josh Poimboeuf.
Reported-by: Vince Weaver <vincent.weaver@maine.edu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Commit 4914950aaa ("rcu: Stop treating in-kernel CPU-bound workloads
as errors") added a (relatively) short-timeout call to resched_cpu().
This was inspired by as issue that was fixed by b7e7ade34e ("sched/core:
Fix remote wakeups"). But given that this issue was fixed, it is time
for the current commit to remove this call to resched_cpu().
Reported-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit prepares for the removal of short-term CPU kicking (in a
subsequent commit). It does so by starting to invoke resched_cpu()
for each holdout at each force-quiescent-state interval that is more
than halfway through the stall-warning interval.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Since commit 7ec99de36f ("rcu: Provide exact CPU-online tracking for
RCU"), the variable mask in rcu_init_percpu_data is set but no longer
used. Remove it to fix the following warning when building with 'W=1':
kernel/rcu/tree.c: In function ‘rcu_init_percpu_data’:
kernel/rcu/tree.c:3765:16: warning: variable ‘mask’ set but not used [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The print_other_cpu_stall() function currently unconditionally invokes
rcu_print_detail_task_stall(). This is OK because if there was a stall
sufficient to cause print_other_cpu_stall() to be invoked, that stall
is very likely to persist through the entire print_other_cpu_stall()
execution. However, if the stall did not persist, the variable ndetected
will be zero, and that variable is already tested in an "if" statement.
Therefore, this commit moves the call to rcu_print_detail_task_stall()
under that pre-existing "if" to improve readability, with a very rare
reduction in overhead.
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
[ paulmck: Reworked commit log. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit is the second step towards full abstraction of all accesses to
the ->dynticks counter, implementing the previously open-coded atomic
add of zero in a new rcu_dynticks_snap() function. This abstraction will
ease changes o the ->dynticks counter operation.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit is the first step towards full abstraction of all accesses to
the ->dynticks counter, implementing the previously open-coded atomic add
of two in a new rcu_dynticks_momentary_idle() function. This abstraction
will ease changes to the ->dynticks counter operation.
Note that this commit gets rid of the smp_mb__before_atomic() and the
smp_mb__after_atomic() calls that were previously present. The reason
that this is OK from a memory-ordering perspective is that the atomic
operation is now atomic_add_return(), which, as a value-returning atomic,
guarantees full ordering.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The current preemptible RCU implementation goes through three phases
during bootup. In the first phase, there is only one CPU that is running
with preemption disabled, so that a no-op is a synchronous grace period.
In the second mid-boot phase, the scheduler is running, but RCU has
not yet gotten its kthreads spawned (and, for expedited grace periods,
workqueues are not yet running. During this time, any attempt to do
a synchronous grace period will hang the system (or complain bitterly,
depending). In the third and final phase, RCU is fully operational and
everything works normally.
This has been OK for some time, but there has recently been some
synchronous grace periods showing up during the second mid-boot phase.
This code worked "by accident" for awhile, but started failing as soon
as expedited RCU grace periods switched over to workqueues in commit
8b355e3bc1 ("rcu: Drive expedited grace periods from workqueue").
Note that the code was buggy even before this commit, as it was subject
to failure on real-time systems that forced all expedited grace periods
to run as normal grace periods (for example, using the rcu_normal ksysfs
parameter). The callchain from the failure case is as follows:
early_amd_iommu_init()
|-> acpi_put_table(ivrs_base);
|-> acpi_tb_put_table(table_desc);
|-> acpi_tb_invalidate_table(table_desc);
|-> acpi_tb_release_table(...)
|-> acpi_os_unmap_memory
|-> acpi_os_unmap_iomem
|-> acpi_os_map_cleanup
|-> synchronize_rcu_expedited
The kernel showing this callchain was built with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y,
which caused the code to try using workqueues before they were
initialized, which did not go well.
This commit therefore reworks RCU to permit synchronous grace periods
to proceed during this mid-boot phase. This commit is therefore a
fix to a regression introduced in v4.9, and is therefore being put
forward post-merge-window in v4.10.
This commit sets a flag from the existing rcu_scheduler_starting()
function which causes all synchronous grace periods to take the expedited
path. The expedited path now checks this flag, using the requesting task
to drive the expedited grace period forward during the mid-boot phase.
Finally, this flag is updated by a core_initcall() function named
rcu_exp_runtime_mode(), which causes the runtime codepaths to be used.
Note that this arrangement assumes that tasks are not sent POSIX signals
(or anything similar) from the time that the first task is spawned
through core_initcall() time.
Fixes: 8b355e3bc1 ("rcu: Drive expedited grace periods from workqueue")
Reported-by: "Zheng, Lv" <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Stan Kain <stan.kain@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ivan <waffolz@hotmail.com>
Tested-by: Emanuel Castelo <emanuel.castelo@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Bruno Pesavento <bpesavento@infinito.it>
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Frederic Bezies <fredbezies@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.9.0-
The current code can result in spurious kicks when there are no grace
periods in progress and no grace-period-related requests. This is
sort of OK for a diagnostic aid, but the resulting ftrace-dump messages
in dmesg are annoying. This commit therefore avoids spurious kicks
in the common case.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The __call_rcu() comment about opportunistically noting grace period
beginnings and endings is obsolete. RCU still does such opportunistic
noting, but in __call_rcu_core() rather than __call_rcu(), and there
already is an appropriate comment in __call_rcu_core(). This commit
therefore removes the obsolete comment.
Reported-by: Michalis Kokologiannakis <mixaskok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
In the deep past, rcu_check_callbacks() was only invoked if rcu_pending()
returned true. Which was fine, but these days rcu_check_callbacks()
is invoked unconditionally. This commit therefore removes the obsolete
sentence from the header comment.
Reported-by: Michalis Kokologiannakis <mixaskok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Commit 720abae3d6 ("rcu: force alignment on struct
callback_head/rcu_head") forced the rcu_head (AKA callback_head)
structure's alignment to pointer size, that is, to 4-byte boundaries on
32-bit systems and to 8-byte boundaries on 64-bit systems. This
commit therefore checks for this same alignment in __call_rcu(),
which used to contain a looser check for two-byte alignment.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot time as
possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in CPU operation
(due to runtime data differences, hardware differences, SMP ordering,
thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).
At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example for
how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals.
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Merge tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux
Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook:
"This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot
time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in
CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences,
SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).
At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example
for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals"
* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy
gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin
The __latent_entropy gcc attribute can be used only on functions and
variables. If it is on a function then the plugin will instrument it for
gathering control-flow entropy. If the attribute is on a variable then
the plugin will initialize it with random contents. The variable must
be an integer, an integer array type or a structure with integer fields.
These specific functions have been selected because they are init
functions (to help gather boot-time entropy), are called at unpredictable
times, or they have variable loops, each of which provide some level of
latent entropy.
Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
[kees: expanded commit message]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Up to now, RCU has assumed that the CPU-online process makes it from
CPU_UP_PREPARE to set_cpu_online() within one jiffy. Given the recent
rise of virtualized environments, this assumption is very clearly
obsolete. Failing to meet this deadline can result in RCU paying
attention to an incoming CPU for one jiffy, then ignoring it until the
grace period following the one in which that CPU sets itself online.
This situation might prove to be fatally disappointing to any RCU
read-side critical sections that had the misfortune to execute during
the time in which RCU was ignoring the slow-to-come-online CPU.
This commit therefore updates RCU's internal CPU state-tracking
information at notify_cpu_starting() time, thus providing RCU with
an exact transition of the CPU's state from offline to online.
Note that this means that incoming CPUs must not use RCU read-side
critical section (other than those of SRCU) until notify_cpu_starting()
time. Note also that the CPU_STARTING notifiers -are- allowed to use
RCU read-side critical sections. (Of course, CPU-hotplug notifiers are
rapidly becoming obsolete, so you need to act fast!)
If a given architecture or CPU family needs to use RCU read-side
critical sections earlier, the call to rcu_cpu_starting() from
notify_cpu_starting() will need to be architecture-specific, with
architectures that need early use being required to hand-place
the call to rcu_cpu_starting() at some point preceding the call to
notify_cpu_starting().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, __note_gp_changes() checks to see if the CPU has slept through
multiple grace periods. If it has, it resynchronizes that CPU's view
of the grace-period state, which includes whether or not the current
grace period needs a quiescent state from this CPU. The fact of this
need (or lack thereof) needs to be in two places, rdp->cpu_no_qs.b.norm
and rdp->core_needs_qs. The former tells RCU's context-switch code to
go get a quiescent state and the latter says that it needs to be reported.
The current code unconditionally sets the former to true, but correctly
sets the latter.
This does not result in failures, but it does unnecessarily increase
the amount of work done on average at context-switch time. This commit
therefore correctly sets both fields.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of tree.c is:
init/Kconfig:config TREE_RCU
init/Kconfig: bool
...and update.c and sync.c are "obj-y" meaning that none are ever
built as a module by anyone.
Since MODULE_ALIAS is a no-op for non-modular code, we can remove
them from these files.
We leave moduleparam.h behind since the files instantiate some boot
time configuration parameters with module_param() still.
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Commit abedf8e241 ("rcu: Use simple wait queues where possible in
rcutree") converts Tree RCU's wait queues to simple wait queues,
but it incorrectly reverts the commit 2aa792e6fa ("rcu: Use
rcu_gp_kthread_wake() to wake up grace period kthreads"). This can
result in redundant self-wakeups.
This commit therefore replaces the simple wait-queue wakeups with
rcu_gp_kthread_wake(), thus avoiding the redundant wakeups.
Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Straight forward conversion to the state machine. Though the question arises
whether this needs really all these state transitions to work.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160713153337.982013161@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
In many cases in the RCU tree code, we iterate over the set of cpus for
a leaf node described by rcu_node::grplo and rcu_node::grphi, checking
per-cpu data for each cpu in this range. However, if the set of possible
cpus is sparse, some cpus described in this range are not possible, and
thus no per-cpu region will have been allocated (or initialised) for
them by the generic percpu code.
Erroneous accesses to a per-cpu area for these !possible cpus may fault
or may hit other data depending on the addressed generated when the
erroneous per cpu offset is applied. In practice, both cases have been
observed on arm64 hardware (the former being silent, but detectable with
additional patches).
To avoid issues resulting from this, we must iterate over the set of
*possible* cpus for a given leaf node. This patch add a new helper,
for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu, to enable this. As iteration is often
intertwined with rcu_node local bitmask manipulation, a new
leaf_node_cpu_bit helper is added to make this simpler and more
consistent. The RCU tree code is made to use both of these where
appropriate.
Without this patch, running reboot at a shell can result in an oops
like:
[ 3369.075979] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffff8008b21b4c
[ 3369.083881] pgd = ffffffc3ecdda000
[ 3369.087270] [ffffff8008b21b4c] *pgd=00000083eca48003, *pud=00000083eca48003, *pmd=0000000000000000
[ 3369.096222] Internal error: Oops: 96000007 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
[ 3369.101781] Modules linked in:
[ 3369.104825] CPU: 2 PID: 1817 Comm: NetworkManager Tainted: G W 4.6.0+ #3
[ 3369.121239] task: ffffffc0fa13e000 ti: ffffffc3eb940000 task.ti: ffffffc3eb940000
[ 3369.128708] PC is at sync_rcu_exp_select_cpus+0x188/0x510
[ 3369.134094] LR is at sync_rcu_exp_select_cpus+0x104/0x510
[ 3369.139479] pc : [<ffffff80081109a8>] lr : [<ffffff8008110924>] pstate: 200001c5
[ 3369.146860] sp : ffffffc3eb9435a0
[ 3369.150162] x29: ffffffc3eb9435a0 x28: ffffff8008be4f88
[ 3369.155465] x27: ffffff8008b66c80 x26: ffffffc3eceb2600
[ 3369.160767] x25: 0000000000000001 x24: ffffff8008be4f88
[ 3369.166070] x23: ffffff8008b51c3c x22: ffffff8008b66c80
[ 3369.171371] x21: 0000000000000001 x20: ffffff8008b21b40
[ 3369.176673] x19: ffffff8008b66c80 x18: 0000000000000000
[ 3369.181975] x17: 0000007fa951a010 x16: ffffff80086a30f0
[ 3369.187278] x15: 0000007fa9505590 x14: 0000000000000000
[ 3369.192580] x13: ffffff8008b51000 x12: ffffffc3eb940000
[ 3369.197882] x11: 0000000000000006 x10: ffffff8008b51b78
[ 3369.203184] x9 : 0000000000000001 x8 : ffffff8008be4000
[ 3369.208486] x7 : ffffff8008b21b40 x6 : 0000000000001003
[ 3369.213788] x5 : 0000000000000000 x4 : ffffff8008b27280
[ 3369.219090] x3 : ffffff8008b21b4c x2 : 0000000000000001
[ 3369.224406] x1 : 0000000000000001 x0 : 0000000000000140
...
[ 3369.972257] [<ffffff80081109a8>] sync_rcu_exp_select_cpus+0x188/0x510
[ 3369.978685] [<ffffff80081128b4>] synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x64/0xa8
[ 3369.985026] [<ffffff80086b987c>] synchronize_net+0x24/0x30
[ 3369.990499] [<ffffff80086ddb54>] dev_deactivate_many+0x28c/0x298
[ 3369.996493] [<ffffff80086b6bb8>] __dev_close_many+0x60/0xd0
[ 3370.002052] [<ffffff80086b6d48>] __dev_close+0x28/0x40
[ 3370.007178] [<ffffff80086bf62c>] __dev_change_flags+0x8c/0x158
[ 3370.012999] [<ffffff80086bf718>] dev_change_flags+0x20/0x60
[ 3370.018558] [<ffffff80086cf7f0>] do_setlink+0x288/0x918
[ 3370.023771] [<ffffff80086d0798>] rtnl_newlink+0x398/0x6a8
[ 3370.029158] [<ffffff80086cee84>] rtnetlink_rcv_msg+0xe4/0x220
[ 3370.034891] [<ffffff80086e274c>] netlink_rcv_skb+0xc4/0xf8
[ 3370.040364] [<ffffff80086ced8c>] rtnetlink_rcv+0x2c/0x40
[ 3370.045663] [<ffffff80086e1fe8>] netlink_unicast+0x160/0x238
[ 3370.051309] [<ffffff80086e24b8>] netlink_sendmsg+0x2f0/0x358
[ 3370.056956] [<ffffff80086a0070>] sock_sendmsg+0x18/0x30
[ 3370.062168] [<ffffff80086a21cc>] ___sys_sendmsg+0x26c/0x280
[ 3370.067728] [<ffffff80086a30ac>] __sys_sendmsg+0x44/0x88
[ 3370.073027] [<ffffff80086a3100>] SyS_sendmsg+0x10/0x20
[ 3370.078153] [<ffffff8008085e70>] el0_svc_naked+0x24/0x28
Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Reported-by: Dennis Chen <dennis.chen@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@arm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
It is not always easy to determine the cause of an RCU stall just by
analysing the RCU stall messages, mainly when the problem is caused
by the indirect starvation of rcu threads. For example, when preempt_rcu
is not awakened due to the starvation of a timer softirq.
We have been hard coding panic() in the RCU stall functions for
some time while testing the kernel-rt. But this is not possible in
some scenarios, like when supporting customers.
This patch implements the sysctl kernel.panic_on_rcu_stall. If
set to 1, the system will panic() when an RCU stall takes place,
enabling the capture of a vmcore. The vmcore provides a way to analyze
all kernel/tasks states, helping out to point to the culprit and the
solution for the stall.
The kernel.panic_on_rcu_stall sysctl is disabled by default.
Changes from v1:
- Fixed a typo in the git log
- The if(sysctl_panic_on_rcu_stall) panic() is in a static function
- Fixed the CONFIG_TINY_RCU compilation issue
- The var sysctl_panic_on_rcu_stall is now __read_mostly
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reviewed-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
Tested-by: "Luis Claudio R. Goncalves" <lgoncalv@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
People have been having some difficulty finding their way around the
RCU code. This commit therefore pulls some of the expedited grace-period
code from tree.c to a new tree_exp.h file. This commit is strictly code
movement, with the exception of a forward declaration that was added
for the sync_sched_exp_online_cleanup() function.
A subsequent commit will move the remaining expedited grace-period code
from tree_plugin.h to tree_exp.h.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
I think you'll find this condition is superfluous, as the whole function
is under #ifdef of that same.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
In the past, RCU grace-period initialization excluded CPU-hotplug
operations, but this is no longer the case. This commit therefore
removed an outdated comment in rcu_gp_init() claiming that these
are excluded.
Reported-by: Lihao Liang <lihao.liang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The comment header for rcu_scheduler_active states that it is used
to optimize synchronize_sched() at early boot. This is incorrect.
The synchronize_sched() function instead checks the number of online
CPUs. This commit therefore replaces the comment's synchronize_sched()
with synchronize_rcu(), which really does use rcu_scheduler_active for
this purpose.
Reported-by: Lihao Liang <lihao.liang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit provides rcu_exp_batches_completed() and
rcu_exp_batches_completed_sched() functions to allow torture-test modules
to check how many expedited grace period batches have completed.
These are analogous to the existing rcu_batches_completed(),
rcu_batches_completed_bh(), and rcu_batches_completed_sched() functions.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
If it is necessary to kick the grace-period kthread, that is a good
time to dump the trace buffer in order to learn why kicking was needed.
This commit therefore does the dump.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Recent kernels can fail to awaken the grace-period kthread for
quiescent-state forcing. This commit is a crude hack that does
a wakeup if a scheduling-clock interrupt sees that it has been
too long since force-quiescent-state (FQS) processing.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, the force-quiescent-state (FQS) code in rcu_gp_kthread() can
advance the next FQS even if one was not executed last time. This can
happen due timeout-duration uncertainty. This commit therefore avoids
advancing the FQS schedule unless an FQS was just executed. In the
corner case where an FQS was not executed, but is due now, the code does
a one-jiffy wait.
This change prepares for kthread kicking.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Recent kernels can fail to awaken the grace-period kthread for
quiescent-state forcing. This commit is a crude hack that does
a wakeup any time a stall is detected.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The current expedited grace-period implementation makes subsequent grace
periods wait on wakeups for the prior grace period. This does not fit
the dictionary definition of "expedited", so this commit allows these two
phases to overlap. Doing this requires four waitqueues rather than two
because tasks can now be waiting on the previous, current, and next grace
periods. The fourth waitqueue makes the bit masking work out nicely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit pulls the grace-period-start counter adjustment and tracing
from synchronize_rcu_expedited() and synchronize_sched_expedited()
into exp_funnel_lock(), thus eliminating some code duplication.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
