Coccinelle reports a warning at use_softirq declaration
WARNING: Assignment of 0/1 to bool variable
The root cause is
use_softirq a variable of bool type is initialised with the integer 1
Replacing 1 with value true solve the issue.
Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_state structure's gp_seq field is only to be modified by the RCU
grace-period kthread, which is single-threaded. This commit therefore
enlists KCSAN's help in enforcing this restriction. This commit applies
KCSAN-specific primitives, so cannot go upstream until KCSAN does.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Even if some CPUs have excessive numbers of callbacks, RCU's grace-period
kthread will still wait normally between successive force-quiescent-state
scans. The first two are the most important, as they are the ones that
enlist aid from the scheduler when overloaded. This commit therefore
omits the wait before the first and the second force-quiescent-state
scan under callback-overload conditions.
This approach was inspired by a discussion with Jeff Roberson.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_state structure's ncpus field is only to be modified by the
CPU-hotplug CPU-online code path, which is single-threaded. This
commit therefore enlists KCSAN's help in enforcing this restriction.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds stubs for KCSAN's data_race(), ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_WRITER(),
and ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_ACCESS() macros to allow code using these macros to
move ahead.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_nmi_enter_common() function can be invoked both in interrupt
and NMI handlers. If it is invoked from process context (as opposed
to userspace or idle context) on a nohz_full CPU, it might acquire the
CPU's leaf rcu_node structure's ->lock. Because this lock is held only
with interrupts disabled, this is safe from an interrupt handler, but
doing so from an NMI handler can result in self-deadlock.
This commit therefore adds "irq" to the "if" condition so as to only
acquire the ->lock from irq handlers or process context, never from
an NMI handler.
Fixes: 5b14557b07 ("rcu: Avoid tick_dep_set_cpu() misordering")
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.5.x
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- Continued user-access cleanups in the futex code.
- percpu-rwsem rewrite that uses its own waitqueue and atomic_t
instead of an embedded rwsem. This addresses a couple of
weaknesses, but the primary motivation was complications on the -rt
kernel.
- Introduce raw lock nesting detection on lockdep
(CONFIG_PROVE_RAW_LOCK_NESTING=y), document the raw_lock vs. normal
lock differences. This too originates from -rt.
- Reuse lockdep zapped chain_hlocks entries, to conserve RAM
footprint on distro-ish kernels running into the "BUG:
MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAIN_HLOCKS too low!" depletion of the lockdep
chain-entries pool.
- Misc cleanups, smaller fixes and enhancements - see the changelog
for details"
* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (55 commits)
fs/buffer: Make BH_Uptodate_Lock bit_spin_lock a regular spinlock_t
thermal/x86_pkg_temp: Make pkg_temp_lock a raw_spinlock_t
Documentation/locking/locktypes: Minor copy editor fixes
Documentation/locking/locktypes: Further clarifications and wordsmithing
m68knommu: Remove mm.h include from uaccess_no.h
x86: get rid of user_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic()
generic arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser() doesn't need access_ok()
x86: don't reload after cmpxchg in unsafe_atomic_op2() loop
x86: convert arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser() to user_access_begin/user_access_end()
objtool: whitelist __sanitizer_cov_trace_switch()
[parisc, s390, sparc64] no need for access_ok() in futex handling
sh: no need of access_ok() in arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser()
futex: arch_futex_atomic_op_inuser() calling conventions change
completion: Use lockdep_assert_RT_in_threaded_ctx() in complete_all()
lockdep: Add posixtimer context tracing bits
lockdep: Annotate irq_work
lockdep: Add hrtimer context tracing bits
lockdep: Introduce wait-type checks
completion: Use simple wait queues
sched/swait: Prepare usage in completions
...
Currently, rcu_barrier() ignores offline CPUs, However, it is possible
for an offline no-CBs CPU to have callbacks queued, and rcu_barrier()
must wait for those callbacks. This commit therefore makes rcu_barrier()
directly invoke the rcu_barrier_func() with interrupts disabled for such
CPUs. This requires passing the CPU number into this function so that
it can entrain the rcu_barrier() callback onto the correct CPU's callback
list, given that the code must instead execute on the current CPU.
While in the area, this commit fixes a bug where the first CPU's callback
might have been invoked before rcu_segcblist_entrain() returned, which
would also result in an early wakeup.
Fixes: 5d6742b377 ("rcu/nocb: Use rcu_segcblist for no-CBs CPUs")
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
[ paulmck: Apply optimization feedback from Boqun Feng. ]
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 5.5.x
The rcu_state structure's gp_seq field is only to be modified by the RCU
grace-period kthread, which is single-threaded. This commit therefore
enlists KCSAN's help in enforcing this restriction.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Mark irq_work items with IRQ_WORK_HARD_IRQ which should be invoked in
hardirq context even on PREEMPT_RT. IRQ_WORK without this flag will be
invoked in softirq context on PREEMPT_RT.
Set ->irq_config to 1 for the IRQ_WORK items which are invoked in softirq
context so lockdep knows that these can safely acquire a spinlock_t.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200321113242.643576700@linutronix.de
The __call_rcu() function's header comment refers to a cpu argument
that no longer exists, and the comment of the return path from
rcu_nocb_try_bypass() ignores the non-no-CBs CPU case. This commit
therefore update both comments.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
In default configutions, RCU currently waits at least 100 milliseconds
before asking cond_resched() and/or resched_rcu() for help seeking
quiescent states to end a grace period. But 100 milliseconds can be
one good long time during an RCU callback flood, for example, as can
happen when user processes repeatedly open and close files in a tight
loop. These 100-millisecond gaps in successive grace periods during a
callback flood can result in excessive numbers of callbacks piling up,
unnecessarily increasing memory footprint.
This commit therefore asks cond_resched() and/or resched_rcu() for help
as early as the first FQS scan when at least one of the CPUs has more
than 20,000 callbacks queued, a number that can be changed using the new
rcutree.qovld kernel boot parameter. An auxiliary qovld_calc variable
is used to avoid acquisition of locks that have not yet been initialized.
Early tests indicate that this reduces the RCU-callback memory footprint
during rcutorture floods by from 50% to 4x, depending on configuration.
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
[ paulmck: Fix bug located by Qian Cai. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Tested-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
The rcu_data structure's ->core_needs_qs field does not necessarily get
cleared in a timely fashion after the corresponding CPUs' quiescent state
has been reported. From a functional viewpoint, no harm done, but this
can result in excessive invocation of RCU core processing, as witnessed
by the kernel test robot, which saw greatly increased softirq overhead.
This commit therefore restores the rcu_report_qs_rdp() function's
clearing of this field, but only when running on the corresponding CPU.
Cases where some other CPU reports the quiescent state (for example, on
behalf of an idle CPU) are handled by setting this field appropriately
within the __note_gp_changes() function's end-of-grace-period checks.
This handling is carried out regardless of whether the end of a grace
period actually happened, thus handling the case where a CPU goes non-idle
after a quiescent state is reported on its behalf, but before the grace
period ends. This fix also avoids cross-CPU updates to ->core_needs_qs,
While in the area, this commit changes the __note_gp_changes() need_gp
variable's name to need_qs because it is a quiescent state that is needed
from the CPU in question.
Fixes: ed93dfc6bc ("rcu: Confine ->core_needs_qs accesses to the corresponding CPU")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The event is given three parameters, first one is the name
of RCU flavour, second one is the number of elements in array
for free and last one is an address of the array holding
pointers to be freed by the kfree_bulk() function.
To enable the trace event your kernel has to be build with
CONFIG_RCU_TRACE=y, after that it is possible to track the
events using ftrace subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The kfree_rcu() logic can be improved further by using kfree_bulk()
interface along with "basic batching support" introduced earlier.
The are at least two advantages of using "bulk" interface:
- in case of large number of kfree_rcu() requests kfree_bulk()
reduces the per-object overhead caused by calling kfree()
per-object.
- reduces the number of cache-misses due to "pointer chasing"
between objects which can be far spread between each other.
This approach defines a new kfree_rcu_bulk_data structure that
stores pointers in an array with a specific size. Number of entries
in that array depends on PAGE_SIZE making kfree_rcu_bulk_data
structure to be exactly one page.
Since it deals with "block-chain" technique there is an extra
need in dynamic allocation when a new block is required. Memory
is allocated with GFP_NOWAIT | __GFP_NOWARN flags, i.e. that
allows to skip direct reclaim under low memory condition to
prevent stalling and fails silently under high memory pressure.
The "emergency path" gets maintained when a system is run out of
memory. In that case objects are linked into regular list.
The "rcuperf" was run to analyze this change in terms of memory
consumption and kfree_bulk() throughput.
1) Testing on the Intel(R) Xeon(R) W-2135 CPU @ 3.70GHz, 12xCPUs
with following parameters:
kfree_loops=200000 kfree_alloc_num=1000 kfree_rcu_test=1 kfree_vary_obj_size=1
dev.2020.01.10a branch
Default / CONFIG_SLAB
53607352517 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 1885, memory footprint: 1248MB
53529637912 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 1921, memory footprint: 1193MB
53570175705 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 1929, memory footprint: 1250MB
Patch / CONFIG_SLAB
23981587315 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 810, memory footprint: 1219MB
23879375281 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 822, memory footprint: 1190MB
24086841707 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 794, memory footprint: 1380MB
Default / CONFIG_SLUB
51291025022 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 1713, memory footprint: 741MB
51278911477 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 1671, memory footprint: 719MB
51256183045 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 1719, memory footprint: 647MB
Patch / CONFIG_SLUB
50709919132 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 1618, memory footprint: 456MB
50736297452 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 1633, memory footprint: 507MB
50660403893 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 1628, memory footprint: 429MB
in case of CONFIG_SLAB there is double increase in performance and
slightly higher memory usage. As for CONFIG_SLUB, the performance
figures are better together with lower memory usage.
2) Testing on the HiKey-960, arm64, 8xCPUs with below parameters:
CONFIG_SLAB=y
kfree_loops=200000 kfree_alloc_num=1000 kfree_rcu_test=1
102898760401 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 5822, memory footprint: 158MB
89947009882 ns, loops: 200000, batches: 6715, memory footprint: 115MB
rcuperf shows approximately ~12% better throughput in case of
using "bulk" interface. The "drain logic" or its RCU callback
does the work faster that leads to better throughput.
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit reworks the atomic_cmpxchg() loop in rcu_eqs_special_set()
to do only the initial read from the current CPU's rcu_data structure's
->dynticks field explicitly. On subsequent passes, this value is instead
retained from the failing atomic_cmpxchg() operation.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently rcu_check_gp_start_stall() complains if a grace period takes
too long to start, where "too long" is roughly one RCU CPU stall-warning
interval. This has worked well, but there are some debugging Kconfig
options (such as CONFIG_EFI_PGT_DUMP=y) that can make booting take a
very long time, so much so that the stall-warning interval has expired
before RCU's grace-period kthread has even been spawned.
This commit therefore resets the rcu_state.gp_req_activity and
rcu_state.gp_activity timestamps just before the grace-period kthread
is spawned, and modifies the checks and adds ordering to ensure that
if rcu_check_gp_start_stall() sees that the grace-period kthread
has been spawned, that it will also see the resets applied to the
rcu_state.gp_req_activity and rcu_state.gp_activity timestamps.
Reported-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
[ paulmck: Fix whitespace issues reported by Qian Cai. ]
Tested-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
[ paulmck: Simplify grace-period wakeup check per Steve Rostedt feedback. ]
The rcu_barrier_callback() function does an atomic_dec_and_test(), and
if it is the last CPU to check in, does the required wakeup. Either way,
it does an event trace. Unfortunately, this is susceptible to the
following sequence of events:
o CPU 0 invokes rcu_barrier_callback(), but atomic_dec_and_test()
says that it is not last. But at this point, CPU 0 is delayed,
perhaps due to an NMI, SMI, or vCPU preemption.
o CPU 1 invokes rcu_barrier_callback(), and atomic_dec_and_test()
says that it is last. So CPU 1 traces completion and does
the needed wakeup.
o The awakened rcu_barrier() function does cleanup and releases
rcu_state.barrier_mutex.
o Another CPU now acquires rcu_state.barrier_mutex and starts
another round of rcu_barrier() processing, including updating
rcu_state.barrier_sequence.
o CPU 0 gets its act back together and does its tracing. Except
that rcu_state.barrier_sequence has already been updated, so
its tracing is incorrect and probably quite confusing.
(Wait! Why did this CPU check in twice for one rcu_barrier()
invocation???)
This commit therefore causes rcu_barrier_callback() to take a
snapshot of the value of rcu_state.barrier_sequence before invoking
atomic_dec_and_test(), thus guaranteeing that the event-trace output
is sensible, even if the timing of the event-trace output might still
be confusing. (Wait! Why did the old rcu_barrier() complete before
all of its CPUs checked in???) But being that this is RCU, only so much
confusion can reasonably be eliminated.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely and due to the mild consequences of the
failure, namely a confusing event trace.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_data structure's ->rcu_forced_tick field is read locklessly, so
this commit adds WRITE_ONCE() to all updates and READ_ONCE() to all
lockless reads.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_data structure's ->gpwrap field is read locklessly, and so
this commit adds the required READ_ONCE() to a pair of laods in order
to avoid destructive compiler optimizations.
This data race was reported by KCSAN.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Convert to plural and add a note that this is for Tree RCU.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The various RCU structures' ->gp_seq, ->gp_seq_needed, ->gp_req_activity,
and ->gp_activity fields are read locklessly, so they must be updated with
WRITE_ONCE() and, when read locklessly, with READ_ONCE(). This commit makes
these changes.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_state structure's ->qsmaskinitnext field is read locklessly,
so this commit adds the WRITE_ONCE() to an update in order to provide
proper documentation and READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() pairing.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely for systems not doing incessant CPU-hotplug
operations.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_state structure's ->gp_req_activity field is read locklessly,
so this commit adds the WRITE_ONCE() to an update in order to provide
proper documentation and READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() pairing.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_node structure's ->gp_seq field is read locklessly, so this
commit adds the READ_ONCE() to several loads in order to avoid
destructive compiler optimizations.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
because this affects only tracing and warnings.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_node structure's ->qsmask field is read locklessly, so this
commit adds the WRITE_ONCE() to an update in order to provide proper
documentation and READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() pairing.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Long ago, RCU used the stop-machine mechanism to implement expedited
grace periods, but no longer does so. This commit therefore removes
the no-longer-needed #includes of linux/stop_machine.h.
Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/805317/
Reported-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, force_qs_rnp() uses a for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu()
loop containing a check of the current CPU's bit in ->qsmask.
This works, but this commit saves three lines by instead using
for_each_leaf_node_cpu_mask(), which combines the functionality of
for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu() and leaf_node_cpu_bit(). This commit
also replaces the use of the local variable "bit" with rdp->grpmask.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Only tree_stall.h needs to get name from GP state, so this commit
moves the gp_state_names[] array and the gp_state_getname()
from kernel/rcu/tree.h and kernel/rcu/tree.c, respectively, to
kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h. While moving gp_state_names[], this commit
uses the GCC syntax to ensure that the right string is associated with
the right CPP macro.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
In the call to trace_rcu_utilization() at the start of the loop in
rcu_cpu_kthread(), "rcu_wait" is incorrect, plus this trace event needs
to be hoisted above the loop to balance with either the "rcu_wait" or
"rcu_yield", depending on how the loop exits. This commit therefore
makes these changes.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
In the current code, rcu_nmi_enter_common() might decide to turn on
the tick using tick_dep_set_cpu(), but be delayed just before doing so.
Then the grace-period kthread might notice that the CPU in question had
in fact gone through a quiescent state, thus turning off the tick using
tick_dep_clear_cpu(). The later invocation of tick_dep_set_cpu() would
then incorrectly leave the tick on.
This commit therefore enlists the aid of the leaf rcu_node structure's
->lock to ensure that decisions to enable or disable the tick are
carried out before they can be reversed.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
CONFIG_PREEMPTION and CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU are always identical,
but some code depends on CONFIG_PREEMPTION to access to
rcu_preempt functionality. This patch changes CONFIG_PREEMPTION
to CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU in these cases.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Now that the kfree_rcu() special-casing has been removed from tree RCU,
this commit removes kfree_call_rcu_nobatch() since it is no longer needed.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit removes kfree_rcu() special-casing and the lazy-callback
handling from Tree RCU. It moves some of this special casing to Tiny RCU,
the removal of which will be the subject of later commits.
This results in a nice negative delta.
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Add slab.h #include, thanks to kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit applies RCU's debug_objects debugging to the new batched
kfree_rcu() implementations. The object is queued at the kfree_rcu()
call and dequeued during reclaim.
Tested that enabling CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD successfully detects
double kfree_rcu() calls.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Fix IRQ per kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
During testing, it was observed that amount of memory consumed due
kfree_rcu() batching is 300-400MB. Previously we had only a single
head_free pointer pointing to the list of rcu_head(s) that are to be
freed after a grace period. Until this list is drained, we cannot queue
any more objects on it since such objects may not be ready to be
reclaimed when the worker thread eventually gets to drainin g the
head_free list.
We can do better by maintaining multiple lists as done by this patch.
Testing shows that memory consumption came down by around 100-150MB with
just adding another list. Adding more than 1 additional list did not
show any improvement.
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Code style and initialization handling. ]
[ paulmck: Fix field name, reported by kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Because the ->monitor_todo field is always protected by krcp->lock,
this commit downgrades from xchg() to non-atomic unmarked assignment
statements.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Update to include early-boot kick code. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Recently a discussion about stability and performance of a system
involving a high rate of kfree_rcu() calls surfaced on the list [1]
which led to another discussion how to prepare for this situation.
This patch adds basic batching support for kfree_rcu(). It is "basic"
because we do none of the slab management, dynamic allocation, code
moving or any of the other things, some of which previous attempts did
[2]. These fancier improvements can be follow-up patches and there are
different ideas being discussed in those regards. This is an effort to
start simple, and build up from there. In the future, an extension to
use kfree_bulk and possibly per-slab batching could be done to further
improve performance due to cache-locality and slab-specific bulk free
optimizations. By using an array of pointers, the worker thread
processing the work would need to read lesser data since it does not
need to deal with large rcu_head(s) any longer.
Torture tests follow in the next patch and show improvements of around
5x reduction in number of grace periods on a 16 CPU system. More
details and test data are in that patch.
There is an implication with rcu_barrier() with this patch. Since the
kfree_rcu() calls can be batched, and may not be handed yet to the RCU
machinery in fact, the monitor may not have even run yet to do the
queue_rcu_work(), there seems no easy way of implementing rcu_barrier()
to wait for those kfree_rcu()s that are already made. So this means a
kfree_rcu() followed by an rcu_barrier() does not imply that memory will
be freed once rcu_barrier() returns.
Another implication is higher active memory usage (although not
run-away..) until the kfree_rcu() flooding ends, in comparison to
without batching. More details about this are in the second patch which
adds an rcuperf test.
Finally, in the near future we will get rid of kfree_rcu() special casing
within RCU such as in rcu_do_batch and switch everything to just
batching. Currently we don't do that since timer subsystem is not yet up
and we cannot schedule the kfree_rcu() monitor as the timer subsystem's
lock are not initialized. That would also mean getting rid of
kfree_call_rcu_nobatch() entirely.
[1] http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190723035725-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org
[2] https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/19/824
Cc: kernel-team@android.com
Cc: kernel-team@lge.com
Co-developed-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Applied 0day and Paul Walmsley feedback on ->monitor_todo. ]
[ paulmck: Make it work during early boot. ]
[ paulmck: Add a crude early boot self-test. ]
[ paulmck: Style adjustments and experimental docbook structure header. ]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/alpine.DEB.2.21.9999.1908161931110.32497@viisi.sifive.com/T/#me9956f66cb611b95d26ae92700e1d901f46e8c59
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Each of rcu_state, rcu_rnp_online_cpus(), rcu_dynticks_curr_cpu_in_eqs(),
and rcu_dynticks_snap() are used only in the kernel/rcu/tree.o translation
unit, and may thus be marked static. This commit therefore makes this
change.
Reported-by: Ben Dooks <ben.dooks@codethink.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
The config option `CONFIG_PREEMPT' is used for the preemption model
"Low-Latency Desktop". The config option `CONFIG_PREEMPTION' is enabled
when kernel preemption is enabled which is true for the preemption model
`CONFIG_PREEMPT' and `CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT'.
Use `CONFIG_PREEMPTION' if it applies to both preemption models and not
just to `CONFIG_PREEMPT'.
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
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>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: rcu@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This fixes a data-race where `atomic_t dynticks` is copied by value. The
copy is performed non-atomically, resulting in a data-race if `dynticks`
is updated concurrently.
This data-race was found with KCSAN:
==================================================================
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in dyntick_save_progress_counter / rcu_irq_enter
write to 0xffff989dbdbe98e0 of 4 bytes by task 10 on cpu 3:
atomic_add_return include/asm-generic/atomic-instrumented.h:78 [inline]
rcu_dynticks_snap kernel/rcu/tree.c:310 [inline]
dyntick_save_progress_counter+0x43/0x1b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:984
force_qs_rnp+0x183/0x200 kernel/rcu/tree.c:2286
rcu_gp_fqs kernel/rcu/tree.c:1601 [inline]
rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x71/0x880 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1653
rcu_gp_kthread+0x22c/0x3b0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1799
kthread+0x1b5/0x200 kernel/kthread.c:255
<snip>
read to 0xffff989dbdbe98e0 of 4 bytes by task 154 on cpu 7:
rcu_nmi_enter_common kernel/rcu/tree.c:828 [inline]
rcu_irq_enter+0xda/0x240 kernel/rcu/tree.c:870
irq_enter+0x5/0x50 kernel/softirq.c:347
<snip>
Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 7 PID: 154 Comm: kworker/7:1H Not tainted 5.3.0+ #5
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.12.0-1 04/01/2014
Workqueue: kblockd blk_mq_run_work_fn
==================================================================
Signed-off-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: rcu@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The RCU-specific resched_cpu() function sends a resched IPI to the
specified CPU, which can be used to force the tick on for a given
nohz_full CPU. This is needed when this nohz_full CPU is looping in the
kernel while blocking the current grace period. However, for the tick
to actually be forced on in all cases, that CPU's rcu_data structure's
->rcu_urgent_qs flag must be set beforehand. This commit therefore
causes rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() to set this flag prior to invoking
resched_cpu() on a holdout nohz_full CPU.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
If a nohz_full CPU is idle or executing in userspace, it makes good sense
to keep it out of RCU core processing. After all, the RCU grace-period
kthread can see its quiescent states and all of its callbacks are
offloaded, so there is nothing for RCU core processing to do.
However, if a nohz_full CPU is executing in kernel space, the RCU
grace-period kthread cannot do anything for it, so such a CPU must report
its own quiescent states. This commit therefore makes nohz_full CPUs
skip RCU core processing only if the scheduler-clock interrupt caught
them in idle or in userspace.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Commit 671a63517c ("rcu: Avoid unnecessary softirq when system
is idle") fixed a bug that could result in an indefinite number of
unnecessary invocations of the RCU_SOFTIRQ handler at the trailing edge
of a scheduler-clock interrupt. However, the fix introduced off-CPU
stores to ->core_needs_qs. These writes did not conflict with the
on-CPU stores because the CPU's leaf rcu_node structure's ->lock was
held across all such stores. However, the loads from ->core_needs_qs
were not promoted to READ_ONCE() and, worse yet, the code loading from
->core_needs_qs was written assuming that it was only ever updated by
the corresponding CPU. So operation has been robust, but only by luck.
This situation is therefore an accident waiting to happen.
This commit therefore takes a different approach. Instead of clearing
->core_needs_qs from the grace-period kthread's force-quiescent-state
processing, it modifies the rcu_pending() function to suppress the
rcu_sched_clock_irq() function's call to invoke_rcu_core() if there is no
grace period in progress. This avoids the infinite needless RCU_SOFTIRQ
handlers while still keeping all accesses to ->core_needs_qs local to
the corresponding CPU.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
In some cases, tracing shows that need_heavy_qs is still set even though
urgent_qs was cleared upon reporting of a quiescent state. One such
case is when the softirq reports that a CPU has passed quiescent state.
Commit 671a63517c ("rcu: Avoid unnecessary softirq when system is
idle") fixed a bug where core_needs_qs was not being cleared. In order
to avoid running into similar situations with the urgent-grace-period
flags, this commit causes rcu_disable_urgency_upon_qs(), previously
rcu_disable_tick_upon_qs(), to clear the urgency hints, ->rcu_urgent_qs
and ->rcu_need_heavy_qs. Note that it is possible for CPUs to go
offline with these urgency hints still set. This is handled because
rcu_disable_urgency_upon_qs() is also invoked during the online process.
Because these hints can be cleared both by the corresponding CPU and by
the grace-period kthread, this commit also adds a number of READ_ONCE()
and WRITE_ONCE() calls.
Tested overnight with rcutorture running for 60 minutes on all
configurations of RCU.
Signed-off-by: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Clear urgency flags in rcu_disable_urgency_upon_qs(). ]
[ paulmck: Remove ->core_needs_qs from the set cleared at quiescent state. ]
[ paulmck: Make rcu_disable_urgency_upon_qs static per kbuild test robot. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
There is interrupt-exit code that forces on the tick for nohz_full CPUs
failing to respond to the current grace period in a timely fashion.
However, this code must compare ->dynticks_nmi_nesting to the value 2
in the interrupt-exit fastpath. This commit therefore moves this code
to the interrupt-entry fastpath, where a lighter-weight comparison to
zero may be used.
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Apply Joel Fernandes TICK_DEP_MASK_RCU->TICK_DEP_BIT_RCU fix. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
