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Paul E. McKenney
8d7dc9283f rcu: Control grace-period delays directly from value
In a misguided attempt to avoid an #ifdef, the use of the
gp_init_delay module parameter was conditioned on the corresponding
RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT Kconfig variable, using IS_ENABLED() at
the point of use in the code.  This meant that the compiler always saw
the delay, which meant that RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY had to be
unconditionally defined.  This in turn caused "make oldconfig" to ask
pointless questions about the value of RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY
in cases where it was not even used.

This commit avoids these pointless questions by defining gp_init_delay
under #ifdef.  In one branch, gp_init_delay is initialized to
RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY and is also a module parameter (thus
allowing boot-time modification), and in the other branch gp_init_delay
is a const variable initialized by default to zero.

This approach also simplifies the code at the delay point by eliminating
the IS_DEFINED().  Because gp_init_delay is constant zero in the no-delay
case intended for production use, the "gp_init_delay > 0" check causes
the delay to become dead code, as desired in this case.  In addition,
this commit replaces magic constant "10" with the preprocessor variable
PER_RCU_NODE_PERIOD, which controls the number of grace periods that
are allowed to elapse at full speed before a delay is inserted.

Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-04-14 19:33:59 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
42528795ac Merge branches 'doc.2015.02.26a', 'earlycb.2015.03.03a', 'fixes.2015.03.03a', 'gpexp.2015.02.26a', 'hotplug.2015.03.20a', 'sysidle.2015.02.26b' and 'tiny.2015.02.26a' into HEAD
doc.2015.02.26a:  Documentation changes
earlycb.2015.03.03a:  Permit early-boot RCU callbacks
fixes.2015.03.03a:  Miscellaneous fixes
gpexp.2015.02.26a:  In-kernel expediting of normal grace periods
hotplug.2015.03.20a:  CPU hotplug fixes
sysidle.2015.02.26b:  NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE fixes
tiny.2015.02.26a:  TINY_RCU fixes
2015-03-20 08:31:01 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
654e953340 rcu: Associate quiescent-state reports with grace period
As noted in earlier commit logs, CPU hotplug operations running
concurrently with grace-period initialization can result in a given
leaf rcu_node structure having all CPUs offline and no blocked readers,
but with this rcu_node structure nevertheless blocking the current
grace period.  Therefore, the quiescent-state forcing code now checks
for this situation and repairs it.

Unfortunately, this checking can result in false positives, for example,
when the last task has just removed itself from this leaf rcu_node
structure, but has not yet started clearing the ->qsmask bits further
up the structure.  This means that the grace-period kthread (which
forces quiescent states) and some other task might be attempting to
concurrently clear these ->qsmask bits.  This is usually not a problem:
One of these tasks will be the first to acquire the upper-level rcu_node
structure's lock and with therefore clear the bit, and the other task,
seeing the bit already cleared, will stop trying to clear bits.

Sadly, this means that the following unusual sequence of events -can-
result in a problem:

1.	The grace-period kthread wins, and clears the ->qsmask bits.

2.	This is the last thing blocking the current grace period, so
	that the grace-period kthread clears ->qsmask bits all the way
	to the root and finds that the root ->qsmask field is now zero.

3.	Another grace period is required, so that the grace period kthread
	initializes it, including setting all the needed qsmask bits.

4.	The leaf rcu_node structure (the one that started this whole
	mess) is blocking this new grace period, either because it
	has at least one online CPU or because there is at least one
	task that had blocked within an RCU read-side critical section
	while running on one of this leaf rcu_node structure's CPUs.
	(And yes, that CPU might well have gone offline before the
	grace period in step (3) above started, which can mean that
	there is a task on the leaf rcu_node structure's ->blkd_tasks
	list, but ->qsmask equal to zero.)

5.	The other kthread didn't get around to trying to clear the upper
	level ->qsmask bits until all the above had happened.  This means
	that it now sees bits set in the upper-level ->qsmask field, so it
	proceeds to clear them.  Too bad that it is doing so on behalf of
	a quiescent state that does not apply to the current grace period!

This sequence of events can result in the new grace period being too
short.  It can also result in the new grace period ending before the
leaf rcu_node structure's ->qsmask bits have been cleared, which will
result in splats during initialization of the next grace period.  In
addition, it can result in tasks blocking the new grace period still
being queued at the start of the next grace period, which will result
in other splats.  Sasha's testing turned up another of these splats,
as did rcutorture testing.  (And yes, rcutorture is being adjusted to
make these splats show up more quickly.  Which probably is having the
undesirable side effect of making other problems show up less quickly.
Can't have everything!)

Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.0.x
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
2015-03-20 08:28:25 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
a77da14ce9 rcu: Yet another fix for preemption and CPU hotplug
As noted earlier, the following sequence of events can occur when
running PREEMPT_RCU and HOTPLUG_CPU on a system with a multi-level
rcu_node combining tree:

1.	A group of tasks block on CPUs corresponding to a given leaf
	rcu_node structure while within RCU read-side critical sections.
2.	All CPUs corrsponding to that rcu_node structure go offline.
3.	The next grace period starts, but because there are still tasks
	blocked, the upper-level bits corresponding to this leaf rcu_node
	structure remain set.
4.	All the tasks exit their RCU read-side critical sections and
	remove themselves from the leaf rcu_node structure's list,
	leaving it empty.
5.	But because there now is code to check for this condition at
	force-quiescent-state time, the upper bits are cleared and the
	grace period completes.

However, there is another complication that can occur following step 4 above:

4a.	The grace period starts, and the leaf rcu_node structure's
	gp_tasks pointer is set to NULL because there are no tasks
	blocked on this structure.
4b.	One of the CPUs corresponding to the leaf rcu_node structure
	comes back online.
4b.	An endless stream of tasks are preempted within RCU read-side
	critical sections on this CPU, such that the ->blkd_tasks
	list is always non-empty.

The grace period will never end.

This commit therefore makes the force-quiescent-state processing check only
for absence of tasks blocking the current grace period rather than absence
of tasks altogether.  This will cause a quiescent state to be reported if
the current leaf rcu_node structure is not blocking the current grace period
and its parent thinks that it is, regardless of how RCU managed to get
itself into this state.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.0.x
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
2015-03-20 08:27:33 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
5c60d25fa1 rcu: Add diagnostics to grace-period cleanup
At grace-period initialization time, RCU checks that all quiescent
states were really reported for the previous grace period.  Now that
grace-period cleanup has been split out of grace-period initialization,
this commit also performs those checks at grace-period cleanup time.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-12 15:19:38 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
88428cc5c2 rcu: Handle outgoing CPUs on exit from idle loop
This commit informs RCU of an outgoing CPU just before that CPU invokes
arch_cpu_idle_dead() during its last pass through the idle loop (via a
new CPU_DYING_IDLE notifier value).  This change means that RCU need not
deal with outgoing CPUs passing through the scheduler after informing
RCU that they are no longer online.  Note that removing the CPU from
the rcu_node ->qsmaskinit bit masks is done at CPU_DYING_IDLE time,
and orphaning callbacks is still done at CPU_DEAD time, the reason being
that at CPU_DEAD time we have another CPU that can adopt them.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-12 15:19:38 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
c199068913 rcu: Eliminate ->onoff_mutex from rcu_node structure
Because that RCU grace-period initialization need no longer exclude
CPU-hotplug operations, this commit eliminates the ->onoff_mutex and
its uses.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-12 15:19:37 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
0aa04b055e rcu: Process offlining and onlining only at grace-period start
Races between CPU hotplug and grace periods can be difficult to resolve,
so the ->onoff_mutex is used to exclude the two events.  Unfortunately,
this means that it is impossible for an outgoing CPU to perform the
last bits of its offlining from its last pass through the idle loop,
because sleeplocks cannot be acquired in that context.

This commit avoids these problems by buffering online and offline events
in a new ->qsmaskinitnext field in the leaf rcu_node structures.  When a
grace period starts, the events accumulated in this mask are applied to
the ->qsmaskinit field, and, if needed, up the rcu_node tree.  The special
case of all CPUs corresponding to a given leaf rcu_node structure being
offline while there are still elements in that structure's ->blkd_tasks
list is handled using a new ->wait_blkd_tasks field.  In this case,
propagating the offline bits up the tree is deferred until the beginning
of the grace period after all of the tasks have exited their RCU read-side
critical sections and removed themselves from the list, at which point
the ->wait_blkd_tasks flag is cleared.  If one of that leaf rcu_node
structure's CPUs comes back online before the list empties, then the
->wait_blkd_tasks flag is simply cleared.

This of course means that RCU's notion of which CPUs are offline can be
out of date.  This is OK because RCU need only wait on CPUs that were
online at the time that the grace period started.  In addition, RCU's
force-quiescent-state actions will handle the case where a CPU goes
offline after the grace period starts.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-12 15:19:37 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
cc99a310ca rcu: Move rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() to common code
The rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() function is invoked when the
last task blocking the current grace period exits its outermost
RCU read-side critical section.  Previously, this was called only
from rcu_read_unlock_special(), and was therefore defined only when
CONFIG_RCU_PREEMPT=y.  However, this function will be invoked even when
CONFIG_RCU_PREEMPT=n once CPU-hotplug operations are processed only at
the beginnings of RCU grace periods.  The reason for this change is that
the last task on a given leaf rcu_node structure's ->blkd_tasks list
might well exit its RCU read-side critical section between the time that
recent CPU-hotplug operations were applied and when the new grace period
was initialized.  This situation could result in RCU waiting forever on
that leaf rcu_node structure, because if all that structure's CPUs were
already offline, there would be no quiescent-state events to drive that
structure's part of the grace period.

This commit therefore moves rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp() to common code
that is built unconditionally so that the quiescent-state-forcing code
can clean up after this situation, avoiding the grace-period stall.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-12 15:19:36 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
999c286347 rcu: Remove event tracing from rcu_cpu_notify(), used by offline CPUs
Offline CPUs cannot safely invoke trace events, but such CPUs do execute
within rcu_cpu_notify().  Therefore, this commit removes the trace events
from rcu_cpu_notify().  These trace events are for utilization, against
which rcu_cpu_notify() execution time should be negligible.

Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-11 13:22:39 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
37745d2810 rcu: Provide diagnostic option to slow down grace-period initialization
Grace-period initialization normally proceeds quite quickly, so
that it is very difficult to reproduce races against grace-period
initialization.  This commit therefore allows grace-period
initialization to be artificially slowed down, increasing
race-reproduction probability.  A pair of new Kconfig parameters are
provided, CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT to enable the slowdowns, and
CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY to specify the number of jiffies
of slowdown to apply.  A boot-time parameter named rcutree.gp_init_delay
allows boot-time delay to be specified.  By default, no delay will be
applied even if CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT is set.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-11 13:22:38 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
237a0f2193 rcu: Detect stalls caused by failure to propagate up rcu_node tree
If all CPUs have passed through quiescent states, then stalls might be
due to starvation of the grace-period kthread or to failure to propagate
the quiescent states up the rcu_node combining tree.  The current stall
warning messages do not differentiate, so this commit adds a printout
of the root rcu_node structure's ->qsmask field.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-11 13:22:38 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
78043c467a rcu: Put all orphan-callback-related code under same comment
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-11 13:22:37 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
b33078b609 rcu: Consolidate offline-CPU callback initialization
Currently, both rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu() and rcu_send_cbs_to_orphanage()
initialize the outgoing CPU's callback list.  However, only
rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu() invokes rcu_send_cbs_to_orphanage(), and
it does so unconditionally, which means that only one of these
initializations is required.  This commit therefore consolidates the
callback-list initialization with the rest of the callback handling in
rcu_send_cbs_to_orphanage().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-11 13:22:36 -07:00
Yao Dongdong
9910affa89 rcu: Remove redundant check of cpu_online()
Because invoke_cpu_core() checks whether the current CPU is online,
there is no need for __call_rcu_core() to redundantly check it.
There should not be any performance degradation because the called
function is visible to the compiler.  This commit therefore removes
the redundant check.

Signed-off-by: Yao Dongdong <yaodongdong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-03 11:17:34 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
e7580f3388 rcu: Get rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state() where it belongs
The very similar functions rcu_force_quiescent_state(),
rcu_bh_force_quiescent_state(), and rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state()
are supposed to be together, but have drifted apart.  This commit
restores rcu_sched_force_quiescent_state() to its rightful place.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-03 11:17:19 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
6629240575 rcu: Use IS_ENABLED() to CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT #ifdef
This commit uses IS_ENABLED() to remove the #ifdef from the
rcu_init_levelspread() functions.  No effect on executable code.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-03 11:14:08 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
4762767810 rcu: Move early boot callback tests earlier
Because callbacks can now be posted quite early in boot, move the
early boot callback tests to precede RCU initialization.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-03 11:06:22 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
34404ca8fb rcu: Move early-boot callbacks to no-CBs lists for no-CBs CPUs
When a CPU is first determined to be a no-CBs CPUs, this commit causes
any early boot callbacks to be moved to the no-CBs callback list,
allowing them to be invoked.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-03-03 11:06:02 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
5871968d53 rcu: Tighten up affinity and check for sysidle
If the RCU grace-period kthread invoking rcu_sysidle_check_cpu()
happens to be running on the tick_do_timer_cpu initially,
then rcu_bind_gp_kthread() won't bind it.  This kthread might
then migrate before invoking rcu_gp_fqs(), which will trigger the
WARN_ON_ONCE() in rcu_sysidle_check_cpu().  This commit therefore makes
rcu_bind_gp_kthread() do the binding even if the kthread is currently
on the same CPU.  Because this incurs added overhead, this commit also
causes each RCU grace-period kthread to invoke rcu_bind_gp_kthread()
once at boot rather than at the beginning of each grace period.
And as long as rcu_bind_gp_kthread() is being modified, this commit
eliminates its #ifdef.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26 16:04:37 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
675da67f24 rcu: Fixes to NO_HZ_FULL sysidle accounting
On second and subsequent passes through quiescent-state forcing, the
isidle variable was initialized to false, which would prevent full sysidle
state from being reached if a grace period needed more than one round
of quiescent-state forcing (which most should not).  However, the check
for offline CPUs in the quiescent-state forcing main loop had the wrong
sense, which could prevent CPUs from ever entering full sysidle state.

This commit fixes both of these bugs.  Given that sysidle is not yet
wired up, this has no effect in old kernels, but might have proven
frustrating had anyone attempted to wire it up.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26 12:11:03 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
5afff48bdf rcu: Update from rcu_expedited variable to rcu_gp_is_expedited()
This commit updates open-coded tests of the rcu_expedited variable
to instead use rcu_gp_is_expedited().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26 12:03:01 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
1925d1967c rcu: Fix a couple of typos in rcu_all_qs() comment header
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26 12:02:10 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
39c8d313c3 rcu: Avoid clobbering early boot callbacks
When a CPU comes online, it initializes its callback list.  This
is a bad thing if this is the first time that the CPU has come
online and if that CPU has early boot callbacks.  This commit therefore
avoid initializing the callback list if there are callbacks present,
in which case the initial call_rcu() did the initialization for us.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26 12:01:30 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
143da9c2fc rcu: Prevent early-boot RCU callbacks from splatting
Currently, a call_rcu() that precedes rcu_init() will splat due to the
callback lists not having yet been initialized.  This commit causes the
first such callback to initialize the boot CPU's RCU callback list.

Note that this commit does not change rcu_init()-time initialization,
which means that the callback will be discarded at rcu_init() time.
Fixing this is the job of later commits.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26 12:01:28 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
2723249a31 rcu: Wire ->rda pointers at compile time
This commit wires up the rcu_state structures' ->rda pointers to the
per-CPU rcu_data structures at compile time, thus ensuring that this
linkage is present at early boot, in turn allowing posting of callbacks
before rcu_init() is executed.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26 12:01:27 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
d3f3f3f25b rcu: Abstract default callback-list initialization from init_callback_list()
In preparation for early-boot posting of callbacks, this commit abstracts
initialization of the default (non-no-CB) callbacks list from the
init_callback_list() function into a new init_default_callback_list()
function.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-26 12:01:25 -08:00
Lai Jiangshan
3f47da0f32 rcu_tree: Avoid touching rnp->completed when a new GP is started
In rcu_gp_init(), rnp->completed equals to rsp->completed in THEORY,
we don't need to touch it normally.  If something goes wrong,
it will complain and fixup rnp->completed and avoid oops.
This commit thus avoids the normal needless store to rnp->completed.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-02-25 17:03:05 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
78e691f4ae Merge branches 'doc.2015.01.07a', 'fixes.2015.01.15a', 'preempt.2015.01.06a', 'srcu.2015.01.06a', 'stall.2015.01.16a' and 'torture.2015.01.11a' into HEAD
doc.2015.01.07a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2015.01.15a: Miscellaneous fixes.
preempt.2015.01.06a: Changes to handling of lists of preempted tasks.
srcu.2015.01.06a: SRCU updates.
stall.2015.01.16a: RCU CPU stall-warning updates and fixes.
torture.2015.01.11a: RCU torture-test updates and fixes.
2015-01-15 23:34:34 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
fb81a44b88 rcu: Add GP-kthread-starvation checks to CPU stall warnings
This commit adds a message that is printed if the relevant grace-period
kthread has not been able to run for the two seconds preceding the
stall warning.  (The two seconds is double the maximum interval between
successive bouts of quiescent-state forcing.)

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-15 23:33:15 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
5cd37193ce rcu: Make cond_resched_rcu_qs() apply to normal RCU flavors
Although cond_resched_rcu_qs() only applies to TASKS_RCU, it is used
in places where it would be useful for it to apply to the normal RCU
flavors, rcu_preempt, rcu_sched, and rcu_bh.  This is especially the
case for workloads that aggressively overload the system, particularly
those that generate large numbers of RCU updates on systems running
NO_HZ_FULL CPUs.  This commit therefore communicates quiescent states
from cond_resched_rcu_qs() to the normal RCU flavors.

Note that it is unfortunately necessary to leave the old ->passed_quiesce
mechanism in place to allow quiescent states that apply to only one
flavor to be recorded.  (Yes, we could decrement ->rcu_qs_ctr_snap in
that case, but that is not so good for debugging of RCU internals.)
In addition, if one of the RCU flavor's grace period has stalled, this
will invoke rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle(), resulting in a heavy-weight
quiescent state visible from other CPUs.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Merge commit from Sasha Levin fixing a bug where __this_cpu()
  was used in preemptible code. ]
2015-01-15 23:33:14 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
a94844b22a rcu: Optionally run grace-period kthreads at real-time priority
Recent testing has shown that under heavy load, running RCU's grace-period
kthreads at real-time priority can improve performance (according to 0day
test robot) and reduce the incidence of RCU CPU stall warnings.  However,
most systems do just fine with the default non-realtime priorities for
these kthreads, and it does not make sense to expose the entire user
base to any risk stemming from this change, given that this change is
of use only to a few users running extremely heavy workloads.

Therefore, this commit allows users to specify realtime priorities
for the grace-period kthreads, but leaves them running SCHED_OTHER
by default.  The realtime priority may be specified at build time
via the RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO Kconfig parameter, or at boot time via the
rcutree.kthread_prio parameter.  Either way, 0 says to continue the
default SCHED_OTHER behavior and values from 1-99 specify that priority
of SCHED_FIFO behavior.  Note that a value of 0 is not permitted when
the RCU_BOOST Kconfig parameter is specified.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-15 23:25:04 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
917963d0b3 rcutorture: Check from beginning to end of grace period
Currently, rcutorture's Reader Batch checks measure from the end of
the previous grace period to the end of the current one.  This commit
tightens up these checks by measuring from the start and end of the same
grace period.  This involves adding rcu_batches_started() and friends
corresponding to the existing rcu_batches_completed() and friends.

We leave SRCU alone for the moment, as it does not yet have a way of
tracking both ends of its grace periods.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-10 19:08:02 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
9733e4f0a9 rcu: Make _batches_completed() functions return unsigned long
Long ago, the various ->completed fields were of type long, but now are
unsigned long due to signed-integer-overflow concerns.  However, the
various _batches_completed() functions remained of type long, even though
their only purpose in life is to return the corresponding ->completed
field.  This patch cleans this up by changing these functions' return
types to unsigned long.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-10 19:07:56 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
e3663b1024 rcu: Handle gpnum/completed wrap while dyntick idle
Subtle race conditions can result if a CPU stays in dyntick-idle mode
long enough for the ->gpnum and ->completed fields to wrap.  For
example, consider the following sequence of events:

o	CPU 1 encounters a quiescent state while waiting for grace period
	5 to complete, but then enters dyntick-idle mode.

o	While CPU 1 is in dyntick-idle mode, the grace-period counters
	wrap around so that the grace period number is now 4.

o	Just as CPU 1 exits dyntick-idle mode, grace period 4 completes
	and grace period 5 begins.

o	The quiescent state that CPU 1 passed through during the old
	grace period 5 looks like it applies to the new grace period
	5.  Therefore, the new grace period 5 completes without CPU 1
	having passed through a quiescent state.

This could clearly be a fatal surprise to any long-running RCU read-side
critical section that happened to be running on CPU 1 at the time.  At one
time, this was not a problem, given that it takes significant time for
the grace-period counters to overflow even on 32-bit systems.  However,
with the advent of NO_HZ_FULL and SMP embedded systems, arbitrarily long
idle periods are now becoming quite feasible.  It is therefore time to
close this race.

This commit therefore avoids this race condition by having the
quiescent-state forcing code detect when a CPU is falling too far
behind, and setting a new rcu_data field ->gpwrap when this happens.
Whenever this new ->gpwrap field is set, the CPU's ->gpnum and ->completed
fields are known to be untrustworthy, and can be ignored, along with
any associated quiescent states.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:05:28 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
6ccd2ecd42 rcu: Improve diagnostics for spurious RCU CPU stall warnings
The current RCU CPU stall warning code will print "Stall ended before
state dump start" any time that the stall-warning code is triggered on
a CPU that has already reported a quiescent state for the current grace
period and if all quiescent states have been reported for the current
grace period.  However, a true stall can result in these symptoms, for
example, by preventing RCU's grace-period kthreads from ever running

This commit therefore checks for this condition, reporting the end of
the stall only if one of the grace-period counters has actually advanced.
Otherwise, it reports the last time that the grace-period kthread made
meaningful progress.  (In normal situations, the grace-period kthread
should make meaningful progress at least every jiffies_till_next_fqs
jiffies.)

Reported-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@suse.cz>
2015-01-06 11:05:27 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
fc908ed33e rcu: Make RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO include number of fqs attempts
One way that an RCU CPU stall warning can happen is if the grace-period
kthread is not allowed to execute.  One proxy for this kthread's
forward progress is the number of force-quiescent-state (fqs) scans.
This commit therefore adds the number of fqs scans to the RCU CPU stall
warning printouts when CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO=y.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:05:25 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
ab954c167e rcu: Remove redundant callback-list initialization
The RCU callback lists are initialized in both rcu_boot_init_percpu_data()
and rcu_init_percpu_data().  The former is intended for initializing
immutable data, so this commit removes the initialization from
rcu_boot_init_percpu_data() and leaves it in rcu_init_percpu_data().
This change prepares for permitting callbacks to be queued very early
in boot.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:54 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
6cd534ef8b rcu: Don't scan root rcu_node structure for stalled tasks
Now that blocked tasks are no longer migrated to the root rcu_node
structure, there is no need to scan the root rcu_node structure for
blocked tasks stalling the current grace period.  This commit therefore
removes this scan.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:53 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
3ba4d0e09b rcu: Note quiescent state when CPU goes offline
The rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu() function (called after a CPU has gone
completely offline) has not reported a quiescent state because there
was probably at least one synchronize_rcu() between the time the CPU
went offline and the CPU_DEAD notifier, and this would have detected
the CPU's offline state via quiescent-state forcing.  However, the plan
is for CPUs to take themselves offline, at which point it makes sense
for them to report their own quiescent state.  This commit makes this
change in preparation for the new CPU-hotplug setup.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:51 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
1be0085b51 rcu: Don't initiate RCU priority boosting on root rcu_node
Because there is no longer any preempted tasks on the root rcu_node, and
because there is no longer ever an rcub kthread for the root rcu_node,
this commit drops the code in force_qs_rnp() that attempts to awaken
the non-existent root rcub kthread.  This is strictly a performance
enhancement, removing a root rcu_node ->lock acquisition and release
along with some tests in rcu_initiate_boost(), ending with the test that
notes that there is no rcub kthread.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:48 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
a8f4cbadfb rcu: Shorten irq-disable region in rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu()
Now that we are not migrating callbacks, there is no need to hold the
->orphan_lock across the the ->qsmaskinit bit-clearing process.
This commit therefore releases ->orphan_lock immediately after adopting
the orphaned RCU callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:45 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
d19fb8d1f3 rcu: Don't migrate blocked tasks even if all corresponding CPUs offline
When the last CPU associated with a given leaf rcu_node structure
goes offline, something must be done about the tasks queued on that
rcu_node structure.  Each of these tasks has been preempted on one of
the leaf rcu_node structure's CPUs while in an RCU read-side critical
section that it have not yet exited.  Handling these tasks is the job of
rcu_preempt_offline_tasks(), which migrates them from the leaf rcu_node
structure to the root rcu_node structure.

Unfortunately, this migration has to be done one task at a time because
each tasks allegiance must be shifted from the original leaf rcu_node to
the root, so that future attempts to deal with these tasks will acquire
the root rcu_node structure's ->lock rather than that of the leaf.
Worse yet, this migration must be done with interrupts disabled, which
is not so good for realtime response, especially given that there is
no bound on the number of tasks on a given rcu_node structure's list.
(OK, OK, there is a bound, it is just that it is unreasonably large,
especially on 64-bit systems.)  This was not considered a problem back
when rcu_preempt_offline_tasks() was first written because realtime
systems were assumed not to do CPU-hotplug operations while real-time
applications were running.  This assumption has proved of dubious validity
given that people are starting to run multiple realtime applications
on a single SMP system and that it is common practice to offline then
online a CPU before starting its real-time application in order to clear
extraneous processing off of that CPU.  So we now need CPU hotplug
operations to avoid undue latencies.

This commit therefore avoids migrating these tasks, instead letting
them be dequeued one by one from the original leaf rcu_node structure
by rcu_read_unlock_special().  This means that the clearing of bits
from the upper-level rcu_node structures must be deferred until the
last such task has been dequeued, because otherwise subsequent grace
periods won't wait on them.  This commit has the beneficial side effect
of simplifying the CPU-hotplug code for TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, especially in
CONFIG_RCU_BOOST builds.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:44 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
b6a932d1d9 rcu: Make rcu_read_unlock_special() propagate ->qsmaskinit bit clearing
This commit causes rcu_read_unlock_special() to propagate ->qsmaskinit
bit clearing up the rcu_node tree once a given rcu_node structure's
blkd_tasks list becomes empty.  This is the final commit in preparation
for the rework of RCU priority boosting:  It enables preempted tasks to
remain queued on their rcu_node structure even after all of that rcu_node
structure's CPUs have gone offline.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:43 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
8af3a5e78c rcu: Abstract rcu_cleanup_dead_rnp() from rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu()
This commit abstracts rcu_cleanup_dead_rnp() from rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu()
in preparation for the rework of RCU priority boosting.  This new function
will be invoked from rcu_read_unlock_special() in the reworked scheme,
which is why rcu_cleanup_dead_rnp() assumes that the leaf rcu_node
structure's ->qsmaskinit field has already been updated.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:02:41 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
41050a0096 rcu: Fix rcu_barrier() race that could result in too-short wait
The rcu_barrier() no-callbacks check for no-CBs CPUs has race conditions.
It checks a given CPU's lists of callbacks, and if all three no-CBs lists
are empty, ignores that CPU.  However, these three lists could potentially
be empty even when callbacks are present if the check executed just as
the callbacks were being moved from one list to another.  It turns out
that recent versions of rcutorture can spot this race.

This commit plugs this hole by consolidating the per-list counts of
no-CBs callbacks into a single count, which is incremented before
the corresponding callback is posted and after it is invoked.  Then
rcu_barrier() checks this single count to reliably determine whether
the corresponding CPU has no-CBs callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:01:15 -08:00
Lai Jiangshan
5f6130fa52 tiny_rcu: Directly force QS when call_rcu_[bh|sched]() on idle_task
For RCU in UP, context-switch = QS = GP, thus we can force a
context-switch when any call_rcu_[bh|sched]() is happened on idle_task.
After doing so, rcu_idle/irq_enter/exit() are useless, so we can simply
make these functions empty.

More important, this change does not change the functionality logically.
Note: raise_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ)/rcu_sched_qs() in rcu_idle_enter() and
outmost rcu_irq_exit() will have to wake up the ksoftirqd
(due to in_interrupt() == 0).

Before this patch		After this patch:
call_rcu_sched() in idle;	call_rcu_sched() in idle
				  set resched
do other stuffs;		do other stuffs
outmost rcu_irq_exit()		outmost rcu_irq_exit() (empty function)
  (or rcu_idle_enter())		  (or rcu_idle_enter(), also empty function)
				start to resched. (see above)
  rcu_sched_qs()		rcu_sched_qs()
    QS,and GP and advance cb	  QS,and GP and advance cb
    wake up the ksoftirqd	    wake up the ksoftirqd
      set resched
resched to ksoftirqd (or other)	resched to ksoftirqd (or other)

These two code patches are almost the same.

Size changed after patched:

size kernel/rcu/tiny-old.o kernel/rcu/tiny-patched.o
   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
   3449	    206	      8	   3663	    e4f	kernel/rcu/tiny-old.o
   2406	    144	      8	   2558	    9fe	kernel/rcu/tiny-patched.o

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06 11:01:12 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
924df8a011 rcu: Fix invoke_rcu_callbacks() comment
Despite what the comment says, it is only softirqs that are disabled,
not interrupts.  This commit therefore fixes the comment.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-12-30 17:40:19 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
734d168013 rcu: Make rcu_nmi_enter() handle nesting
The x86 architecture has multiple types of NMI-like interrupts: real
NMIs, machine checks, and, for some values of NMI-like, debugging
and breakpoint interrupts.  These interrupts can nest inside each
other.  Andy Lutomirski is adding RCU support to these interrupts,
so rcu_nmi_enter() and rcu_nmi_exit() must now correctly handle nesting.

This commit therefore introduces nesting, using a clever NMI-coordination
algorithm suggested by Andy.  The trick is to atomically increment
->dynticks (if needed) before manipulating ->dynticks_nmi_nesting on entry
(and, accordingly, after on exit).  In addition, ->dynticks_nmi_nesting
is incremented by one if ->dynticks was incremented and by two otherwise.
This means that when rcu_nmi_exit() sees ->dynticks_nmi_nesting equal
to one, it knows that ->dynticks must be atomically incremented.

This NMI-coordination algorithms has been validated by the following
Promela model:

------------------------------------------------------------------------

/*
 * Promela model for Andy Lutomirski's suggested change to rcu_nmi_enter()
 * that allows nesting.
 *
 * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
 * along with this program; if not, you can access it online at
 * http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html.
 *
 * Copyright IBM Corporation, 2014
 *
 * Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
 */

byte dynticks_nmi_nesting = 0;
byte dynticks = 0;

/*
 * Promela verision of rcu_nmi_enter().
 */
inline rcu_nmi_enter()
{
	byte incby;
	byte tmp;

	incby = BUSY_INCBY;
	assert(dynticks_nmi_nesting >= 0);
	if
	:: (dynticks & 1) == 0 ->
		atomic {
			dynticks = dynticks + 1;
		}
		assert((dynticks & 1) == 1);
		incby = 1;
	:: else ->
		skip;
	fi;
	tmp = dynticks_nmi_nesting;
	tmp = tmp + incby;
	dynticks_nmi_nesting = tmp;
	assert(dynticks_nmi_nesting >= 1);
}

/*
 * Promela verision of rcu_nmi_exit().
 */
inline rcu_nmi_exit()
{
	byte tmp;

	assert(dynticks_nmi_nesting > 0);
	assert((dynticks & 1) != 0);
	if
	:: dynticks_nmi_nesting != 1 ->
		tmp = dynticks_nmi_nesting;
		tmp = tmp - BUSY_INCBY;
		dynticks_nmi_nesting = tmp;
	:: else ->
		dynticks_nmi_nesting = 0;
		atomic {
			dynticks = dynticks + 1;
		}
		assert((dynticks & 1) == 0);
	fi;
}

/*
 * Base-level NMI runs non-atomically.  Crudely emulates process-level
 * dynticks-idle entry/exit.
 */
proctype base_NMI()
{
	byte busy;

	busy = 0;
	do
	::	/* Emulate base-level dynticks and not. */
		if
		:: 1 ->	atomic {
				dynticks = dynticks + 1;
			}
			busy = 1;
		:: 1 ->	skip;
		fi;

		/* Verify that we only sometimes have base-level dynticks. */
		if
		:: busy == 0 -> skip;
		:: busy == 1 -> skip;
		fi;

		/* Model RCU's NMI entry and exit actions. */
		rcu_nmi_enter();
		assert((dynticks & 1) == 1);
		rcu_nmi_exit();

		/* Emulated re-entering base-level dynticks and not. */
		if
		:: !busy -> skip;
		:: busy ->
			atomic {
				dynticks = dynticks + 1;
			}
			busy = 0;
		fi;

		/* We had better now be in dyntick-idle mode. */
		assert((dynticks & 1) == 0);
	od;
}

/*
 * Nested NMI runs atomically to emulate interrupting base_level().
 */
proctype nested_NMI()
{
	do
	::	/*
		 * Use an atomic section to model a nested NMI.  This is
		 * guaranteed to interleave into base_NMI() between a pair
		 * of base_NMI() statements, just as a nested NMI would.
		 */
		atomic {
			/* Verify that we only sometimes are in dynticks. */
			if
			:: (dynticks & 1) == 0 -> skip;
			:: (dynticks & 1) == 1 -> skip;
			fi;

			/* Model RCU's NMI entry and exit actions. */
			rcu_nmi_enter();
			assert((dynticks & 1) == 1);
			rcu_nmi_exit();
		}
	od;
}

init {
	run base_NMI();
	run nested_NMI();
}

------------------------------------------------------------------------

The following script can be used to run this model if placed in
rcu_nmi.spin:

------------------------------------------------------------------------

if ! spin -a rcu_nmi.spin
then
	echo Spin errors!!!
	exit 1
fi
if ! cc -DSAFETY -o pan pan.c
then
	echo Compilation errors!!!
	exit 1
fi
./pan -m100000

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2014-12-30 17:40:16 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney
9ea6c58856 Merge branches 'torture.2014.11.03a', 'cpu.2014.11.03a', 'doc.2014.11.13a', 'fixes.2014.11.13a', 'signal.2014.10.29a' and 'rt.2014.10.29a' into HEAD
cpu.2014.11.03a: Changes for per-CPU variables.
doc.2014.11.13a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2014.11.13a: Miscellaneous fixes.
signal.2014.10.29a: Signal changes.
rt.2014.10.29a: Real-time changes.
torture.2014.11.03a: torture-test changes.
2014-11-13 10:39:04 -08:00