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2014-05-19rcu: Provide API to suppress stall warnings while sysrc runsRik van Riel1-0/+12
Some sysrq handlers can run for a long time, because they dump a lot of data onto a serial console. Having RCU stall warnings pop up in the middle of them only makes the problem worse. This commit provides rcu_sysrq_start() and rcu_sysrq_end() APIs to temporarily suppress RCU CPU stall warnings while a sysrq request is handled. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> [ paulmck: Fix TINY_RCU build error. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-05-14sched,rcu: Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent statesPaul E. McKenney1-0/+18
Given a CPU running a loop containing cond_resched(), with no other tasks runnable on that CPU, RCU will eventually report RCU CPU stall warnings due to lack of quiescent states. Fortunately, every call to cond_resched() is a perfectly good quiescent state. Unfortunately, invoking rcu_note_context_switch() is a bit heavyweight for cond_resched(), especially given the need to disable preemption, and, for RCU-preempt, interrupts as well. This commit therefore maintains a per-CPU counter that causes cond_resched(), cond_resched_lock(), and cond_resched_softirq() to call rcu_note_context_switch(), but only about once per 256 invocations. This ratio was chosen in keeping with the relative time constants of RCU grace periods. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-26rcu: Ensure kernel/rcu/rcu.h can be sourced/used stand-alonePaul Gortmaker1-1/+0
The kbuild test bot uncovered an implicit dependence on the trace header being present before rcu.h in ia64 allmodconfig that looks like this: In file included from kernel/ksysfs.c:22:0: kernel/rcu/rcu.h: In function '__rcu_reclaim': kernel/rcu/rcu.h:107:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'trace_rcu_invoke_kfree_callback' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] kernel/rcu/rcu.h:112:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'trace_rcu_invoke_callback' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] cc1: some warnings being treated as errors Looking at other rcu.h users, we can find that they all were sourcing the trace header in advance of rcu.h itself, as seen in the context of this diff. There were also some inconsistencies as to whether it was or wasn't sourced based on the parent tracing Kconfig. Rather than "fix" it at each use site, and have inconsistent use based on whether "#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TRACE" was used or not, lets just source the trace header just once, in the actual consumer of it, which is rcu.h itself. We include it unconditionally, as build testing shows us that is a hard requirement for some files. Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-02-18rcu: Stop tracking FSF's postal addressPaul E. McKenney1-2/+2
All of the RCU source files have the usual GPL header, which contains a long-obsolete postal address for FSF. To avoid the need to track the FSF office's movements, this commit substitutes the URL where GPL may be found. Reported-by: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-01-28Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-11/+0
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs updates from Al Viro: "Assorted stuff; the biggest pile here is Christoph's ACL series. Plus assorted cleanups and fixes all over the place... There will be another pile later this week" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (43 commits) __dentry_path() fixes vfs: Remove second variable named error in __dentry_path vfs: Is mounted should be testing mnt_ns for NULL or error. Fix race when checking i_size on direct i/o read hfsplus: remove can_set_xattr nfsd: use get_acl and ->set_acl fs: remove generic_acl nfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure for v3 Posix ACLs gfs2: use generic posix ACL infrastructure jfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure xfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure reiserfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure ocfs2: use generic posix ACL infrastructure jffs2: use generic posix ACL infrastructure hfsplus: use generic posix ACL infrastructure f2fs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure ext2/3/4: use generic posix ACL infrastructure btrfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure fs: make posix_acl_create more useful fs: make posix_acl_chmod more useful ...
2014-01-25introduce __fcheck_files() to fix rcu_dereference_check_fdtable(), kill ↵Oleg Nesterov1-11/+0
rcu_my_thread_group_empty() rcu_dereference_check_fdtable() looks very wrong, 1. rcu_my_thread_group_empty() was added by 844b9a8707f1 "vfs: fix RCU-lockdep false positive due to /proc" but it doesn't really fix the problem. A CLONE_THREAD (without CLONE_FILES) task can hit the same race with get_files_struct(). And otoh rcu_my_thread_group_empty() can suppress the correct warning if the caller is the CLONE_FILES (without CLONE_THREAD) task. 2. files->count == 1 check is not really right too. Even if this files_struct is not shared it is not safe to access it lockless unless the caller is the owner. Otoh, this check is sub-optimal. files->count == 0 always means it is safe to use it lockless even if files != current->files, but put_files_struct() has to take rcu_read_lock(). See the next patch. This patch removes the buggy checks and turns fcheck_files() into __fcheck_files() which uses rcu_dereference_raw(), the "unshared" callers, fget_light() and fget_raw_light(), can use it to avoid the warning from RCU-lockdep. fcheck_files() is trivially reimplemented as rcu_lockdep_assert() plus __fcheck_files(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2013-12-10rcu: Provide better diagnostics for blocking in RCU callback functionsPaul E. McKenney1-0/+5
Currently blocking in an RCU callback function will result in "scheduling while atomic", which could be triggered for any number of reasons. To aid debugging, this patch introduces a rcu_callback_map that is used to tie the inappropriate voluntary context switch back to the fact that the function is being invoked from within a callback. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-10-15rcu: Move RCU-related source code to kernel/rcu directoryPaul E. McKenney1-0/+347
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>