kernel/linux.git/include/linux/srcu.h, branch v6.19.11

srcu: Create an SRCU-fast-updown API

2025-11-27T13:22:31+00:00

This commit creates an SRCU-fast-updown API, including DEFINE_SRCU_FAST_UPDOWN(), DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU_FAST_UPDOWN(), __init_srcu_struct_fast_updown(), init_srcu_struct_fast_updown(), srcu_read_lock_fast_updown(), srcu_read_unlock_fast_updown(), __srcu_read_lock_fast_updown(), and __srcu_read_unlock_fast_updown(). These are initially identical to their SRCU-fast counterparts, but both SRCU-fast and SRCU-fast-updown will be optimized in different directions by later commits. SRCU-fast will lack any sort of srcu_down_read() and srcu_up_read() APIs, which will enable extremely efficient NMI safety. For its part, SRCU-fast-updown will not be NMI safe, which will enable reasonably efficient implementations of srcu_down_read_fast() and srcu_up_read_fast(). This API fork happens to meet two different future use cases. * SRCU-fast will become the reimplementation basis for RCU-TASK-TRACE for consolidation. Since RCU-TASK-TRACE must be NMI safe, SRCU-fast must be as well. * SRCU-fast-updown will be needed for uretprobes code in order to get rid of the read-side memory barriers while still allowing entering the reader at task level while exiting it in a timer handler. This commit also adds rcutorture tests for the new APIs. This (annoyingly) needs to be in the same commit for bisectability. With this commit, the 0x8 value tests SRCU-fast-updown. However, most SRCU-fast testing will be via the RCU Tasks Trace wrappers. [ paulmck: Apply s/0x8/0x4/ missing change per Boqun Feng feedback. ] [ paulmck: Apply Akira Yokosawa feedback. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Andrii Nakryiko Cc: Alexei Starovoitov Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

srcu: Add SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_FAST_UPDOWN CPP macro

2025-11-07T12:57:38+00:00

This commit adds the SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_FAST_UPDOWN=0x8 macro and adjusts rcutorture to make use of it. In this commit, both SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_FAST=0x4 and the new SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_FAST_UPDOWN test SRCU-fast. When the SRCU-fast-updown is added, the new SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_FAST_UPDOWN macro will test it when passed to the rcutorture.reader_flavor module parameter. The old SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_FAST macro's value changed from 0x8 to 0x4. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

srcu: Make SRCU-fast readers enforce use of SRCU-fast definition/init

2025-11-05T22:58:28+00:00

This commit makes CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y kernels enforce the new rule that srcu_struct structures that are passed to srcu_read_lock_fast() and other SRCU-fast read-side markers be either initialized with init_srcu_struct_fast() on the one hand or defined with DEFINE_SRCU_FAST() or DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU_FAST() on the other. This eliminates the read-side test that was formerly included in srcu_read_lock_fast() and friends, speeding these primitives up by about 25% (admittedly only about half of a nanosecond, but when tracing on fastpaths...) Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

srcu: Require special srcu_struct define/init for SRCU-fast readers

2025-11-05T22:58:26+00:00

This commit adds CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y checking to enforce the new rule that srcu_struct structures passed to srcu_read_lock_fast() and other SRCU-fast read-side markers be either initialized with init_srcu_struct_fast() on the one hand or defined using either DEFINE_SRCU_FAST() or DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU_FAST(). This will enable removal of the non-debug read-side checks from srcu_read_lock_fast() and friends, which on my laptop provides a 25% speedup (which admittedly amounts to about half a nanosecond, but when tracing fastpaths...) Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

srcu: Create a DEFINE_SRCU_FAST()

2025-11-05T22:58:20+00:00

This commit creates DEFINE_SRCU_FAST() and DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU_FAST() macros that are similar to DEFINE_SRCU() and DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU(), but which create srcu_struct structures that are usable only by readers initiated by srcu_read_lock_fast() and friends. This commit does make DEFINE_SRCU_FAST() available to modules, in which case the per-CPU srcu_data structures are not created at compile time, but rather at module-load time. This means that the >srcu_reader_flavor field of the srcu_data structure is not available. Therefore, this commit instead creates an ->srcu_reader_flavor field in the srcu_struct structure, adds arguments to the DEFINE_SRCU()-related macros to initialize this new field, and extends the checks in the __srcu_check_read_flavor() function to include this new field. This commit also allows dynamically allocated srcu_struct structure to be marked for SRCU-fast readers. It does so by defining a new init_srcu_struct_fast() function that marks the specified srcu_struct structure for use by srcu_read_lock_fast() and friends. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc: Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

srcu: Add guards for notrace variants of SRCU-fast readers

2025-08-14T22:25:49+00:00

This adds the usual scoped_guard(srcu_fast_notrace, &my_srcu) and guard(srcu_fast_notrace)(&my_srcu). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc:

srcu: Add srcu_read_lock_fast_notrace() and srcu_read_unlock_fast_notrace()

2025-08-14T22:25:48+00:00

This commit adds no-trace variants of the srcu_read_lock_fast() and srcu_read_unlock_fast() functions for tracing use. [ paulmck: Apply notrace feedback from Joel Fernandes, Steven Rostedt, and Mathieu Desnoyers. ] [ paulmck: Apply excess-notrace feedback from Boqun Feng. ] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250721162433.10454-1-paulmck@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc:

srcu: Move rcu_is_watching() checks to srcu_read_{,un}lock_fast()

2025-08-14T22:25:48+00:00

The rcu_is_watching() warnings are currently in the SRCU-tree implementations of __srcu_read_lock_fast() and __srcu_read_unlock_fast(). However, this makes it difficult to create _notrace variants of srcu_read_lock_fast() and srcu_read_unlock_fast(). This commit therefore moves these checks to srcu_read_lock_fast(), srcu_read_unlock_fast(), srcu_down_read_fast(), and srcu_up_read_fast(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Cc:

srcu: Add guards for SRCU-fast readers

2025-07-19T04:47:56+00:00

This adds the usual scoped_guard(srcu_fast, &my_srcu) and guard(srcu_fast)(&my_srcu). Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD)

srcu: Remove SRCU-lite implementation

2025-07-16T04:21:08+00:00

This commit removes the SRCU-lite implementation, which has been replaced by SRCU-fast. Both SRCU-lite and SRCU-fast provide faster readers by dropping the smp_mb() call from their lock and unlock primitives, but incur a pair of added RCU grace periods during the SRCU grace period. There is a trivial mapping from the SRCU-lite API to that of SRCU-fast, so there should be no transition issues. [ paulmck: Apply Christoph Hellwig feedback. ] Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD)