Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The major changes:

  - Simplify RCU's grace-period and callback processing based on the new
    numbering for callbacks.

  - Removal of TINY_PREEMPT_RCU in favor of TREE_PREEMPT_RCU for
    single-CPU low-latency systems.

  - SRCU-related changes and fixes.

  - Miscellaneous fixes, including converting a few remaining printk()
    calls to pr_*().

  - Documentation updates"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
  rcu: Shrink TINY_RCU by reworking CPU-stall ifdefs
  rcu: Shrink TINY_RCU by moving exit_rcu()
  rcu: Remove TINY_PREEMPT_RCU tracing documentation
  rcu: Consolidate rcutiny_plugin.h ifdefs
  rcu: Remove rcu_preempt_note_context_switch()
  rcu: Remove the CONFIG_TINY_RCU ifdefs in rcutiny.h
  rcu: Remove check_cpu_stall_preempt()
  rcu: Simplify RCU_TINY RCU callback invocation
  rcu: Remove rcu_preempt_process_callbacks()
  rcu: Remove rcu_preempt_remove_callbacks()
  rcu: Remove rcu_preempt_check_callbacks()
  rcu: Remove show_tiny_preempt_stats()
  rcu: Remove TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
  powerpc,kvm: fix imbalance srcu_read_[un]lock()
  rcu: Remove srcu_read_lock_raw() and srcu_read_unlock_raw().
  rcu: Apply Dave Jones's NOCB Kconfig help feedback
  rcu: Merge adjacent identical ifdefs
  rcu: Drive quiescent-state-forcing delay from HZ
  rcu: Remove "Experimental" flags
  kthread: Add kworker kthreads to OS-jitter documentation
  ...

6 files changed, 125 insertions, 135 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt
index 79e789b8b8ea..7703ec73a9bb 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt
@@ -354,12 +354,6 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome!
 	using RCU rather than SRCU, because RCU is almost always faster
 	and easier to use than is SRCU.
 
-	If you need to enter your read-side critical section in a
-	hardirq or exception handler, and then exit that same read-side
-	critical section in the task that was interrupted, then you need
-	to srcu_read_lock_raw() and srcu_read_unlock_raw(), which avoid
-	the lockdep checking that would otherwise this practice illegal.
-
 	Also unlike other forms of RCU, explicit initialization
 	and cleanup is required via init_srcu_struct() and
 	cleanup_srcu_struct().	These are passed a "struct srcu_struct"
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
index 7dce8a17eac2..d8a502387397 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/torture.txt
@@ -182,12 +182,6 @@ torture_type	The type of RCU to test, with string values as follows:
 		"srcu_expedited": srcu_read_lock(), srcu_read_unlock() and
 			synchronize_srcu_expedited().
 
-		"srcu_raw": srcu_read_lock_raw(), srcu_read_unlock_raw(),
-			and call_srcu().
-
-		"srcu_raw_sync": srcu_read_lock_raw(), srcu_read_unlock_raw(),
-			and synchronize_srcu().
-
 		"sched": preempt_disable(), preempt_enable(), and
 			call_rcu_sched().
 
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt b/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt
index c776968f4463..f3778f8952da 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/trace.txt
@@ -530,113 +530,21 @@ o	"nos" counts the number of times we balked for other
 	reasons, e.g., the grace period ended first.
 
 
-CONFIG_TINY_RCU and CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU debugfs Files and Formats
+CONFIG_TINY_RCU debugfs Files and Formats
 
 These implementations of RCU provides a single debugfs file under the
 top-level directory RCU, namely rcu/rcudata, which displays fields in
-rcu_bh_ctrlblk, rcu_sched_ctrlblk and, for CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU,
-rcu_preempt_ctrlblk.
+rcu_bh_ctrlblk and rcu_sched_ctrlblk.
 
 The output of "cat rcu/rcudata" is as follows:
 
-rcu_preempt: qlen=24 gp=1097669 g197/p197/c197 tasks=...
-             ttb=. btg=no ntb=184 neb=0 nnb=183 j=01f7 bt=0274
-             normal balk: nt=1097669 gt=0 bt=371 b=0 ny=25073378 nos=0
-             exp balk: bt=0 nos=0
 rcu_sched: qlen: 0
 rcu_bh: qlen: 0
 
-This is split into rcu_preempt, rcu_sched, and rcu_bh sections, with the
-rcu_preempt section appearing only in CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU builds.
-The last three lines of the rcu_preempt section appear only in
-CONFIG_RCU_BOOST kernel builds.  The fields are as follows:
+This is split into rcu_sched and rcu_bh sections.  The field is as
+follows:
 
 o	"qlen" is the number of RCU callbacks currently waiting either
 	for an RCU grace period or waiting to be invoked.  This is the
 	only field present for rcu_sched and rcu_bh, due to the
 	short-circuiting of grace period in those two cases.
-
-o	"gp" is the number of grace periods that have completed.
-
-o	"g197/p197/c197" displays the grace-period state, with the
-	"g" number being the number of grace periods that have started
-	(mod 256), the "p" number being the number of grace periods
-	that the CPU has responded to (also mod 256), and the "c"
-	number being the number of grace periods that have completed
-	(once again mode 256).
-
-	Why have both "gp" and "g"?  Because the data flowing into
-	"gp" is only present in a CONFIG_RCU_TRACE kernel.
-
-o	"tasks" is a set of bits.  The first bit is "T" if there are
-	currently tasks that have recently blocked within an RCU
-	read-side critical section, the second bit is "N" if any of the
-	aforementioned tasks are blocking the current RCU grace period,
-	and the third bit is "E" if any of the aforementioned tasks are
-	blocking the current expedited grace period.  Each bit is "."
-	if the corresponding condition does not hold.
-
-o	"ttb" is a single bit.  It is "B" if any of the blocked tasks
-	need to be priority boosted and "." otherwise.
-
-o	"btg" indicates whether boosting has been carried out during
-	the current grace period, with "exp" indicating that boosting
-	is in progress for an expedited grace period, "no" indicating
-	that boosting has not yet started for a normal grace period,
-	"begun" indicating that boosting has bebug for a normal grace
-	period, and "done" indicating that boosting has completed for
-	a normal grace period.
-
-o	"ntb" is the total number of tasks subjected to RCU priority boosting
-	periods since boot.
-
-o	"neb" is the number of expedited grace periods that have had
-	to resort to RCU priority boosting since boot.
-
-o	"nnb" is the number of normal grace periods that have had
-	to resort to RCU priority boosting since boot.
-
-o	"j" is the low-order 16 bits of the jiffies counter in hexadecimal.
-
-o	"bt" is the low-order 16 bits of the value that the jiffies counter
-	will have at the next time that boosting is scheduled to begin.
-
-o	In the line beginning with "normal balk", the fields are as follows:
-
-	o	"nt" is the number of times that the system balked from
-		boosting because there were no blocked tasks to boost.
-		Note that the system will balk from boosting even if the
-		grace period is overdue when the currently running task
-		is looping within an RCU read-side critical section.
-		There is no point in boosting in this case, because
-		boosting a running task won't make it run any faster.
-
-	o	"gt" is the number of times that the system balked
-		from boosting because, although there were blocked tasks,
-		none of them were preventing the current grace period
-		from completing.
-
-	o	"bt" is the number of times that the system balked
-		from boosting because boosting was already in progress.
-
-	o	"b" is the number of times that the system balked from
-		boosting because boosting had already completed for
-		the grace period in question.
-
-	o	"ny" is the number of times that the system balked from
-		boosting because it was not yet time to start boosting
-		the grace period in question.
-
-	o	"nos" is the number of times that the system balked from
-		boosting for inexplicable ("not otherwise specified")
-		reasons.  This can actually happen due to races involving
-		increments of the jiffies counter.
-
-o	In the line beginning with "exp balk", the fields are as follows:
-
-	o	"bt" is the number of times that the system balked from
-		boosting because there were no blocked tasks to boost.
-
-	o	"nos" is the number of times that the system balked from
-		 boosting for inexplicable ("not otherwise specified")
-		 reasons.
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
index 10df0b82f459..0f0fb7c432c2 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt
@@ -842,9 +842,7 @@ SRCU:	Critical sections	Grace period		Barrier
 
 	srcu_read_lock		synchronize_srcu	srcu_barrier
 	srcu_read_unlock	call_srcu
-	srcu_read_lock_raw	synchronize_srcu_expedited
-	srcu_read_unlock_raw
-	srcu_dereference
+	srcu_dereference	synchronize_srcu_expedited
 
 SRCU:	Initialization/cleanup
 	init_srcu_struct
@@ -865,38 +863,32 @@ list can be helpful:
 
 a.	Will readers need to block?  If so, you need SRCU.
 
-b.	Is it necessary to start a read-side critical section in a
-	hardirq handler or exception handler, and then to complete
-	this read-side critical section in the task that was
-	interrupted?  If so, you need SRCU's srcu_read_lock_raw() and
-	srcu_read_unlock_raw() primitives.
-
-c.	What about the -rt patchset?  If readers would need to block
+b.	What about the -rt patchset?  If readers would need to block
 	in an non-rt kernel, you need SRCU.  If readers would block
 	in a -rt kernel, but not in a non-rt kernel, SRCU is not
 	necessary.
 
-d.	Do you need to treat NMI handlers, hardirq handlers,
+c.	Do you need to treat NMI handlers, hardirq handlers,
 	and code segments with preemption disabled (whether
 	via preempt_disable(), local_irq_save(), local_bh_disable(),
 	or some other mechanism) as if they were explicit RCU readers?
 	If so, RCU-sched is the only choice that will work for you.
 
-e.	Do you need RCU grace periods to complete even in the face
+d.	Do you need RCU grace periods to complete even in the face
 	of softirq monopolization of one or more of the CPUs?  For
 	example, is your code subject to network-based denial-of-service
 	attacks?  If so, you need RCU-bh.
 
-f.	Is your workload too update-intensive for normal use of
+e.	Is your workload too update-intensive for normal use of
 	RCU, but inappropriate for other synchronization mechanisms?
 	If so, consider SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU.  But please be careful!
 
-g.	Do you need read-side critical sections that are respected
+f.	Do you need read-side critical sections that are respected
 	even though they are in the middle of the idle loop, during
 	user-mode execution, or on an offlined CPU?  If so, SRCU is the
 	only choice that will work for you.
 
-h.	Otherwise, use RCU.
+g.	Otherwise, use RCU.
 
 Of course, this all assumes that you have determined that RCU is in fact
 the right tool for your job.
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt b/Documentation/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt
index cbf7ae412da4..5f39ef55c6f6 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-per-CPU-kthreads.txt
@@ -157,6 +157,53 @@ RCU_SOFTIRQ:  Do at least one of the following:
 		calls and by forcing both kernel threads and interrupts
 		to execute elsewhere.
 
+Name: kworker/%u:%d%s (cpu, id, priority)
+Purpose: Execute workqueue requests
+To reduce its OS jitter, do any of the following:
+1.	Run your workload at a real-time priority, which will allow
+	preempting the kworker daemons.
+2.	Do any of the following needed to avoid jitter that your
+	application cannot tolerate:
+	a.	Build your kernel with CONFIG_SLUB=y rather than
+		CONFIG_SLAB=y, thus avoiding the slab allocator's periodic
+		use of each CPU's workqueues to run its cache_reap()
+		function.
+	b.	Avoid using oprofile, thus avoiding OS jitter from
+		wq_sync_buffer().
+	c.	Limit your CPU frequency so that a CPU-frequency
+		governor is not required, possibly enlisting the aid of
+		special heatsinks or other cooling technologies.  If done
+		correctly, and if you CPU architecture permits, you should
+		be able to build your kernel with CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=n to
+		avoid the CPU-frequency governor periodically running
+		on each CPU, including cs_dbs_timer() and od_dbs_timer().
+		WARNING:  Please check your CPU specifications to
+		make sure that this is safe on your particular system.
+	d.	It is not possible to entirely get rid of OS jitter
+		from vmstat_update() on CONFIG_SMP=y systems, but you
+		can decrease its frequency by writing a large value to
+		/proc/sys/vm/stat_interval.  The default value is HZ,
+		for an interval of one second.  Of course, larger values
+		will make your virtual-memory statistics update more
+		slowly.  Of course, you can also run your workload at
+		a real-time priority, thus preempting vmstat_update().
+	e.	If running on high-end powerpc servers, build with
+		CONFIG_PPC_RTAS_DAEMON=n.  This prevents the RTAS
+		daemon from running on each CPU every second or so.
+		(This will require editing Kconfig files and will defeat
+		this platform's RAS functionality.)  This avoids jitter
+		due to the rtas_event_scan() function.
+		WARNING:  Please check your CPU specifications to
+		make sure that this is safe on your particular system.
+	f.	If running on Cell Processor, build your kernel with
+		CBE_CPUFREQ_SPU_GOVERNOR=n to avoid OS jitter from
+		spu_gov_work().
+		WARNING:  Please check your CPU specifications to
+		make sure that this is safe on your particular system.
+	g.	If running on PowerMAC, build your kernel with
+		CONFIG_PMAC_RACKMETER=n to disable the CPU-meter,
+		avoiding OS jitter from rackmeter_do_timer().
+
 Name: rcuc/%u
 Purpose: Execute RCU callbacks in CONFIG_RCU_BOOST=y kernels.
 To reduce its OS jitter, do at least one of the following:
diff --git a/Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt b/Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt
index 5b5322024067..88697584242b 100644
--- a/Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt
+++ b/Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt
@@ -7,21 +7,59 @@ efficiency and reducing OS jitter.  Reducing OS jitter is important for
 some types of computationally intensive high-performance computing (HPC)
 applications and for real-time applications.
 
-There are two main contexts in which the number of scheduling-clock
-interrupts can be reduced compared to the old-school approach of sending
-a scheduling-clock interrupt to all CPUs every jiffy whether they need
-it or not (CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC=y or CONFIG_NO_HZ=n for older kernels):
+There are three main ways of managing scheduling-clock interrupts
+(also known as "scheduling-clock ticks" or simply "ticks"):
 
-1.	Idle CPUs (CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE=y or CONFIG_NO_HZ=y for older kernels).
+1.	Never omit scheduling-clock ticks (CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC=y or
+	CONFIG_NO_HZ=n for older kernels).  You normally will -not-
+	want to choose this option.
 
-2.	CPUs having only one runnable task (CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y).
+2.	Omit scheduling-clock ticks on idle CPUs (CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE=y or
+	CONFIG_NO_HZ=y for older kernels).  This is the most common
+	approach, and should be the default.
 
-These two cases are described in the following two sections, followed
+3.	Omit scheduling-clock ticks on CPUs that are either idle or that
+	have only one runnable task (CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y).  Unless you
+	are running realtime applications or certain types of HPC
+	workloads, you will normally -not- want this option.
+
+These three cases are described in the following three sections, followed
 by a third section on RCU-specific considerations and a fourth and final
 section listing known issues.
 
 
-IDLE CPUs
+NEVER OMIT SCHEDULING-CLOCK TICKS
+
+Very old versions of Linux from the 1990s and the very early 2000s
+are incapable of omitting scheduling-clock ticks.  It turns out that
+there are some situations where this old-school approach is still the
+right approach, for example, in heavy workloads with lots of tasks
+that use short bursts of CPU, where there are very frequent idle
+periods, but where these idle periods are also quite short (tens or
+hundreds of microseconds).  For these types of workloads, scheduling
+clock interrupts will normally be delivered any way because there
+will frequently be multiple runnable tasks per CPU.  In these cases,
+attempting to turn off the scheduling clock interrupt will have no effect
+other than increasing the overhead of switching to and from idle and
+transitioning between user and kernel execution.
+
+This mode of operation can be selected using CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC=y (or
+CONFIG_NO_HZ=n for older kernels).
+
+However, if you are instead running a light workload with long idle
+periods, failing to omit scheduling-clock interrupts will result in
+excessive power consumption.  This is especially bad on battery-powered
+devices, where it results in extremely short battery lifetimes.  If you
+are running light workloads, you should therefore read the following
+section.
+
+In addition, if you are running either a real-time workload or an HPC
+workload with short iterations, the scheduling-clock interrupts can
+degrade your applications performance.  If this describes your workload,
+you should read the following two sections.
+
+
+OMIT SCHEDULING-CLOCK TICKS FOR IDLE CPUs
 
 If a CPU is idle, there is little point in sending it a scheduling-clock
 interrupt.  After all, the primary purpose of a scheduling-clock interrupt
@@ -59,10 +97,12 @@ By default, CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE=y kernels boot with "nohz=on", enabling
 dyntick-idle mode.
 
 
-CPUs WITH ONLY ONE RUNNABLE TASK
+OMIT SCHEDULING-CLOCK TICKS FOR CPUs WITH ONLY ONE RUNNABLE TASK
 
 If a CPU has only one runnable task, there is little point in sending it
 a scheduling-clock interrupt because there is no other task to switch to.
+Note that omitting scheduling-clock ticks for CPUs with only one runnable
+task implies also omitting them for idle CPUs.
 
 The CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y Kconfig option causes the kernel to avoid
 sending scheduling-clock interrupts to CPUs with a single runnable task,
@@ -238,6 +278,11 @@ o	Adaptive-ticks does not do anything unless there is only one
 	single runnable SCHED_FIFO task and multiple runnable SCHED_OTHER
 	tasks, even though these interrupts are unnecessary.
 
+	And even when there are multiple runnable tasks on a given CPU,
+	there is little point in interrupting that CPU until the current
+	running task's timeslice expires, which is almost always way
+	longer than the time of the next scheduling-clock interrupt.
+
 	Better handling of these sorts of situations is future work.
 
 o	A reboot is required to reconfigure both adaptive idle and RCU
@@ -268,6 +313,16 @@ o	Unless all CPUs are idle, at least one CPU must keep the
 	scheduling-clock interrupt going in order to support accurate
 	timekeeping.
 
-o	If there are adaptive-ticks CPUs, there will be at least one
-	CPU keeping the scheduling-clock interrupt going, even if all
-	CPUs are otherwise idle.
+o	If there might potentially be some adaptive-ticks CPUs, there
+	will be at least one CPU keeping the scheduling-clock interrupt
+	going, even if all CPUs are otherwise idle.
+
+	Better handling of this situation is ongoing work.
+
+o	Some process-handling operations still require the occasional
+	scheduling-clock tick.	These operations include calculating CPU
+	load, maintaining sched average, computing CFS entity vruntime,
+	computing avenrun, and carrying out load balancing.  They are
+	currently accommodated by scheduling-clock tick every second
+	or so.	On-going work will eliminate the need even for these
+	infrequent scheduling-clock ticks.