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2019-02-09linux/rcutiny: Convert to SPDX license identifierPaul E. McKenney1-15/+2
Replace the license boiler plate with a SPDX license identifier. While in the area, update an email address. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Update .h SPDX format per Joe Perches. ] Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2018-08-31Merge branches 'doc.2018.08.30a', 'dynticks.2018.08.30b', 'srcu.2018.08.30b' ↵Paul E. McKenney1-39/+14
and 'torture.2018.08.29a' into HEAD doc.2018.08.30a: Documentation updates dynticks.2018.08.30b: RCU flavor consolidation updates and cleanups srcu.2018.08.30b: SRCU updates torture.2018.08.29a: Torture-test updates
2018-08-31rcu: Remove unused rcu_dynticks_snap() from Tiny RCUPaul E. McKenney1-6/+0
The rcu_dynticks_snap() function is defined in include/linux/rcutiny.h, but is no longer used by Tiny RCU. This commit therefore removes it. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-31rcu: Consolidate RCU-sched update-side function definitionsPaul E. McKenney1-31/+1
This commit saves a few lines by consolidating the RCU-sched function definitions at the end of include/linux/rcupdate.h. This consolidation also makes it easier to remove them all when the time comes. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-31rcu: Consolidate RCU-bh update-side function definitionsPaul E. McKenney1-15/+0
This commit saves a few lines by consolidating the RCU-bh function definitions at the end of include/linux/rcupdate.h. This consolidation also makes it easier to remove them all when the time comes. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-31rcu: Express Tiny RCU updates in terms of RCU rather than RCU-schedPaul E. McKenney1-15/+19
This commit renames Tiny RCU functions so that the lowest level of functionality is RCU (e.g., synchronize_rcu()) rather than RCU-sched (e.g., synchronize_sched()). This provides greater naming compatibility with Tree RCU, which will in turn permit more LoC removal once the RCU-sched and RCU-bh update-side API is removed. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Fix Tiny call_rcu()'s EXPORT_SYMBOL() in response to a bug report from kbuild test robot. ]
2018-08-31rcu: Define RCU-sched API in terms of RCU for Tree RCU PREEMPT buildsPaul E. McKenney1-0/+7
Now that RCU-preempt knows about preemption disabling, its implementation of synchronize_rcu() works for synchronize_sched(), and likewise for the other RCU-sched update-side API members. This commit therefore confines the RCU-sched update-side code to CONFIG_PREEMPT=n builds, and defines RCU-sched's update-side API members in terms of those of RCU-preempt. This means that any given build of the Linux kernel has only one update-side flavor of RCU, namely RCU-preempt for CONFIG_PREEMPT=y builds and RCU-sched for CONFIG_PREEMPT=n builds. This in turn means that kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y have only one rcuo kthread per CPU. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2018-08-31rcu: Define RCU-bh update API in terms of RCUPaul E. McKenney1-3/+7
Now that the main RCU API knows about softirq disabling and softirq's quiescent states, the RCU-bh update code can be dispensed with. This commit therefore removes the RCU-bh update-side implementation and defines RCU-bh's update-side API in terms of that of either RCU-preempt or RCU-sched, depending on the setting of the CONFIG_PREEMPT Kconfig option. In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y this has the knock-on effect of reducing by one the number of rcuo kthreads per CPU. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-31rcu: Apply RCU-bh QSes to RCU-sched and RCU-preempt when safePaul E. McKenney1-0/+5
One necessary step towards consolidating the three flavors of RCU is to make sure that the resulting consolidated "one flavor to rule them all" correctly handles networking denial-of-service attacks. One thing that allows RCU-bh to do so is that __do_softirq() invokes rcu_bh_qs() every so often, and so something similar has to happen for consolidated RCU. This must be done carefully. For example, if a preemption-disabled region of code takes an interrupt which does softirq processing before returning, consolidated RCU must ignore the resulting rcu_bh_qs() invocations -- preemption is still disabled, and that means an RCU reader for the consolidated flavor. This commit therefore creates a new rcu_softirq_qs() that is called only from the ksoftirqd task, thus avoiding the interrupted-a-preempted-region problem. This new rcu_softirq_qs() function invokes rcu_sched_qs(), rcu_preempt_qs(), and rcu_preempt_deferred_qs(). The latter call handles any deferred quiescent states. Note that __do_softirq() still invokes rcu_bh_qs(). It will continue to do so until a later stage of cleanup when the RCU-bh flavor is removed. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Fix !SMP issue located by kbuild test robot. ]
2018-08-31rcu: Defer reporting RCU-preempt quiescent states when disabledPaul E. McKenney1-0/+5
This commit defers reporting of RCU-preempt quiescent states at rcu_read_unlock_special() time when any of interrupts, softirq, or preemption are disabled. These deferred quiescent states are reported at a later RCU_SOFTIRQ, context switch, idle entry, or CPU-hotplug offline operation. Of course, if another RCU read-side critical section has started in the meantime, the reporting of the quiescent state will be further deferred. This also means that disabling preemption, interrupts, and/or softirqs will act as an RCU-preempt read-side critical section. This is enforced by checking preempt_count() as needed. Some special cases must be handled on an ad-hoc basis, for example, context switch is a quiescent state even though both the scheduler and do_exit() disable preemption. In these cases, additional calls to rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() override the preemption disabling. Similar logic overrides disabled interrupts in rcu_preempt_check_callbacks() because in this case the quiescent state happened just before the corresponding scheduling-clock interrupt. In theory, this change lifts a long-standing restriction that required that if interrupts were disabled across a call to rcu_read_unlock() that the matching rcu_read_lock() also be contained within that interrupts-disabled region of code. Because the reporting of the corresponding RCU-preempt quiescent state is now deferred until after interrupts have been enabled, it is no longer possible for this situation to result in deadlocks involving the scheduler's runqueue and priority-inheritance locks. This may allow some code simplification that might reduce interrupt latency a bit. Unfortunately, in practice this would also defer deboosting a low-priority task that had been subjected to RCU priority boosting, so real-time-response considerations might well force this restriction to remain in place. Because RCU-preempt grace periods are now blocked not only by RCU read-side critical sections, but also by disabling of interrupts, preemption, and softirqs, it will be possible to eliminate RCU-bh and RCU-sched in favor of RCU-preempt in CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernels. This may require some additional plumbing to provide the network denial-of-service guarantees that have been traditionally provided by RCU-bh. Once these are in place, CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernels will be able to fold RCU-bh into RCU-sched. This would mean that all kernels would have but one flavor of RCU, which would open the door to significant code cleanup. Moving to a single flavor of RCU would also have the beneficial effect of reducing the NOCB kthreads by at least a factor of two. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Apply rcu_read_unlock_special() preempt_count() feedback from Joel Fernandes. ] [ paulmck: Adjust rcu_eqs_enter() call to rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() in response to bug reports from kbuild test robot. ] [ paulmck: Fix bug located by kbuild test robot involving recursion via rcu_preempt_deferred_qs(). ]
2018-08-29rcutorture: Add forward-progress tests for RCU grace periodsPaul E. McKenney1-0/+1
This commit adds a kthread that loops going into and out of RCU read-side critical sections, but also including a cond_resched(), optionally guarded by a check of need_resched(), in that same loop. This commit relies solely on rcu_torture_writer() progress to judge the forward progress of grace periods. Note that Tasks RCU and SRCU are exempted from forward-progress testing due their (intentionally) less-robust forward-progress guarantees. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-07-13rcu: Improve RCU-tasks naming and commentsPaul E. McKenney1-1/+1
The naming and comments associated with some RCU-tasks code make the faulty assumption that context switches due to cond_resched() are voluntary. As several people pointed out, this is not the case. This commit therefore updates function names and comments to better reflect current reality. Reported-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-05-23rcu/x86: Provide early rcu_cpu_starting() callbackPeter Zijlstra1-0/+1
The x86/mtrr code does horrific things because hardware. It uses stop_machine_from_inactive_cpu(), which does a wakeup (of the stopper thread on another CPU), which uses RCU, all before the CPU is onlined. RCU complains about this, because wakeups use RCU and RCU does (rightfully) not consider offline CPUs for grace-periods. Fix this by initializing RCU way early in the MTRR case. Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Add !SMP support, per 0day Test Robot report. ]
2017-11-27rcu: Eliminate rcu_irq_enter_disabled()Paul E. McKenney1-1/+0
Now that the irq path uses the rcu_nmi_{enter,exit}() algorithm, rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit() may be used from any context. There is thus no need for rcu_irq_enter_disabled() and for the checks using it. This commit therefore eliminates rcu_irq_enter_disabled(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-07-25srcu: Move rcu_scheduler_starting() from Tiny RCU to Tiny SRCUPaul E. McKenney1-5/+3
Other than lockdep support, Tiny RCU has no need for the scheduler status. However, Tiny SRCU will need this to control boot-time behavior independent of lockdep. Therefore, this commit moves rcu_scheduler_starting() from kernel/rcu/tiny_plugin.h to kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c. This in turn allows the complete removal of kernel/rcu/tiny_plugin.h. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-09rcu: Remove #ifdef moving rcu_end_inkernel_boot from rcupdate.hPaul E. McKenney1-1/+1
This commit removes a #ifdef and saves a few lines of code by moving the rcu_end_inkernel_boot() function from include/linux/rcupdate.h to include/linux/rcutiny.h (for TINY_RCU) and to include/linux/rcutree.h (for TREE_RCU). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-09rcu: Refactor #includes from include/linux/rcupdate.hPaul E. McKenney1-1/+7
The list of #includes from include/linux/rcupdate.h has grown quite a bit, so it is time to trim it. This commit moves the #include of include/linux/ktime.h to include/linux/rcutiny.h, along with the Tiny-RCU-only function that was the only thing needing ktimem.h. It then reconstructs the files included into include/linux/ktime.h based on what is actually needed, with significant help from the 0day Test Robot. This single change reduces the .i file footprint from rcupdate.h from 9018 lines to 7101 lines. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-09rcu: Move rcutiny.h to new empty/true/false-function stylePaul E. McKenney1-55/+16
This commit saves a few lines in include/linux/rcutiny.h by moving to single-line definitions for empty functions, instead of the old style where the two curly braces each get their own line. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-09rcu: Move rcu_request_urgent_qs_task() out of rcutiny.h and rcutree.hPaul E. McKenney1-4/+0
The rcu_request_urgent_qs_task() function is used only within RCU, so there is no point in exporting it to the rest of the kernel from nclude/linux/rcutiny.h and include/linux/rcutree.h. This commit therefore moves this function to kernel/rcu/rcu.h. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-09rcu: Move torture-related functions out of rcutiny.h and rcutree.hPaul E. McKenney1-80/+0
The various functions similar to rcu_batches_started(), the function show_rcu_gp_kthreads(), the various functions similar to rcu_force_quiescent_state(), and the variables rcutorture_testseq and rcutorture_vernum are used only within RCU. There is therefore no point in exporting them to the kernel at large from include/linux/rcutiny.h and include/linux/rcutree.h. This commit therefore moves all of these to kernel/rcu/rcu.h. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-09rcu: Eliminate the unused __rcu_is_watching() functionPaul E. McKenney1-11/+0
The __rcu_is_watching() function is currently not used, aside from to implement the rcu_is_watching() function. This commit therefore eliminates __rcu_is_watching(), which has the beneficial side-effect of shrinking include/linux/rcupdate.h a bit. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-09rcu: Move torture-related definitions from rcupdate.h to rcu.hPaul E. McKenney1-0/+5
The include/linux/rcupdate.h file contains a number of definitions that are used only to communicate between rcutorture, rcuperf, and the RCU code itself. There is no point in having these definitions exposed globally throughout the kernel, so this commit moves them to kernel/rcu/rcu.h. This change has the added benefit of shrinking rcupdate.h. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-04-21rcu: Make non-preemptive schedule be Tasks RCU quiescent statePaul E. McKenney1-4/+9
Currently, a call to schedule() acts as a Tasks RCU quiescent state only if a context switch actually takes place. However, just the call to schedule() guarantees that the calling task has moved off of whatever tracing trampoline that it might have been one previously. This commit therefore plumbs schedule()'s "preempt" parameter into rcu_note_context_switch(), which then records the Tasks RCU quiescent state, but only if this call to schedule() was -not- due to a preemption. To avoid adding overhead to the common-case context-switch path, this commit hides the rcu_note_context_switch() check under an existing non-common-case check. Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-04-18srcu: Allow SRCU to access rcu_scheduler_activePaul E. McKenney1-3/+3
This is primarily a code-movement commit in preparation for allowing SRCU to handle early-boot SRCU grace periods. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-04-18rcu: Maintain special bits at bottom of ->dynticks counterPaul E. McKenney1-0/+5
Currently, IPIs are used to force other CPUs to invalidate their TLBs in response to a kernel virtual-memory mapping change. This works, but degrades both battery lifetime (for idle CPUs) and real-time response (for nohz_full CPUs), and in addition results in unnecessary IPIs due to the fact that CPUs executing in usermode are unaffected by stale kernel mappings. It would be better to cause a CPU executing in usermode to wait until it is entering kernel mode to do the flush, first to avoid interrupting usemode tasks and second to handle multiple flush requests with a single flush in the case of a long-running user task. This commit therefore reserves a bit at the bottom of the ->dynticks counter, which is checked upon exit from extended quiescent states. If it is set, it is cleared and then a new rcu_eqs_special_exit() macro is invoked, which, if not supplied, is an empty single-pass do-while loop. If this bottom bit is set on -entry- to an extended quiescent state, then a WARN_ON_ONCE() triggers. This bottom bit may be set using a new rcu_eqs_special_set() function, which returns true if the bit was set, or false if the CPU turned out to not be in an extended quiescent state. Please note that this function refuses to set the bit for a non-nohz_full CPU when that CPU is executing in usermode because usermode execution is tracked by RCU as a dyntick-idle extended quiescent state only for nohz_full CPUs. Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2017-03-02rcu: Separate the RCU synchronization types and APIs into ↵Ingo Molnar1-9/+2
<linux/rcupdate_wait.h> So rcupdate.h is a pretty complex header, in particular it includes <linux/completion.h> which includes <linux/wait.h> - creating a dependency that includes <linux/wait.h> in <linux/sched.h>, which prevents the isolation of <linux/sched.h> from the derived <linux/wait.h> header. Solve part of the problem by decoupling rcupdate.h from completions: this can be done by separating out the rcu_synchronize types and APIs, and updating their usage sites. Since this is a mostly RCU-internal types this will not just simplify <linux/sched.h>'s dependencies, but will make all the hundreds of .c files that include rcupdate.h but not completions or wait.h build faster. ( For rcutiny this means that two dependent APIs have to be uninlined, but that shouldn't be much of a problem as they are rare variants. ) Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-01-23rcu: Abstract extended quiescent state determinationPaul E. McKenney1-0/+6
This commit is the fourth step towards full abstraction of all accesses to the ->dynticks counter, implementing previously open-coded checks and comparisons in new rcu_dynticks_in_eqs() and rcu_dynticks_in_eqs_since() functions. This abstraction will ease changes to the ->dynticks counter operation. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2016-07-15rcu: Convert rcutree to hotplug state machineThomas Gleixner1-0/+7
Straight forward conversion to the state machine. Though the question arises whether this needs really all these state transitions to work. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: rt@linutronix.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160713153337.982013161@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2016-03-31rcutorture: Expedited-GP batch progress access to torturingPaul E. McKenney1-0/+16
This commit provides rcu_exp_batches_completed() and rcu_exp_batches_completed_sched() functions to allow torture-test modules to check how many expedited grace period batches have completed. These are analogous to the existing rcu_batches_completed(), rcu_batches_completed_bh(), and rcu_batches_completed_sched() functions. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-12-08rcu: Don't redundantly disable irqs in rcu_irq_{enter,exit}()Paul E. McKenney1-0/+8
This commit replaces a local_irq_save()/local_irq_restore() pair with a lockdep assertion that interrupts are already disabled. This should remove the corresponding overhead from the interrupt entry/exit fastpaths. This change was inspired by the fact that Iftekhar Ahmed's mutation testing showed that removing rcu_irq_enter()'s call to local_ird_restore() had no effect, which might indicate that interrupts were always enabled anyway. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-10-06rcu: Don't disable preemption for Tiny and Tree RCU readersBoqun Feng1-0/+1
Because preempt_disable() maps to barrier() for non-debug builds, it forces the compiler to spill and reload registers. Because Tree RCU and Tiny RCU now only appear in CONFIG_PREEMPT=n builds, these barrier() instances generate needless extra code for each instance of rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock(). This extra code slows down Tree RCU and bloats Tiny RCU. This commit therefore removes the preempt_disable() and preempt_enable() from the non-preemptible implementations of __rcu_read_lock() and __rcu_read_unlock(), respectively. However, for debug purposes, preempt_disable() and preempt_enable() are still invoked if CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y, because this allows detection of sleeping inside atomic sections in non-preemptible kernels. However, Tiny and Tree RCU operates by coalescing all RCU read-side critical sections on a given CPU that lie between successive quiescent states. It is therefore necessary to compensate for removing barriers from __rcu_read_lock() and __rcu_read_unlock() by adding them to a couple of the RCU functions invoked during quiescent states, namely to rcu_all_qs() and rcu_note_context_switch(). However, note that the latter is more paranoia than necessity, at least until link-time optimizations become more aggressive. This is based on an earlier patch by Paul E. McKenney, fixing a bug encountered in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPT=n and CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=y. Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-10-06rcu: Use rcu_callback_t in call_rcu*() and friendsBoqun Feng1-1/+1
As we now have rcu_callback_t typedefs as the type of rcu callbacks, we should use it in call_rcu*() and friends as the type of parameters. This could save us a few lines of code and make it clear which function requires an rcu callbacks rather than other callbacks as its argument. Besides, this can also help cscope to generate a better database for code reading. Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-07-23rcu: Add RCU-sched flavors of get-state and cond-syncPaul E. McKenney1-0/+10
The get_state_synchronize_rcu() and cond_synchronize_rcu() functions allow polling for grace-period completion, with an actual wait for a grace period occurring only when cond_synchronize_rcu() is called too soon after the corresponding get_state_synchronize_rcu(). However, these functions work only for vanilla RCU. This commit adds the get_state_synchronize_sched() and cond_synchronize_sched(), which provide the same capability for RCU-sched. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27rcu: Further shrink Tiny RCU by making empty functions static inlinesPaul E. McKenney1-0/+16
The Tiny RCU counterparts to rcu_idle_enter(), rcu_idle_exit(), rcu_irq_enter(), and rcu_irq_exit() are empty functions, but each has EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), which needlessly consumes extra memory, especially in kernels built with module support. This commit therefore moves these functions to static inlines in rcutiny.h, removing the need for exports. This won't affect the size of the tiniest kernels, which are likely built without module support, but might help semi-tiny kernels that might include module support. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-01-16Merge branches 'doc.2015.01.07a', 'fixes.2015.01.15a', ↵Paul E. McKenney1-5/+40
'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.
2015-01-16rcu: Make cond_resched_rcu_qs() apply to normal RCU flavorsPaul E. McKenney1-1/+4
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. ]
2015-01-11rcutorture: Check from beginning to end of grace periodPaul E. McKenney1-3/+27
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>
2015-01-11rcu: Provide rcu_batches_completed_sched() for TINY_RCUPaul E. McKenney1-0/+8
A bug in rcutorture has caused it to ignore completed batches. In preparation for fixing that bug, this commit provides TINY_RCU with the required rcu_batches_completed_sched(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-11rcu: Make _batches_completed() functions return unsigned longPaul E. McKenney1-2/+2
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>
2014-11-04rcu: Remove "cpu" argument to rcu_note_context_switch()Paul E. McKenney1-1/+1
The "cpu" argument to rcu_note_context_switch() is always the current CPU, so drop it. This in turn allows the "cpu" argument to rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() to be removed, which allows the sole use of "cpu" in both functions to be replaced with a this_cpu_ptr(). Again, the anticipated cross-CPU uses of these functions has been replaced by NO_HZ_FULL. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
2014-09-08rcu: Per-CPU operation cleanups to rcu_*_qs() functionsPaul E. McKenney1-1/+1
The rcu_bh_qs(), rcu_preempt_qs(), and rcu_sched_qs() functions use old-style per-CPU variable access and write to ->passed_quiesce even if it is already set. This commit therefore updates to use the new-style per-CPU variable access functions and avoids the spurious writes. This commit also eliminates the "cpu" argument to these functions because they are always invoked on the indicated CPU. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-05-14rcutorture: Export RCU grace-period kthread wait state to rcutorturePaul E. McKenney1-0/+4
This commit allows rcutorture to print additional state for the RCU grace-period kthreads in cases where RCU seems reluctant to start a new grace period. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-03-21rcu: Provide grace-period piggybacking APIPaul E. McKenney1-0/+10
The following pattern is currently not well supported by RCU: 1. Make data element inaccessible to RCU readers. 2. Do work that probably lasts for more than one grace period. 3. Do something to make sure RCU readers in flight before #1 above have completed. Here are some things that could currently be done: a. Do a synchronize_rcu() unconditionally at either #1 or #3 above. This works, but imposes needless work and latency. b. Post an RCU callback at #1 above that does a wakeup, then wait for the wakeup at #3. This works well, but likely results in an extra unneeded grace period. Open-coding this is also a bit more semi-tricky code than would be good. This commit therefore adds get_state_synchronize_rcu() and cond_synchronize_rcu() APIs. Call get_state_synchronize_rcu() at #1 above and pass its return value to cond_synchronize_rcu() at #3 above. This results in a call to synchronize_rcu() if no grace period has elapsed between #1 and #3, but requires only a load, comparison, and memory barrier if a full grace period did elapse. Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2014-02-26Merge branches 'doc.2014.02.24a', 'fixes.2014.02.26a' and 'rt.2014.02.17b' ↵Paul E. McKenney1-8/+2
into HEAD doc.2014.02.24a: Documentation changes fixes.2014.02.26a: Miscellaneous fixes rt.2014.02.17b: Response-time-related changes
2014-02-18rcu: Optimize rcu_needs_cpu() for RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALLPaul E. McKenney1-6/+0
If CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y, then rcu_needs_cpu() will always return false, however, the current version nevertheless checks for RCU callbacks. This commit therefore creates a static inline implementation of rcu_needs_cpu() that unconditionally returns false when CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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>
2013-12-13rcu: Remove "extern" from function declarations in include/linux/*rcu*.hTeodora Baluta1-1/+1
Function prototypes don't need to have the "extern" keyword since this is the default behavior. Its explicit use is redundant. This commit therefore removes them. Signed-off-by: Teodora Baluta <teobaluta@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-09-25rcu: Consistent rcu_is_watching() namingPaul E. McKenney1-4/+12
The old rcu_is_cpu_idle() function is just __rcu_is_watching() with preemption disabled. This commit therefore renames rcu_is_cpu_idle() to rcu_is_watching. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-09-25rcu: Is it safe to enter an RCU read-side critical section?Paul E. McKenney1-0/+9
There is currently no way for kernel code to determine whether it is safe to enter an RCU read-side critical section, in other words, whether or not RCU is paying attention to the currently running CPU. Given the large and increasing quantity of code shared by the idle loop and non-idle code, the this shortcoming is becoming increasingly painful. This commit therefore adds __rcu_is_watching(), which returns true if it is safe to enter an RCU read-side critical section on the currently running CPU. This function is quite fast, using only a __this_cpu_read(). However, the caller must disable preemption. 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>
2013-06-11rcu: Shrink TINY_RCU by moving exit_rcu()Paul E. McKenney1-0/+4
Now that TINY_PREEMPT_RCU is no more, exit_rcu() is always an empty function. But if TINY_RCU is going to have an empty function, it should be in include/linux/rcutiny.h, where it does not bloat the kernel. This commit therefore moves exit_rcu() out of kernel/rcupdate.c to kernel/rcutree_plugin.h, and places a static inline empty function in include/linux/rcutiny.h in order to shrink TINY_RCU a bit. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>