The rcu_node structure's ->exp_seq_rq field is read locklessly, so
this commit adds the WRITE_ONCE() to a load in order to provide proper
documentation and READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() pairing.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_node structure's ->exp_seq_rq field is accessed locklessly, so
updates must use WRITE_ONCE(). This commit therefore adds the needed
WRITE_ONCE() invocation where it was missed.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Boot-time processing often loops in the kernel longer than one might
prefer, which can prevent expedited grace periods from completing in
a timely manner. This in turn triggers a splat In nohz_full CPUs One
could argue that long-looping code should be fixed, but on the other hand,
boot time is a bit special.
This commit therefore removes the splat. Later commits will add the
splat back in, but in a way that removes false positives.
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit provides wrapper functions for uses of ->rcu_read_lock_nesting
to improve readability and to ease future changes to support inlining
of __rcu_read_lock() and __rcu_read_unlock().
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The config option `CONFIG_PREEMPT' is used for the preemption model
"Low-Latency Desktop". The config option `CONFIG_PREEMPTION' is enabled
when kernel preemption is enabled which is true for the preemption model
`CONFIG_PREEMPT' and `CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT'.
Use `CONFIG_PREEMPTION' if it applies to both preemption models and not
just to `CONFIG_PREEMPT'.
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: rcu@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
An expedited grace period can be stalled by a nohz_full CPU looping
in kernel context. This possibility is currently handled by some
carefully crafted checks in rcu_read_unlock_special() that enlist help
from ksoftirqd when permitted by the scheduler. However, it is exactly
these checks that require the scheduler avoid holding any of its rq or
pi locks across rcu_read_unlock() without also having held them across
the entire RCU read-side critical section.
It would therefore be very nice if expedited grace periods could
handle nohz_full CPUs looping in kernel context without such checks.
This commit therefore adds code to the expedited grace period's wait
and cleanup code that forces the scheduler-clock interrupt on for CPUs
that fail to quickly supply a quiescent state. "Quickly" is currently
a hard-coded single-jiffy delay.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
After RCU flavor consolidation, synchronize_sched_expedited_wait() does
both RCU-preempt and RCU-sched, whichever happens to have been built into
the running kernel. This commit therefore changes this function's name
to synchronize_rcu_expedited_wait() to reflect its new generic nature.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The function-header comments in kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h have gotten a bit
out of date, so this commit updates a number of them.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Now that the RCU flavors have been consolidated, there is one common
function for checking to see if an expedited RCU grace period has
completed, namely sync_rcu_preempt_exp_done(). Because this function is
no longer specific to RCU-preempt, this commit removes the "_preempt" from
its name. This commit also changes sync_rcu_preempt_exp_done_unlocked()
to sync_rcu_exp_done_unlocked() for the same reason.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The current expedited RCU grace-period code expects that a task
requesting an expedited grace period cannot awaken until that grace
period has reached the wakeup phase. However, it is possible for a long
preemption to result in the waiting task never sleeping. For example,
consider the following sequence of events:
1. Task A starts an expedited grace period by invoking
synchronize_rcu_expedited(). It proceeds normally up to the
wait_event() near the end of that function, and is then preempted
(or interrupted or whatever).
2. The expedited grace period completes, and a kworker task starts
the awaken phase, having incremented the counter and acquired
the rcu_state structure's .exp_wake_mutex. This kworker task
is then preempted or interrupted or whatever.
3. Task A resumes and enters wait_event(), which notes that the
expedited grace period has completed, and thus doesn't sleep.
4. Task B starts an expedited grace period exactly as did Task A,
complete with the preemption (or whatever delay) just before
the call to wait_event().
5. The expedited grace period completes, and another kworker
task starts the awaken phase, having incremented the counter.
However, it blocks when attempting to acquire the rcu_state
structure's .exp_wake_mutex because step 2's kworker task has
not yet released it.
6. Steps 4 and 5 repeat, resulting in overflow of the rcu_node
structure's ->exp_wq[] array.
In theory, this is harmless. Tasks waiting on the various ->exp_wq[]
array will just be spuriously awakened, but they will just sleep again
on noting that the rcu_state structure's ->expedited_sequence value has
not advanced far enough.
In practice, this wastes CPU time and is an accident waiting to happen.
This commit therefore moves the rcu_exp_gp_seq_end() call that officially
ends the expedited grace period (along with associate tracing) until
after the ->exp_wake_mutex has been acquired. This prevents Task A from
awakening prematurely, thus preventing more than one expedited grace
period from being in flight during a previous expedited grace period's
wakeup phase.
Fixes: 3b5f668e71 ("rcu: Overlap wakeups with next expedited grace period")
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org>
[ paulmck: Added updated comment. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tasks waiting within exp_funnel_lock() for an expedited grace period to
elapse can be starved due to the following sequence of events:
1. Tasks A and B both attempt to start an expedited grace
period at about the same time. This grace period will have
completed when the lower four bits of the rcu_state structure's
->expedited_sequence field are 0b'0100', for example, when the
initial value of this counter is zero. Task A wins, and thus
does the actual work of starting the grace period, including
acquiring the rcu_state structure's .exp_mutex and sets the
counter to 0b'0001'.
2. Because task B lost the race to start the grace period, it
waits on ->expedited_sequence to reach 0b'0100' inside of
exp_funnel_lock(). This task therefore blocks on the rcu_node
structure's ->exp_wq[1] field, keeping in mind that the
end-of-grace-period value of ->expedited_sequence (0b'0100')
is shifted down two bits before indexing the ->exp_wq[] field.
3. Task C attempts to start another expedited grace period,
but blocks on ->exp_mutex, which is still held by Task A.
4. The aforementioned expedited grace period completes, so that
->expedited_sequence now has the value 0b'0100'. A kworker task
therefore acquires the rcu_state structure's ->exp_wake_mutex
and starts awakening any tasks waiting for this grace period.
5. One of the first tasks awakened happens to be Task A. Task A
therefore releases the rcu_state structure's ->exp_mutex,
which allows Task C to start the next expedited grace period,
which causes the lower four bits of the rcu_state structure's
->expedited_sequence field to become 0b'0101'.
6. Task C's expedited grace period completes, so that the lower four
bits of the rcu_state structure's ->expedited_sequence field now
become 0b'1000'.
7. The kworker task from step 4 above continues its wakeups.
Unfortunately, the wake_up_all() refetches the rcu_state
structure's .expedited_sequence field:
wake_up_all(&rnp->exp_wq[rcu_seq_ctr(rcu_state.expedited_sequence) & 0x3]);
This results in the wakeup being applied to the rcu_node
structure's ->exp_wq[2] field, which is unfortunate given that
Task B is instead waiting on ->exp_wq[1].
On a busy system, no harm is done (or at least no permanent harm is done).
Some later expedited grace period will redo the wakeup. But on a quiet
system, such as many embedded systems, it might be a good long time before
there was another expedited grace period. On such embedded systems,
this situation could therefore result in a system hang.
This issue manifested as DPM device timeout during suspend (which
usually qualifies as a quiet time) due to a SCSI device being stuck in
_synchronize_rcu_expedited(), with the following stack trace:
schedule()
synchronize_rcu_expedited()
synchronize_rcu()
scsi_device_quiesce()
scsi_bus_suspend()
dpm_run_callback()
__device_suspend()
This commit therefore prevents such delays, timeouts, and hangs by
making rcu_exp_wait_wake() use its "s" argument consistently instead of
refetching from rcu_state.expedited_sequence.
Fixes: 3b5f668e71 ("rcu: Overlap wakeups with next expedited grace period")
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The code in sync_rcu_exp_select_node_cpus() calculates the current
CPU's mask within its rcu_node structure's bitmasks, but this has
already been computed in the ->grpmask field of that CPU's rcu_data
structure. This commit therefore just uses this ->grpmask field.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The "mask_ofl_ipi" is used to track which CPUs get IPIed, however
in the IPI sending loop, "mask_ofl_ipi" along with another variable
"mask_ofl_test" might also get modified to record which CPUs' quiesent
states must be reported by the sync_rcu_exp_select_node_cpus() at
the end of sync_rcu_exp_select_node_cpus(). This overlap of roles
can be confusing, so this patch cleans things a little by using
"mask_ofl_ipi" solely for determining which CPUs must be IPIed and
"mask_ofl_test" for solely determining on behalf of which CPUs
sync_rcu_exp_select_node_cpus() must report a quiscent state.
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
The rcu_node structure's ->expmask field is accessed locklessly when
starting a new expedited grace period and when reporting an expedited
RCU CPU stall warning. This commit therefore handles the former by
taking a snapshot of ->expmask while the lock is held and the latter
by applying READ_ONCE() to lockless reads and WRITE_ONCE() to the
corresponding updates.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CANpmjNNmSOagbTpffHr4=Yedckx9Rm2NuGqC9UqE+AOz5f1-ZQ@mail.gmail.com
Reported-by: syzbot+134336b86f728d6e55a0@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
This commit fixes a spelling mistake in file tree_exp.h.
Signed-off-by: Mukesh Ojha <mojha@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The synchronize_rcu_expedited() function has an INIT_WORK_ONSTACK(),
but lacks the corresponding destroy_work_on_stack(). This commit
therefore adds destroy_work_on_stack().
Reported-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
The sync_exp_work_done() function uses smp_mb__before_atomic(), but
there is no obvious atomic in the ensuing code. The ordering is
absolutely required for grace periods to work correctly, so this
commit upgrades the smp_mb__before_atomic() to smp_mb().
Fixes: 6fba2b3767 ("rcu: Remove deprecated RCU debugfs tracing code")
Reported-by: Andrea Parri <andrea.parri@amarulasolutions.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Because rdp is initialized but never used in synchronize_rcu_expedited(),
this commit removes it.
Signed-off-by: Jiang Biao <benbjiang@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The rcu_data structure's ->deferred_qs field is used to indicate that the
current CPU is blocking an expedited grace period (perhaps a future one).
Given that it is used only for expedited grace periods, its current name
is misleading, so this commit renames it to ->exp_deferred_qs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The sync_sched_exp_online_cleanup() is invoked at online time to handle
the case where the start of an expedited grace period ran concurrently
with a CPU being taken offline and then immediately being placed online.
It checks to see if RCU needs an expedited quiescent state from the
incoming CPU, sending it an IPI if so. However, it is quite possible
that sync_sched_exp_online_cleanup() is running on that CPU, in which
case it is considerably less overhead to simply request the quiescent
state locally instead of simulating a self-IPI.
This commit therefore places the last few lines of rcu_exp_handler()
into a new rcu_exp_need_qs() function, which is invoked both by
rcu_exp_handler() and by sync_sched_exp_online_cleanup() in the self-IPI
case.
This also reduces the rcu_exp_handler() function's state space by
removing the direct call that this smp_call_function_single() uses to
emulate the requested self-IPI. This in turn will allow tighter error
checking in rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Although sync_rcu_exp_select_node_cpus() treats the current CPU as being
in a quiescent state, it might well migrate to some other CPU before
reaching the smp_call_function_single(), which could then result in an
unnecessary simulated self-IPI. This commit therefore instead simply
refuses to invoke smp_call_function_single() on the current CPU, which
causes the later rcu_report_exp_cpu_mult() to report this CPU's quiescent
state with less overhead.
This also reduces the rcu_exp_handler() function's state space by removing
the direct call that this smp_call_function_single() uses to emulate the
requested self-IPI.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Use get_cpu() instead of preempt_disable() per Joel Fernandes. ]
Because expedited CPU stall warnings are contained within the
kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h file, rcu_print_task_exp_stall() should live
there too. This commit carries out the required code motion.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The task_struct structure's ->rcu_read_unlock_special field is only ever
read or written by the owning task, but it is accessed both at process
and interrupt levels. It may therefore be accessed using plain reads
and writes while interrupts are disabled, but must be accessed using
READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() or better otherwise. This commit makes a
few adjustments to align with this discipline.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit changes a rcu_exp_handler() comment from rcu_preempt_defer_qs()
to rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() in order to better match reality.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
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 file SPDX comment format per Joe Perches. ]
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
It turns out that it is queue_delayed_work_on() rather than
queue_work_on() that has difficulties when used concurrently with
CPU-hotplug removal operations. It is therefore unnecessary to protect
CPU identification and queue_work_on() with preempt_disable().
This commit therefore removes the preempt_disable() and preempt_enable()
from sync_rcu_exp_select_cpus(), which has the further benefit of reducing
the number of changes that must be maintained in the -rt patchset.
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Suggested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Now that _synchronize_rcu_expedited() has only one caller, and given that
this is a tail call, this commit inlines _synchronize_rcu_expedited()
into synchronize_rcu_expedited().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Now that rcu_blocking_is_gp() makes the correct immediate-return
decision for both PREEMPT and !PREEMPT, a single implementation of
synchronize_rcu() will work correctly under both configurations.
This commit therefore eliminates a few lines of code by consolidating
the two implementations of synchronize_rcu().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The CONFIG_PREEMPT=n and CONFIG_PREEMPT=y implementations of
synchronize_rcu_expedited() are quite similar, and with small
modifications to rcu_blocking_is_gp() can be made identical. This commit
therefore makes this change in order to save a few lines of code and to
reduce the amount of duplicate code.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Back when there could be multiple RCU flavors running in the same kernel
at the same time, it was necessary to specify the expedited grace-period
IPI handler at runtime. Now that there is only one RCU flavor, the
IPI handler can be determined at build time. There is therefore no
longer any reason for the RCU-preempt and RCU-sched IPI handlers to
have different names, nor is there any reason to pass these handlers in
function arguments and in the data structures enclosing workqueues.
This commit therefore makes all these changes, pushing the specification
of the expedited grace-period IPI handler down to the point of use.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
During expedited RCU grace-period initialization, IPIs are sent to
all non-idle online CPUs. The IPI handler checks to see if the CPU is
in quiescent state, reporting one if so. This handler looks at three
different cases: (1) The CPU is not in an rcu_read_lock()-based critical
section, (2) The CPU is in the process of exiting an rcu_read_lock()-based
critical section, and (3) The CPU is in an rcu_read_lock()-based critical
section. In case (2), execution falls through into case (3).
This is harmless from a functionality viewpoint, but can result in
needless overhead during an improbable corner case. This commit therefore
adds the "return" statement needed to prevent fall-through.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
In PREEMPT kernels, an expedited grace period might send an IPI to a
CPU that is executing an RCU read-side critical section. In that case,
it would be nice if the rcu_read_unlock() directly interacted with the
RCU core code to immediately report the quiescent state. And this does
happen in the case where the reader has been preempted. But it would
also be a nice performance optimization if immediate reporting also
happened in the preemption-free case.
This commit therefore adds an ->exp_hint field to the task_struct structure's
->rcu_read_unlock_special field. The IPI handler sets this hint when
it has interrupted an RCU read-side critical section, and this causes
the outermost rcu_read_unlock() call to invoke rcu_read_unlock_special(),
which, if preemption is enabled, reports the quiescent state immediately.
If preemption is disabled, then the report is required to be deferred
until preemption (or bottom halves or interrupts or whatever) is re-enabled.
Because this is a hint, it does nothing for more complicated cases. For
example, if the IPI interrupts an RCU reader, but interrupts are disabled
across the rcu_read_unlock(), but another rcu_read_lock() is executed
before interrupts are re-enabled, the hint will already have been cleared.
If you do crazy things like this, reporting will be deferred until some
later RCU_SOFTIRQ handler, context switch, cond_resched(), or similar.
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
The CPU-selection code in sync_rcu_exp_select_cpus() disables preemption
to prevent the cpu_online_mask from changing. However, this relies on
the stop-machine mechanism in the CPU-hotplug offline code, which is not
desirable (it would be good to someday remove the stop-machine mechanism).
This commit therefore instead uses the relevant leaf rcu_node structure's
->ffmask, which has a bit set for all CPUs that are fully functional.
A given CPU's bit is cleared very early during offline processing by
rcutree_offline_cpu() and set very late during online processing by
rcutree_online_cpu(). Therefore, if a CPU's bit is set in this mask, and
preemption is disabled, we have to be before the synchronize_sched() in
the CPU-hotplug offline code, which means that the CPU is guaranteed to be
workqueue-ready throughout the duration of the enclosing preempt_disable()
region of code.
This also has the side-effect of using WORK_CPU_UNBOUND if all the CPUs for
this leaf rcu_node structure are offline, which is an acceptable difference
in behavior.
Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit move ->dynticks from the rcu_dynticks structure to the
rcu_data structure, replacing the field of the same name. It also updates
the code to access ->dynticks from the rcu_data structure and to use the
rcu_data structure rather than following to now-gone ->dynticks field
to the now-gone rcu_dynticks structure. While in the area, this commit
also fixes up comments.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit removes ->rcu_need_heavy_qs and ->rcu_urgent_qs from the
rcu_dynticks structure and updates the code to access them from the
rcu_data structure.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The resched_cpu() interface is quite handy, but it does acquire the
specified CPU's runqueue lock, which does not come for free. This
commit therefore substitutes the following when directing resched_cpu()
at the current CPU:
set_tsk_need_resched(current);
set_preempt_need_resched();
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux
kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's rcu_node
tree's accessor macros. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter
from those macros in kernel/rcu/rcu.h, and removes some now-unused rsp
local variables while in the area.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to
RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter
from the code in kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h, and removes all of the
rsp local variables while in the area.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the
Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's
functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from
rcu_get_root().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_state_p pointer references the default rcu_state structure,
that is, the one that call_rcu() uses, as opposed to call_rcu_bh()
and sometimes call_rcu_sched(). But there is now only one rcu_state
structure, so that one structure is by definition the default, which
means that the rcu_state_p pointer no longer serves any useful purpose.
This commit therefore removes it.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_state structure's ->rda field was used to find the per-CPU
rcu_data structures corresponding to that rcu_state structure. But now
there is only one rcu_state structure (creatively named "rcu_state")
and one set of per-CPU rcu_data structures (creatively named "rcu_data").
Therefore, uses of the ->rda field can always be replaced by "rcu_data,
and this commit makes that change and removes the ->rda field.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The rcu_state structure's ->call field references the corresponding RCU
flavor's call_rcu() function. However, now that there is only ever one
rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, and that flavor
uses plain old call_rcu(), there is not a lot of point in continuing to
have the ->call field. This commit therefore removes it.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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>
The rcu_report_exp_rdp() function is always invoked with its "wake"
argument set to "true", so this commit drops this parameter. The only
potential call site that would use "false" is in the code driving the
expedited grace period, and that code uses rcu_report_exp_cpu_mult()
instead, which therefore retains its "wake" parameter.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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(). ]
Paul E. McKenney
Lai Jiangshan
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Neeraj Upadhyay
Boqun Feng
Mukesh Ojha
Paul E. McKenney
Jiang Biao
Paul E. McKenney