1. 04 11月, 2014 6 次提交
  2. 30 10月, 2014 3 次提交
  3. 29 10月, 2014 3 次提交
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      rcu: Move RCU_BOOST variable declarations, eliminating #ifdef · 61cfd097
      Paul E. McKenney 提交于
      There are some RCU_BOOST-specific per-CPU variable declarations that
      are needlessly defined under #ifdef in kernel/rcu/tree.c.  This commit
      therefore moves these declarations into a pre-existing #ifdef in
      kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      61cfd097
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      rcu: Remove CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE · 0eafa468
      Paul E. McKenney 提交于
      The CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE Kconfig parameter causes preemptible
      RCU's CPU stall warnings to dump out any preempted tasks that are blocking
      the current RCU grace period.  This information is useful, and the default
      has been CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE=y for some years.  It is therefore
      time for this commit to remove this Kconfig parameter, so that future
      kernel builds will always act as if CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE=y.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      0eafa468
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      rcu: Make rcu_barrier() understand about missing rcuo kthreads · d7e29933
      Paul E. McKenney 提交于
      Commit 35ce7f29 (rcu: Create rcuo kthreads only for onlined CPUs)
      avoids creating rcuo kthreads for CPUs that never come online.  This
      fixes a bug in many instances of firmware: Instead of lying about their
      age, these systems instead lie about the number of CPUs that they have.
      Before commit 35ce7f29, this could result in huge numbers of useless
      rcuo kthreads being created.
      
      It appears that experience indicates that I should have told the
      people suffering from this problem to fix their broken firmware, but
      I instead produced what turned out to be a partial fix.   The missing
      piece supplied by this commit makes sure that rcu_barrier() knows not to
      post callbacks for no-CBs CPUs that have not yet come online, because
      otherwise rcu_barrier() will hang on systems having firmware that lies
      about the number of CPUs.
      
      It is tempting to simply have rcu_barrier() refuse to post a callback on
      any no-CBs CPU that does not have an rcuo kthread.  This unfortunately
      does not work because rcu_barrier() is required to wait for all pending
      callbacks.  It is therefore required to wait even for those callbacks
      that cannot possibly be invoked.  Even if doing so hangs the system.
      
      Given that posting a callback to a no-CBs CPU that does not yet have an
      rcuo kthread can hang rcu_barrier(), It is tempting to report an error
      in this case.  Unfortunately, this will result in false positives at
      boot time, when it is perfectly legal to post callbacks to the boot CPU
      before the scheduler has started, in other words, before it is legal
      to invoke rcu_barrier().
      
      So this commit instead has rcu_barrier() avoid posting callbacks to
      CPUs having neither rcuo kthread nor pending callbacks, and has it
      complain bitterly if it finds CPUs having no rcuo kthread but some
      pending callbacks.  And when rcu_barrier() does find CPUs having no rcuo
      kthread but pending callbacks, as noted earlier, it has no choice but
      to hang indefinitely.
      Reported-by: NYanko Kaneti <yaneti@declera.com>
      Reported-by: NJay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
      Reported-by: NMeelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
      Reported-by: NEric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Tested-by: NEric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com>
      Tested-by: NJay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
      Tested-by: NYanko Kaneti <yaneti@declera.com>
      Tested-by: NKevin Fenzi <kevin@scrye.com>
      Tested-by: NMeelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>
      d7e29933
  4. 19 9月, 2014 1 次提交
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      rcu: Eliminate deadlock between CPU hotplug and expedited grace periods · dd56af42
      Paul E. McKenney 提交于
      Currently, the expedited grace-period primitives do get_online_cpus().
      This greatly simplifies their implementation, but means that calls
      to them holding locks that are acquired by CPU-hotplug notifiers (to
      say nothing of calls to these primitives from CPU-hotplug notifiers)
      can deadlock.  But this is starting to become inconvenient, as can be
      seen here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/5/754.  The problem in this
      case is that some developers need to acquire a mutex from a CPU-hotplug
      notifier, but also need to hold it across a synchronize_rcu_expedited().
      As noted above, this currently results in deadlock.
      
      This commit avoids the deadlock and retains the simplicity by creating
      a try_get_online_cpus(), which returns false if the get_online_cpus()
      reference count could not immediately be incremented.  If a call to
      try_get_online_cpus() returns true, the expedited primitives operate as
      before.  If a call returns false, the expedited primitives fall back to
      normal grace-period operations.  This falling back of course results in
      increased grace-period latency, but only during times when CPU hotplug
      operations are actually in flight.  The effect should therefore be
      negligible during normal operation.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
      Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
      Tested-by: NLan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
      dd56af42
  5. 17 9月, 2014 14 次提交
  6. 08 9月, 2014 9 次提交
  7. 28 8月, 2014 1 次提交
  8. 17 7月, 2014 1 次提交
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      rcu: Allow for NULL tick_nohz_full_mask when nohz_full= missing · 187497fa
      Paul E. McKenney 提交于
      If there isn't a nohz_full= kernel parameter specified, then
      tick_nohz_full_mask can legitimately be NULL.  This can cause
      problems when RCU's boot code tries to cpumask_or() this value into
      rcu_nocb_mask.  In addition, if NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y, there is no point
      in doing the cpumask_or() in the first place because this will cause
      RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y, which in turn will have all bits already set in
      rcu_nocb_mask.
      
      This commit therefore avoids the cpumask_or() if NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y
      and checks for !tick_nohz_full_running otherwise, this latter check
      catching cases when there was no nohz_full= kernel parameter specified.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      187497fa
  9. 10 7月, 2014 2 次提交