1. 04 11月, 2014 9 次提交
  2. 29 10月, 2014 1 次提交
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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
  3. 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
  4. 17 9月, 2014 2 次提交
  5. 08 9月, 2014 11 次提交
  6. 10 7月, 2014 7 次提交
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      rcu: Remove CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAY · 11992c70
      Paul E. McKenney 提交于
      The CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAY Kconfig parameter doesn't appear to be very
      effective at finding race conditions, so this commit removes it.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      [ paulmck: Remove definition and uses as noted by Paul Bolle. ]
      11992c70
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      rcu: Use __this_cpu_read() instead of per_cpu_ptr() · d860d403
      Shan Wei 提交于
      The __this_cpu_read() function produces better code than does
      per_cpu_ptr() on both ARM and x86.  For example, gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro
      4.7.3-12ubuntu1) 4.7.3 produces the following:
      
      ARMv7 per_cpu_ptr():
      
      force_quiescent_state:
          mov    r3, sp    @,
          bic    r1, r3, #8128    @ tmp171,,
          ldr    r2, .L98    @ tmp169,
          bic    r1, r1, #63    @ tmp170, tmp171,
          ldr    r3, [r0, #220]    @ __ptr, rsp_6(D)->rda
          ldr    r1, [r1, #20]    @ D.35903_68->cpu, D.35903_68->cpu
          mov    r6, r0    @ rsp, rsp
          ldr    r2, [r2, r1, asl #2]    @ tmp173, __per_cpu_offset
          add    r3, r3, r2    @ tmp175, __ptr, tmp173
          ldr    r5, [r3, #12]    @ rnp_old, D.29162_13->mynode
      
      ARMv7 __this_cpu_read():
      
      force_quiescent_state:
          ldr    r3, [r0, #220]    @ rsp_7(D)->rda, rsp_7(D)->rda
          mov    r6, r0    @ rsp, rsp
          add    r3, r3, #12    @ __ptr, rsp_7(D)->rda,
          ldr    r5, [r2, r3]    @ rnp_old, *D.29176_13
      
      Using gcc 4.8.2:
      
      x86_64 per_cpu_ptr():
      
          movl %gs:cpu_number,%edx    # cpu_number, pscr_ret__
          movslq    %edx, %rdx    # pscr_ret__, pscr_ret__
          movq    __per_cpu_offset(,%rdx,8), %rdx    # __per_cpu_offset, tmp93
          movq    %rdi, %r13    # rsp, rsp
          movq    1000(%rdi), %rax    # rsp_9(D)->rda, __ptr
          movq    24(%rdx,%rax), %r12    # _15->mynode, rnp_old
      
      x86_64 __this_cpu_read():
      
          movq    %rdi, %r13    # rsp, rsp
          movq    1000(%rdi), %rax    # rsp_9(D)->rda, rsp_9(D)->rda
          movq %gs:24(%rax),%r12    # _10->mynode, rnp_old
      
      Because this change produces significant benefits for these two very
      diverse architectures, this commit makes this change.
      Signed-off-by: NShan Wei <davidshan@tencent.com>
      Acked-by: NChristoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
      Reviewed-by: NLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
      d860d403
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      rcu: Don't use NMIs to dump other CPUs' stacks · bc1dce51
      Paul E. McKenney 提交于
      Although NMI-based stack dumps are in principle more accurate, they are
      also more likely to trigger deadlocks.  This commit therefore replaces
      all uses of trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() with rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(), so
      that the CPU detecting an RCU CPU stall does the stack dumping.
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Reviewed-by: NLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
      bc1dce51
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      rcu: Check both root and current rcu_node when setting up future grace period · 48bd8e9b
      Pranith Kumar 提交于
      The rcu_start_future_gp() function checks the current rcu_node's ->gpnum
      and ->completed twice, once without ACCESS_ONCE() and once with it.
      Which is pointless because we hold that rcu_node's ->lock at that point.
      The intent was to check the current rcu_node structure and the root
      rcu_node structure, the latter locklessly with ACCESS_ONCE().  This
      commit therefore makes that change.
      
      The reason that it is safe to locklessly check the root rcu_nodes's
      ->gpnum and ->completed fields is that we hold the current rcu_node's
      ->lock, which constrains the root rcu_node's ability to change its
      ->gpnum and ->completed fields.  Of course, if there is a single rcu_node
      structure, then rnp_root==rnp, and holding the lock prevents all changes.
      If there is more than one rcu_node structure, then the code updates the
      fields in the following order:
      
      1.	Increment rnp_root->gpnum to start new grace period.
      2.	Increment rnp->gpnum to initialize the current rcu_node,
      	continuing initialization for the new grace period.
      3.	Increment rnp_root->completed to end the current grace period.
      4.	Increment rnp->completed to continue cleaning up after the
      	old grace period.
      
      So there are four possible combinations of relative values of these
      four fields:
      
      N   N   N   N:  RCU idle, new grace period must be initiated.
      		Although rnp_root->gpnum might be incremented immediately
      		after we check, that will just result in unnecessary work.
      		The grace period already started, and we try to start it.
      
      N+1 N   N   N:  RCU grace period just started.  No further change is
      		possible because we hold rnp->lock, so the checks of
      		rnp_root->gpnum and rnp_root->completed are stable.
      		We know that our request for a future grace period will
      		be seen during grace-period cleanup.
      
      N+1 N   N+1 N:  RCU grace period is ongoing.  Because rnp->gpnum is
      		different than rnp->completed, we won't even look at
      		rnp_root->gpnum and rnp_root->completed, so the possible
      		concurrent change to rnp_root->completed does not matter.
      		We know that our request for a future grace period will
      		be seen during grace-period cleanup, which cannot pass
      		this rcu_node because we hold its ->lock.
      
      N+1 N+1 N+1 N:  RCU grace period has ended, but not yet been cleaned up.
      		Because rnp->gpnum is different than rnp->completed, we
      		won't look at rnp_root->gpnum and rnp_root->completed, so
      		the possible concurrent change to rnp_root->completed does
      		not matter.  We know that our request for a future grace
      		period will be seen during grace-period cleanup, which
      		cannot pass this rcu_node because we hold its ->lock.
      
      Therefore, despite initial appearances, the lockless check is safe.
      Signed-off-by: NPranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
      [ paulmck: Update comment to say why the lockless check is safe. ]
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      48bd8e9b
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      rcu: Loosen __call_rcu()'s rcu_head alignment constraint · 1146edcb
      Paul E. McKenney 提交于
      The m68k architecture aligns only to 16-bit boundaries, which can cause
      the align-to-32-bits check in __call_rcu() to trigger.  Because there is
      currently no known potential need for more than one low-order bit, this
      commit loosens the check to 16-bit boundaries.
      Reported-by: NGreg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Reviewed-by: NLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
      1146edcb
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      rcu: Eliminate read-modify-write ACCESS_ONCE() calls · a792563b
      Paul E. McKenney 提交于
      RCU contains code of the following forms:
      
      	ACCESS_ONCE(x)++;
      	ACCESS_ONCE(x) += y;
      	ACCESS_ONCE(x) -= y;
      
      Now these constructs do operate correctly, but they really result in a
      pair of volatile accesses, one to do the load and another to do the store.
      This can be confusing, as the casual reader might well assume that (for
      example) gcc might generate a memory-to-memory add instruction for each
      of these three cases.  In fact, gcc will do no such thing.  Also, there
      is a good chance that the kernel will move to separate load and store
      variants of ACCESS_ONCE(), and constructs like the above could easily
      confuse both people and scripts attempting to make that sort of change.
      Finally, most of RCU's read-modify-write uses of ACCESS_ONCE() really
      only need the store to be volatile, so that the read-modify-write form
      might be misleading.
      
      This commit therefore changes the above forms in RCU so that each instance
      of ACCESS_ONCE() either does a load or a store, but not both.  In a few
      cases, ACCESS_ONCE() was not critical, for example, for maintaining
      statisitics.  In these cases, ACCESS_ONCE() has been dispensed with
      entirely.
      Suggested-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      a792563b
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      rcu: Make rcu node arrays static const char * const · b4426b49
      Fabian Frederick 提交于
      Those two arrays are being passed to lockdep_init_map(), which expects
      const char *, and are stored in lockdep_map the same way.
      
      Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
      Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
      Signed-off-by: NFabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      b4426b49
  7. 24 6月, 2014 1 次提交
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      rcu: Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU · 4a81e832
      Paul E. McKenney 提交于
      Commit ac1bea85 (Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent states)
      fixed a problem where a CPU looping in the kernel with but one runnable
      task would give RCU CPU stall warnings, even if the in-kernel loop
      contained cond_resched() calls.  Unfortunately, in so doing, it introduced
      performance regressions in Anton Blanchard's will-it-scale "open1" test.
      The problem appears to be not so much the increased cond_resched() path
      length as an increase in the rate at which grace periods complete, which
      increased per-update grace-period overhead.
      
      This commit takes a different approach to fixing this bug, mainly by
      moving the RCU-visible quiescent state from cond_resched() to
      rcu_note_context_switch(), and by further reducing the check to a
      simple non-zero test of a single per-CPU variable.  However, this
      approach requires that the force-quiescent-state processing send
      resched IPIs to the offending CPUs.  These will be sent only once
      the grace period has reached an age specified by the boot/sysfs
      parameter rcutree.jiffies_till_sched_qs, or once the grace period
      reaches an age halfway to the point at which RCU CPU stall warnings
      will be emitted, whichever comes first.
      Reported-by: NDave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
      Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org>
      Cc: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
      Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
      Reviewed-by: NJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
      [ paulmck: Made rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle() as suggested by the
        ktest build robot.  Also fixed smp_mb() comment as noted by
        Oleg Nesterov. ]
      
      Merge with e552592e (Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU)
      Signed-off-by: NPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      4a81e832
  8. 15 5月, 2014 2 次提交
  9. 14 5月, 2014 1 次提交
  10. 29 4月, 2014 5 次提交