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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-11-30 15:36:35 -0800
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2018-02-15 15:40:37 -0800
commita7c8655b073d89303911c89d0fd9fc4be7631fbe (patch)
tree11d473673df9f5d561224431bf46b92956dd31f4 /Documentation/timers
parent398953e62ce3b27f9f7805e367195b7ee6705f57 (diff)
downloadlinux-a7c8655b073d89303911c89d0fd9fc4be7631fbe.tar.bz2
sched/isolation: Eliminate NO_HZ_FULL_ALL
Commit 6f1982fedd59 ("sched/isolation: Handle the nohz_full= parameter") broke CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y kernels. This breakage is due to the code under CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL failing to invoke the shiny new housekeeping functions. This means that rcutorture scenario TREE04 now emits RCU CPU stall warnings due to the RCU grace-period kthreads not being awakened at a time of their choosing, or perhaps even not at all: [ 27.731422] rcu_bh kthread starved for 21001 jiffies! g18446744073709551369 c18446744073709551368 f0x0 RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS(3) ->state=0x402 ->cpu=3 [ 27.731423] rcu_bh I14936 9 2 0x80080000 [ 27.731435] Call Trace: [ 27.731440] __schedule+0x31a/0x6d0 [ 27.731442] schedule+0x31/0x80 [ 27.731446] schedule_timeout+0x15a/0x320 [ 27.731453] ? call_timer_fn+0x130/0x130 [ 27.731457] rcu_gp_kthread+0x66c/0xea0 [ 27.731458] ? rcu_gp_kthread+0x66c/0xea0 Because no one has complained about CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y being broken, I hypothesize that no one is in fact using it, other than rcutorture. This commit therefore eliminates CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL and updates rcutorture's config files to instead use the nohz_full= kernel parameter to put the desired CPUs into nohz_full mode. Fixes: 6f1982fedd59 ("sched/isolation: Handle the nohz_full= parameter") Reported-by: kernel test robot <xiaolong.ye@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@mellanox.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Wanpeng Li <kernellwp@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt7
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diff --git a/Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt b/Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt
index 2dcaf9adb7a7..9591092da5e0 100644
--- a/Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt
+++ b/Documentation/timers/NO_HZ.txt
@@ -131,13 +131,6 @@ error message, and the boot CPU will be removed from the mask. Note that
this means that your system must have at least two CPUs in order for
CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y to do anything for you.
-Alternatively, the CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y Kconfig parameter specifies
-that all CPUs other than the boot CPU are adaptive-ticks CPUs. This
-Kconfig parameter will be overridden by the "nohz_full=" boot parameter,
-so that if both the CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL_ALL=y Kconfig parameter and
-the "nohz_full=1" boot parameter is specified, the boot parameter will
-prevail so that only CPU 1 will be an adaptive-ticks CPU.
-
Finally, adaptive-ticks CPUs must have their RCU callbacks offloaded.
This is covered in the "RCU IMPLICATIONS" section below.