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2017-04-18srcu: Abstract multi-tail callback list handlingPaul E. McKenney1-10/+11
RCU has only one multi-tail callback list, which is implemented via the nxtlist, nxttail, nxtcompleted, qlen_lazy, and qlen fields in the rcu_data structure, and whose operations are open-code throughout the Tree RCU implementation. This has been more or less OK in the past, but upcoming callback-list optimizations in SRCU could really use a multi-tail callback list there as well. This commit therefore abstracts the multi-tail callback list handling into a new kernel/rcu/rcu_segcblist.h file, and uses this new API. The simple head-and-tail pointer callback list is also abstracted and applied everywhere except for the NOCB callback-offload lists. (Yes, the plan is to apply them there as well, but this commit is already bigger than would be good.) Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-04-18rcu: Pull rcu_qs_ctr into rcu_dynticks structurePaul E. McKenney1-3/+1
The rcu_qs_ctr variable is yet another isolated per-CPU variable, so this commit pulls it into the pre-existing rcu_dynticks per-CPU structure. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-01-25Merge branches 'doc.2017.01.15b', 'dyntick.2017.01.23a', ↵Paul E. McKenney1-3/+2
'fixes.2017.01.23a', 'srcu.2017.01.25a' and 'torture.2017.01.15b' into HEAD doc.2017.01.15b: Documentation updates dyntick.2017.01.23a: Dyntick tracking consolidation fixes.2017.01.23a: Miscellaneous fixes srcu.2017.01.25a: SRCU rewrite, fixes, and verification torture.2017.01.15b: Torture-test updates
2017-01-23rcu: Abstract extended quiescent state determinationPaul E. McKenney1-1/+1
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>
2017-01-23rcu: Eliminate unused expedited_normal counterPaul E. McKenney1-2/+1
Expedited grace periods no longer fall back to normal grace periods in response to lock contention, given that expedited grace periods now use the rcu_node tree so as to avoid contention. This commit therfore removes the expedited_normal counter. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2016-08-22rcu: Drive expedited grace periods from workqueuePaul E. McKenney1-3/+4
The current implementation of expedited grace periods has the user task drive the grace period. This works, but has downsides: (1) The user task must awaken tasks piggybacking on this grace period, which can result in latencies rivaling that of the grace period itself, and (2) User tasks can receive signals, which interfere with RCU CPU stall warnings. This commit therefore uses workqueues to drive the grace periods, so that the user task need not do the awakening. A subsequent commit will remove the now-unnecessary code allowing for signals. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-03-31rcu: Shorten expedited_workdone* to exp_workdone*Paul E. McKenney1-3/+3
Just a name change to save a few lines and a bit of typing. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-03-31rcu: Remove expedited GP funnel-lock bypassPaul E. McKenney1-4/+3
Commit #cdacbe1f91264 ("rcu: Add fastpath bypassing funnel locking") turns out to be a pessimization at high load because it forces a tree full of tasks to wait for an expedited grace period that they probably do not need. This commit therefore removes this optimization. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-12-07Merge branches 'doc.2015.12.05a', 'exp.2015.12.07a', 'fixes.2015.12.07a', ↵Paul E. McKenney1-22/+15
'list.2015.12.04b' and 'torture.2015.12.05a' into HEAD doc.2015.12.05a: Documentation updates exp.2015.12.07a: Expedited grace-period updates fixes.2015.12.07a: Miscellaneous fixes list.2015.12.04b: Linked-list updates torture.2015.12.05a: Torture-test updates
2015-12-04kernel: Make rcu/tree_trace.c explicitly non-modularPaul Gortmaker1-16/+3
The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of this code is: init/Kconfig:config TREE_RCU_TRACE init/Kconfig: def_bool RCU_TRACE && ( TREE_RCU || PREEMPT_RCU ) ...meaning that it currently is not being built as a module by anyone. Lets remove the modular code that is essentially orphaned, so that when reading the file there is no doubt it is builtin-only. Since module_init translates to device_initcall in the non-modular case, the init ordering remains unchanged with this commit. We could consider moving this to an earlier initcall if desired. We don't replace module.h with init.h since the file already has that. We also delete the moduleparam.h include that is left over from commit 64db4cfff99c04cd5f550357edcc8780f96b54a2 (""Tree RCU": scalable classic RCU implementation") since it is not needed here either. We morph some tags like MODULE_AUTHOR into the comments at the top of the file for documentation purposes. Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-12-04rcu: Reduce expedited GP memory contention via per-CPU variablesPaul E. McKenney1-6/+12
Currently, the piggybacked-work checks carried out by sync_exp_work_done() atomically increment a small set of variables (the ->expedited_workdone0, ->expedited_workdone1, ->expedited_workdone2, ->expedited_workdone3 fields in the rcu_state structure), which will form a memory-contention bottleneck given a sufficiently large number of CPUs concurrently invoking either synchronize_rcu_expedited() or synchronize_sched_expedited(). This commit therefore moves these for fields to the per-CPU rcu_data structure, eliminating the memory contention. The show_rcuexp() function also changes to sum up each field in the rcu_data structures. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-11-23rcu: Add transitivity to remaining rcu_node ->lock acquisitionsPaul E. McKenney1-1/+1
The rule is that all acquisitions of the rcu_node structure's ->lock must provide transitivity: The lock is not acquired that frequently, and sorting out exactly which required it and which did not would be a maintenance nightmare. This commit therefore supplies the needed transitivity to the remaining ->lock acquisitions. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-10-07Merge branches 'fixes.2015.10.06a' and 'exp.2015.10.07a' into HEADPaul E. McKenney1-4/+4
exp.2015.10.07a: Reduce OS jitter of RCU-sched expedited grace periods. fixes.2015.10.06a: Miscellaneous fixes.
2015-10-06rcu: Finish folding ->fqs_state into ->gp_statePetr Mladek1-1/+1
Commit commit 4cdfc175c25c89ee ("rcu: Move quiescent-state forcing into kthread") started the process of folding the old ->fqs_state into ->gp_state, but did not complete it. This situation does not cause any malfunction, but can result in extremely confusing trace output. This commit completes this task of eliminating ->fqs_state in favor of ->gp_state. The old ->fqs_state was also used to decide when to collect dyntick-idle snapshots. For this purpose, we add a boolean variable into the kthread, which is set on the first call to rcu_gp_fqs() for a given grace period and clear otherwise. Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-09-20rcu: Make ->cpu_no_qs be a union for aggregate ORPaul E. McKenney1-1/+1
This commit converts the rcu_data structure's ->cpu_no_qs field to a union. The bytewise side of this union allows individual access to indications as to whether this CPU needs to find a quiescent state for a normal (.norm) and/or expedited (.exp) grace period. The setwise side of the union allows testing whether or not a quiescent state is needed at all, for either type of grace period. For now, only .norm is used. A later commit will introduce the expedited usage. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-09-20rcu: Invert passed_quiesce and rename to cpu_no_qsPaul E. McKenney1-2/+2
This commit inverts the sense of the rcu_data structure's ->passed_quiesce field and renames it to ->cpu_no_qs. This will allow a later commit to use an "aggregate OR" operation to test expedited as well as normal grace periods without added overhead. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-09-20rcu: Rename qs_pending to core_needs_qsPaul E. McKenney1-2/+2
An upcoming commit needs to invert the sense of the ->passed_quiesce rcu_data structure field, so this commit is taking this opportunity to clarify things a bit by renaming ->qs_pending to ->core_needs_qs. So if !rdp->core_needs_qs, then this CPU need not concern itself with quiescent states, in particular, it need not acquire its leaf rcu_node structure's ->lock to check. Otherwise, it needs to report the next quiescent state. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-07-17rcu: Add fastpath bypassing funnel lockingPaul E. McKenney1-2/+2
In the common case, there will be only one expedited grace period in the system at a given time, in which case it is not helpful to use funnel locking. This commit therefore adds a fastpath that bypasses funnel locking when the root ->exp_funnel_mutex is not held. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-07-17rcu: Extend expedited funnel locking to rcu_data structurePaul E. McKenney1-1/+2
The strictly rcu_node based funnel-locking scheme works well in many cases, but systems with CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF=64 won't necessarily get all that much concurrency. This commit therefore extends the funnel locking into the per-CPU rcu_data structure, providing concurrency equal to the number of CPUs. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-07-17rcu: Apply rcu_seq operations to _rcu_barrier()Paul E. McKenney1-2/+2
The rcu_seq operations were open-coded in _rcu_barrier(), so this commit replaces the open-coding with the shiny new rcu_seq operations. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-07-17rcu: Make expedited GP CPU stoppage asynchronousPeter Zijlstra1-1/+2
Sequentially stopping the CPUs slows down expedited grace periods by at least a factor of two, based on rcutorture's grace-period-per-second rate. This is a conservative measure because rcutorture uses unusually long RCU read-side critical sections and because rcutorture periodically quiesces the system in order to test RCU's ability to ramp down to and up from the idle state. This commit therefore replaces the stop_one_cpu() with stop_one_cpu_nowait(), using an atomic-counter scheme to determine when all CPUs have passed through the stopped state. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-07-17rcu: Get rid of synchronize_sched_expedited()'s polling loopPaul E. McKenney1-2/+1
This commit gets rid of synchronize_sched_expedited()'s mutex_trylock() polling loop in favor of a funnel-locking scheme based on the rcu_node tree. The work-done check is done at each level of the tree, allowing high-contention situations to be resolved quickly with reasonable levels of mutex contention. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-07-17rcu: Rework synchronize_sched_expedited() counter handlingPaul E. McKenney1-8/+4
Now that synchronize_sched_expedited() have a mutex, it can use simpler work-already-done detection scheme. This commit simplifies this scheme by using something similar to the sequence-locking counter scheme. A counter is incremented before and after each grace period, so that the counter is odd in the midst of the grace period and even otherwise. So if the counter has advanced to the second even number that is greater than or equal to the snapshot, the required grace period has already happened. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-05-27rcu: Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE()Paul E. McKenney1-3/+3
This commit moves from the old ACCESS_ONCE() API to the new READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() APIs. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Updated to include kernel/torture.c as suggested by Jason Low. ]
2015-03-12rcu: Process offlining and onlining only at grace-period startPaul E. McKenney1-2/+2
Races between CPU hotplug and grace periods can be difficult to resolve, so the ->onoff_mutex is used to exclude the two events. Unfortunately, this means that it is impossible for an outgoing CPU to perform the last bits of its offlining from its last pass through the idle loop, because sleeplocks cannot be acquired in that context. This commit avoids these problems by buffering online and offline events in a new ->qsmaskinitnext field in the leaf rcu_node structures. When a grace period starts, the events accumulated in this mask are applied to the ->qsmaskinit field, and, if needed, up the rcu_node tree. The special case of all CPUs corresponding to a given leaf rcu_node structure being offline while there are still elements in that structure's ->blkd_tasks list is handled using a new ->wait_blkd_tasks field. In this case, propagating the offline bits up the tree is deferred until the beginning of the grace period after all of the tasks have exited their RCU read-side critical sections and removed themselves from the list, at which point the ->wait_blkd_tasks flag is cleared. If one of that leaf rcu_node structure's CPUs comes back online before the list empties, then the ->wait_blkd_tasks flag is simply cleared. This of course means that RCU's notion of which CPUs are offline can be out of date. This is OK because RCU need only wait on CPUs that were online at the time that the grace period started. In addition, RCU's force-quiescent-state actions will handle the case where a CPU goes offline after the grace period starts. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-15rcu: Make cond_resched_rcu_qs() apply to normal RCU flavorsPaul E. McKenney1-2/+6
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. ]
2014-02-17rcu: 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>
2014-02-17rcu: Add ACCESS_ONCE() to ->n_force_qs_lh accessesPaul E. McKenney1-1/+1
The ->n_force_qs_lh field is accessed without the benefit of any synchronization, so this commit adds the needed ACCESS_ONCE() wrappers. Yes, increments to ->n_force_qs_lh can be lost, but contention should be low and the field is strictly statistical in nature, so this is not a problem. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-12-03rcu: Break call_rcu() deadlock involving scheduler and perfPaul E. McKenney1-1/+2
Dave Jones got the following lockdep splat: > ====================================================== > [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] > 3.12.0-rc3+ #92 Not tainted > ------------------------------------------------------- > trinity-child2/15191 is trying to acquire lock: > (&rdp->nocb_wq){......}, at: [<ffffffff8108ff43>] __wake_up+0x23/0x50 > > but task is already holding lock: > (&ctx->lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff81154c19>] perf_event_exit_task+0x109/0x230 > > which lock already depends on the new lock. > > > the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: > > -> #3 (&ctx->lock){-.-...}: > [<ffffffff810cc243>] lock_acquire+0x93/0x200 > [<ffffffff81733f90>] _raw_spin_lock+0x40/0x80 > [<ffffffff811500ff>] __perf_event_task_sched_out+0x2df/0x5e0 > [<ffffffff81091b83>] perf_event_task_sched_out+0x93/0xa0 > [<ffffffff81732052>] __schedule+0x1d2/0xa20 > [<ffffffff81732f30>] preempt_schedule_irq+0x50/0xb0 > [<ffffffff817352b6>] retint_kernel+0x26/0x30 > [<ffffffff813eed04>] tty_flip_buffer_push+0x34/0x50 > [<ffffffff813f0504>] pty_write+0x54/0x60 > [<ffffffff813e900d>] n_tty_write+0x32d/0x4e0 > [<ffffffff813e5838>] tty_write+0x158/0x2d0 > [<ffffffff811c4850>] vfs_write+0xc0/0x1f0 > [<ffffffff811c52cc>] SyS_write+0x4c/0xa0 > [<ffffffff8173d4e4>] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2 > > -> #2 (&rq->lock){-.-.-.}: > [<ffffffff810cc243>] lock_acquire+0x93/0x200 > [<ffffffff81733f90>] _raw_spin_lock+0x40/0x80 > [<ffffffff810980b2>] wake_up_new_task+0xc2/0x2e0 > [<ffffffff81054336>] do_fork+0x126/0x460 > [<ffffffff81054696>] kernel_thread+0x26/0x30 > [<ffffffff8171ff93>] rest_init+0x23/0x140 > [<ffffffff81ee1e4b>] start_kernel+0x3f6/0x403 > [<ffffffff81ee1571>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x2a/0x2c > [<ffffffff81ee1664>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xf1/0xf4 > > -> #1 (&p->pi_lock){-.-.-.}: > [<ffffffff810cc243>] lock_acquire+0x93/0x200 > [<ffffffff8173419b>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x4b/0x90 > [<ffffffff810979d1>] try_to_wake_up+0x31/0x350 > [<ffffffff81097d62>] default_wake_function+0x12/0x20 > [<ffffffff81084af8>] autoremove_wake_function+0x18/0x40 > [<ffffffff8108ea38>] __wake_up_common+0x58/0x90 > [<ffffffff8108ff59>] __wake_up+0x39/0x50 > [<ffffffff8110d4f8>] __call_rcu_nocb_enqueue+0xa8/0xc0 > [<ffffffff81111450>] __call_rcu+0x140/0x820 > [<ffffffff81111b8d>] call_rcu+0x1d/0x20 > [<ffffffff81093697>] cpu_attach_domain+0x287/0x360 > [<ffffffff81099d7e>] build_sched_domains+0xe5e/0x10a0 > [<ffffffff81efa7fc>] sched_init_smp+0x3b7/0x47a > [<ffffffff81ee1f4e>] kernel_init_freeable+0xf6/0x202 > [<ffffffff817200be>] kernel_init+0xe/0x190 > [<ffffffff8173d22c>] ret_from_fork+0x7c/0xb0 > > -> #0 (&rdp->nocb_wq){......}: > [<ffffffff810cb7ca>] __lock_acquire+0x191a/0x1be0 > [<ffffffff810cc243>] lock_acquire+0x93/0x200 > [<ffffffff8173419b>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x4b/0x90 > [<ffffffff8108ff43>] __wake_up+0x23/0x50 > [<ffffffff8110d4f8>] __call_rcu_nocb_enqueue+0xa8/0xc0 > [<ffffffff81111450>] __call_rcu+0x140/0x820 > [<ffffffff81111bb0>] kfree_call_rcu+0x20/0x30 > [<ffffffff81149abf>] put_ctx+0x4f/0x70 > [<ffffffff81154c3e>] perf_event_exit_task+0x12e/0x230 > [<ffffffff81056b8d>] do_exit+0x30d/0xcc0 > [<ffffffff8105893c>] do_group_exit+0x4c/0xc0 > [<ffffffff810589c4>] SyS_exit_group+0x14/0x20 > [<ffffffff8173d4e4>] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2 > > other info that might help us debug this: > > Chain exists of: > &rdp->nocb_wq --> &rq->lock --> &ctx->lock > > Possible unsafe locking scenario: > > CPU0 CPU1 > ---- ---- > lock(&ctx->lock); > lock(&rq->lock); > lock(&ctx->lock); > lock(&rdp->nocb_wq); > > *** DEADLOCK *** > > 1 lock held by trinity-child2/15191: > #0: (&ctx->lock){-.-...}, at: [<ffffffff81154c19>] perf_event_exit_task+0x109/0x230 > > stack backtrace: > CPU: 2 PID: 15191 Comm: trinity-child2 Not tainted 3.12.0-rc3+ #92 > ffffffff82565b70 ffff880070c2dbf8 ffffffff8172a363 ffffffff824edf40 > ffff880070c2dc38 ffffffff81726741 ffff880070c2dc90 ffff88022383b1c0 > ffff88022383aac0 0000000000000000 ffff88022383b188 ffff88022383b1c0 > Call Trace: > [<ffffffff8172a363>] dump_stack+0x4e/0x82 > [<ffffffff81726741>] print_circular_bug+0x200/0x20f > [<ffffffff810cb7ca>] __lock_acquire+0x191a/0x1be0 > [<ffffffff810c6439>] ? get_lock_stats+0x19/0x60 > [<ffffffff8100b2f4>] ? native_sched_clock+0x24/0x80 > [<ffffffff810cc243>] lock_acquire+0x93/0x200 > [<ffffffff8108ff43>] ? __wake_up+0x23/0x50 > [<ffffffff8173419b>] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x4b/0x90 > [<ffffffff8108ff43>] ? __wake_up+0x23/0x50 > [<ffffffff8108ff43>] __wake_up+0x23/0x50 > [<ffffffff8110d4f8>] __call_rcu_nocb_enqueue+0xa8/0xc0 > [<ffffffff81111450>] __call_rcu+0x140/0x820 > [<ffffffff8109bc8f>] ? local_clock+0x3f/0x50 > [<ffffffff81111bb0>] kfree_call_rcu+0x20/0x30 > [<ffffffff81149abf>] put_ctx+0x4f/0x70 > [<ffffffff81154c3e>] perf_event_exit_task+0x12e/0x230 > [<ffffffff81056b8d>] do_exit+0x30d/0xcc0 > [<ffffffff810c9af5>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_caller+0x115/0x1e0 > [<ffffffff810c9bcd>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10 > [<ffffffff8105893c>] do_group_exit+0x4c/0xc0 > [<ffffffff810589c4>] SyS_exit_group+0x14/0x20 > [<ffffffff8173d4e4>] tracesys+0xdd/0xe2 The underlying problem is that perf is invoking call_rcu() with the scheduler locks held, but in NOCB mode, call_rcu() will with high probability invoke the scheduler -- which just might want to use its locks. The reason that call_rcu() needs to invoke the scheduler is to wake up the corresponding rcuo callback-offload kthread, which does the job of starting up a grace period and invoking the callbacks afterwards. One solution (championed on a related problem by Lai Jiangshan) is to simply defer the wakeup to some point where scheduler locks are no longer held. Since we don't want to unnecessarily incur the cost of such deferral, the task before us is threefold: 1. Determine when it is likely that a relevant scheduler lock is held. 2. Defer the wakeup in such cases. 3. Ensure that all deferred wakeups eventually happen, preferably sooner rather than later. We use irqs_disabled_flags() as a proxy for relevant scheduler locks being held. This works because the relevant locks are always acquired with interrupts disabled. We may defer more often than needed, but that is at least safe. The wakeup deferral is tracked via a new field in the per-CPU and per-RCU-flavor rcu_data structure, namely ->nocb_defer_wakeup. This flag is checked by the RCU core processing. The __rcu_pending() function now checks this flag, which causes rcu_check_callbacks() to initiate RCU core processing at each scheduling-clock interrupt where this flag is set. Of course this is not sufficient because scheduling-clock interrupts are often turned off (the things we used to be able to count on!). So the flags are also checked on entry to any state that RCU considers to be idle, which includes both NO_HZ_IDLE idle state and NO_HZ_FULL user-mode-execution state. This approach should allow call_rcu() to be invoked regardless of what locks you might be holding, the key word being "should". Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2013-10-15rcu: Move RCU-related source code to kernel/rcu directoryPaul E. McKenney1-0/+500
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>