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2014-03-31Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull scheduler changes from Ingo Molnar: "Bigger changes: - sched/idle restructuring: they are WIP preparation for deeper integration between the scheduler and idle state selection, by Nicolas Pitre. - add NUMA scheduling pseudo-interleaving, by Rik van Riel. - optimize cgroup context switches, by Peter Zijlstra. - RT scheduling enhancements, by Thomas Gleixner. The rest is smaller changes, non-urgnt fixes and cleanups" * 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (68 commits) sched: Clean up the task_hot() function sched: Remove double calculation in fix_small_imbalance() sched: Fix broken setscheduler() sparc64, sched: Remove unused sparc64_multi_core sched: Remove unused mc_capable() and smt_capable() sched/numa: Move task_numa_free() to __put_task_struct() sched/fair: Fix endless loop in idle_balance() sched/core: Fix endless loop in pick_next_task() sched/fair: Push down check for high priority class task into idle_balance() sched/rt: Fix picking RT and DL tasks from empty queue trace: Replace hardcoding of 19 with MAX_NICE sched: Guarantee task priority in pick_next_task() sched/idle: Remove stale old file sched: Put rq's sched_avg under CONFIG_FAIR_GROUP_SCHED cpuidle/arm64: Remove redundant cpuidle_idle_call() cpuidle/powernv: Remove redundant cpuidle_idle_call() sched, nohz: Exclude isolated cores from load balancing sched: Fix select_task_rq_fair() description comments workqueue: Replace hardcoding of -20 and 19 with MIN_NICE and MAX_NICE sys: Replace hardcoding of -20 and 19 with MIN_NICE and MAX_NICE ...
2014-03-21rcu: Provide grace-period piggybacking APIPaul E. McKenney
The following pattern is currently not well supported by RCU: 1. Make data element inaccessible to RCU readers. 2. Do work that probably lasts for more than one grace period. 3. Do something to make sure RCU readers in flight before #1 above have completed. Here are some things that could currently be done: a. Do a synchronize_rcu() unconditionally at either #1 or #3 above. This works, but imposes needless work and latency. b. Post an RCU callback at #1 above that does a wakeup, then wait for the wakeup at #3. This works well, but likely results in an extra unneeded grace period. Open-coding this is also a bit more semi-tricky code than would be good. This commit therefore adds get_state_synchronize_rcu() and cond_synchronize_rcu() APIs. Call get_state_synchronize_rcu() at #1 above and pass its return value to cond_synchronize_rcu() at #3 above. This results in a call to synchronize_rcu() if no grace period has elapsed between #1 and #3, but requires only a load, comparison, and memory barrier if a full grace period did elapse. Requested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
2014-02-26Merge branch 'torture.2014.02.23a' into HEADPaul E. McKenney
torture.2014.02.23a: locktorture addition and rcutorture changes
2014-02-26Merge branches 'doc.2014.02.24a', 'fixes.2014.02.26a' and 'rt.2014.02.17b' ↵Paul E. McKenney
into HEAD doc.2014.02.24a: Documentation changes fixes.2014.02.26a: Miscellaneous fixes rt.2014.02.17b: Response-time-related changes
2014-02-26rcu: Ensure kernel/rcu/rcu.h can be sourced/used stand-alonePaul Gortmaker
The kbuild test bot uncovered an implicit dependence on the trace header being present before rcu.h in ia64 allmodconfig that looks like this: In file included from kernel/ksysfs.c:22:0: kernel/rcu/rcu.h: In function '__rcu_reclaim': kernel/rcu/rcu.h:107:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'trace_rcu_invoke_kfree_callback' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] kernel/rcu/rcu.h:112:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'trace_rcu_invoke_callback' [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] cc1: some warnings being treated as errors Looking at other rcu.h users, we can find that they all were sourcing the trace header in advance of rcu.h itself, as seen in the context of this diff. There were also some inconsistencies as to whether it was or wasn't sourced based on the parent tracing Kconfig. Rather than "fix" it at each use site, and have inconsistent use based on whether "#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TRACE" was used or not, lets just source the trace header just once, in the actual consumer of it, which is rcu.h itself. We include it unconditionally, as build testing shows us that is a hard requirement for some files. Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-02-26rcu: Fix sparse warning for rcu_expedited from kernel/ksysfs.cPaul Gortmaker
This commit fixes the follwoing warning: kernel/ksysfs.c:143:5: warning: symbol 'rcu_expedited' was not declared. Should it be static? Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> [ paulmck: Moved the declaration to include/linux/rcupdate.h to avoid including the RCU-internal rcu.h file outside of RCU. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23rcutorture: Add an rcu_busted to test the testPaul E. McKenney
This commit adds a deliberately buggy RCU implementation into rcutorture to allow easy checking that rcutorture correctly flags buggy RCU implementations. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23rcutorture: Stop generic kthreads in torture_cleanup()Paul E. McKenney
The specific torture modules (like rcutorture) need to call torture_cleanup() in any case, so this commit makes torture_cleanup() deal with torture_shutdown_cleanup() and torture_stutter_cleanup() so that the specific modules don't have to deal with these details. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23rcutorture: Abstract torture_stop_kthread()Paul E. McKenney
Stopping of kthreads is not RCU-specific, so this commit abstracts out torture_stop_kthread(), saving a few lines of code in the process. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23rcutorture: Abstract torture_create_kthread()Paul E. McKenney
Creation of kthreads is not RCU-specific, so this commit abstracts out torture_create_kthread(), saving a few tens of lines of code in the process. This change requires modifying VERBOSE_TOROUT_ERRSTRING() to take a non-const string, so that _torture_create_kthread() can avoid an open-coded substitute. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23rcutorture: Fix missing-return bug in rcu_torture_barrier_init()Paul E. McKenney
This commit adds a missing error return to the code path that creates the rcu_torture_barrier() kthread. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23rcutorture: Fix rcutorture shutdown racesPaul E. McKenney
Not all of the rcutorture kthreads waited for kthread_should_stop() before returning from their top-level functions, and none of them used torture_shutdown_absorb() properly. These problems can result in segfaults and hangs at shutdown time, and some recent changes perturbed timing sufficiently to make them much more probable. This commit therefore creates a torture_kthread_stopping() function that does the proper kthread shutdown dance in one centralized location. Accommodate this grouping by making VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING() capable of taking a non-const string as its argument, which allows the new torture_kthread_stopping() to pass its "title" argument directly to the updated version of VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-02-23rcutorture: Announce task creationPaul E. McKenney
A few "stealth-start rcutorture kthreads" have accumulated over the years, so this commit adds console-log announcements (but only if the torture tests are running verbose). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23rcutorture: Clean up rcu_torture_init() error checkingPaul E. McKenney
This commit applies some simple cleanups to rcu_torture_init() error checking. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23rcutorture: Abstract torture_shutdown()Paul E. McKenney
Because auto-shutdown of torture testing is not specific to RCU, this commit moves the auto-shutdown function to kernel/torture.c. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23rcutorture: Abstract stutter_wait()Paul E. McKenney
Because stuttering the test load (stopping and restarting it) is useful for non-RCU testing, this commit moves the load-stuttering functionality to kernel/torture.c. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23rcutorture: Privatize fullstopPaul E. McKenney
This commit introduces the torture_must_stop() function in order to keep use of the fullstop variable local to kernel/torture.c. There is also a torture_must_stop_irq() counterpart for use from RCU callbacks, timeout handlers, and the like. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23rcutorture: Abstract torture_shutdown_notify()Paul E. McKenney
Because handling the race between rmmod and system shutdown is not specific to RCU, this commit abstracts torture_shutdown_notify(), placing this code into kernel/torture.c. This change also allows fullstop_mutex to be private to kernel/torture.c. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23rcutorture: Abstract torture-test cleanupPaul E. McKenney
This commit creates a torture_cleanup() that handles the generic cleanup actions local to kernel/torture.c. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23rcutorture: Abstract torture-test initializationPaul E. McKenney
This commit creates torture_init_begin() and torture_init_end() functions to abstract locking and allow the torture_type and verbose variables in kernel/torture.o to become static. With a bit more abstraction, fullstop_mutex will also become static. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23rcutorture: Abstract torture_onoff()Paul E. McKenney
Because online/offline torturing is not specific to RCU, this commit abstracts it into the kernel/torture.c module to allow other torture tests to use it. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23rcutorture: Abstract torture_shuffle()Paul E. McKenney
The torture_shuffle() function forces each CPU in turn to go idle periodically in order to check for problems interacting with per-CPU variables and with dyntick-idle mode. Because this sort of debugging is not specific to RCU, this commit abstracts that functionality. This in turn requires abstracting some additional infrastructure. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23rcutorture: Abstract torture_shutdown_absorb()Paul E. McKenney
Because handling races between rmmod and normal shutdown is not specific to rcutorture, this commit renames rcutorture_shutdown_absorb() to torture_shutdown_absorb() and pulls it out into then kernel/torture.c module. This implies pulling the fullstop mechanism into kernel/torture.c as well. The exporting of fullstop and fullstop_mutex is ugly and must die. And it does in fact die in later commits that introduce higher-level APIs that encapsulate both of these variables. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>`
2014-02-23rcutorture: Abstract TOROUT_STRING() and friendsPaul E. McKenney
These diagnostic macros are not confined to torturing RCU, so this commit makes them available to other torture tests. Also removed the do-while from TOROUT_STRING() in response to checkpatch complaints. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-02-23rcutorture: Rename PRINTK to TOROUTPaul E. McKenney
Since it doesn't do printk()s anymore anyway, this commit renames these macros from PRINTK to TOROUT (short for torture output). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-23rcutorture: Abstract torture_param()Paul E. McKenney
Create a torture_param() macro and apply it to rcutorture in order to save a few lines of code. This same macro may be applied to other torture frameworks. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-02-23rcutorture: Abstract rcu_torture_random()Paul E. McKenney
Because rcu_torture_random() will be used by the locking equivalent to rcutorture, pull it out into its own module. This new module cannot be separately configured, instead, use the Kconfig "select" statement from the Kconfig options of tests depending on it. Suggested-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-02-23rcutorture: Fix checkpatch complaintPaul E. McKenney
This commit does a code-style cleanup so that the first curly brace of an initializer does not appear at the beginning of a line. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2014-02-22rcu: Use MAX_NICE to replace hardcoding of 19Dongsheng Yang
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Dongsheng Yang <yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/5b3bf232f41b33ab703a1595e94671b303e2d1fc.1392103744.git.yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2014-02-18rcu: Optimize RCU_FAST_NO_HZ for RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALLPaul E. McKenney
If CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y, then no CPU will ever have RCU callbacks because these callbacks will instead be handled by the rcuo kthreads. However, the current version of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ nevertheless checks for RCU callbacks. This commit therefore creates static inline implementations of rcu_prepare_for_idle() and rcu_cleanup_after_idle() that are no-ops when CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-18rcu: Optimize rcu_needs_cpu() for RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALLPaul E. McKenney
If CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y, then rcu_needs_cpu() will always return false, however, the current version nevertheless checks for RCU callbacks. This commit therefore creates a static inline implementation of rcu_needs_cpu() that unconditionally returns false when CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-17rcu: Optimize rcu_is_nocb_cpu() for RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALLPaul E. McKenney
If CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y, then rcu_is_nocb_cpu() will always return true, however, the current version nevertheless checks rcu_nocb_mask. This commit therefore creates a static inline implementation of rcu_is_nocb_cpu() that unconditionally returns true when CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-17rcu: Move SRCU grace period work to power efficient workqueueShaibal Dutta
For better use of CPU idle time, allow the scheduler to select the CPU on which the SRCU grace period work would be scheduled. This improves idle residency time and conserves power. This functionality is enabled when CONFIG_WQ_POWER_EFFICIENT is selected. Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Shaibal Dutta <shaibal.dutta@broadcom.com> [zoran.markovic@linaro.org: Rebased to latest kernel version. Added commit message. Fixed code alignment.] Signed-off-by: Zoran Markovic <zoran.markovic@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-17rcu: Disambiguate CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPUsPaul Bolle
This commit fixes a grammar issue in the rcu_nohz_full_cpu() comment header, so that it is clear that the plural is CPUs not Kconfig options. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-17rcu: Remove ACCESS_ONCE() from jiffiesPaul E. McKenney
Because jiffies is one of a very few variables marked "volatile", there is no need to use ACCESS_ONCE() when accessing it. This commit therefore removes the redundant ACCESS_ONCE() wrappers. Reported by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2014-02-17rcu: Stop tracking FSF's postal addressPaul E. McKenney
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. McKenney
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>
2014-01-28Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs Pull vfs updates from Al Viro: "Assorted stuff; the biggest pile here is Christoph's ACL series. Plus assorted cleanups and fixes all over the place... There will be another pile later this week" * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs: (43 commits) __dentry_path() fixes vfs: Remove second variable named error in __dentry_path vfs: Is mounted should be testing mnt_ns for NULL or error. Fix race when checking i_size on direct i/o read hfsplus: remove can_set_xattr nfsd: use get_acl and ->set_acl fs: remove generic_acl nfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure for v3 Posix ACLs gfs2: use generic posix ACL infrastructure jfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure xfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure reiserfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure ocfs2: use generic posix ACL infrastructure jffs2: use generic posix ACL infrastructure hfsplus: use generic posix ACL infrastructure f2fs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure ext2/3/4: use generic posix ACL infrastructure btrfs: use generic posix ACL infrastructure fs: make posix_acl_create more useful fs: make posix_acl_chmod more useful ...
2014-01-25introduce __fcheck_files() to fix rcu_dereference_check_fdtable(), kill ↵Oleg Nesterov
rcu_my_thread_group_empty() rcu_dereference_check_fdtable() looks very wrong, 1. rcu_my_thread_group_empty() was added by 844b9a8707f1 "vfs: fix RCU-lockdep false positive due to /proc" but it doesn't really fix the problem. A CLONE_THREAD (without CLONE_FILES) task can hit the same race with get_files_struct(). And otoh rcu_my_thread_group_empty() can suppress the correct warning if the caller is the CLONE_FILES (without CLONE_THREAD) task. 2. files->count == 1 check is not really right too. Even if this files_struct is not shared it is not safe to access it lockless unless the caller is the owner. Otoh, this check is sub-optimal. files->count == 0 always means it is safe to use it lockless even if files != current->files, but put_files_struct() has to take rcu_read_lock(). See the next patch. This patch removes the buggy checks and turns fcheck_files() into __fcheck_files() which uses rcu_dereference_raw(), the "unshared" callers, fget_light() and fget_raw_light(), can use it to avoid the warning from RCU-lockdep. fcheck_files() is trivially reimplemented as rcu_lockdep_assert() plus __fcheck_files(). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2014-01-20Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar: - add RCU torture scripts/tooling - static analysis improvements - update RCU documentation - miscellaneous fixes * 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (52 commits) rcu: Remove "extern" from function declarations in kernel/rcu/rcu.h rcu: Remove "extern" from function declarations in include/linux/*rcu*.h rcu/torture: Dynamically allocate SRCU output buffer to avoid overflow rcu: Don't activate RCU core on NO_HZ_FULL CPUs rcu: Warn on allegedly impossible rcu_read_unlock_special() from irq rcu: Add an RCU_INITIALIZER for global RCU-protected pointers rcu: Make rcu_assign_pointer's assignment volatile and type-safe bonding: Use RCU_INIT_POINTER() for better overhead and for sparse rcu: Add comment on evaluate-once properties of rcu_assign_pointer(). rcu: Provide better diagnostics for blocking in RCU callback functions rcu: Improve SRCU's grace-period comments rcu: Fix CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT for odd fanout/leaf values rcu: Fix coccinelle warnings rcutorture: Stop tracking FSF's postal address rcutorture: Move checkarg to functions.sh rcutorture: Flag errors and warnings with color coding rcutorture: Record results from repeated runs of the same test scenario rcutorture: Test summary at end of run with less chattiness rcutorture: Update comment in kvm.sh listing typical RCU trace events rcutorture: Add tracing-enabled version of TREE08 ...
2013-12-17Merge tag 'v3.13-rc4' into core/lockingIngo Molnar
Merge Linux 3.13-rc4, to refresh this rather old tree with the latest fixes. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-12-16Merge branch 'rcu/next' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu Pull v3.14 RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney. The main changes: * Update RCU documentation. * Miscellaneous fixes. * Add RCU torture scripts. * Static-analysis improvements. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-12-16rcu: Apply smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() to preserve grace periodsPaul E. McKenney
RCU must ensure that there is the equivalent of a full memory barrier between any memory access preceding grace period and any memory access following that same grace period, regardless of which CPU(s) happen to execute the two memory accesses. Therefore, downgrading UNLOCK+LOCK to no longer imply a full memory barrier requires some adjustments to RCU. This commit therefore adds smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() invocations as needed after the RCU lock acquisitions that need to be part of a full-memory-barrier UNLOCK+LOCK. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386799151-2219-7-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-12-12rcu: Remove "extern" from function declarations in kernel/rcu/rcu.hTeodora Baluta
Function prototypes don't need to have the "extern" keyword since this is the default behavior. Its explicit use is redundant. This commit therefore removes them. Signed-off-by: Teodora Baluta <teobaluta@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-12-12rcu/torture: Dynamically allocate SRCU output buffer to avoid overflowChen Gang
If the rcutorture SRCU output exceeds 4096 bytes, for example, if you have more than about 75 CPUs, it will overflow the current statically allocated buffer. This commit therefore replaces this static buffer with a dynamically buffer whose size is based on the number of CPUs. Benefits: - Avoids both buffer overflow and output truncation. - Handles an arbitrarily large number of CPUs. - Straightforward implementation. Shortcomings: - Some memory is wasted: 1 cpu now comsumes 50 - 60 bytes, and this patch provides 200 bytes. Therefore, for 1K CPUs, roughly 100KB of memory will be wasted. However, the memory is freed immediately after printing, so this wastage should not be a problem in practice. Testing (Fedora16 2 CPUs, 2GB RAM x86_64): - as module, with/without "torture_type=srcu". - build-in not boot runnable, with/without "torture_type=srcu". - build-in let boot runnable, with/without "torture_type=srcu". Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-12-12rcu: Don't activate RCU core on NO_HZ_FULL CPUsPaul E. McKenney
Whenever a CPU receives a scheduling-clock interrupt, RCU checks to see if the RCU core needs anything from this CPU. If so, RCU raises RCU_SOFTIRQ to carry out any needed processing. This approach has worked well historically, but it is undesirable on NO_HZ_FULL CPUs. Such CPUs are expected to spend almost all of their time in userspace, so that scheduling-clock interrupts can be disabled while there is only one runnable task on the CPU in question. Unfortunately, raising any softirq has the potential to wake up ksoftirqd, which would provide the second runnable task on that CPU, preventing disabling of scheduling-clock interrupts. What is needed instead is for RCU to leave NO_HZ_FULL CPUs alone, relying on the grace-period kthreads' quiescent-state forcing to do any needed RCU work on behalf of those CPUs. This commit therefore refrains from raising RCU_SOFTIRQ on any NO_HZ_FULL CPUs during any grace periods that have been in effect for less than one second. The one-second limit handles the case where an inappropriate workload is running on a NO_HZ_FULL CPU that features lots of scheduling-clock interrupts, but no idle or userspace time. Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de> Toasted-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
2013-12-12rcu: Warn on allegedly impossible rcu_read_unlock_special() from irqLai Jiangshan
After commit #10f39bb1b2c1 (rcu: protect __rcu_read_unlock() against scheduler-using irq handlers), it is no longer possible to enter the main body of rcu_read_lock_special() from an NMI, interrupt, or softirq handler. In theory, this implies that the check for "in_irq() || in_serving_softirq()" must always fail, so that in theory this check could be removed entirely. In practice, this commit wraps this condition with a WARN_ON_ONCE(). If this warning never triggers, then the condition will be removed entirely. [ paulmck: And one way of triggering the WARN_ON() is if a scheduling clock interrupt occurs in an RCU read-side critical section, setting RCU_READ_UNLOCK_NEED_QS, which is handled by rcu_read_unlock_special(). Updated this commit to return if only that bit was set. ] Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-12-09rcu: Provide better diagnostics for blocking in RCU callback functionsPaul E. McKenney
Currently blocking in an RCU callback function will result in "scheduling while atomic", which could be triggered for any number of reasons. To aid debugging, this patch introduces a rcu_callback_map that is used to tie the inappropriate voluntary context switch back to the fact that the function is being invoked from within a callback. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-12-09rcu: Improve SRCU's grace-period commentsPaul E. McKenney
This commit documents the memory-barrier guarantees provided by synchronize_srcu() and call_srcu(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-12-09rcu: Fix CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT for odd fanout/leaf valuesPaul E. McKenney
Each element of the rcu_state structure's ->levelspread[] array is intended to contain the per-level fanout, where the zero-th element corresponds to the root of the rcu_node tree, and the last element corresponds to the leaves. In the CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT case, this means that the last element should be filled in from CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF (or from the rcu_fanout_leaf boot parameter, if provided) and that the remaining elements should be filled in from CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT. Unfortunately, the current code in rcu_init_levelspread() takes the opposite approach, placing CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF in the zero-th element and CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT in the remaining elements. For typical power-of-two values, this generates odd but functional rcu_node trees. However, other values, for example CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT=3 and CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF=2, generate trees that can leave some CPUs out of the grace-period computation, resulting in too-short grace periods and therefore a broken RCU implementation. This commit therefore fixes rcu_init_levelspread() to set the last ->levelspread[] array element from CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF and the remaining elements from CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT, thus generating the intended rcu_node trees. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>