Skip to content

L
linux
Switch branch/tag
  1. 11 Dec, 2011 13 commits
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      rcu: Inform the user about extended quiescent state on PROVE_RCU warning · 0464e937
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      Inform the user if an RCU usage error is detected by lockdep while in
an extended quiescent state (in this case, the RCU-free window in idle).
This is accomplished by adding a line to the RCU lockdep splat indicating
whether or not the splat occurred in extended quiescent state.

Uses of RCU from within extended quiescent state mode are totally ignored
by RCU, hence the importance of this diagnostic.
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
      0464e937
    • Frederic Weisbecker's avatar
      rcu: Detect illegal rcu dereference in extended quiescent state · e6b80a3b
      Frederic Weisbecker authored 
      Report that none of the rcu read lock maps are held while in an RCU
extended quiescent state (the section between rcu_idle_enter()
and rcu_idle_exit()). This helps detect any use of rcu_dereference()
and friends from within the section in idle where RCU is not allowed.

This way we can guarantee an extended quiescent window where the CPU
can be put in dyntick idle mode or can simply aoid to be part of any
global grace period completion while in the idle loop.

Uses of RCU from such mode are totally ignored by RCU, hence the
importance of these checks.
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
      e6b80a3b
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      rcu: Remove redundant return from rcu_report_exp_rnp() · a0f8eefb
      Thomas Gleixner authored 
      Empty void functions do not need "return", so this commit removes it
from rcu_report_exp_rnp().
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      a0f8eefb
    • Thomas Gleixner's avatar
      rcu: Omit self-awaken when setting up expedited grace period · b40d293e
      Thomas Gleixner authored 
      When setting up an expedited grace period, if there were no readers, the
task will awaken itself.  This commit removes this useless self-awakening.
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      b40d293e
    • Paul E. McKenney's avatar
      rcu: Disable preemption in rcu_is_cpu_idle() · 34240697
      Paul E. McKenney authored 
      Because rcu_is_cpu_idle() is to be used to check for extended quiescent
states in RCU-preempt read-side critical sections, it cannot assume that
preemption is disabled.  And preemption must be disabled when accessing
the dyntick-idle state, because otherwise the following sequence of events
could occur:

1.	Task A on CPU 1 enters rcu_is_cpu_idle() and picks up the pointer
	to CPU 1's per-CPU variables.

2.	Task B preempts Task A and starts running on CPU 1.

3.	Task A migrates to CPU 2.

4.	Task B blocks, leaving CPU 1 idle.

5.	Task A continues execution on CPU 2, accessing CPU 1's dyntick-idle
	information using the pointer fetched in step 1 above, and finds
	that CPU 1 is idle.

6.	Task A therefore incorrectly concludes that it is executing in
	an extended quiescent state, possibly issuing a spurious splat.

Therefore, this commit disables preemption within the rcu_is_cpu_idle()
function.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
      34240697
    • Paul E. McKenney's avatar
      rcu: Document failing tick as cause of RCU CPU stall warning · 2c01531f
      Paul E. McKenney authored 
      One of lclaudio's systems was seeing RCU CPU stall warnings from idle.
These turned out to be caused by a bug that stopped scheduling-clock
tick interrupts from being sent to a given CPU for several hundred seconds.
This commit therefore updates the documentation to call this out as a
possible cause for RCU CPU stall warnings.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
      2c01531f
    • Paul E. McKenney's avatar
      rcu: Add failure tracing to rcutorture · 91afaf30
      Paul E. McKenney authored 
      Trace the rcutorture RCU accesses and dump the trace buffer when the
first failure is detected.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
      91afaf30
    • Paul E. McKenney's avatar
      trace: Allow ftrace_dump() to be called from modules · a8eecf22
      Paul E. McKenney authored 
      Add an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() so that rcutorture can dump the trace buffer
upon detection of an RCU error.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
      a8eecf22
    • Paul E. McKenney's avatar
      rcu: Track idleness independent of idle tasks · 9b2e4f18
      Paul E. McKenney authored 
      Earlier versions of RCU used the scheduling-clock tick to detect idleness
by checking for the idle task, but handled idleness differently for
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y.  But there are now a number of uses of RCU read-side
critical sections in the idle task, for example, for tracing.  A more
fine-grained detection of idleness is therefore required.

This commit presses the old dyntick-idle code into full-time service,
so that rcu_idle_enter(), previously known as rcu_enter_nohz(), is
always invoked at the beginning of an idle loop iteration.  Similarly,
rcu_idle_exit(), previously known as rcu_exit_nohz(), is always invoked
at the end of an idle-loop iteration.  This allows the idle task to
use RCU everywhere except between consecutive rcu_idle_enter() and
rcu_idle_exit() calls, in turn allowing architecture maintainers to
specify exactly where in the idle loop that RCU may be used.

Because some of the userspace upcall uses can result in what looks
to RCU like half of an interrupt, it is not possible to expect that
the irq_enter() and irq_exit() hooks will give exact counts.  This
patch therefore expands the ->dynticks_nesting counter to 64 bits
and uses two separate bitfields to count process/idle transitions
and interrupt entry/exit transitions.  It is presumed that userspace
upcalls do not happen in the idle loop or from usermode execution
(though usermode might do a system call that results in an upcall).
The counter is hard-reset on each process/idle transition, which
avoids the interrupt entry/exit error from accumulating.  Overflow
is avoided by the 64-bitness of the ->dyntick_nesting counter.

This commit also adds warnings if a non-idle task asks RCU to enter
idle state (and these checks will need some adjustment before applying
Frederic's OS-jitter patches (http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/7/246).
In addition, validation of ->dynticks and ->dynticks_nesting is added.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
      9b2e4f18
    • Paul E. McKenney's avatar
      lockdep: Update documentation for lock-class leak detection · b804cb9e
      Paul E. McKenney authored 
      There are a number of bugs that can leak or overuse lock classes,
which can cause the maximum number of lock classes (currently 8191)
to be exceeded.  However, the documentation does not tell you how to
track down these problems.  This commit addresses this shortcoming.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
      b804cb9e
    • Paul E. McKenney's avatar
      rcu: Make synchronize_sched_expedited() better at work sharing · 7077714e
      Paul E. McKenney authored 
      When synchronize_sched_expedited() takes its second and subsequent
snapshots of sync_sched_expedited_started, it subtracts 1.  This
means that the concurrent caller of synchronize_sched_expedited()
that incremented to that value sees our successful completion, it
will not be able to take advantage of it.  This restriction is
pointless, given that our full expedited grace period would have
happened after the other guy started, and thus should be able to
serve as a proxy for the other guy successfully executing
try_stop_cpus().

This commit therefore removes the subtraction of 1.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
      7077714e
    • Paul E. McKenney's avatar
      rcu: Avoid RCU-preempt expedited grace-period botch · 389abd48
      Paul E. McKenney authored 
      Because rcu_read_unlock_special() samples rcu_preempted_readers_exp(rnp)
after dropping rnp->lock, the following sequence of events is possible:

1.	Task A exits its RCU read-side critical section, and removes
	itself from the ->blkd_tasks list, releases rnp->lock, and is
	then preempted.  Task B remains on the ->blkd_tasks list, and
	blocks the current expedited grace period.

2.	Task B exits from its RCU read-side critical section and removes
	itself from the ->blkd_tasks list.  Because it is the last task
	blocking the current expedited grace period, it ends that
	expedited grace period.

3.	Task A resumes, and samples rcu_preempted_readers_exp(rnp) which
	of course indicates that nothing is blocking the nonexistent
	expedited grace period. Task A is again preempted.

4.	Some other CPU starts an expedited grace period.  There are several
	tasks blocking this expedited grace period queued on the
	same rcu_node structure that Task A was using in step 1 above.

5.	Task A examines its state and incorrectly concludes that it was
	the last task blocking the expedited grace period on the current
	rcu_node structure.  It therefore reports completion up the
	rcu_node tree.

6.	The expedited grace period can then incorrectly complete before
	the tasks blocked on this same rcu_node structure exit their
	RCU read-side critical sections.  Arbitrarily bad things happen.

This commit therefore takes a snapshot of rcu_preempted_readers_exp(rnp)
prior to dropping the lock, so that only the last task thinks that it is
the last task, thus avoiding the failure scenario laid out above.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
      389abd48
    • Paul E. McKenney's avatar
      rcu: ->signaled better named ->fqs_state · af446b70
      Paul E. McKenney authored 
      The ->signaled field was named before complications in the form of
dyntick-idle mode and offlined CPUs.  These complications have required
that force_quiescent_state() be implemented as a state machine, instead
of simply unconditionally sending reschedule IPIs.  Therefore, this
commit renames ->signaled to ->fqs_state to catch up with the new
force_quiescent_state() reality.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
      af446b70
  3. 09 Dec, 2011 27 commits
GitLab Nexedi Edition | About GitLab | About Nexedi | 沪ICP备2021021310号-2 | 沪ICP备2021021310号-7