- 30 Dec, 2015 1 commit
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Ani Sinha authored
Commit 984d74a7 ("sysrq: rcu-ify __handle_sysrq") replaced spin_lock_irqsave() calls with rcu_read_lock() calls in sysrq. Since rcu_read_lock() does not disable preemption, faulthandler_disabled() in __do_page_fault() in x86/fault.c returns false. When the code later calls might_sleep() in the pagefault handler, we get the following warning: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at ../arch/x86/mm/fault.c:1187 in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 4706, name: bash Preemption disabled at:[<ffffffff81484339>] printk+0x48/0x4a To fix this, we release the RCU read lock before we crash. Tested this patch on linux 3.18 by booting off one of our boards. Fixes: 984d74a7 ("sysrq: rcu-ify __handle_sysrq") Signed-off-by: Ani Sinha <ani@arista.com> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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- 08 Dec, 2015 9 commits
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Merge branches 'doc.2015.12.05a', 'exp.2015.12.07a', 'fixes.2015.12.07a', '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
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Alexey Kardashevskiy authored
Although list_for_each_entry_rcu() can in theory be used anywhere preemption is disabled, it can result in calls to lockdep, which cannot be used in certain constrained execution environments, such as exception handlers that do not map the entire kernel into their address spaces. This commit therefore adds list_entry_lockless() and list_for_each_entry_lockless(), which never invoke lockdep and can therefore safely be used from these constrained environments, but only as long as those environments are non-preemptible (or items are never deleted from the list). Use synchronize_sched(), call_rcu_sched(), or synchronize_sched_expedited() in updates for the needed grace periods. Of course, if items are never deleted from the list, there is no need to wait for grace periods. Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
The return value from rcu_gp_init() is always used as a bool, so this commit makes it be a bool. Reported-by: Iftekhar Ahmed <ahmedi@oregonstate.edu> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Peter Zijlstra authored
This patch removes a potential deadlock hazard by moving the wake_up_process() in rcu_spawn_gp_kthread() out from under rnp->lock. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Alexey Kardashevskiy authored
rcu_dereference_raw() calls indirectly rcu_read_lock_held() while rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() does not so fix the comment about the latter. Signed-off-by: Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@ozlabs.ru> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
This commit replaces a local_irq_save()/local_irq_restore() pair with a lockdep assertion that interrupts are already disabled. This should remove the corresponding overhead from the interrupt entry/exit fastpaths. This change was inspired by the fact that Iftekhar Ahmed's mutation testing showed that removing rcu_irq_enter()'s call to local_ird_restore() had no effect, which might indicate that interrupts were always enabled anyway. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
The cpu_needs_another_gp() function is currently of type int, but only returns zero or one. Bow to reality and make it be of type bool. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Now that the rcu_state structure's ->rda field is compile-time initialized, there is no need to pass the per-CPU rcu_data structure into rcu_init_one(). This commit therefore eliminates this now-unused parameter. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
The rcu_expedited, rcu_normal, and rcu_normal_after_boot kernel boot parameters are pointless in the case of TINY_RCU because in that case synchronous grace periods, both expedited and normal, are no-ops. However, these three symbols contribute several hundred bytes of bloat. This commit therefore uses CPP directives to avoid compiling this code in TINY_RCU kernels. Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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- 06 Dec, 2015 9 commits
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Currently, the console output files ("console.log") are placed in the build directory initially, then copied to the results directory. One problem with this is if a qemu refuses to die in a timely fashion after a kernel hang, it will continue to write after the next qemu starts up, resulting in confusing output from the old instance of qemu. This commit prevents such confusion by placing the console.log files into the results directory to begin with, so that a given instance of qemu is always writing only to its own console.log file. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Currently, the scripts print a list of warning/bug indicators from the console.log file. This works well if there are only a few warnings or bugs, but can be quite annoying if there is a large number. This commit therefore prints a summary listing the number of each type of warning/bug indicator, but only if there is at least one such indicator. The full list is stored in the results directory at console.log.diags, which makes it easier to find the warning/bugs in the full console.log. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Currently, ->gp_state is printed as an integer, which slows debugging. This commit therefore prints a symbolic name in addition to the integer. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Updated to fix relational operator called out by Dan Carpenter. ] [ paulmck: More "const", as suggested by Josh Triplett. ] Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Currently, rcu_torture_writer_state is printed as an integer, which slows debugging. This commit therefore prints a symbolic name in addition to the integer. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: More "const", as suggested by Josh Triplett. ] Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Yang Shi authored
Commit d1ec4c34 ("rcu: Drop RCU_USER_QS in favor of NO_HZ_FULL") has removed RCU_USER_QS from Kconfig file, so remove it from some documents to avoid any confusion. Signed-off-by: Yang Shi <yang.shi@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
The default test grace period of two minutes is insufficient in some cases and excessive in others. This commit therefore increases the default to three minutes, but also adds a --shutdown-grace parameter to allow the default to be overridden. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
This commit increases debug information in the case where the grace-period kthread is being prevented from running by dumping that kthread's stack. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Split into prior commit and this commit, as suggested by Josh Triplett. ] Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Currently, if the RCU grace-period kthread has not yet been created, in which case the starvation-check code will print zero for the state, which maps to TASK_RUNNING. This could clearly be quite confusing, so this commit prints ~0, which does not map to any legal ->state value. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Currently, the scripts print "----Start batch" at the beginning of each batch, which does serve as a good visual delimiter between batches. Unfortunately, if there are a lot of batches, it is hard to quickly estimate test runtime from the output of "--dryrun sched". This commit therefore adds a batch number, so that the beginning-of-batch output looks like this "----Start batch 10" for the tenth batch. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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- 05 Dec, 2015 8 commits
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Chris Metcalf authored
In commit 2ecf8101 ("Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: Add needed ACCESS_ONCE() calls to memory-barriers.txt") the statement "Q = P" was converted to "ACCESS_ONCE(Q) = P". This should have been "Q = ACCESS_ONCE(P)". It later became "WRITE_ONCE(Q, P)". This doesn't match the following text, which is "Q = LOAD P". Change the statement to be "Q = READ_ONCE(P)". Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Because RCU-sched expedited grace periods now use IPIs and interact with rcu_read_unlock(), it is no longer sufficient to disable preemption across RCU read-side critical sections that acquire and hold scheduler locks. It is now necessary to instead disable interrupts. This commit documents this change. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
The RCU requirements do not make it absolutely clear that the memory-barrier requirements are not intended to replace the fundamental requirement that all pre-existing RCU readers complete before a grace period completes. This commit therefore pulls the memory-barrier requirements into a separate section and explicitly calls out the relationship between the memory-barrier requirements and the fundamental requirement. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
This commit adds a second option for avoiding scheduler/RCU deadlocks, namely that preemption be disabled across the entire RCU read-side critical section in question. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
This commit expands on RCU's composability by comparing it to that of transactional memory and of locking. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
This commit adds verbiage on boot and sysfs parameters that can be used to control RCU CPU stall warnings, both to change the timeout and to suppress these warnings entirely. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
This commit records RCU's guarantee that the bottom bit of the rcu_head structure's ->next field will remain zero for callbacks posted via call_rcu(), but not necessarily for <tt>kfree_rcu()</tt> or some possible future call_rcu_lazy() variant that might one day be created for energy-efficiency purposese. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Updates URLs as suggested by Josh Triplett. ]
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Paul E. McKenney authored
This commit adds RCU requirements as published in a 2015 LWN series. Bringing these requirements in-tree allows them to be updated as changes are discovered. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Updates to charset and URLs as suggested by Josh Triplett. ]
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- 04 Dec, 2015 13 commits
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Code that does lockless emptiness testing of non-RCU lists is relying on INIT_LIST_HEAD() to write the list head's ->next pointer atomically, particularly when INIT_LIST_HEAD() is invoked from list_del_init(). This commit therefore adds WRITE_ONCE() to this function's pointer stores that could affect the head's ->next pointer. Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Petko Manolov authored
The list_splice_init_rcu() can be used as a stack onto which full lists are pushed, but queue-like behavior is now needed by some security policies. This requires a list_splice_tail_init_rcu(). This commit therefore supplies a list_splice_tail_init_rcu() by pulling code common it and to list_splice_init_rcu() into a new __list_splice_init_rcu() function. This new function is based on the existing list_splice_init_rcu() implementation. Signed-off-by: Petko Manolov <petkan@mip-labs.com> Cc: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
We need the scheduler's fastpaths to be, well, fast, and unnecessarily disabling and re-enabling interrupts is not necessarily consistent with this goal. Especially given that there are regions of the scheduler that already have interrupts disabled. This commit therefore moves the call to rcu_note_context_switch() to one of the interrupts-disabled regions of the scheduler, and removes the now-redundant disabling and re-enabling of interrupts from rcu_note_context_switch() and the functions it calls. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Shift rcu_note_context_switch() to avoid deadlock, as suggested by Peter Zijlstra. ]
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Currently, rcu_prepare_for_idle() checks for tick_nohz_active, even on individual NOCBs CPUs, unless all CPUs are marked as NOCBs CPUs at build time. This check is pointless on NOCBs CPUs because they never have any callbacks posted, given that all of their callbacks are handed off to the corresponding rcuo kthread. There is a check for individually designated NOCBs CPUs, but it pointelessly follows the check for tick_nohz_active. This commit therefore moves the check for individually designated NOCBs CPUs up with the check for CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
This function no longer has #ifdefs, so this commit removes the header comment calling them out. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Several releases have come and gone without the warning triggering, so remove the lock-acquisition loop. Retain the WARN_ON_ONCE() out of sheer paranoia. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
This commit applies an early-exit approach to rcu_sched_qs(), reducing the nesting level and saving a line of code. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul Gortmaker authored
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 64db4cff (""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>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Currently, the rcu_node_class[], rcu_fqs_class[], and rcu_exp_class[] arrays needlessly pollute the global namespace within tree.c. This commit therefore converts them to static local variables within rcu_init_one(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Expedited grace periods can speed up boot, but are undesirable in aggressive real-time systems. This commit therefore introduces a kernel parameter rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot that disables expedited grace periods just before init is spawned. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
This commit adds the invocation of rcu_end_inkernel_boot() just before init is invoked. This allows the CONFIG_RCU_EXPEDITE_BOOT Kconfig option to do something useful and prepares for the upcoming rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot kernel parameter. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
Although expedited grace periods can be quite useful, and although their OS jitter has been greatly reduced, they can still pose problems for extreme real-time workloads. This commit therefore adds a rcu_normal kernel boot parameter (which can also be manipulated via sysfs) to suppress expedited grace periods, that is, to treat requests for expedited grace periods as if they were requests for normal grace periods. If both rcu_expedited and rcu_normal are specified, rcu_normal wins. This means that if you are relying on expedited grace periods to speed up boot, you will want to specify rcu_expedited on the kernel command line, and then specify rcu_normal via sysfs once boot completes. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Paul E. McKenney authored
This commit adds print statements that check the rcu_node structure to find which ->expmask bits and which ->exp_tasks structures are blocking the current expedited grace period. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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