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* rcu: Remove CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCUPaul E. McKenney2009-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU is in place, there is no further need for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU. Remove it, along with whatever subtle bugs it may (or may not) contain. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org LKML-Reference: <125097461396-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* rcu: Merge preemptable-RCU functionality into hierarchical RCUPaul E. McKenney2009-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Create a kernel/rcutree_plugin.h file that contains definitions for preemptable RCU (or, under the #else branch of the #ifdef, empty definitions for the classic non-preemptable semantics). These definitions fit into plugins defined in kernel/rcutree.c for this purpose. This variant of preemptable RCU uses a new algorithm whose read-side expense is roughly that of classic hierarchical RCU under CONFIG_PREEMPT. This new algorithm's update-side expense is similar to that of classic hierarchical RCU, and, in absence of read-side preemption or blocking, is exactly that of classic hierarchical RCU. Perhaps more important, this new algorithm has a much simpler implementation, saving well over 1,000 lines of code compared to mainline's implementation of preemptable RCU, which will hopefully be retired in favor of this new algorithm. The simplifications are obtained by maintaining per-task nesting state for running tasks, and using a simple lock-protected algorithm to handle accounting when tasks block within RCU read-side critical sections, making use of lessons learned while creating numerous user-level RCU implementations over the past 18 months. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org LKML-Reference: <12509746134003-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* rcu: Simplify rcu_pending()/rcu_check_callbacks() APIPaul E. McKenney2009-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | All calls from outside RCU are of the form: if (rcu_pending(cpu)) rcu_check_callbacks(cpu, user); This is silly, instead we put a call to rcu_pending() in rcu_check_callbacks(), and then make the outside calls be to rcu_check_callbacks(). This cuts down on the code a bit and also gives the compiler a better chance of optimizing. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org LKML-Reference: <125097461311-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* rcu: Consolidate sparse and lockdep declarations in include/linux/rcupdate.hPaul E. McKenney2009-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org LKML-Reference: <12509746132349-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* rcu: Renamings to increase RCU clarityPaul E. McKenney2009-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make RCU-sched, RCU-bh, and RCU-preempt be underlying implementations, with "RCU" defined in terms of one of the three. Update the outdated rcu_qsctr_inc() names, as these functions no longer increment anything. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org LKML-Reference: <12509746132696-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* rcu: Add synchronize_sched_expedited() primitivePaul E. McKenney2009-07-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This adds the synchronize_sched_expedited() primitive that implements the "big hammer" expedited RCU grace periods. This primitive is placed in kernel/sched.c rather than kernel/rcupdate.c due to its need to interact closely with the migration_thread() kthread. The idea is to wake up this kthread with req->task set to NULL, in response to which the kthread reports the quiescent state resulting from the kthread having been scheduled. Because this patch needs to fallback to the slow versions of the primitives in response to some races with CPU onlining and offlining, a new synchronize_rcu_bh() primitive is added as well. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org Cc: davem@davemloft.net Cc: dada1@cosmosbay.com Cc: zbr@ioremap.net Cc: jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com Cc: paulus@samba.org Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: jengelh@medozas.de Cc: r000n@r000n.net Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca LKML-Reference: <12459460982947-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* kmemtrace, rcu: don't include unnecessary headers, allow kmemtrace w/ ↵Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu2009-04-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | tracepoints Impact: cleanup linux/percpu.h includes linux/slab.h, which generates circular inclusion dependencies when trying to switch kmemtrace to use tracepoints instead of markers. This patch allows tracing within slab headers' inline functions. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com LKML-Reference: <1237898630.25315.83.camel@penberg-laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* kmemtrace, rcu: fix rcupreempt.c data structure dependenciesIngo Molnar2009-04-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup We want to remove percpu.h from rcupreempt.h, but if we do that the percpu primitives there wont build anymore. Move them to the .c file instead. Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro> Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com LKML-Reference: <1237898630.25315.83.camel@penberg-laptop> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* rcu: Teach RCU that idle task is not quiscent state at bootPaul E. McKenney2009-02-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes a bug located by Vegard Nossum with the aid of kmemcheck, updated based on review comments from Nick Piggin, Ingo Molnar, and Andrew Morton. And cleans up the variable-name and function-name language. ;-) The boot CPU runs in the context of its idle thread during boot-up. During this time, idle_cpu(0) will always return nonzero, which will fool Classic and Hierarchical RCU into deciding that a large chunk of the boot-up sequence is a big long quiescent state. This in turn causes RCU to prematurely end grace periods during this time. This patch changes the rcutree.c and rcuclassic.c rcu_check_callbacks() function to ignore the idle task as a quiescent state until the system has started up the scheduler in rest_init(), introducing a new non-API function rcu_idle_now_means_idle() to inform RCU of this transition. RCU maintains an internal rcu_idle_cpu_truthful variable to track this state, which is then used by rcu_check_callback() to determine if it should believe idle_cpu(). Because this patch has the effect of disallowing RCU grace periods during long stretches of the boot-up sequence, this patch also introduces Josh Triplett's UP-only optimization that makes synchronize_rcu() be a no-op if num_online_cpus() returns 1. This allows boot-time code that calls synchronize_rcu() to proceed normally. Note, however, that RCU callbacks registered by call_rcu() will likely queue up until later in the boot sequence. Although rcuclassic and rcutree can also use this same optimization after boot completes, rcupreempt must restrict its use of this optimization to the portion of the boot sequence before the scheduler starts up, given that an rcupreempt RCU read-side critical section may be preeempted. In addition, this patch takes Nick Piggin's suggestion to make the system_state global variable be __read_mostly. Changes since v4: o Changes the name of the introduced function and variable to be less emotional. ;-) Changes since v3: o WARN_ON(nr_context_switches() > 0) to verify that RCU switches out of boot-time mode before the first context switch, as suggested by Nick Piggin. Changes since v2: o Created rcu_blocking_is_gp() internal-to-RCU API that determines whether a call to synchronize_rcu() is itself a grace period. o The definition of rcu_blocking_is_gp() for rcuclassic and rcutree checks to see if but a single CPU is online. o The definition of rcu_blocking_is_gp() for rcupreempt checks to see both if but a single CPU is online and if the system is still in early boot. This allows rcupreempt to again work correctly if running on a single CPU after booting is complete. o Added check to rcupreempt's synchronize_sched() for there being but one online CPU. Tested all three variants both SMP and !SMP, booted fine, passed a short rcutorture test on both x86 and Power. Located-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Tested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com> Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* rcu: just rename call_rcu_bh instead of making it a macroSteven Rostedt2008-08-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | Seems that I found a box that has a config that passes call_rcu_bh as a function pointer (see net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c), so declaring the call_rcu_bh has a macro function isn't good enough. This patch makes it just another name of call_rcu for rcupreempt. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.org> Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* rcu: fixes to include/linux/rcupreempt.hPaul E. McKenney2008-08-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Hello! Compared tip/core/rcu to my latest patchset, and found the following issues: o the memory barrier in rcu_exit_nohz() somehow got out of place (it is correct in mainline as of 2.6.26-rc7). o There is a duplicate declaration of rcu_dyntick_sched. The attached patch fixes these. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* printk ratelimiting rewriteDave Young2008-07-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | All ratelimit user use same jiffies and burst params, so some messages (callbacks) will be lost. For example: a call printk_ratelimit(5 * HZ, 1) b call printk_ratelimit(5 * HZ, 1) before the 5*HZ timeout of a, then b will will be supressed. - rewrite __ratelimit, and use a ratelimit_state as parameter. Thanks for hints from andrew. - Add WARN_ON_RATELIMIT, update rcupreempt.h - remove __printk_ratelimit - use __ratelimit in net_ratelimit Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* rcu: add call_rcu_sched()Paul E. McKenney2008-05-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fourth cut of patch to provide the call_rcu_sched(). This is again to synchronize_sched() as call_rcu() is to synchronize_rcu(). Should be fine for experimental and -rt use, but not ready for inclusion. With some luck, I will be able to tell Andrew to come out of hiding on the next round. Passes multi-day rcutorture sessions with concurrent CPU hotplugging. Fixes since the first version include a bug that could result in indefinite blocking (spotted by Gautham Shenoy), better resiliency against CPU-hotplug operations, and other minor fixes. Fixes since the second version include reworking grace-period detection to avoid deadlocks that could happen when running concurrently with CPU hotplug, adding Mathieu's fix to avoid the softlockup messages, as well as Mathieu's fix to allow use earlier in boot. Fixes since the third version include a wrong-CPU bug spotted by Andrew, getting rid of the obsolete synchronize_kernel API that somehow snuck back in, merging spin_unlock() and local_irq_restore() in a few places, commenting the code that checks for quiescent states based on interrupting from user-mode execution or the idle loop, removing some inline attributes, and some code-style changes. Known/suspected shortcomings: o I still do not entirely trust the sleep/wakeup logic. Next step will be to use a private snapshot of the CPU online mask in rcu_sched_grace_period() -- if the CPU wasn't there at the start of the grace period, we don't need to hear from it. And the bit about accounting for changes in online CPUs inside of rcu_sched_grace_period() is ugly anyway. o It might be good for rcu_sched_grace_period() to invoke resched_cpu() when a given CPU wasn't responding quickly, but resched_cpu() is declared static... This patch also fixes a long-standing bug in the earlier preemptable-RCU implementation of synchronize_rcu() that could result in loss of concurrent external changes to a task's CPU affinity mask. I still cannot remember who reported this... Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* Remove "#ifdef __KERNEL__" checks from unexported headersRobert P. J. Day2008-04-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the "#ifdef __KERNEL__" tests from unexported header files in linux/include whose entire contents are wrapped in that preprocessor test. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* rcu: fix misplaced mb() in rcu_enter/exit_nohz()Paul E. McKenney2008-03-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the process of writing up the mechanical proof of correctness for the dynticks/preemptable-RCU interface, I noticed misplaced memory barriers in rcu_enter_nohz() and rcu_exit_nohz(). This patch puts them in the right place and adds a comment. The key thing to keep in mind is that rcu_enter_nohz() is -exiting- the mode that can legally execute RCU read-side critical sections. The memory barrier must be between any potential RCU read-side critical sections and the increment of the per-CPU dynticks_progress_counter, and thus must come -before- this increment. And vice versa for rcu_exit_nohz(). The locking in the scheduler is probably saving us for the moment. Also, switch to smp_mb() - we don't need a barrier for uniprocessor kernels. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* rcu: add support for dynamic ticks and preempt rcuSteven Rostedt2008-02-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The PREEMPT-RCU can get stuck if a CPU goes idle and NO_HZ is set. The idle CPU will not progress the RCU through its grace period and a synchronize_rcu my get stuck. Without this patch I have a box that will not boot when PREEMPT_RCU and NO_HZ are set. That same box boots fine with this patch. This patch comes from the -rt kernel where it has been tested for several months. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* preemptible RCU: sparse annotationsPatrick McHardy2008-02-08
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Preempt-RCU: implementationPaul E. McKenney2008-01-25
This patch implements a new version of RCU which allows its read-side critical sections to be preempted. It uses a set of counter pairs to keep track of the read-side critical sections and flips them when all tasks exit read-side critical section. The details of this implementation can be found in this paper - http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/OLSrtRCU.2006.08.11a.pdf and the article- http://lwn.net/Articles/253651/ This patch was developed as a part of the -rt kernel development and meant to provide better latencies when read-side critical sections of RCU don't disable preemption. As a consequence of keeping track of RCU readers, the readers have a slight overhead (optimizations in the paper). This implementation co-exists with the "classic" RCU implementations and can be switched to at compiler. Also includes RCU tracing summarized in debugfs. [ akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes on non-preempt architectures ] Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>