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2018-05-15srcu: Add cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced()Paul E. McKenney1-1/+35
The current cleanup_srcu_struct() flushes work, which prevents it from being invoked from some workqueue contexts, as well as from atomic (non-blocking) contexts. This patch therefore introduced a cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced(), which can be invoked only after all activity on the specified srcu_struct has completed. This restriction allows cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced() to be invoked from workqueue contexts as well as from atomic contexts. Suggested-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Nitzan Carmi <nitzanc@mellanox.com> Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
2018-01-18lockdep: Convert some users to constMatthew Wilcox1-2/+2
These users of lockdep_is_held() either wanted lockdep_is_held to take a const pointer, or would benefit from providing a const pointer. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180117151414.23686-4-willy@infradead.org
2017-10-19doc: Fix various RCU docbook comment-header problemsPaul E. McKenney1-0/+1
Because many of RCU's files have not been included into docbook, a number of errors have accumulated. This commit fixes them. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2017-06-08srcu: Remove Classic SRCUPaul E. McKenney1-2/+0
Classic SRCU was only ever intended to be a fallback in case of issues with Tree/Tiny SRCU, and the latter two are doing quite well in testing. This commit therefore removes Classic SRCU. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08srcu: Shrink srcu.h by moving docbook and private functionPaul E. McKenney1-20/+0
The call_srcu() docbook entry is currently in include/linux/srcu.h, which causes needless processing for each include point. This commit therefore moves this entry to kernel/rcu/srcutree.c, which the compiler reads only once. In addition, the srcu_batches_completed() function is used only within RCU and its torture-test suites. This commit therefore also moves this function's declaration from include/linux/srcutiny.h, include/linux/srcutree.h, and include/linux/srcuclassic.h to kernel/rcu/rcu.h. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08srcu: Make SRCU be once again optionalPaul E. McKenney1-1/+6
Commit d160a727c40e ("srcu: Make SRCU be built by default") in response to build errors, which were caused by code that included srcu.h despite !SRCU. However, srcutiny.o is almost 2K of code, which is not insignificant for those attempting to run the Linux kernel on IoT devices. This commit therefore makes SRCU be once again optional, and adjusts srcu.h to allow error-free inclusion in !SRCU kernel builds. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
2017-06-08srcu: Allow use of Classic SRCU from both process and interrupt contextPaolo Bonzini1-2/+0
Linu Cherian reported a WARN in cleanup_srcu_struct() when shutting down a guest running iperf on a VFIO assigned device. This happens because irqfd_wakeup() calls srcu_read_lock(&kvm->irq_srcu) in interrupt context, while a worker thread does the same inside kvm_set_irq(). If the interrupt happens while the worker thread is executing __srcu_read_lock(), updates to the Classic SRCU ->lock_count[] field or the Tree SRCU ->srcu_lock_count[] field can be lost. The docs say you are not supposed to call srcu_read_lock() and srcu_read_unlock() from irq context, but KVM interrupt injection happens from (host) interrupt context and it would be nice if SRCU supported the use case. KVM is using SRCU here not really for the "sleepable" part, but rather due to its IPI-free fast detection of grace periods. It is therefore not desirable to switch back to RCU, which would effectively revert commit 719d93cd5f5c ("kvm/irqchip: Speed up KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING", 2014-01-16). However, the docs are overly conservative. You can have an SRCU instance only has users in irq context, and you can mix process and irq context as long as process context users disable interrupts. In addition, __srcu_read_unlock() actually uses this_cpu_dec() on both Tree SRCU and Classic SRCU. For those two implementations, only srcu_read_lock() is unsafe. When Classic SRCU's __srcu_read_unlock() was changed to use this_cpu_dec(), in commit 5a41344a3d83 ("srcu: Simplify __srcu_read_unlock() via this_cpu_dec()", 2012-11-29), __srcu_read_lock() did two increments. Therefore it kept __this_cpu_inc(), with preempt_disable/enable in the caller. Tree SRCU however only does one increment, so on most architectures it is more efficient for __srcu_read_lock() to use this_cpu_inc(), and any performance differences appear to be down in the noise. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 719d93cd5f5c ("kvm/irqchip: Speed up KVM_SET_GSI_ROUTING") Reported-by: Linu Cherian <linuc.decode@gmail.com> Suggested-by: Linu Cherian <linuc.decode@gmail.com> Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-04-18srcu: Introduce CLASSIC_SRCU Kconfig optionPaul E. McKenney1-0/+2
The TREE_SRCU rewrite is large and a bit on the non-simple side, so this commit helps reduce risk by allowing the old v4.11 SRCU algorithm to be selected using a new CLASSIC_SRCU Kconfig option that depends on RCU_EXPERT. The default is to use the new TREE_SRCU and TINY_SRCU algorithms, in order to help get these the testing that they need. However, if your users do not require the update-side scalability that is to be provided by TREE_SRCU, select RCU_EXPERT and then CLASSIC_SRCU to revert back to the old classic SRCU algorithm. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-04-18srcu: Create a tiny SRCUPaul E. McKenney1-61/+8
In response to automated complaints about modifications to SRCU increasing its size, this commit creates a tiny SRCU that is used in SMP=n && PREEMPT=n builds. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-04-18srcu: Crude control of expedited grace periodsPaul E. McKenney1-0/+1
SRCU's implementation of expedited grace periods has always assumed that the SRCU instance is idle when the expedited request arrives. This commit improves this a bit by maintaining a count of the number of outstanding expedited requests, thus allowing prior non-expedited grace periods accommodate these requests by shifting to expedited mode. However, any non-expedited wait already in progress will still wait for the full duration. Improved control of expedited grace periods is planned, but one step at a time. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-04-18srcu: Merge ->srcu_state into ->srcu_gp_seqPaul E. McKenney1-4/+1
Updating ->srcu_state and ->srcu_gp_seq will lead to extremely complex race conditions given multiple callback queues, so this commit takes advantage of the two-bit state now available in rcu_seq counters to store the state in the bottom two bits of ->srcu_gp_seq. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-04-18srcu: Use rcu_segcblist to track SRCU callbacksPaul E. McKenney1-19/+5
This commit switches SRCU from custom-built callback queues to the new rcu_segcblist structure. This change associates grace-period sequence numbers with groups of callbacks, which will be needed for efficient processing of per-CPU callbacks. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-04-18srcu: Add grace-period sequence numbersPaul E. McKenney1-0/+1
This commit adds grace-period sequence numbers, which will be used to handle mid-boot grace periods and per-CPU callback lists. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-04-18srcu: Move to state-based grace-period sequencingPaul E. McKenney1-2/+8
The current SRCU grace-period processing might never reach the last portion of srcu_advance_batches(). This is OK given the current implementation, as the first portion, up to the try_check_zero() following the srcu_flip() is sufficient to drive grace periods forward. However, it has the unfortunate side-effect of making it impossible to determine when a given grace period has ended, and it will be necessary to efficiently trace ends of grace periods in order to efficiently handle per-CPU SRCU callback lists. This commit therefore adds states to the SRCU grace-period processing, so that the end of a given SRCU grace period is marked by the transition to the SRCU_STATE_DONE state. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-01-25srcu: Implement more-efficient reader countsLance Roy1-5/+5
SRCU uses two per-cpu counters: a nesting counter to count the number of active critical sections, and a sequence counter to ensure that the nesting counters don't change while they are being added together in srcu_readers_active_idx_check(). This patch instead uses per-cpu lock and unlock counters. Because both counters only increase and srcu_readers_active_idx_check() reads the unlock counter before the lock counter, this achieves the same end without having to increment two different counters in srcu_read_lock(). This also saves a smp_mb() in srcu_readers_active_idx_check(). Possible bug: There is no guarantee that the lock counter won't overflow during srcu_readers_active_idx_check(), as there are no memory barriers around srcu_flip() (see comment in srcu_readers_active_idx_check() for details). However, this problem was already present before this patch. Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Signed-off-by: Lance Roy <ldr709@gmail.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2016-02-23rcu: Document unique-name limitation for DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU()Paul E. McKenney1-2/+17
SRCU uses per-CPU variables, and DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU() uses a static per-CPU variable. However, per-CPU variables have significant restrictions, for example, names of per-CPU variables must be globally unique, even if declared static. These restrictions carry over to DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU(), and this commit therefore documents these restrictions. Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Reported-by: kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Suggested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2015-10-06rcu: Move preemption disabling out of __srcu_read_lock()Paul E. McKenney1-1/+4
Currently, __srcu_read_lock() cannot be invoked from restricted environments because it contains calls to preempt_disable() and preempt_enable(), both of which can invoke lockdep, which is a bad idea in some restricted execution modes. This commit therefore moves the preempt_disable() and preempt_enable() from __srcu_read_lock() to srcu_read_lock(). It also inserts the preempt_disable() and preempt_enable() around the call to __srcu_read_lock() in do_exit(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2015-03-03rcu: Reverse rcu_dereference_check() conditionsPaul E. McKenney1-1/+1
The rcu_dereference_check() family of primitives evaluates the RCU lockdep expression first, and only then evaluates the expression passed in. This works fine normally, but can potentially fail in environments (such as NMI handlers) where lockdep cannot be invoked. The problem is that even if the expression passed in is "1", the compiler would need to prove that the RCU lockdep expression (rcu_read_lock_held(), for example) is free of side effects in order to be able to elide it. Given that rcu_read_lock_held() is sometimes separately compiled, the compiler cannot always use this optimization. This commit therefore reverse the order of evaluation, so that the expression passed in is evaluated first, and the RCU lockdep expression is evaluated only if the passed-in expression evaluated to false, courtesy of the C-language short-circuit boolean evaluation rules. This compells the compiler to forego executing the RCU lockdep expression in cases where the passed-in expression evaluates to "1" at compile time, so that (for example) rcu_dereference_raw() can be guaranteed to execute safely within an NMI handler. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
2015-01-06rcu: Combine DEFINE_SRCU() and DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU()Paul E. McKenney1-6/+4
The DEFINE_SRCU() and DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU() definitions are quite similar, so this commit combines them, saving a bit of code and removing redundancy. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2015-01-06rcu: Expand SRCU ->completed to 64 bitsPaul E. McKenney1-2/+2
When rcutorture used only the low-order 32 bits of the grace-period number, it was not a problem for SRCU to use a 32-bit completed field. However, rcutorture now uses the full 64 bits on 64-bit systems, so this commit converts SRCU's ->completed field to unsigned long so as to provide 64 bits on 64-bit systems. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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>
2013-11-06srcu: API for barrier after srcu read unlockMichael S. Tsirkin1-0/+14
srcu read lock/unlock include a full memory barrier but that's an implementation detail. Add an API for make memory fencing explicit for users that need this barrier, to make sure we can change it as needed without breaking all users. Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Gleb Natapov <gleb@redhat.com>
2013-06-10rcu: Remove srcu_read_lock_raw() and srcu_read_unlock_raw().Paul E. McKenney1-43/+0
These interfaces never did get used, so this commit removes them, their rcutorture tests, and documentation referencing them. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-02-07srcu: Remove checks preventing idle CPUs from calling srcu_read_lock()Lai Jiangshan1-18/+3
SRCU has its own statemachine and no longer relies on normal RCU. Its read-side critical section can now be used by an offline CPU, so this commit removes the check and the comments, reverting the SRCU portion of ff195cb6 (rcu: Warn when srcu_read_lock() is used in an extended quiescent state). It also makes the codes match the comments in whatisRCU.txt: g. Do you need read-side critical sections that are respected even though they are in the middle of the idle loop, during user-mode execution, or on an offlined CPU? If so, SRCU is the only choice that will work for you. [ paulmck: There is at least one remaining issue, namely use of lockdep with tracing enabled. ] Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2013-02-07srcu: Remove checks preventing offline CPUs from calling srcu_read_lock()Lai Jiangshan1-5/+0
SRCU has its own statemachine and no longer relies on normal RCU. Its read-side critical section can now be used by an offline CPU, so this commit removes the check and the comments, reverting the SRCU portion of c0d6d01b (rcu: Check for illegal use of RCU from offlined CPUs). It also makes the code match the comments in whatisRCU.txt: g. Do you need read-side critical sections that are respected even though they are in the middle of the idle loop, during user-mode execution, or on an offlined CPU? If so, SRCU is the only choice that will work for you. [ paulmck: There is at least one remaining issue, namely use of lockdep with tracing enabled. ] Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-10-27srcu: Add DEFINE_SRCU()Lai Jiangshan1-0/+30
In old days, we had two different API sets for dynamic-allocated per-CPU data and DEFINE_PER_CPU()-defined per_cpu data, and because SRCU used dynamic-allocated per-CPU data, its srcu_struct structures cannot be declared statically. This commit therefore introduces DEFINE_SRCU() and DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU() to allow statically declared SRCU structures, using the new static per-CPU interfaces. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Updated for __DELAYED_WORK_INITIALIZER() added argument, fixed whitespace issue. ]
2012-10-23srcu: Export process_srcu()Lai Jiangshan1-0/+2
Because process_srcu() will be used in DEFINE_SRCU(), which is a macro that could be expanded pretty much anywhere, it can no longer be static. Note that process_srcu() is still internal to srcu.h. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-10-23srcu: Credit Lai Jiangshan with SRCU rewriteLai Jiangshan1-0/+2
Lai Jiangshan rewrote SRCU, so this commit ensures that he gets his proper share of blame^Wcredit. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-04-30rcu: Implement per-domain single-threaded call_srcu() state machineLai Jiangshan1-1/+36
This commit implements an SRCU state machine in support of call_srcu(). The state machine is preemptible, light-weight, and single-threaded, minimizing synchronization overhead. In particular, there is no longer any need for synchronize_srcu() to be guarded by a mutex. Expedited processing is handled, at least in the absence of concurrent grace-period operations on that same srcu_struct structure, by having the synchronize_srcu_expedited() thread take on the role of the workqueue thread for one iteration. There is a reasonable probability that a given SRCU callback will be invoked on the same CPU that registered it, however, there is no guarantee. Concurrent SRCU grace-period primitives can cause callbacks to be executed elsewhere, even in absence of CPU-hotplug operations. Callbacks execute in process context, but under the influence of local_bh_disable(), so it is illegal to sleep in an SRCU callback function. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-04-30rcu: Remove unused srcu_barrier()Lai Jiangshan1-6/+0
The old srcu_barrier() macro is now unused. This commit removes it so that it may be used for the SRCU flavor of rcu_barrier(), which will in turn be needed to allow the upcoming call_srcu() to be used from within modules. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-04-30rcu: Implement a variant of Peter's SRCU algorithmLai Jiangshan1-6/+1
This commit implements a variant of Peter's algorithm, which may be found at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/1/119. o Make the checking lock-free to enable parallel checking. Parallel checking is required when (1) the original checking task is preempted for a long time, (2) sychronize_srcu_expedited() starts during an ongoing SRCU grace period, or (3) we wish to avoid acquiring a lock. o Since the checking is lock-free, we avoid a mutex in state machine for call_srcu(). o Remove the SRCU_REF_MASK and remove the coupling with the flipping. This might allow us to remove the preempt_disable() in future versions, though such removal will need great care because it rescinds the one-old-reader-per-CPU guarantee. o Remove a smp_mb(), simplify the comments and make the smp_mb() pairs more intuitive. Inspired-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-04-30rcu: Increment upper bit only for srcu_read_lock()Lai Jiangshan1-1/+1
The purpose of the upper bit of SRCU's per-CPU counters is to guarantee that no reasonable series of srcu_read_lock() and srcu_read_unlock() operations can return the value of the counter to its original value. This guarantee is require only after the index has been switched to the other set of counters, so at most one srcu_read_lock() can affect a given CPU's counter. The number of srcu_read_unlock() operations on a given counter is limited to the number of tasks in the system, which given the Linux kernel's current structure is limited to far less than 2^30 on 32-bit systems and far less than 2^62 on 64-bit systems. (Something about a limited number of bytes in the kernel's address space.) Therefore, if srcu_read_lock() increments the upper bits, then srcu_read_unlock() need not do so. In this case, an srcu_read_lock() and an srcu_read_unlock() will flip the lower bit of the upper field of the counter. An unreasonably large additional number of srcu_read_unlock() operations would be required to return the counter to its initial value, thus preserving the guarantee. This commit takes this approach, which further allows it to shrink the size of the upper field to one bit, making the number of srcu_read_unlock() operations required to return the counter to its initial value even more unreasonable than before. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-04-30rcu: Direct algorithmic SRCU implementationPaul E. McKenney1-2/+8
The current implementation of synchronize_srcu_expedited() can cause severe OS jitter due to its use of synchronize_sched(), which in turn invokes try_stop_cpus(), which causes each CPU to be sent an IPI. This can result in severe performance degradation for real-time workloads and especially for short-interation-length HPC workloads. Furthermore, because only one instance of try_stop_cpus() can be making forward progress at a given time, only one instance of synchronize_srcu_expedited() can make forward progress at a time, even if they are all operating on distinct srcu_struct structures. This commit, inspired by an earlier implementation by Peter Zijlstra (https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/1/31/211) and by further offline discussions, takes a strictly algorithmic bits-in-memory approach. This has the disadvantage of requiring one explicit memory-barrier instruction in each of srcu_read_lock() and srcu_read_unlock(), but on the other hand completely dispenses with OS jitter and furthermore allows SRCU to be used freely by CPUs that RCU believes to be idle or offline. The update-side implementation handles the single read-side memory barrier by rechecking the per-CPU counters after summing them and by running through the update-side state machine twice. This implementation has passed moderate rcutorture testing on both x86 and Power. Also updated to use this_cpu_ptr() instead of per_cpu_ptr(), as suggested by Peter Zijlstra. Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
2012-02-21rcu: Convert WARN_ON_ONCE() in rcu_lock_acquire() to lockdepHeiko Carstens1-0/+4
The WARN_ON_ONCE() in rcu_lock_acquire() results in infinite recursion on S390, and also doesn't print very much information. Remove this. Updated patch to add lockdep-RCU assertions to RCU's read-side primitives. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-02-21rcu: Check for illegal use of RCU from offlined CPUsPaul E. McKenney1-4/+7
Although it is legal to use RCU during early boot, it is anything but legal to use RCU at runtime from an offlined CPU. After all, RCU explicitly ignores offlined CPUs. This commit therefore adds checks for runtime use of RCU from offlined CPUs. These checks are not perfect, in particular, they can be subverted through use of things like rcu_dereference_raw(). Note that it is not possible to put checks in rcu_read_lock() and friends due to the fact that these primitives are used in code that might be used under either RCU or lock-based protection, which means that checking rcu_read_lock() gets you fat piles of false positives. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11rcu: Document same-context read-side constraintsPaul E. McKenney1-0/+5
The intent is that a given RCU read-side critical section be confined to a single context. For example, it is illegal to invoke rcu_read_lock() in an exception handler and then invoke rcu_read_unlock() from the context of the task that received the exception. Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11rcu: Introduce raw SRCU read-side primitivesPaul E. McKenney1-0/+43
The RCU implementations, including SRCU, are designed to be used in a lock-like fashion, so that the read-side lock and unlock primitives must execute in the same context for any given read-side critical section. This constraint is enforced by lockdep-RCU. However, there is a need to enter an SRCU read-side critical section within the context of an exception and then exit in the context of the task that encountered the exception. The cost of this capability is that the read-side operations incur the overhead of disabling interrupts. Note that although the current implementation allows a given read-side critical section to be entered by one task and then exited by another, all known possible implementations that allow this have scalability problems. Therefore, a given read-side critical section must be exited by the same task that entered it, though perhaps from an interrupt or exception handler running within that task's context. But if you are thinking in terms of interrupt handlers, make sure that you have considered the possibility of threaded interrupt handlers. Credit goes to Peter Zijlstra for suggesting use of the existing _raw suffix to indicate disabling lockdep over the earlier "bulkref" names. Requested-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11rcu: Make srcu_read_lock_held() call common lockdep-enabled functionPaul E. McKenney1-1/+4
A common debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() function is used to check whether RCU lockdep splats should be reported, but srcu_read_lock() does not use it. This commit therefore brings srcu_read_lock_held() up to date. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11rcu: Warn when srcu_read_lock() is used in an extended quiescent statePaul E. McKenney1-13/+23
Catch SRCU up to the other variants of RCU by making PROVE_RCU complain if either srcu_read_lock() or srcu_read_lock_held() are used from within RCU-idle mode. Frederic reworked this to allow for the new versions of his patches that check for extended quiescent states. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2010-08-20rcu: Upgrade srcu_read_lock() docbook about SRCU grace periodsPaul E. McKenney1-1/+6
It is illegal to wait for an SRCU grace period while within the corresponding flavor of SRCU read-side critical section. Therefore, this commit updates the srcu_read_lock() docbook accordingly. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-08-19rcu: define __rcu address space modifier for sparsePaul E. McKenney1-4/+23
This commit provides definitions for the __rcu annotation defined earlier. This annotation permits sparse to check for correct use of RCU-protected pointers. If a pointer that is annotated with __rcu is accessed directly (as opposed to via rcu_dereference(), rcu_assign_pointer(), or one of their variants), sparse can be made to complain. To enable such complaints, use the new default-disabled CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER kernel configuration option. Please note that these sparse complaints are intended to be a debugging aid, -not- a code-style-enforcement mechanism. There are special rcu_dereference_protected() and rcu_access_pointer() accessors for use when RCU read-side protection is not required, for example, when no other CPU has access to the data structure in question or while the current CPU hold the update-side lock. This patch also updates a number of docbook comments that were showing their age. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2010-05-10rcu: make SRCU usable in modulesPaul E. McKenney1-0/+2
Add a #include for mutex.h to allow SRCU to be more easily used in kernel modules. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-05-10rcu: Fix bogus CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING in comments to reflect reality.Paul E. McKenney1-2/+2
It is CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC rather than CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING, so fix it. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-03-03Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpuLinus Torvalds1-1/+1
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to what's left percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to fs percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to core kernel subsystems local_t: Remove leftover local.h this_cpu: Remove pageset_notifier this_cpu: Page allocator conversion percpu, x86: Generic inc / dec percpu instructions local_t: Move local.h include to ringbuffer.c and ring_buffer_benchmark.c module: Use this_cpu_xx to dynamically allocate counters local_t: Remove cpu_local_xx macros percpu: refactor the code in pcpu_[de]populate_chunk() percpu: remove compile warnings caused by __verify_pcpu_ptr() percpu: make accessors check for percpu pointer in sparse percpu: add __percpu for sparse. percpu: make access macros universal percpu: remove per_cpu__ prefix.
2010-02-25rcu: Add lockdep-enabled variants of rcu_dereference()Paul E. McKenney1-0/+8
Make rcu_dereference() check for being in an RCU read-side critical section, and create rcu_dereference_bh(), rcu_dereference_sched(), and srcu_dereference() to check for the other flavors of RCU. Also create rcu_dereference_raw() to avoid checking, and make rcu_dereference_check() use rcu_dereference_raw(). Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-2-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-25rcu: Introduce lockdep-based checking to RCU read-side primitivesPaul E. McKenney1-2/+85
Inspection is proving insufficient to catch all RCU misuses, which is understandable given that rcu_dereference() might be protected by any of four different flavors of RCU (RCU, RCU-bh, RCU-sched, and SRCU), and might also/instead be protected by any of a number of locking primitives. It is therefore time to enlist the aid of lockdep. This set of patches is inspired by earlier work by Peter Zijlstra and Thomas Gleixner, and takes the following approach: o Set up separate lockdep classes for RCU, RCU-bh, and RCU-sched. o Set up separate lockdep classes for each instance of SRCU. o Create primitives that check for being in an RCU read-side critical section. These return exact answers if lockdep is fully enabled, but if unsure, report being in an RCU read-side critical section. (We want to avoid false positives!) The primitives are: For RCU: rcu_read_lock_held(void) For RCU-bh: rcu_read_lock_bh_held(void) For RCU-sched: rcu_read_lock_sched_held(void) For SRCU: srcu_read_lock_held(struct srcu_struct *sp) o Add rcu_dereference_check(), which takes a second argument in which one places a boolean expression based on the above primitives and/or lockdep_is_held(). o A new kernel configuration parameter, CONFIG_PROVE_RCU, enables rcu_dereference_check(). This depends on CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING, and should be quite helpful during the transition period while CONFIG_PROVE_RCU-unaware patches are in flight. The existing rcu_dereference() primitive does no checking, but upcoming patches will change that. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1266887105-1528-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-02-17percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to core kernel subsystemsTejun Heo1-1/+1
Add __percpu sparse annotations to core subsystems. These annotations are to make sparse consider percpu variables to be in a different address space and warn if accessed without going through percpu accessors. This patch doesn't affect normal builds. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-10-26rcu: Add synchronize_srcu_expedited()Paul E. McKenney1-0/+1
This patch creates a synchronize_srcu_expedited() that uses synchronize_sched_expedited() where synchronize_srcu() uses synchronize_sched(). The synchronize_srcu() and synchronize_srcu_expedited() functions become one-liners that pass synchronize_sched() or synchronize_sched_expedited(), repectively, to a new __synchronize_srcu() function. While in the file, move the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()s to immediately follow the corresponding functions. Requested-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Tested-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com Cc: avi@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <12565226354038-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2006-10-04[PATCH] SRCU: report out-of-memory errorsAlan Stern1-1/+1
Currently the init_srcu_struct() routine has no way to report out-of-memory errors. This patch (as761) makes it return -ENOMEM when the per-cpu data allocation fails. The patch also makes srcu_init_notifier_head() report a BUG if a notifier head can't be initialized. Perhaps it should return -ENOMEM instead, but in the most likely cases where this might occur I don't think any recovery is possible. Notifier chains generally are not created dynamically. [akpm@osdl.org: avoid statement-with-side-effect in macro] Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-04[PATCH] Add SRCU-based notifier chainsAlan Stern1-1/+5
This patch (as751) adds a new type of notifier chain, based on the SRCU (Sleepable Read-Copy Update) primitives recently added to the kernel. An SRCU notifier chain is much like a blocking notifier chain, in that it must be called in process context and its callout routines are allowed to sleep. The difference is that the chain's links are protected by the SRCU mechanism rather than by an rw-semaphore, so calling the chain has extremely low overhead: no memory barriers and no cache-line bouncing. On the other hand, unregistering from the chain is expensive and the chain head requires special runtime initialization (plus cleanup if it is to be deallocated). SRCU notifiers are appropriate for notifiers that will be called very frequently and for which unregistration occurs very seldom. The proposed "task notifier" scheme qualifies, as may some of the network notifiers. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Chandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>