The current preemptible RCU implementation goes through three phases
during bootup. In the first phase, there is only one CPU that is running
with preemption disabled, so that a no-op is a synchronous grace period.
In the second mid-boot phase, the scheduler is running, but RCU has
not yet gotten its kthreads spawned (and, for expedited grace periods,
workqueues are not yet running. During this time, any attempt to do
a synchronous grace period will hang the system (or complain bitterly,
depending). In the third and final phase, RCU is fully operational and
everything works normally.
This has been OK for some time, but there has recently been some
synchronous grace periods showing up during the second mid-boot phase.
This code worked "by accident" for awhile, but started failing as soon
as expedited RCU grace periods switched over to workqueues in commit
8b355e3bc1 ("rcu: Drive expedited grace periods from workqueue").
Note that the code was buggy even before this commit, as it was subject
to failure on real-time systems that forced all expedited grace periods
to run as normal grace periods (for example, using the rcu_normal ksysfs
parameter). The callchain from the failure case is as follows:
early_amd_iommu_init()
|-> acpi_put_table(ivrs_base);
|-> acpi_tb_put_table(table_desc);
|-> acpi_tb_invalidate_table(table_desc);
|-> acpi_tb_release_table(...)
|-> acpi_os_unmap_memory
|-> acpi_os_unmap_iomem
|-> acpi_os_map_cleanup
|-> synchronize_rcu_expedited
The kernel showing this callchain was built with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y,
which caused the code to try using workqueues before they were
initialized, which did not go well.
This commit therefore reworks RCU to permit synchronous grace periods
to proceed during this mid-boot phase. This commit is therefore a
fix to a regression introduced in v4.9, and is therefore being put
forward post-merge-window in v4.10.
This commit sets a flag from the existing rcu_scheduler_starting()
function which causes all synchronous grace periods to take the expedited
path. The expedited path now checks this flag, using the requesting task
to drive the expedited grace period forward during the mid-boot phase.
Finally, this flag is updated by a core_initcall() function named
rcu_exp_runtime_mode(), which causes the runtime codepaths to be used.
Note that this arrangement assumes that tasks are not sent POSIX signals
(or anything similar) from the time that the first task is spawned
through core_initcall() time.
Fixes: 8b355e3bc1 ("rcu: Drive expedited grace periods from workqueue")
Reported-by: "Zheng, Lv" <lv.zheng@intel.com>
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Stan Kain <stan.kain@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Ivan <waffolz@hotmail.com>
Tested-by: Emanuel Castelo <emanuel.castelo@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Bruno Pesavento <bpesavento@infinito.it>
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Tested-by: Frederic Bezies <fredbezies@gmail.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.9.0-
It is now legal to invoke synchronize_sched() at early boot, which causes
Tiny RCU's synchronize_sched() to emit spurious splats. This commit
therefore removes the cond_resched() from Tiny RCU's synchronize_sched().
Fixes: 8b355e3bc1 ("rcu: Drive expedited grace periods from workqueue")
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.9.0-
The current code can result in spurious kicks when there are no grace
periods in progress and no grace-period-related requests. This is
sort of OK for a diagnostic aid, but the resulting ftrace-dump messages
in dmesg are annoying. This commit therefore avoids spurious kicks
in the common case.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Expedited grace periods check dyntick-idle state, and avoid sending
IPIs to idle CPUs, including those running guest OSes, and, on NOHZ_FULL
kernels, nohz_full CPUs. However, the kernel has been observed checking
a CPU while it was non-idle, but sending the IPI after it has gone
idle. This commit therefore rechecks idle state immediately before
sending the IPI, refraining from IPIing CPUs that have since gone idle.
Reported-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Although rcutorture will occasionally do a 50-millisecond grace-period
delay, these delays are quite rare. And rightly so, because otherwise
the read rate would be quite low. Thie means that it can be important
to identify whether or not a given run contained a long-delay read.
This commit therefore inserts a trace_rcu_torture_read() event to flag
runs containing long delays.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The __call_rcu() comment about opportunistically noting grace period
beginnings and endings is obsolete. RCU still does such opportunistic
noting, but in __call_rcu_core() rather than __call_rcu(), and there
already is an appropriate comment in __call_rcu_core(). This commit
therefore removes the obsolete comment.
Reported-by: Michalis Kokologiannakis <mixaskok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
In the deep past, rcu_check_callbacks() was only invoked if rcu_pending()
returned true. Which was fine, but these days rcu_check_callbacks()
is invoked unconditionally. This commit therefore removes the obsolete
sentence from the header comment.
Reported-by: Michalis Kokologiannakis <mixaskok@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Commit 720abae3d6 ("rcu: force alignment on struct
callback_head/rcu_head") forced the rcu_head (AKA callback_head)
structure's alignment to pointer size, that is, to 4-byte boundaries on
32-bit systems and to 8-byte boundaries on 64-bit systems. This
commit therefore checks for this same alignment in __call_rcu(),
which used to contain a looser check for two-byte alignment.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Pull gcc plugins update from Kees Cook:
"This adds a new gcc plugin named "latent_entropy". It is designed to
extract as much possible uncertainty from a running system at boot
time as possible, hoping to capitalize on any possible variation in
CPU operation (due to runtime data differences, hardware differences,
SMP ordering, thermal timing variation, cache behavior, etc).
At the very least, this plugin is a much more comprehensive example
for how to manipulate kernel code using the gcc plugin internals"
* tag 'gcc-plugins-v4.9-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kees/linux:
latent_entropy: Mark functions with __latent_entropy
gcc-plugins: Add latent_entropy plugin
The __latent_entropy gcc attribute can be used only on functions and
variables. If it is on a function then the plugin will instrument it for
gathering control-flow entropy. If the attribute is on a variable then
the plugin will initialize it with random contents. The variable must
be an integer, an integer array type or a structure with integer fields.
These specific functions have been selected because they are init
functions (to help gather boot-time entropy), are called at unpredictable
times, or they have variable loops, each of which provide some level of
latent entropy.
Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
[kees: expanded commit message]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- rwsem micro-optimizations (Davidlohr Bueso)
- Improve the implementation and optimize the performance of
percpu-rwsems. (Peter Zijlstra.)
- Convert all lglock users to better facilities such as percpu-rwsems
or percpu-spinlocks and remove lglocks. (Peter Zijlstra)
- Remove the ticket (spin)lock implementation. (Peter Zijlstra)
- Korean translation of memory-barriers.txt and related fixes to the
English document. (SeongJae Park)
- misc fixes and cleanups"
* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
x86/cmpxchg, locking/atomics: Remove superfluous definitions
x86, locking/spinlocks: Remove ticket (spin)lock implementation
locking/lglock: Remove lglock implementation
stop_machine: Remove stop_cpus_lock and lg_double_lock/unlock()
fs/locks: Use percpu_down_read_preempt_disable()
locking/percpu-rwsem: Add down_read_preempt_disable()
fs/locks: Replace lg_local with a per-cpu spinlock
fs/locks: Replace lg_global with a percpu-rwsem
locking/percpu-rwsem: Add DEFINE_STATIC_PERCPU_RWSEMand percpu_rwsem_assert_held()
locking/pv-qspinlock: Use cmpxchg_release() in __pv_queued_spin_unlock()
locking/rwsem, x86: Drop a bogus cc clobber
futex: Add some more function commentry
locking/hung_task: Show all locks
locking/rwsem: Scan the wait_list for readers only once
locking/rwsem: Remove a few useless comments
locking/rwsem: Return void in __rwsem_mark_wake()
locking, rcu, cgroup: Avoid synchronize_sched() in __cgroup_procs_write()
locking/Documentation: Add Korean translation
locking/Documentation: Fix a typo of example result
locking/Documentation: Fix wrong section reference
...
A few rcuperf dmesg output messages have no space between the flag and
the start of the message. In contrast, every other messages consistently
supplies a single space. This difference makes rcuperf dmesg output
hard to read and to mechanically parse. This commit therefore fixes
this problem by modifying a pr_alert() call and PERFOUT_STRING() macro
function to provide that single space.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tests for rcu_barrier() were introduced by commit fae4b54f28 ("rcu:
Introduce rcutorture testing for rcu_barrier()"). This commit updated
the documentation to say that the "rtbe" field in rcutorture's dmesg
output indicates test failure. However, the code was not updated, only
the documentation. This commit therefore updates the code to match the
updated documentation.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit adds a dump of the scheduler state for stalled rcutorture
writer tasks. This addition provides yet more debug for the intermittent
"failures to proceed", where grace periods move ahead but the rcutorture
writer tasks fail to do so.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Up to now, RCU has assumed that the CPU-online process makes it from
CPU_UP_PREPARE to set_cpu_online() within one jiffy. Given the recent
rise of virtualized environments, this assumption is very clearly
obsolete. Failing to meet this deadline can result in RCU paying
attention to an incoming CPU for one jiffy, then ignoring it until the
grace period following the one in which that CPU sets itself online.
This situation might prove to be fatally disappointing to any RCU
read-side critical sections that had the misfortune to execute during
the time in which RCU was ignoring the slow-to-come-online CPU.
This commit therefore updates RCU's internal CPU state-tracking
information at notify_cpu_starting() time, thus providing RCU with
an exact transition of the CPU's state from offline to online.
Note that this means that incoming CPUs must not use RCU read-side
critical section (other than those of SRCU) until notify_cpu_starting()
time. Note also that the CPU_STARTING notifiers -are- allowed to use
RCU read-side critical sections. (Of course, CPU-hotplug notifiers are
rapidly becoming obsolete, so you need to act fast!)
If a given architecture or CPU family needs to use RCU read-side
critical sections earlier, the call to rcu_cpu_starting() from
notify_cpu_starting() will need to be architecture-specific, with
architectures that need early use being required to hand-place
the call to rcu_cpu_starting() at some point preceding the call to
notify_cpu_starting().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, __note_gp_changes() checks to see if the CPU has slept through
multiple grace periods. If it has, it resynchronizes that CPU's view
of the grace-period state, which includes whether or not the current
grace period needs a quiescent state from this CPU. The fact of this
need (or lack thereof) needs to be in two places, rdp->cpu_no_qs.b.norm
and rdp->core_needs_qs. The former tells RCU's context-switch code to
go get a quiescent state and the latter says that it needs to be reported.
The current code unconditionally sets the former to true, but correctly
sets the latter.
This does not result in failures, but it does unnecessarily increase
the amount of work done on average at context-switch time. This commit
therefore correctly sets both fields.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The Kconfig currently controlling compilation of tree.c is:
init/Kconfig:config TREE_RCU
init/Kconfig: bool
...and update.c and sync.c are "obj-y" meaning that none are ever
built as a module by anyone.
Since MODULE_ALIAS is a no-op for non-modular code, we can remove
them from these files.
We leave moduleparam.h behind since the files instantiate some boot
time configuration parameters with module_param() still.
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: 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>
Commit abedf8e241 ("rcu: Use simple wait queues where possible in
rcutree") converts Tree RCU's wait queues to simple wait queues,
but it incorrectly reverts the commit 2aa792e6fa ("rcu: Use
rcu_gp_kthread_wake() to wake up grace period kthreads"). This can
result in redundant self-wakeups.
This commit therefore replaces the simple wait-queue wakeups with
rcu_gp_kthread_wake(), thus avoiding the redundant wakeups.
Signed-off-by: Jisheng Zhang <jszhang@marvell.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit improves the accuracy of the interaction between CPU hotplug
operations and RCU's expedited grace periods by using RCU's online-CPU
state to determine when failed IPIs should be retried.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The expedited RCU grace periods currently rely on a failure indication
from smp_call_function_single() to determine that a given CPU is offline.
This works after a fashion, but is more contorted and less precise than
relying on RCU's internal state. This commit therefore takes a first
step towards relying on internal state.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The expedited RCU CPU stall warnings currently responds to neither the
panic_on_rcu_stall sysctl setting nor the rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_suppress
kernel boot parameter. This commit therefore updates the expedited code
to respond to these two controls.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Now that RCU expedited grace periods are always driven by a workqueue,
there is no need to account for signal reception, and thus no need
to disable expedited RCU CPU stall warnings due to signal reception.
This commit therefore removes the signal-reception checks, leaving a
WARN_ON() to catch possible future bugs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The current implementation of expedited grace periods has the user
task drive the grace period. This works, but has downsides: (1) The
user task must awaken tasks piggybacking on this grace period, which
can result in latencies rivaling that of the grace period itself, and
(2) User tasks can receive signals, which interfere with RCU CPU stall
warnings.
This commit therefore uses workqueues to drive the grace periods, so
that the user task need not do the awakening. A subsequent commit
will remove the now-unnecessary code allowing for signals.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Paul E. McKenney
Linus Torvalds
Emese Revfy
SeongJae Park
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Paul Gortmaker
Jisheng Zhang