urgent.2012.10.27a: Fix for RCU user-mode transition (already in -tip).
doc.2012.11.08a: Documentation updates, most notably codifying the
memory-barrier guarantees inherent to grace periods.
fixes.2012.11.13a: Miscellaneous fixes.
srcu.2012.10.27a: Allow statically allocated and initialized srcu_struct
structures (courtesy of Lai Jiangshan).
stall.2012.11.13a: Add more diagnostic information to RCU CPU stall
warnings, also decrease from 60 seconds to 21 seconds.
hotplug.2012.11.08a: Minor updates to CPU hotplug handling.
tracing.2012.11.08a: Improved debugfs tracing, courtesy of Michael Wang.
idle.2012.10.24a: Updates to RCU idle/adaptive-idle handling, including
a boot parameter that maps normal grace periods to expedited.
Resolved conflict in kernel/rcutree.c due to side-by-side change.
This commit adds the documentation of the rcuexp debugfs trace file
that records statistics for expedited grace periods.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit updates the tracing documentation to reflect the new
format that has per-RCU-flavor directories.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The list_for_each_continue_rcu() macro is no longer used, so this commit
removes it. The list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu() macro should be
used instead.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The approach for mixing RCU and reference counting listed in the RCU
documentation only describes one possible approach. This approach can
result in failure on the read side, which is nice if you want fresh data,
but not so good if you want simple code. This commit therefore adds
two additional approaches that feature unconditional reference-count
acquisition by RCU readers. These approaches are very similar to that
used in the security code.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mention kfree_rcu() in the call_rcu() section. Additionally fix the
example code for list replacement that used the wrong structure element.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Trying to go through the history of RCU (not for the weak
minded) led me to search for a non-existent paper.
Correct it to the actual reference
Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
bigrt.2012.09.23a contains additional commits to reduce scheduling latency
from RCU on huge systems (many hundrends or thousands of CPUs).
doctorture.2012.09.23a contains documentation changes and rcutorture fixes.
fixes.2012.09.23a contains miscellaneous fixes.
hotplug.2012.09.23a contains CPU-hotplug-related changes.
idle.2012.09.23a fixes architectures for which RCU no longer considered
the idle loop to be a quiescent state due to earlier
adaptive-dynticks changes. Affected architectures are alpha,
cris, frv, h8300, m32r, m68k, mn10300, parisc, score, xtensa,
and ia64.
The print_cpu_stall_fast_no_hz() function attempts to print -1 when
the ->idle_gp_timer is not pending, but unsigned arithmetic causes it
to instead print ULONG_MAX, which is 4294967295 on 32-bit systems and
18446744073709551615 on 64-bit systems. Neither of these are the most
reader-friendly values, so this commit instead causes "timer not pending"
to be printed when ->idle_gp_timer is not pending.
Reported-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The current documentation did not help someone grepping for SRCU to
learn that disabling preemption is not a replacement for srcu_read_lock(),
so upgrade the documentation to bring this out, not just for SRCU,
but also for RCU-bh. Also document the fact that SRCU readers are
respected on CPUs executing in user mode, idle CPUs, and even on
offline CPUs.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Moving quiescent-state forcing into a kthread dispenses with the need
for the ->n_rp_need_fqs field, so this commit removes it.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The advent of call_srcu() and srcu_barrier() obsoleted some of the
documentation, so this commit brings that up to date.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Although rcutorture does invoke rcu_barrier() and friends, it cannot
really be called a torture test given that it invokes them only once
at the end of the test. This commit therefore introduces heavy-duty
rcutorture testing for rcu_barrier(), which may be carried out
concurrently with normal rcutorture testing.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The expedited RCU primitives can be quite useful, but they have some
high costs as well. This commit updates and creates docbook comments
calling out the costs, and updates the RCU documentation as well.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Because newly offlined CPUs continue executing after completing the
CPU_DYING notifiers, they legitimately enter the scheduler and use
RCU while appearing to be offline. This calls for a more sophisticated
approach as follows:
1. RCU marks the CPU online during the CPU_UP_PREPARE phase.
2. RCU marks the CPU offline during the CPU_DEAD phase.
3. Diagnostics regarding use of read-side RCU by offline CPUs use
RCU's accounting rather than the cpu_online_map. (Note that
__call_rcu() still uses cpu_online_map to detect illegal
invocations within CPU_DYING notifiers.)
4. Offline CPUs are prevented from hanging the system by
force_quiescent_state(), which pays attention to cpu_online_map.
Some additional work (in a later commit) will be needed to
guarantee that force_quiescent_state() waits a full jiffy before
assuming that a CPU is offline, for example, when called from
idle entry. (This commit also makes the one-jiffy wait
explicit, since the old-style implicit wait can now be defeated
by RCU_FAST_NO_HZ and by rcutorture.)
This approach avoids the false positives encountered when attempting to
use more exact classification of CPU online/offline state.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Add documentation of CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE, CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO,
and RCU_STALL_DELAY_DELTA. Describe multiple stall-warning messages from
a single stall, and the timing of the subsequent messages. Add headings.
Remove RCU_SECONDS_TILL_STALL_RECHECK because this value is now computed
at runtime from RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT, so that sysfs changes to the timeout
value now directly affect the RCU_SECONDS_TILL_STALL_RECHECK value.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Add module parameters to rcutorture that induce a CPU stall.
The stall_cpu parameter specifies how long to stall in seconds,
defaulting to zero, which indicates no stalling is to be undertaken.
The stall_cpu_holdoff parameter specifies how many seconds after
insmod (or boot, if rcutorture is built into the kernel) that this
stall is to start. The default value for stall_cpu_holdoff is ten
seconds.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The torture.txt documentation gives an example rcutorture run with a
100-second duration. This is ridiculously short, unless maybe testing
a fix for a egregious bug. Use a more-realistic one-hour duration for
the example.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
When rcutorture is started automatically at boot time, it might well
also start CPU-hotplug operations at that time, which might not be
desirable. This commit therefore adds an rcutorture parameter that
allows CPU-hotplug operations to be held off for the specified number
of seconds after the start of boot.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tyler Hicks pointed me at an additional article on RCU and I figured
it should probably be mentioned with the others.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Running CPU-hotplug operations concurrently with rcutorture has
historically been a good way to find bugs in both RCU and CPU hotplug.
This commit therefore adds an rcutorture module parameter called
"onoff_interval" that causes a randomly selected CPU-hotplug operation to
be executed at the specified interval, in seconds. The default value of
"onoff_interval" is zero, which disables rcutorture-instigated CPU-hotplug
operations.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Although it is easy to run rcutorture tests under KVM, there is currently
no nice way to run such a test for a fixed time period, collect all of
the rcutorture data, and then shut the system down cleanly. This commit
therefore adds an rcutorture module parameter named "shutdown_secs" that
specified the run duration in seconds, after which rcutorture terminates
the test and powers the system down. The default value for "shutdown_secs"
is zero, which disables shutdown.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Update various files in Documentation/RCU to reflect srcu_read_lock_raw()
and srcu_read_unlock_raw(). Credit to Peter Zijlstra for suggesting
use of the existing _raw suffix instead of the earlier bulkref names.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
One of lclaudio's systems was seeing RCU CPU stall warnings from idle.
These turned out to be caused by a bug that stopped scheduling-clock
tick interrupts from being sent to a given CPU for several hundred seconds.
This commit therefore updates the documentation to call this out as a
possible cause for RCU CPU stall warnings.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Paul E. McKenney
Paul E. McKenney
Kees Cook
Dhaval Giani