This commit changes rcutorture_runnable to torture_runnable, which is
consistent with the names of the other parameters and is a bit shorter
as well.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit adds a ten-minute RCU-tasks stall warning. The actual
time is controlled by the boot/sysfs parameter rcu_task_stall_timeout,
with values less than or equal to zero disabling the stall warnings.
The default value is ten minutes, which means that the tasks that have
not yet responded will get their stacks dumped every ten minutes, until
they pass through a voluntary context switch.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Although RCU is designed to handle arbitrary floods of callbacks, this
capability is not routinely tested. This commit therefore adds a
cbflood capability in which kthreads repeatedly registers large numbers
of callbacks. One such kthread is created for each four CPUs (rounding
up), and the test may be controlled by several cbflood_* kernel boot
parameters, which control the number of bursts per flood, the number
of callbacks per burst, the time between bursts, and the time between
floods. The default values are large enough to exercise RCU's emergency
responses to callback flooding.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Pull x86/xsave changes from Peter Anvin:
"This is a patchset to support the XSAVES instruction required to
support context switch of supervisor-only features in upcoming
silicon.
This patchset missed the 3.16 merge window, which is why it is based
on 3.15-rc7"
* 'x86-xsave-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86, xsave: Add forgotten inline annotation
x86/xsaves: Clean up code in xstate offsets computation in xsave area
x86/xsave: Make it clear that the XSAVE macros use (%edi)/(%rdi)
Define kernel API to get address of each state in xsave area
x86/xsaves: Enable xsaves/xrstors
x86/xsaves: Call booting time xsaves and xrstors in setup_init_fpu_buf
x86/xsaves: Save xstate to task's xsave area in __save_fpu during booting time
x86/xsaves: Add xsaves and xrstors support for booting time
x86/xsaves: Clear reserved bits in xsave header
x86/xsaves: Use xsave/xrstor for saving and restoring user space context
x86/xsaves: Use xsaves/xrstors for context switch
x86/xsaves: Use xsaves/xrstors to save and restore xsave area
x86/xsaves: Define a macro for handling xsave/xrstor instruction fault
x86/xsaves: Define macros for xsave instructions
x86/xsaves: Change compacted format xsave area header
x86/alternative: Add alternative_input_2 to support alternative with two features and input
x86/xsaves: Add a kernel parameter noxsaves to disable xsaves/xrstors
Pull Xen updates from David Vrabel:
- remove unused V2 grant table support
- note that Konrad is xen-blkkback/front maintainer
- add 'xen_nopv' option to disable PV extentions for x86 HVM guests
- misc minor cleanups
* tag 'stable/for-linus-3.17-rc0-tag' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/xen/tip:
xen-pciback: Document the 'quirks' sysfs file
xen/pciback: Fix error return code in xen_pcibk_attach()
xen/events: drop negativity check of unsigned parameter
xen/setup: Remove Identity Map Debug Message
xen/events/fifo: remove a unecessary use of BM()
xen/events/fifo: ensure all bitops are properly aligned even on x86
xen/events/fifo: reset control block and local HEADs on resume
xen/arm: use BUG_ON
xen/grant-table: remove support for V2 tables
x86/xen: safely map and unmap grant frames when in atomic context
MAINTAINERS: Make me the Xen block subsystem (front and back) maintainer
xen: Introduce 'xen_nopv' to disable PV extensions for HVM guests.
Pull MIPS updates from Ralf Baechle:
"This is the main pull request for 3.17. It contains:
- misc Cavium Octeon, BCM47xx, BCM63xx and Alchemy updates
- MIPS ptrace updates and cleanups
- various fixes that will also go to -stable
- a number of cleanups and small non-critical fixes.
- NUMA support for the Loongson 3.
- more support for MSA
- support for MAAR
- various FP enhancements and fixes"
* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/ralf/upstream-linus: (139 commits)
MIPS: jz4740: remove unnecessary null test before debugfs_remove
MIPS: Octeon: remove unnecessary null test before debugfs_remove_recursive
MIPS: ZBOOT: implement stack protector in compressed boot phase
MIPS: mipsreg: remove duplicate MIPS_CONF4_FTLBSETS_SHIFT
MIPS: Bonito64: remove a duplicate define
MIPS: Malta: initialise MAARs
MIPS: Initialise MAARs
MIPS: detect presence of MAARs
MIPS: define MAAR register accessors & bits
MIPS: mark MSA experimental
MIPS: Don't build MSA support unless it can be used
MIPS: consistently clear MSA flags when starting & copying threads
MIPS: 16 byte align MSA vector context
MIPS: disable preemption whilst initialising MSA
MIPS: ensure MSA gets disabled during boot
MIPS: fix read_msa_* & write_msa_* functions on non-MSA toolchains
MIPS: fix MSA context for tasks which don't use FP first
MIPS: init upper 64b of vector registers when MSA is first used
MIPS: save/disable MSA in lose_fpu
MIPS: preserve scalar FP CSR when switching vector context
...
Pull s390 updates from Martin Schwidefsky:
"Mostly cleanups and bug-fixes, with two exceptions.
The first is lazy flushing of I/O-TLBs for PCI to improve performance,
the second is software dirty bits in the pmd for the madvise-free
implementation"
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/s390/linux: (24 commits)
s390/locking: Reenable optimistic spinning
s390/mm: implement dirty bits for large segment table entries
KVM: s390/mm: Fix page table locking vs. split pmd lock
s390/dasd: fix camel case
s390/3215: fix hanging console issue
s390/irq: improve displayed interrupt order in /proc/interrupts
s390/seccomp: fix error return for filtered system calls
s390/pci: introduce lazy IOTLB flushing for DMA unmap
dasd: fix error recovery for alias devices during format
dasd: fix list_del corruption during format
dasd: fix unresponsive device during format
dasd: use aliases for formatted devices during format
s390/pci: fix kmsg component
s390/kdump: Return NOTIFY_OK for all actions other than MEM_GOING_OFFLINE
s390/watchdog: Fix module name in Kconfig help text
s390/dasd: replace seq_printf by seq_puts
s390/dasd: replace pr_warning by pr_warn
s390/dasd: Move EXPORT_SYMBOL after function/variable
s390/dasd: remove unnecessary null test before debugfs_remove
s390/zfcp: use qdio buffer helpers
...
The default size of the ring buffer is too small for machines with a
large amount of CPUs under heavy load. What ends up happening when
debugging is the ring buffer overlaps and chews up old messages making
debugging impossible unless the size is passed as a kernel parameter.
An idle system upon boot up will on average spew out only about one or
two extra lines but where this really matters is on heavy load and that
will vary widely depending on the system and environment.
There are mechanisms to help increase the kernel ring buffer for tracing
through debugfs, and those interfaces even allow growing the kernel ring
buffer per CPU. We also have a static value which can be passed upon
boot. Relying on debugfs however is not ideal for production, and
relying on the value passed upon bootup is can only used *after* an
issue has creeped up. Instead of being reactive this adds a proactive
measure which lets you scale the amount of contributions you'd expect to
the kernel ring buffer under load by each CPU in the worst case
scenario.
We use num_possible_cpus() to avoid complexities which could be
introduced by dynamically changing the ring buffer size at run time,
num_possible_cpus() lets us use the upper limit on possible number of
CPUs therefore avoiding having to deal with hotplugging CPUs on and off.
This introduces the kernel configuration option LOG_CPU_MAX_BUF_SHIFT
which is used to specify the maximum amount of contributions to the
kernel ring buffer in the worst case before the kernel ring buffer flips
over, the size is specified as a power of 2. The total amount of
contributions made by each CPU must be greater than half of the default
kernel ring buffer size (1 << LOG_BUF_SHIFT bytes) in order to trigger
an increase upon bootup. The kernel ring buffer is increased to the
next power of two that would fit the required minimum kernel ring buffer
size plus the additional CPU contribution. For example if LOG_BUF_SHIFT
is 18 (256 KB) you'd require at least 128 KB contributions by other CPUs
in order to trigger an increase of the kernel ring buffer. With a
LOG_CPU_BUF_SHIFT of 12 (4 KB) you'd require at least anything over > 64
possible CPUs to trigger an increase. If you had 128 possible CPUs the
amount of minimum required kernel ring buffer bumps to:
((1 << 18) + ((128 - 1) * (1 << 12))) / 1024 = 764 KB
Since we require the ring buffer to be a power of two the new required
size would be 1024 KB.
This CPU contributions are ignored when the "log_buf_len" kernel
parameter is used as it forces the exact size of the ring buffer to an
expected power of two value.
[pmladek@suse.cz: fix build]
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Tested-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Tested-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.cz>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Arun KS <arunks.linux@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Pull security subsystem updates from James Morris:
"In this release:
- PKCS#7 parser for the key management subsystem from David Howells
- appoint Kees Cook as seccomp maintainer
- bugfixes and general maintenance across the subsystem"
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/linux-security: (94 commits)
X.509: Need to export x509_request_asymmetric_key()
netlabel: shorter names for the NetLabel catmap funcs/structs
netlabel: fix the catmap walking functions
netlabel: fix the horribly broken catmap functions
netlabel: fix a problem when setting bits below the previously lowest bit
PKCS#7: X.509 certificate issuer and subject are mandatory fields in the ASN.1
tpm: simplify code by using %*phN specifier
tpm: Provide a generic means to override the chip returned timeouts
tpm: missing tpm_chip_put in tpm_get_random()
tpm: Properly clean sysfs entries in error path
tpm: Add missing tpm_do_selftest to ST33 I2C driver
PKCS#7: Use x509_request_asymmetric_key()
Revert "selinux: fix the default socket labeling in sock_graft()"
X.509: x509_request_asymmetric_keys() doesn't need string length arguments
PKCS#7: fix sparse non static symbol warning
KEYS: revert encrypted key change
ima: add support for measuring and appraising firmware
firmware_class: perform new LSM checks
security: introduce kernel_fw_from_file hook
PKCS#7: Missing inclusion of linux/err.h
...
Pull staging driver updates from Greg KH:
"Here's the big pull request for the staging driver tree for 3.17-rc1.
Lots of things in here, over 2000 patches, but the best part is this:
1480 files changed, 39070 insertions(+), 254659 deletions(-)
Thanks to the great work of Kristina Martšenko, 14 different staging
drivers have been removed from the tree as they were obsolete and no
one was willing to work on cleaning them up. Other than the driver
removals, loads of cleanups are in here (comedi, lustre, etc.) as well
as the usual IIO driver updates and additions.
All of this has been in the linux-next tree for a while"
* tag 'staging-3.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging: (2199 commits)
staging: comedi: addi_apci_1564: remove diagnostic interrupt support code
staging: comedi: addi_apci_1564: add subdevice to check diagnostic status
staging: wlan-ng: coding style problem fix
staging: wlan-ng: fixing coding style problems
staging: comedi: ii_pci20kc: request and ioremap memory
staging: lustre: bitwise vs logical typo
staging: dgnc: Remove unneeded dgnc_trace.c and dgnc_trace.h
staging: dgnc: rephrase comment
staging: comedi: ni_tio: remove some dead code
staging: rtl8723au: Fix static symbol sparse warning
staging: rtl8723au: usb_dvobj_init(): Remove unused variable 'pdev_desc'
staging: rtl8723au: Do not duplicate kernel provided USB macros
staging: rtl8723au: Remove never set struct pwrctrl_priv.bHWPowerdown
staging: rtl8723au: Remove two never set variables
staging: rtl8723au: RSSI_test is never set
staging:r8190: coding style: Fixed checkpatch reported Error
staging:r8180: coding style: Fixed too long lines
staging:r8180: coding style: Fixed commenting style
staging: lustre: ptlrpc: lproc_ptlrpc.c - fix dereferenceing user space buffer
staging: lustre: ldlm: ldlm_resource.c - fix dereferenceing user space buffer
...
Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molar:
"The main changes:
- torture-test updates
- callback-offloading changes
- maintainership changes
- update RCU documentation
- miscellaneous fixes"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (32 commits)
rcu: Allow for NULL tick_nohz_full_mask when nohz_full= missing
rcu: Fix a sparse warning in rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp()
rcu: Fix a sparse warning in rcu_initiate_boost()
rcu: Fix __rcu_reclaim() to use true/false for bool
rcu: Remove CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_DELAY
rcu: Use __this_cpu_read() instead of per_cpu_ptr()
rcu: Don't use NMIs to dump other CPUs' stacks
rcu: Bind grace-period kthreads to non-NO_HZ_FULL CPUs
rcu: Simplify priority boosting by putting rt_mutex in rcu_node
rcu: Check both root and current rcu_node when setting up future grace period
rcu: Allow post-unlock reference for rt_mutex
rcu: Loosen __call_rcu()'s rcu_head alignment constraint
rcu: Eliminate read-modify-write ACCESS_ONCE() calls
rcu: Remove redundant ACCESS_ONCE() from tick_do_timer_cpu
rcu: Make rcu node arrays static const char * const
signal: Explain local_irq_save() call
rcu: Handle obsolete references to TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
rcu: Document deadlock-avoidance information for rcu_read_unlock()
scripts: Teach get_maintainer.pl about the new "R:" tag
rcu: Update rcu torture maintainership filename patterns
...
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"This pull request has a lot of work done. The main thing is the
changes to the ftrace function callback infrastructure. It's
introducing a way to allow different functions to call directly
different trampolines instead of all calling the same "mcount" one.
The only user of this for now is the function graph tracer, which
always had a different trampoline, but the function tracer trampoline
was called and did basically nothing, and then the function graph
tracer trampoline was called. The difference now, is that the
function graph tracer trampoline can be called directly if a function
is only being traced by the function graph trampoline. If function
tracing is also happening on the same function, the old way is still
done.
The accounting for this takes up more memory when function graph
tracing is activated, as it needs to keep track of which functions it
uses. I have a new way that wont take as much memory, but it's not
ready yet for this merge window, and will have to wait for the next
one.
Another big change was the removal of the ftrace_start/stop() calls
that were used by the suspend/resume code that stopped function
tracing when entering into suspend and resume paths. The stop of
ftrace was done because there was some function that would crash the
system if one called smp_processor_id()! The stop/start was a big
hammer to solve the issue at the time, which was when ftrace was first
introduced into Linux. Now ftrace has better infrastructure to debug
such issues, and I found the problem function and labeled it with
"notrace" and function tracing can now safely be activated all the way
down into the guts of suspend and resume
Other changes include clean ups of uprobe code, clean up of the
trace_seq() code, and other various small fixes and clean ups to
ftrace and tracing"
* tag 'trace-3.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace: (57 commits)
ftrace: Add warning if tramp hash does not match nr_trampolines
ftrace: Fix trampoline hash update check on rec->flags
ring-buffer: Use rb_page_size() instead of open coded head_page size
ftrace: Rename ftrace_ops field from trampolines to nr_trampolines
tracing: Convert local function_graph functions to static
ftrace: Do not copy old hash when resetting
tracing: let user specify tracing_thresh after selecting function_graph
ring-buffer: Always run per-cpu ring buffer resize with schedule_work_on()
tracing: Remove function_trace_stop and HAVE_FUNCTION_TRACE_MCOUNT_TEST
s390/ftrace: remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
arm64, ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
Blackfin: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
metag: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
microblaze: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
MIPS: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
parisc: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
sh: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
sparc64,ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
tile: ftrace: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
ftrace: x86: Remove check of obsolete variable function_trace_stop
...
Commit 351336929c ("[MIPS] Allow setting
of the cache attribute at run time") introduced the 'cca=' kernel
command-line parameter which allows overriding the kernel pages
cacheable attributes, document that parameter.
[ralf@linux-mips.org: replace @mips.com email addresses with it's imgtec.com
equivalent in this commit message. Rephrase slightly for a bit more
pedantic correctness.]
Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Cc: blogic@openwrt.org
Cc: anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp
Cc: chris.dearman@imgtec.com
Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/7182/
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
This changes the default IOTLB flushing method to lazy flushing, which
means that there will be no direct flush after each DMA unmap operation.
Instead, the iommu bitmap pointer will be adjusted after unmap, so that
no DMA address will be re-used until after an iommu bitmap wrap-around.
The only IOTLB flush will then happen after each wrap-around.
A new kernel parameter "s390_iommu=" is also introduced, to allow changing
the flushing behaviour to the old strict method.
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Ott <sebott@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Pull RCU fixes from Thomas Gleixner:
"Two RCU patches:
- Address a serious performance regression on open/close caused by
commit ac1bea8578 ("Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent
states")
- Export RCU debug functions. Not a regression, but enablement to
address a serious recursion bug in the sl*b allocators in 3.17"
* 'core-urgent-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
rcu: Reduce overhead of cond_resched() checks for RCU
rcu: Export debug_init_rcu_head() and and debug_init_rcu_head()
Instead of allowing public keys, with certificates signed by any
key on the system trusted keyring, to be added to a trusted keyring,
this patch further restricts the certificates to those signed only by
builtin keys on the system keyring.
This patch defines a new option 'builtin' for the kernel parameter
'keys_ownerid' to allow trust validation using builtin keys.
Simplified Mimi's "KEYS: define an owner trusted keyring" patch
Changelog v7:
- rename builtin_keys to use_builtin_keys
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Instead of allowing public keys, with certificates signed by any
key on the system trusted keyring, to be added to a trusted keyring,
this patch further restricts the certificates to those signed by a
particular key on the system keyring.
This patch defines a new kernel parameter 'ca_keys' to identify the
specific key which must be used for trust validation of certificates.
Simplified Mimi's "KEYS: define an owner trusted keyring" patch.
Changelog:
- support for builtin x509 public keys only
- export "asymmetric_keyid_match"
- remove ifndefs MODULE
- rename kernel boot parameter from keys_ownerid to ca_keys
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Use of multiple-page collect buffers reduces:
1) the number of block IO requests
2) the number of asynchronous hash update requests
Second is important for HW accelerated hashing, because significant
amount of time is spent for preparation of hash update operation,
which includes configuring acceleration HW, DMA engine, etc...
Thus, HW accelerators are more efficient when working on large
chunks of data.
This patch introduces usage of multi-page collect buffers. Buffer size
can be specified using 'ahash_bufsize' module parameter. Default buffer
size is 4096 bytes.
Changes in v3:
- kernel parameter replaced with module parameter
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Async hash API allows the use of HW acceleration for hash calculation.
It may give significant performance gain and/or reduce power consumption,
which might be very beneficial for battery powered devices.
This patch introduces hash calculation using ahash API. ahash performance
depends on the data size and the particular HW. Depending on the specific
system, shash performance may be better.
This patch defines 'ahash_minsize' module parameter, which is used to
define the minimal file size to use with ahash. If this minimum file size
is not set or the file is smaller than defined by the parameter, shash will
be used.
Changes in v3:
- kernel parameter replaced with module parameter
- pr_crit replaced with pr_crit_ratelimited
- more comment changes - Mimi
Changes in v2:
- ima_ahash_size became as ima_ahash
- ahash pre-allocation moved out from __init code to be able to use
ahash crypto modules. Ahash allocated once on the first use.
- hash calculation falls back to shash if ahash allocation/calculation fails
- complex initialization separated from variable declaration
- improved comments
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <d.kasatkin@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
By default when CONFIG_XEN and CONFIG_XEN_PVHVM kernels are
run, they will enable the PV extensions (drivers, interrupts, timers,
etc) - which is the best option for the majority of use cases.
However, in some cases (kexec not fully working, benchmarking)
we want to disable Xen PV extensions. As such introduce the
'xen_nopv' parameter that will do it.
This parameter is intended only for HVM guests as the Xen PV
guests MUST boot with PV extensions. However, even if you use
'xen_nopv' on Xen PV guests it will be ignored.
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
---
[v2: s/off/xen_nopv/ per Boris Ostrovsky recommendation.]
[v3: Add Reviewed-by]
[v4: Clarify that this is only for HVM guests]
The handling of ip2= in drivers/char/ip2/ip2base.c was moved to
drivers/char/ip2/ip2main.c in commit
47babd4c6a ("Char: merge ip2main and
ip2base").
The ip2 driver was demoted to staging in commit
4a6514e6d0 ("tty: move obsolete and broken
tty drivers to drivers/staging/tty/"), and finally deleted in commit
51c9d654c2 ("Staging: delete tty drivers").
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
An 80-CPU system with a context-switch-heavy workload can require so
many NOCB kthread wakeups that the RCU grace-period kthreads spend several
tens of percent of a CPU just awakening things. This clearly will not
scale well: If you add enough CPUs, the RCU grace-period kthreads would
get behind, increasing grace-period latency.
To avoid this problem, this commit divides the NOCB kthreads into leaders
and followers, where the grace-period kthreads awaken the leaders each of
whom in turn awakens its followers. By default, the number of groups of
kthreads is the square root of the number of CPUs, but this default may
be overridden using the rcutree.rcu_nocb_leader_stride boot parameter.
This reduces the number of wakeups done per grace period by the RCU
grace-period kthread by the square root of the number of CPUs, but of
course by shifting those wakeups to the leaders. In addition, because
the leaders do grace periods on behalf of their respective followers,
the number of wakeups of the followers decreases by up to a factor of two.
Instead of being awakened once when new callbacks arrive and again
at the end of the grace period, the followers are awakened only at
the end of the grace period.
For a numerical example, in a 4096-CPU system, the grace-period kthread
would awaken 64 leaders, each of which would awaken its 63 followers
at the end of the grace period. This compares favorably with the 79
wakeups for the grace-period kthread on an 80-CPU system.
Reported-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Paul E. McKenney
Linus Torvalds
Luis R. Rodriguez
Florian Fainelli
Gerald Schaefer
Dmitry Kasatkin
Ingo Molnar
Rafael J. Wysocki
Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Geert Uytterhoeven