The __cpuinit type of throwaway sections might have made sense
some time ago when RAM was more constrained, but now the savings
do not offset the cost and complications. For example, the fix in
commit 5e427ec2d0 ("x86: Fix bit corruption at CPU resume time")
is a good example of the nasty type of bugs that can be created
with improper use of the various __init prefixes.
After a discussion on LKML[1] it was decided that cpuinit should go
the way of devinit and be phased out. Once all the users are gone,
we can then finally remove the macros themselves from linux/init.h.
This removes all the drivers/rcu uses of the __cpuinit macros
from all C files.
[1] https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/5/20/589
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Calling kthread_run with a single name parameter causes it to be handled
as a format string. Many callers are passing potentially dynamic string
content, so use "%s" in those cases to avoid any potential accidents.
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Systems with HZ=100 can have slow bootup times due to the default
three-jiffy delays between quiescent-state forcing attempts. This
commit therefore auto-tunes the RCU_JIFFIES_TILL_FORCE_QS value based
on the value of HZ. However, this would break very large systems that
require more time between quiescent-state forcing attempts. This
commit therefore also ups the default delay by one jiffy for each
256 CPUs that might be on the system (based off of nr_cpu_ids at
runtime, -not- NR_CPUS at build time).
Updated to collapse #ifdefs for RCU_JIFFIES_TILL_FORCE_QS into a
step-function definition as suggested by Josh Triplett.
Reported-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The __rcu_process_callbacks() invokes note_gp_changes() immediately
before invoking rcu_check_quiescent_state(), which conditionally
invokes that same function. This commit therefore eliminates the
call to note_gp_changes() in __rcu_process_callbacks() in favor of
making unconditional to call from rcu_check_quiescent_state() to
note_gp_changes().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Given the changes that introduce note_gp_change(), rcu_start_gp_per_cpu()
is now a trivial wrapper function with only one caller. This commit
therefore inlines it into its sole call site.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
One of the calls to check_for_new_grace_period() is now redundant due to
an immediately preceding call to note_gp_changes(). Eliminating this
redundant call leaves a single caller, which is simpler if inlined.
This commit therefore eliminates the redundant call and inlines the
body of check_for_new_grace_period() into the single remaining call site.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit eliminates some duplicated code by merging
__rcu_process_gp_end() into __note_gp_changes().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Because note_gp_changes() now incorporates rcu_process_gp_end() function,
this commit switches to the former and eliminates the latter. In
addition, this commit changes external calls from __rcu_process_gp_end()
to __note_gp_changes().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Because note_new_gpnum() now also checks for the ends of old grace periods,
this commit changes its name to note_gp_changes(). Later commits will merge
rcu_process_gp_end() into note_gp_changes().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The current implementation can detect the beginning of a new grace period
before noting the end of a previous grace period. Although the current
implementation correctly handles this sort of nonsense, it would be
good to reduce RCU's state space by making such nonsense unnecessary,
which is now possible thanks to the fact that RCU's callback groups are
now numbered.
This commit therefore makes __note_new_gpnum() invoke
__rcu_process_gp_end() in order to note the ends of prior grace
periods before noting the beginnings of new grace periods.
Of course, this now means that note_new_gpnum() notes both the
beginnings and ends of grace periods, and could therefore be
used in place of rcu_process_gp_end(). But that is a job for
later commits.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The addition of callback numbering allows combining the detection of the
ends of old grace periods and the beginnings of new grace periods. This
commit moves code to set the stage for this combining.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched
upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies.
Merge a common upstream merge point that has these
updates.
Conflicts:
include/linux/perf_event.h
kernel/rcutree.h
kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle are mostly related to preparatory work
for the full-dynticks work:
- Remove restrictions on no-CBs CPUs, make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take
advantage of numbered callbacks, do callback accelerations based on
numbered callbacks. Posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/18/960
- RCU documentation updates. Posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/18/570
- Miscellaneous fixes. Posted to LKML at
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/18/594"
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (24 commits)
rcu: Make rcu_accelerate_cbs() note need for future grace periods
rcu: Abstract rcu_start_future_gp() from rcu_nocb_wait_gp()
rcu: Rename n_nocb_gp_requests to need_future_gp
rcu: Push lock release to rcu_start_gp()'s callers
rcu: Repurpose no-CBs event tracing to future-GP events
rcu: Rearrange locking in rcu_start_gp()
rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered callbacks
rcu: Accelerate RCU callbacks at grace-period end
rcu: Export RCU_FAST_NO_HZ parameters to sysfs
rcu: Distinguish "rcuo" kthreads by RCU flavor
rcu: Add event tracing for no-CBs CPUs' grace periods
rcu: Add event tracing for no-CBs CPUs' callback registration
rcu: Introduce proper blocking to no-CBs kthreads GP waits
rcu: Provide compile-time control for no-CBs CPUs
rcu: Tone down debugging during boot-up and shutdown.
rcu: Add softirq-stall indications to stall-warning messages
rcu: Documentation update
rcu: Make bugginess of code sample more evident
rcu: Fix hlist_bl_set_first_rcu() annotation
rcu: Delete unused rcu_node "wakemask" field
...
Adaptive-ticks CPUs inform RCU when they enter kernel mode, but they do
not necessarily turn the scheduler-clock tick back on. This state of
affairs could result in RCU waiting on an adaptive-ticks CPU running
for an extended period in kernel mode. Such a CPU will never run the
RCU state machine, and could therefore indefinitely extend the RCU state
machine, sooner or later resulting in an OOM condition.
This patch, inspired by an earlier patch by Frederic Weisbecker, therefore
causes RCU's force-quiescent-state processing to check for this condition
and to send an IPI to CPUs that remain in that state for too long.
"Too long" currently means about three jiffies by default, which is
quite some time for a CPU to remain in the kernel without blocking.
The rcu_tree.jiffies_till_first_fqs and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs
sysfs variables may be used to tune "too long" if needed.
Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
doc.2013.03.12a: Documentation changes.
fixes.2013.03.13a: Miscellaneous fixes.
idlenocb.2013.03.26b: Remove restrictions on no-CBs CPUs, make
RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered callbacks, add
callback acceleration based on numbered callbacks.
Now that rcu_start_future_gp() has been abstracted from
rcu_nocb_wait_gp(), rcu_accelerate_cbs() can invoke rcu_start_future_gp()
so as to register the need for any future grace periods needed by a
CPU about to enter dyntick-idle mode. This commit makes this change.
Note that some refactoring of rcu_start_gp() is carried out to avoid
recursion and subsequent self-deadlocks.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
CPUs going idle will need to record the need for a future grace
period, but won't actually need to block waiting on it. This commit
therefore splits rcu_start_future_gp(), which does the recording, from
rcu_nocb_wait_gp(), which now invokes rcu_start_future_gp() to do the
recording, after which rcu_nocb_wait_gp() does the waiting.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
If CPUs are to give prior notice of needed grace periods, it will be
necessary to invoke rcu_start_gp() without dropping the root rcu_node
structure's ->lock. This commit takes a second step in this direction
by moving the release of this lock to rcu_start_gp()'s callers.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
If CPUs are to give prior notice of needed grace periods, it will be
necessary to invoke rcu_start_gp() without dropping the root rcu_node
structure's ->lock. This commit takes a first step in this direction
by moving the release of this lock to the end of rcu_start_gp().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>