26 Feb, 2009
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This patch fixes a bug located by Vegard Nossum with the aid of
kmemcheck, updated based on review comments from Nick Piggin,
Ingo Molnar, and Andrew Morton. And cleans up the variable-name
and function-name language. ;-)The boot CPU runs in the context of its idle thread during boot-up.
During this time, idle_cpu(0) will always return nonzero, which will
fool Classic and Hierarchical RCU into deciding that a large chunk of
the boot-up sequence is a big long quiescent state. This in turn causes
RCU to prematurely end grace periods during this time.This patch changes the rcutree.c and rcuclassic.c rcu_check_callbacks()
function to ignore the idle task as a quiescent state until the
system has started up the scheduler in rest_init(), introducing a
new non-API function rcu_idle_now_means_idle() to inform RCU of this
transition. RCU maintains an internal rcu_idle_cpu_truthful variable
to track this state, which is then used by rcu_check_callback() to
determine if it should believe idle_cpu().Because this patch has the effect of disallowing RCU grace periods
during long stretches of the boot-up sequence, this patch also introduces
Josh Triplett's UP-only optimization that makes synchronize_rcu() be a
no-op if num_online_cpus() returns 1. This allows boot-time code that
calls synchronize_rcu() to proceed normally. Note, however, that RCU
callbacks registered by call_rcu() will likely queue up until later in
the boot sequence. Although rcuclassic and rcutree can also use this
same optimization after boot completes, rcupreempt must restrict its
use of this optimization to the portion of the boot sequence before the
scheduler starts up, given that an rcupreempt RCU read-side critical
section may be preeempted.In addition, this patch takes Nick Piggin's suggestion to make the
system_state global variable be __read_mostly.Changes since v4:
o Changes the name of the introduced function and variable to
be less emotional. ;-)Changes since v3:
o WARN_ON(nr_context_switches() > 0) to verify that RCU
switches out of boot-time mode before the first context
switch, as suggested by Nick Piggin.Changes since v2:
o Created rcu_blocking_is_gp() internal-to-RCU API that
determines whether a call to synchronize_rcu() is itself
a grace period.o The definition of rcu_blocking_is_gp() for rcuclassic and
rcutree checks to see if but a single CPU is online.o The definition of rcu_blocking_is_gp() for rcupreempt
checks to see both if but a single CPU is online and if
the system is still in early boot.This allows rcupreempt to again work correctly if running
on a single CPU after booting is complete.o Added check to rcupreempt's synchronize_sched() for there
being but one online CPU.Tested all three variants both SMP and !SMP, booted fine, passed a short
rcutorture test on both x86 and Power.Located-by: Vegard Nossum
Tested-by: Vegard Nossum
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
15 Aug, 2008
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Seems that I found a box that has a config that passes call_rcu_bh as a
function pointer (see net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c), so declaring the
call_rcu_bh has a macro function isn't good enough.This patch makes it just another name of call_rcu for rcupreempt.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney"
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar -
Hello!
Compared tip/core/rcu to my latest patchset, and found the following
issues:o the memory barrier in rcu_exit_nohz() somehow got out of place
(it is correct in mainline as of 2.6.26-rc7).o There is a duplicate declaration of rcu_dyntick_sched.
The attached patch fixes these.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
26 Jul, 2008
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All ratelimit user use same jiffies and burst params, so some messages
(callbacks) will be lost.For example:
a call printk_ratelimit(5 * HZ, 1)
b call printk_ratelimit(5 * HZ, 1) before the 5*HZ timeout of a, then b will
will be supressed.- rewrite __ratelimit, and use a ratelimit_state as parameter. Thanks for
hints from andrew.- Add WARN_ON_RATELIMIT, update rcupreempt.h
- remove __printk_ratelimit
- use __ratelimit in net_ratelimit
Signed-off-by: Dave Young
Cc: "David S. Miller"
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney"
Cc: Dave Young
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
19 May, 2008
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Fourth cut of patch to provide the call_rcu_sched(). This is again to
synchronize_sched() as call_rcu() is to synchronize_rcu().Should be fine for experimental and -rt use, but not ready for inclusion.
With some luck, I will be able to tell Andrew to come out of hiding on
the next round.Passes multi-day rcutorture sessions with concurrent CPU hotplugging.
Fixes since the first version include a bug that could result in
indefinite blocking (spotted by Gautham Shenoy), better resiliency
against CPU-hotplug operations, and other minor fixes.Fixes since the second version include reworking grace-period detection
to avoid deadlocks that could happen when running concurrently with
CPU hotplug, adding Mathieu's fix to avoid the softlockup messages,
as well as Mathieu's fix to allow use earlier in boot.Fixes since the third version include a wrong-CPU bug spotted by
Andrew, getting rid of the obsolete synchronize_kernel API that somehow
snuck back in, merging spin_unlock() and local_irq_restore() in a
few places, commenting the code that checks for quiescent states based
on interrupting from user-mode execution or the idle loop, removing
some inline attributes, and some code-style changes.Known/suspected shortcomings:
o I still do not entirely trust the sleep/wakeup logic. Next step
will be to use a private snapshot of the CPU online mask in
rcu_sched_grace_period() -- if the CPU wasn't there at the start
of the grace period, we don't need to hear from it. And the
bit about accounting for changes in online CPUs inside of
rcu_sched_grace_period() is ugly anyway.o It might be good for rcu_sched_grace_period() to invoke
resched_cpu() when a given CPU wasn't responding quickly,
but resched_cpu() is declared static...This patch also fixes a long-standing bug in the earlier preemptable-RCU
implementation of synchronize_rcu() that could result in loss of
concurrent external changes to a task's CPU affinity mask. I still cannot
remember who reported this...Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
30 Apr, 2008
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Remove the "#ifdef __KERNEL__" tests from unexported header files in
linux/include whose entire contents are wrapped in that preprocessor
test.Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day
Cc: David Woodhouse
Cc: Sam Ravnborg
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
20 Mar, 2008
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In the process of writing up the mechanical proof of correctness for the
dynticks/preemptable-RCU interface, I noticed misplaced memory barriers in
rcu_enter_nohz() and rcu_exit_nohz().This patch puts them in the right place and adds a comment. The key thing to
keep in mind is that rcu_enter_nohz() is -exiting- the mode that can legally
execute RCU read-side critical sections.The memory barrier must be between any potential RCU read-side critical
sections and the increment of the per-CPU dynticks_progress_counter, and thus
must come -before- this increment. And vice versa for rcu_exit_nohz().The locking in the scheduler is probably saving us for the moment.
Also, switch to smp_mb() - we don't need a barrier for uniprocessor kernels.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Nick Piggin
Cc: Oleg Nesterov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Mar, 2008
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The PREEMPT-RCU can get stuck if a CPU goes idle and NO_HZ is set. The
idle CPU will not progress the RCU through its grace period and a
synchronize_rcu my get stuck. Without this patch I have a box that will
not boot when PREEMPT_RCU and NO_HZ are set. That same box boots fine
with this patch.This patch comes from the -rt kernel where it has been tested for
several months.Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar
09 Feb, 2008
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Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney
Cc: Dipankar Sarma
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
26 Jan, 2008
1 commit
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This patch implements a new version of RCU which allows its read-side
critical sections to be preempted. It uses a set of counter pairs
to keep track of the read-side critical sections and flips them
when all tasks exit read-side critical section. The details
of this implementation can be found in this paper -http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/OLSrtRCU.2006.08.11a.pdf
and the article-
http://lwn.net/Articles/253651/
This patch was developed as a part of the -rt kernel development and
meant to provide better latencies when read-side critical sections of
RCU don't disable preemption. As a consequence of keeping track of RCU
readers, the readers have a slight overhead (optimizations in the paper).
This implementation co-exists with the "classic" RCU implementations
and can be switched to at compiler.Also includes RCU tracing summarized in debugfs.
[ akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes on non-preempt architectures ]
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar