10 Sep, 2013

1 commit

  • Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
    "Not much changes for the 3.12 merge window. The major tracing changes
    are still in flux, and will have to wait for 3.13.

    The changes for 3.12 are mostly clean ups and minor fixes.

    H Peter Anvin added a check to x86_32 static function tracing that
    helps a small segment of the kernel community.

    Oleg Nesterov had a few changes from 3.11, but were mostly clean ups
    and not worth pushing in the -rc time frame.

    Li Zefan had small clean up with annotating a raw_init with __init.

    I fixed a slight race in updating function callbacks, but the race is
    so small and the bug that happens when it occurs is so minor it's not
    even worth pushing to stable.

    The only real enhancement is from Alexander Z Lam that made the
    tracing_cpumask work for trace buffer instances, instead of them all
    sharing a global cpumask"

    * tag 'trace-3.12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace:
    ftrace/rcu: Do not trace debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled()
    x86-32, ftrace: Fix static ftrace when early microcode is enabled
    ftrace: Fix a slight race in modifying what function callback gets traced
    tracing: Make tracing_cpumask available for all instances
    tracing: Kill the !CONFIG_MODULES code in trace_events.c
    tracing: Don't pass file_operations array to event_create_dir()
    tracing: Kill trace_create_file_ops() and friends
    tracing/syscalls: Annotate raw_init function with __init

    Linus Torvalds
     

05 Sep, 2013

1 commit

  • The function debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() is part of the RCU lockdep
    debugging, and is called very frequently. I found that if I enable
    a lot of debugging and run the function graph tracer, this
    function can cause a live lock of the system.

    We don't usually trace lockdep infrastructure, no need to trace
    this either.

    Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

    Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
     

19 Aug, 2013

1 commit

  • The current debug-objects fixups are complex and heavyweight, and the
    fixups are not complete: Even with the fixups, RCU's callback lists
    can still be corrupted. This commit therefore strips the fixups down
    to their minimal form, eliminating two of the three.

    It would be even better if (for example) call_rcu() simply leaked
    any problematic callbacks, but for that to happen, the debug-objects
    system would need to inform its caller of suspicious situations.
    This is the subject of a later commit in this series.

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers
    Cc: Sedat Dilek
    Cc: Davidlohr Bueso
    Cc: Rik van Riel
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Linus Torvalds
    Tested-by: Sedat Dilek
    Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

    Paul E. McKenney
     

30 Jul, 2013

1 commit

  • All the RCU tracepoints and functions that reference char pointers do
    so with just 'char *' even though they do not modify the contents of
    the string itself. This will cause warnings if a const char * is used
    in one of these functions.

    The RCU tracepoints store the pointer to the string to refer back to them
    when the trace output is displayed. As this can be minutes, hours or
    even days later, those strings had better be constant.

    This change also opens the door to allow the RCU tracepoint strings and
    their addresses to be exported so that userspace tracing tools can
    translate the contents of the pointers of the RCU tracepoints.

    Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

    Steven Rostedt (Red Hat)
     

11 Jun, 2013

3 commits

  • …u.2013.06.10a' and 'tiny.2013.06.10a' into HEAD

    cbnum.2013.06.10a: Apply simplifications stemming from the new callback
    numbering.

    doc.2013.06.10a: Documentation updates.

    fixes.2013.06.10a: Miscellaneous fixes.

    srcu.2013.06.10a: Updates to SRCU.

    tiny.2013.06.10a: Eliminate TINY_PREEMPT_RCU.

    Paul E. McKenney
     
  • Now that TINY_PREEMPT_RCU is no more, exit_rcu() is always an empty
    function. But if TINY_RCU is going to have an empty function, it should
    be in include/linux/rcutiny.h, where it does not bloat the kernel.
    This commit therefore moves exit_rcu() out of kernel/rcupdate.c to
    kernel/rcutree_plugin.h, and places a static inline empty function in
    include/linux/rcutiny.h in order to shrink TINY_RCU a bit.

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

    Paul E. McKenney
     
  • Two ifdefs in kernel/rcupdate.c now have identical conditions with
    nothing between them, so the commit merges them into a single ifdef.

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

    Paul E. McKenney
     

29 Jan, 2013

2 commits

  • …' and 'tiny.2013.01.29b' into HEAD

    doctorture.2013.01.11a: Changes to rcutorture and to RCU documentation.

    fixes.2013.01.26a: Miscellaneous fixes.

    tagcb.2013.01.24a: Tag RCU callbacks with grace-period number to
    simplify callback advancement.

    tiny.2013.01.29b: Enhancements to uniprocessor handling in tiny RCU.

    Paul E. McKenney
     
  • Tiny RCU has historically omitted RCU CPU stall warnings in order to
    reduce memory requirements, however, lack of these warnings caused
    Thomas Gleixner some debugging pain recently. Therefore, this commit
    adds RCU CPU stall warnings to tiny RCU if RCU_TRACE=y. This keeps
    the memory footprint small, while still enabling CPU stall warnings
    in kernels built to enable them.

    Updated to include Josh Triplett's suggested use of RCU_STALL_COMMON
    config variable to simplify #if expressions.

    Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

    Paul E. McKenney
     

09 Jan, 2013

1 commit

  • Currently, rcutorture traces every read-side access. This can be
    problematic because even a two-minute rcutorture run on a two-CPU system
    can generate 28,853,363 reads. Normally, only a failing read is of
    interest, so this commit traces adjusts rcutorture's tracing to only
    trace failing reads. The resulting event tracing records the time
    and the ->completed value captured at the beginning of the RCU read-side
    critical section, allowing correlation with other event-tracing messages.

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett
    [ paulmck: Add fix to build problem located by Randy Dunlap based on
    diagnosis by Steven Rostedt. ]

    Paul E. McKenney
     

24 Oct, 2012

1 commit

  • There have been some embedded applications that would benefit from
    use of expedited grace-period primitives. In some ways, this is
    similar to synchronize_net() doing either a normal or an expedited
    grace period depending on lock state, but with control outside of
    the kernel.

    This commit therefore adds rcu_expedited boot and sysfs parameters
    that cause the kernel to substitute expedited primitives for the
    normal grace-period primitives.

    [ paulmck: Add trace/event/rcu.h to kernel/srcu.c to avoid build error.
    Get rid of infinite loop through contention path.]

    Signed-off-by: Antti P Miettinen
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

    Antti P Miettinen
     

23 Sep, 2012

1 commit

  • There have been some recent bugs that were triggered only when
    preemptible RCU's __rcu_read_unlock() was preempted just after setting
    ->rcu_read_lock_nesting to INT_MIN, which is a low-probability event.
    Therefore, reproducing those bugs (to say nothing of gaining confidence
    in alleged fixes) was quite difficult. This commit therefore creates
    a new debug-only RCU kernel config option that forces a short delay
    in __rcu_read_unlock() to increase the probability of those sorts of
    bugs occurring.

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

    Paul E. McKenney
     

03 Jul, 2012

1 commit


03 May, 2012

1 commit

  • When running preemptible RCU, if a task exits in an RCU read-side
    critical section having blocked within that same RCU read-side critical
    section, the task must be removed from the list of tasks blocking a
    grace period (perhaps the current grace period, perhaps the next grace
    period, depending on timing). The exit() path invokes exit_rcu() to
    do this cleanup.

    However, the current implementation of exit_rcu() needlessly does the
    cleanup even if the task did not block within the current RCU read-side
    critical section, which wastes time and needlessly increases the size
    of the state space. Fix this by only doing the cleanup if the current
    task is actually on the list of tasks blocking some grace period.

    While we are at it, consolidate the two identical exit_rcu() functions
    into a single function.

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Tested-by: Linus Torvalds

    Conflicts:

    kernel/rcupdate.c

    Paul E. McKenney
     

22 Feb, 2012

1 commit

  • Although it is legal to use RCU during early boot, it is anything
    but legal to use RCU at runtime from an offlined CPU. After all, RCU
    explicitly ignores offlined CPUs. This commit therefore adds checks
    for runtime use of RCU from offlined CPUs.

    These checks are not perfect, in particular, they can be subverted
    through use of things like rcu_dereference_raw(). Note that it is not
    possible to put checks in rcu_read_lock() and friends due to the fact
    that these primitives are used in code that might be used under either
    RCU or lock-based protection, which means that checking rcu_read_lock()
    gets you fat piles of false positives.

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

    Paul E. McKenney
     

12 Dec, 2011

2 commits

  • Report that none of the rcu read lock maps are held while in an RCU
    extended quiescent state (the section between rcu_idle_enter()
    and rcu_idle_exit()). This helps detect any use of rcu_dereference()
    and friends from within the section in idle where RCU is not allowed.

    This way we can guarantee an extended quiescent window where the CPU
    can be put in dyntick idle mode or can simply aoid to be part of any
    global grace period completion while in the idle loop.

    Uses of RCU from such mode are totally ignored by RCU, hence the
    importance of these checks.

    Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
    Cc: Paul E. McKenney
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Lai Jiangshan
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

    Frederic Weisbecker
     
  • Trace the rcutorture RCU accesses and dump the trace buffer when the
    first failure is detected.

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

    Paul E. McKenney
     

31 Oct, 2011

1 commit

  • The changed files were only including linux/module.h for the
    EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure, and nothing else. Revector them
    onto the isolated export header for faster compile times.

    Nothing to see here but a whole lot of instances of:

    -#include
    +#include

    This commit is only changing the kernel dir; next targets
    will probably be mm, fs, the arch dirs, etc.

    Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

    Paul Gortmaker
     

29 Sep, 2011

2 commits


27 Jul, 2011

1 commit

  • This allows us to move duplicated code in
    (atomic_inc_not_zero() for now) to

    Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma
    Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: David Miller
    Cc: Eric Dumazet
    Acked-by: Mike Frysinger
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Arun Sharma
     

06 May, 2011

2 commits


05 Mar, 2011

2 commits


07 Oct, 2010

1 commit


06 Oct, 2010

1 commit


20 Aug, 2010

1 commit

  • This commit provides definitions for the __rcu annotation defined earlier.
    This annotation permits sparse to check for correct use of RCU-protected
    pointers. If a pointer that is annotated with __rcu is accessed
    directly (as opposed to via rcu_dereference(), rcu_assign_pointer(),
    or one of their variants), sparse can be made to complain. To enable
    such complaints, use the new default-disabled CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
    kernel configuration option. Please note that these sparse complaints are
    intended to be a debugging aid, -not- a code-style-enforcement mechanism.

    There are special rcu_dereference_protected() and rcu_access_pointer()
    accessors for use when RCU read-side protection is not required, for
    example, when no other CPU has access to the data structure in question
    or while the current CPU hold the update-side lock.

    This patch also updates a number of docbook comments that were showing
    their age.

    Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Cc: Christopher Li
    Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

    Paul E. McKenney
     

15 Jun, 2010

1 commit

  • Helps finding racy users of call_rcu(), which results in hangs because list
    entries are overwritten and/or skipped.

    Changelog since v4:
    - Bissectability is now OK
    - Now generate a WARN_ON_ONCE() for non-initialized rcu_head passed to
    call_rcu(). Statically initialized objects are detected with
    object_is_static().
    - Rename rcu_head_init_on_stack to init_rcu_head_on_stack.
    - Remove init_rcu_head() completely.

    Changelog since v3:
    - Include comments from Lai Jiangshan

    This new patch version is based on the debugobjects with the newly introduced
    "active state" tracker.

    Non-initialized entries are all considered as "statically initialized". An
    activation fixup (triggered by call_rcu()) takes care of performing the debug
    object initialization without issuing any warning. Since we cannot increase the
    size of struct rcu_head, I don't see much room to put an identifier for
    statically initialized rcu_head structures. So for now, we have to live without
    "activation without explicit init" detection. But the main purpose of this debug
    option is to detect double-activations (double call_rcu() use of a rcu_head
    before the callback is executed), which is correctly addressed here.

    This also detects potential internal RCU callback corruption, which would cause
    the callbacks to be executed twice.

    Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers
    CC: David S. Miller
    CC: "Paul E. McKenney"
    CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org
    CC: mingo@elte.hu
    CC: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
    CC: dipankar@in.ibm.com
    CC: josh@joshtriplett.org
    CC: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
    CC: niv@us.ibm.com
    CC: tglx@linutronix.de
    CC: peterz@infradead.org
    CC: rostedt@goodmis.org
    CC: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
    CC: dhowells@redhat.com
    CC: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
    CC: Alexey Dobriyan
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan

    Mathieu Desnoyers
     

11 May, 2010

1 commit


07 May, 2010

1 commit

  • Some RCU-lockdep splat repairs need to know whether they are running
    in a single-threaded process. Unfortunately, the thread_group_empty()
    primitive is defined in sched.h, and can induce #include hell. This
    commit therefore introduces a rcu_my_thread_group_empty() wrapper that
    is defined in rcupdate.c, thus avoiding the need to include sched.h
    everywhere.

    Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney"

    Paul E. McKenney
     

19 Apr, 2010

1 commit

  • The lockdep facility temporarily disables lockdep checking by
    incrementing the current->lockdep_recursion variable. Such
    disabling happens in NMIs and in other situations where lockdep
    might expect to recurse on itself.

    This patch therefore checks current->lockdep_recursion, disabling RCU
    lockdep splats when this variable is non-zero. In addition, this patch
    removes the "likely()", as suggested by Lai Jiangshan.

    Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker
    Reported-by: David Miller
    Tested-by: Frederic Weisbecker
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
    Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
    Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
    Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
    Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
    Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
    Cc: peterz@infradead.org
    Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
    Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
    Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
    Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Paul E. McKenney
     

16 Mar, 2010

1 commit

  • Disabling BH can stand in for rcu_read_lock_bh(), and this patch
    updates rcu_read_lock_bh_held() to allow for this. In order to
    avoid include-file hell, this function is moved out of line to
    kernel/rcupdate.c.

    This fixes a false positive RCU warning.

    Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann
    Reported-by: Eric Dumazet
    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Acked-by: Lai Jiangshan
    Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
    Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
    Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
    Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
    Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
    Cc: peterz@infradead.org
    Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
    Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
    Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Paul E. McKenney
     

26 Feb, 2010

2 commits

  • Kernel modules using rcu_read_lock_sched_held() must now have
    access to rcu_scheduler_active, so it must be exported.

    This should fix the fix for the boot-time RCU-lockdep splat.

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
    Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
    Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
    Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
    Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
    Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
    Cc: peterz@infradead.org
    Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
    Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
    Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Paul E. McKenney
     
  • Before the scheduler starts, all tasks are non-preemptible by
    definition. So, during that time, rcu_read_lock_sched_held()
    needs to always return "true". This patch makes that be so.

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
    Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
    Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
    Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
    Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
    Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
    Cc: peterz@infradead.org
    Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
    Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
    Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Paul E. McKenney
     

25 Feb, 2010

1 commit

  • Inspection is proving insufficient to catch all RCU misuses,
    which is understandable given that rcu_dereference() might be
    protected by any of four different flavors of RCU (RCU, RCU-bh,
    RCU-sched, and SRCU), and might also/instead be protected by any
    of a number of locking primitives. It is therefore time to
    enlist the aid of lockdep.

    This set of patches is inspired by earlier work by Peter
    Zijlstra and Thomas Gleixner, and takes the following approach:

    o Set up separate lockdep classes for RCU, RCU-bh, and RCU-sched.

    o Set up separate lockdep classes for each instance of SRCU.

    o Create primitives that check for being in an RCU read-side
    critical section. These return exact answers if lockdep is
    fully enabled, but if unsure, report being in an RCU read-side
    critical section. (We want to avoid false positives!)
    The primitives are:

    For RCU: rcu_read_lock_held(void)

    For RCU-bh: rcu_read_lock_bh_held(void)

    For RCU-sched: rcu_read_lock_sched_held(void)

    For SRCU: srcu_read_lock_held(struct srcu_struct *sp)

    o Add rcu_dereference_check(), which takes a second argument
    in which one places a boolean expression based on the above
    primitives and/or lockdep_is_held().

    o A new kernel configuration parameter, CONFIG_PROVE_RCU, enables
    rcu_dereference_check(). This depends on CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING,
    and should be quite helpful during the transition period while
    CONFIG_PROVE_RCU-unaware patches are in flight.

    The existing rcu_dereference() primitive does no checking, but
    upcoming patches will change that.

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
    Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
    Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
    Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
    Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
    Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
    Cc: peterz@infradead.org
    Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
    Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
    Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Paul E. McKenney
     

23 Nov, 2009

2 commits

  • Remove #ifdefs from kernel/rcupdate.c and
    include/linux/rcupdate.h by moving code to
    include/linux/rcutiny.h, include/linux/rcutree.h, and
    kernel/rcutree.c.

    Also remove some definitions that are no longer used.

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
    Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
    Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
    Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
    Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
    Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
    Cc: peterz@infradead.org
    Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
    Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
    Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Paul E. McKenney
     
  • The functions rcu_init() is a wrapper for __rcu_init(), and also
    sets up the CPU-hotplug notifier for rcu_barrier_cpu_hotplug().
    But TINY_RCU doesn't need CPU-hotplug notification, and the
    rcu_barrier_cpu_hotplug() is a simple wrapper for
    rcu_cpu_notify().

    So push rcu_init() out to kernel/rcutree.c and kernel/rcutiny.c
    and get rid of the wrapper function rcu_barrier_cpu_hotplug().

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
    Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
    Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
    Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
    Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
    Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
    Cc: peterz@infradead.org
    Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
    Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
    Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Paul E. McKenney
     

26 Oct, 2009

1 commit

  • This patch is a version of RCU designed for !SMP provided for a
    small-footprint RCU implementation. In particular, the
    implementation of synchronize_rcu() is extremely lightweight and
    high performance. It passes rcutorture testing in each of the
    four relevant configurations (combinations of NO_HZ and PREEMPT)
    on x86. This saves about 1K bytes compared to old Classic RCU
    (which is no longer in mainline), and more than three kilobytes
    compared to Hierarchical RCU (updated to 2.6.30):

    CONFIG_TREE_RCU:

    text data bss dec filename
    183 4 0 187 kernel/rcupdate.o
    2783 520 36 3339 kernel/rcutree.o
    3526 Total (vs 4565 for v7)

    CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU:

    text data bss dec filename
    263 4 0 267 kernel/rcupdate.o
    4594 776 52 5422 kernel/rcutree.o
    5689 Total (6155 for v7)

    CONFIG_TINY_RCU:

    text data bss dec filename
    96 4 0 100 kernel/rcupdate.o
    734 24 0 758 kernel/rcutiny.o
    858 Total (vs 848 for v7)

    The above is for x86. Your mileage may vary on other platforms.
    Further compression is possible, but is being procrastinated.

    Changes from v7 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/9/388)

    o Apply Lai Jiangshan's review comments (aside from
    might_sleep() in synchronize_sched(), which is covered by SMP builds).

    o Fix up expedited primitives.

    Changes from v6 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/23/293).

    o Forward ported to put it into the 2.6.33 stream.

    o Added lockdep support.

    o Make lightweight rcu_barrier.

    Changes from v5 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/23/12).

    o Ported to latest pre-2.6.32 merge window kernel.

    - Renamed rcu_qsctr_inc() to rcu_sched_qs().
    - Renamed rcu_bh_qsctr_inc() to rcu_bh_qs().
    - Provided trivial rcu_cpu_notify().
    - Provided trivial exit_rcu().
    - Provided trivial rcu_needs_cpu().
    - Fixed up the rcu_*_enter/exit() functions in linux/hardirq.h.

    o Removed the dependence on EMBEDDED, with a view to making
    TINY_RCU default for !SMP at some time in the future.

    o Added (trivial) support for expedited grace periods.

    Changes from v4 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/5/2/91) include:

    o Squeeze the size down a bit further by removing the
    ->completed field from struct rcu_ctrlblk.

    o This permits synchronize_rcu() to become the empty function.
    Previous concerns about rcutorture were unfounded, as
    rcutorture correctly handles a constant value from
    rcu_batches_completed() and rcu_batches_completed_bh().

    Changes from v3 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/3/29/221) include:

    o Changed rcu_batches_completed(), rcu_batches_completed_bh()
    rcu_enter_nohz(), rcu_exit_nohz(), rcu_nmi_enter(), and
    rcu_nmi_exit(), to be static inlines, as suggested by David
    Howells. Doing this saves about 100 bytes from rcutiny.o.
    (The numbers between v3 and this v4 of the patch are not directly
    comparable, since they are against different versions of Linux.)

    Changes from v2 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/3/333) include:

    o Fix whitespace issues.

    o Change short-circuit "||" operator to instead be "+" in order
    to fix performance bug noted by "kraai" on LWN.

    (http://lwn.net/Articles/324348/)

    Changes from v1 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/13/440) include:

    o This version depends on EMBEDDED as well as !SMP, as suggested
    by Ingo.

    o Updated rcu_needs_cpu() to unconditionally return zero,
    permitting the CPU to enter dynticks-idle mode at any time.
    This works because callbacks can be invoked upon entry to
    dynticks-idle mode.

    o Paul is now OK with this being included, based on a poll at
    the Kernel Miniconf at linux.conf.au, where about ten people said
    that they cared about saving 900 bytes on single-CPU systems.

    o Applies to both mainline and tip/core/rcu.

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Acked-by: David Howells
    Acked-by: Josh Triplett
    Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan
    Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
    Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
    Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
    Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
    Cc: peterz@infradead.org
    Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
    Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
    Cc: avi@redhat.com
    Cc: mtosatti@redhat.com
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Paul E. McKenney
     

07 Oct, 2009

1 commit

  • Move the existing rcu_barrier() implementation to rcutree.c,
    consistent with the fact that the rcu_barrier() implementation is
    tied quite tightly to the RCU implementation.

    This opens the way to simplify and fix rcutree.c's rcu_barrier()
    implementation in a later patch.

    Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney
    Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
    Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
    Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
    Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
    Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
    Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
    Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
    Cc: peterz@infradead.org
    Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
    Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
    Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Paul E. McKenney