23 Nov, 2015

1 commit

  • There were still a number of references to my old Red Hat email
    address in the kernel source. Remove these while keeping the
    Red Hat copyright notices intact.

    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
    Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
    Cc: Jiri Olsa
    Cc: Linus Torvalds
    Cc: Mike Galbraith
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Stephane Eranian
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Vince Weaver
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Peter Zijlstra
     

29 Oct, 2014

1 commit


15 Oct, 2014

1 commit

  • Pull percpu consistent-ops changes from Tejun Heo:
    "Way back, before the current percpu allocator was implemented, static
    and dynamic percpu memory areas were allocated and handled separately
    and had their own accessors. The distinction has been gone for many
    years now; however, the now duplicate two sets of accessors remained
    with the pointer based ones - this_cpu_*() - evolving various other
    operations over time. During the process, we also accumulated other
    inconsistent operations.

    This pull request contains Christoph's patches to clean up the
    duplicate accessor situation. __get_cpu_var() uses are replaced with
    with this_cpu_ptr() and __this_cpu_ptr() with raw_cpu_ptr().

    Unfortunately, the former sometimes is tricky thanks to C being a bit
    messy with the distinction between lvalues and pointers, which led to
    a rather ugly solution for cpumask_var_t involving the introduction of
    this_cpu_cpumask_var_ptr().

    This converts most of the uses but not all. Christoph will follow up
    with the remaining conversions in this merge window and hopefully
    remove the obsolete accessors"

    * 'for-3.18-consistent-ops' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu: (38 commits)
    irqchip: Properly fetch the per cpu offset
    percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t -fix
    ia64: sn_nodepda cannot be assigned to after this_cpu conversion. Use __this_cpu_write.
    percpu: Resolve ambiguities in __get_cpu_var/cpumask_var_t
    Revert "powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses"
    percpu: Remove __this_cpu_ptr
    clocksource: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr
    sparc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
    avr32: Replace __get_cpu_var with __this_cpu_write
    blackfin: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
    tile: Use this_cpu_ptr() for hardware counters
    tile: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
    powerpc: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
    alpha: Replace __get_cpu_var
    ia64: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
    s390: cio driver &__get_cpu_var replacements
    s390: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
    mips: Replace __get_cpu_var uses
    MIPS: Replace __get_cpu_var uses in FPU emulator.
    arm: Replace __this_cpu_ptr with raw_cpu_ptr
    ...

    Linus Torvalds
     

14 Sep, 2014

1 commit

  • The nohz full kick, which restarts the tick when any resource depend
    on it, can't be executed anywhere given the operation it does on timers.
    If it is called from the scheduler or timers code, chances are that
    we run into a deadlock.

    This is why we run the nohz full kick from an irq work. That way we make
    sure that the kick runs on a virgin context.

    However if that's the case when irq work runs in its own dedicated
    self-ipi, things are different for the big bunch of archs that don't
    support the self triggered way. In order to support them, irq works are
    also handled by the timer interrupt as fallback.

    Now when irq works run on the timer interrupt, the context isn't blank.
    More precisely, they can run in the context of the hrtimer that runs the
    tick. But the nohz kick cancels and restarts this hrtimer and cancelling
    an hrtimer from itself isn't allowed. This is why we run in an endless
    loop:

    Kernel panic - not syncing: Watchdog detected hard LOCKUP on cpu 2
    CPU: 2 PID: 7538 Comm: kworker/u8:8 Not tainted 3.16.0+ #34
    Workqueue: btrfs-endio-write normal_work_helper [btrfs]
    ffff880244c06c88 000000001b486fe1 ffff880244c06bf0 ffffffff8a7f1e37
    ffffffff8ac52a18 ffff880244c06c78 ffffffff8a7ef928 0000000000000010
    ffff880244c06c88 ffff880244c06c20 000000001b486fe1 0000000000000000
    Call Trace:
    ] dump_stack+0x4e/0x7a
    [] panic+0xd4/0x207
    [] watchdog_overflow_callback+0x118/0x120
    [] __perf_event_overflow+0xae/0x350
    [] ? perf_event_task_disable+0xa0/0xa0
    [] ? x86_perf_event_set_period+0xbf/0x150
    [] perf_event_overflow+0x14/0x20
    [] intel_pmu_handle_irq+0x206/0x410
    [] perf_event_nmi_handler+0x2b/0x50
    [] nmi_handle+0xd2/0x390
    [] ? nmi_handle+0x5/0x390
    [] ? match_held_lock+0x8/0x1b0
    [] default_do_nmi+0x72/0x1c0
    [] do_nmi+0xb8/0x100
    [] end_repeat_nmi+0x1e/0x2e
    [] ? match_held_lock+0x8/0x1b0
    [] ? match_held_lock+0x8/0x1b0
    [] ? match_held_lock+0x8/0x1b0
    <] lock_acquired+0xaf/0x450
    [] ? lock_hrtimer_base.isra.20+0x25/0x50
    [] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave+0x78/0x90
    [] ? lock_hrtimer_base.isra.20+0x25/0x50
    [] lock_hrtimer_base.isra.20+0x25/0x50
    [] hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x33/0x1e0
    [] hrtimer_cancel+0x1a/0x30
    [] tick_nohz_restart+0x17/0x90
    [] __tick_nohz_full_check+0xc3/0x100
    [] nohz_full_kick_work_func+0xe/0x10
    [] irq_work_run_list+0x44/0x70
    [] irq_work_run+0x2a/0x50
    [] update_process_times+0x5b/0x70
    [] tick_sched_handle.isra.21+0x25/0x60
    [] tick_sched_timer+0x41/0x60
    [] __run_hrtimer+0x72/0x470
    [] ? tick_sched_do_timer+0xb0/0xb0
    [] hrtimer_interrupt+0x117/0x270
    [] local_apic_timer_interrupt+0x37/0x60
    [] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x3f/0x50
    [] apic_timer_interrupt+0x6f/0x80

    To fix this we force non-lazy irq works to run on irq work self-IPIs
    when available. That ability of the arch to trigger irq work self IPIs
    is available with arch_irq_work_has_interrupt().

    Reported-by: Catalin Iacob
    Reported-by: Dave Jones
    Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel)
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Paul E. McKenney
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

    Frederic Weisbecker
     

27 Aug, 2014

1 commit

  • Convert uses of __get_cpu_var for creating a address from a percpu
    offset to this_cpu_ptr.

    The two cases where get_cpu_var is used to actually access a percpu
    variable are changed to use this_cpu_read/raw_cpu_read.

    Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner
    Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
    Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo

    Christoph Lameter
     

05 Jul, 2014

1 commit

  • Because of a collision with 8d056c48e486 ("CPU hotplug, smp: flush any
    pending IPI callbacks before CPU offline"), which ends up calling
    hotplug_cfd()->flush_smp_call_function_queue()->irq_work_run(), which
    is not from IRQ context.

    And since that already calls irq_work_run() from the hotplug path,
    remove our entire hotplug handling.

    Reported-by: Stephen Warren
    Tested-by: Stephen Warren
    Reviewed-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat
    Cc: Frederic Weisbecker
    Cc: Linus Torvalds
    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-busatzs2gvz4v62258agipuf@git.kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Peter Zijlstra
     

16 Jun, 2014

2 commits

  • irq work currently only supports local callbacks. However its code
    is mostly ready to run remote callbacks and we have some potential user.

    The full nohz subsystem currently open codes its own remote irq work
    on top of the scheduler ipi when it wants a CPU to reevaluate its next
    tick. However this ad hoc solution bloats the scheduler IPI.

    Lets just extend the irq work subsystem to support remote queuing on top
    of the generic SMP IPI to handle this kind of user. This shouldn't add
    noticeable overhead.

    Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Andrew Morton
    Cc: Eric Dumazet
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Kevin Hilman
    Cc: Paul E. McKenney
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Viresh Kumar
    Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

    Frederic Weisbecker
     
  • An irq work can be handled from two places: from the tick if the work
    carries the "lazy" flag and the tick is periodic, or from a self IPI.

    We merge all these works in a single list and we use some per cpu latch
    to avoid raising a self-IPI when one is already pending.

    Now we could do away with this ugly latch if only the list was only made of
    non-lazy works. Just enqueueing a work on the empty list would be enough
    to know if we need to raise an IPI or not.

    Also we are going to implement remote irq work queuing. Then the per CPU
    latch will need to become atomic in the global scope. That's too bad
    because, here as well, just enqueueing a work on an empty list of
    non-lazy works would be enough to know if we need to raise an IPI or not.

    So lets take a way out of this: split the works in two distinct lists,
    one for the works that can be handled by the next tick and another
    one for those handled by the IPI. Just checking if the latter is empty
    when we queue a new work is enough to know if we need to raise an IPI.

    Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Andrew Morton
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Kevin Hilman
    Cc: Paul E. McKenney
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Viresh Kumar
    Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

    Frederic Weisbecker
     

22 Feb, 2014

1 commit

  • On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 08:45:16AM -0800, Dave Hansen wrote:
    > The reason I coded this up was that NMIs were firing off so fast that
    > nothing else was getting a chance to run. With this patch, at least the
    > printk() would come out and I'd have some idea what was going on.

    It will start spewing to early_printk() (which is a lot nicer to use
    from NMI context too) when it fails to queue the IRQ-work because its
    already enqueued.

    It does have the false-positive for when two CPUs trigger the warn
    concurrently, but that should be rare and some extra clutter on the
    early printk shouldn't be a problem.

    Cc: hpa@zytor.com
    Cc: tglx@linutronix.de
    Cc: dzickus@redhat.com
    Cc: Dave Hansen
    Cc: mingo@kernel.org
    Fixes: 6a02ad66b2c4 ("perf/x86: Push the duration-logging printk() to IRQ context")
    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20140211150116.GO27965@twins.programming.kicks-ass.net
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner

    Peter Zijlstra
     

05 Feb, 2013

1 commit

  • Conflicts:
    kernel/irq_work.c

    Add support for printk in full dynticks CPU.

    * Don't stop tick with irq works pending. This
    fix is generally useful and concerns archs that
    can't raise self IPIs.

    * Flush irq works before CPU offlining.

    * Introduce "lazy" irq works that can wait for the
    next tick to be executed, unless it's stopped.

    * Implement klogd wake up using irq work. This
    removes the ad-hoc printk_tick()/printk_needs_cpu()
    hooks and make it working even in dynticks mode.

    Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

    Frederic Weisbecker
     

04 Feb, 2013

1 commit

  • As no one is using the return value of irq_work_queue(),
    so it is better to just make it void.

    Signed-off-by: anish kumar
    Acked-by: Steven Rostedt
    [ Fix stale comments, remove now unnecessary __irq_work_queue() intermediate function ]
    Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1359925703-24304-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    anish kumar
     

18 Nov, 2012

4 commits

  • On irq work initialization, let the user choose to define it
    as "lazy" or not. "Lazy" means that we don't want to send
    an IPI (provided the arch can anyway) when we enqueue this
    work but we rather prefer to wait for the next timer tick
    to execute our work if possible.

    This is going to be a benefit for non-urgent enqueuers
    (like printk in the future) that may prefer not to raise
    an IPI storm in case of frequent enqueuing on short periods
    of time.

    Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
    Acked-by: Steven Rostedt
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Andrew Morton
    Cc: Paul Gortmaker

    Frederic Weisbecker
     
  • If we are in nohz and there's still irq_work to be done when the idle
    task is about to go offline, give a nasty warning. Everything should
    have been flushed from the CPU_DYING notifier already. Further attempts
    to enqueue an irq_work are buggy because irqs are disabled by
    __cpu_disable(). The best we can do is to report the issue to the user.

    Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Andrew Morton
    Cc: Paul Gortmaker
    Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

    Steven Rostedt
     
  • In order not to offline a CPU with pending irq works, flush the
    queue from CPU_DYING. The notifier is called by stop_machine on
    the CPU that is going down. The code will not be called from irq context
    (so things like get_irq_regs() wont work) but I'm not sure what the
    requirements are for irq_work in that regard (Peter?). But irqs are
    disabled and the CPU is about to go offline. Might as well flush the work.

    Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Andrew Morton
    Cc: Paul Gortmaker
    Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

    Steven Rostedt
     
  • Don't stop the tick if we have pending irq works on the
    queue, otherwise if the arch can't raise self-IPIs, we may not
    find an opportunity to execute the pending works for a while.

    Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
    Acked-by: Steven Rostedt
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Andrew Morton
    Cc: Paul Gortmaker

    Frederic Weisbecker
     

15 Nov, 2012

2 commits

  • Work claiming wants to be SMP-safe.

    And by the time we try to claim a work, if it is already executing
    concurrently on another CPU, we want to succeed the claiming and queue
    the work again because the other CPU may have missed the data we wanted
    to handle in our work if it's about to complete there.

    This scenario is summarized below:

    CPU 1 CPU 2
    ----- -----
    (flags = 0)
    cmpxchg(flags, 0, IRQ_WORK_FLAGS)
    (flags = 3)
    [...]
    xchg(flags, IRQ_WORK_BUSY)
    (flags = 2)
    func()
    if (flags & IRQ_WORK_PENDING)
    (not true)
    cmpxchg(flags, flags, IRQ_WORK_FLAGS)
    (flags = 3)
    [...]
    cmpxchg(flags, IRQ_WORK_BUSY, 0);
    (fail, pending on CPU 2)

    This state machine is synchronized using [cmp]xchg() on the flags.
    As such, the early IRQ_WORK_PENDING check in CPU 2 above is racy.
    By the time we check it, we may be dealing with a stale value because
    we aren't using an atomic accessor. As a result, CPU 2 may "see"
    that the work is still pending on another CPU while it may be
    actually completing the work function exection already, leaving
    our data unprocessed.

    To fix this, we start by speculating about the value we wish to be
    in the work->flags but we only make any conclusion after the value
    returned by the cmpxchg() call that either claims the work or let
    the current owner handle the pending work for us.

    Changelog-heavily-inspired-by: Steven Rostedt
    Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
    Acked-by: Steven Rostedt
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Andrew Morton
    Cc: Paul Gortmaker
    Cc: Anish Kumar

    Frederic Weisbecker
     
  • The IRQ_WORK_BUSY flag is set right before we execute the
    work. Once this flag value is set, the work enters a
    claimable state again.

    So if we have specific data to compute in our work, we ensure it's
    either handled by another CPU or locally by enqueuing the work again.
    This state machine is guanranteed by atomic operations on the flags.

    So when we set IRQ_WORK_BUSY without using an xchg-like operation,
    we break this guarantee as in the following summarized scenario:

    CPU 1 CPU 2
    ----- -----
    (flags = 0)
    old_flags = flags;
    (flags = 0)
    cmpxchg(flags, old_flags,
    old_flags | IRQ_WORK_FLAGS)
    (flags = 3)
    [...]
    flags = IRQ_WORK_BUSY
    (flags = 2)
    func()
    (sees flags = 3)
    cmpxchg(flags, old_flags,
    old_flags | IRQ_WORK_FLAGS)
    (give up)

    cmpxchg(flags, 2, 0);
    (flags = 0)

    CPU 1 claims a work and executes it, so it sets IRQ_WORK_BUSY and
    the work is again in a claimable state. Now CPU 2 has new data to process
    and try to claim that work but it may see a stale value of the flags
    and think the work is still pending somewhere that will handle our data.
    This is because CPU 1 doesn't set IRQ_WORK_BUSY atomically.

    As a result, the data expected to be handle by CPU 2 won't get handled.

    To fix this, use xchg() to set IRQ_WORK_BUSY, this way we ensure the CPU 2
    will see the correct value with cmpxchg() using the expected ordering.

    Changelog-heavily-inspired-by: Steven Rostedt
    Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker
    Acked-by: Steven Rostedt
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Cc: Ingo Molnar
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner
    Cc: Andrew Morton
    Cc: Paul Gortmaker
    Cc: Anish Kumar

    Frederic Weisbecker
     

14 Apr, 2012

1 commit


02 Apr, 2012

1 commit

  • Builds of the MIPS platform ip32_defconfig fails as of commit
    0195c00244dc ("Merge tag 'split-asm_system_h ...") because MIPS xchg()
    macro uses BUILD_BUG_ON and it was moved in commit b81947c646bf
    ("Disintegrate asm/system.h for MIPS").

    The root cause is that the system.h split wasn't tested on a baseline
    with commit 6c03438edeb5 ("kernel.h: doesn't explicitly use bug.h, so
    don't include it.")

    Since this file uses BUG code in several other places besides the xchg
    call, simply make the inclusion explicit.

    Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker
    Acked-by: David Howells
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

    Paul Gortmaker
     

31 Oct, 2011

2 commits

  • Up until now, this file was getting percpu.h because nearly every
    file was implicitly getting module.h (and all its sub-includes).
    But we want to clean that up, so call out percpu.h explicitly.
    Otherwise we'll get things like this on an ARM build:

    kernel/irq_work.c:48: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before 'irq_work_list'
    kernel/irq_work.c:48: warning: type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'DEFINE_PER_CPU'

    The same thing was happening for builds on ARM for asm/processor.h

    kernel/irq_work.c: In function 'irq_work_sync':
    kernel/irq_work.c:166: error: implicit declaration of function 'cpu_relax'

    Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

    Paul Gortmaker
     
  • 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
     

04 Oct, 2011

2 commits

  • So we don't have to expose the struct list_node member.

    Cc: Huang Ying
    Cc: Andrew Morton
    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315836348.26517.41.camel@twins
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Peter Zijlstra
     
  • Use llist in irq_work instead of the lock-less linked list
    implementation in irq_work to avoid the code duplication.

    Signed-off-by: Huang Ying
    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1315461646-1379-6-git-send-email-ying.huang@intel.com
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Huang Ying
     

18 Dec, 2010

1 commit

  • The irq work queue is a per cpu object and it is sufficient for
    synchronization if per cpu atomics are used. Doing so simplifies
    the code and reduces the overhead of the code.

    Before:

    christoph@linux-2.6$ size kernel/irq_work.o
    text data bss dec hex filename
    451 8 1 460 1cc kernel/irq_work.o

    After:

    christoph@linux-2.6$ size kernel/irq_work.o
    text data bss dec hex filename
    438 8 1 447 1bf kernel/irq_work.o

    Cc: Peter Zijlstra
    Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter

    Christoph Lameter
     

18 Nov, 2010

1 commit

  • The compiler warned us about:

    kernel/irq_work.c: In function 'irq_work_run':
    kernel/irq_work.c:148: warning: value computed is not used

    Dropping the cmpxchg() result is indeed weird, but correct -
    so annotate away the warning.

    Signed-off-by: Sergio Aguirre
    Cc: Huang Ying
    Cc: Martin Schwidefsky
    Cc: Kyle McMartin
    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Sergio Aguirre
     

19 Oct, 2010

1 commit

  • Provide a mechanism that allows running code in IRQ context. It is
    most useful for NMI code that needs to interact with the rest of the
    system -- like wakeup a task to drain buffers.

    Perf currently has such a mechanism, so extract that and provide it as
    a generic feature, independent of perf so that others may also
    benefit.

    The IRQ context callback is generated through self-IPIs where
    possible, or on architectures like powerpc the decrementer (the
    built-in timer facility) is set to generate an interrupt immediately.

    Architectures that don't have anything like this get to do with a
    callback from the timer tick. These architectures can call
    irq_work_run() at the tail of any IRQ handlers that might enqueue such
    work (like the perf IRQ handler) to avoid undue latencies in
    processing the work.

    Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra
    Acked-by: Kyle McMartin
    Acked-by: Martin Schwidefsky
    [ various fixes ]
    Signed-off-by: Huang Ying
    LKML-Reference:
    Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

    Peter Zijlstra