1767 Commits

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Paul E. McKenney
7e0669c3e9 rcu-tasks: Add IPI failure count to statistics
This commit adds a failure-return count for smp_call_function_single(),
and adds this to the console messages for rcutorture writer stalls and at
the end of rcutorture testing.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:53 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
edf3775f0a rcu-tasks: Add count for idle tasks on offline CPUs
This commit adds a counter for the number of times the quiescent state
was an idle task associated with an offline CPU, and prints this count
at the end of rcutorture runs and at stall time.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:53 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
40471509be rcu-tasks: Add rcu_dynticks_zero_in_eqs() effectiveness statistics
This commit adds counts of the number of calls and number of successful
calls to rcu_dynticks_zero_in_eqs(), which are printed at the end
of rcutorture runs and at stall time.  This allows evaluation of the
effectiveness of rcu_dynticks_zero_in_eqs().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:52 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
9796e1ae73 rcu-tasks: Make RCU tasks trace also wait for idle tasks
This commit scans the CPUs, adding each CPU's idle task to the list of
tasks that need quiescent states.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:52 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
7e3b70e070 rcu-tasks: Handle the running-offline idle-task special case
The idle task corresponding to an offline CPU can appear to be running
while that CPU is offline.  This commit therefore adds checks for this
situation, treating it as a quiescent state.  Because the tasklist scan
and the holdout-list scan now exclude CPU-hotplug operations, readers
on the CPU-hotplug paths are still waited for.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:52 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
81b4a7bc3b rcu-tasks: Disable CPU hotplug across RCU tasks trace scans
This commit disables CPU hotplug across RCU tasks trace scans, which
is a first step towards correctly recognizing idle tasks "running" on
offline CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:52 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
b38f57c1fe rcu-tasks: Allow rcu_read_unlock_trace() under scheduler locks
The rcu_read_unlock_trace() can invoke rcu_read_unlock_trace_special(),
which in turn can call wake_up().  Therefore, if any scheduler lock is
held across a call to rcu_read_unlock_trace(), self-deadlock can occur.
This commit therefore uses the irq_work facility to defer the wake_up()
to a clean environment where no scheduler locks will be held.

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ paulmck: Update #includes for m68k per kbuild test robot. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:52 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
7d0c9c50c5 rcu-tasks: Avoid IPIing userspace/idle tasks if kernel is so built
Systems running CPU-bound real-time task do not want IPIs sent to CPUs
executing nohz_full userspace tasks.  Battery-powered systems don't
want IPIs sent to idle CPUs in low-power mode.  Unfortunately, RCU tasks
trace can and will send such IPIs in some cases.

Both of these situations occur only when the target CPU is in RCU
dyntick-idle mode, in other words, when RCU is not watching the
target CPU.  This suggests that CPUs in dyntick-idle mode should use
memory barriers in outermost invocations of rcu_read_lock_trace()
and rcu_read_unlock_trace(), which would allow the RCU tasks trace
grace period to directly read out the target CPU's read-side state.
One challenge is that RCU tasks trace is not targeting a specific
CPU, but rather a task.  And that task could switch from one CPU to
another at any time.

This commit therefore uses try_invoke_on_locked_down_task()
and checks for task_curr() in trc_inspect_reader_notrunning().
When this condition holds, the target task is running and cannot move.
If CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB=y, the new rcu_dynticks_zero_in_eqs()
function can be used to check if the specified integer (in this case,
t->trc_reader_nesting) is zero while the target CPU remains in that same
dyntick-idle sojourn.  If so, the target task is in a quiescent state.
If not, trc_read_check_handler() must indicate failure so that the
grace-period kthread can take appropriate action or retry after an
appropriate delay, as the case may be.

With this change, given CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB=y, if a given
CPU remains idle or a given task continues executing in nohz_full mode,
the RCU tasks trace grace-period kthread will detect this without the
need to send an IPI.

Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:52 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
9ae58d7bd1 rcu-tasks: Add Kconfig option to mediate smp_mb() vs. IPI
This commit provides a new TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB Kconfig option that
enables use of read-side memory barriers by both rcu_read_lock_trace()
and rcu_read_unlock_trace() when the are executed with the
current->trc_reader_special.b.need_mb flag set.  This flag is currently
never set.  Doing that is the subject of a later commit.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:52 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
238dbce39e rcu-tasks: Add grace-period and IPI counts to statistics
This commit adds a grace-period count and a count of IPIs sent since
boot, which is printed in response to rcutorture writer stalls and at
the end of rcutorture testing.  These counts will be used to evaluate
various schemes to reduce the number of IPIs sent.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:52 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
276c410448 rcu-tasks: Split ->trc_reader_need_end
This commit splits ->trc_reader_need_end by using the rcu_special union.
This change permits readers to check to see if a memory barrier is
required without any added overhead in the common case where no such
barrier is required.  This commit also adds the read-side checking.
Later commits will add the machinery to properly set the new
->trc_reader_special.b.need_mb field.

This commit also makes rcu_read_unlock_trace_special() tolerate nested
read-side critical sections within interrupt and NMI handlers.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:52 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
b0afa0f056 rcu-tasks: Provide boot parameter to delay IPIs until late in grace period
This commit provides a rcupdate.rcu_task_ipi_delay kernel boot parameter
that specifies how old the RCU tasks trace grace period must be before
the grace-period kthread starts sending IPIs.  This delay allows more
tasks to pass through rcu_tasks_qs() quiescent states, thus reducing
(or even eliminating) the number of IPIs that must be sent.

On a short rcutorture test setting this kernel boot parameter to HZ/2
resulted in zero IPIs for all 877 RCU-tasks trace grace periods that
elapsed during that test.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:52 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
88092d0c99 rcu-tasks: Add a grace-period start time for throttling and debug
This commit adds a place to record the grace-period start in jiffies.
This will be used by later commits for debugging purposes and to throttle
IPIs early in the grace period.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:52 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
43766c3ead rcu-tasks: Make RCU Tasks Trace make use of RCU scheduler hooks
This commit makes the calls to rcu_tasks_qs() detect and report
quiescent states for RCU tasks trace.  If the task is in a quiescent
state and if ->trc_reader_checked is not yet set, the task sets its own
->trc_reader_checked.  This will cause the grace-period kthread to
remove it from the holdout list if it still remains there.

[ paulmck: Fix conditional compilation per kbuild test robot feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:52 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
af051ca4e4 rcu-tasks: Make rcutorture writer stall output include GP state
This commit adds grace-period state and time to the rcutorture writer
stall output.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:52 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
e21408ceec rcu-tasks: Add RCU tasks to rcutorture writer stall output
This commit adds state for each RCU-tasks flavor to the rcutorture
writer stall output.  The initial state is minimal, but you have to
start somewhere.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
[ paulmck: Fixes based on feedback from kbuild test robot. ]
2020-04-27 11:03:51 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
8fd8ca388c rcu-tasks: Move #ifdef into tasks.h
This commit pushes the #ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_GENERIC from
kernel/rcu/update.c to kernel/rcu/tasks.h in order to improve
readability as more APIs are added.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:51 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
4593e772b5 rcu-tasks: Add stall warnings for RCU Tasks Trace
This commit adds RCU CPU stall warnings for RCU Tasks Trace.  These
dump out any tasks blocking the current grace period, as well as any
CPUs that have not responded to an IPI request.  This happens in two
phases, when initially extracting state from the tasks and later when
waiting for any holdout tasks to check in.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:51 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
c1a76c0b6a rcutorture: Add torture tests for RCU Tasks Trace
This commit adds the definitions required to torture the tracing flavor
of RCU tasks.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:51 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
d5f177d35c rcu-tasks: Add an RCU Tasks Trace to simplify protection of tracing hooks
Because RCU does not watch exception early-entry/late-exit, idle-loop,
or CPU-hotplug execution, protection of tracing and BPF operations is
needlessly complicated.  This commit therefore adds a variant of
Tasks RCU that:

o	Has explicit read-side markers to allow finite grace periods in
	the face of in-kernel loops for PREEMPT=n builds.  These markers
	are rcu_read_lock_trace() and rcu_read_unlock_trace().

o	Protects code in the idle loop, exception entry/exit, and
	CPU-hotplug code paths.  In this respect, RCU-tasks trace is
	similar to SRCU, but with lighter-weight readers.

o	Avoids expensive read-side instruction, having overhead similar
	to that of Preemptible RCU.

There are of course downsides:

o	The grace-period code can send IPIs to CPUs, even when those
	CPUs are in the idle loop or in nohz_full userspace.  This is
	mitigated by later commits.

o	It is necessary to scan the full tasklist, much as for Tasks RCU.

o	There is a single callback queue guarded by a single lock,
	again, much as for Tasks RCU.  However, those early use cases
	that request multiple grace periods in quick succession are
	expected to do so from a single task, which makes the single
	lock almost irrelevant.  If needed, multiple callback queues
	can be provided using any number of schemes.

Perhaps most important, this variant of RCU does not affect the vanilla
flavors, rcu_preempt and rcu_sched.  The fact that RCU Tasks Trace
readers can operate from idle, offline, and exception entry/exit in no
way enables rcu_preempt and rcu_sched readers to do so.

The memory ordering was outlined here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200319034030.GX3199@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72/

This effort benefited greatly from off-list discussions of BPF
requirements with Alexei Starovoitov and Andrii Nakryiko.  At least
some of the on-list discussions are captured in the Link: tags below.
In addition, KCSAN was quite helpful in finding some early bugs.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200219150744.428764577@infradead.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87mu8p797b.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200225221305.605144982@linutronix.de/
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
[ paulmck: Apply feedback from Steve Rostedt and Joel Fernandes. ]
[ paulmck: Decrement trc_n_readers_need_end upon IPI failure. ]
[ paulmck: Fix locking issue reported by rcutorture. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:51 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
d01aa2633b rcu-tasks: Code movement to allow more Tasks RCU variants
This commit does nothing but move rcu_tasks_wait_gp() up to a new section
for common code.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:51 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
e4fe5dd6f2 rcu-tasks: Further refactor RCU-tasks to allow adding more variants
This commit refactors RCU tasks to allow variants to be added.  These
variants will share the current Tasks-RCU tasklist scan and the holdout
list processing.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:51 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
c97d12a63c rcu-tasks: Use unique names for RCU-Tasks kthreads and messages
This commit causes the flavors of RCU Tasks to use different names
for their kthreads and in their console messages.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:51 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
3d6e43c75d rcutorture: Add torture tests for RCU Tasks Rude
This commit adds the definitions required to torture the rude flavor of
RCU tasks.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:51 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
c84aad7654 rcu-tasks: Add an RCU-tasks rude variant
This commit adds a "rude" variant of RCU-tasks that has as quiescent
states schedule(), cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs(), userspace execution,
and (in theory, anyway) cond_resched().  In other words, RCU-tasks rude
readers are regions of code with preemption disabled, but excluding code
early in the CPU-online sequence and late in the CPU-offline sequence.
Updates make use of IPIs and force an IPI and a context switch on each
online CPU.  This variant is useful in some situations in tracing.

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ paulmck: Apply EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() feedback from Qiujun Huang. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
[ paulmck: Apply review feedback from Steve Rostedt. ]
2020-04-27 11:03:51 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
5873b8a94e rcu-tasks: Refactor RCU-tasks to allow variants to be added
This commit splits out generic processing from RCU-tasks-specific
processing in order to allow additional flavors to be added.  It also
adds a def_bool TASKS_RCU_GENERIC to enable the common RCU-tasks
infrastructure code.

This is primarily, but not entirely, a code-movement commit.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:51 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
9cf8fc6fab rcutorture: Add a test for synchronize_rcu_mult()
This commit adds a crude test for synchronize_rcu_mult().  This is
currently a smoke test rather than a high-quality stress test.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:51 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
07e105158d rcu-tasks: Create struct to hold state information
This commit creates an rcu_tasks struct to hold state information for
RCU Tasks.  This is a preparation commit for adding additional flavors
of Tasks RCU, each of which would have its own rcu_tasks struct.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:50 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
eacd6f04a1 rcu-tasks: Move Tasks RCU to its own file
This code-movement-only commit is in preparation for adding an additional
flavor of Tasks RCU, which relies on workqueues to detect grace periods.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:50 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
5bef8da66a rcu: Add per-task state to RCU CPU stall warnings
Currently, an RCU-preempt CPU stall warning simply lists the PIDs of
those tasks holding up the current grace period.  This can be helpful,
but more can be even more helpful.

To this end, this commit adds the nesting level, whether the task
thinks it was preempted in its current RCU read-side critical section,
whether RCU core has asked this task for a quiescent state, whether the
expedited-grace-period hint is set, and whether the task believes that
it is on the blocked-tasks list (it must be, or it would not be printed,
but if things are broken, best not to take too much for granted).

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:50 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
66777e5821 rcu-tasks: Use context-switch hook for PREEMPT=y kernels
Currently, the PREEMPT=y version of rcu_note_context_switch() does not
invoke rcu_tasks_qs(), and we need it to in order to keep RCU Tasks
Trace's IPIs down to a dull roar.  This commit therefore enables this
hook.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:50 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
ac3caf8274 rcu: Add comments marking transitions between RCU watching and not
It is not as clear as it might be just where in RCU's idle entry/exit
code RCU stops and starts watching the current CPU.  This commit therefore
adds comments calling out the transitions.

Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:50 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
52b1fc3f79 rcutorture: Add test of holding scheduler locks across rcu_read_unlock()
Now that it should be safe to hold scheduler locks across
rcu_read_unlock(), even in cases where the corresponding RCU read-side
critical section might have been preempted and boosted, the commit adds
a test of this capability to rcutorture.  This has been tested on current
mainline (which can deadlock in this situation), and lockdep duly reported
the expected deadlock.  On -rcu, lockdep is silent, thus far, anyway.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:50 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
5f5fa7ea89 rcu: Don't use negative nesting depth in __rcu_read_unlock()
Now that RCU flavors have been consolidated, an RCU-preempt
rcu_read_unlock() in an interrupt or softirq handler cannot possibly
end the RCU read-side critical section.  Consider the old vulnerability
involving rcu_read_unlock() being invoked within such a handler that
interrupted an __rcu_read_unlock_special(), in which a wakeup might be
invoked with a scheduler lock held.  Because rcu_read_unlock_special()
no longer does wakeups in such situations, it is no longer necessary
for __rcu_read_unlock() to set the nesting level negative.

This commit therefore removes this recursion-protection code from
__rcu_read_unlock().

[ paulmck: Let rcu_exp_handler() continue to call rcu_report_exp_rdp(). ]
[ paulmck: Adjust other checks given no more negative nesting. ]
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:50 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
f0bdf6d473 rcu: Remove unused ->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.deferred_qs field
The ->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.deferred_qs field is set to true in
rcu_read_unlock_special() but never set to false.  This is not
particularly useful, so this commit removes this field.

The only possible justification for this field is to ease debugging
of RCU deferred quiscent states, but the combination of the other
->rcu_read_unlock_special fields plus ->rcu_blocked_node and of course
->rcu_read_lock_nesting should cover debugging needs.  And if this last
proves incorrect, this patch can always be reverted, along with the
required setting of ->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.deferred_qs to false
in rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_irqrestore().

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:50 -07:00
Lai Jiangshan
07b4a930fc rcu: Don't set nesting depth negative in rcu_preempt_deferred_qs()
Now that RCU flavors have been consolidated, an RCU-preempt
rcu_read_unlock() in an interrupt or softirq handler cannot possibly
end the RCU read-side critical section.  Consider the old vulnerability
involving rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() being invoked within such a handler
that interrupted an extended RCU read-side critical section, in which
a wakeup might be invoked with a scheduler lock held.  Because
rcu_read_unlock_special() no longer does wakeups in such situations,
it is no longer necessary for rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() to set the
nesting level negative.

This commit therefore removes this recursion-protection code from
rcu_preempt_deferred_qs().

[ paulmck: Fix typo in commit log per Steve Rostedt. ]
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:50 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
e4453d8a1c rcu: Make rcu_read_unlock_special() safe for rq/pi locks
The scheduler is currently required to hold rq/pi locks across the entire
RCU read-side critical section or not at all.  This is inconvenient and
leaves traps for the unwary, including the author of this commit.

But now that excessively long grace periods enable scheduling-clock
interrupts for holdout nohz_full CPUs, the nohz_full rescue logic in
rcu_read_unlock_special() can be dispensed with.  In other words, the
rcu_read_unlock_special() function can refrain from doing wakeups unless
such wakeups are guaranteed safe.

This commit therefore avoids unsafe wakeups, freeing the scheduler to
hold rq/pi locks across rcu_read_unlock() even if the corresponding RCU
read-side critical section might have been preempted.  This commit also
updates RCU's requirements documentation.

This commit is inspired by a patch from Lai Jiangshan:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20191102124559.1135-2-laijs@linux.alibaba.com
This commit is further intended to be a step towards his goal of permitting
the inlining of RCU-preempt's rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock().

Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:50 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
c76e7e0bce rcu: Add KCSAN stubs to update.c
This commit adds stubs for KCSAN's data_race(), ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_WRITER(),
and ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_ACCESS() macros to allow code using these macros
to move ahead.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:03:50 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
6be7436d22 rcu: Add rcu_gp_might_be_stalled()
This commit adds rcu_gp_might_be_stalled(), which returns true if there
is some reason to believe that the RCU grace period is stalled.  The use
case is where an RCU free-memory path needs to allocate memory in order
to free it, a situation that should be avoided where possible.

But where it is necessary, there is always the alternative of using
synchronize_rcu() to wait for a grace period in order to avoid the
allocation.  And if the grace period is stalled, allocating memory to
asynchronously wait for it is a bad idea of epic proportions: Far better
to let others use the memory, because these others might actually be
able to free that memory before the grace period ends.

Thus, rcu_gp_might_be_stalled() can be used to help decide whether
allocating memory on an RCU free path is a semi-reasonable course
of action.

Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:02:50 -07:00
Joel Fernandes (Google)
a6a82ce18b rcu/tree: Count number of batched kfree_rcu() locklessly
We can relax the correctness of counting of number of queued objects in
favor of not hurting performance, by locklessly sampling per-cpu
counters. This should be Ok since under high memory pressure, it should not
matter if we are off by a few objects while counting. The shrinker will
still do the reclaim.

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Remove unused "flags" variable. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:02:50 -07:00
Joel Fernandes (Google)
9154244c1a rcu/tree: Add a shrinker to prevent OOM due to kfree_rcu() batching
To reduce grace periods and improve kfree() performance, we have done
batching recently dramatically bringing down the number of grace periods
while giving us the ability to use kfree_bulk() for efficient kfree'ing.

However, this has increased the likelihood of OOM condition under heavy
kfree_rcu() flood on small memory systems. This patch introduces a
shrinker which starts grace periods right away if the system is under
memory pressure due to existence of objects that have still not started
a grace period.

With this patch, I do not observe an OOM anymore on a system with 512MB
RAM and 8 CPUs, with the following rcuperf options:

rcuperf.kfree_loops=20000 rcuperf.kfree_alloc_num=8000
rcuperf.kfree_rcu_test=1 rcuperf.kfree_mult=2

Otherwise it easily OOMs with the above parameters.

NOTE:
1. On systems with no memory pressure, the patch has no effect as intended.
2. In the future, we can use this same mechanism to prevent grace periods
   from happening even more, by relying on shrinkers carefully.

Cc: urezki@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:02:50 -07:00
Joel Fernandes (Google)
f87dc80800 rcuperf: Add ability to increase object allocation size
This allows us to increase memory pressure dynamically using a new
rcuperf boot command line parameter called 'rcumult'.

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:02:50 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
e2f3ccfa62 rcu: Convert rcu_nohz_full_cpu() ULONG_CMP_LT() to time_before()
This commit converts the ULONG_CMP_LT() in rcu_nohz_full_cpu() to
time_before() to reflect the fact that it is comparing a timestamp to
the jiffies counter.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:01:17 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
7b2413111a rcu: Convert rcu_initiate_boost() ULONG_CMP_GE() to time_after()
This commit converts the ULONG_CMP_GE() in rcu_initiate_boost() to
time_after() to reflect the fact that it is comparing a timestamp to
the jiffies counter.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:01:16 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
29ffebc5fc rcu: Convert ULONG_CMP_GE() to time_after() for jiffy comparison
This commit converts the ULONG_CMP_GE() in rcu_gp_fqs_loop() to
time_after() to reflect the fact that it is comparing a timestamp to
the jiffies counter.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:01:16 -07:00
Jules Irenge
da44cd6c8e rcu: Replace 1 by true
Coccinelle reports a warning at use_softirq declaration

WARNING: Assignment of 0/1 to bool variable

The root cause is
use_softirq a variable of bool type is initialised with the integer 1
Replacing 1 with value true solve the issue.

Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:01:16 -07:00
Jules Irenge
a66dbda789 rcu: Replace assigned pointer ret value by corresponding boolean value
Coccinelle reports warnings at rcu_read_lock_held_common()

WARNING: Assignment of 0/1 to bool variable

To fix this,
the assigned  pointer ret values are replaced by corresponding boolean value.
Given that ret is a pointer of bool type

Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:01:16 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
62ae19511f rcu: Mark rcu_state.gp_seq to detect more concurrent writes
The rcu_state structure's gp_seq field is only to be modified by the RCU
grace-period kthread, which is single-threaded.  This commit therefore
enlists KCSAN's help in enforcing this restriction.  This commit applies
KCSAN-specific primitives, so cannot go upstream until KCSAN does.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:01:16 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
c28d5c09d0 rcu: Get rid of some doc warnings in update.c
This commit escapes *ret, because otherwise the documentation system
thinks that this is an incomplete emphasis block:

	./kernel/rcu/update.c:65: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
	./kernel/rcu/update.c:65: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
	./kernel/rcu/update.c:70: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.
	./kernel/rcu/update.c:82: WARNING: Inline emphasis start-string without end-string.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:01:16 -07:00
Zhaolong Zhang
fcbcc0e700 rcu: Fix the (t=0 jiffies) false positive
It is possible that an over-long grace period will end while the RCU
CPU stall warning message is printing.  In this case, the estimate of
the offending grace period's duration can be erroneous due to refetching
of rcu_state.gp_start, which will now be the time of the newly started
grace period.  Computation of this duration clearly needs to use the
start time for the old over-long grace period, not the fresh new one.
This commit avoids such errors by causing both print_other_cpu_stall() and
print_cpu_stall() to reuse the value previously fetched by their caller.

Signed-off-by: Zhaolong Zhang <zhangzl2013@126.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2020-04-27 11:01:16 -07:00