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fixes.2020.04.27a: Miscellaneous fixes.
kfree_rcu.2020.04.27a: Changes related to kfree_rcu().
rcu-tasks.2020.04.27a: Addition of new RCU-tasks flavors.
stall.2020.04.27a: RCU CPU stall-warning updates.
torture.2020.05.07a: Torture-test updates.
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
The rcu_node structure's ->boost_tasks field is read locklessly, so this
commit adds the WRITE_ONCE() to an update in order to provide proper
documentation and READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() pairing.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_node structure's ->boost_tasks field is read locklessly, so this
commit adds the READ_ONCE() to one load in order to avoid destructive
compiler optimizations. The other load is from a diagnostic print,
so data_race() suffices.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
There are lockless loads from the rcu_node structure's ->exp_tasks field,
so this commit causes all stores to use WRITE_ONCE() and all lockless
loads to use READ_ONCE() or data_race(), with the latter for debug
prints. This code also did a unprotected traversal of the linked list
pointed into by ->exp_tasks, so this commit also acquires the rcu_node
structure's ->lock to properly protect this traversal. This list was
traversed unprotected only when printing an RCU CPU stall warning for
an expedited grace period, so the odds of seeing this in production are
not all that high.
This data race was reported by KCSAN.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit fixes a spelling mistake in a pr_info() message.
Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
RCU priority boosting currently is not applied until the grace period
is at least 250 milliseconds old (or the number of milliseconds specified
by the CONFIG_RCU_BOOST_DELAY Kconfig option). Although this has worked
well, it can result in OOM under conditions of RCU callback flooding.
One can argue that the real-time systems using RCU priority boosting
should carefully avoid RCU callback flooding, but one can just as well
argue that an OOM is a rather obnoxious error message.
This commit therefore disables the RCU priority boosting delay when
there are excessive numbers of callbacks queued.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
In default configutions, RCU currently waits at least 100 milliseconds
before asking cond_resched() and/or resched_rcu() for help seeking
quiescent states to end a grace period. But 100 milliseconds can be
one good long time during an RCU callback flood, for example, as can
happen when user processes repeatedly open and close files in a tight
loop. These 100-millisecond gaps in successive grace periods during a
callback flood can result in excessive numbers of callbacks piling up,
unnecessarily increasing memory footprint.
This commit therefore asks cond_resched() and/or resched_rcu() for help
as early as the first FQS scan when at least one of the CPUs has more
than 20,000 callbacks queued, a number that can be changed using the new
rcutree.qovld kernel boot parameter. An auxiliary qovld_calc variable
is used to avoid acquisition of locks that have not yet been initialized.
Early tests indicate that this reduces the RCU-callback memory footprint
during rcutorture floods by from 50% to 4x, depending on configuration.
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
[ paulmck: Fix bug located by Qian Cai. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Tested-by: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Currently, nocb_gp_wait() unconditionally complains if there is a
callback not already associated with a grace period. This assumes that
either there was no such callback initially on the one hand, or that
the rcu_advance_cbs() function assigned all such callbacks to a grace
period on the other. However, in theory there are some situations that
would prevent rcu_advance_cbs() from assigning all of the callbacks.
This commit therefore checks for unassociated callbacks immediately after
rcu_advance_cbs() returns, while the corresponding rcu_node structure's
->lock is still held. If there are unassociated callbacks at that point,
the subsequent WARN_ON_ONCE() is disabled.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The ->nocb_lock lockdep assertion is currently guarded by cpu_online(),
which is incorrect for no-CBs CPUs, whose callback lists must be
protected by ->nocb_lock regardless of whether or not the corresponding
CPU is online. This situation could result in failure to detect bugs
resulting from failing to hold ->nocb_lock for offline CPUs.
This commit therefore removes the cpu_online() guard.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Sparse reports warning at rcu_nocb_bypass_unlock()
warning: context imbalance in rcu_nocb_bypass_unlock() - unexpected unlock
The root cause is a missing annotation of rcu_nocb_bypass_unlock()
which causes the warning.
This commit therefore adds the missing __releases(&rdp->nocb_bypass_lock)
annotation.
Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Sparse reports warning at rcu_nocb_bypass_lock()
|warning: context imbalance in rcu_nocb_bypass_lock() - wrong count at exit
To fix this, this commit adds an __acquires(&rdp->nocb_bypass_lock).
Given that rcu_nocb_bypass_lock() does actually call raw_spin_lock()
when raw_spin_trylock() fails, this not only fixes the warning but also
improves on the readability of the code.
Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_node structure's ->boost_kthread_status field is accessed
locklessly, so this commit causes all updates to use WRITE_ONCE() and
all reads to use READ_ONCE().
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The various RCU structures' ->gp_seq, ->gp_seq_needed, ->gp_req_activity,
and ->gp_activity fields are read locklessly, so they must be updated with
WRITE_ONCE() and, when read locklessly, with READ_ONCE(). This commit makes
these changes.
This data race was reported by KCSAN. Not appropriate for backporting
due to failure being unlikely.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit provides wrapper functions for uses of ->rcu_read_lock_nesting
to improve readability and to ease future changes to support inlining
of __rcu_read_lock() and __rcu_read_unlock().
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_node structure's ->expmask field is updated only when holding the
->lock, but is also accessed locklessly. This means that all ->expmask
updates must use WRITE_ONCE() and all reads carried out without holding
->lock must use READ_ONCE(). This commit therefore changes the lockless
->expmask read in rcu_read_unlock_special() to use READ_ONCE().
Reported-by: syzbot+99f4ddade3c22ab0cf23@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
In rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_irqrestore(), ->rcu_read_unlock_special is
cleared one piece at a time. Given that the "if" statements in this
function use the copy in "special", this commit removes the clearing
of the individual pieces in favor of clearing ->rcu_read_unlock_special
in one go just after it has been determined to be non-zero.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, the .exp_hint flag is cleared in rcu_read_unlock_special(),
which works, but which can also prevent subsequent rcu_read_unlock() calls
from helping expedite the quiescent state needed by an ongoing expedited
RCU grace period. This commit therefore defers clearing of .exp_hint
from rcu_read_unlock_special() to rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_irqrestore(),
thus ensuring that intervening calls to rcu_read_unlock() have a chance
to help end the expedited grace period.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit removes kfree_rcu() special-casing and the lazy-callback
handling from Tree RCU. It moves some of this special casing to Tiny RCU,
the removal of which will be the subject of later commits.
This results in a nice negative delta.
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
[ paulmck: Add slab.h #include, thanks to kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The config option `CONFIG_PREEMPT' is used for the preemption model
"Low-Latency Desktop". The config option `CONFIG_PREEMPTION' is enabled
when kernel preemption is enabled which is true for the preemption model
`CONFIG_PREEMPT' and `CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT'.
Use `CONFIG_PREEMPTION' if it applies to both preemption models and not
just to `CONFIG_PREEMPT'.
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: rcu@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_preempt_check_blocked_tasks() function has a comment
that states that the rcu_node structure's ->lock must be held,
which might be informative, but which carries little weight if
not read. This commit therefore removes this comment in favor of
raw_lockdep_assert_held_rcu_node(), which will complain quite
visibly if the required lock is not held.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcu_gp_fqs_check_wake() function uses rcu_preempt_blocked_readers_cgp()
to read ->gp_tasks while other cpus might overwrite this field.
We need READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() pairs to avoid compiler
tricks and KCSAN splats like the following :
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in rcu_gp_fqs_check_wake / rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_irqrestore
write to 0xffffffff85a7f190 of 8 bytes by task 7317 on cpu 0:
rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_irqrestore+0x43d/0x580 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:507
rcu_read_unlock_special+0xec/0x370 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:659
__rcu_read_unlock+0xcf/0xe0 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:394
rcu_read_unlock include/linux/rcupdate.h:645 [inline]
__ip_queue_xmit+0x3b0/0xa40 net/ipv4/ip_output.c:533
ip_queue_xmit+0x45/0x60 include/net/ip.h:236
__tcp_transmit_skb+0xdeb/0x1cd0 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:1158
__tcp_send_ack+0x246/0x300 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3685
tcp_send_ack+0x34/0x40 net/ipv4/tcp_output.c:3691
tcp_cleanup_rbuf+0x130/0x360 net/ipv4/tcp.c:1575
tcp_recvmsg+0x633/0x1a30 net/ipv4/tcp.c:2179
inet_recvmsg+0xbb/0x250 net/ipv4/af_inet.c:838
sock_recvmsg_nosec net/socket.c:871 [inline]
sock_recvmsg net/socket.c:889 [inline]
sock_recvmsg+0x92/0xb0 net/socket.c:885
sock_read_iter+0x15f/0x1e0 net/socket.c:967
call_read_iter include/linux/fs.h:1864 [inline]
new_sync_read+0x389/0x4f0 fs/read_write.c:414
read to 0xffffffff85a7f190 of 8 bytes by task 10 on cpu 1:
rcu_gp_fqs_check_wake kernel/rcu/tree.c:1556 [inline]
rcu_gp_fqs_check_wake+0x93/0xd0 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1546
rcu_gp_fqs_loop+0x36c/0x580 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1611
rcu_gp_kthread+0x143/0x220 kernel/rcu/tree.c:1768
kthread+0x1d4/0x200 drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c:1253
ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:352
Reported by Kernel Concurrency Sanitizer on:
CPU: 1 PID: 10 Comm: rcu_preempt Not tainted 5.3.0+ #0
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 01/01/2011
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
[ paulmck: Added another READ_ONCE() for RCU CPU stall warnings. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Commit 18cd8c93e6 ("rcu/nocb: Print gp/cb kthread hierarchy if
dump_tree") added print statements to rcu_organize_nocb_kthreads for
debugging, but incorrectly guarded them, causing the function to always
spew out its message.
This patch fixes it by guarding both pr_alert statements with dump_tree,
while also changing the second pr_alert to a pr_cont, to print the
hierarchy in a single line (assuming that's how it was supposed to
work).
Fixes: 18cd8c93e6 ("rcu/nocb: Print gp/cb kthread hierarchy if dump_tree")
Signed-off-by: Stefan Reiter <stefan@pimaker.at>
[ paulmck: Make single-nocbs-CPU GP kthreads look less erroneous. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Now that the RCU flavors have been consolidated, there is one common
function for checking to see if an expedited RCU grace period has
completed, namely sync_rcu_preempt_exp_done(). Because this function is
no longer specific to RCU-preempt, this commit removes the "_preempt" from
its name. This commit also changes sync_rcu_preempt_exp_done_unlocked()
to sync_rcu_exp_done_unlocked() for the same reason.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
We never set this to false. This probably doesn't affect most people's
runtime because GCC will automatically initialize it to false at certain
common optimization levels. But that behavior is related to a bug in
GCC and obviously should not be relied on.
Fixes: 5d6742b377 ("rcu/nocb: Use rcu_segcblist for no-CBs CPUs")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
When under overload conditions, __call_rcu_nocb_wake() will wake the
no-CBs GP kthread any time the no-CBs CB kthread is asleep or there
are no ready-to-invoke callbacks, but only after a timer delay. If the
no-CBs GP kthread has a ->nocb_bypass_timer pending, the deferred wakeup
from __call_rcu_nocb_wake() is redundant. This commit therefore makes
__call_rcu_nocb_wake() avoid posting the redundant deferred wakeup if
->nocb_bypass_timer is pending. This requires adding a bit of ordering
of timer actions.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Currently, __call_rcu_nocb_wake() advances callbacks each time that it
detects excessive numbers of callbacks, though only if it succeeds in
conditionally acquiring its leaf rcu_node structure's ->lock. Despite
the conditional acquisition of ->lock, this does increase contention.
This commit therefore avoids advancing callbacks unless there are
callbacks in ->cblist whose grace period has completed and advancing
has not yet been done during this jiffy.
Note that this decision does not take the presence of new callbacks
into account. That is because on this code path, there will always be
at least one new callback, namely the one we just enqueued.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Currently, nocb_cb_wait() advances callbacks on each pass through its
loop, though only if it succeeds in conditionally acquiring its leaf
rcu_node structure's ->lock. Despite the conditional acquisition of
->lock, this does increase contention. This commit therefore avoids
advancing callbacks unless there are callbacks in ->cblist whose grace
period has completed.
Note that nocb_cb_wait() doesn't worry about callbacks that have not
yet been assigned a grace period. The idea is that the only reason for
nocb_cb_wait() to advance callbacks is to allow it to continue invoking
callbacks. Time will tell whether this is the correct choice.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
When callbacks are in full flow, the common case is waiting for a
grace period, and this grace period will normally take a few jiffies to
complete. It therefore isn't all that helpful for __call_rcu_nocb_wake()
to do a synchronous wakeup in this case. This commit therefore turns this
into a timer-based deferred wakeup of the no-CBs grace-period kthread.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
This commit causes locking, sleeping, and callback state to be printed
for no-CBs CPUs when the rcutorture writer is delayed sufficiently for
rcutorture to complain.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Use of the rcu_data structure's segmented ->cblist for no-CBs CPUs
takes advantage of unrelated grace periods, thus reducing the memory
footprint in the face of floods of call_rcu() invocations. However,
the ->cblist field is a more-complex rcu_segcblist structure which must
be protected via locking. Even though there are only three entities
which can acquire this lock (the CPU invoking call_rcu(), the no-CBs
grace-period kthread, and the no-CBs callbacks kthread), the contention
on this lock is excessive under heavy stress.
This commit therefore greatly reduces contention by provisioning
an rcu_cblist structure field named ->nocb_bypass within the
rcu_data structure. Each no-CBs CPU is permitted only a limited
number of enqueues onto the ->cblist per jiffy, controlled by a new
nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy kernel boot parameter that defaults to
about 16 enqueues per millisecond (16 * 1000 / HZ). When that limit is
exceeded, the CPU instead enqueues onto the new ->nocb_bypass.
The ->nocb_bypass is flushed into the ->cblist every jiffy or when
the number of callbacks on ->nocb_bypass exceeds qhimark, whichever
happens first. During call_rcu() floods, this flushing is carried out
by the CPU during the course of its call_rcu() invocations. However,
a CPU could simply stop invoking call_rcu() at any time. The no-CBs
grace-period kthread therefore carries out less-aggressive flushing
(every few jiffies or when the number of callbacks on ->nocb_bypass
exceeds (2 * qhimark), whichever comes first). This means that the
no-CBs grace-period kthread cannot be permitted to do unbounded waits
while there are callbacks on ->nocb_bypass. A ->nocb_bypass_timer is
used to provide the needed wakeups.
[ paulmck: Apply Coverity feedback reported by Colin Ian King. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
When there are excessive numbers of callbacks, and when either the
corresponding no-CBs callback kthread is asleep or there is no more
ready-to-invoke callbacks, and when least one callback is pending,
__call_rcu_nocb_wake() will advance the callbacks, but refrain from
awakening the corresponding no-CBs grace-period kthread. However,
because rcu_advance_cbs_nowake() is used, it is possible (if a bit
unlikely) that the needed advancement could not happen due to a grace
period not being in progress. Plus there will always be at least one
pending callback due to one having just now been enqueued.
This commit therefore attempts to advance callbacks and awakens the
no-CBs grace-period kthread when there are excessive numbers of callbacks
posted and when the no-CBs callback kthread is not in a position to do
anything helpful.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
The sleep/wakeup of the no-CBs grace-period kthreads is synchronized
using the ->nocb_lock of the first CPU corresponding to that kthread.
This commit provides a separate ->nocb_gp_lock for this purpose, thus
reducing contention on ->nocb_lock.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Currently, nocb_cb_wait() unconditionally acquires the leaf rcu_node
->lock to advance callbacks when done invoking the previous batch.
It does this while holding ->nocb_lock, which means that contention on
the leaf rcu_node ->lock visits itself on the ->nocb_lock. This commit
therefore makes this lock acquisition conditional, forgoing callback
advancement when the leaf rcu_node ->lock is not immediately available.
(In this case, the no-CBs grace-period kthread will eventually do any
needed callback advancement.)
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Currently, __call_rcu_nocb_wake() conditionally acquires the leaf rcu_node
structure's ->lock, and only afterwards does rcu_advance_cbs_nowake()
check to see if it is possible to advance callbacks without potentially
needing to awaken the grace-period kthread. Given that the no-awaken
check can be done locklessly, this commit reverses the order, so that
rcu_advance_cbs_nowake() is invoked without holding the leaf rcu_node
structure's ->lock and rcu_advance_cbs_nowake() checks the grace-period
state before conditionally acquiring that lock, thus reducing the number
of needless acquistions of the leaf rcu_node structure's ->lock.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Currently, when the square root of the number of CPUs is rounded down
by int_sqrt(), this round-down is applied to the number of callback
kthreads per grace-period kthreads. This makes almost no difference
for large systems, but results in oddities such as three no-CBs
grace-period kthreads for a five-CPU system, which is a bit excessive.
This commit therefore causes the round-down to apply to the number of
no-CBs grace-period kthreads, so that systems with from four to eight
CPUs have only two no-CBs grace period kthreads.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
A given rcu_data structure's ->nocb_lock can be acquired very frequently
by the corresponding CPU and occasionally by the corresponding no-CBs
grace-period and callbacks kthreads. In particular, these two kthreads
will have frequent gaps between ->nocb_lock acquisitions that are roughly
a grace period in duration. This means that any excessive ->nocb_lock
contention will be due to the CPU's acquisitions, and this in turn
enables a very naive contention-avoidance strategy to be quite effective.
This commit therefore modifies rcu_nocb_lock() to first
attempt a raw_spin_trylock(), and to atomically increment a
separate ->nocb_lock_contended across a raw_spin_lock(). This new
->nocb_lock_contended field is checked in __call_rcu_nocb_wake() when
interrupts are enabled, with a spin-wait for contending acquisitions
to complete, thus allowing the kthreads a chance to acquire the lock.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Currently, the code provides an extra wakeup for the no-CBs grace-period
kthread if one of its CPUs is generating excessive numbers of callbacks.
But satisfying though it is to wake something up when things are going
south, unless the thing being awakened can actually help solve the
problem, that extra wakeup does nothing but consume additional CPU time,
which is exactly what you don't want during a call_rcu() flood.
This commit therefore avoids doing anything if the corresponding
no-CBs callback kthread is going full tilt. Otherwise, if advancing
callbacks immediately might help and if the leaf rcu_node structure's
lock is immediately available, this commit invokes a new variant of
rcu_advance_cbs() that advances callbacks only if doing so won't require
awakening the grace-period kthread (not to be confused with any of the
no-CBs grace-period kthreads).
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
It might be hard to imagine having more than two billion callbacks
queued on a single CPU's ->cblist, but someone will do it sometime.
This commit therefore makes __call_rcu_nocb_wake() handle this situation
by upgrading local variable "len" from "int" to "long".
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
