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2018-07-12Merge branches 'fixes1.2018.07.12b' and 'torture1.2018.07.12b' into HEADPaul E. McKenney
fixes1.2018.07.12b: Post-gp_seq miscellaneous fixes torture1.2018.07.12b: Post-gp_seq torture-test updates
2018-07-12rcutorture: Add support to detect if boost kthread prio is too lowJoel Fernandes (Google)
When rcutorture is built in to the kernel, an earlier patch detects that and raises the priority of RCU's kthreads to allow rcutorture's RCU priority boosting tests to succeed. However, if rcutorture is built as a module, those priorities must be raised manually via the rcutree.kthread_prio kernel boot parameter. If this manual step is not taken, rcutorture's RCU priority boosting tests will fail due to kthread starvation. One approach would be to raise the default priority, but that risks breaking existing users. Another approach would be to allow runtime adjustment of RCU's kthread priorities, but that introduces numerous "interesting" race conditions. This patch therefore instead detects too-low priorities, and prints a message and disables the RCU priority boosting tests in that case. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-07-12rcu: Remove rcutorture test version and sequence numberPaul E. McKenney
Back when RCU had a debugfs interface, there was a test version and sequence number that allowed associating debugfs data with a particular test run, where the test run started with modprobe and ended with rmmod, which was how tests were run back on the old ABAT system within IBM. But rcutorture testing no longer runs on ABAT, and there is no longer an RCU debugfs interface, so there is no longer any need for test versions and sequence numbers. This commit therefore removes the rcutorture_record_test_transition() and rcutorture_record_progress() functions, and along with them the rcutorture_testseq and rcutorture_vernum variables that they update. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-07-12rcu: Make rcu_seq_diff() more exactPaul E. McKenney
The current implementatation of rcu_seq_diff() follows tradition in providing a rough-and-ready approximation of the number of elapsed grace periods between the two rcu_seq values. However, this difference is used to flag RCU-failure "near misses", which can be a valuable debugging aid, so more exactitude would be an improvement. This commit therefore improves the accuracy of rcu_seq_diff(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-07-12rcu: Add comment documenting how rcu_seq_snap worksJoel Fernandes (Google)
rcu_seq_snap may be tricky to decipher. Lets document how it works with an example to make it easier. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Shrink comment as suggested by Peter Zijlstra. ]
2018-07-12rcutorture: Correctly handle grace-period sequence wrapPaul E. McKenney
The new ->gq_seq grace-period sequence numbers must be shifted down, which give artifacts when these numbers wrap. This commit therefore enables rcutorture and rcuperf to handle grace-period sequence numbers even if they do wrap. It does this by allowing a special subtraction function to be specified, and this function subtracts before shifting. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-07-12rcu: Make rcu_start_this_gp() check for grace period already startedPaul E. McKenney
In the old days of ->gpnum and ->completed, the code requesting a new grace period checked to see if that grace period had already started, bailing early if so. The new-age ->gp_seq approach instead checks whether the grace period has already finished. A compensating change pushed the requested grace period down to the bottom of the tree, thus reducing lock contention and even eliminating it in some cases. But why not further reduce contention, especially on large systems, by doing both, especially given that the cost of doing both is extremely small? This commit therefore adds a new rcu_seq_started() function that checks whether a specified grace period has already started. It then uses this new function in place of rcu_seq_done() in the rcu_start_this_gp() function's funnel locking code. Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-07-12rcutorture: Convert rcutorture_get_gp_data() to ->gp_seqPaul E. McKenney
SRCU has long used ->srcu_gp_seq, and now RCU uses ->gp_seq. This commit therefore moves the rcutorture_get_gp_data() function from a ->gpnum / ->completed pair to ->gp_seq. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-07-12rcu: Move RCU's grace-period-change code to ->gp_seqPaul E. McKenney
This commit moves __note_gp_changes(), note_gp_changes(), and __rcu_pending() to ->gp_seq, creating new rcu_seq_completed_gp() and rcu_seq_new_gp() functions for this purpose. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Reinstate "cpuend: trace as suggested by Joel Fernandes. ]
2018-07-12rcu: Make rcutorture's batches-completed API use ->gp_seqPaul E. McKenney
The rcutorture test invokes rcu_batches_started(), rcu_batches_completed(), rcu_batches_started_bh(), rcu_batches_completed_bh(), rcu_batches_started_sched(), and rcu_batches_completed_sched() to do grace-period consistency checks, and rcuperf uses the _completed variants for statistics. These functions use ->gpnum and ->completed. This commit therefore replaces them with rcu_get_gp_seq(), rcu_bh_get_gp_seq(), and rcu_sched_get_gp_seq(), adjusting rcutorture and rcuperf to make use of them. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-06-25rcu: Make expedited grace period use direct call on last leafPaul E. McKenney
During expedited grace-period initialization, a work item is scheduled for each leaf rcu_node structure. However, that initialization code is itself (normally) executing from a workqueue, so one of the leaf rcu_node structures could just as well be handled by that pre-existing workqueue, and with less overhead. This commit therefore uses a shiny new rcu_is_leaf_node() macro to execute the last leaf rcu_node structure's initialization directly from the pre-existing workqueue. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-05-15Merge branches 'exp.2018.05.15a', 'fixes.2018.05.15a', 'lock.2018.05.15a' ↵Paul E. McKenney
and 'torture.2018.05.15a' into HEAD exp.2018.05.15a: Parallelize expedited grace-period initialization. fixes.2018.05.15a: Miscellaneous fixes. lock.2018.05.15a: Decrease lock contention on root rcu_node structure, which is a step towards merging RCU flavors. torture.2018.05.15a: Torture-test updates.
2018-05-15rcu: Add leaf-node macrosPaul E. McKenney
This commit adds rcu_first_leaf_node() that returns a pointer to the first leaf rcu_node structure in the specified RCU flavor and an rcu_is_leaf_node() that returns true iff the specified rcu_node structure is a leaf. This commit also uses these macros where appropriate. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
2018-05-15rcu: Parallelize expedited grace-period initializationPaul E. McKenney
The latency of RCU expedited grace periods grows with increasing numbers of CPUs, eventually failing to be all that expedited. Much of the growth in latency is in the initialization phase, so this commit uses workqueues to carry out this initialization concurrently on a rcu_node-by-rcu_node basis. This change makes use of a new rcu_par_gp_wq because flushing a work item from another work item running from the same workqueue can result in deadlock. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
2018-02-23rcu: Create RCU-specific workqueues with rescuersPaul E. McKenney
RCU's expedited grace periods can participate in out-of-memory deadlocks due to all available system_wq kthreads being blocked and there not being memory available to create more. This commit prevents such deadlocks by allocating an RCU-specific workqueue_struct at early boot time, and providing it with a rescuer to ensure forward progress. This uses the shiny new init_rescuer() function provided by Tejun (but indirectly). This commit also causes SRCU to use this new RCU-specific workqueue_struct. Note that SRCU's use of workqueues never blocks them waiting for readers, so this should be safe from a forward-progress viewpoint. Note that this moves SRCU from system_power_efficient_wq to a normal workqueue. In the unlikely event that this results in measurable degradation, a separate power-efficient workqueue will be creates for SRCU. Reported-by: Prateek Sood <prsood@codeaurora.org> Reported-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
2018-02-20rcu: Make expedited RCU CPU selection avoid unnecessary storesPaul E. McKenney
This commit reworks the first loop in sync_rcu_exp_select_cpus() to avoid doing unnecssary stores to other CPUs' rcu_data structures. This speeds up that first loop by roughly a factor of two on an old x86 system. In the case where the system is mostly idle, this loop incurs a large fraction of the overhead of the synchronize_rcu_expedited(). There is less benefit on busy systems because the overhead of the smp_call_function_single() in the second loop dominates in that case. However, it is not unusual to do configuration chances involving RCU grace periods (both expedited and normal) while the system is mostly idle, so this optimization is worth doing. While we are in the area, this commit also adds parentheses to arguments used by the for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu() macro. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-02-20rcu: Add more tracing of expedited grace periodsPaul E. McKenney
This commit adds more tracing of expedited grace periods to enable improved debugging of slowdowns. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-02-20rcu: Use wrapper for lockdep assertsMatthew Wilcox
Commits c0b334c5bfa9 and ea9b0c8a26a2 introduced new sparse warnings by accessing rcu_node->lock directly and ignoring the __private marker. Introduce a new wrapper and use it. Also fix a similar problem in srcutree.c introduced by a3883df3935e. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <mawilcox@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-02-20rcu: Consolidate rcu.h #ifdefsPaul E. McKenney
The kernel/rcu/rcu.h file has a pair of consecutive #ifdefs on CONFIG_TINY_RCU, so this commit consolidates them, thus saving a few lines of code. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-11-28rcu: Shrink ->dynticks_{nmi_,}nesting from long long to longPaul E. McKenney
Because the ->dynticks_nesting field now only contains the process-based nesting level instead of a value encoding both the process nesting level and the irq "nesting" level, we no longer need a long long, even on 32-bit systems. This commit therefore changes both the ->dynticks_nesting and ->dynticks_nmi_nesting fields to long. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-11-27rcu: Make ->dynticks_nesting be a simple counterPaul E. McKenney
Now that ->dynticks_nesting counts only process-level dyntick-idle entry and exit, there is no need for the elaborate segmented counter with its guard fields and overflow checking. This commit therefore makes ->dynticks_nesting be a simple counter. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-11-27rcu: Clamp ->dynticks_nmi_nesting at eqs entry/exitPaul E. McKenney
In preparation for merging dyntick-idle irq handling into the NMI algorithm, clamp ->dynticks_nmi_nesting value to allow for interrupts that enter but never leave and vice versa. It is important that the clamping happen outside of the extended quiescent state. Otherwise, there will be short windows where irqs and NMIs fail to convince RCU to start watching. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-10-09rcu: Suppress RCU CPU stall warnings while dumping tracePaul E. McKenney
Currently, RCU emits Suppress RCU CPU stall warnings during its automatically initiated ftrace_dump() calls after detecting an error condition, which can result in excessively excessive console output and lost trace events. This commit therefore suppresses RCU CPU stall warnings across any of these ftrace_dump() calls. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-10-09rcu: Turn off tracing before dumping tracePaul E. McKenney
Currently, RCU allows tracing to continue when it automatically does ftrace_dump() after detecting an error condition, which can result in excessively large traces and lost trace events. This commit therefore does a tracing_off() before any of these ftrace_dump() calls. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-08-17rcu: Move rcu.h to new trivial-function stylePaul E. McKenney
This commit saves a few lines in kernel/rcu/rcu.h by moving to single-line definitions for trivial functions, instead of the old style where the two curly braces each get their own line. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08rcu: Eliminate NOCBs CPU-state Kconfig optionsPaul E. McKenney
The CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL, CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE, and CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO Kconfig options are used only in testing and are redundant with the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. This commit therefore removes these three Kconfig options and adjusts the rcutorture scripts to use the boot parameter instead. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08srcu: Remove Classic SRCUPaul E. McKenney
Classic SRCU was only ever intended to be a fallback in case of issues with Tree/Tiny SRCU, and the latter two are doing quite well in testing. This commit therefore removes Classic SRCU. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08srcu: Fix rcutorture-statistics typoPaul E. McKenney
The function srcutorture_get_gp_data() duplicated the check for sp->batch_check0.head instead of also checking sp->batch_check1.head. The only effect of this typo would be for rcutorture statistics to understate the fraction of time that an SRCU grace period was in flight, and only for Classic SRCU. This commit fixes this typo. Reported-by: David Binderman <dcb314@hotmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08rcu: Remove typecheck() from RCU locking wrapper functionsPaul E. McKenney
Because raw_spin_lock_irqsave() and raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore() both do typecheck() on their flags argument, there is no point in duplicating this check in raw_spin_lock_irqsave_rcu_node() and raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore_rcu_node(). This commit therefore saves a few lines by removing this duplicated check. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08rcu: Move rnp->lock wrappers for SRCU usePaul E. McKenney
This commit moves the now-generic rnp->lock wrapper macros from kernel/rcu/tree.h to kernel/rcu/rcu.h, thus allowing SRCU to use them. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08srcu: Apply trivial callback lists to shrink Tiny SRCUPaul E. McKenney
The rcu_segcblist structure provides quite a bit of functionality, and Tiny SRCU needs almost none of it. So this commit replaces Tiny SRCU's uses of rcu_segcblist with a simple singly linked list with tail pointer. This change significantly reduces Tiny SRCU's memory footprint, more than making up for the growth caused by the creation of rcu_segcblist.c Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08srcu: Shrink srcu.h by moving docbook and private functionPaul E. McKenney
The call_srcu() docbook entry is currently in include/linux/srcu.h, which causes needless processing for each include point. This commit therefore moves this entry to kernel/rcu/srcutree.c, which the compiler reads only once. In addition, the srcu_batches_completed() function is used only within RCU and its torture-test suites. This commit therefore also moves this function's declaration from include/linux/srcutiny.h, include/linux/srcutree.h, and include/linux/srcuclassic.h to kernel/rcu/rcu.h. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08rcu: Move rcu_request_urgent_qs_task() out of rcutiny.h and rcutree.hPaul E. McKenney
The rcu_request_urgent_qs_task() function is used only within RCU, so there is no point in exporting it to the rest of the kernel from nclude/linux/rcutiny.h and include/linux/rcutree.h. This commit therefore moves this function to kernel/rcu/rcu.h. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08rcu: Move torture-related functions out of rcutiny.h and rcutree.hPaul E. McKenney
The various functions similar to rcu_batches_started(), the function show_rcu_gp_kthreads(), the various functions similar to rcu_force_quiescent_state(), and the variables rcutorture_testseq and rcutorture_vernum are used only within RCU. There is therefore no point in exporting them to the kernel at large from include/linux/rcutiny.h and include/linux/rcutree.h. This commit therefore moves all of these to kernel/rcu/rcu.h. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08rcu: Move rcu_ftrace_dump() from rcupdate.h to rcu.hPaul E. McKenney
The rcu_ftrace_dump() function is used only internally to RCU. This commit therefore moves its declaration from include/linux/rcupdate.h to kernel/rcu/rcu.h. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08rcu: Move rcu_is_nocb_cpu() from rcupdate.h to rcu.hPaul E. McKenney
The rcu_is_nocb_cpu() function is used only internally to RCU. This commit therefore moves its declaration from include/linux/rcupdate.h to kernel/rcu/rcu.h. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08rcu: Move the RCU_SCHEDULER_ definitions from rcupdate.hPaul E. McKenney
The RCU_SCHEDULER_INACTIVE, RCU_SCHEDULER_INIT, and RCU_SCHEDULER_RUNNING definitions are used only within RCU, so this commit moves them from include/linux/rcupdate.h to kernel/rcu/rcu.h. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08rcu: Move torture-related definitions from rcupdate.h to rcu.hPaul E. McKenney
The include/linux/rcupdate.h file contains a number of definitions that are used only to communicate between rcutorture, rcuperf, and the RCU code itself. There is no point in having these definitions exposed globally throughout the kernel, so this commit moves them to kernel/rcu/rcu.h. This change has the added benefit of shrinking rcupdate.h. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-06-08rcu: Move expediting-related access/control out of rcupdate.hPaul E. McKenney
The rcu_gp_is_normal(), rcu_gp_is_expedited(), rcu_expedite_gp(), and rcu_unexpedite_gp() functions are intended only for use within the RCU implementation itself -- the sysfs access is what should be used outside of RCU. This commit therefore moves the declarations for these functions to kernel/rcu/rcu.h, and also includes this file into kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c and kernel/rcu/rcuperf.c. This also has the beneficial effect of shrinking rcupdate.c a bit. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-04-18srcu: Merge ->srcu_state into ->srcu_gp_seqPaul E. McKenney
Updating ->srcu_state and ->srcu_gp_seq will lead to extremely complex race conditions given multiple callback queues, so this commit takes advantage of the two-bit state now available in rcu_seq counters to store the state in the bottom two bits of ->srcu_gp_seq. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-04-18srcu: Allow a second bit in rcu_seq for SRCU statePaul E. McKenney
This commit increases the number of reserved bits at the bottom of an rcu_seq grace-period counter from one to two, as will be needed to accommodate SRCU's three-state grace periods. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-04-18srcu: Improve rcu_seq grace-period-counter abstractionPaul E. McKenney
The expedited grace-period code contains several open-coded shifts know the format of an rcu_seq grace-period counter, which is not particularly good style. This commit therefore creates a new rcu_seq_ctr() function that extracts the counter portion of the counter, and an rcu_seq_state() function that extracts the low-order state bit. This commit prepares for SRCU callback parallelization, which will require two state bits. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-04-18srcu: Make num_rcu_lvl[] array be externalPaul E. McKenney
This commit makes the num_rcu_lvl[] array external so that SRCU can make use of it for initializing its upcoming srcu_node tree. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-04-18srcu: Move rcu_node traversal macros to rcu.hPaul E. McKenney
This commit moves rcu_for_each_node_breadth_first(), rcu_for_each_nonleaf_node_breadth_first(), and rcu_for_each_leaf_node() from kernel/rcu/tree.h to kernel/rcu/rcu.h so that SRCU can access them. This commit is code-movement only. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-04-18srcu: Move rcu_init_levelspread() to rcu_tree_node.hPaul E. McKenney
This commit moves the rcu_init_levelspread() function from kernel/rcu/tree.c to kernel/rcu/rcu.h so that SRCU can access it. This is another step towards enabling SRCU to create its own combining tree. This commit is code-movement only, give or take knock-on adjustments. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-04-18srcu: Use rcu_segcblist to track SRCU callbacksPaul E. McKenney
This commit switches SRCU from custom-built callback queues to the new rcu_segcblist structure. This change associates grace-period sequence numbers with groups of callbacks, which will be needed for efficient processing of per-CPU callbacks. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-04-18rcu: Fix warning in rcu_seq_end()Dmitry Vyukov
The rcu_seq_end() function increments seq signifying completion of a grace period, after that checks that the seq is even and wakes _synchronize_rcu_expedited(). The _synchronize_rcu_expedited() function uses wait_event() to wait for even seq. The problem is that wait_event() can return as soon as seq becomes even without waiting for the wakeup. In such case the warning in rcu_seq_end() can falsely fire if the next expedited grace period starts before the check. Check that seq has good value before incrementing it. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Cc: syzkaller@googlegroups.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: jiangshanlai@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- syzkaller-triggered warning: WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 4832 at kernel/rcu/tree.c:3533 rcu_seq_end+0x110/0x140 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3533 CPU: 0 PID: 4832 Comm: kworker/0:3 Not tainted 4.10.0+ #276 Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011 Workqueue: events wait_rcu_exp_gp Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:15 [inline] dump_stack+0x2ee/0x3ef lib/dump_stack.c:51 panic+0x1fb/0x412 kernel/panic.c:179 __warn+0x1c4/0x1e0 kernel/panic.c:540 warn_slowpath_null+0x2c/0x40 kernel/panic.c:583 rcu_seq_end+0x110/0x140 kernel/rcu/tree.c:3533 rcu_exp_gp_seq_end kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h:36 [inline] rcu_exp_wait_wake+0x8a9/0x1330 kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h:517 rcu_exp_sel_wait_wake kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h:559 [inline] wait_rcu_exp_gp+0x83/0xc0 kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h:570 process_one_work+0xc06/0x1c20 kernel/workqueue.c:2096 worker_thread+0x223/0x19c0 kernel/workqueue.c:2230 kthread+0x326/0x3f0 kernel/kthread.c:227 ret_from_fork+0x31/0x40 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:430 ---
2017-04-18srcu: Move rcu_seq_start() and friends to rcu.hPaul E. McKenney
This commit moves rcu_seq_start(), rcu_seq_end(), rcu_seq_snap(), and rcu_seq_done() from kernel/rcu/tree.c to kernel/rcu/rcu.h. This will allow SRCU to use these functions, which in turn will allow SRCU to move from a single global callback queue to a per-CPU callback queue. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-04-18rcu: Semicolon inside RCU_TRACE() for rcu.hPaul E. McKenney
The current use of "RCU_TRACE(statement);" can cause odd bugs, especially where "statement" is a local-variable declaration, as it can leave a misplaced ";" in the source code. This commit therefore converts these to "RCU_TRACE(statement;)", which avoids the misplaced ";". Reported-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2017-01-14rcu: Narrow early boot window of illegal synchronous grace periodsPaul E. McKenney
The current preemptible RCU implementation goes through three phases during bootup. In the first phase, there is only one CPU that is running with preemption disabled, so that a no-op is a synchronous grace period. In the second mid-boot phase, the scheduler is running, but RCU has not yet gotten its kthreads spawned (and, for expedited grace periods, workqueues are not yet running. During this time, any attempt to do a synchronous grace period will hang the system (or complain bitterly, depending). In the third and final phase, RCU is fully operational and everything works normally. This has been OK for some time, but there has recently been some synchronous grace periods showing up during the second mid-boot phase. This code worked "by accident" for awhile, but started failing as soon as expedited RCU grace periods switched over to workqueues in commit 8b355e3bc140 ("rcu: Drive expedited grace periods from workqueue"). Note that the code was buggy even before this commit, as it was subject to failure on real-time systems that forced all expedited grace periods to run as normal grace periods (for example, using the rcu_normal ksysfs parameter). The callchain from the failure case is as follows: early_amd_iommu_init() |-> acpi_put_table(ivrs_base); |-> acpi_tb_put_table(table_desc); |-> acpi_tb_invalidate_table(table_desc); |-> acpi_tb_release_table(...) |-> acpi_os_unmap_memory |-> acpi_os_unmap_iomem |-> acpi_os_map_cleanup |-> synchronize_rcu_expedited The kernel showing this callchain was built with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y, which caused the code to try using workqueues before they were initialized, which did not go well. This commit therefore reworks RCU to permit synchronous grace periods to proceed during this mid-boot phase. This commit is therefore a fix to a regression introduced in v4.9, and is therefore being put forward post-merge-window in v4.10. This commit sets a flag from the existing rcu_scheduler_starting() function which causes all synchronous grace periods to take the expedited path. The expedited path now checks this flag, using the requesting task to drive the expedited grace period forward during the mid-boot phase. Finally, this flag is updated by a core_initcall() function named rcu_exp_runtime_mode(), which causes the runtime codepaths to be used. Note that this arrangement assumes that tasks are not sent POSIX signals (or anything similar) from the time that the first task is spawned through core_initcall() time. Fixes: 8b355e3bc140 ("rcu: Drive expedited grace periods from workqueue") Reported-by: "Zheng, Lv" <lv.zheng@intel.com> Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Stan Kain <stan.kain@gmail.com> Tested-by: Ivan <waffolz@hotmail.com> Tested-by: Emanuel Castelo <emanuel.castelo@gmail.com> Tested-by: Bruno Pesavento <bpesavento@infinito.it> Tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Tested-by: Frederic Bezies <fredbezies@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.9.0-