RCU's rcu_oom_notify() disables CPU hotplug in order to stabilize the
list of online CPUs, which it traverses. However, this is completely
pointless because smp_call_function_single() will quietly fail if invoked
on an offline CPU. Because the count of requests is incremented in the
rcu_oom_notify_cpu() function that is remotely invoked, everything works
nicely even in the face of concurrent CPU-hotplug operations.
Furthermore, in recent kernels, invoking get_online_cpus() from an OOM
notifier can result in deadlock. This commit therefore removes the
call to get_online_cpus() and put_online_cpus() from rcu_oom_notify().
Change-Id: Ib5cfc417a7481ae0ee9ae2ee82b88a73b2d12a89
Reported-by: Marcin Ślusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Reported-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Tested-by: Marcin Ślusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
Git-commit: 9a54f98e341d09793247a6e598012edefb5ae7cb
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Signed-off-by: Srinivas Ramana <sramana@codeaurora.org>
The rcu_start_gp_advanced() function currently uses irq_work_queue()
to defer wakeups of the RCU grace-period kthread. This deferring
is necessary to avoid RCU-scheduler deadlocks involving the rcu_node
structure's lock, meaning that RCU cannot call any of the scheduler's
wake-up functions while holding one of these locks.
Unfortunately, the second and subsequent calls to irq_work_queue() are
ignored, and the first call will be ignored (aside from queuing the work
item) if the scheduler-clock tick is turned off. This is OK for many
uses, especially those where irq_work_queue() is called from an interrupt
or softirq handler, because in those cases the scheduler-clock-tick state
will be re-evaluated, which will turn the scheduler-clock tick back on.
On the next tick, any deferred work will then be processed.
However, this strategy does not always work for RCU, which can be invoked
at process level from idle CPUs. In this case, the tick might never
be turned back on, indefinitely defering a grace-period start request.
Note that the RCU CPU stall detector cannot see this condition, because
there is no RCU grace period in progress. Therefore, we can (and do!)
see long tens-of-seconds stalls in grace-period handling. In theory,
we could see a full grace-period hang, but rcutorture testing to date
has seen only the tens-of-seconds stalls. Event tracing demonstrates
that irq_work_queue() is being called repeatedly to no effect during
these stalls: The "newreq" event appears repeatedly from a task that is
not one of the grace-period kthreads.
In theory, irq_work_queue() might be fixed to avoid this sort of issue,
but RCU's requirements are unusual and it is quite straightforward to pass
wake-up responsibility up through RCU's call chain, so that the wakeup
happens when the offending locks are released.
This commit therefore makes this change. The rcu_start_gp_advanced(),
rcu_start_future_gp(), rcu_accelerate_cbs(), rcu_advance_cbs(),
__note_gp_changes(), and rcu_start_gp() functions now return a boolean
which indicates when a wake-up is needed. A new rcu_gp_kthread_wake()
does the wakeup when it is necessary and safe to do so: No self-wakes,
no wake-ups if the ->gp_flags field indicates there is no need (as in
someone else did the wake-up before we got around to it), and no wake-ups
before the grace-period kthread has been created.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Git-commit: 48a7639ce80cf279834d0d44865e49ecd714f37d
[kishank@codeaurora.org resolve trivial conflicts]
Signed-off-by: Kishan Kumar <kishank@codeaurora.org>
In the old days, the only source of requests for future grace periods
was NOCB CPUs. This has changed: CPUs routinely post requests for
future grace periods in order to promote power efficiency and reduce
OS jitter with minimal impact on grace-period latency. This commit
therefore updates cpu_needs_another_gp() to invoke rcu_future_needs_gp()
instead of rcu_nocb_needs_gp(). The latter is no longer used, so is
now removed. This commit also adds tracing for the irq_work_queue()
wakeup case.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Git-commit: 365187fbc04fd55766bf6a94e37e558505bf480a
Signed-off-by: Kishan Kumar <kishank@codeaurora.org>
Because RCU's quiescent-state-forcing mechanism is used to drive the
full-system-idle state machine, and because this mechanism is executed
by RCU's grace-period kthreads, this commit forces these kthreads to
run on the timekeeping CPU (tick_do_timer_cpu). To do otherwise would
mean that the RCU grace-period kthreads would force the system into
non-idle state every time they drove the state machine, which would
be just a bit on the futile side.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Git-commit: eb75767be0e514f97bf1b5cec763696cfc7f7e2a
Signed-off-by: Kishan Kumar <kishank@codeaurora.org>
The rcu_try_advance_all_cbs() function is invoked on each attempted
entry to and every exit from idle. If this function determines that
there are callbacks ready to invoke, the caller will invoke the RCU
core, which in turn will result in a pair of context switches. If a
CPU enters and exits idle extremely frequently, this can result in
an excessive number of context switches and high CPU overhead.
This commit therefore causes rcu_try_advance_all_cbs() to throttle
itself, refusing to do work more than once per jiffy.
Reported-by: Tibor Billes <tbilles@gmx.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Tibor Billes <tbilles@gmx.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Git-commit: c229828ca6bc62d6c654f64b1d1b8a9ebd8a56f3
[kishank@codeaurora.org resolve trivial conflicts]
Signed-off-by: Kishan Kumar <kishank@codeaurora.org>
Because note_gp_changes() now incorporates rcu_process_gp_end() function,
this commit switches to the former and eliminates the latter. In
addition, this commit changes external calls from __rcu_process_gp_end()
to __note_gp_changes().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Git-commit: 470716fc043aba2fea832334e58d5cd5d82288a3
Signed-off-by: Kishan Kumar <kishank@codeaurora.org>
The first item list_for_each_entry_continue(alist) iterates over is
alist->next, rather than alist itself. Consequently,
rcu_print_detail_task_stall_rnp() skips the task referenced by gp_tasks.
Use gp_tasks->prev as the argument to list_for_each_entry_continue()
instead.
Change-Id: Iaa2be14139d0f6c1a1ed25817f0e5737b3e74753
Signed-off-by: Patrick Daly <pdaly@codeaurora.org>
One way that an RCU CPU stall warning can happen is if the grace-period
kthread is not allowed to execute. One proxy for this kthread's
forward progress is the number of force-quiescent-state (fqs) scans.
This commit therefore adds the number of fqs scans to the RCU CPU stall
warning printouts when CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO=y.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Git-repo: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
Git-commit: fc908ed33e7c1428f799abb12399f906da03b397
[pdaly@codeaurora.org Resolve convlicts from declining
26cdfedf6a902345f8604ea8e0b7dd2566b37a46]
Change-Id: I6d4a5088dff2a499593862bb0a2e2fb604ffc393
Signed-off-by: Patrick Daly <pdaly@codeaurora.org>
Paul E. McKenney
Peter Zijlstra
Patrick Daly