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rcu: Make expedited grace periods recheck dyntick idle state 

Expedited grace periods check dyntick-idle state, and avoid sending
IPIs to idle CPUs, including those running guest OSes, and, on NOHZ_FULL
kernels, nohz_full CPUs.  However, the kernel has been observed checking
a CPU while it was non-idle, but sending the IPI after it has gone
idle.  This commit therefore rechecks idle state immediately before
sending the IPI, refraining from IPIing CPUs that have since gone idle.

Reported-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Paul E. McKenney 2016-10-11 06:09:59 -07:00
parent d0af39e89e
commit 0742ac3e2f
2 changed files with 12 additions and 1 deletions
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kernel/rcu/tree.h
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@ -404,6 +404,7 @@ struct rcu_data {
atomic_long_t exp_workdone1; /* # done by others #1. */
atomic_long_t exp_workdone2; /* # done by others #2. */
atomic_long_t exp_workdone3; /* # done by others #3. */
int exp_dynticks_snap; /* Double-check need for IPI. */
/* 7) Callback offloading. */
#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU

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kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h
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@ -358,8 +358,10 @@ static void sync_rcu_exp_select_cpus(struct rcu_state *rsp,
struct rcu_data *rdp = per_cpu_ptr(rsp->rda, cpu);
struct rcu_dynticks *rdtp = &per_cpu(rcu_dynticks, cpu);
rdp->exp_dynticks_snap =
atomic_add_return(0, &rdtp->dynticks);
if (raw_smp_processor_id() == cpu ||
!(atomic_add_return(0, &rdtp->dynticks) & 0x1) ||
!(rdp->exp_dynticks_snap & 0x1) ||
!(rnp->qsmaskinitnext & rdp->grpmask))
mask_ofl_test |= rdp->grpmask;
}
@ -377,9 +379,17 @@ static void sync_rcu_exp_select_cpus(struct rcu_state *rsp,
/* IPI the remaining CPUs for expedited quiescent state. */
for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu(rnp, cpu) {
unsigned long mask = leaf_node_cpu_bit(rnp, cpu);
struct rcu_data *rdp = per_cpu_ptr(rsp->rda, cpu);
struct rcu_dynticks *rdtp = &per_cpu(rcu_dynticks, cpu);
if (!(mask_ofl_ipi & mask))
continue;
retry_ipi:
if (atomic_add_return(0, &rdtp->dynticks) !=
rdp->exp_dynticks_snap) {
mask_ofl_test |= mask;
continue;
}
ret = smp_call_function_single(cpu, func, rsp, 0);
if (!ret) {
mask_ofl_ipi &= ~mask;