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Paul E. McKenney 70321d447a Revert "rcu: Permit rt_mutex_unlock() with irqs disabled"
This reverts commit 5342e269b2.

The approach taken in this patch was deemed too abusive to mutexes,
and thus too likely to result in maintenance problems in the future.
Instead, we will disallow RCU read-side critical sections that partially
overlap with interrupt-disbled code segments.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:33:18 -08:00
Kees Cook d493011a37 docs: Additional LWN links to RCU API
Tyler Hicks pointed me at an additional article on RCU and I figured
it should probably be mentioned with the others.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:32:23 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 4968c300e1 rcu: Augment rcu_batch_end tracing for idle and callback state
The current rcu_batch_end event trace records only the name of the RCU
flavor and the total number of callbacks that remain queued on the
current CPU.  This is insufficient for testing and tuning the new
dyntick-idle RCU_FAST_NO_HZ code, so this commit adds idle state along
with whether or not any of the callbacks that were ready to invoke
at the beginning of rcu_do_batch() are still queued.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:32:22 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 101db7b41d rcu: Add rcutorture tests for srcu_read_lock_raw()
This commit adds simple rcutorture tests for srcu_read_lock_raw() and
srcu_read_unlock_raw().  It does not test doing srcu_read_lock_raw()
in an exception handler and releasing it in the corresponding process
context.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:32:21 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney f220242af9 rcu: Make rcutorture test for hotpluggability before offlining CPUs
The rcutorture test now can automatically exercise CPU hotplug and
collect success statistics, which can be correlated with other rcutorture
activity.  This permits rcutorture to completely exercise RCU regardless
of what sort of userspace and filesystem layout is in use.  Unfortunately,
rcutorture is happy to attempt to offline CPUs that cannot be offlined,
for example, CPU 0 in both the x86 and ARM architectures.  Although this
allows rcutorture testing to proceed normally, it confounds attempts at
error analysis due to the resulting flood of spurious CPU-hotplug errors.

Therefore, this commit uses the new cpu_is_hotpluggable() function to
avoid attempting to offline CPUs that are not hotpluggable, which in
turn avoids spurious CPU-hotplug errors.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:32:21 -08:00
Josh Triplett 2987557f52 driver-core/cpu: Expose hotpluggability to the rest of the kernel
When architectures register CPUs, they indicate whether the CPU allows
hotplugging; notably, x86 and ARM don't allow hotplugging CPU 0.
Userspace can easily query the hotpluggability of a CPU via sysfs;
however, the kernel has no convenient way of accessing that property in
an architecture-independent way.  While the kernel can simply try it and
see, some code needs to distinguish between "hotplug failed" and
"hotplug has no hope of working on this CPU"; for example, rcutorture's
CPU hotplug tests want to avoid drowning out real hotplug failures with
expected failures.

Expose this property via a new cpu_is_hotpluggable function, so that the
rest of the kernel can access it in an architecture-independent way.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:32:20 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 2d1dc9a600 rcu: Remove redundant rcu_cpu_stall_suppress declaration
No point in having two identical rcu_cpu_stall_suppress declarations,
so remove the more obscure of the two.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:32:11 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney f23f7fa1c8 rcu: Adaptive dyntick-idle preparation
If there are other CPUs active at a given point in time, then there is a
limit to what a given CPU can do to advance the current RCU grace period.
Beyond this limit, attempting to force the RCU grace period forward will
do nothing but consume energy burning CPU cycles.

Therefore, this commit takes an adaptive approach to RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
preparations for idle.  It pushes the RCU core state machine for
two cycles unconditionally, and then it will push from zero to three
additional cycles, but only as long as the RCU core has work for this
CPU to do immediately.  The rcu_pending() function is used to check
whether the RCU core has such work.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:32:10 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney dff1672d91 rcu: Keep invoking callbacks if CPU otherwise idle
The rcu_do_batch() function that invokes callbacks for TREE_RCU and
TREE_PREEMPT_RCU normally throttles callback invocation to avoid degrading
scheduling latency.  However, as long as the CPU would otherwise be idle,
there is no downside to continuing to invoke any callbacks that have passed
through their grace periods.  In fact, processing such callbacks in a
timely manner has the benefit of increasing the probability that the
CPU can enter the power-saving dyntick-idle mode.

Therefore, this commit allows callback invocation to continue beyond the
preset limit as long as the scheduler does not have some other task to
run and as long as context is that of the idle task or the relevant
RCU kthread.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:32:09 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker facc4e1596 rcu: Irq nesting is always 0 on rcu_enter_idle_common
Because tasks don't nest, the ->dyntick_nesting must always be zero upon
entry to rcu_idle_enter_common().  Therefore, pass "0" rather than the
counter itself.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:32:08 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker b6fc602014 rcu: Don't check irq nesting from rcu idle entry/exit
Because tasks do not nest, rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() do
not need to check for nesting.  This commit therefore moves nesting
checks from rcu_idle_enter_common() to rcu_irq_exit() and from
rcu_idle_exit_common() to rcu_irq_enter().

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:32:07 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 7cb9249900 rcu: Permit dyntick-idle with callbacks pending
The current implementation of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ prevents CPUs from entering
dyntick-idle state if they have RCU callbacks pending.  Unfortunately,
this has the side-effect of often preventing them from entering this
state, especially if at least one other CPU is not in dyntick-idle state.
However, the resulting per-tick wakeup is wasteful in many cases: if the
CPU has already fully responded to the current RCU grace period, there
will be nothing for it to do until this grace period ends, which will
frequently take several jiffies.

This commit therefore permits a CPU that has done everything that the
current grace period has asked of it (rcu_pending() == 0) even if it
still as RCU callbacks pending.  However, such a CPU posts a timer to
wake it up several jiffies later (6 jiffies, based on experience with
grace-period lengths).  This wakeup is required to handle situations
that can result in all CPUs being in dyntick-idle mode, thus failing
to ever complete the current grace period.  If a CPU wakes up before
the timer goes off, then it cancels that timer, thus avoiding spurious
wakeups.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:32:07 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 3842a0832a rcu: Document same-context read-side constraints
The intent is that a given RCU read-side critical section be confined
to a single context.  For example, it is illegal to invoke rcu_read_lock()
in an exception handler and then invoke rcu_read_unlock() from the
context of the task that received the exception.

Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:32:06 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney f0e7c19db8 rcu: Identify dyntick-idle CPUs on first force_quiescent_state() pass
Fixes and workarounds for a number of issues (for example, that in
df4012edc) make it safe to once again detect dyntick-idle CPUs on the
first pass of force_quiescent_state(), so this commit makes that change.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:32:05 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney c92b131bdc rcu: Remove dynticks false positives and RCU failures
Assertions in rcu_init_percpu_data() unknowingly relied on outgoing
CPUs being turned off before reaching the idle loop.  Unfortunately,
when running under kvm/qemu on x86, CPUs really can get to idle before
begin shut off.  These CPUs are then born in dyntick-idle mode from an
RCU perspective, which results in splats in rcu_init_percpu_data() and
in RCU wrongly ignoring those CPUs despite them being active.  This in
turn can cause RCU to end grace periods prematurely, potentially freeing
up memory that the newly onlined CPUs were still using.  This is most
decidedly not what we need to see in an RCU implementation.

This commit therefore replaces the assertions in rcu_init_percpu_data()
with code that forces RCU's dyntick-idle view of newly onlined CPUs to
match reality.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:32:04 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 3ad0decf98 rcu: Reduce latency of rcu_prepare_for_idle()
Re-enable interrupts across calls to quiescent-state functions and
also across force_quiescent_state() to reduce latency.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:32:03 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney f535a607c1 rcu: Eliminate RCU_FAST_NO_HZ grace-period hang
With the new implementation of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ, it was possible to hang
RCU grace periods as follows:

o	CPU 0 attempts to go idle, cycles several times through the
	rcu_prepare_for_idle() loop, then goes dyntick-idle when
	RCU needs nothing more from it, while still having at least
	on RCU callback pending.

o	CPU 1 goes idle with no callbacks.

Both CPUs can then stay in dyntick-idle mode indefinitely, preventing
the RCU grace period from ever completing, possibly hanging the system.

This commit therefore prevents CPUs that have RCU callbacks from entering
dyntick-idle mode.  This approach also eliminates the need for the
end-of-grace-period IPIs used previously.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:32:02 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 84ad00cb61 rcu: Avoid needlessly IPIing CPUs at GP end
If a CPU enters dyntick-idle mode with callbacks pending, it will need
an IPI at the end of the grace period.  However, if it exits dyntick-idle
mode before the grace period ends, it will be needlessly IPIed at the
end of the grace period.

Therefore, this commit clears the per-CPU rcu_awake_at_gp_end flag
when a CPU determines that it does not need it.  This in turn requires
disabling interrupts across much of rcu_prepare_for_idle() in order to
avoid having nested interrupts clearing this state out from under us.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:32:01 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 3084f2f80c rcu: Go dyntick-idle more quickly if CPU has serviced current grace period
The earlier version would attempt to push callbacks through five times
before going into dyntick-idle mode if callbacks remained, but the CPU
had done all that it needed to do for the current RCU grace periods.
This is wasteful:  In most cases, once the CPU has done all that it
needs to for the current RCU grace periods, it will make no further
progress on the callbacks no matter how many times it loops through
the RCU core processing and the idle-entry code.

This commit therefore goes to dyntick-idle mode whenever the current
CPU has done all it can for the current grace period.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:32:00 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 433cdddcd9 rcu: Add tracing for RCU_FAST_NO_HZ
This commit adds trace_rcu_prep_idle(), which is invoked from
rcu_prepare_for_idle() and rcu_wake_cpu() to trace attempts on
the part of RCU to force CPUs into dyntick-idle mode.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:32:00 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 045fb9315a rcu: Update trace_rcu_dyntick() header comment
This commit updates the trace_rcu_dyntick() header comment to reflect
events added by commit 4b4f421.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:31:59 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 182dd4b277 doc: Add load/store guarantees to Documentation/atomic-ops.txt
An IRC discussion uncovered many conflicting opinions on what types
of data may be atomically loaded and stored.  This commit therefore
calls this out the official set: pointers, longs, ints, and chars (but
not shorts).  This commit also gives some examples of compiler mischief
that can thwart atomicity.

Please note that this discussion is relevant to !SMP kernels if
CONFIG_PREEMPT=y: preemption can cause almost as much trouble as can SMP.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Jes Sorensen <jes@sgi.com>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Koichi Yasutake <yasutake.koichi@jp.panasonic.com>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
2011-12-11 10:31:58 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker 1268fbc746 nohz: Remove tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() / tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu()
Those two APIs were provided to optimize the calls of
tick_nohz_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_enter() into a single
irq disabled section. This way no interrupt happening in-between would
needlessly process any RCU job.

Now we are talking about an optimization for which benefits
have yet to be measured. Let's start simple and completely decouple
idle rcu and dyntick idle logics to simplify.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:31:57 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney b58bdccaa8 rcu: Add rcutorture CPU-hotplug capability
Running CPU-hotplug operations concurrently with rcutorture has
historically been a good way to find bugs in both RCU and CPU hotplug.
This commit therefore adds an rcutorture module parameter called
"onoff_interval" that causes a randomly selected CPU-hotplug operation to
be executed at the specified interval, in seconds.  The default value of
"onoff_interval" is zero, which disables rcutorture-instigated CPU-hotplug
operations.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:31:56 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney a95f8817f8 tile: Make tile use the new is_idle_task() API
Change from direct comparison of ->pid with zero to is_idle_task().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
2011-12-11 10:31:55 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 77aeeebd7b events: Make events use the new is_idle_task() API
Change from direct comparison of ->pid with zero to is_idle_task().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11 10:31:54 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 7fc20c5cbd kdb: Make KDB use the new is_idle_task() API
Change from direct comparison of ->pid with zero to is_idle_task().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11 10:31:52 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 29f043a2ca sparc: Make SPARC use the new is_idle_task() API
Change from direct comparison of ->pid with zero to is_idle_task().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11 10:31:49 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 99745b6a83 rcu: Make RCU use the new is_idle_task() API
Change from direct comparison of ->pid with zero to is_idle_task().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11 10:31:48 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney c4f3060843 sched: Add is_idle_task() to handle invalidated uses of idle_cpu()
Commit 908a3283 (Fix idle_cpu()) invalidated some uses of idle_cpu(),
which used to say whether or not the CPU was running the idle task,
but now instead says whether or not the CPU is running the idle task
in the absence of pending wakeups.  Although this new implementation
gives a better answer to the question "is this CPU idle?", it also
invalidates other uses that were made of idle_cpu().

This commit therefore introduces a new is_idle_task() API member
that determines whether or not the specified task is one of the
idle tasks, allowing open-coded "->pid == 0" sequences to be replaced
by something more meaningful.

Suggested-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:31:47 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney bb3bf7052d rcu: Control rcutorture startup from kernel boot parameters
Currently, if rcutorture is built into the kernel, it must be manually
started or started from an init script.  This is inconvenient for
automated KVM testing, where it is good to be able to fully control
rcutorture execution from the kernel parameters.  This patch therefore
adds a module parameter named "rcutorture_runnable" that defaults
to zero ("don't start automatically"), but which can be set to one
to cause rcutorture to start up immediately during boot.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:31:47 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney d5f546d834 rcu: Add rcutorture system-shutdown capability
Although it is easy to run rcutorture tests under KVM, there is currently
no nice way to run such a test for a fixed time period, collect all of
the rcutorture data, and then shut the system down cleanly.  This commit
therefore adds an rcutorture module parameter named "shutdown_secs" that
specified the run duration in seconds, after which rcutorture terminates
the test and powers the system down.  The default value for "shutdown_secs"
is zero, which disables shutdown.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:31:46 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney b807fbff31 rcu: Permit RCU_FAST_NO_HZ to be used by TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
The new implementation of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ is compatible with preemptible
RCU, so this commit removes the Kconfig restriction that previously
prohibited this.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11 10:31:45 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 11dbaa8cb7 rcu: Fix idle-task checks
RCU has traditionally relied on idle_cpu() to determine whether a given
CPU is running in the context of an idle task, but commit 908a3283
(Fix idle_cpu()) has invalidated this approach.  After commit 908a3283,
idle_cpu() will return true if the current CPU is currently running the
idle task, and will be doing so for the foreseeable future.  RCU instead
needs to know whether or not the current CPU is currently running the
idle task, regardless of what the near future might bring.

This commit therefore switches from idle_cpu() to "current->pid != 0".

Reported-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Tested-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:31:44 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney aea1b35e29 rcu: Allow dyntick-idle mode for CPUs with callbacks
Currently, RCU does not permit a CPU to enter dyntick-idle mode if that
CPU has any RCU callbacks queued.  This means that workloads for which
each CPU wakes up and does some RCU updates every few ticks will never
enter dyntick-idle mode.  This can result in significant unnecessary power
consumption, so this patch permits a given to enter dyntick-idle mode if
it has callbacks, but only if that same CPU has completed all current
work for the RCU core.  We determine use rcu_pending() to determine
whether a given CPU has completed all current work for the RCU core.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:31:43 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 0989cb4678 rcu: Add more information to the wrong-idle-task complaint
The current code just complains if the current task is not the idle task.
This commit therefore adds printing of the identity of the idle task.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11 10:31:42 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 4145fa7fbe rcu: Deconfuse dynticks entry-exit tracing
The trace_rcu_dyntick() trace event did not print both the old and
the new value of the nesting level, and furthermore printed only
the low-order 32 bits of it.  This could result in some confusion
when interpreting trace-event dumps, so this commit prints both
the old and the new value, prints the full 64 bits, and also selects
the process-entry/exit increment to print nicely in hexadecimal.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11 10:31:42 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 9ceae0e248 rcu: Add documentation for raw SRCU read-side primitives
Update various files in Documentation/RCU to reflect srcu_read_lock_raw()
and srcu_read_unlock_raw().  Credit to Peter Zijlstra for suggesting
use of the existing _raw suffix instead of the earlier bulkref names.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:31:41 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 0c53dd8b31 rcu: Introduce raw SRCU read-side primitives
The RCU implementations, including SRCU, are designed to be used in a
lock-like fashion, so that the read-side lock and unlock primitives must
execute in the same context for any given read-side critical section.
This constraint is enforced by lockdep-RCU.  However, there is a need
to enter an SRCU read-side critical section within the context of an
exception and then exit in the context of the task that encountered the
exception.  The cost of this capability is that the read-side operations
incur the overhead of disabling interrupts.

Note that although the current implementation allows a given read-side
critical section to be entered by one task and then exited by another, all
known possible implementations that allow this have scalability problems.
Therefore, a given read-side critical section must be exited by the same
task that entered it, though perhaps from an interrupt or exception
handler running within that task's context.  But if you are thinking
in terms of interrupt handlers, make sure that you have considered the
possibility of threaded interrupt handlers.

Credit goes to Peter Zijlstra for suggesting use of the existing _raw
suffix to indicate disabling lockdep over the earlier "bulkref" names.

Requested-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Srikar Dronamraju <srikar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:31:40 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney a7b152d534 powerpc: Tell RCU about idle after hcall tracing
The PowerPC pSeries platform (CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES=y) enables
hypervisor-call tracing for CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS=y kernels.  One of the
hypervisor calls that is traced is the H_CEDE call in the idle loop
that tells the hypervisor that this OS instance no longer needs the
current CPU.  However, tracing uses RCU, so this combination of kernel
configuration variables needs to avoid telling RCU about the current CPU's
idleness until after the H_CEDE-entry tracing completes on the one hand,
and must tell RCU that the the current CPU is no longer idle before the
H_CEDE-exit tracing starts.

In all other cases, it suffices to inform RCU of CPU idleness upon
idle-loop entry and exit.

This commit makes the required adjustments.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11 10:31:39 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker 416eb33cd6 rcu: Fix early call to rcu_idle_enter()
On the irq exit path, tick_nohz_irq_exit()
may raise a softirq, which action leads to the wake up
path and select_task_rq_fair() that makes use of rcu
to iterate the domains.

This is an illegal use of RCU because we may be in RCU
extended quiescent state if we interrupted an RCU-idle
window in the idle loop:

[  132.978883] ===============================
[  132.978883] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ]
[  132.978883] -------------------------------
[  132.978883] kernel/sched_fair.c:1707 suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage!
[  132.978883]
[  132.978883] other info that might help us debug this:
[  132.978883]
[  132.978883]
[  132.978883] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0
[  132.978883] RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state!
[  132.978883] 2 locks held by swapper/0:
[  132.978883]  #0:  (&p->pi_lock){-.-.-.}, at: [<ffffffff8105a729>] try_to_wake_up+0x39/0x2f0
[  132.978883]  #1:  (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8105556a>] select_task_rq_fair+0x6a/0xec0
[  132.978883]
[  132.978883] stack backtrace:
[  132.978883] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Tainted: G        W   3.0.0+ #178
[  132.978883] Call Trace:
[  132.978883]  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff810a01f6>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0xe6/0x100
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff81055c49>] select_task_rq_fair+0x749/0xec0
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff8105556a>] ? select_task_rq_fair+0x6a/0xec0
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff812fe494>] ? do_raw_spin_lock+0x54/0x150
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff810a1f2d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff8105a7c3>] try_to_wake_up+0xd3/0x2f0
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff81094f98>] ? ktime_get+0x68/0xf0
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff8105aa35>] wake_up_process+0x15/0x20
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff81069dd5>] raise_softirq_irqoff+0x65/0x110
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff8108eb65>] __hrtimer_start_range_ns+0x415/0x5a0
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff812fe3ee>] ? do_raw_spin_unlock+0x5e/0xb0
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff8108ed08>] hrtimer_start+0x18/0x20
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff8109c9c3>] tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick+0x393/0x450
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff810694f2>] irq_exit+0xd2/0x100
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff81829e96>] do_IRQ+0x66/0xe0
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff81820d53>] common_interrupt+0x13/0x13
[  132.978883]  <EOI>  [<ffffffff8103434b>] ? native_safe_halt+0xb/0x10
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff810a1f2d>] ? trace_hardirqs_on+0xd/0x10
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff810144ea>] default_idle+0xba/0x370
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff810147fe>] amd_e400_idle+0x5e/0x130
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff8100a9f6>] cpu_idle+0xb6/0x120
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff817f217f>] rest_init+0xef/0x150
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff817f20e2>] ? rest_init+0x52/0x150
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff81ed9cf3>] start_kernel+0x3da/0x3e5
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff81ed9346>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x131/0x135
[  132.978883]  [<ffffffff81ed944d>] x86_64_start_kernel+0x103/0x112

Fix this by calling rcu_idle_enter() after tick_nohz_irq_exit().

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11 10:31:38 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker 98ad1cc14a x86: Call idle notifier after irq_enter()
Interrupts notify the idle exit state before calling irq_enter().
But the notifier code calls rcu_read_lock() and this is not
allowed while rcu is in an extended quiescent state. We need
to wait for irq_enter() -> rcu_idle_exit() to be called before
doing so otherwise this results in a grumpy RCU:

[    0.099991] WARNING: at include/linux/rcupdate.h:194 __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xd2/0x110()
[    0.099991] Hardware name: AMD690VM-FMH
[    0.099991] Modules linked in:
[    0.099991] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.0.0-rc6+ #255
[    0.099991] Call Trace:
[    0.099991]  <IRQ>  [<ffffffff81051c8a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xb0
[    0.099991]  [<ffffffff81051cd5>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
[    0.099991]  [<ffffffff817d6fa2>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xd2/0x110
[    0.099991]  [<ffffffff817d6ff1>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x11/0x20
[    0.099991]  [<ffffffff81001873>] exit_idle+0x43/0x50
[    0.099991]  [<ffffffff81020439>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x39/0xa0
[    0.099991]  [<ffffffff817da253>] apic_timer_interrupt+0x13/0x20
[    0.099991]  <EOI>  [<ffffffff8100ae67>] ? default_idle+0xa7/0x350
[    0.099991]  [<ffffffff8100ae65>] ? default_idle+0xa5/0x350
[    0.099991]  [<ffffffff8100b19b>] amd_e400_idle+0x8b/0x110
[    0.099991]  [<ffffffff810cb01f>] ? rcu_enter_nohz+0x8f/0x160
[    0.099991]  [<ffffffff810019a0>] cpu_idle+0xb0/0x110
[    0.099991]  [<ffffffff817a7505>] rest_init+0xe5/0x140
[    0.099991]  [<ffffffff817a7468>] ? rest_init+0x48/0x140
[    0.099991]  [<ffffffff81cc5ca3>] start_kernel+0x3d1/0x3dc
[    0.099991]  [<ffffffff81cc5321>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x131/0x135
[    0.099991]  [<ffffffff81cc5412>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xed/0xf4

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Andy Henroid <andrew.d.henroid@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11 10:31:38 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker e37e112de3 x86: Enter rcu extended qs after idle notifier call
The idle notifier, called by enter_idle(), enters into rcu read
side critical section but at that time we already switched into
the RCU-idle window (rcu_idle_enter() has been called). And it's
illegal to use rcu_read_lock() in that state.

This results in rcu reporting its bad mood:

[    1.275635] WARNING: at include/linux/rcupdate.h:194 __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xd2/0x110()
[    1.275635] Hardware name: AMD690VM-FMH
[    1.275635] Modules linked in:
[    1.275635] Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.0.0-rc6+ #252
[    1.275635] Call Trace:
[    1.275635]  [<ffffffff81051c8a>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7a/0xb0
[    1.275635]  [<ffffffff81051cd5>] warn_slowpath_null+0x15/0x20
[    1.275635]  [<ffffffff817d6f22>] __atomic_notifier_call_chain+0xd2/0x110
[    1.275635]  [<ffffffff817d6f71>] atomic_notifier_call_chain+0x11/0x20
[    1.275635]  [<ffffffff810018a0>] enter_idle+0x20/0x30
[    1.275635]  [<ffffffff81001995>] cpu_idle+0xa5/0x110
[    1.275635]  [<ffffffff817a7465>] rest_init+0xe5/0x140
[    1.275635]  [<ffffffff817a73c8>] ? rest_init+0x48/0x140
[    1.275635]  [<ffffffff81cc5ca3>] start_kernel+0x3d1/0x3dc
[    1.275635]  [<ffffffff81cc5321>] x86_64_start_reservations+0x131/0x135
[    1.275635]  [<ffffffff81cc5412>] x86_64_start_kernel+0xed/0xf4
[    1.275635] ---[ end trace a22d306b065d4a66 ]---

Fix this by entering rcu extended quiescent state later, just before
the CPU goes to sleep.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11 10:31:37 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker 2bbb6817c0 nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop
It is assumed that rcu won't be used once we switch to tickless
mode and until we restart the tick. However this is not always
true, as in x86-64 where we dereference the idle notifiers after
the tick is stopped.

To prepare for fixing this, add two new APIs:
tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() and tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu().

If no use of RCU is made in the idle loop between
tick_nohz_enter_idle() and tick_nohz_exit_idle() calls, the arch
must instead call the new *_norcu() version such that the arch doesn't
need to call rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit().

Otherwise the arch must call tick_nohz_enter_idle() and
tick_nohz_exit_idle() and also call explicitly:

- rcu_idle_enter() after its last use of RCU before the CPU is put
to sleep.
- rcu_idle_exit() before the first use of RCU after the CPU is woken
up.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:31:36 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker 280f06774a nohz: Separate out irq exit and idle loop dyntick logic
The tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() function, which tries to delay
the next timer tick as long as possible, can be called from two
places:

- From the idle loop to start the dytick idle mode
- From interrupt exit if we have interrupted the dyntick
idle mode, so that we reprogram the next tick event in
case the irq changed some internal state that requires this
action.

There are only few minor differences between both that
are handled by that function, driven by the ts->inidle
cpu variable and the inidle parameter. The whole guarantees
that we only update the dyntick mode on irq exit if we actually
interrupted the dyntick idle mode, and that we enter in RCU extended
quiescent state from idle loop entry only.

Split this function into:

- tick_nohz_idle_enter(), which sets ts->inidle to 1, enters
dynticks idle mode unconditionally if it can, and enters into RCU
extended quiescent state.

- tick_nohz_irq_exit() which only updates the dynticks idle mode
when ts->inidle is set (ie: if tick_nohz_idle_enter() has been called).

To maintain symmetry, tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick() has been renamed
into tick_nohz_idle_exit().

This simplifies the code and micro-optimize the irq exit path (no need
for local_irq_save there). This also prepares for the split between
dynticks and rcu extended quiescent state logics. We'll need this split to
further fix illegal uses of RCU in extended quiescent states in the idle
loop.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11 10:31:35 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney 867f236bd1 rcu: Make srcu_read_lock_held() call common lockdep-enabled function
A common debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() function is used to check whether
RCU lockdep splats should be reported, but srcu_read_lock() does not
use it.  This commit therefore brings srcu_read_lock_held() up to date.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11 10:31:34 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney ff195cb69b rcu: Warn when srcu_read_lock() is used in an extended quiescent state
Catch SRCU up to the other variants of RCU by making PROVE_RCU
complain if either srcu_read_lock() or srcu_read_lock_held() are
used from within RCU-idle mode.

Frederic reworked this to allow for the new versions of his patches
that check for extended quiescent states.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11 10:31:33 -08:00
Paul E. McKenney d8ab29f8be rcu: Remove one layer of abstraction from PROVE_RCU checking
Simplify things a bit by substituting the definitions of the single-line
rcu_read_acquire(), rcu_read_release(), rcu_read_acquire_bh(),
rcu_read_release_bh(), rcu_read_acquire_sched(), and
rcu_read_release_sched() functions at their call points.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11 10:31:32 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker 00f49e5729 rcu: Warn when rcu_read_lock() is used in extended quiescent state
We are currently able to detect uses of rcu_dereference_check() inside
extended quiescent states (such as the RCU-free window in idle).
But rcu_read_lock() and friends can be used without rcu_dereference(),
so that the earlier commit checking for use of rcu_dereference() and
friends while in RCU idle mode miss some error conditions.  This commit
therefore adds extended quiescent state checking to rcu_read_lock() and
friends.

Uses of RCU from within RCU-idle mode are totally ignored by
RCU, hence the importance of these checks.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11 10:31:31 -08:00
Frederic Weisbecker 0464e93748 rcu: Inform the user about extended quiescent state on PROVE_RCU warning
Inform the user if an RCU usage error is detected by lockdep while in
an extended quiescent state (in this case, the RCU-free window in idle).
This is accomplished by adding a line to the RCU lockdep splat indicating
whether or not the splat occurred in extended quiescent state.

Uses of RCU from within extended quiescent state mode are totally ignored
by RCU, hence the importance of this diagnostic.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-12-11 10:31:30 -08:00