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| * tracing: Rename ftrace_event.h to trace_events.hSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)2015-05-132-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The term "ftrace" is really the infrastructure of the function hooks, and not the trace events. Rename ftrace_event.h to trace_events.h to represent the trace_event infrastructure and decouple the term ftrace from it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
* | Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2015-06-221-9/+9
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip Pull timer updates from Thomas Gleixner: "A rather largish update for everything time and timer related: - Cache footprint optimizations for both hrtimers and timer wheel - Lower the NOHZ impact on systems which have NOHZ or timer migration disabled at runtime. - Optimize run time overhead of hrtimer interrupt by making the clock offset updates smarter - hrtimer cleanups and removal of restrictions to tackle some problems in sched/perf - Some more leap second tweaks - Another round of changes addressing the 2038 problem - First step to change the internals of clock event devices by introducing the necessary infrastructure - Allow constant folding for usecs/msecs_to_jiffies() - The usual pile of clockevent/clocksource driver updates The hrtimer changes contain updates to sched, perf and x86 as they depend on them plus changes all over the tree to cleanup API changes and redundant code, which got copied all over the place. The y2038 changes touch s390 to remove the last non 2038 safe code related to boot/persistant clock" * 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (114 commits) clocksource: Increase dependencies of timer-stm32 to limit build wreckage timer: Minimize nohz off overhead timer: Reduce timer migration overhead if disabled timer: Stats: Simplify the flags handling timer: Replace timer base by a cpu index timer: Use hlist for the timer wheel hash buckets timer: Remove FIFO "guarantee" timers: Sanitize catchup_timer_jiffies() usage hrtimer: Allow hrtimer::function() to free the timer seqcount: Introduce raw_write_seqcount_barrier() seqcount: Rename write_seqcount_barrier() hrtimer: Fix hrtimer_is_queued() hole hrtimer: Remove HRTIMER_STATE_MIGRATE selftest: Timers: Avoid signal deadlock in leap-a-day timekeeping: Copy the shadow-timekeeper over the real timekeeper last clockevents: Check state instead of mode in suspend/resume path selftests: timers: Add leap-second timer edge testing to leap-a-day.c ntp: Do leapsecond adjustment in adjtimex read path time: Prevent early expiry of hrtimers[CLOCK_REALTIME] at the leap second edge ntp: Introduce and use SECS_PER_DAY macro instead of 86400 ...
| * | timer: Reduce timer migration overhead if disabledThomas Gleixner2015-06-191-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Eric reported that the timer_migration sysctl is not really nice performance wise as it needs to check at every timer insertion whether the feature is enabled or not. Further the check does not live in the timer code, so we have an extra function call which checks an extra cache line to figure out that it is disabled. We can do better and store that information in the per cpu (hr)timer bases. I pondered to use a static key, but that's a nightmare to update from the nohz code and the timer base cache line is hot anyway when we select a timer base. The old logic enabled the timer migration unconditionally if CONFIG_NO_HZ was set even if nohz was disabled on the kernel command line. With this modification, we start off with migration disabled. The user visible sysctl is still set to enabled. If the kernel switches to NOHZ migration is enabled, if the user did not disable it via the sysctl prior to the switch. If nohz=off is on the kernel command line, migration stays disabled no matter what. Before: 47.76% hog [.] main 14.84% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave 9.55% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore 6.71% [kernel] [k] mod_timer 6.24% [kernel] [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38 3.76% [kernel] [k] detach_if_pending 3.71% [kernel] [k] del_timer 2.50% [kernel] [k] internal_add_timer 1.51% [kernel] [k] get_nohz_timer_target 1.28% [kernel] [k] __internal_add_timer 0.78% [kernel] [k] timerfn 0.48% [kernel] [k] wake_up_nohz_cpu After: 48.10% hog [.] main 15.25% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave 9.76% [kernel] [k] _raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore 6.50% [kernel] [k] mod_timer 6.44% [kernel] [k] lock_timer_base.isra.38 3.87% [kernel] [k] detach_if_pending 3.80% [kernel] [k] del_timer 2.67% [kernel] [k] internal_add_timer 1.33% [kernel] [k] __internal_add_timer 0.73% [kernel] [k] timerfn 0.54% [kernel] [k] wake_up_nohz_cpu Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Joonwoo Park <joonwoop@codeaurora.org> Cc: Wenbo Wang <wenbo.wang@memblaze.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150526224512.127050787@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | Merge branch 'linus' into timers/coreThomas Gleixner2015-05-191-7/+9
| |\ \ | | |/ | | | | | | | | | Make sure the upstream fixes are applied before adding further modifications.
| * | tick: Nohz: Rework next timer evaluationThomas Gleixner2015-04-221-6/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The evaluation of the next timer in the nohz code is based on jiffies while all the tick internals are nano seconds based. We have also to convert hrtimer nanoseconds to jiffies in the !highres case. That's just wrong and introduces interesting corner cases. Turn it around and convert the next timer wheel timer expiry and the rcu event to clock monotonic and base all calculations on nanoseconds. That identifies the case where no timer is pending clearly with an absolute expiry value of KTIME_MAX. Makes the code more readable and gets rid of the jiffies magic in the nohz code. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Preeti U Murthy <preeti@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20150414203502.184198593@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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*-------. \ \ Merge branches 'array.2015.05.27a', 'doc.2015.05.27a', 'fixes.2015.05.27a', ↵Paul E. McKenney2015-05-275-190/+290
|\ \ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'hotplug.2015.05.27a', 'init.2015.05.27a', 'tiny.2015.05.27a' and 'torture.2015.05.27a' into HEAD array.2015.05.27a: Remove all uses of RCU-protected array indexes. doc.2015.05.27a: Docuemntation updates. fixes.2015.05.27a: Miscellaneous fixes. hotplug.2015.05.27a: CPU-hotplug updates. init.2015.05.27a: Initialization/Kconfig updates. tiny.2015.05.27a: Updates to Tiny RCU. torture.2015.05.27a: Torture-testing updates.
| | | | | * | | rcutorture: Test SRCU cleanup code pathPaul E. McKenney2015-05-271-19/+58
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current rcutorture testing does not do any cleanup operations. This works because the srcu_struct is statically allocated, but it does represent a memory leak of the associated dynamically allocated ->per_cpu_ref per-CPU variables. However, rcutorture currently uses a statically allocated srcu_struct, which cannot legally be passed to cleanup_srcu_struct(). Therefore, this commit adds a second form of srcu (called srcud) that dynamically allocates and frees the associated per-CPU variables. This commit also adds a ->cleanup() member to rcu_torture_ops that is invoked at the end of the test, after ->cb_barriers(). This ->cleanup() pointer is NULL for all existing tests, and thus only used for scrud. Finally, the SRCU-P torture-test configuration selects scrud instead of srcu, with SRCU-N continuing to use srcu, thereby testing both static and dynamic srcu_struct structures. Reported-by: "Ahmed, Iftekhar" <ahmedi@onid.oregonstate.edu> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
| | | | | * | | rcutorture: Replace barriers with smp_store_release() and smp_load_acquire()Paul E. McKenney2015-05-271-11/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The rcutorture.c file uses several explicit memory barriers that can easily be converted to smp_store_release() and smp_load_acquire(), which improves maintainability and also improves performance a bit. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
| | | | | * | | rcutorture: Allow negative values of nreaders to oversubscribePaul E. McKenney2015-05-271-1/+1
| |_|_|_|/ / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | By default, with rcutorture.nreaders equal to -1, rcutorture provisions N-1 reader kthreads, where N is the number of CPUs. This avoids rcutorture-induced stalls, but also avoids heavier levels of torture. This commit therefore allows negative values of rcutorture.nreaders to specify larger numbers of reader kthreads, so that for example rcutorture.nreaders=-2 provisions N kthreads and rcutorture.nreaders=-5 provisions N+3 kthreads. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Update documentation, as suggested by Josh Triplett. ]
| | | | * | | rcu: Correctly handle non-empty Tiny RCU callback list with none readyPaul E. McKenney2015-05-271-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If, at the time __rcu_process_callbacks() is invoked, there are callbacks in Tiny RCU's callback list, but none of them are ready to be invoked, the current list-management code will knit the non-ready callbacks out of the list. This can result in hangs and possibly worse. This commit therefore inserts a check for there being no callbacks that can be invoked immediately. This bug is unlikely to occur -- you have to get a new callback between the time rcu_sched_qs() or rcu_bh_qs() was called, but before we get to __rcu_process_callbacks(). It was detected by the addition of RCU-bh testing to rcutorture, which in turn was instigated by Iftekhar Ahmed's mutation testing. Although this bug was made much more likely by 915e8a4fe45e (rcu: Remove fastpath from __rcu_process_callbacks()), this did not cause the bug, but rather made it much more probable. That said, it takes more than 40 hours of rcutorture testing, on average, for this bug to appear, so this fix cannot be considered an emergency. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
| | | | * | | rcu: Further shrink Tiny RCU by making empty functions static inlinesPaul E. McKenney2015-05-271-33/+0
| |_|_|/ / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Tiny RCU counterparts to rcu_idle_enter(), rcu_idle_exit(), rcu_irq_enter(), and rcu_irq_exit() are empty functions, but each has EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(), which needlessly consumes extra memory, especially in kernels built with module support. This commit therefore moves these functions to static inlines in rcutiny.h, removing the need for exports. This won't affect the size of the tiniest kernels, which are likely built without module support, but might help semi-tiny kernels that might include module support. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
| | | * | | rcu: Conditionally compile RCU's eqs warningsPaul E. McKenney2015-05-271-8/+15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit applies some warning-omission micro-optimizations to RCU's various extended-quiescent-state functions, which are on the kernel/user hotpath for CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y. Reported-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Reported by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | | * | | rcu: Make RCU able to tolerate undefined CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIOPaul E. McKenney2015-05-271-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit updates the initialization of the kthread_prio boot parameter so that RCU will build even when CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO is undefined. The kthread_prio boot parameter is set to CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO if that is defined, otherwise to 1 if CONFIG_RCU_BOOST is defined and to zero otherwise. This commit then makes CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO depend on CONFIG_RCU_EXPERT, so that Kconfig users won't be asked about CONFIG_RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO unless they want to be. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
| | | * | | rcu: Make RCU able to tolerate undefined CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAFPaul E. McKenney2015-05-273-8/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit introduces an RCU_FANOUT_LEAF C-preprocessor macro so that RCU will build even when CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF is undefined. The RCU_FANOUT_LEAF macro is set to the value of CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF when defined, otherwise it is set to 32 for 32-bit systems and 64 for 64-bit systems. This commit then makes CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF depend on CONFIG_RCU_EXPERT, so that Kconfig users won't be asked about CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF unless they want to be. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
| | | * | | rcu: Make RCU able to tolerate undefined CONFIG_RCU_FANOUTPaul E. McKenney2015-05-273-8/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit introduces an RCU_FANOUT C-preprocessor macro so that RCU will build even when CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT is undefined. The RCU_FANOUT macro is set to the value of CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT when defined, otherwise it is set to 32 for 32-bit systems and 64 for 64-bit systems. This commit then makes CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT depend on CONFIG_RCU_EXPERT, so that Kconfig users won't be asked about CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT unless they want to be. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
| | | * | | rcu: Enable diagnostic dump of rcu_node combining treePaul E. McKenney2015-05-271-0/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The purpose of this commit is to make it easier to verify that RCU's combining tree is set up correctly, which is useful to have when making changes in how that tree is initialized. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com> [ paulmck: Fold fix found by Fengguang's 0-day test robot. ]
| | | * | | rcu: Convert CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT to boot parameterPaul E. McKenney2015-05-272-3/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT Kconfig parameter is used primarily (and perhaps only) by rcutorture to verify that RCU works correctly in specific rcu_node combining-tree configurations. It therefore does not make much sense have this as a question to people attempting to configure their kernels. So this commit creates an rcutree.rcu_fanout_exact= boot parameter that rcutorture can use, and eliminates the original CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_EXACT Kconfig parameter. Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
| | | * | | rcu: Provide diagnostic option to slow down grace-period scansPaul E. McKenney2015-05-271-4/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Grace-period scans of the rcu_node combining tree normally proceed quite quickly, so that it is very difficult to reproduce races against them. This commit therefore allows grace-period pre-initialization and cleanup to be artificially slowed down, increasing race-reproduction probability. A pair of pairs of new Kconfig parameters are provided, RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT to enable the slowing down of propagating CPU-hotplug changes up the combining tree along with RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_PREINIT_DELAY to specify the delay in jiffies, and RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP to enable the slowing down of the end-of-grace-period cleanup scan along with RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_CLEANUP_DELAY to specify the delay in jiffies. Boot-time parameters named rcutree.gp_preinit_delay and rcutree.gp_cleanup_delay allow these delays to be specified at boot time. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | | * | | rcu: Shut up spurious gcc uninitialized-variable warningPaul E. McKenney2015-05-271-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Because gcc doesn't realize that rcu_num_lvls must be strictly greater than zero, some versions give a spurious warning about levelcnt[0] being uninitialized in rcu_init_one(). This commit updates the condition on the pre-existing panic() in order to educate gcc on this point. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | | * | | rcu: Modulate grace-period slow init to normalize delayPaul E. McKenney2015-05-271-2/+13
| |_|/ / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, the larger the gp_init_delay boot parameter, the slower rcutorture will sequence through grace periods. This commit avoids this issue by decreasing the probability of slowing initialization of a given grace period as the degree of slowness increases. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | rcu: Correctly initialize ->rcu_qs_ctr_snap at online timePaul E. McKenney2015-05-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The rcu_data structure's ->rcu_qs_ctr_snap field is initialized at CPU-online time from the current CPU's element of the per-CPU rcu_qs_ctr variable. Unfortunately, this is at CPU_UP_PREPARE time, so has nothing to do with the CPU being onlined. This commit therefore initializes this variable from the incoming CPU's element of rcu_qs_ctr. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | rcu: Remove redundant offline checkPaul E. McKenney2015-05-271-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Because offline CPUs are propagated up the rcu_node tree's ->qsmaskinit bits just before each grace period starts, the ->qsmaskinit bit cannot be clear when the corresponding ->qsmask bit is set. Furthermore, this condition used to correspond to a CPU that was on its way offline, and making RCU's notion of an offline CPU more precise has eliminated this situation. This commit therefore removes the now-redundant offline check from force_qs_rnp(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | rcu: Remove dead code from force_qs_rnp()Paul E. McKenney2015-05-271-4/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Because force_qs_rnp() is invoked only from the force-quiescent-state code which runs only in the context of the grace-period kthread, a grace period must always be in progress throughout force_qs_rnp()'s execution. This commit therefore removes the rcu_gp_in_progress() check and the associated dead code. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | rcu: Adjust ->lock acquisition for tasks no longer migratingPaul E. McKenney2015-05-271-3/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Tasks are no longer migrated away from a given rcu_node structure when all CPUs corresponding to that rcu_node structure have gone offline. This means that rcu_read_unlock_special() no longer needs to loop retrying rcu_node ->lock acquisition because the current task is guaranteed to stay put. This commit takes a small and paranoid step towards relying on this guarantee by placing a WARN_ON_ONCE() just after the early exit from the lock-acquisition loop. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | * | | rcu: Eliminate HOTPLUG_CPU #ifdef in favor of IS_ENABLED()Paul E. McKenney2015-05-271-25/+14
| |/ / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit removes a HOTPLUG_CPU #ifdef, replacing it with IS_ENABLED()-protected return statements. This relies on the optimizer to remove any resulting dead code. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| * | | rcu: Change function declaration to boolNicholas Mc Guire2015-05-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | rcu_cpu_has_callbacks() is declared int. The current declaration was introduced in commit c0f4dfd4f90f (rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered callbacks). But it is actually returning bool and as the function description states " * Return true if the specified CPU has any callback....", this probably should be a bool as all (3) call-sites currently treat it as bool. Type-checking coccinelle spatches are being used to locate type mismatches between function signatures and return values in this case this produced: ./kernel/rcu/tree.c:3538 WARNING: return of wrong type int != bool, Patch was compile tested with x86_64_defconfig (implies CONFIG_TREE_RCU=y) Patch is against 4.1-rc3 (localversion-next is -next-20150511) and fixes Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| * | | rcu: Make rcu_*_data variables staticNicolas Iooss2015-05-272-4/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | rcu_bh_data, rcu_sched_data and rcu_preempt_data are never used outside kernel/rcu/tree.c and thus can be made static. Doing so fixes a section mismatch warning reported by clang when building LLVMLinux with -Wsection, because these variables were declared in .data..percpu and defined in .data..percpu..shared_aligned since commit 11bbb235c26f ("rcu: Use DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED for rcu_data"). Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| * | | rcu: Make synchronize_sched_expedited() call wait_rcu_gp()Paul E. McKenney2015-05-271-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, synchronize_sched_expedited() will call synchronize_sched() if there is danger of counter wrap. But if configuration says to always do expedited grace periods, synchronize_sched() will just call synchronize_sched_expedited() right back again. In theory, the old expedited operations will complete, the counters will get back in synch, and the recursion will end. But we could easily run out of stack long before that time. This commit therefore makes synchronize_sched_expedited() invoke the underlying wait_rcu_gp(call_rcu_sched) instead of synchronize_sched(), the same as all the other calls out from synchronize_sched_expedited(). This bug was introduced by commit 1924bcb02597 (Avoid counter wrap in synchronize_sched_expedited()). Reported-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| * | | rcu: Add more debug info on "kthread starved" RCU CPU stall warningsPaul E. McKenney2015-05-271-2/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit adds grace number and command-flags information to the "kthread starved" message that is sometimes printed out as part of RCU CPU stall warnings. This message is caused by the corresponding RCU grace-period kthread not having run for at least two seconds, and this added information can be helpful when debugging. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| * | | rcu: Fix missing task information during rcu-preempt stallPatrick Daly2015-05-271-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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. Signed-off-by: Patrick Daly <pdaly@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| * | | rcu: tree_plugin: Use bool function return values of true/false not 1/0Joe Perches2015-05-271-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Use the normal return values for bool functions Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| * | | rcu: Force wakeup of rcu_gp_kthread at grace-period endPaul E. McKenney2015-05-271-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The rcu_gp_kthread_wake() refuses to do a wakeup unless at least one of the ->gp_flags bits are set, which normally will not be the case when the last quiescent state is reported. This results in up to a 3-jiffy delay given default Kconfig settings. This commit therefore has rcu_report_qs_rsp() set RCU_GP_FLAG_FQS before invoking rcu_gp_kthread_wake() in order to force a more immediate wakeup at grace-period end, thus reducing grace-period latencies. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| * | | rcu: Eliminate a few CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL #ifdefsPaul E. McKenney2015-05-271-10/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit converts several CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL #ifdefs to instead use IS_ENABLED(). This change should help avoid hiding code from compiler diagnostics. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| * | | rcu: Create an immutable rcu_data_p pointer to default rcu_data structurePaul E. McKenney2015-05-272-7/+10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit creates an immutable rcu_data_p pointer that references rcu_preempt_data for TREE_PREEMPT_RCU builds and that references rcu_sched_data for TREE_RCU builds. This rcu_data_p pointer will enable more code to move from #ifdef to IS_ENABLED(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| * | | rcu: Tell the compiler that rcu_state_p is immutablePaul E. McKenney2015-05-272-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit adds a "const" tag to the declarations of rcu_state_p, which should allow the compiler to generate better code and also to catch erroneous assignments to this variable. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| * | | rcu: Eliminate a few RCU_BOOST #ifdefs in favor of IS_ENABLED()Paul E. McKenney2015-05-272-17/+20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit removes a few RCU_BOOST #ifdefs, replacing them with IS_ENABLED()-protected return statements. This relies on the optimizer to remove any resulting dead code. There are several other RCU_BOOST #ifdefs, however these rely on some per-CPU variables that are available only under RCU_BOOST. These might be converted later, if the simplification proves to outweigh the increase in memory footprint. One hoped-for advantage is more easily locating compiler errors in obscure combinations of Kconfig parameters. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: <linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org>
| * | | rcu: Convert from rcu_preempt_state to *rcu_state_pPaul E. McKenney2015-05-271-10/+9
|/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It would be good to move more code from #ifdef to IS_ENABLED(), but that does not work if the body of the IS_ENABLED() "if" statement references a variable (such as rcu_preempt_state) that does not exist if the IS_ENABLED() Kconfig variable is not set. This commit therefore substitutes *rcu_state_p for all uses of rcu_preempt_state in kernel/rcu/tree_preempt.h, which should enable elimination of a few #ifdefs. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* | | rcu: Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE()Paul E. McKenney2015-05-277-168/+169
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit moves from the old ACCESS_ONCE() API to the new READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() APIs. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Updated to include kernel/torture.c as suggested by Jason Low. ]
* | rcu: Control grace-period delays directly from valuePaul E. McKenney2015-04-141-7/+9
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In a misguided attempt to avoid an #ifdef, the use of the gp_init_delay module parameter was conditioned on the corresponding RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT Kconfig variable, using IS_ENABLED() at the point of use in the code. This meant that the compiler always saw the delay, which meant that RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY had to be unconditionally defined. This in turn caused "make oldconfig" to ask pointless questions about the value of RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY in cases where it was not even used. This commit avoids these pointless questions by defining gp_init_delay under #ifdef. In one branch, gp_init_delay is initialized to RCU_TORTURE_TEST_SLOW_INIT_DELAY and is also a module parameter (thus allowing boot-time modification), and in the other branch gp_init_delay is a const variable initialized by default to zero. This approach also simplifies the code at the delay point by eliminating the IS_DEFINED(). Because gp_init_delay is constant zero in the no-delay case intended for production use, the "gp_init_delay > 0" check causes the delay to become dead code, as desired in this case. In addition, this commit replaces magic constant "10" with the preprocessor variable PER_RCU_NODE_PERIOD, which controls the number of grace periods that are allowed to elapse at full speed before a delay is inserted. Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
*---------. Merge branches 'doc.2015.02.26a', 'earlycb.2015.03.03a', ↵Paul E. McKenney2015-03-208-306/+545
|\ \ \ \ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'fixes.2015.03.03a', 'gpexp.2015.02.26a', 'hotplug.2015.03.20a', 'sysidle.2015.02.26b' and 'tiny.2015.02.26a' into HEAD doc.2015.02.26a: Documentation changes earlycb.2015.03.03a: Permit early-boot RCU callbacks fixes.2015.03.03a: Miscellaneous fixes gpexp.2015.02.26a: In-kernel expediting of normal grace periods hotplug.2015.03.20a: CPU hotplug fixes sysidle.2015.02.26b: NO_HZ_FULL_SYSIDLE fixes tiny.2015.02.26a: TINY_RCU fixes
| | | | | | * rcu: Remove fastpath from __rcu_process_callbacks()Alexander Gordeev2015-02-261-11/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The standard code path accommodates a condition when no RCU callbacks are ready to invoke. Since size of the code is a priority for tiny RCU, remove the fast path. Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | | | | | * rcu: Remove unnecessary condition check in rcu_qsctr_help()Alexander Gordeev2015-02-261-2/+1
| |_|_|_|_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When the ->curtail and ->donetail pointers differ, ->rcucblist always points to the beginning of the current list and thus cannot be NULL. Therefore, the check ->rcucblist != NULL is redundant and this commit removes it. Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | | | | * rcu: Tighten up affinity and check for sysidlePaul E. McKenney2015-02-262-7/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If the RCU grace-period kthread invoking rcu_sysidle_check_cpu() happens to be running on the tick_do_timer_cpu initially, then rcu_bind_gp_kthread() won't bind it. This kthread might then migrate before invoking rcu_gp_fqs(), which will trigger the WARN_ON_ONCE() in rcu_sysidle_check_cpu(). This commit therefore makes rcu_bind_gp_kthread() do the binding even if the kthread is currently on the same CPU. Because this incurs added overhead, this commit also causes each RCU grace-period kthread to invoke rcu_bind_gp_kthread() once at boot rather than at the beginning of each grace period. And as long as rcu_bind_gp_kthread() is being modified, this commit eliminates its #ifdef. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | | | | * rcu: Fixes to NO_HZ_FULL sysidle accountingPaul E. McKenney2015-02-261-3/+3
| |_|_|_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On second and subsequent passes through quiescent-state forcing, the isidle variable was initialized to false, which would prevent full sysidle state from being reached if a grace period needed more than one round of quiescent-state forcing (which most should not). However, the check for offline CPUs in the quiescent-state forcing main loop had the wrong sense, which could prevent CPUs from ever entering full sysidle state. This commit fixes both of these bugs. Given that sysidle is not yet wired up, this has no effect in old kernels, but might have proven frustrating had anyone attempted to wire it up. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | | | * rcu: Associate quiescent-state reports with grace periodPaul E. McKenney2015-03-201-12/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As noted in earlier commit logs, CPU hotplug operations running concurrently with grace-period initialization can result in a given leaf rcu_node structure having all CPUs offline and no blocked readers, but with this rcu_node structure nevertheless blocking the current grace period. Therefore, the quiescent-state forcing code now checks for this situation and repairs it. Unfortunately, this checking can result in false positives, for example, when the last task has just removed itself from this leaf rcu_node structure, but has not yet started clearing the ->qsmask bits further up the structure. This means that the grace-period kthread (which forces quiescent states) and some other task might be attempting to concurrently clear these ->qsmask bits. This is usually not a problem: One of these tasks will be the first to acquire the upper-level rcu_node structure's lock and with therefore clear the bit, and the other task, seeing the bit already cleared, will stop trying to clear bits. Sadly, this means that the following unusual sequence of events -can- result in a problem: 1. The grace-period kthread wins, and clears the ->qsmask bits. 2. This is the last thing blocking the current grace period, so that the grace-period kthread clears ->qsmask bits all the way to the root and finds that the root ->qsmask field is now zero. 3. Another grace period is required, so that the grace period kthread initializes it, including setting all the needed qsmask bits. 4. The leaf rcu_node structure (the one that started this whole mess) is blocking this new grace period, either because it has at least one online CPU or because there is at least one task that had blocked within an RCU read-side critical section while running on one of this leaf rcu_node structure's CPUs. (And yes, that CPU might well have gone offline before the grace period in step (3) above started, which can mean that there is a task on the leaf rcu_node structure's ->blkd_tasks list, but ->qsmask equal to zero.) 5. The other kthread didn't get around to trying to clear the upper level ->qsmask bits until all the above had happened. This means that it now sees bits set in the upper-level ->qsmask field, so it proceeds to clear them. Too bad that it is doing so on behalf of a quiescent state that does not apply to the current grace period! This sequence of events can result in the new grace period being too short. It can also result in the new grace period ending before the leaf rcu_node structure's ->qsmask bits have been cleared, which will result in splats during initialization of the next grace period. In addition, it can result in tasks blocking the new grace period still being queued at the start of the next grace period, which will result in other splats. Sasha's testing turned up another of these splats, as did rcutorture testing. (And yes, rcutorture is being adjusted to make these splats show up more quickly. Which probably is having the undesirable side effect of making other problems show up less quickly. Can't have everything!) Reported-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.0.x Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
| | | | * rcu: Yet another fix for preemption and CPU hotplugPaul E. McKenney2015-03-201-16/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As noted earlier, the following sequence of events can occur when running PREEMPT_RCU and HOTPLUG_CPU on a system with a multi-level rcu_node combining tree: 1. A group of tasks block on CPUs corresponding to a given leaf rcu_node structure while within RCU read-side critical sections. 2. All CPUs corrsponding to that rcu_node structure go offline. 3. The next grace period starts, but because there are still tasks blocked, the upper-level bits corresponding to this leaf rcu_node structure remain set. 4. All the tasks exit their RCU read-side critical sections and remove themselves from the leaf rcu_node structure's list, leaving it empty. 5. But because there now is code to check for this condition at force-quiescent-state time, the upper bits are cleared and the grace period completes. However, there is another complication that can occur following step 4 above: 4a. The grace period starts, and the leaf rcu_node structure's gp_tasks pointer is set to NULL because there are no tasks blocked on this structure. 4b. One of the CPUs corresponding to the leaf rcu_node structure comes back online. 4b. An endless stream of tasks are preempted within RCU read-side critical sections on this CPU, such that the ->blkd_tasks list is always non-empty. The grace period will never end. This commit therefore makes the force-quiescent-state processing check only for absence of tasks blocking the current grace period rather than absence of tasks altogether. This will cause a quiescent state to be reported if the current leaf rcu_node structure is not blocking the current grace period and its parent thinks that it is, regardless of how RCU managed to get itself into this state. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.0.x Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
| | | | * rcu: Add diagnostics to grace-period cleanupPaul E. McKenney2015-03-121-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | At grace-period initialization time, RCU checks that all quiescent states were really reported for the previous grace period. Now that grace-period cleanup has been split out of grace-period initialization, this commit also performs those checks at grace-period cleanup time. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | | | * rcu: Handle outgoing CPUs on exit from idle loopPaul E. McKenney2015-03-121-10/+31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit informs RCU of an outgoing CPU just before that CPU invokes arch_cpu_idle_dead() during its last pass through the idle loop (via a new CPU_DYING_IDLE notifier value). This change means that RCU need not deal with outgoing CPUs passing through the scheduler after informing RCU that they are no longer online. Note that removing the CPU from the rcu_node ->qsmaskinit bit masks is done at CPU_DYING_IDLE time, and orphaning callbacks is still done at CPU_DEAD time, the reason being that at CPU_DEAD time we have another CPU that can adopt them. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | | | * rcu: Eliminate ->onoff_mutex from rcu_node structurePaul E. McKenney2015-03-122-17/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Because that RCU grace-period initialization need no longer exclude CPU-hotplug operations, this commit eliminates the ->onoff_mutex and its uses. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| | | | * rcu: Process offlining and onlining only at grace-period startPaul E. McKenney2015-03-124-53/+136
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Races between CPU hotplug and grace periods can be difficult to resolve, so the ->onoff_mutex is used to exclude the two events. Unfortunately, this means that it is impossible for an outgoing CPU to perform the last bits of its offlining from its last pass through the idle loop, because sleeplocks cannot be acquired in that context. This commit avoids these problems by buffering online and offline events in a new ->qsmaskinitnext field in the leaf rcu_node structures. When a grace period starts, the events accumulated in this mask are applied to the ->qsmaskinit field, and, if needed, up the rcu_node tree. The special case of all CPUs corresponding to a given leaf rcu_node structure being offline while there are still elements in that structure's ->blkd_tasks list is handled using a new ->wait_blkd_tasks field. In this case, propagating the offline bits up the tree is deferred until the beginning of the grace period after all of the tasks have exited their RCU read-side critical sections and removed themselves from the list, at which point the ->wait_blkd_tasks flag is cleared. If one of that leaf rcu_node structure's CPUs comes back online before the list empties, then the ->wait_blkd_tasks flag is simply cleared. This of course means that RCU's notion of which CPUs are offline can be out of date. This is OK because RCU need only wait on CPUs that were online at the time that the grace period started. In addition, RCU's force-quiescent-state actions will handle the case where a CPU goes offline after the grace period starts. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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