linux/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h, branch v4.14

treewide: make "nr_cpu_ids" unsigned

2017-09-09T01:26:48Z

First, number of CPUs can't be negative number. Second, different signnnedness leads to suboptimal code in the following cases: 1) kmalloc(nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(X)); "int" has to be sign extended to size_t. 2) while (loff_t *pos < nr_cpu_ids) MOVSXD is 1 byte longed than the same MOV. Other cases exist as well. Basically compiler is told that nr_cpu_ids can't be negative which can't be deduced if it is "int". Code savings on allyesconfig kernel: -3KB add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 25/264 up/down: 261/-3631 (-3370) function old new delta coretemp_cpu_online 450 512 +62 rcu_init_one 1234 1272 +38 pci_device_probe 374 399 +25 ... pgdat_reclaimable_pages 628 556 -72 select_fallback_rq 446 369 -77 task_numa_find_cpu 1923 1807 -116 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170819114959.GA30580@avx2 Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge branches 'doc.2017.08.17a', 'fixes.2017.08.17a', 'hotplug.2017.07.25b', 'misc.2017.08.17a', 'spin_unlock_wait_no.2017.08.17a', 'srcu.2017.07.27c' and 'torture.2017.07.24c' into HEAD

2017-08-17T15:10:04Z

doc.2017.08.17a: Documentation updates. fixes.2017.08.17a: RCU fixes. hotplug.2017.07.25b: CPU-hotplug updates. misc.2017.08.17a: Miscellaneous fixes outside of RCU (give or take conflicts). spin_unlock_wait_no.2017.08.17a: Remove spin_unlock_wait(). srcu.2017.07.27c: SRCU updates. torture.2017.07.24c: Torture-test updates.

rcu: Add assertions verifying blocked-tasks list

2017-08-17T14:26:23Z

This commit adds assertions verifying the consistency of the rcu_node structure's ->blkd_tasks list and its ->gp_tasks, ->exp_tasks, and ->boost_tasks pointers. In particular, the ->blkd_tasks lists must be empty except for leaf rcu_node structures. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcu: Add event tracing to ->gp_tasks update at GP start

2017-08-17T14:26:06Z

There is currently event tracing to track when a task is preempted within a preemptible RCU read-side critical section, and also when that task subsequently reaches its outermost rcu_read_unlock(), but none indicating when a new grace period starts when that grace period must wait on pre-existing readers that have been been preempted at least once since the beginning of their current RCU read-side critical sections. This commit therefore adds an event trace at grace-period start in the case where there are such readers. Note that only the first reader in the list is traced. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

rcu: Add TPS() to event-traced strings

2017-08-17T14:26:05Z

Strings used in event tracing need to be specially handled, for example, using the TPS() macro. Without the TPS() macro, although output looks fine from within a running kernel, extracting traces from a crash dump produces garbage instead of strings. This commit therefore adds the TPS() macro to some unadorned strings that were passed to event-tracing macros. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

rcu: Make NOCB CPUs migrate CBs directly from outgoing CPU

2017-07-25T20:04:47Z

RCU's CPU-hotplug callback-migration code first moves the outgoing CPU's callbacks to ->orphan_done and ->orphan_pend, and only then moves them to the NOCB callback list. This commit avoids the extra step (and simplifies the code) by moving the callbacks directly from the outgoing CPU's callback list to the NOCB callback list. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcu: Use timer as backstop for NOCB deferred wakeups

2017-07-25T16:53:09Z

The handling of RCU's no-CBs CPUs has a maintenance headache, namely that if call_rcu() is invoked with interrupts disabled, the rcuo kthread wakeup must be defered to a point where we can be sure that scheduler locks are not held. Of course, there are a lot of code paths leading from an interrupts-disabled invocation of call_rcu(), and missing any one of these can result in excessive callback-invocation latency, and potentially even system hangs. This commit therefore uses a timer to guarantee that the wakeup will eventually occur. If one of the deferred-wakeup points kicks in, then the timer is simply cancelled. This commit also fixes up an incomplete removal of commits that were intended to plug remaining exit paths, which should have the added benefit of reducing the overhead of RCU's context-switch hooks. In addition, it simplifies leader-to-follower callback-list handoff by introducing locking. The call_rcu()-to-leader handoff continues to use atomic operations in order to maintain good real-time latency for common-case use of call_rcu(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney [ paulmck: Dan Carpenter fix for mod_timer() usage bug found by smatch. ]

rcu: Eliminate NOCBs CPU-state Kconfig options

2017-06-09T01:52:43Z

The CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL, CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_NONE, and CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ZERO Kconfig options are used only in testing and are redundant with the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. This commit therefore removes these three Kconfig options and adjusts the rcutorture scripts to use the boot parameter instead. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcu: Remove debugfs tracing

2017-06-09T01:52:43Z

RCU's debugfs tracing used to be the only reasonable low-level debug information available, but ftrace and event tracing has since surpassed the RCU debugfs level of usefulness. This commit therefore removes RCU's debugfs tracing. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcu: Remove the now-obsolete PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY Kconfig option

2017-06-09T01:52:41Z

The PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY Kconfig option was initially added due to the volume of messages from PROVE_RCU: Doing just one per boot would have required excessive numbers of boots to locate them all. However, PROVE_RCU messages are now relatively rare, so there is no longer any reason to need more than one such message per boot. This commit therefore removes the PROVE_RCU_REPEATEDLY Kconfig option. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Ingo Molnar