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<title>debugobjects: insulate non-fixup logic related to static obj from fixup callbacks</title>
<updated>2016-05-20T02:12:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Du, Changbin</name>
<email>changbin.du@intel.com</email>
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<published>2016-05-20T00:09:41Z</published>
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When activating a static object we need make sure that the object is
tracked in the object tracker.  If it is a non-static object then the
activation is illegal.

In previous implementation, each subsystem need take care of this in
their fixup callbacks.  Actually we can put it into debugobjects core.
Thus we can save duplicated code, and have *pure* fixup callbacks.

To achieve this, a new callback "is_static_object" is introduced to let
the type specific code decide whether a object is static or not.  If
yes, we take it into object tracker, otherwise give warning and invoke
fixup callback.

This change has paassed debugobjects selftest, and I also do some test
with all debugobjects supports enabled.

At last, I have a concern about the fixups that can it change the object
which is in incorrect state on fixup? Because the 'addr' may not point
to any valid object if a non-static object is not tracked.  Then Change
such object can overwrite someone's memory and cause unexpected
behaviour.  For example, the timer_fixup_activate bind timer to function
stub_timer.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462576157-14539-1-git-send-email-changbin.du@intel.com
[changbin.du@intel.com: improve code comments where invoke the new is_static_object callback]
  Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462777431-8171-1-git-send-email-changbin.du@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Du, Changbin &lt;changbin.du@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>rcu: update debugobjects fixup callbacks return type</title>
<updated>2016-05-20T02:12:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Du, Changbin</name>
<email>changbin.du@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-05-20T00:09:32Z</published>
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Update the return type to use bool instead of int, corresponding to
cheange (debugobjects: make fixup functions return bool instead of int).

Signed-off-by: Du, Changbin &lt;changbin.du@intel.com&gt;
Cc: Jonathan Corbet &lt;corbet@lwn.net&gt;
Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Christian Borntraeger &lt;borntraeger@de.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<title>rcu: Remove superfluous versions of rcu_read_lock_sched_held()</title>
<updated>2016-03-31T20:34:50Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Boqun Feng</name>
<email>boqun.feng@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-03-23T15:11:48Z</published>
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Currently, we have four versions of rcu_read_lock_sched_held(), depending
on the combined choices on PREEMPT_COUNT and DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC.  However,
there is an existing function preemptible() that already distinguishes
between the PREEMPT_COUNT=y and PREEMPT_COUNT=n cases, and allows these
four implementations to be consolidated down to two.

This commit therefore uses preemptible() to achieve this consolidation.

Note that there could be a small performance regression in the case
of CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y &amp;&amp; PREEMPT_COUNT=n.  However, given the
overhead associated with CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y, this should be
down in the noise.

Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>rcu: Export rcu_gp_is_normal()</title>
<updated>2016-02-24T04:04:51Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2016-01-01T21:38:12Z</published>
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This commit exports rcu_gp_is_normal() in order to allow it to be used
by rcutorture and rcuperf.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>rcu: Remove TINY_RCU bloat from pointless boot parameters</title>
<updated>2015-12-08T00:59:37Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-12-07T21:09:52Z</published>
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The rcu_expedited, rcu_normal, and rcu_normal_after_boot kernel boot
parameters are pointless in the case of TINY_RCU because in that case
synchronous grace periods, both expedited and normal, are no-ops.
However, these three symbols contribute several hundred bytes of bloat.
This commit therefore uses CPP directives to avoid compiling this code
in TINY_RCU kernels.

Reported-by: kbuild test robot &lt;fengguang.wu@intel.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
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<title>rcu: Allow expedited grace periods to be disabled at init</title>
<updated>2015-12-04T20:26:54Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2015-11-26T02:56:00Z</published>
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Expedited grace periods can speed up boot, but are undesirable in
aggressive real-time systems.  This commit therefore introduces a
kernel parameter rcupdate.rcu_normal_after_boot that disables
expedited grace periods just before init is spawned.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>rcu: Add rcu_normal kernel parameter to suppress expediting</title>
<updated>2015-12-04T20:26:53Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-11-24T23:44:06Z</published>
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Although expedited grace periods can be quite useful, and although their
OS jitter has been greatly reduced, they can still pose problems for
extreme real-time workloads.  This commit therefore adds a rcu_normal
kernel boot parameter (which can also be manipulated via sysfs)
to suppress expedited grace periods, that is, to treat requests for
expedited grace periods as if they were requests for normal grace periods.
If both rcu_expedited and rcu_normal are specified, rcu_normal wins.
This means that if you are relying on expedited grace periods to speed up
boot, you will want to specify rcu_expedited on the kernel command line,
and then specify rcu_normal via sysfs once boot completes.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>rcu: Use rcu_callback_t in call_rcu*() and friends</title>
<updated>2015-10-06T18:08:05Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Boqun Feng</name>
<email>boqun.feng@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-07-29T05:29:38Z</published>
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As we now have rcu_callback_t typedefs as the type of rcu callbacks, we
should use it in call_rcu*() and friends as the type of parameters. This
could save us a few lines of code and make it clear which function
requires an rcu callbacks rather than other callbacks as its argument.

Besides, this can also help cscope to generate a better database for
code reading.

Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
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<title>rcu: Fix backwards RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() in synchronize_rcu_tasks()</title>
<updated>2015-07-22T22:27:33Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-30T15:17:40Z</published>
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The RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() in synchronize_rcu_tasks() triggers if the
scheduler is active, which is backwards.  This commit therefore
negates the test.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>rcu: Rename rcu_lockdep_assert() to RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN()</title>
<updated>2015-07-22T22:27:32Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-06-18T22:50:02Z</published>
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This commit renames rcu_lockdep_assert() to RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN() for
consistency with the WARN() series of macros.  This also requires
inverting the sense of the conditional, which this commit also does.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
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