linux/kernel/rcutree.c, branch v2.6.35

rcu: remove all rcu head initializations, except on_stack initializations

2010-05-11T23:10:47Z

Remove all rcu head inits. We don't care about the RCU head state before passing it to call_rcu() anyway. Only leave the "on_stack" variants so debugobjects can keep track of objects on stack. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcu: reduce the number of spurious RCU_SOFTIRQ invocations

2010-05-10T18:08:35Z

Lai Jiangshan noted that up to 10% of the RCU_SOFTIRQ are spurious, and traced this down to the fact that the current grace-period machinery will uselessly raise RCU_SOFTIRQ when a given CPU needs to go through a quiescent state, but has not yet done so. In this situation, there might well be nothing that RCU_SOFTIRQ can do, and the overhead can be worth worrying about in the ksoftirqd case. This patch therefore avoids raising RCU_SOFTIRQ in this situation. Changes since v1 (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/3/30/122 from Lai Jiangshan): o Omit the rcu_qs_pending() prechecks, as they aren't that much less expensive than the quiescent-state checks. o Merge with the set_need_resched() patch that reduces IPIs. o Add the new n_rp_report_qs field to the rcu_pending tracing output. o Update the tracing documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcu: permit discontiguous cpu_possible_mask CPU numbering

2010-05-10T18:08:35Z

TREE_RCU assumes that CPU numbering is contiguous, but some users need large holes in the numbering to better map to hardware layout. This patch makes TREE_RCU (and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU) tolerate large holes in the CPU numbering. However, NR_CPUS must still be greater than the largest CPU number. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcu: improve RCU CPU stall-warning messages

2010-05-10T18:08:34Z

The existing RCU CPU stall-warning messages can be confusing, especially in the case where one CPU detects a single other stalled CPU. In addition, the console messages did not say which flavor of RCU detected the stall, which can make it difficult to work out exactly what is causing the stall. This commit improves these messages. Requested-by: Dhaval Giani Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcu: print boot-time console messages if RCU configs out of ordinary

2010-05-10T18:08:34Z

Print boot-time messages if tracing is enabled, if fanout is set to non-default values, if exact fanout is specified, if accelerated dyntick-idle grace periods have been enabled, if RCU-lockdep is enabled, if rcutorture has been boot-time enabled, if the CPU stall detector has been disabled, or if four-level hierarchy has been enabled. This is all for TREE_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU. TINY_RCU will be handled separately, if at all. Suggested-by: Josh Triplett Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcu: disable CPU stall warnings upon panic

2010-05-10T18:08:34Z

The current RCU CPU stall warnings remain enabled even after a panic occurs, which some people have found to be a bit counterproductive. This patch therefore uses a notifier to disable stall warnings once a panic occurs. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcu: slim down rcutiny by removing rcu_scheduler_active and friends

2010-05-10T18:08:34Z

TINY_RCU does not need rcu_scheduler_active unless CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC. So conditionally compile rcu_scheduler_active in order to slim down rcutiny a bit more. Also gets rid of an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, which is responsible for most of the slimming. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcu: refactor RCU's context-switch handling

2010-05-10T18:08:33Z

The addition of preemptible RCU to treercu resulted in a bit of confusion and inefficiency surrounding the handling of context switches for RCU-sched and for RCU-preempt. For RCU-sched, a context switch is a quiescent state, pure and simple, just like it always has been. For RCU-preempt, a context switch is in no way a quiescent state, but special handling is required when a task blocks in an RCU read-side critical section. However, the callout from the scheduler and the outer loop in ksoftirqd still calls something named rcu_sched_qs(), whose name is no longer accurate. Furthermore, when rcu_check_callbacks() notes an RCU-sched quiescent state, it ends up unnecessarily (though harmlessly, aside from the performance hit) enqueuing the current task if it happens to be running in an RCU-preempt read-side critical section. This not only increases the maximum latency of scheduler_tick(), it also needlessly increases the overhead of the next outermost rcu_read_unlock() invocation. This patch addresses this situation by separating the notion of RCU's context-switch handling from that of RCU-sched's quiescent states. The context-switch handling is covered by rcu_note_context_switch() in general and by rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() for preemptible RCU. This permits rcu_sched_qs() to handle quiescent states and only quiescent states. It also reduces the maximum latency of scheduler_tick(), though probably by much less than a microsecond. Finally, it means that tasks within preemptible-RCU read-side critical sections avoid incurring the overhead of queuing unless there really is a context switch. Suggested-by: Lai Jiangshan Acked-by: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra

rcu: move some code from macro to function

2010-05-10T18:08:31Z

Shrink the RCU_INIT_FLAVOR() macro by moving all but the initialization of the ->rda[] array to rcu_init_one(). The call to rcu_init_one() can then be moved to the end of the RCU_INIT_FLAVOR() macro, which is required because rcu_boot_init_percpu_data(), which is now called from rcu_init_one(), depends on the initialization of the ->rda[] array. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcu: make dead code really dead

2010-05-10T18:08:31Z

cleanup: make dead code really dead Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney