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author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2018-07-09 13:47:30 -0700 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-12-01 09:37:34 +0100 |
commit | 016a8fc59d14c8b6aebb0ef1405b1cb5275192a3 (patch) | |
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rcu: Make need_resched() respond to urgent RCU-QS needs
commit 92aa39e9dc77481b90cbef25e547d66cab901496 upstream.
The per-CPU rcu_dynticks.rcu_urgent_qs variable communicates an urgent
need for an RCU quiescent state from the force-quiescent-state processing
within the grace-period kthread to context switches and to cond_resched().
Unfortunately, such urgent needs are not communicated to need_resched(),
which is sometimes used to decide when to invoke cond_resched(), for
but one example, within the KVM vcpu_run() function. As of v4.15, this
can result in synchronize_sched() being delayed by up to ten seconds,
which can be problematic, to say nothing of annoying.
This commit therefore checks rcu_dynticks.rcu_urgent_qs from within
rcu_check_callbacks(), which is invoked from the scheduling-clock
interrupt handler. If the current task is not an idle task and is
not executing in usermode, a context switch is forced, and either way,
the rcu_dynticks.rcu_urgent_qs variable is set to false. If the current
task is an idle task, then RCU's dyntick-idle code will detect the
quiescent state, so no further action is required. Similarly, if the
task is executing in usermode, other code in rcu_check_callbacks() and
its called functions will report the corresponding quiescent state.
Reported-by: Marius Hillenbrand <mhillenb@amazon.de>
Reported-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Backported to make patch apply cleanly on older versions. ]
Tested-by: Marius Hillenbrand <mhillenb@amazon.de>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.12.x - 4.19.x
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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