rcu: Drive expedited grace periods from workqueue

The current implementation of expedited grace periods has the user
task drive the grace period.  This works, but has downsides: (1) The
user task must awaken tasks piggybacking on this grace period, which
can result in latencies rivaling that of the grace period itself, and
(2) User tasks can receive signals, which interfere with RCU CPU stall
warnings.

This commit therefore uses workqueues to drive the grace periods, so
that the user task need not do the awakening.  A subsequent commit
will remove the now-unnecessary code allowing for signals.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 42 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h
index 1549f456fb7b..97f5ffe42b58 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h
@@ -500,7 +500,6 @@ static void rcu_exp_wait_wake(struct rcu_state *rsp, unsigned long s)
 	 * next GP, to proceed.
 	 */
 	mutex_lock(&rsp->exp_wake_mutex);
-	mutex_unlock(&rsp->exp_mutex);
 
 	rcu_for_each_node_breadth_first(rsp, rnp) {
 		if (ULONG_CMP_LT(READ_ONCE(rnp->exp_seq_rq), s)) {
@@ -516,6 +515,29 @@ static void rcu_exp_wait_wake(struct rcu_state *rsp, unsigned long s)
 	mutex_unlock(&rsp->exp_wake_mutex);
 }
 
+/* Let the workqueue handler know what it is supposed to do. */
+struct rcu_exp_work {
+	smp_call_func_t rew_func;
+	struct rcu_state *rew_rsp;
+	unsigned long rew_s;
+	struct work_struct rew_work;
+};
+
+/*
+ * Work-queue handler to drive an expedited grace period forward.
+ */
+static void wait_rcu_exp_gp(struct work_struct *wp)
+{
+	struct rcu_exp_work *rewp;
+
+	/* Initialize the rcu_node tree in preparation for the wait. */
+	rewp = container_of(wp, struct rcu_exp_work, rew_work);
+	sync_rcu_exp_select_cpus(rewp->rew_rsp, rewp->rew_func);
+
+	/* Wait and clean up, including waking everyone. */
+	rcu_exp_wait_wake(rewp->rew_rsp, rewp->rew_s);
+}
+
 /*
  * Given an rcu_state pointer and a smp_call_function() handler, kick
  * off the specified flavor of expedited grace period.
@@ -523,6 +545,9 @@ static void rcu_exp_wait_wake(struct rcu_state *rsp, unsigned long s)
 static void _synchronize_rcu_expedited(struct rcu_state *rsp,
 				       smp_call_func_t func)
 {
+	struct rcu_data *rdp;
+	struct rcu_exp_work rew;
+	struct rcu_node *rnp;
 	unsigned long s;
 
 	/* If expedited grace periods are prohibited, fall back to normal. */
@@ -536,11 +561,22 @@ static void _synchronize_rcu_expedited(struct rcu_state *rsp,
 	if (exp_funnel_lock(rsp, s))
 		return;  /* Someone else did our work for us. */
 
-	/* Initialize the rcu_node tree in preparation for the wait. */
-	sync_rcu_exp_select_cpus(rsp, func);
-
-	/* Wait and clean up, including waking everyone. */
-	rcu_exp_wait_wake(rsp, s);
+	/* Marshall arguments and schedule the expedited grace period. */
+	rew.rew_func = func;
+	rew.rew_rsp = rsp;
+	rew.rew_s = s;
+	INIT_WORK_ONSTACK(&rew.rew_work, wait_rcu_exp_gp);
+	schedule_work(&rew.rew_work);
+
+	/* Wait for expedited grace period to complete. */
+	rdp = per_cpu_ptr(rsp->rda, raw_smp_processor_id());
+	rnp = rcu_get_root(rsp);
+	wait_event(rnp->exp_wq[(s >> 1) & 0x3],
+		   sync_exp_work_done(rsp,
+				      &rdp->exp_workdone0, s));
+
+	/* Let the next expedited grace period start. */
+	mutex_unlock(&rsp->exp_mutex);
 }
 
 /**