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* rcu: Fix occurrence of "the the" in checklist.txtMichael Opdenacker2013-09-251-2/+2
| | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Michael Opdenacker <michael.opdenacker@free-electrons.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Add "then" as suggested by Josh Triplett. ] Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
* rcu: Update stall-warning documentationPaul E. McKenney2013-09-251-7/+15
| | | | | Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
*-. Merge branches 'doc.2013.08.19a', 'fixes.2013.08.20a', 'sysidle.2013.08.31a' ↵Paul E. McKenney2013-08-311-0/+10
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | and 'torture.2013.08.20a' into HEAD doc.2013.08.19a: Documentation updates fixes.2013.08.20a: Miscellaneous fixes sysidle.2013.08.31a: Detect system-wide idle state. torture.2013.08.20a: rcutorture updates.
| | * rcu: Increase rcutorture test coveragePaul E. McKenney2013-08-201-0/+10
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently, rcutorture has separate torture_types to test synchronous, asynchronous, and expedited grace-period primitives. This has two disadvantages: (1) Three times the number of runs to cover the combinations and (2) Little testing of concurrent combinations of the three options. This commit therefore adds a pair of module parameters that control normal and expedited state, with the default being both types, randomly selected, by the fakewriter processes, thus reducing source-code size and increasing test coverage. In addtion, the writer task switches between asynchronous-normal and expedited grace-period primitives driven by the same pair of module parameters. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
* | rcu: Update RTFP documentationPaul E. McKenney2013-08-191-305/+553
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Note that this commit also updates the formatting of serveral of the bibtex entries to conform to that of my .bib files. I started accumulating entries back in the 1980s, back when bibtex insisted that comma (",") was a separator, not a terminator. This rule forced commas to the fronts of lines. 25 years later, bibtex allows commas to be terminators, but I am too lazy to rework all my .bib files. Keeping the same format as my .bib files allows my to simply incorporate my RCU.bib file into Documentation/RCU/RTFP.txt, which is much easier than my earlier practice of keeping track of what had changed and adding individual entries. (I sometimes find relevant papers that were published some years back, for example.) In addition, this change adds entries for papers published in the last year or so. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
* | rcu: Fix rcu_barrier() documentationPaul E. McKenney2013-08-181-4/+8
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There was a time when rcu_barrier() was guaranteed to wait for at least a grace period, but that time ended due to energy-efficiency concerns. So now rcu_barrier() is a no-op if there are no RCU callbacks queued in the system. This commit updates the documentation to reflect this change. Now, rcu_barrier() often does wait for a grace period, so, one could imagine some modification to rcu_barrier() to more efficiently handle cases where both rcu_barrier() and a grace period are needed. But this must wait until someone shows a real-world need for a change. Reported-by: Bob Copeland <bob@cozybit.com> Reported-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
*-. Merge branches 'cbnum.2013.06.10a', 'doc.2013.06.10a', 'fixes.2013.06.10a', ↵Paul E. McKenney2013-06-104-123/+11
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'srcu.2013.06.10a' and 'tiny.2013.06.10a' into HEAD cbnum.2013.06.10a: Apply simplifications stemming from the new callback numbering. doc.2013.06.10a: Documentation updates. fixes.2013.06.10a: Miscellaneous fixes. srcu.2013.06.10a: Updates to SRCU. tiny.2013.06.10a: Eliminate TINY_PREEMPT_RCU.
| | * rcu: Remove TINY_PREEMPT_RCU tracing documentationPaul E. McKenney2013-06-101-96/+4
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | Because TINY_PREEMPT_RCU is no more, this commit removes its tracing formats from the documentation. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
| * rcu: Remove srcu_read_lock_raw() and srcu_read_unlock_raw().Paul E. McKenney2013-06-103-27/+7
|/ | | | | | | | | These interfaces never did get used, so this commit removes them, their rcutorture tests, and documentation referencing them. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
* Merge commit '8700c95adb03' into timers/nohzFrederic Weisbecker2013-05-025-22/+61
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies. Merge a common upstream merge point that has these updates. Conflicts: include/linux/perf_event.h kernel/rcutree.h kernel/rcutree_plugin.h Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
| *-. Merge branches 'doc.2013.03.12a', 'fixes.2013.03.13a' and ↵Paul E. McKenney2013-03-261-9/+24
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'idlenocb.2013.03.26b' into HEAD doc.2013.03.12a: Documentation changes. fixes.2013.03.13a: Miscellaneous fixes. idlenocb.2013.03.26b: Remove restrictions on no-CBs CPUs, make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered callbacks, add callback acceleration based on numbered callbacks.
| | * | rcu: Add softirq-stall indications to stall-warning messagesPaul E. McKenney2013-03-131-9/+24
| | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | If RCU's softirq handler is prevented from executing, an RCU CPU stall warning can result. Ways to prevent RCU's softirq handler from executing include: (1) CPU spinning with interrupts disabled, (2) infinite loop in some softirq handler, and (3) in -rt kernels, an infinite loop in a set of real-time threads running at priorities higher than that of RCU's softirq handler. Because this situation can be difficult to track down, this commit causes the count of RCU softirq handler invocations to be printed with RCU CPU stall warnings. This information does require some interpretation, as now documented in Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt. Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
| * | rcu: Documentation updatePaul E. McKenney2013-03-123-11/+35
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit applies a few updates based on a quick review of the RCU documentations. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| * | rcu: Make bugginess of code sample more evidentPaul E. McKenney2013-03-121-2/+2
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | One of the code samples in whatisRCU.txt shows a bug, but someone scanning the document quickly might mistake it for a valid use of RCU. Add some screaming comments to help keep speed-readers on track. Reported-by: Nathan Zimmer <nzimmer@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
* / nohz: Rename CONFIG_NO_HZ to CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMONFrederic Weisbecker2013-04-031-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We are planning to convert the dynticks Kconfig options layout into a choice menu. The user must be able to easily pick any of the following implementations: constant periodic tick, idle dynticks, full dynticks. As this implies a mutual exclusion, the two dynticks implementions need to converge on the selection of a common Kconfig option in order to ease the sharing of a common infrastructure. It would thus seem pretty natural to reuse CONFIG_NO_HZ to that end. It already implements all the idle dynticks code and the full dynticks depends on all that code for now. So ideally the choice menu would propose CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED then both would select CONFIG_NO_HZ. On the other hand we want to stay backward compatible: if CONFIG_NO_HZ is set in an older config file, we want to enable CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE by default. But we can't afford both at the same time or we run into a circular dependency: 1) CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and CONFIG_NO_HZ_EXTENDED both select CONFIG_NO_HZ 2) If CONFIG_NO_HZ is set, we default to CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE We might be able to support that from Kconfig/Kbuild but it may not be wise to introduce such a confusing behaviour. So to solve this, create a new CONFIG_NO_HZ_COMMON option which gathers the common code between idle and full dynticks (that common code for now is simply the idle dynticks code) and select it from their referring Kconfig. Then we'll later create CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE and map CONFIG_NO_HZ to it for backward compatibility. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org> Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org> Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
*-. Merge branches 'urgent.2012.10.27a', 'doc.2012.11.16a', 'fixes.2012.11.13a', ↵Paul E. McKenney2012-11-166-196/+299
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'srcu.2012.10.27a', 'stall.2012.11.13a', 'tracing.2012.11.08a' and 'idle.2012.10.24a' into HEAD urgent.2012.10.27a: Fix for RCU user-mode transition (already in -tip). doc.2012.11.08a: Documentation updates, most notably codifying the memory-barrier guarantees inherent to grace periods. fixes.2012.11.13a: Miscellaneous fixes. srcu.2012.10.27a: Allow statically allocated and initialized srcu_struct structures (courtesy of Lai Jiangshan). stall.2012.11.13a: Add more diagnostic information to RCU CPU stall warnings, also decrease from 60 seconds to 21 seconds. hotplug.2012.11.08a: Minor updates to CPU hotplug handling. tracing.2012.11.08a: Improved debugfs tracing, courtesy of Michael Wang. idle.2012.10.24a: Updates to RCU idle/adaptive-idle handling, including a boot parameter that maps normal grace periods to expedited. Resolved conflict in kernel/rcutree.c due to side-by-side change.
| | * rcu: Remove list_for_each_continue_rcu()Paul E. McKenney2012-11-132-12/+9
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | The list_for_each_continue_rcu() macro is no longer used, so this commit removes it. The list_for_each_entry_continue_rcu() macro should be used instead. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| * rcu: Add documentation for the new rcuexp debugfs trace filePaul E. McKenney2012-11-161-0/+41
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit adds the documentation of the rcuexp debugfs trace file that records statistics for expedited grace periods. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| * rcu: Update documentation for TREE_RCU debugfs tracingPaul E. McKenney2012-11-161-183/+182
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This commit updates the tracing documentation to reflect the new format that has per-RCU-flavor directories. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| * rcu: Document alternative RCU/reference-count algorithmsPaul E. McKenney2012-11-081-2/+59
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The approach for mixing RCU and reference counting listed in the RCU documentation only describes one possible approach. This approach can result in failure on the read side, which is nice if you want fresh data, but not so good if you want simple code. This commit therefore adds two additional approaches that feature unconditional reference-count acquisition by RCU readers. These approaches are very similar to that used in the security code. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| * rcu: Update docs to include kfree_rcu()Kees Cook2012-11-082-3/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mention kfree_rcu() in the call_rcu() section. Additionally fix the example code for list replacement that used the wrong structure element. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| * rcu: Correct the name of a reference in list of RCU papersDhaval Giani2012-10-231-1/+1
|/ | | | | | | | | | | Trying to go through the history of RCU (not for the weak minded) led me to search for a non-existent paper. Correct it to the actual reference Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval.giani@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
*---. Merge branches 'bigrt.2012.09.23a', 'doctorture.2012.09.23a', ↵Paul E. McKenney2012-09-243-10/+21
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 'fixes.2012.09.23a', 'hotplug.2012.09.23a' and 'idlechop.2012.09.23a' into HEAD bigrt.2012.09.23a contains additional commits to reduce scheduling latency from RCU on huge systems (many hundrends or thousands of CPUs). doctorture.2012.09.23a contains documentation changes and rcutorture fixes. fixes.2012.09.23a contains miscellaneous fixes. hotplug.2012.09.23a contains CPU-hotplug-related changes. idle.2012.09.23a fixes architectures for which RCU no longer considered the idle loop to be a quiescent state due to earlier adaptive-dynticks changes. Affected architectures are alpha, cris, frv, h8300, m32r, m68k, mn10300, parisc, score, xtensa, and ia64.
| | * | rcu: Fix CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ stall warning messagePaul E. McKenney2012-09-231-8/+8
| | |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The print_cpu_stall_fast_no_hz() function attempts to print -1 when the ->idle_gp_timer is not pending, but unsigned arithmetic causes it to instead print ULONG_MAX, which is 4294967295 on 32-bit systems and 18446744073709551615 on 64-bit systems. Neither of these are the most reader-friendly values, so this commit instead causes "timer not pending" to be printed when ->idle_gp_timer is not pending. Reported-by: Paul Walmsley <paul@pwsan.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| * / rcu: Document SRCU dead-CPU capabilities, emphasize read-side limitsPaul E. McKenney2012-09-232-2/+13
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current documentation did not help someone grepping for SRCU to learn that disabling preemption is not a replacement for srcu_read_lock(), so upgrade the documentation to bring this out, not just for SRCU, but also for RCU-bh. Also document the fact that SRCU readers are respected on CPUs executing in user mode, idle CPUs, and even on offline CPUs. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
* / rcu: Adjust debugfs tracing for kthread-based quiescent-state forcingPaul E. McKenney2012-09-231-27/+16
|/ | | | | | | | Moving quiescent-state forcing into a kthread dispenses with the need for the ->n_rp_need_fqs field, so this commit removes it. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
* rcu: Update documentation to cover call_srcu() and srcu_barrier().Paul E. McKenney2012-07-024-33/+36
| | | | | | | The advent of call_srcu() and srcu_barrier() obsoleted some of the documentation, so this commit brings that up to date. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* rcu: Introduce rcutorture testing for rcu_barrier()Paul E. McKenney2012-04-301-1/+14
| | | | | | | | | | | Although rcutorture does invoke rcu_barrier() and friends, it cannot really be called a torture test given that it invokes them only once at the end of the test. This commit therefore introduces heavy-duty rcutorture testing for rcu_barrier(), which may be carried out concurrently with normal rcutorture testing. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* rcu: Call out dangers of expedited RCU primitivesPaul E. McKenney2012-02-211-0/+14
| | | | | | | | The expedited RCU primitives can be quite useful, but they have some high costs as well. This commit updates and creates docbook comments calling out the costs, and updates the RCU documentation as well. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* rcu: Rework detection of use of RCU by offline CPUsPaul E. McKenney2012-02-211-20/+16
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Because newly offlined CPUs continue executing after completing the CPU_DYING notifiers, they legitimately enter the scheduler and use RCU while appearing to be offline. This calls for a more sophisticated approach as follows: 1. RCU marks the CPU online during the CPU_UP_PREPARE phase. 2. RCU marks the CPU offline during the CPU_DEAD phase. 3. Diagnostics regarding use of read-side RCU by offline CPUs use RCU's accounting rather than the cpu_online_map. (Note that __call_rcu() still uses cpu_online_map to detect illegal invocations within CPU_DYING notifiers.) 4. Offline CPUs are prevented from hanging the system by force_quiescent_state(), which pays attention to cpu_online_map. Some additional work (in a later commit) will be needed to guarantee that force_quiescent_state() waits a full jiffy before assuming that a CPU is offline, for example, when called from idle entry. (This commit also makes the one-jiffy wait explicit, since the old-style implicit wait can now be defeated by RCU_FAST_NO_HZ and by rcutorture.) This approach avoids the false positives encountered when attempting to use more exact classification of CPU online/offline state. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* rcu: Update stall-warning documentationPaul E. McKenney2012-02-211-7/+80
| | | | | | | | | | | | Add documentation of CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_VERBOSE, CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO, and RCU_STALL_DELAY_DELTA. Describe multiple stall-warning messages from a single stall, and the timing of the subsequent messages. Add headings. Remove RCU_SECONDS_TILL_STALL_RECHECK because this value is now computed at runtime from RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT, so that sysfs changes to the timeout value now directly affect the RCU_SECONDS_TILL_STALL_RECHECK value. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* rcu: Add CPU-stall capability to rcutorturePaul E. McKenney2012-02-211-0/+18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Add module parameters to rcutorture that induce a CPU stall. The stall_cpu parameter specifies how long to stall in seconds, defaulting to zero, which indicates no stalling is to be undertaken. The stall_cpu_holdoff parameter specifies how many seconds after insmod (or boot, if rcutorture is built into the kernel) that this stall is to start. The default value for stall_cpu_holdoff is ten seconds. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* rcu: Make documentation give more realistic rcutorture durationPaul E. McKenney2012-02-211-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | The torture.txt documentation gives an example rcutorture run with a 100-second duration. This is ridiculously short, unless maybe testing a fix for a egregious bug. Use a more-realistic one-hour duration for the example. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* rcutorture: Permit holding off CPU-hotplug operations during bootPaul E. McKenney2012-02-211-2/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | When rcutorture is started automatically at boot time, it might well also start CPU-hotplug operations at that time, which might not be desirable. This commit therefore adds an rcutorture parameter that allows CPU-hotplug operations to be held off for the specified number of seconds after the start of boot. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* rcu: Bring RTFP.txt up to date.Paul E. McKenney2012-02-211-98/+1686
| | | | | | Add publications from 2010 and 2011 to RTFP.txt. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* docs: Additional LWN links to RCU APIKees Cook2011-12-111-0/+1
| | | | | | | | Tyler Hicks pointed me at an additional article on RCU and I figured it should probably be mentioned with the others. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* rcu: Add rcutorture CPU-hotplug capabilityPaul E. McKenney2011-12-111-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Running CPU-hotplug operations concurrently with rcutorture has historically been a good way to find bugs in both RCU and CPU hotplug. This commit therefore adds an rcutorture module parameter called "onoff_interval" that causes a randomly selected CPU-hotplug operation to be executed at the specified interval, in seconds. The default value of "onoff_interval" is zero, which disables rcutorture-instigated CPU-hotplug operations. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* rcu: Add rcutorture system-shutdown capabilityPaul E. McKenney2011-12-111-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Although it is easy to run rcutorture tests under KVM, there is currently no nice way to run such a test for a fixed time period, collect all of the rcutorture data, and then shut the system down cleanly. This commit therefore adds an rcutorture module parameter named "shutdown_secs" that specified the run duration in seconds, after which rcutorture terminates the test and powers the system down. The default value for "shutdown_secs" is zero, which disables shutdown. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* rcu: Add documentation for raw SRCU read-side primitivesPaul E. McKenney2011-12-114-16/+29
| | | | | | | | Update various files in Documentation/RCU to reflect srcu_read_lock_raw() and srcu_read_unlock_raw(). Credit to Peter Zijlstra for suggesting use of the existing _raw suffix instead of the earlier bulkref names. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* rcu: Document failing tick as cause of RCU CPU stall warningPaul E. McKenney2011-12-111-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | One of lclaudio's systems was seeing RCU CPU stall warnings from idle. These turned out to be caused by a bug that stopped scheduling-clock tick interrupts from being sent to a given CPU for several hundred seconds. This commit therefore updates the documentation to call this out as a possible cause for RCU CPU stall warnings. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
* rcu: Track idleness independent of idle tasksPaul E. McKenney2011-12-111-4/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Earlier versions of RCU used the scheduling-clock tick to detect idleness by checking for the idle task, but handled idleness differently for CONFIG_NO_HZ=y. But there are now a number of uses of RCU read-side critical sections in the idle task, for example, for tracing. A more fine-grained detection of idleness is therefore required. This commit presses the old dyntick-idle code into full-time service, so that rcu_idle_enter(), previously known as rcu_enter_nohz(), is always invoked at the beginning of an idle loop iteration. Similarly, rcu_idle_exit(), previously known as rcu_exit_nohz(), is always invoked at the end of an idle-loop iteration. This allows the idle task to use RCU everywhere except between consecutive rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() calls, in turn allowing architecture maintainers to specify exactly where in the idle loop that RCU may be used. Because some of the userspace upcall uses can result in what looks to RCU like half of an interrupt, it is not possible to expect that the irq_enter() and irq_exit() hooks will give exact counts. This patch therefore expands the ->dynticks_nesting counter to 64 bits and uses two separate bitfields to count process/idle transitions and interrupt entry/exit transitions. It is presumed that userspace upcalls do not happen in the idle loop or from usermode execution (though usermode might do a system call that results in an upcall). The counter is hard-reset on each process/idle transition, which avoids the interrupt entry/exit error from accumulating. Overflow is avoided by the 64-bitness of the ->dyntick_nesting counter. This commit also adds warnings if a non-idle task asks RCU to enter idle state (and these checks will need some adjustment before applying Frederic's OS-jitter patches (http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/7/246). In addition, validation of ->dynticks and ->dynticks_nesting is added. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
* rcu: Document interpretation of RCU-lockdep splatsPaul E. McKenney2011-09-281-0/+110
| | | | | | | | There has been quite a bit of confusion about what RCU-lockdep splats mean, so this commit adds some documentation describing how to interpret them. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* rcu: Update documentation for additional RCU lockdep functionsPaul E. McKenney2011-09-281-3/+21
| | | | | | | | Add documentation for rcu_dereference_bh_check(), rcu_dereference_sched_check(), srcu_dereference_check(), and rcu_dereference_index_check(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* rcu: Not necessary to pass rcu_read_lock_held() to rcu_dereference_protected()Michal Hocko2011-09-281-6/+4
| | | | | | | | | | Since ca5ecddf (rcu: define __rcu address space modifier for sparse) rcu_dereference_check() use rcu_read_lock_held() as a part of condition automatically. Therefore, callers of rcu_dereference_check() no longer need to pass rcu_read_lock_held() to rcu_dereference_check(). Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* rcu: Simplify quiescent-state accountingPaul E. McKenney2011-09-281-17/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There is often a delay between the time that a CPU passes through a quiescent state and the time that this quiescent state is reported to the RCU core. It is quite possible that the grace period ended before the quiescent state could be reported, for example, some other CPU might have deduced that this CPU passed through dyntick-idle mode. It is critically important that quiescent state be counted only against the grace period that was in effect at the time that the quiescent state was detected. Previously, this was handled by recording the number of the last grace period to complete when passing through a quiescent state. The RCU core then checks this number against the current value, and rejects the quiescent state if there is a mismatch. However, one additional possibility must be accounted for, namely that the quiescent state was recorded after the prior grace period completed but before the current grace period started. In this case, the RCU core must reject the quiescent state, but the recorded number will match. This is handled when the CPU becomes aware of a new grace period -- at that point, it invalidates any prior quiescent state. This works, but is a bit indirect. The new approach records the current grace period, and the RCU core checks to see (1) that this is still the current grace period and (2) that this grace period has not yet ended. This approach simplifies reasoning about correctness, and this commit changes over to this new approach. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* rcu: Fix RCU's NMI documentationPaul E. McKenney2011-09-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | It has long been the case that the architecture must call nmi_enter() and nmi_exit() rather than irq_enter() and irq_exit() in order to permit RCU read-side critical sections in NMIs. Catch the documentation up with reality. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
* rcu: Catch rcutorture up to new RCU API additionsPaul E. McKenney2011-09-281-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Now that the RCU API contains synchronize_rcu_bh(), synchronize_sched(), call_rcu_sched(), and rcu_bh_expedited()... Make rcutorture test synchronize_rcu_bh(), getting rid of the old rcu_bh_torture_synchronize() workaround. Similarly, make rcutorture test synchronize_sched(), getting rid of the old sched_torture_synchronize() workaround. Make rcutorture test call_rcu_sched() instead of wrappering synchronize_sched(). Also add testing of rcu_bh_expedited(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* rcu: Update rcutorture documentationPaul E. McKenney2011-09-281-35/+99
| | | | | | | | | | Update rcutorture documentation to account for boosting, new types of RCU torture testing that have been added over the past few years, and the memory-barrier testing that was added an embarrassingly long time ago. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* rcu: Update documentation to flag RCU_BOOST trace informationPaul E. McKenney2011-09-281-0/+4
| | | | | | | | Call out the RCU_TRACE information that is provided only in kernels built with RCU_BOOST. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* doc: fix wrong arch/i386 referencesWanlong Gao2011-06-131-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | Change all "arch/i386" to "arch/x86" in Documentaion/, since the directory has changed. Also update the files which have changed their filename in the meantime accordingly. Signed-off-by: Wanlong Gao <wanlong.gao@gmail.com> [jkosina@suse.cz: reword changelog] Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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