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Paul E. McKenney 5cf05ad758 rcu: Fix broken strings in RCU's source code.
Although the C language allows you to break strings across lines, doing
this makes it hard for people to find the Linux kernel code corresponding
to a given console message.  This commit therefore fixes broken strings
throughout RCU's source code.

Suggested-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-07-06 06:01:49 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney c701d5d9b3 rcu: Fix code-style issues involving "else"
The Linux kernel coding style says that single-statement blocks should
omit curly braces unless the other leg of the "if" statement has
multiple statements, in which case the curly braces should be included.
This commit fixes RCU's violations of this rule.

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>
2012-07-06 06:01:48 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 02a0677b0b Merge branches 'bigrtm.2012.07.04a', 'doctorture.2012.07.02a', 'fixes.2012.07.06a' and 'fnh.2012.07.02a' into HEAD
bigrtm: First steps towards getting RCU out of the way of
	tens-of-microseconds real-time response on systems compiled
	with NR_CPUS=4096.  Also cleanups for and increased concurrency
	of rcu_barrier() family of primitives.
doctorture: rcutorture and documentation improvements.
fixes:  Miscellaneous fixes.
fnh: RCU_FAST_NO_HZ fixes and improvements.
2012-07-06 05:59:30 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney cfca927972 rcu: Introduce check for callback list/count mismatch
The recent bug that introduced the RCU callback list/count mismatch
showed the need for a diagnostic to check for this, which this commit
adds.

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>
2012-07-06 05:55:16 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 9d2ad24306 rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ respect nohz= boot parameter
If the nohz= boot parameter disables nohz, then RCU_FAST_NO_HZ needs to
also disable itself.  This commit therefore checks for tick_nohz_enabled
being zero, disabling rcu_prepare_for_idle() if so.  This commit assumes
that tick_nohz_enabled can change at runtime: If this is not the case,
then a simpler approach suffices.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-07-02 12:34:43 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney e84c48ae30 rcu: Round FAST_NO_HZ lazy timeout to nearest second
Currently, if several CPUs in the same package have all lazy RCU
callbacks, their wakeups will be uncorrelated.  If all the CPUs are in the
same power domain (as is often the case), this will result in unnecessary
power-ups of the package.  This commit therefore uses round_jiffies()
to round the timeouts to a second boundary, increasing the odds that
they can be coalesced with each other or with other timeouts.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-07-02 12:34:42 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 28f8555364 rcu: The rcu_needs_cpu() function is not a quiescent state
The TINY_PREEMPT_RCU() function rcu_preempt_needs_cpu(), which is called
from rcu_needs_cpu(), assumes that it is in a quiescent state with respect
to the CPU.  This is no longer the case.  This commit therefore updates
rcu_preempt_needs_cpu() to make it aware that it is not running in a
quiescent state.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Pascal Chapperon <pascal.chapperon@wanadoo.fr>
2012-07-02 12:34:42 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney bf1304e9cd rcu: Dump only the current CPU's buffers for idle-entry/exit warnings
Problems in RCU idle entry and exit are almost always confined to the
offending CPU.  This commit therefore switches ftrace_dump() from
DUMP_ALL to DUMP_ORIG.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Pascal Chapperon <pascal.chapperon@wanadoo.fr>
2012-07-02 12:34:42 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney cf01537ecf rcu: Add check for CPUs going offline with callbacks queued
If a CPU goes offline with callbacks queued, those callbacks might be
indefinitely postponed, which can result in a system hang.  This commit
therefore inserts warnings for this condition.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-07-02 12:34:25 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 95f0c1de3e rcu: Disable preemption in rcu_blocking_is_gp()
It is time to optimize CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU's synchronize_rcu()
for uniprocessor optimization, which means that rcu_blocking_is_gp()
can no longer rely on RCU read-side critical sections having disabled
preemption.  This commit therefore disables preemption across
rcu_blocking_is_gp()'s scan of the cpu_online_mask.

(Updated from previous version to fix embarrassing bug spotted by
Wu Fengguang.)

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-07-02 12:34:25 -07:00
Carsten Emde 1c17e4d443 rcu: Prevent uninitialized string in RCU CPU stall info
An uninitialized string may be displayed at the end of the rcu_preempt
detected stall info such as

0: (1 GPs behind) idle=075/140000000000000/0 =8?^D=8?^D
                                             ^^^^^^^^^^
if CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ is not defined.

This trivial patch clears the string in this case.

Signed-off-by: Carsten Emde <C.Emde@osadl.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-07-02 12:34:25 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney d7118175cc rcu: Fix rcu_is_cpu_idle() #ifdef in TINY_RCU
The rcu_is_cpu_idle() function is used if CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC,
but TINY_RCU defines it only when CONFIG_PROVE_RCU.  This causes
build failures when CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y but CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=n.
This commit therefore adjusts the #ifdefs for rcu_is_cpu_idle() so
that it is defined when CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-07-02 12:34:25 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 29154c57e3 rcu: Split RCU core processing out of __call_rcu()
The __call_rcu() function is a bit overweight, so this commit splits
it into actual enqueuing of and accounting for the callback (__call_rcu())
and associated RCU-core processing (__call_rcu_core()).

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-07-02 12:34:24 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney a16b7a6934 rcu: Prevent __call_rcu() from invoking RCU core on offline CPUs
The __call_rcu() function will invoke the RCU core, for example, if
it detects that the current CPU has too many callbacks.  However, this
can happen on an offline CPU that is on its way to the idle loop, in
which case it is an error to invoke the RCU core, and the excess callbacks
will be adopted in any case.  This commit therefore adds checks to
__call_rcu() for running on an offline CPU, refraining from invoking
the RCU core in this case.

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>
2012-07-02 12:34:24 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 62fde6edf1 rcu: Make __call_rcu() handle invocation from idle
Although __call_rcu() is handled correctly when called from a momentary
non-idle period, if it is called on a CPU that RCU believes to be idle
on RCU_FAST_NO_HZ kernels, the callback might be indefinitely postponed.
This commit therefore ensures that RCU is aware of the new callback and
has a chance to force the CPU out of dyntick-idle mode when a new callback
is posted.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
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>
2012-07-02 12:34:24 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 2a3fa843b5 rcu: Consolidate tree/tiny __rcu_read_{,un}lock() implementations
The CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU and CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU versions of
__rcu_read_lock() and __rcu_read_unlock() are identical, so this commit
consolidates them into kernel/rcupdate.h.

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>
2012-07-02 12:34:23 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 1d1fb395f6 rcu: Add ACCESS_ONCE() to ->qlen accesses
The _rcu_barrier() function accesses other CPUs' rcu_data structure's
->qlen field without benefit of locking.  This commit therefore adds
the required ACCESS_ONCE() wrappers around accesses and updates that
need it.

ACCESS_ONCE() is not needed when a CPU accesses its own ->qlen, or
in code that cannot run while _rcu_barrier() is sampling ->qlen fields.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-07-02 12:34:22 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 3f5d3ea64f rcu: Consolidate duplicate callback-list initialization
There are a couple of open-coded initializations of the rcu_data
structure's RCU callback list.  This commit therefore consolidates
them into a new init_callback_list() function.

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>
2012-07-02 12:34:21 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 285fe29481 rcu: Fix detection of abruptly-ending stall
The code that attempts to identify stalls that end just as we detect
them is broken by both flavors of initialization failure.  This commit
therefore properly initializes and computes the count of the number
of reasons why the RCU grace period is stalled.

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>
2012-07-02 12:34:21 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 72472a02a9 rcu: Make rcutorture fakewriters invoke rcu_barrier()
The current rcutorture rcu_barrier() testing never intentionally runs
more than one instance of rcu_barrier() at a given time.  This fails
to test the the shiny new concurrency features of rcu_barrier().  This
commit therefore modifies the rcutorture fakewriter kthread to randomly
invoke rcu_barrier() rather than the usual synchronize_rcu().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-07-02 12:34:04 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 143aa672f4 rcu: Fix diagnostic-printk typo in rcutorture
The rcu_torture_barrier() function has a copy-and-paste typo in the
string passed to rcutorture_shutdown_absorb(), which this commit fixes.

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>
2012-07-02 12:34:03 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney c6ebcbb60c rcu: Fix bug in rcu_barrier() torture test
The child threads in the rcu_torture_barrier_cbs() are improperly
synchronized, which can cause the rcu_barrier() tests to hang.  The
failure mode is as follows:

1.	CPU 0 running in rcu_torture_barrier() sets barrier_cbs_count
    	to n_barrier_cbs.

2.	CPU 1 running in rcu_torture_barrier_cbs() wakes up, posts
    	its RCU callback, and atomically decrements barrier_cbs_count.
    	Because barrier_cbs_count is not zero, it does not do the wake_up().

3.	CPU 2 running in rcu_torture_barrier_cbs() wakes up, but
    	finds that barrier_cbs_count is not equal to n_barrier_cbs,
    	and so returns to sleep.

4.	The value of barrier_cbs_count therefore never reaches zero,
    	which causes the test to hang.

This commit therefore uses a phase variable to coordinate the test,
preventing this scenario from occurring.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-07-02 12:34:03 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney e3f8d3788e rcu: Test srcu_barrier() from rcutorture test suite
SRCU now has a call_srcu() and an srcu_barrier(), but rcutorture does not
test them.  This commit adds the machinery to allow rcutorture's existing
tests for call_rcu() and rcu_barrier() to apply to the SRCU equivalents.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-07-02 12:34:03 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 751a68b2e4 rcu: Rationalize ordering of torture_ops list
Move the raw SRCU interfaces out of the middle of the normal SRCU
interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-07-02 12:34:03 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney ff015030c9 rcu: RCU_SAVE_DYNTICK code no longer ever dead
Before RCU had unified idle, the RCU_SAVE_DYNTICK leg of the switch
statement in force_quiescent_state() was dead code for CONFIG_NO_HZ=n
kernel builds.  With unified idle, the code is never dead.  This commit
therefore removes the "if" statement designed to make gcc aware of when
the code was and was not dead.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-07-02 12:33:24 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney c0cc962da3 rcu: Use for_each_rcu_flavor() in TREE_RCU tracing
This commit applies the new for_each_rcu_flavor() macro to the
kernel/rcutree_trace.c file.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-07-02 12:33:24 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 6ce75a2326 rcu: Introduce for_each_rcu_flavor() and use it
The arrival of TREE_PREEMPT_RCU some years back included some ugly
code involving either #ifdef or #ifdef'ed wrapper functions to iterate
over all non-SRCU flavors of RCU.  This commit therefore introduces
a for_each_rcu_flavor() iterator over the rcu_state structures for each
flavor of RCU to clean up a bit of the ugliness.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-07-02 12:33:24 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 1bca8cf1a2 rcu: Remove unneeded __rcu_process_callbacks() argument
With the advent of __this_cpu_ptr(), it is no longer necessary to pass
both the rcu_state and rcu_data structures into __rcu_process_callbacks().
This commit therefore computes the rcu_data pointer from the rcu_state
pointer within __rcu_process_callbacks() so that callers can pass in
only the pointer to the rcu_state structure.  This paves the way for
linking the rcu_state structures together and iterating over them.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-07-02 12:33:23 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney d7e187c8e9 rcu: Add rcu_barrier() statistics to debugfs tracing
This commit adds an rcubarrier file to RCU's debugfs statistical tracing
directory, providing diagnostic information on rcu_barrier().

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>
2012-07-02 12:33:23 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney a83eff0a82 rcu: Add tracing for _rcu_barrier()
This commit adds event tracing for _rcu_barrier() execution.  This
is defined only if RCU_TRACE=y.

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>
2012-07-02 12:33:23 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney cf3a9c4842 rcu: Increase rcu_barrier() concurrency
The traditional rcu_barrier() implementation has serialized all requests,
regardless of RCU flavor, and also does not coalesce concurrent requests.
In the past, this has been good and sufficient.

However, systems are getting larger and use of rcu_barrier() has been
increasing.  This commit therefore introduces a counter-based scheme
that allows _rcu_barrier() calls for the same flavor of RCU to take
advantage of each others' work.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-07-02 12:33:23 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney cfed0a85da rcu: Remove needless initialization
For global variables, C defaults all fields to zero.  The initialization
of the rcu_state structure's ->n_force_qs and ->n_force_qs_ngp fields
is therefore redundant, so this commit removes these initializations.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-07-02 12:33:22 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 7be7f0be90 rcu: Move rcu_barrier_mutex to rcu_state structure
In order to allow each RCU flavor to concurrently execute its
rcu_barrier() function, it is necessary to move the relevant
state to the rcu_state structure.  This commit therefore moves the
rcu_barrier_mutex global variable to a new ->barrier_mutex field
in the rcu_state structure.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-07-02 12:33:22 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 7db74df88b rcu: Move rcu_barrier_completion to rcu_state structure
In order to allow each RCU flavor to concurrently execute its
rcu_barrier() function, it is necessary to move the relevant
state to the rcu_state structure.  This commit therefore moves the
rcu_barrier_completion global variable to a new ->barrier_completion
field in the rcu_state structure.

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>
2012-07-02 12:33:22 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 24ebbca8ec rcu: Move rcu_barrier_cpu_count to rcu_state structure
In order to allow each RCU flavor to concurrently execute its rcu_barrier()
function, it is necessary to move the relevant state to the rcu_state
structure.  This commit therefore moves the rcu_barrier_cpu_count global
variable to a new ->barrier_cpu_count field in the rcu_state structure.

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>
2012-07-02 12:33:22 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 06668efa91 rcu: Move _rcu_barrier()'s rcu_head structures to rcu_data structures
In order for multiple flavors of RCU to each concurrently run one
rcu_barrier(), each flavor needs its own per-CPU set of rcu_head
structures.  This commit therefore moves _rcu_barrier()'s set of
per-CPU rcu_head structures from per-CPU variables to the existing
per-CPU and per-RCU-flavor rcu_data structures.

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>
2012-07-02 12:33:21 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 037b64ed0b rcu: Place pointer to call_rcu() in rcu_data structure
This is a preparatory commit for increasing rcu_barrier()'s concurrency.
It adds a pointer in the rcu_data structure to the corresponding call_rcu()
function.  This allows a pointer to the rcu_data structure to imply the
function pointer, which allows _rcu_barrier() state to be placed in the
rcu_state structure.

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>
2012-07-02 12:33:21 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney 6c90cc7bf0 rcu: Prevent excessive line length in RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER()
Upcoming rcu_barrier() concurrency commits will result in line lengths
greater than 80 characters in the RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER(), so this commit
shortens the name of the macro's argument to prevent this.

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>
2012-07-02 12:33:21 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney cca6f39319 rcu: Size rcu_node tree from nr_cpu_ids rather than NR_CPUS
The rcu_node tree array is sized based on compile-time constants,
including NR_CPUS.  Although this approach has worked well in the past,
the recent trend by many distros to define NR_CPUS=4096 results in
excessive grace-period-initialization latencies.

This commit therefore substitutes the run-time computed nr_cpu_ids for
the compile-time NR_CPUS when building the tree.  This can result in
much of the compile-time-allocated rcu_node array being unused.  If
this is a major problem, you are in a specialized situation anyway,
so you can manually adjust the NR_CPUS, RCU_FANOUT, and RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
kernel config parameters.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-07-02 12:33:21 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney cc5df65b03 rcu: Four-level hierarchy is no longer experimental
Time to make the four-level-hierarchy setting less scary, so this
commit removes "Experimental" from the boot-time message.  Leave the
message in order to get a heads-up on any possible need to expand to
a five-level hierarchy.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-07-02 12:33:20 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney f885b7f2b2 rcu: Control RCU_FANOUT_LEAF from boot-time parameter
Although making RCU_FANOUT_LEAF a kernel configuration parameter rather
than a fixed constant makes it easier for people to decrease cache-miss
overhead for large systems, it is of little help for people who must
run a single pre-built kernel binary.

This commit therefore allows the value of RCU_FANOUT_LEAF to be
increased (but not decreased!) via a boot-time parameter named
rcutree.rcu_fanout_leaf.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-07-02 12:33:20 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney cba6d0d64e Revert "rcu: Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation"
This reverts commit 616c310e83.
(Move PREEMPT_RCU preemption to switch_to() invocation).
Testing by Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> showed that this
can result in deadlock due to invoking the scheduler when one of
the runqueue locks is held.  Because this commit was simply a
performance optimization, revert it.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com>
2012-07-02 11:39:19 -07:00
Randy Dunlap 4f0f4af59c printk.c: fix kernel-doc warnings
Fix kernel-doc warnings in printk.c: use correct parameter name.

  Warning(kernel/printk.c:2429): No description found for parameter 'buf'
  Warning(kernel/printk.c:2429): Excess function parameter 'line' description in 'kmsg_dump_get_buffer'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-06-30 15:56:40 -07:00
Linus Torvalds 21f27291f5 Driver Core fixes for 3.5-rc5
Here is a number of printk() fixes, specifically a few reported by the
 crazy blog program that ships in SUSE releases (that's "boot log" and
 not "web log", it predates the general "blog" terminology by many
 years), and the restoration of the continuation line functionality
 reported by Stephen and others.  Yes, the changes seem a bit big this
 late in the cycle, but I've been beating on them for a while now, and
 Stephen has even optimized it a bit, so all looks good to me.
 
 The other change in here is a Documentation update for the stable kernel
 rules describing how some distro patches should be backported, to
 hopefully drive a bit more response from the distros to the stable
 kernel releases.
 
 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'driver-core-3.5-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core

Pull driver Core fixes from Greg Kroah-Hartman:
 "Here is a number of printk() fixes, specifically a few reported by the
  crazy blog program that ships in SUSE releases (that's "boot log" and
  not "web log", it predates the general "blog" terminology by many
  years), and the restoration of the continuation line functionality
  reported by Stephen and others.  Yes, the changes seem a bit big this
  late in the cycle, but I've been beating on them for a while now, and
  Stephen has even optimized it a bit, so all looks good to me.

  The other change in here is a Documentation update for the stable
  kernel rules describing how some distro patches should be backported,
  to hopefully drive a bit more response from the distros to the stable
  kernel releases.

  Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>"

* tag 'driver-core-3.5-rc5' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core:
  printk: Optimize if statement logic where newline exists
  printk: flush continuation lines immediately to console
  syslog: fill buffer with more than a single message for SYSLOG_ACTION_READ
  Revert "printk: return -EINVAL if the message len is bigger than the buf size"
  printk: fix regression in SYSLOG_ACTION_CLEAR
  stable: Allow merging of backports for serious user-visible performance issues
2012-06-30 10:11:24 -07:00
Steven Rostedt d36208227d printk: Optimize if statement logic where newline exists
In reviewing Kay's fix up patch: "printk: Have printk() never buffer its
data", I found two if statements that could be combined and optimized.

Put together the two 'cont.len && cont.owner == current' if statements
into a single one, and check if we need to call cont_add(). This also
removes the unneeded double cont_flush() calls.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1340869133.876.10.camel@mop

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-29 16:55:35 -04:00
Kay Sievers 084681d14e printk: flush continuation lines immediately to console
Continuation lines are buffered internally, intended to merge the
chunked printk()s into a single record, and to isolate potentially
racy continuation users from usual terminated line users.

This though, has the effect that partial lines are not printed to
the console in the moment they are emitted. In case the kernel
crashes in the meantime, the potentially interesting printed
information would never reach the consoles.

Here we share the continuation buffer with the console copy logic,
and partial lines are always immediately flushed to the available
consoles. They are still buffered internally to improve the
readability and integrity of the messages and minimize the amount
of needed record headers to store.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-29 11:39:42 -04:00
Jan Beulich 116e90b23f syslog: fill buffer with more than a single message for SYSLOG_ACTION_READ
The recent changes to the printk buffer management resulted in
SYSLOG_ACTION_READ to only return a single message, whereas previously
the buffer would get filled as much as possible. As, when too small to
fit everything, filling it to the last byte would be pretty ugly with
the new code, the patch arranges for as many messages as possible to
get returned in a single invocation. User space tools in at least all
SLES versions depend on the old behavior.

This at once addresses the issue attempted to get fixed with commit
b56a39ac26 ("printk: return -EINVAL if
the message len is bigger than the buf size"), and since that commit
widened the possibility for losing a message altogether, the patch
here assumes that this other commit would get reverted first
(otherwise the patch here won't apply).

Furthermore, this patch also addresses the problem dealt with in
commit 4a77a5a06e ("printk: use mutex
lock to stop syslog_seq from going wild"), so I'd recommend reverting
that one too (albeit there's no direct collision between the two).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>
Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-26 12:37:36 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman 6fda135c90 Revert "printk: return -EINVAL if the message len is bigger than the buf size"
This reverts commit b56a39ac26.

A better patch from Jan will follow this to resolve the issue.

Acked-by: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Cc: Fengguang Wu <wfg@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-26 12:35:24 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney b41772abeb rcu: Stop rcu_do_batch() from multiplexing the "count" variable
Commit b1420f1c (Make rcu_barrier() less disruptive) rearranged the
code in rcu_do_batch(), moving the ->qlen manipulation to follow
the requeueing of the callbacks.  Unfortunately, this rearrangement
clobbered the value of the "count" local variable before the value
of rdp->qlen was adjusted, resulting in the value of rdp->qlen being
inaccurate.  This commit therefore introduces an index variable "i",
avoiding the inadvertent multiplexing.

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>
2012-06-25 12:35:25 -07:00
Alan Stern 4661e3568a printk: fix regression in SYSLOG_ACTION_CLEAR
Commit 7ff9554bb5 (printk: convert
byte-buffer to variable-length record buffer) introduced a regression
by accidentally removing a "break" statement from inside the big
switch in printk's do_syslog().  The symptom of this bug is that the
"dmesg -C" command doesn't only clear the kernel's log buffer; it also
disables console logging.

This patch (as1561) fixes the regression by adding the missing
"break".

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
CC: Kay Sievers <kay@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2012-06-25 12:11:58 -07:00