There is some documentation on RCU CPU stall warnings contained in
Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.txt, but it will not be apparent to someone
who runs into such a warning while under time pressure. This commit
therefore adds comments preceding the printk()s pointing out the
location of this documentation.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
The comment says that blocking is illegal in rcu_read_lock()-style
RCU read-side critical sections, which is no longer entirely true
given preemptible RCU. This commit provides a fix.
Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Implement a small-memory-footprint uniprocessor-only implementation of
preemptible RCU. This implementation uses but a single blocked-tasks
list rather than the combinatorial number used per leaf rcu_node by
TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, which reduces memory consumption and greatly simplifies
processing. This version also takes advantage of uniprocessor execution
to accelerate grace periods in the case where there are no readers.
The general design is otherwise broadly similar to that of TREE_PREEMPT_RCU.
This implementation is a step towards having RCU implementation driven
off of the SMP and PREEMPT kernel configuration variables, which can
happen once this implementation has accumulated sufficient experience.
Removed ACCESS_ONCE() from __rcu_read_unlock() and added barrier() as
suggested by Steve Rostedt in order to avoid the compiler-reordering
issue noted by Mathieu Desnoyers (http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/8/16/183).
As can be seen below, CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU represents almost 5Kbyte
savings compared to CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU. Of course, for non-real-time
workloads, CONFIG_TINY_RCU is even better.
CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU
text data bss dec filename
13 0 0 13 kernel/rcupdate.o
6170 825 28 7023 kernel/rcutree.o
----
7026 Total
CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU
text data bss dec filename
13 0 0 13 kernel/rcupdate.o
2081 81 8 2170 kernel/rcutiny.o
----
2183 Total
CONFIG_TINY_RCU (non-preemptible)
text data bss dec filename
13 0 0 13 kernel/rcupdate.o
719 25 0 744 kernel/rcutiny.o
---
757 Total
Requested-by: Loïc Minier <loic.minier@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Commit cf244dc01b added a fourth level to the TREE_RCU hierarchy,
but the RCU_FANOUT help message still said "cube root". This commit
fixes this to "fourth root" and also emphasizes that production
systems are well-served by the default. (Stress-testing RCU itself
uses small RCU_FANOUT values in order to test large-system code paths
on small(er) systems.)
Located-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Currently, if RCU CPU stall warnings are enabled, they are enabled
immediately upon boot. They can be manually disabled via /sys (and
also re-enabled via /sys), and are automatically disabled upon panic.
However, some users need RCU CPU stalls to be disabled at boot time,
but to be enabled without rebuilding/rebooting. For example, someone
running a real-time application in production might not want the
additional latency of RCU CPU stall detection in normal operation, but
might need to enable it at any point for fault isolation purposes.
This commit therefore provides a new CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR_RUNNABLE
kernel configuration parameter that maintains the current behavior
(enable at boot) by default, but allows a kernel to be configured
with RCU CPU stall detection built into the kernel, but disabled at
boot time.
Requested-by: Clark Williams <williams@redhat.com>
Requested-by: John Kacur <jkacur@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Because both TINY_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU have been in mainline for
several releases, it is time to restrict the use of TREE_RCU to SMP
non-preemptible systems. This reduces testing/validation effort. This
commit is a first step towards driving the selection of RCU implementation
directly off of the SMP and PREEMPT configuration parameters.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Set the permissions of the rcu_cpu_stall_suppress to 644 to enable RCU
CPU stall warnings to be enabled and disabled at runtime via sysfs.
Suggested-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This adds annotations for RCU operations in core kernel components
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Make it explicit that new RCU read-side critical sections that start
after call_rcu() and synchronize_rcu() start might still be running
after the end of the relevant grace period.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Although the RCU CPU stall warning messages are a very good way to alert
people to a problem, once alerted, it is sometimes helpful to shut them
off in order to avoid obscuring other messages that might be being used
to track down the problem. Although you can rebuild the kernel with
CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR=n, this is sometimes inconvenient. This
commit therefore adds a boot parameter named "rcu_cpu_stall_suppress"
that shuts these messages off without requiring a rebuild (though a
reboot might be needed for those not brave enough to patch their kernel
while it is running).
This message-suppression was already in place for the panic case, so this
commit need only rename the variable and export it via module_param().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Also set the default to 60 seconds, up from the previous hard-coded timeout
of 10 seconds. This allows people who care to set short timeouts, while
avoiding people with unusual configurations (make randconfig!!!) from being
bothered with spurious CPU stall warnings.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
find_task_by_vpid() says "Must be called under rcu_read_lock().". But due to
commit 3120438 "rcu: Disable lockdep checking in RCU list-traversal primitives",
we are currently unable to catch "find_task_by_vpid() with tasklist_lock held
but RCU lock not held" errors due to the RCU-lockdep checks being
suppressed in the RCU variants of the struct list_head traversals.
This commit therefore places an explicit check for being in an RCU
read-side critical section in find_task_by_pid_ns().
===================================================
[ INFO: suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. ]
---------------------------------------------------
kernel/pid.c:386 invoked rcu_dereference_check() without protection!
other info that might help us debug this:
rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 1
1 lock held by rc.sysinit/1102:
#0: (tasklist_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<c1048340>] sys_setpgid+0x40/0x160
stack backtrace:
Pid: 1102, comm: rc.sysinit Not tainted 2.6.35-rc3-dirty #1
Call Trace:
[<c105e714>] lockdep_rcu_dereference+0x94/0xb0
[<c104b4cd>] find_task_by_pid_ns+0x6d/0x70
[<c104b4e8>] find_task_by_vpid+0x18/0x20
[<c1048347>] sys_setpgid+0x47/0x160
[<c1002b50>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x36
Commit updated to use a new rcu_lockdep_assert() exported API rather than
the old internal __do_rcu_dereference().
Signed-off-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
&percpu_data is compatible with allocated percpu data.
And we use it and remove the "->rda[NR_CPUS]" array, saving significant
storage on systems with large numbers of CPUs. This does add an additional
level of indirection and thus an additional cache line referenced, but
because ->rda is not used on the read side, this is OK.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Add random preemption to help we to torture the preemptable rcu.
srcu_read_delay() also calls rcu_read_delay() for shorter delays.
Added comment to preempt_schedule() call indicating that no quiescent
states happen if preemption is disabled.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Add a section describing PROVE_RCU, DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD, and
the __rcu sparse checking to the RCU checklist.
Suggested-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This avoids warnings from missing __rcu annotations
in the rculist implementation, making it possible to
use the same lists in both RCU and non-RCU cases.
We can add rculist annotations later, together with
lockdep support for rculist, which is missing as well,
but that may involve changing all the users.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
This commit provides definitions for the __rcu annotation defined earlier.
This annotation permits sparse to check for correct use of RCU-protected
pointers. If a pointer that is annotated with __rcu is accessed
directly (as opposed to via rcu_dereference(), rcu_assign_pointer(),
or one of their variants), sparse can be made to complain. To enable
such complaints, use the new default-disabled CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
kernel configuration option. Please note that these sparse complaints are
intended to be a debugging aid, -not- a code-style-enforcement mechanism.
There are special rcu_dereference_protected() and rcu_access_pointer()
accessors for use when RCU read-side protection is not required, for
example, when no other CPU has access to the data structure in question
or while the current CPU hold the update-side lock.
This patch also updates a number of docbook comments that were showing
their age.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Christopher Li <sparse@chrisli.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
The task_cls_classid() function applies rcu_dereference() to integers,
which does not work with the shiny new sparse-based checking in
rcu_dereference(). This commit therefore moves to the new RCU API
rcu_dereference_index_check().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
* 'bugfixes' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/nfs-2.6:
NFS: Fix an Oops in the NFSv4 atomic open code
NFS: Fix the selection of security flavours in Kconfig
NFS: fix the return value of nfs_file_fsync()
rpcrdma: Fix SQ size calculation when memreg is FRMR
xprtrdma: Do not truncate iova_start values in frmr registrations.
nfs: Remove redundant NULL check upon kfree()
nfs: Add "lookupcache" to displayed mount options
NFS: allow close-to-open cache semantics to apply to root of NFS filesystem
SUNRPC: fix NFS client over TCP hangs due to packet loss (Bug 16494)
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid:
USB HID: Add ID for eGalax Multitouch used in JooJoo tablet
HID: hiddev: fix memory corruption due to invalid intfdata
HID: hiddev: protect against disconnect/NULL-dereference race
HID: picolcd: correct ordering of framebuffer freeing
HID: picolcd: testing the wrong variable
Fix the declaration of sys_execve() in asm-generic/syscalls.h to have
various consts applied to its pointers.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/ia64/kernel/process.c:636: error: conflicting types for ‘sys_execve’
commit d7627467b7
Make do_execve() take a const filename pointer
Missed the declaration of sys_execve in the ia64 asm/unistd.h (perhaps
because there is no reason for it to be there ... it might be a left over
from the COMPAT code?). Just delete the conflicting version.
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
fs: brlock vfsmount_lock
fs: scale files_lock
lglock: introduce special lglock and brlock spin locks
tty: fix fu_list abuse
fs: cleanup files_lock locking
fs: remove extra lookup in __lookup_hash
fs: fs_struct rwlock to spinlock
apparmor: use task path helpers
fs: dentry allocation consolidation
fs: fix do_lookup false negative
mbcache: Limit the maximum number of cache entries
hostfs ->follow_link() braino
hostfs: dumb (and usually harmless) tpyo - strncpy instead of strlcpy
remove SWRITE* I/O types
kill BH_Ordered flag
vfs: update ctime when changing the file's permission by setfacl
cramfs: only unlock new inodes
fix reiserfs_evict_inode end_writeback second call
This fixes a build breakage introduced by commit 4c2ef25fe0 ("mmc: fix
all hangs related to mmc/sd card insert/removal during suspend/resume")
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de>
Acked-by: Kukjin Kim <kgene.kim@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* 'perf-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
perf tools: Fix build on POSIX shells
latencytop: Fix kconfig dependency warnings
perf annotate tui: Fix exit and RIGHT keys handling
tracing: Sanitize value returned from write(trace_marker, "...", len)
tracing/events: Convert format output to seq_file
tracing: Extend recordmcount to better support Blackfin mcount
tracing: Fix ring_buffer_read_page reading out of page boundary
tracing: Fix an unallocated memory access in function_graph
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gerg/m68knommu:
m68knommu: include sched.h in ColdFire/SPI driver
m68knommu: formatting of pointers in printk()
m68knommu: arch/m68k/include/asm/ide.h fix for nommu
* 'for-linus' of git://neil.brown.name/md:
md raid-1/10 Fix bio_rw bit manipulations again
md: provide appropriate return value for spare_active functions.
md: Notify sysfs when RAID1/5/10 disk is In_sync.
Update recovery_offset even when external metadata is used.
* 'merge-devicetree' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6:
spi.h: missing kernel-doc notation, please fix
of: fix missing headers for of_address_to_resource() in MTD and SysACE drivers
of: Fix missing includes
ata: update for of_device to platform_device replacement
microblaze: Fix of: eliminate of_device->node and dev_archdata->{of,prom}_node
microblaze: Fix of/address: Merge all of the bus translation code
booting-without-of: Remove nonexistent chapters from TOC, fix numbering
With some hardware combinations, the PCM interrupts are acknowledged
before the period boundary from the emu10k1 chip. The midlevel PCM code
gets confused and the playback stream is interrupted.
It seems that the interrupt processing shift by 2 samples is enough
to fix this issue. This default value does not harm other,
non-affected hardware.
More information: Kernel bugzilla bug#16300
[A copmile warning fixed by tiwai]
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
fs: brlock vfsmount_lock
Use a brlock for the vfsmount lock. It must be taken for write whenever
modifying the mount hash or associated fields, and may be taken for read when
performing mount hash lookups.
A new lock is added for the mnt-id allocator, so it doesn't need to take
the heavy vfsmount write-lock.
The number of atomics should remain the same for fastpath rlock cases, though
code would be slightly slower due to per-cpu access. Scalability is not not be
much improved in common cases yet, due to other locks (ie. dcache_lock) getting
in the way. However path lookups crossing mountpoints should be one case where
scalability is improved (currently requiring the global lock).
The slowpath is slower due to use of brlock. On a 64 core, 64 socket, 32 node
Altix system (high latency to remote nodes), a simple umount microbenchmark
(mount --bind mnt mnt2 ; umount mnt2 loop 1000 times), before this patch it
took 6.8s, afterwards took 7.1s, about 5% slower.
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
fs: scale files_lock
Improve scalability of files_lock by adding per-cpu, per-sb files lists,
protected with an lglock. The lglock provides fast access to the per-cpu lists
to add and remove files. It also provides a snapshot of all the per-cpu lists
(although this is very slow).
One difficulty with this approach is that a file can be removed from the list
by another CPU. We must track which per-cpu list the file is on with a new
variale in the file struct (packed into a hole on 64-bit archs). Scalability
could suffer if files are frequently removed from different cpu's list.
However loads with frequent removal of files imply short interval between
adding and removing the files, and the scheduler attempts to avoid moving
processes too far away. Also, even in the case of cross-CPU removal, the
hardware has much more opportunity to parallelise cacheline transfers with N
cachelines than with 1.
A worst-case test of 1 CPU allocating files subsequently being freed by N CPUs
degenerates to contending on a single lock, which is no worse than before. When
more than one CPU are allocating files, even if they are always freed by
different CPUs, there will be more parallelism than the single-lock case.
Testing results:
On a 2 socket, 8 core opteron, I measure the number of times the lock is taken
to remove the file, the number of times it is removed by the same CPU that
added it, and the number of times it is removed by the same node that added it.
Booting: locks= 25049 cpu-hits= 23174 (92.5%) node-hits= 23945 (95.6%)
kbuild -j16 locks=2281913 cpu-hits=2208126 (96.8%) node-hits=2252674 (98.7%)
dbench 64 locks=4306582 cpu-hits=4287247 (99.6%) node-hits=4299527 (99.8%)
So a file is removed from the same CPU it was added by over 90% of the time.
It remains within the same node 95% of the time.
Tim Chen ran some numbers for a 64 thread Nehalem system performing a compile.
throughput
2.6.34-rc2 24.5
+patch 24.9
us sys idle IO wait (in %)
2.6.34-rc2 51.25 28.25 17.25 3.25
+patch 53.75 18.5 19 8.75
So significantly less CPU time spent in kernel code, higher idle time and
slightly higher throughput.
Single threaded performance difference was within the noise of microbenchmarks.
That is not to say penalty does not exist, the code is larger and more memory
accesses required so it will be slightly slower.
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
lglock: introduce special lglock and brlock spin locks
This patch introduces "local-global" locks (lglocks). These can be used to:
- Provide fast exclusive access to per-CPU data, with exclusive access to
another CPU's data allowed but possibly subject to contention, and to provide
very slow exclusive access to all per-CPU data.
- Or to provide very fast and scalable read serialisation, and to provide
very slow exclusive serialisation of data (not necessarily per-CPU data).
Brlocks are also implemented as a short-hand notation for the latter use
case.
Thanks to Paul for local/global naming convention.
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Paul E. McKenney