linux-stable.git/include/linux/rcupdate.h, branch v4.12.7

Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip

2017-05-10T17:30:46+00:00

Pull RCU updates from Ingo Molnar:
 "The main changes are:

   - Debloat RCU headers

   - Parallelize SRCU callback handling (plus overlapping patches)

   - Improve the performance of Tree SRCU on a CPU-hotplug stress test

   - Documentation updates

   - Miscellaneous fixes"

* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (74 commits)
  rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_n_lazy_cbs() function
  rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_n_cbs() function
  rcu: Open-code the rcu_cblist_empty() function
  rcu: Separately compile large rcu_segcblist functions
  srcu: Debloat the  header
  srcu: Adjust default auto-expediting holdoff
  srcu: Specify auto-expedite holdoff time
  srcu: Expedite first synchronize_srcu() when idle
  srcu: Expedited grace periods with reduced memory contention
  srcu: Make rcutorture writer stalls print SRCU GP state
  srcu: Exact tracking of srcu_data structures containing callbacks
  srcu: Make SRCU be built by default
  srcu: Fix Kconfig botch when SRCU not selected
  rcu: Make non-preemptive schedule be Tasks RCU quiescent state
  srcu: Expedite srcu_schedule_cbs_snp() callback invocation
  srcu: Parallelize callback handling
  kvm: Move srcu_struct fields to end of struct kvm
  rcu: Fix typo in PER_RCU_NODE_PERIOD header comment
  rcu: Use true/false in assignment to bool
  rcu: Use bool value directly
  ...

rcu: Make non-preemptive schedule be Tasks RCU quiescent state

2017-04-21T12:59:27+00:00

Currently, a call to schedule() acts as a Tasks RCU quiescent state
only if a context switch actually takes place.  However, just the
call to schedule() guarantees that the calling task has moved off of
whatever tracing trampoline that it might have been one previously.
This commit therefore plumbs schedule()'s "preempt" parameter into
rcu_note_context_switch(), which then records the Tasks RCU quiescent
state, but only if this call to schedule() was -not- due to a preemption.

To avoid adding overhead to the common-case context-switch path,
this commit hides the rcu_note_context_switch() check under an existing
non-common-case check.

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcu: Make arch select smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() strength

2017-04-18T18:20:15+00:00

The definition of smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() is currently smp_mb()
for CONFIG_PPC and a no-op otherwise.  It would be better to instead
provide an architecture-selectable Kconfig option, and select the
strength of smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() based on that option.  This
commit therefore creates ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE, has PPC select it,
and bases the definition of smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() on this new
ARCH_WEAK_RELEASE_ACQUIRE Kconfig option.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Will Deacon 
Cc: Boqun Feng 
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt 
Cc: Paul Mackerras 
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman 
Cc: 
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

rcu/tracing: Add rcu_disabled to denote when rcu_irq_enter() will not work

2017-04-10T19:22:03+00:00

Tracing uses rcu_irq_enter() as a way to make sure that RCU is watching when
it needs to use rcu_read_lock() and friends. This is because tracing can
happen as RCU is about to enter user space, or about to go idle, and RCU
does not watch for RCU read side critical sections as it makes the
transition.

There is a small location within the RCU infrastructure that rcu_irq_enter()
itself will not work. If tracing were to occur in that section it will break
if it tries to use rcu_irq_enter().

Originally, this happens with the stack_tracer, because it will call
save_stack_trace when it encounters stack usage that is greater than any
stack usage it had encountered previously. There was a case where that
happened in the RCU section where rcu_irq_enter() did not work, and lockdep
complained loudly about it. To fix it, stack tracing added a call to be
disabled and RCU would disable stack tracing during the critical section
that rcu_irq_enter() was inoperable. This solution worked, but there are
other cases that use rcu_irq_enter() and it would be a good idea to let RCU
give a way to let others know that rcu_irq_enter() will not work. For
example, in trace events.

Another helpful aspect of this change is that it also moves the per cpu
variable called in the RCU critical section into a cache locale along with
other RCU per cpu variables used in that same location.

I'm keeping the stack_trace_disable() code, as that still could be used in
the future by places that really need to disable it. And since it's only a
static inline, it wont take up any kernel text if it is not used.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170405093207.404f8deb@gandalf.local.home

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware)

rcu: Separate the RCU synchronization types and APIs into

2017-03-02T07:42:24+00:00

So rcupdate.h is a pretty complex header, in particular it includes
 which includes  - creating a
dependency that includes  in ,
which prevents the isolation of  from the derived
 header.

Solve part of the problem by decoupling rcupdate.h from completions:
this can be done by separating out the rcu_synchronize types and APIs,
and updating their usage sites.

Since this is a mostly RCU-internal types this will not just simplify
's dependencies, but will make all the hundreds of
.c files that include rcupdate.h but not completions or wait.h build
faster.

( For rcutiny this means that two dependent APIs have to be uninlined,
  but that shouldn't be much of a problem as they are rare variants. )

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

srcu: Force full grace-period ordering

2017-01-25T20:54:22+00:00

If a process invokes synchronize_srcu(), is delayed just the right amount
of time, and thus does not sleep when waiting for the grace period to
complete, there is no ordering between the end of the grace period and
the code following the synchronize_srcu().  Similarly, there can be a
lack of ordering between the end of the SRCU grace period and callback
invocation.

This commit adds the necessary ordering.

Reported-by: Lance Roy 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
[ paulmck: Further smp_mb() adjustment per email with Lance Roy. ]

rcu: Narrow early boot window of illegal synchronous grace periods

2017-01-15T05:23:48+00:00

The current preemptible RCU implementation goes through three phases
during bootup.  In the first phase, there is only one CPU that is running
with preemption disabled, so that a no-op is a synchronous grace period.
In the second mid-boot phase, the scheduler is running, but RCU has
not yet gotten its kthreads spawned (and, for expedited grace periods,
workqueues are not yet running.  During this time, any attempt to do
a synchronous grace period will hang the system (or complain bitterly,
depending).  In the third and final phase, RCU is fully operational and
everything works normally.

This has been OK for some time, but there has recently been some
synchronous grace periods showing up during the second mid-boot phase.
This code worked "by accident" for awhile, but started failing as soon
as expedited RCU grace periods switched over to workqueues in commit
8b355e3bc140 ("rcu: Drive expedited grace periods from workqueue").
Note that the code was buggy even before this commit, as it was subject
to failure on real-time systems that forced all expedited grace periods
to run as normal grace periods (for example, using the rcu_normal ksysfs
parameter).  The callchain from the failure case is as follows:

early_amd_iommu_init()
|-> acpi_put_table(ivrs_base);
|-> acpi_tb_put_table(table_desc);
|-> acpi_tb_invalidate_table(table_desc);
|-> acpi_tb_release_table(...)
|-> acpi_os_unmap_memory
|-> acpi_os_unmap_iomem
|-> acpi_os_map_cleanup
|-> synchronize_rcu_expedited

The kernel showing this callchain was built with CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y,
which caused the code to try using workqueues before they were
initialized, which did not go well.

This commit therefore reworks RCU to permit synchronous grace periods
to proceed during this mid-boot phase.  This commit is therefore a
fix to a regression introduced in v4.9, and is therefore being put
forward post-merge-window in v4.10.

This commit sets a flag from the existing rcu_scheduler_starting()
function which causes all synchronous grace periods to take the expedited
path.  The expedited path now checks this flag, using the requesting task
to drive the expedited grace period forward during the mid-boot phase.
Finally, this flag is updated by a core_initcall() function named
rcu_exp_runtime_mode(), which causes the runtime codepaths to be used.

Note that this arrangement assumes that tasks are not sent POSIX signals
(or anything similar) from the time that the first task is spawned
through core_initcall() time.

Fixes: 8b355e3bc140 ("rcu: Drive expedited grace periods from workqueue")
Reported-by: "Zheng, Lv" 
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Tested-by: Stan Kain 
Tested-by: Ivan 
Tested-by: Emanuel Castelo 
Tested-by: Bruno Pesavento 
Tested-by: Borislav Petkov 
Tested-by: Frederic Bezies 
Cc:  # 4.9.0-

rcu: Provide exact CPU-online tracking for RCU

2016-08-22T16:36:57+00:00

Up to now, RCU has assumed that the CPU-online process makes it from
CPU_UP_PREPARE to set_cpu_online() within one jiffy.  Given the recent
rise of virtualized environments, this assumption is very clearly
obsolete.  Failing to meet this deadline can result in RCU paying
attention to an incoming CPU for one jiffy, then ignoring it until the
grace period following the one in which that CPU sets itself online.
This situation might prove to be fatally disappointing to any RCU
read-side critical sections that had the misfortune to execute during
the time in which RCU was ignoring the slow-to-come-online CPU.

This commit therefore updates RCU's internal CPU state-tracking
information at notify_cpu_starting() time, thus providing RCU with
an exact transition of the CPU's state from offline to online.

Note that this means that incoming CPUs must not use RCU read-side
critical section (other than those of SRCU) until notify_cpu_starting()
time.  Note also that the CPU_STARTING notifiers -are- allowed to use
RCU read-side critical sections.  (Of course, CPU-hotplug notifiers are
rapidly becoming obsolete, so you need to act fast!)

If a given architecture or CPU family needs to use RCU read-side
critical sections earlier, the call to rcu_cpu_starting() from
notify_cpu_starting() will need to be architecture-specific, with
architectures that need early use being required to hand-place
the call to rcu_cpu_starting() at some point preceding the call to
notify_cpu_starting().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2016-07-27T19:03:20+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Miller:

 1) Unified UDP encapsulation offload methods for drivers, from
    Alexander Duyck.

 2) Make DSA binding more sane, from Andrew Lunn.

 3) Support QCA9888 chips in ath10k, from Anilkumar Kolli.

 4) Several workqueue usage cleanups, from Bhaktipriya Shridhar.

 5) Add XDP (eXpress Data Path), essentially running BPF programs on RX
    packets as soon as the device sees them, with the option to mirror
    the packet on TX via the same interface.  From Brenden Blanco and
    others.

 6) Allow qdisc/class stats dumps to run lockless, from Eric Dumazet.

 7) Add VLAN support to b53 and bcm_sf2, from Florian Fainelli.

 8) Simplify netlink conntrack entry layout, from Florian Westphal.

 9) Add ipv4 forwarding support to mlxsw spectrum driver, from Ido
    Schimmel, Yotam Gigi, and Jiri Pirko.

10) Add SKB array infrastructure and convert tun and macvtap over to it.
    From Michael S Tsirkin and Jason Wang.

11) Support qdisc packet injection in pktgen, from John Fastabend.

12) Add neighbour monitoring framework to TIPC, from Jon Paul Maloy.

13) Add NV congestion control support to TCP, from Lawrence Brakmo.

14) Add GSO support to SCTP, from Marcelo Ricardo Leitner.

15) Allow GRO and RPS to function on macsec devices, from Paolo Abeni.

16) Support MPLS over IPV4, from Simon Horman.

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1622 commits)
  xgene: Fix build warning with ACPI disabled.
  be2net: perform temperature query in adapter regardless of its interface state
  l2tp: Correctly return -EBADF from pppol2tp_getname.
  net/mlx5_core/health: Remove deprecated create_singlethread_workqueue
  net: ipmr/ip6mr: update lastuse on entry change
  macsec: ensure rx_sa is set when validation is disabled
  tipc: dump monitor attributes
  tipc: add a function to get the bearer name
  tipc: get monitor threshold for the cluster
  tipc: make cluster size threshold for monitoring configurable
  tipc: introduce constants for tipc address validation
  net: neigh: disallow transition to NUD_STALE if lladdr is unchanged in neigh_update()
  MAINTAINERS: xgene: Add driver and documentation path
  Documentation: dtb: xgene: Add MDIO node
  dtb: xgene: Add MDIO node
  drivers: net: xgene: ethtool: Use phy_ethtool_gset and sset
  drivers: net: xgene: Use exported functions
  drivers: net: xgene: Enable MDIO driver
  drivers: net: xgene: Add backward compatibility
  drivers: net: phy: xgene: Add MDIO driver
  ...

rcu: Suppress sparse warnings for rcu_dereference_raw()

2016-07-06T09:51:14+00:00

Data structures that are used both with and without RCU protection
are difficult to write in a sparse-clean manner.  If you mark the
relevant pointers with __rcu, sparse will complain about all non-RCU
uses, but if you don't mark those pointers, sparse will complain about
all RCU uses.

This commit therefore suppresses sparse warnings for rcu_dereference_raw(),
allowing mixed-protection data structures to avoid these warnings.

Reported-by: David Howells 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: David Howells