linux-stable.git/include/linux/rcupdate.h, branch v4.18.2

rcu: Update documentation of rcu_read_unlock()

2018-06-10T04:14:01+00:00

Since commit b4abf91047cf ("rtmutex: Make wait_lock irq safe") the
explanation in rcu_read_unlock() documentation about irq unsafe rtmutex
wait_lock is no longer valid.

Remove it to prevent kernel developers reading the documentation to rely on
it.

Suggested-by: Eric W. Biederman 
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner 
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Acked-by: "Eric W. Biederman" 
Cc: bigeasy@linutronix.de
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180525090507.22248-2-anna-maria@linutronix.de

rcu/x86: Provide early rcu_cpu_starting() callback

2018-05-22T23:12:26+00:00

The x86/mtrr code does horrific things because hardware. It uses
stop_machine_from_inactive_cpu(), which does a wakeup (of the stopper
thread on another CPU), which uses RCU, all before the CPU is onlined.

RCU complains about this, because wakeups use RCU and RCU does
(rightfully) not consider offline CPUs for grace-periods.

Fix this by initializing RCU way early in the MTRR case.

Tested-by: Mike Galbraith 
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
[ paulmck: Add !SMP support, per 0day Test Robot report. ]

rcu: Rename cond_resched_rcu_qs() to cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs()

2018-05-15T17:27:29+00:00

Commit e31d28b6ab8f ("trace: Eliminate cond_resched_rcu_qs() in favor
of cond_resched()") substituted cond_resched() for the earlier call
to cond_resched_rcu_qs().  However, the new-age cond_resched() does
not do anything to help RCU-tasks grace periods because (1) RCU-tasks
is only enabled when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y and (2) cond_resched() is a
complete no-op when preemption is enabled.  This situation results
in hangs when running the trace benchmarks.

A number of potential fixes were discussed on LKML
(https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180224151240.0d63a059@vmware.local.home),
including making cond_resched() not be a no-op; making cond_resched()
not be a no-op, but only when running tracing benchmarks; reverting
the aforementioned commit (which works because cond_resched_rcu_qs()
does provide an RCU-tasks quiescent state; and adding a call to the
scheduler/RCU rcu_note_voluntary_context_switch() function.  All were
deemed unsatisfactory, either due to added cond_resched() overhead or
due to magic functions inviting cargo culting.

This commit renames cond_resched_rcu_qs() to cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs(),
which provides a clear hint as to what this function is doing and
why and where it should be used, and then replaces the call to
cond_resched() with cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() in the trace benchmark's
benchmark_event_kthread() function.

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin

rcu: Fix init_rcu_head() comment.

2018-02-21T00:12:26+00:00

The current (and implicit) comment header for init_rcu_head() and
destroy_rcu_head() incorrectly says that they are not needed for
statically allocated rcu_head structures.  This commit therefore
fixes this comment.

Reported-by: Bart Van Assche 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Reviewed-by: Bart Van Assche 
Reviewed-by: Leon Romanovsky

Merge branches 'cond_resched.2017.12.04a', 'dyntick.2017.11.28a', 'fixes.2017.12.11a', 'srbd.2017.12.05a' and 'torture.2017.12.11a' into HEAD

2017-12-11T17:21:58+00:00

cond_resched.2017.12.04a: Convert cond_resched_rcu_qs() to cond_resched()
dyntick.2017.11.28a: Make RCU dynticks handle interrupts from NMI
fixes.2017.12.11a: Miscellaneous fixes
srbd.2017.12.05a: Remove now-redundant smp_read_barrier_depends()
torture.2017.12.11a: Torture-testing update

rcu: Adjust read-side accessor comments for READ_ONCE()

2017-12-04T18:52:53+00:00

Now that READ_ONCE() implies smp_read_barrier_depends(), the commit
updates now-misleading comments to account for this change.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcu: Account for rcu_all_qs() in cond_resched()

2017-12-04T18:29:00+00:00

If cond_resched() returns false, then it has already invoked
rcu_all_qs().  This is also invoked (now redundantly) by
rcu_note_voluntary_context_switch().  This commit therefore changes
cond_resched_rcu_qs() to invoke rcu_note_voluntary_context_switch_lite()
instead of rcu_note_voluntary_context_switch() to avoid the redundant
invocation of rcu_all_qs().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

locking/barriers: Convert users of lockless_dereference() to READ_ONCE()

2017-10-24T11:17:33+00:00

READ_ONCE() now has an implicit smp_read_barrier_depends() call, so it
can be used instead of lockless_dereference() without any change in
semantics.

Signed-off-by: Will Deacon 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508840570-22169-4-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

doc: Fix various RCU docbook comment-header problems

2017-10-20T02:26:11+00:00

Because many of RCU's files have not been included into docbook, a
number of errors have accumulated.  This commit fixes them.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Merge tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi

2017-09-08T04:11:05+00:00

Pull SCSI updates from James Bottomley:
 "This is mostly updates of the usual suspects: lpfc, qla2xxx, hisi_sas,
  megaraid_sas, zfcp and a host of minor updates.

  The major driver change here is the elimination of the block based
  cciss driver in favour of the SCSI based hpsa driver (which now drives
  all the legacy cases cciss used to be required for). Plus a reset
  handler clean up and the redo of the SAS SMP handler to use bsg lib"

* tag 'scsi-misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi: (279 commits)
  scsi: scsi-mq: Always unprepare before requeuing a request
  scsi: Show .retries and .jiffies_at_alloc in debugfs
  scsi: Improve requeuing behavior
  scsi: Call scsi_initialize_rq() for filesystem requests
  scsi: qla2xxx: Reset the logo flag, after target re-login.
  scsi: qla2xxx: Fix slow mem alloc behind lock
  scsi: qla2xxx: Clear fc4f_nvme flag
  scsi: qla2xxx: add missing includes for qla_isr
  scsi: qla2xxx: Fix an integer overflow in sysfs code
  scsi: aacraid: report -ENOMEM to upper layer from aac_convert_sgraw2()
  scsi: aacraid: get rid of one level of indentation
  scsi: aacraid: fix indentation errors
  scsi: storvsc: fix memory leak on ring buffer busy
  scsi: scsi_transport_sas: switch to bsg-lib for SMP passthrough
  scsi: smartpqi: remove the smp_handler stub
  scsi: hpsa: remove the smp_handler stub
  scsi: bsg-lib: pass the release callback through bsg_setup_queue
  scsi: Rework handling of scsi_device.vpd_pg8[03]
  scsi: Rework the code for caching Vital Product Data (VPD)
  scsi: rcu: Introduce rcu_swap_protected()
  ...