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<title>linux-stable.git/include/linux/rcupdate.h, branch v6.11.2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel stable tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-07-21-15-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm</title>
<updated>2024-07-22T00:56:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-22T00:56:22+00:00</published>
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Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - In the series "treewide: Refactor heap related implementation",
   Kuan-Wei Chiu has significantly reworked the min_heap library code
   and has taught bcachefs to use the new more generic implementation.

 - Yury Norov's series "Cleanup cpumask.h inclusion in core headers"
   reworks the cpumask and nodemask headers to make things generally
   more rational.

 - Kuan-Wei Chiu has sent along some maintenance work against our
   sorting library code in the series "lib/sort: Optimizations and
   cleanups".

 - More library maintainance work from Christophe Jaillet in the series
   "Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API".

 - Ryusuke Konishi continues with the nilfs2 fixes and clanups in the
   series "nilfs2: eliminate the call to inode_attach_wb()".

 - Kuan-Ying Lee has some fixes to the gdb scripts in the series "Fix
   GDB command error".

 - Plus the usual shower of singleton patches all over the place. Please
   see the relevant changelogs for details.

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-07-21-15-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (98 commits)
  ia64: scrub ia64 from poison.h
  watchdog/perf: properly initialize the turbo mode timestamp and rearm counter
  tsacct: replace strncpy() with strscpy()
  lib/bch.c: use swap() to improve code
  test_bpf: convert comma to semicolon
  init/modpost: conditionally check section mismatch to __meminit*
  init: remove unused __MEMINIT* macros
  nilfs2: Constify struct kobj_type
  nilfs2: avoid undefined behavior in nilfs_cnt32_ge macro
  math: rational: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro
  lib/zlib: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro
  fs: ufs: add MODULE_DESCRIPTION()
  lib/rbtree.c: fix the example typo
  ocfs2: add bounds checking to ocfs2_check_dir_entry()
  fs: add kernel-doc comments to ocfs2_prepare_orphan_dir()
  coredump: simplify zap_process()
  selftests/fpu: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro
  compiler.h: simplify data_race() macro
  build-id: require program headers to be right after ELF header
  resource: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION()
  ...
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<pre>
Pull non-MM updates from Andrew Morton:

 - In the series "treewide: Refactor heap related implementation",
   Kuan-Wei Chiu has significantly reworked the min_heap library code
   and has taught bcachefs to use the new more generic implementation.

 - Yury Norov's series "Cleanup cpumask.h inclusion in core headers"
   reworks the cpumask and nodemask headers to make things generally
   more rational.

 - Kuan-Wei Chiu has sent along some maintenance work against our
   sorting library code in the series "lib/sort: Optimizations and
   cleanups".

 - More library maintainance work from Christophe Jaillet in the series
   "Remove usage of the deprecated ida_simple_xx() API".

 - Ryusuke Konishi continues with the nilfs2 fixes and clanups in the
   series "nilfs2: eliminate the call to inode_attach_wb()".

 - Kuan-Ying Lee has some fixes to the gdb scripts in the series "Fix
   GDB command error".

 - Plus the usual shower of singleton patches all over the place. Please
   see the relevant changelogs for details.

* tag 'mm-nonmm-stable-2024-07-21-15-07' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (98 commits)
  ia64: scrub ia64 from poison.h
  watchdog/perf: properly initialize the turbo mode timestamp and rearm counter
  tsacct: replace strncpy() with strscpy()
  lib/bch.c: use swap() to improve code
  test_bpf: convert comma to semicolon
  init/modpost: conditionally check section mismatch to __meminit*
  init: remove unused __MEMINIT* macros
  nilfs2: Constify struct kobj_type
  nilfs2: avoid undefined behavior in nilfs_cnt32_ge macro
  math: rational: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro
  lib/zlib: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro
  fs: ufs: add MODULE_DESCRIPTION()
  lib/rbtree.c: fix the example typo
  ocfs2: add bounds checking to ocfs2_check_dir_entry()
  fs: add kernel-doc comments to ocfs2_prepare_orphan_dir()
  coredump: simplify zap_process()
  selftests/fpu: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro
  compiler.h: simplify data_race() macro
  build-id: require program headers to be right after ELF header
  resource: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'doc.2024.06.06a', 'fixes.2024.07.04a', 'mb.2024.06.28a', 'nocb.2024.06.03a', 'rcu-tasks.2024.06.06a', 'rcutorture.2024.06.06a' and 'srcu.2024.06.18a' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2024-07-04T20:54:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-04T20:54:17+00:00</published>
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doc.2024.06.06a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2024.07.04a: Miscellaneous fixes.
mb.2024.06.28a: Grace-period memory-barrier redundancy removal.
nocb.2024.06.03a: No-CB CPU updates.
rcu-tasks.2024.06.06a: RCU-Tasks updates.
rcutorture.2024.06.06a: Torture-test updates.
srcu.2024.06.18a: SRCU polled-grace-period updates.
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<pre>
doc.2024.06.06a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2024.07.04a: Miscellaneous fixes.
mb.2024.06.28a: Grace-period memory-barrier redundancy removal.
nocb.2024.06.03a: No-CB CPU updates.
rcu-tasks.2024.06.06a: RCU-Tasks updates.
rcutorture.2024.06.06a: Torture-test updates.
srcu.2024.06.18a: SRCU polled-grace-period updates.
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>cpumask: cleanup core headers inclusion</title>
<updated>2024-06-25T05:25:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yury Norov</name>
<email>yury.norov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-05-28T00:56:47+00:00</published>
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Many core headers include cpumask.h for nothing. Drop it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240528005648.182376-6-yury.norov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Amit Daniel Kachhap &lt;amit.kachhap@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Anna-Maria Behnsen &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov &lt;yury.norov@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Many core headers include cpumask.h for nothing. Drop it.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240528005648.182376-6-yury.norov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Yury Norov &lt;yury.norov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Amit Daniel Kachhap &lt;amit.kachhap@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Anna-Maria Behnsen &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Christoph Lameter &lt;cl@linux.com&gt;
Cc: Daniel Lezcano &lt;daniel.lezcano@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Dennis Zhou &lt;dennis@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Johannes Weiner &lt;hannes@cmpxchg.org&gt;
Cc: Juri Lelli &lt;juri.lelli@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers &lt;mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com&gt;
Cc: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rafael@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Ulf Hansson &lt;ulf.hansson@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Vincent Guittot &lt;vincent.guittot@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Viresh Kumar &lt;viresh.kumar@linaro.org&gt;
Cc: Yury Norov &lt;yury.norov@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Revert "rcu-tasks: Fix synchronize_rcu_tasks() VS zap_pid_ns_processes()"</title>
<updated>2024-06-04T00:30:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-25T14:24:04+00:00</published>
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This reverts commit 28319d6dc5e2ffefa452c2377dd0f71621b5bff0. The race
it fixed was subject to conditions that don't exist anymore since:

	1612160b9127 ("rcu-tasks: Eliminate deadlocks involving do_exit() and RCU tasks")

This latter commit removes the use of SRCU that used to cover the
RCU-tasks blind spot on exit between the tasklist's removal and the
final preemption disabling. The task is now placed instead into a
temporary list inside which voluntary sleeps are accounted as RCU-tasks
quiescent states. This would disarm the deadlock initially reported
against PID namespace exit.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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<pre>
This reverts commit 28319d6dc5e2ffefa452c2377dd0f71621b5bff0. The race
it fixed was subject to conditions that don't exist anymore since:

	1612160b9127 ("rcu-tasks: Eliminate deadlocks involving do_exit() and RCU tasks")

This latter commit removes the use of SRCU that used to cover the
RCU-tasks blind spot on exit between the tasklist's removal and the
final preemption disabling. The task is now placed instead into a
temporary list inside which voluntary sleeps are accounted as RCU-tasks
quiescent states. This would disarm the deadlock initially reported
against PID namespace exit.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Add lockdep_assert_in_rcu_read_lock() and friends</title>
<updated>2024-06-04T00:24:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-16T07:10:15+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
There is no direct RCU counterpart to lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled()
and friends.  Although it is possible to construct them, it would
be more convenient to have the following lockdep assertions:

lockdep_assert_in_rcu_read_lock()
lockdep_assert_in_rcu_read_lock_bh()
lockdep_assert_in_rcu_read_lock_sched()
lockdep_assert_in_rcu_reader()

This commit therefore creates them.

Reported-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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There is no direct RCU counterpart to lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled()
and friends.  Although it is possible to construct them, it would
be more convenient to have the following lockdep assertions:

lockdep_assert_in_rcu_read_lock()
lockdep_assert_in_rcu_read_lock_bh()
lockdep_assert_in_rcu_read_lock_sched()
lockdep_assert_in_rcu_reader()

This commit therefore creates them.

Reported-by: Jens Axboe &lt;axboe@kernel.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Mollify sparse with RCU guard</title>
<updated>2024-04-15T17:43:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Berg</name>
<email>johannes.berg@intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-25T17:39:08+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
When using "guard(rcu)();" sparse will complain, because even
though it now understands the cleanup attribute, it doesn't
evaluate the calls from it at function exit, and thus doesn't
count the context correctly.

Given that there's a conditional in the resulting code:

  static inline void class_rcu_destructor(class_rcu_t *_T)
  {
      if (_T-&gt;lock) {
          rcu_read_unlock();
      }
  }

it seems that even trying to teach sparse to evalulate the
cleanup attribute function it'd still be difficult to really
make it understand the full context here.

Suppress the sparse warning by just releasing the context in
the acquisition part of the function, after all we know it's
safe with the guard, that's the whole point of it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
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<pre>
When using "guard(rcu)();" sparse will complain, because even
though it now understands the cleanup attribute, it doesn't
evaluate the calls from it at function exit, and thus doesn't
count the context correctly.

Given that there's a conditional in the resulting code:

  static inline void class_rcu_destructor(class_rcu_t *_T)
  {
      if (_T-&gt;lock) {
          rcu_read_unlock();
      }
  }

it seems that even trying to teach sparse to evalulate the
cleanup attribute function it'd still be difficult to really
make it understand the full context here.

Suppress the sparse warning by just releasing the context in
the acquisition part of the function, after all we know it's
safe with the guard, that's the whole point of it.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg &lt;johannes.berg@intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Remove redundant CONFIG_PROVE_RCU #if condition</title>
<updated>2024-04-15T16:12:20+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-16T06:29:59+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.tavy.me/linux-stable.git/commit/?id=10c9e40f297d3f1b0d4df6e73618d4466a0b2cfc'/>
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The #if condition controlling the rcu_preempt_sleep_check() definition
has a redundant check for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU, which is already checked
for by an enclosing #ifndef.  This commit therefore removes this redundant
condition from the inner #if.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
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<pre>
The #if condition controlling the rcu_preempt_sleep_check() definition
has a redundant check for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU, which is already checked
for by an enclosing #ifndef.  This commit therefore removes this redundant
condition from the inner #if.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Update lockdep while in RCU read-side critical section</title>
<updated>2024-04-15T09:28:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)</name>
<email>urezki@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-14T22:45:53+00:00</published>
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With Ankur's lazy-/auto-preemption patches applied and with a
lazy-preemptible kernel in combination with a non-preemptible RCU,
lockdep sometimes complains about context switches within RCU read-side
critical sections.  This is a false positive due to rcu_read_unlock()
updating lockdep state too late:

	__release(RCU);
	__rcu_read_unlock();
	// Context switch here results in lockdep false positive!!!
	rcu_lock_release(&amp;rcu_lock_map); /* Keep acq info for rls diags. */

Although this complaint could also happen with preemptible RCU
in a preemptible kernel, the odds of that happening aer quite low.
In constrast, with non-preemptible RCU, a long critical section has a
high probability of performing a context switch from the preempt_enable()
in __rcu_read_unlock().

The fix is straightforward, just move the rcu_lock_release()
within rcu_read_unlock() to obtain the reverse order from that of
rcu_read_lock():

	rcu_lock_release(&amp;rcu_lock_map); /* Keep acq info for rls diags. */
	__release(RCU);
	__rcu_read_unlock();

This commit makes this change.

Co-developed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Co-developed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Co-developed-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ankur Arora &lt;ankur.a.arora@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<pre>
With Ankur's lazy-/auto-preemption patches applied and with a
lazy-preemptible kernel in combination with a non-preemptible RCU,
lockdep sometimes complains about context switches within RCU read-side
critical sections.  This is a false positive due to rcu_read_unlock()
updating lockdep state too late:

	__release(RCU);
	__rcu_read_unlock();
	// Context switch here results in lockdep false positive!!!
	rcu_lock_release(&amp;rcu_lock_map); /* Keep acq info for rls diags. */

Although this complaint could also happen with preemptible RCU
in a preemptible kernel, the odds of that happening aer quite low.
In constrast, with non-preemptible RCU, a long critical section has a
high probability of performing a context switch from the preempt_enable()
in __rcu_read_unlock().

The fix is straightforward, just move the rcu_lock_release()
within rcu_read_unlock() to obtain the reverse order from that of
rcu_read_lock():

	rcu_lock_release(&amp;rcu_lock_map); /* Keep acq info for rls diags. */
	__release(RCU);
	__rcu_read_unlock();

This commit makes this change.

Co-developed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Co-developed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Co-developed-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ankur Arora &lt;ankur.a.arora@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
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<title>rcu: add a helper to report consolidated flavor QS</title>
<updated>2024-03-21T04:05:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Yan Zhai</name>
<email>yan@cloudflare.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-03-19T20:44:34+00:00</published>
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When under heavy load, network processing can run CPU-bound for many
tens of seconds. Even in preemptible kernels (non-RT kernel), this can
block RCU Tasks grace periods, which can cause trace-event removal to
take more than a minute, which is unacceptably long.

This commit therefore creates a new helper function that passes through
both RCU and RCU-Tasks quiescent states every 100 milliseconds. This
hard-coded value suffices for current workloads.

Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;hawk@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yan Zhai &lt;yan@cloudflare.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;hawk@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/90431d46ee112d2b0af04dbfe936faaca11810a5.1710877680.git.yan@cloudflare.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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When under heavy load, network processing can run CPU-bound for many
tens of seconds. Even in preemptible kernels (non-RT kernel), this can
block RCU Tasks grace periods, which can cause trace-event removal to
take more than a minute, which is unacceptably long.

This commit therefore creates a new helper function that passes through
both RCU and RCU-Tasks quiescent states every 100 milliseconds. This
hard-coded value suffices for current workloads.

Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;hawk@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Yan Zhai &lt;yan@cloudflare.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer &lt;hawk@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/90431d46ee112d2b0af04dbfe936faaca11810a5.1710877680.git.yan@cloudflare.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski &lt;kuba@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu-tasks: Repair RCU Tasks Trace quiescence check</title>
<updated>2024-02-14T16:02:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-04T17:33:29+00:00</published>
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The context-switch-time check for RCU Tasks Trace quiescence expects
current-&gt;trc_reader_special.b.need_qs to be zero, and if so, updates
it to TRC_NEED_QS_CHECKED.  This is backwards, because if this value
is zero, there is no RCU Tasks Trace grace period in flight, an thus
no need for a quiescent state.  Instead, when a grace period starts,
this field is set to TRC_NEED_QS.

This commit therefore changes the check from zero to TRC_NEED_QS.

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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The context-switch-time check for RCU Tasks Trace quiescence expects
current-&gt;trc_reader_special.b.need_qs to be zero, and if so, updates
it to TRC_NEED_QS_CHECKED.  This is backwards, because if this value
is zero, there is no RCU Tasks Trace grace period in flight, an thus
no need for a quiescent state.  Instead, when a grace period starts,
this field is set to TRC_NEED_QS.

This commit therefore changes the check from zero to TRC_NEED_QS.

Reported-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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