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<title>Merge branches 'array.2015.05.27a', 'doc.2015.05.27a', 'fixes.2015.05.27a', 'hotplug.2015.05.27a', 'init.2015.05.27a', 'tiny.2015.05.27a' and 'torture.2015.05.27a' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2015-05-27T20:00:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-27T20:00:49+00:00</published>
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array.2015.05.27a:  Remove all uses of RCU-protected array indexes.
doc.2015.05.27a:  Docuemntation updates.
fixes.2015.05.27a:  Miscellaneous fixes.
hotplug.2015.05.27a:  CPU-hotplug updates.
init.2015.05.27a:  Initialization/Kconfig updates.
tiny.2015.05.27a:  Updates to Tiny RCU.
torture.2015.05.27a:  Torture-testing updates.
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array.2015.05.27a:  Remove all uses of RCU-protected array indexes.
doc.2015.05.27a:  Docuemntation updates.
fixes.2015.05.27a:  Miscellaneous fixes.
hotplug.2015.05.27a:  CPU-hotplug updates.
init.2015.05.27a:  Initialization/Kconfig updates.
tiny.2015.05.27a:  Updates to Tiny RCU.
torture.2015.05.27a:  Torture-testing updates.
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Make RCU able to tolerate undefined CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF</title>
<updated>2015-05-27T19:59:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-21T16:12:13+00:00</published>
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This commit introduces an RCU_FANOUT_LEAF C-preprocessor macro so
that RCU will build even when CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF is undefined.
The RCU_FANOUT_LEAF macro is set to the value of CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
when defined, otherwise it is set to 32 for 32-bit systems and 64 for
64-bit systems.  This commit then makes CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF depend
on CONFIG_RCU_EXPERT, so that Kconfig users won't be asked about
CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF unless they want to be.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar &lt;bobby.prani@gmail.com&gt;
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This commit introduces an RCU_FANOUT_LEAF C-preprocessor macro so
that RCU will build even when CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF is undefined.
The RCU_FANOUT_LEAF macro is set to the value of CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF
when defined, otherwise it is set to 32 for 32-bit systems and 64 for
64-bit systems.  This commit then makes CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF depend
on CONFIG_RCU_EXPERT, so that Kconfig users won't be asked about
CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF unless they want to be.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar &lt;bobby.prani@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Make RCU able to tolerate undefined CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT</title>
<updated>2015-05-27T19:59:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-04-20T21:27:43+00:00</published>
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This commit introduces an RCU_FANOUT C-preprocessor macro so that RCU will
build even when CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT is undefined.  The RCU_FANOUT macro is
set to the value of CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT when defined, otherwise it is set
to 32 for 32-bit systems and 64 for 64-bit systems.  This commit then
makes CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT depend on CONFIG_RCU_EXPERT, so that Kconfig
users won't be asked about CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT unless they want to be.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar &lt;bobby.prani@gmail.com&gt;
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This commit introduces an RCU_FANOUT C-preprocessor macro so that RCU will
build even when CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT is undefined.  The RCU_FANOUT macro is
set to the value of CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT when defined, otherwise it is set
to 32 for 32-bit systems and 64 for 64-bit systems.  This commit then
makes CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT depend on CONFIG_RCU_EXPERT, so that Kconfig
users won't be asked about CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT unless they want to be.

Reported-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar &lt;bobby.prani@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Make rcu_*_data variables static</title>
<updated>2015-05-27T19:58:03+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Nicolas Iooss</name>
<email>nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org</email>
</author>
<published>2015-05-05T13:57:06+00:00</published>
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rcu_bh_data, rcu_sched_data and rcu_preempt_data are never used outside
kernel/rcu/tree.c and thus can be made static.

Doing so fixes a section mismatch warning reported by clang when
building LLVMLinux with -Wsection, because these variables were declared
in .data..percpu and defined in .data..percpu..shared_aligned since
commit 11bbb235c26f ("rcu: Use DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED for
rcu_data").

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss &lt;nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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rcu_bh_data, rcu_sched_data and rcu_preempt_data are never used outside
kernel/rcu/tree.c and thus can be made static.

Doing so fixes a section mismatch warning reported by clang when
building LLVMLinux with -Wsection, because these variables were declared
in .data..percpu and defined in .data..percpu..shared_aligned since
commit 11bbb235c26f ("rcu: Use DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED for
rcu_data").

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss &lt;nicolas.iooss_linux@m4x.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Eliminate a few RCU_BOOST #ifdefs in favor of IS_ENABLED()</title>
<updated>2015-05-27T19:57:59+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-03-03T22:49:26+00:00</published>
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This commit removes a few RCU_BOOST #ifdefs, replacing them with
IS_ENABLED()-protected return statements.  This relies on the
optimizer to remove any resulting dead code.  There are several other
RCU_BOOST #ifdefs, however these rely on some per-CPU variables that
are available only under RCU_BOOST.  These might be converted later,
if the simplification proves to outweigh the increase in memory footprint.
One hoped-for advantage is more easily locating compiler errors in
obscure combinations of Kconfig parameters.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org&gt;
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This commit removes a few RCU_BOOST #ifdefs, replacing them with
IS_ENABLED()-protected return statements.  This relies on the
optimizer to remove any resulting dead code.  There are several other
RCU_BOOST #ifdefs, however these rely on some per-CPU variables that
are available only under RCU_BOOST.  These might be converted later,
if the simplification proves to outweigh the increase in memory footprint.
One hoped-for advantage is more easily locating compiler errors in
obscure combinations of Kconfig parameters.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Cc: &lt;linux-rt-users@vger.kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Eliminate -&gt;onoff_mutex from rcu_node structure</title>
<updated>2015-03-12T22:19:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-24T06:29:37+00:00</published>
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Because that RCU grace-period initialization need no longer exclude
CPU-hotplug operations, this commit eliminates the -&gt;onoff_mutex and
its uses.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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Because that RCU grace-period initialization need no longer exclude
CPU-hotplug operations, this commit eliminates the -&gt;onoff_mutex and
its uses.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Process offlining and onlining only at grace-period start</title>
<updated>2015-03-12T22:19:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-24T05:52:37+00:00</published>
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Races between CPU hotplug and grace periods can be difficult to resolve,
so the -&gt;onoff_mutex is used to exclude the two events.  Unfortunately,
this means that it is impossible for an outgoing CPU to perform the
last bits of its offlining from its last pass through the idle loop,
because sleeplocks cannot be acquired in that context.

This commit avoids these problems by buffering online and offline events
in a new -&gt;qsmaskinitnext field in the leaf rcu_node structures.  When a
grace period starts, the events accumulated in this mask are applied to
the -&gt;qsmaskinit field, and, if needed, up the rcu_node tree.  The special
case of all CPUs corresponding to a given leaf rcu_node structure being
offline while there are still elements in that structure's -&gt;blkd_tasks
list is handled using a new -&gt;wait_blkd_tasks field.  In this case,
propagating the offline bits up the tree is deferred until the beginning
of the grace period after all of the tasks have exited their RCU read-side
critical sections and removed themselves from the list, at which point
the -&gt;wait_blkd_tasks flag is cleared.  If one of that leaf rcu_node
structure's CPUs comes back online before the list empties, then the
-&gt;wait_blkd_tasks flag is simply cleared.

This of course means that RCU's notion of which CPUs are offline can be
out of date.  This is OK because RCU need only wait on CPUs that were
online at the time that the grace period started.  In addition, RCU's
force-quiescent-state actions will handle the case where a CPU goes
offline after the grace period starts.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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Races between CPU hotplug and grace periods can be difficult to resolve,
so the -&gt;onoff_mutex is used to exclude the two events.  Unfortunately,
this means that it is impossible for an outgoing CPU to perform the
last bits of its offlining from its last pass through the idle loop,
because sleeplocks cannot be acquired in that context.

This commit avoids these problems by buffering online and offline events
in a new -&gt;qsmaskinitnext field in the leaf rcu_node structures.  When a
grace period starts, the events accumulated in this mask are applied to
the -&gt;qsmaskinit field, and, if needed, up the rcu_node tree.  The special
case of all CPUs corresponding to a given leaf rcu_node structure being
offline while there are still elements in that structure's -&gt;blkd_tasks
list is handled using a new -&gt;wait_blkd_tasks field.  In this case,
propagating the offline bits up the tree is deferred until the beginning
of the grace period after all of the tasks have exited their RCU read-side
critical sections and removed themselves from the list, at which point
the -&gt;wait_blkd_tasks flag is cleared.  If one of that leaf rcu_node
structure's CPUs comes back online before the list empties, then the
-&gt;wait_blkd_tasks flag is simply cleared.

This of course means that RCU's notion of which CPUs are offline can be
out of date.  This is OK because RCU need only wait on CPUs that were
online at the time that the grace period started.  In addition, RCU's
force-quiescent-state actions will handle the case where a CPU goes
offline after the grace period starts.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'doc.2015.01.07a', 'fixes.2015.01.15a', 'preempt.2015.01.06a', 'srcu.2015.01.06a', 'stall.2015.01.16a' and 'torture.2015.01.11a' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2015-01-16T07:34:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2015-01-16T07:34:34+00:00</published>
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doc.2015.01.07a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2015.01.15a: Miscellaneous fixes.
preempt.2015.01.06a: Changes to handling of lists of preempted tasks.
srcu.2015.01.06a: SRCU updates.
stall.2015.01.16a: RCU CPU stall-warning updates and fixes.
torture.2015.01.11a: RCU torture-test updates and fixes.
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doc.2015.01.07a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2015.01.15a: Miscellaneous fixes.
preempt.2015.01.06a: Changes to handling of lists of preempted tasks.
srcu.2015.01.06a: SRCU updates.
stall.2015.01.16a: RCU CPU stall-warning updates and fixes.
torture.2015.01.11a: RCU torture-test updates and fixes.
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Make cond_resched_rcu_qs() apply to normal RCU flavors</title>
<updated>2015-01-16T07:33:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-12-14T04:32:04+00:00</published>
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Although cond_resched_rcu_qs() only applies to TASKS_RCU, it is used
in places where it would be useful for it to apply to the normal RCU
flavors, rcu_preempt, rcu_sched, and rcu_bh.  This is especially the
case for workloads that aggressively overload the system, particularly
those that generate large numbers of RCU updates on systems running
NO_HZ_FULL CPUs.  This commit therefore communicates quiescent states
from cond_resched_rcu_qs() to the normal RCU flavors.

Note that it is unfortunately necessary to leave the old -&gt;passed_quiesce
mechanism in place to allow quiescent states that apply to only one
flavor to be recorded.  (Yes, we could decrement -&gt;rcu_qs_ctr_snap in
that case, but that is not so good for debugging of RCU internals.)
In addition, if one of the RCU flavor's grace period has stalled, this
will invoke rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle(), resulting in a heavy-weight
quiescent state visible from other CPUs.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[ paulmck: Merge commit from Sasha Levin fixing a bug where __this_cpu()
  was used in preemptible code. ]
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Although cond_resched_rcu_qs() only applies to TASKS_RCU, it is used
in places where it would be useful for it to apply to the normal RCU
flavors, rcu_preempt, rcu_sched, and rcu_bh.  This is especially the
case for workloads that aggressively overload the system, particularly
those that generate large numbers of RCU updates on systems running
NO_HZ_FULL CPUs.  This commit therefore communicates quiescent states
from cond_resched_rcu_qs() to the normal RCU flavors.

Note that it is unfortunately necessary to leave the old -&gt;passed_quiesce
mechanism in place to allow quiescent states that apply to only one
flavor to be recorded.  (Yes, we could decrement -&gt;rcu_qs_ctr_snap in
that case, but that is not so good for debugging of RCU internals.)
In addition, if one of the RCU flavor's grace period has stalled, this
will invoke rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle(), resulting in a heavy-weight
quiescent state visible from other CPUs.

Reported-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sasha.levin@oracle.com&gt;
Reported-by: Dave Jones &lt;davej@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
[ paulmck: Merge commit from Sasha Levin fixing a bug where __this_cpu()
  was used in preemptible code. ]
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Remove redundant rcu_batches_completed() declaration</title>
<updated>2015-01-11T03:08:01+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2014-11-22T00:48:20+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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