linux.git/kernel/rcuclassic.c, branch master

rcu: Remove Classic RCU

2009-06-24T13:05:13+00:00

Remove Classic RCU, given that the combination of Tree RCU and
the proposed Bloatwatch RCU do everything that Classic RCU can
with fewer bugs.

Tree RCU has been default in x86 builds for almost six months,
and seems to be quite reliable, so there does not seem to be
much justification for keeping the Classic RCU code and config
complexity around anymore.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
Cc: lethal@linux-sh.org
Cc: kernel@wantstofly.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kmemtrace, rcu: fix linux/rcutree.h and linux/rcuclassic.h dependencies

2009-04-03T10:23:02+00:00

Impact: build fix for all non-x86 architectures

We want to remove percpu.h from rcuclassic.h/rcutree.h (for upcoming
kmemtrace changes) but that would break the DECLARE_PER_CPU based
declarations in these files.

Move the quiescent counter management functions to their respective
RCU implementation .c files - they were slightly above the inlining
limit anyway.

Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu 
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
LKML-Reference: <1237898630.25315.83.camel@penberg-laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

rcu: Teach RCU that idle task is not quiscent state at boot

2009-02-26T03:08:14+00:00

This patch fixes a bug located by Vegard Nossum with the aid of
kmemcheck, updated based on review comments from Nick Piggin,
Ingo Molnar, and Andrew Morton.  And cleans up the variable-name
and function-name language.  ;-)

The boot CPU runs in the context of its idle thread during boot-up.
During this time, idle_cpu(0) will always return nonzero, which will
fool Classic and Hierarchical RCU into deciding that a large chunk of
the boot-up sequence is a big long quiescent state.  This in turn causes
RCU to prematurely end grace periods during this time.

This patch changes the rcutree.c and rcuclassic.c rcu_check_callbacks()
function to ignore the idle task as a quiescent state until the
system has started up the scheduler in rest_init(), introducing a
new non-API function rcu_idle_now_means_idle() to inform RCU of this
transition.  RCU maintains an internal rcu_idle_cpu_truthful variable
to track this state, which is then used by rcu_check_callback() to
determine if it should believe idle_cpu().

Because this patch has the effect of disallowing RCU grace periods
during long stretches of the boot-up sequence, this patch also introduces
Josh Triplett's UP-only optimization that makes synchronize_rcu() be a
no-op if num_online_cpus() returns 1.  This allows boot-time code that
calls synchronize_rcu() to proceed normally.  Note, however, that RCU
callbacks registered by call_rcu() will likely queue up until later in
the boot sequence.  Although rcuclassic and rcutree can also use this
same optimization after boot completes, rcupreempt must restrict its
use of this optimization to the portion of the boot sequence before the
scheduler starts up, given that an rcupreempt RCU read-side critical
section may be preeempted.

In addition, this patch takes Nick Piggin's suggestion to make the
system_state global variable be __read_mostly.

Changes since v4:

o	Changes the name of the introduced function and variable to
	be less emotional.  ;-)

Changes since v3:

o	WARN_ON(nr_context_switches() > 0) to verify that RCU
	switches out of boot-time mode before the first context
	switch, as suggested by Nick Piggin.

Changes since v2:

o	Created rcu_blocking_is_gp() internal-to-RCU API that
	determines whether a call to synchronize_rcu() is itself
	a grace period.

o	The definition of rcu_blocking_is_gp() for rcuclassic and
	rcutree checks to see if but a single CPU is online.

o	The definition of rcu_blocking_is_gp() for rcupreempt
	checks to see both if but a single CPU is online and if
	the system is still in early boot.

	This allows rcupreempt to again work correctly if running
	on a single CPU after booting is complete.

o	Added check to rcupreempt's synchronize_sched() for there
	being but one online CPU.

Tested all three variants both SMP and !SMP, booted fine, passed a short
rcutorture test on both x86 and Power.

Located-by: Vegard Nossum 
Tested-by: Vegard Nossum 
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

rcu: add __cpuinit to rcu_init_percpu_data()

2009-01-14T10:26:40+00:00

Impact: reduce memory footprint

add __cpuinit to rcu_init_percpu_data(), and this function's text
will be discarded after boot when !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU.

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

cpumask: convert RCU implementations, fix

2009-01-03T17:59:25+00:00

Impact: cleanup

This warning:

 kernel/rcuclassic.c: In function ‘rcu_start_batch’:
 kernel/rcuclassic.c:397: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘cpumask_andnot’ from incompatible pointer type

triggers because one usage site of rcp->cpumask was not converted
to to_cpumask(rcp->cpumask). There's no ill effects of this bug.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-cpumask into merge-rr-cpumask

2009-01-03T17:53:31+00:00

Conflicts:
	arch/x86/kernel/io_apic.c
	kernel/rcuclassic.c
	kernel/sched.c
	kernel/time/tick-sched.c

Signed-off-by: Mike Travis 
[ mingo@elte.hu: backmerged typo fix for io_apic.c ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

cpumask: convert RCU implementations

2008-12-31T23:42:26+00:00

Impact: use new cpumask API.

rcu_ctrlblk contains a cpumask, and it's highly optimized so I don't want
a cpumask_var_t (ie. a pointer) for the CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK case.  It
could use a dangling bitmap, and be allocated in __rcu_init to save memory,
but for the moment we use a bitmap.

(Eventually 'struct cpumask' will be undefined for CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK,
so we use a bitmap here to show we really mean it).

We remove on-stack cpumasks, using cpumask_var_t for
rcu_torture_shuffle_tasks() and for_each_cpu_and in force_quiescent_state().

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell

sched: convert nohz_cpu_mask to cpumask_var_t.

2008-11-24T16:51:10+00:00

Impact: (future) size reduction for large NR_CPUS.

Dynamically allocating cpumasks (when CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK) saves
space for small nr_cpu_ids but big CONFIG_NR_CPUS.  cpumask_var_t
is just a struct cpumask for !CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

rcu: make rcu-stall debug printout more standard

2008-11-03T17:34:55+00:00

Impact: change debug printout

Change "RCU detected CPU stall" to "INFO: RCU detected CPU stall"
message, to make it easier for tools to pick up the warning.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

rcu: RCU-based detection of stalled CPUs for Classic RCU, fix

2008-10-03T08:41:00+00:00

fix the !CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_DETECTOR path:

 kernel/rcuclassic.c: In function '__rcu_pending':
 kernel/rcuclassic.c:609: error: too few arguments to function 'check_cpu_stall'

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar