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

rcu: Remove CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU

2009-08-23T08:32:40+00:00

Now that CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU is in place, there is no
further need for CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU.  Remove it, along with
whatever subtle bugs it may (or may not) contain.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

rcu: Simplify rcu_pending()/rcu_check_callbacks() API

2009-08-23T08:32:39+00:00

All calls from outside RCU are of the form:

	if (rcu_pending(cpu))
		rcu_check_callbacks(cpu, user);

This is silly, instead we put a call to rcu_pending() in
rcu_check_callbacks(), and then make the outside calls be to
rcu_check_callbacks().  This cuts down on the code a bit and
also gives the compiler a better chance of optimizing.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

rcu: Renamings to increase RCU clarity

2009-08-23T08:32:37+00:00

Make RCU-sched, RCU-bh, and RCU-preempt be underlying
implementations, with "RCU" defined in terms of one of the
three.  Update the outdated rcu_qsctr_inc() names, as these
functions no longer increment anything.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

rcu: Fix typo in rcu_irq_exit() comment header

2009-08-15T17:02:09+00:00

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

rcu: Make preemptable RCU scan all CPUs when summing RCU counters

2009-08-15T17:02:08+00:00

This patch eliminates the counter-moving during CPU-offline
notifiers, eliminating potential confusion if counters are
scanned during counter-movement process.

This confusion could result in premature ending of an RCU grace
period. For example, if there are two tasks in RCU read-side
critical sections (so that the sum of the counters is two), and
the counter for the CPU going offline is -2, then moving the
count to another CPU can result in the sum momentarily
appearing to be zero.  Since there are no memory barriers in
either case, many more such scenarios are possible.

So just don't move the counts!!!

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

rcu: Simplify RCU CPU-hotplug notification

2009-08-15T17:02:08+00:00

Use the new cpu_notifier() API to simplify RCU's CPU-hotplug
notifiers, collapsing down to a single such notifier.

This makes it trivial to provide the notifier-ordering
guarantee that rcu_barrier() depends on.

Also remove redundant open_softirq() calls from Hierarchical
RCU notifier.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk
Cc: benh@kernel.crashing.org
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

rcu: rcu_sched_grace_period(): kill the bogus flush_signals()

2009-05-05T18:28:05+00:00

As a kernel thread, rcu_sched_grace_period() runs with all signals ignored.
It can never receive a signal even if it sleeps in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE, it
needs the explicit allow_signal() to be visible for signals.

[ Impact: reduce kernel size, remove dead code ]

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kmemtrace, rcu: fix rcupreempt.c data structure dependencies

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

Impact: cleanup

We want to remove percpu.h from rcupreempt.h, but if we do that
the percpu primitives there wont build anymore. Move them to the
.c file instead.

Cc: Pekka Enberg 
Cc: Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu 
Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com
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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: eliminate synchronize_rcu_xxx macro

2009-01-05T09:18:08+00:00

Impact: cleanup

Expand macro into two files.

The synchronize_rcu_xxx macro is quite ugly and it's only used by two
callers, so expand it instead.  This makes this code easier to change.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar