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<title>rcu: Separate accounting of callbacks from callback-free CPUs</title>
<updated>2012-11-16T18:05:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paul.mckenney@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-29T14:29:20+00:00</published>
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Currently, callback invocations from callback-free CPUs are accounted to
the CPU that registered the callback, but using the same field that is
used for normal callbacks.  This makes it impossible to determine from
debugfs output whether callbacks are in fact being diverted.  This commit
therefore adds a separate -&gt;n_nocbs_invoked field in the rcu_data structure
in which diverted callback invocations are counted.  RCU's debugfs tracing
still displays normal callback invocations using ci=, but displayed
diverted callbacks with nci=.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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Currently, callback invocations from callback-free CPUs are accounted to
the CPU that registered the callback, but using the same field that is
used for normal callbacks.  This makes it impossible to determine from
debugfs output whether callbacks are in fact being diverted.  This commit
therefore adds a separate -&gt;n_nocbs_invoked field in the rcu_data structure
in which diverted callback invocations are counted.  RCU's debugfs tracing
still displays normal callback invocations using ci=, but displayed
diverted callbacks with nci=.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Add callback-free CPUs</title>
<updated>2012-11-16T18:05:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paul.mckenney@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-08-20T04:35:53+00:00</published>
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RCU callback execution can add significant OS jitter and also can
degrade both scheduling latency and, in asymmetric multiprocessors,
energy efficiency.  This commit therefore adds the ability for selected
CPUs ("rcu_nocbs=" boot parameter) to have their callbacks offloaded
to kthreads.  If the "rcu_nocb_poll" boot parameter is also specified,
these kthreads will do polling, removing the need for the offloaded
CPUs to do wakeups.  At least one CPU must be doing normal callback
processing: currently CPU 0 cannot be selected as a no-CBs CPU.
In addition, attempts to offline the last normal-CBs CPU will fail.

This feature was inspired by Jim Houston's and Joe Korty's JRCU, and
this commit includes fixes to problems located by Fengguang Wu's
kbuild test robot.

[ paulmck: Added gfp.h include file as suggested by Fengguang Wu. ]

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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RCU callback execution can add significant OS jitter and also can
degrade both scheduling latency and, in asymmetric multiprocessors,
energy efficiency.  This commit therefore adds the ability for selected
CPUs ("rcu_nocbs=" boot parameter) to have their callbacks offloaded
to kthreads.  If the "rcu_nocb_poll" boot parameter is also specified,
these kthreads will do polling, removing the need for the offloaded
CPUs to do wakeups.  At least one CPU must be doing normal callback
processing: currently CPU 0 cannot be selected as a no-CBs CPU.
In addition, attempts to offline the last normal-CBs CPU will fail.

This feature was inspired by Jim Houston's and Joe Korty's JRCU, and
this commit includes fixes to problems located by Fengguang Wu's
kbuild test robot.

[ paulmck: Added gfp.h include file as suggested by Fengguang Wu. ]

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'urgent.2012.10.27a', 'doc.2012.11.16a', 'fixes.2012.11.13a', 'srcu.2012.10.27a', 'stall.2012.11.13a', 'tracing.2012.11.08a' and 'idle.2012.10.24a' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2012-11-16T17:59:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-11-16T17:59:58+00:00</published>
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urgent.2012.10.27a: Fix for RCU user-mode transition (already in -tip).

doc.2012.11.08a: Documentation updates, most notably codifying the
	memory-barrier guarantees inherent to grace periods.

fixes.2012.11.13a: Miscellaneous fixes.

srcu.2012.10.27a: Allow statically allocated and initialized srcu_struct
	structures (courtesy of Lai Jiangshan).

stall.2012.11.13a: Add more diagnostic information to RCU CPU stall
	warnings, also decrease from 60 seconds to 21 seconds.

hotplug.2012.11.08a: Minor updates to CPU hotplug handling.

tracing.2012.11.08a: Improved debugfs tracing, courtesy of Michael Wang.

idle.2012.10.24a: Updates to RCU idle/adaptive-idle handling, including
	a boot parameter that maps normal grace periods to expedited.

Resolved conflict in kernel/rcutree.c due to side-by-side change.
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urgent.2012.10.27a: Fix for RCU user-mode transition (already in -tip).

doc.2012.11.08a: Documentation updates, most notably codifying the
	memory-barrier guarantees inherent to grace periods.

fixes.2012.11.13a: Miscellaneous fixes.

srcu.2012.10.27a: Allow statically allocated and initialized srcu_struct
	structures (courtesy of Lai Jiangshan).

stall.2012.11.13a: Add more diagnostic information to RCU CPU stall
	warnings, also decrease from 60 seconds to 21 seconds.

hotplug.2012.11.08a: Minor updates to CPU hotplug handling.

tracing.2012.11.08a: Improved debugfs tracing, courtesy of Michael Wang.

idle.2012.10.24a: Updates to RCU idle/adaptive-idle handling, including
	a boot parameter that maps normal grace periods to expedited.

Resolved conflict in kernel/rcutree.c due to side-by-side change.
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Clarify memory-ordering properties of grace-period primitives</title>
<updated>2012-11-13T22:08:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-23T20:47:01+00:00</published>
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This commit explicitly states the memory-ordering properties of the
RCU grace-period primitives.  Although these properties were in some
sense implied by the fundmental property of RCU ("a grace period must
wait for all pre-existing RCU read-side critical sections to complete"),
stating it explicitly will be a great labor-saving device.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
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This commit explicitly states the memory-ordering properties of the
RCU grace-period primitives.  Although these properties were in some
sense implied by the fundmental property of RCU ("a grace period must
wait for all pre-existing RCU read-side critical sections to complete"),
stating it explicitly will be a great labor-saving device.

Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov &lt;oleg@redhat.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Rename -&gt;onofflock to -&gt;orphan_lock</title>
<updated>2012-11-08T19:50:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paul.mckenney@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-08T17:54:03+00:00</published>
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The -&gt;onofflock field in the rcu_state structure at one time synchronized
CPU-hotplug operations for RCU.  However, its scope has decreased over time
so that it now only protects the lists of orphaned RCU callbacks.  This
commit therefore renames it to -&gt;orphan_lock to reflect its current use.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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The -&gt;onofflock field in the rcu_state structure at one time synchronized
CPU-hotplug operations for RCU.  However, its scope has decreased over time
so that it now only protects the lists of orphaned RCU callbacks.  This
commit therefore renames it to -&gt;orphan_lock to reflect its current use.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Add a module parameter to force use of expedited RCU primitives</title>
<updated>2012-10-23T21:54:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Antti P Miettinen</name>
<email>ananaza@iki.fi</email>
</author>
<published>2012-10-05T06:59:15+00:00</published>
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There have been some embedded applications that would benefit from
use of expedited grace-period primitives.  In some ways, this is
similar to synchronize_net() doing either a normal or an expedited
grace period depending on lock state, but with control outside of
the kernel.

This commit therefore adds rcu_expedited boot and sysfs parameters
that cause the kernel to substitute expedited primitives for the
normal grace-period primitives.

[ paulmck: Add trace/event/rcu.h to kernel/srcu.c to avoid build error.
	   Get rid of infinite loop through contention path.]

Signed-off-by: Antti P Miettinen &lt;amiettinen@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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There have been some embedded applications that would benefit from
use of expedited grace-period primitives.  In some ways, this is
similar to synchronize_net() doing either a normal or an expedited
grace period depending on lock state, but with control outside of
the kernel.

This commit therefore adds rcu_expedited boot and sysfs parameters
that cause the kernel to substitute expedited primitives for the
normal grace-period primitives.

[ paulmck: Add trace/event/rcu.h to kernel/srcu.c to avoid build error.
	   Get rid of infinite loop through contention path.]

Signed-off-by: Antti P Miettinen &lt;amiettinen@nvidia.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ handle adaptive ticks</title>
<updated>2012-09-26T13:44:02+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paul.mckenney@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-06-28T19:33:51+00:00</published>
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The current implementation of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ tries reasonably hard to rid
the current CPU of RCU callbacks.  This is appropriate when the CPU is
entering idle, where it doesn't have much useful to do anyway, but is most
definitely not what you want when transitioning to user-mode execution.
This commit therefore detects the adaptive-tick case, and refrains from
burning CPU time getting rid of RCU callbacks in that case.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
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The current implementation of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ tries reasonably hard to rid
the current CPU of RCU callbacks.  This is appropriate when the CPU is
entering idle, where it doesn't have much useful to do anyway, but is most
definitely not what you want when transitioning to user-mode execution.
This commit therefore detects the adaptive-tick case, and refrains from
burning CPU time getting rid of RCU callbacks in that case.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge remote-tracking branch 'tip/smp/hotplug' into next.2012.09.25b</title>
<updated>2012-09-25T17:01:45+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-25T17:01:45+00:00</published>
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The conflicts between kernel/rcutree.h and kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
were due to adjacent insertions and deletions, which were resolved
by simply accepting the changes on both branches.
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The conflicts between kernel/rcutree.h and kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
were due to adjacent insertions and deletions, which were resolved
by simply accepting the changes on both branches.
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'bigrt.2012.09.23a', 'doctorture.2012.09.23a', 'fixes.2012.09.23a', 'hotplug.2012.09.23a' and 'idlechop.2012.09.23a' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2012-09-25T03:02:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-24T03:37:55+00:00</published>
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bigrt.2012.09.23a contains additional commits to reduce scheduling latency
	from RCU on huge systems (many hundrends or thousands of CPUs).

doctorture.2012.09.23a contains documentation changes and rcutorture fixes.

fixes.2012.09.23a contains miscellaneous fixes.

hotplug.2012.09.23a contains CPU-hotplug-related changes.

idle.2012.09.23a fixes architectures for which RCU no longer considered
	the idle loop to be a quiescent state due to earlier
	adaptive-dynticks changes.  Affected architectures are alpha,
	cris, frv, h8300, m32r, m68k, mn10300, parisc, score, xtensa,
	and ia64.
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bigrt.2012.09.23a contains additional commits to reduce scheduling latency
	from RCU on huge systems (many hundrends or thousands of CPUs).

doctorture.2012.09.23a contains documentation changes and rcutorture fixes.

fixes.2012.09.23a contains miscellaneous fixes.

hotplug.2012.09.23a contains CPU-hotplug-related changes.

idle.2012.09.23a fixes architectures for which RCU no longer considered
	the idle loop to be a quiescent state due to earlier
	adaptive-dynticks changes.  Affected architectures are alpha,
	cris, frv, h8300, m32r, m68k, mn10300, parisc, score, xtensa,
	and ia64.
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Fix CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ stall warning message</title>
<updated>2012-09-23T14:42:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paul.mckenney@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2012-09-21T17:41:50+00:00</published>
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The print_cpu_stall_fast_no_hz() function attempts to print -1 when
the -&gt;idle_gp_timer is not pending, but unsigned arithmetic causes it
to instead print ULONG_MAX, which is 4294967295 on 32-bit systems and
18446744073709551615 on 64-bit systems.  Neither of these are the most
reader-friendly values, so this commit instead causes "timer not pending"
to be printed when -&gt;idle_gp_timer is not pending.

Reported-by: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul@pwsan.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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The print_cpu_stall_fast_no_hz() function attempts to print -1 when
the -&gt;idle_gp_timer is not pending, but unsigned arithmetic causes it
to instead print ULONG_MAX, which is 4294967295 on 32-bit systems and
18446744073709551615 on 64-bit systems.  Neither of these are the most
reader-friendly values, so this commit instead causes "timer not pending"
to be printed when -&gt;idle_gp_timer is not pending.

Reported-by: Paul Walmsley &lt;paul@pwsan.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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