This commit abstracts the open-coded dumping of reader segments in the
rcu_torture_cleanup() function into a new rcu_torture_dump_read_segs()
function. This abstraction will allow reader segments to be dumped for
other purposes.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Now that Tasks Trace RCU is implemented in terms of SRCU, it no longer
has any particular need for the IRQ_WORK Kconfig option. This commit
therefore removes the "select IRQ_WORK" from the TASKS_TRACE_RCU Kconfig
option.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
scx_rcu_cpu_stall() previously recorded the detector CPU rather than the
stalled one, and the expedited grace period path had no stalled CPU to
report at all.
Thread a cpumask through panic_on_rcu_stall() and scx_rcu_cpu_stall()
to capture all stalled CPUs. Report cpumask_first() as exit_cpu and the
full CPU list in the exit message. Task-only stalls yield exit_cpu = -1.
Store the stall mask in scx_sched rather than scx_exit_info, keeping the
BPF-visible struct unchanged. scx_dump_state() reads sch->stall_cpus
directly and dumps all stalled CPUs first to avoid losing them to
truncation.
Signed-off-by: Cheng-Yang Chou <yphbchou0911@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
- Fix a long standing TOCTOU in get_cpu_sleep_time_us()
- Make the CPU offline NOHZ handling more robust by disabling NOHZ on the
outgoing CPU early instead of creating unneeded state which needs to be
undone.
- Unify idle CPU time accounting instead of having two different
accounting mechanisms. These two different mechanisms are not really
independent, but the different properties can in the worst case cause
that gloabl idle time can be observed going backwards.
- Consolidate the idle/iowait time retrieval interfaces instead of
converting back and forth between them.
- Make idle interrupt time accounting more robust. The original code
assumes that interrupt time accouting is enabled and therefore stops
elapsing idle time while an interrupt is handled in NOHZ dyntick
state. That assumption is not correct as interrupt time accounting can
be disabled at compile and runtime.
- Fix an accounting error between dyntick idle time and dyntick idle
steal time. The stolen time is not accounted and therefore idle time
becomes inaccurate. The stolen time is now accounted after the fact as
there is no way to predict the steal time upfront.
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Merge tag 'timers-nohz-2026-06-13' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull NOHZ updates from Thomas Gleixner:
- Fix a long standing TOCTOU in get_cpu_sleep_time_us()
- Make the CPU offline NOHZ handling more robust by disabling NOHZ on
the outgoing CPU early instead of creating unneeded state which needs
to be undone.
- Unify idle CPU time accounting instead of having two different
accounting mechanisms. These two different mechanisms are not really
independent, but the different properties can in the worst case cause
that gloabl idle time can be observed going backwards.
- Consolidate the idle/iowait time retrieval interfaces instead of
converting back and forth between them.
- Make idle interrupt time accounting more robust. The original code
assumes that interrupt time accouting is enabled and therefore stops
elapsing idle time while an interrupt is handled in NOHZ dyntick
state. That assumption is not correct as interrupt time accounting
can be disabled at compile and runtime.
- Fix an accounting error between dyntick idle time and dyntick idle
steal time. The stolen time is not accounted and therefore idle time
becomes inaccurate. The stolen time is now accounted after the fact
as there is no way to predict the steal time upfront.
* tag 'timers-nohz-2026-06-13' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
sched/cputime: Handle dyntick-idle steal time correctly
sched/cputime: Handle idle irqtime gracefully
sched/cputime: Provide get_cpu_[idle|iowait]_time_us() off-case
tick/sched: Consolidate idle time fetching APIs
tick/sched: Account tickless idle cputime only when tick is stopped
tick/sched: Remove unused fields
tick/sched: Move dyntick-idle cputime accounting to cputime code
tick/sched: Remove nohz disabled special case in cputime fetch
tick/sched: Unify idle cputime accounting
s390/time: Prepare to stop elapsing in dynticks-idle
powerpc/time: Prepare to stop elapsing in dynticks-idle
sched/cputime: Correctly support generic vtime idle time
sched/cputime: Remove superfluous and error prone kcpustat_field() parameter
sched/idle: Handle offlining first in idle loop
tick/sched: Fix TOCTOU in nohz idle time fetch
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Merge tag 'rcu.release.v7.2' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux
Pull RCU updates from Uladzislau Rezki:
"Torture test updates:
- Improve kvm-series.sh script by adding examples in its header
comment
- Lazy RCU is more fully tested now by replacing call_rcu_hurry()
with call_rcu() and doing rcu_barrier() to motivate lazy callbacks
during a stutter pause
- Add more synonyms for the "--do-normal" group of torture.sh
command-line arguments
Misc changes:
- Reduce stack usage of nocb_gp_wait() to address frame size warning
when built with CONFIG_UBSAN_ALIGNMENT
- The synchronize_rcu() call can detect the flood and latches a
normal/default path temporary switching to wait_rcu_gp() path
- Document using rcu_access_pointer() to fetch the old pointer for
lockless cmpxchg() updates
- Simplify some RCU code using clamp_val()
- Fix a kerneldoc header comment typo in srcu_down_read_fast()"
* tag 'rcu.release.v7.2' of gitolite.kernel.org:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux:
rcu/nocb: reduce stack usage in nocb_gp_wait()
rcu-tasks: Fix possible boot-time tests failed for the call_rcu_tasks()
rcu: Latch normal synchronize_rcu() path on flood
rcu: Document rcu_access_pointer() feeding into cmpxchg()
rcu: Simplify param_set_next_fqs_jiffies() by applying clamp_val()
rcu: Simplify rcu_do_batch() by applying clamp()
checkpatch: Undeprecate rcu_read_lock_trace() and rcu_read_unlock_trace()
srcu: Fix kerneldoc header comment typo in srcu_down_read_fast()
torture: Allow "norm" abbreviation for "normal"
torture: Improve kvm-series.sh header comment
torture: Add torture_sched_set_normal() for user-specified nice values
rcutorture: Fully test lazy RCU
The first parameter to kcpustat_field() is a pointer to the cpu kcpustat to
be fetched from. This parameter is error prone because a copy to a kcpustat
could be passed by accident instead of the original one. Also the kcpustat
structure can already be retrieved with the help of the mandatory CPU
argument.
Remove the needless parameter.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260508131647.43868-4-frederic@kernel.org
When CONFIG_UBSAN_ALIGNMENT is enabled, the stack usage of nocb_gp_wait()
grows above typical warning limits:
In file included from kernel/rcu/tree.c:4930:
kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h: In function 'rcu_nocb_gp_kthread':
kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h:866:1: error: the frame size of 1968 bytes is larger than 1280 bytes [-Werror=frame-larger-than=]
Apparently, the problem is passing rcu_data from a 'void *' pointer,
which gcc assumes may be misaligned. When the function is not inlined
into rcu_nocb_gp_kthread(), that is no longer visible to gcc.
Add a 'noinline_for_stack' annotation that leads to skipping a lot of
the alignment sanitizer checks and keeps the stack usage 60% lower here.
Reviewed-by: Kunwu Chan <chentao@kylinos.cn>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
The following scenarios will cause the call_rcu_tasks() boot-time
tests failed:
CPU0 CPU1
rcu_init_tasks_generic()
->rcu_tasks_initiate_self_tests()
->call_rcu_tasks_trace(&tests[1].rh, test_rcu_tasks_callback)
->call_rcu_tasks_generic()
->havekthread = smp_load_acquire(&rtp->kthread_ptr)
"The havekthread is false"
....
rcu_tasks_kthread()
->smp_store_release(&rtp->kthread_ptr, current)
->rcu_tasks_one_gp()
->rcuwait_wait_event()
->rcu_tasks_need_gpcb()
->for (cpu = 0; cpu < dequeue_limit; cpu++)
->rcu_segcblist_n_cbs(&rtpcp->cblist) == 0
->schedule()
->raw_spin_trylock_rcu_node()
->needwake = (func == wakeme_after_rcu) ||
(rcu_segcblist_n_cbs(&rtpcp->cblist) == rcu_task_lazy_lim)
"the rcu_task_lazy_lim default value is 32, and the
func pointer is test_rcu_tasks_callback, lead to needwake
is false."
->if (havekthread && !needwake && !timer_pending(&rtpcp->lazy_timer))
"the havekthread is false, will not enter here."
....
"the needwake is false lead to rtp_irq_work can not queue,
even if the rtp->kthread_ptr already exists at this point."
->if (needwake && READ_ONCE(rtp->kthread_ptr))
->irq_work_queue(&rtpcp->rtp_irq_work)
For the above scenarios, if the call_rcu_tasks() is not called again
afterward, the rcu_tasks_kthread will not have a chance to be wakeup,
the test_rcu_tasks_callback() will never be called, the boot-time tests
failed can happen, this commit therefore check havekthread variable, if
it's false and the rtpcp->cblist is empty, set needwake variable is true,
if the rtp->kthread_ptr exist, the rtpcp->rtp_irq_work can be queued to
wakeup rcu_tasks_kthread.
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Currently, rcu_normal_wake_from_gp is only enabled by default
on small systems(<= 16 CPUs) or when a user explicitly set it
enabled.
Introduce an adaptive latching mechanism:
* Track the number of in-flight synchronize_rcu() requests
using a new rcu_sr_normal_count counter;
* If the count reaches/exceeds RCU_SR_NORMAL_LATCH_THR(64),
it sets the rcu_sr_normal_latched, reverting new requests
onto the scaled wait_rcu_gp() path;
* The latch is cleared only when the pending requests are fully
drained(nr == 0);
* Enables rcu_normal_wake_from_gp by default for all systems,
relying on this dynamic throttling instead of static CPU
limits.
Testing(synthetic flood workload):
* Kernel version: 6.19.0-rc6
* Number of CPUs: 1536
* 60K concurrent synchronize_rcu() calls
Perf(cycles, system-wide):
total cycles: 932020263832
rcu_sr_normal_add_req(): 2650282811 cycles(~0.28%)
Perf report excerpt:
0.01% 0.01% sync_test/... [k] rcu_sr_normal_add_req
Measured overhead of rcu_sr_normal_add_req() remained ~0.28%
of total CPU cycles in this synthetic stress test.
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Samir M <samir@linux.ibm.com>
Suggested-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
This commit replaces a nested ?: sequence with clamp_val(). This does
not reduce the number of lines of code, but it does simplify the line
that it modifies.
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
This commit replaces a nested ?: sequence with clamp(). This does not
reduce the number of lines of code, but it does simplify the line that
it modifies.
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Currently, rcutorture bypasses lazy RCU by using call_rcu_hurry().
This works, avoiding the dreaded rtort_pipe_count WARN(), but fails to
fully test lazy RCU. The rtort_pipe_count WARN() splats because lazy RCU
could delay the start of an RCU grace period for a full stutter period,
which defaults to only three seconds.
This commit therefore reverts the call_rcu_hurry() instances
back to call_rcu(), but, in kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y,
queues a workqueue handler just before the call to stutter_wait() in
rcu_torture_writer(). This workqueue handler invokes rcu_barrier(),
which motivates any lingering lazy callbacks, thus avoiding the splat.
Reported-by: Saravana Kannan <saravanak@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
While an srcu_struct structure is in the midst of switching from CPU-0
to all-CPUs state, it can attempt to invoke callbacks for CPUs that
have never been online. Worse yet, it can attempt in invoke callbacks
for CPUs that never will be online, even including imaginary CPUs not in
cpu_possible_mask. This can cause hangs on s390, which is not set up to
deal with workqueue handlers being scheduled on such CPUs. This commit
therefore causes Tree SRCU to refrain from queueing workqueue handlers
on CPUs that have not yet (and might never) come online.
Because callbacks are not invoked on CPUs that have not been
online, it is an error to invoke call_srcu(), synchronize_srcu(), or
synchronize_srcu_expedited() on a CPU that is not yet fully online.
However, it turns out to be less code to redirect the callbacks
from too-early invocations of call_srcu() than to warn about such
invocations. This commit therefore also redirects callbacks queued on
not-yet-fully-online CPUs to the boot CPU.
Reported-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Fixes: 61bbcfb505 ("srcu: Push srcu_node allocation to GP when non-preemptible")
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Samir <samir@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Shrikanth Hegde <sshegde@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun@kernel.org>
NOCB CPU management:
- Consolidate rcu_nocb_cpu_offload() and rcu_nocb_cpu_deoffload() to reduce
code duplication.
- Extract nocb_bypass_needs_flush() helper to reduce duplication in NOCB
bypass path.
rcutorture/torture infrastructure:
- Add NOCB01 config for RCU_LAZY torture testing.
- Add NOCB02 config for NOCB poll mode testing.
- Add TRIVIAL-PREEMPT config for textbook-style preemptible RCU torture.
- Test call_srcu() with preemption both disabled and enabled.
- Remove kvm-check-branches.sh in favor of kvm-series.sh.
- Make hangs more visible in torture.sh output.
- Add informative message for tests without a recheck file.
- Fix numeric test comparison in srcu_lockdep.sh.
- Use torture_shutdown_init() in refscale and rcuscale instead of open-coded
shutdown functions.
- Fix modulo-zero error in torture_hrtimeout_ns().
SRCU:
- Fix SRCU read flavor macro comments.
- Fix s/they disables/they disable/ typo in srcu_read_unlock_fast().
RCU Tasks:
- Document that RCU Tasks Trace grace periods now imply RCU grace periods.
- Remove unnecessary smp_store_release() in cblist_init_generic().
RCU stall:
- Add BOOTPARAM_RCU_STALL_PANIC Kconfig option to allow triggering a kernel
panic on RCU stall via kernel boot parameter.
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Merge tag 'rcu.2026.03.31a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux
Pull RCU updates from Joel Fernandes:
"NOCB CPU management:
- Consolidate rcu_nocb_cpu_offload() and rcu_nocb_cpu_deoffload() to
reduce code duplication
- Extract nocb_bypass_needs_flush() helper to reduce duplication in
NOCB bypass path
rcutorture/torture infrastructure:
- Add NOCB01 config for RCU_LAZY torture testing
- Add NOCB02 config for NOCB poll mode testing
- Add TRIVIAL-PREEMPT config for textbook-style preemptible RCU
torture
- Test call_srcu() with preemption both disabled and enabled
- Remove kvm-check-branches.sh in favor of kvm-series.sh
- Make hangs more visible in torture.sh output
- Add informative message for tests without a recheck file
- Fix numeric test comparison in srcu_lockdep.sh
- Use torture_shutdown_init() in refscale and rcuscale instead of
open-coded shutdown functions
- Fix modulo-zero error in torture_hrtimeout_ns().
SRCU:
- Fix SRCU read flavor macro comments
- Fix s/they disables/they disable/ typo in srcu_read_unlock_fast()
RCU Tasks:
- Document that RCU Tasks Trace grace periods now imply RCU grace
periods
- Remove unnecessary smp_store_release() in cblist_init_generic()"
* tag 'rcu.2026.03.31a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux:
rcutorture: Test call_srcu() with preemption disabled and not
rcu: Add BOOTPARAM_RCU_STALL_PANIC Kconfig option
torture: Avoid modulo-zero error in torture_hrtimeout_ns()
rcu/nocb: Extract nocb_bypass_needs_flush() to reduce duplication
rcu/nocb: Consolidate rcu_nocb_cpu_offload/deoffload functions
rcu-tasks: Remove unnecessary smp_store_release() in cblist_init_generic()
rcutorture: Add NOCB02 config for nocb poll mode testing
rcutorture: Add NOCB01 config for RCU_LAZY torture testing
rcu-tasks: Document that RCU Tasks Trace grace periods now imply RCU grace periods
srcu: Fix s/they disables/they disable/ typo in srcu_read_unlock_fast()
srcu: Fix SRCU read flavor macro comments
rcuscale: Ditch rcu_scale_shutdown in favor of torture_shutdown_init()
refscale: Ditch ref_scale_shutdown in favor of torture_shutdown_init()
rcutorture: Fix numeric "test" comparison in srcu_lockdep.sh
torture: Print informative message for test without recheck file
torture: Make hangs more visible in torture.sh output
kvm-check-branches.sh: Remove in favor of kvm-series.sh
rcutorture: Add a textbook-style trivial preemptible RCU
This commit tests invoking call_srcu() with preemption both enabled
and disabled, via acquiring of pi lock.
[ Joel: reword commit message. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Add a Kconfig option to set the default value of the
kernel.panic_on_rcu_stall sysctl, allowing the kernel to be built
with panic-on-RCU-stall enabled by default.
This is useful for high-availability systems that require automatic
recovery (via panic_timeout) when a CPU stall is detected, without
needing userspace to configure the sysctl at boot.
This follows the pattern established by BOOTPARAM_SOFTLOCKUP_PANIC
and BOOTPARAM_HUNG_TASK_PANIC. The runtime sysctl can still override
the Kconfig default.
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Gustavo Luiz Duarte <gustavold@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
The bypass flush decision logic is duplicated in rcu_nocb_try_bypass()
and nocb_gp_wait() with similar conditions.
This commit therefore extracts the functionality into a common helper
function nocb_bypass_needs_flush() improving the code readability.
A flush_faster parameter is added to controlling the flushing thresholds
and timeouts. This design was in the original commit d1b222c6be
("rcu/nocb: Add bypass callback queueing") to avoid having the GP
kthread aggressively flush the bypass queue.
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
The rcu_nocb_cpu_offload() and rcu_nocb_cpu_deoffload() functions are
nearly duplicates.
Therefore, extract the common logic into rcu_nocb_cpu_toggle_offload()
which takes an 'offload' boolean, and make both exported functions
simple wrappers.
This eliminates a bunch of duplicate code at the call sites, namely
mutex locking, CPU hotplug locking and CPU online checks.
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
The cblist_init_generic() is executed during the CPU early boot
phase due to commit:30ef09635b9e ("rcu-tasks: Initialize callback
lists at rcu_init() time"), at this time, only one boot CPU is
online and the irq is disabled. this commit therefore use routine
assignment replace of smp_store_release() and WRITE_ONCE() in the
cblist_init_generic().
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
The torture_shutdown_init() function spawns a shutdown kthread in
a manner very similar to that implemented by rcu_scale_shutdown().
This commit therefore re-implements rcu_scale_shutdown() in terms of
torture_shutdown_init().
This patch was generated by Claude given as input the patch making the
same transformation of ref_scale_shutdown().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
The torture_shutdown_init() function spawns a shutdown kthread in
a manner very similar to that implemented by ref_scale_shutdown().
This commit therefore re-implements ref_scale_shutdown in terms of
torture_shutdown_init().
The initial draft of this patch was generated by version 2.1.16 of the
Claude AI/LLM, but trained and configured for use by my employer, and
prompted to refer to Linux-kernel source code. This initial draft failed
to provide a forward reference to ref_scale_cleanup(), passed zero to
torture_shutdown_init() for an unwelcome insta-shutdown, and failed to
pass the kvm.sh --duration argument in as a refscale module parameter.
On the other hand, it did catch the need to NULL main_task on the
post-test self-shutdown code path, which I might well have forgotten
to do.
This version of the patch fixes those problems, and in fact very little
of the initial draft remains.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
This commit adds a trivial textbook implementation of preemptible RCU
to rcutorture ("torture_type=trivial-preempt"), similar in spirit to the
existing "torture_type=trivial" textbook implementation of non-preemptible
RCU. Neither trivial RCU implementation has any value for production use,
and are intended only to keep Paul honest in his introductory writings
and presentations.
[ paulmck: Apply kernel test robot feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Tiny SRCU's srcu_gp_start_if_needed() directly calls schedule_work(),
which acquires the workqueue pool->lock.
This causes a lockdep splat when call_srcu() is called with a scheduler
lock held, due to:
call_srcu() [holding pi_lock]
srcu_gp_start_if_needed()
schedule_work() -> pool->lock
workqueue_init() / create_worker() [holding pool->lock]
wake_up_process() -> try_to_wake_up() -> pi_lock
Also add irq_work_sync() to cleanup_srcu_struct() to prevent a
use-after-free if a queued irq_work fires after cleanup begins.
Tested with rcutorture SRCU-T and no lockdep warnings.
[ Thanks to Boqun for similar fix in patch "rcu: Use an intermediate irq_work
to start process_srcu()" ]
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun@kernel.org>
Since commit c27cea4416 ("rcu: Re-implement RCU Tasks Trace in terms
of SRCU-fast") we switched to SRCU in BPF. However as BPF instrument can
happen basically everywhere (including where a scheduler lock is held),
call_srcu() now needs to avoid acquiring scheduler lock because
otherwise it could cause deadlock [1]. Fix this by following what the
previous RCU Tasks Trace did: using an irq_work to delay the queuing of
the work to start process_srcu().
[boqun: Apply Joel's feedback]
[boqun: Apply Andrea's test feedback]
Reported-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/abjzvz_tL_siV17s@gpd4/
Fixes: commit c27cea4416 ("rcu: Re-implement RCU Tasks Trace in terms of SRCU-fast")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/3c4c5a29-24ea-492d-aeee-e0d9605b4183@nvidia.com/ [1]
Suggested-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@linux.dev>
Tested-by: Andrea Righi <arighi@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun@kernel.org>
When the srcutree.convert_to_big and srcutree.big_cpu_lim kernel boot
parameters specify initialization-time allocation of the srcu_node
tree for statically allocated srcu_struct structures (for example, in
DEFINE_SRCU() at build time instead of init_srcu_struct() at runtime),
init_srcu_struct_nodes() will attempt to dynamically allocate this tree
at the first run-time update-side use of this srcu_struct structure,
but while holding a raw spinlock. Because the memory allocator can
acquire non-raw spinlocks, this can result in lockdep splats.
This commit therefore uses the same SRCU_SIZE_ALLOC trick that is used
when the first run-time update-side use of this srcu_struct structure
happens before srcu_init() is called. The actual allocation then takes
place from workqueue context at the ends of upcoming SRCU grace periods.
[boqun: Adjust the sha1 of the Fixes tag]
Fixes: 175b45ed34 ("srcu: Use raw spinlocks so call_srcu() can be used under preempt_disable()")
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun@kernel.org>
Tree SRCU has used non-raw spinlocks for many years, motivated by a desire
to avoid unnecessary real-time latency and the absence of any reason to
use raw spinlocks. However, the recent use of SRCU in tracing as the
underlying implementation of RCU Tasks Trace means that call_srcu()
is invoked from preemption-disabled regions of code, which in turn
requires that any locks acquired by call_srcu() or its callees must be
raw spinlocks.
This commit therefore converts SRCU's spinlocks to raw spinlocks.
[boqun: Add Fixes tag]
Reported-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com>
Fixes: c27cea4416 ("rcu: Re-implement RCU Tasks Trace in terms of SRCU-fast")
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun@kernel.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split
over multiple lines. I only did the ones that are easy to verify the
resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next
line.
Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for
me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the
middle of the script. I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial.
So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the
syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed'
scripts.
The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want
whitespace cleanup anyway.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using
git grep -l '\<k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'
to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.
Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.
For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:
Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)
Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)
Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)
(where TYPE may also be *VAR)
The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
User visible changes:
- Add an entry into MAINTAINERS file for RUST versions of code
There's now RUST code for tracing and static branches. To differentiate
that code from the C code, add entries in for the RUST version (with "[RUST]"
around it) so that the right maintainers get notified on changes.
- New bitmask-list option added to tracefs
When this is set, bitmasks in trace event are not displayed as hex
numbers, but instead as lists: e.g. 0-5,7,9 instead of 0000015f
- New show_event_filters file in tracefs
Instead of having to search all events/*/*/filter for any active filters
enabled in the trace instance, the file show_event_filters will list them
so that there's only one file that needs to be examined to see if any
filters are active.
- New show_event_triggers file in tracefs
Instead of having to search all events/*/*/trigger for any active triggers
enabled in the trace instance, the file show_event_triggers will list them
so that there's only one file that needs to be examined to see if any
triggers are active.
- Have traceoff_on_warning disable trace pintk buffer too
Recently recording of trace_printk() could go to other trace instances
instead of the top level instance. But if traceoff_on_warning triggers, it
doesn't stop the buffer with trace_printk() and that data can easily be
lost by being overwritten. Have traceoff_on_warning also disable the
instance that has trace_printk() being written to it.
- Update the hist_debug file to show what function the field uses
When CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG is enabled, a hist_debug file exists for
every event. This displays the internal data of any histogram enabled for
that event. But it is lacking the function that is called to process one
of its fields. This is very useful information that was missing when
debugging histograms.
- Up the histogram stack size from 16 to 31
Stack traces can be used as keys for event histograms. Currently the size
of the stack that is stored is limited to just 16 entries. But the storage
space in the histogram is 256 bytes, meaning that it can store up to 31
entries (plus one for the count of entries). Instead of letting that space
go to waste, up the limit from 16 to 31. This makes the keys much more
useful.
- Fix permissions of per CPU file buffer_size_kb
The per CPU file of buffer_size_kb was incorrectly set to read only in a
previous cleanup. It should be writable.
- Reset "last_boot_info" if the persistent buffer is cleared
The last_boot_info shows address information of a persistent ring buffer
if it contains data from a previous boot. It is cleared when recording
starts again, but it is not cleared when the buffer is reset. The data is
useless after a reset so clear it on reset too.
Internal changes:
- A change was made to allow tracepoint callbacks to have preemption
enabled, and instead be protected by SRCU. This required some updates to
the callbacks for perf and BPF.
perf needed to disable preemption directly in its callback because it
expects preemption disabled in the later code.
BPF needed to disable migration, as its code expects to run completely on
the same CPU.
- Have irq_work wake up other CPU if current CPU is "isolated"
When there's a waiter waiting on ring buffer data and a new event happens,
an irq work is triggered to wake up that waiter. This is noisy on isolated
CPUs (running NO_HZ_FULL). Trigger an IPI to a house keeping CPU instead.
- Use proper free of trigger_data instead of open coding it in.
- Remove redundant call of event_trigger_reset_filter()
It was called immediately in a function that was called right after it.
- Workqueue cleanups
- Report errors if tracing_update_buffers() were to fail.
- Make the enum update workqueue generic for other parts of tracing
On boot up, a work queue is created to convert enum names into their
numbers in the trace event format files. This work queue can also be used
for other aspects of tracing that takes some time and shouldn't be called
by the init call code.
The blk_trace initialization takes a bit of time. Have the initialization
code moved to the new tracing generic work queue function.
- Skip kprobe boot event creation call if there's no kprobes defined on cmdline
The kprobe initialization to set up kprobes if they are defined on the
cmdline requires taking the event_mutex lock. This can be held by other
tracing code doing initialization for a long time. Since kprobes added to
the kernel command line need to be setup immediately, as they may be
tracing early initialization code, they cannot be postponed in a work
queue and must be setup in the initcall code.
If there's no kprobe on the kernel cmdline, there's no reason to take the
mutex and slow down the boot up code waiting to get the lock only to find
out there's nothing to do. Simply exit out early if there's no kprobes on
the kernel cmdline.
If there are kprobes on the cmdline, then someone cares more about tracing
over the speed of boot up.
- Clean up the trigger code a bit
- Move code out of trace.c and into their own files
trace.c is now over 11,000 lines of code and has become more difficult to
maintain. Start splitting it up so that related code is in their own
files.
Move all the trace_printk() related code into trace_printk.c.
Move the __always_inline stack functions into trace.h.
Move the pid filtering code into a new trace_pid.c file.
- Better define the max latency and snapshot code
The latency tracers have a "max latency" buffer that is a copy of the main
buffer and gets swapped with it when a new high latency is detected. This
keeps the trace up to the highest latency around where this max_latency
buffer is never written to. It is only used to save the last max latency
trace.
A while ago a snapshot feature was added to tracefs to allow user space to
perform the same logic. It could also enable events to trigger a
"snapshot" if one of their fields hit a new high. This was built on top of
the latency max_latency buffer logic.
Because snapshots came later, they were dependent on the latency tracers
to be enabled. In reality, the latency tracers depend on the snapshot code
and not the other way around. It was just that they came first.
Restructure the code and the kconfigs to have the latency tracers depend
on snapshot code instead. This actually simplifies the logic a bit and
allows to disable more when the latency tracers are not defined and the
snapshot code is.
- Fix a "false sharing" in the hwlat tracer code
The loop to search for latency in hardware was using a variable that could
be changed by user space for each sample. If the user change this
variable, it could cause a bus contention, and reading that variable can
show up as a large latency in the trace causing a false positive. Read
this variable at the start of the sample with a READ_ONCE() into a local
variable and keep the code from sharing cache lines with readers.
- Fix function graph tracer static branch optimization code
When only one tracer is defined for function graph tracing, it uses a
static branch to call that tracer directly. When another tracer is added,
it goes into loop logic to call all the registered callbacks.
The code was incorrect when going back to one tracer and never re-enabled
the static branch again to do the optimization code.
- And other small fixes and cleanups.
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Merge tag 'trace-v7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace
Pull tracing updates from Steven Rostedt:
"User visible changes:
- Add an entry into MAINTAINERS file for RUST versions of code
There's now RUST code for tracing and static branches. To
differentiate that code from the C code, add entries in for the
RUST version (with "[RUST]" around it) so that the right
maintainers get notified on changes.
- New bitmask-list option added to tracefs
When this is set, bitmasks in trace event are not displayed as hex
numbers, but instead as lists: e.g. 0-5,7,9 instead of 0000015f
- New show_event_filters file in tracefs
Instead of having to search all events/*/*/filter for any active
filters enabled in the trace instance, the file show_event_filters
will list them so that there's only one file that needs to be
examined to see if any filters are active.
- New show_event_triggers file in tracefs
Instead of having to search all events/*/*/trigger for any active
triggers enabled in the trace instance, the file
show_event_triggers will list them so that there's only one file
that needs to be examined to see if any triggers are active.
- Have traceoff_on_warning disable trace pintk buffer too
Recently recording of trace_printk() could go to other trace
instances instead of the top level instance. But if
traceoff_on_warning triggers, it doesn't stop the buffer with
trace_printk() and that data can easily be lost by being
overwritten. Have traceoff_on_warning also disable the instance
that has trace_printk() being written to it.
- Update the hist_debug file to show what function the field uses
When CONFIG_HIST_TRIGGERS_DEBUG is enabled, a hist_debug file
exists for every event. This displays the internal data of any
histogram enabled for that event. But it is lacking the function
that is called to process one of its fields. This is very useful
information that was missing when debugging histograms.
- Up the histogram stack size from 16 to 31
Stack traces can be used as keys for event histograms. Currently
the size of the stack that is stored is limited to just 16 entries.
But the storage space in the histogram is 256 bytes, meaning that
it can store up to 31 entries (plus one for the count of entries).
Instead of letting that space go to waste, up the limit from 16 to
31. This makes the keys much more useful.
- Fix permissions of per CPU file buffer_size_kb
The per CPU file of buffer_size_kb was incorrectly set to read only
in a previous cleanup. It should be writable.
- Reset "last_boot_info" if the persistent buffer is cleared
The last_boot_info shows address information of a persistent ring
buffer if it contains data from a previous boot. It is cleared when
recording starts again, but it is not cleared when the buffer is
reset. The data is useless after a reset so clear it on reset too.
Internal changes:
- A change was made to allow tracepoint callbacks to have preemption
enabled, and instead be protected by SRCU. This required some
updates to the callbacks for perf and BPF.
perf needed to disable preemption directly in its callback because
it expects preemption disabled in the later code.
BPF needed to disable migration, as its code expects to run
completely on the same CPU.
- Have irq_work wake up other CPU if current CPU is "isolated"
When there's a waiter waiting on ring buffer data and a new event
happens, an irq work is triggered to wake up that waiter. This is
noisy on isolated CPUs (running NO_HZ_FULL). Trigger an IPI to a
house keeping CPU instead.
- Use proper free of trigger_data instead of open coding it in.
- Remove redundant call of event_trigger_reset_filter()
It was called immediately in a function that was called right after
it.
- Workqueue cleanups
- Report errors if tracing_update_buffers() were to fail.
- Make the enum update workqueue generic for other parts of tracing
On boot up, a work queue is created to convert enum names into
their numbers in the trace event format files. This work queue can
also be used for other aspects of tracing that takes some time and
shouldn't be called by the init call code.
The blk_trace initialization takes a bit of time. Have the
initialization code moved to the new tracing generic work queue
function.
- Skip kprobe boot event creation call if there's no kprobes defined
on cmdline
The kprobe initialization to set up kprobes if they are defined on
the cmdline requires taking the event_mutex lock. This can be held
by other tracing code doing initialization for a long time. Since
kprobes added to the kernel command line need to be setup
immediately, as they may be tracing early initialization code, they
cannot be postponed in a work queue and must be setup in the
initcall code.
If there's no kprobe on the kernel cmdline, there's no reason to
take the mutex and slow down the boot up code waiting to get the
lock only to find out there's nothing to do. Simply exit out early
if there's no kprobes on the kernel cmdline.
If there are kprobes on the cmdline, then someone cares more about
tracing over the speed of boot up.
- Clean up the trigger code a bit
- Move code out of trace.c and into their own files
trace.c is now over 11,000 lines of code and has become more
difficult to maintain. Start splitting it up so that related code
is in their own files.
Move all the trace_printk() related code into trace_printk.c.
Move the __always_inline stack functions into trace.h.
Move the pid filtering code into a new trace_pid.c file.
- Better define the max latency and snapshot code
The latency tracers have a "max latency" buffer that is a copy of
the main buffer and gets swapped with it when a new high latency is
detected. This keeps the trace up to the highest latency around
where this max_latency buffer is never written to. It is only used
to save the last max latency trace.
A while ago a snapshot feature was added to tracefs to allow user
space to perform the same logic. It could also enable events to
trigger a "snapshot" if one of their fields hit a new high. This
was built on top of the latency max_latency buffer logic.
Because snapshots came later, they were dependent on the latency
tracers to be enabled. In reality, the latency tracers depend on
the snapshot code and not the other way around. It was just that
they came first.
Restructure the code and the kconfigs to have the latency tracers
depend on snapshot code instead. This actually simplifies the logic
a bit and allows to disable more when the latency tracers are not
defined and the snapshot code is.
- Fix a "false sharing" in the hwlat tracer code
The loop to search for latency in hardware was using a variable
that could be changed by user space for each sample. If the user
change this variable, it could cause a bus contention, and reading
that variable can show up as a large latency in the trace causing a
false positive. Read this variable at the start of the sample with
a READ_ONCE() into a local variable and keep the code from sharing
cache lines with readers.
- Fix function graph tracer static branch optimization code
When only one tracer is defined for function graph tracing, it uses
a static branch to call that tracer directly. When another tracer
is added, it goes into loop logic to call all the registered
callbacks.
The code was incorrect when going back to one tracer and never
re-enabled the static branch again to do the optimization code.
- And other small fixes and cleanups"
* tag 'trace-v7.0' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/trace/linux-trace: (46 commits)
function_graph: Restore direct mode when callbacks drop to one
tracing: Fix indentation of return statement in print_trace_fmt()
tracing: Reset last_boot_info if ring buffer is reset
tracing: Fix to set write permission to per-cpu buffer_size_kb
tracing: Fix false sharing in hwlat get_sample()
tracing: Move d_max_latency out of CONFIG_FSNOTIFY protection
tracing: Better separate SNAPSHOT and MAX_TRACE options
tracing: Add tracer_uses_snapshot() helper to remove #ifdefs
tracing: Rename trace_array field max_buffer to snapshot_buffer
tracing: Move pid filtering into trace_pid.c
tracing: Move trace_printk functions out of trace.c and into trace_printk.c
tracing: Use system_state in trace_printk_init_buffers()
tracing: Have trace_printk functions use flags instead of using global_trace
tracing: Make tracing_update_buffers() take NULL for global_trace
tracing: Make printk_trace global for tracing system
tracing: Move ftrace_trace_stack() out of trace.c and into trace.h
tracing: Move __trace_buffer_{un}lock_*() functions to trace.h
tracing: Make tracing_selftest_running global to the tracing subsystem
tracing: Make tracing_disabled global for tracing system
tracing: Clean up use of trace_create_maxlat_file()
...
SRCU-fast is designed to be used in NMI handlers, even going so far
as to use atomic operations for architectures supporting NMIs but not
providing NMI-safe per-CPU atomic operations. However, the WARN_ON_ONCE()
in __srcu_check_read_flavor() complains if SRCU-fast is used in an NMI
handler. This commit therefore modifies that WARN_ON_ONCE() to avoid
such complaints.
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/8232efe8-a7a3-446c-af0b-19f9b523b4f7@paulmck-laptop
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
The pattern of checking nocb_defer_wakeup and deleting the timer is
duplicated in __wake_nocb_gp() and nocb_gp_wait(). Extract this into a
common helper function nocb_defer_wakeup_cancel().
This removes code duplication and makes it easier to maintain.
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
During callback overload (exceeding qhimark), the NOCB code attempts
opportunistic advancement via rcu_advance_cbs_nowake(). Analysis shows
this code path is practically unreachable and serves no useful purpose.
Testing with 300,000 callback floods showed:
- 30 overload conditions triggered
- 0 advancements actually occurred
While a theoretical window exists where this code could execute (e.g.,
vCPU preemption between gp_seq update and rcu_nocb_gp_cleanup()), even
if it did, the advancement would be redundant. The rcuog kthread must
still run to wake the rcuoc callback thread - we would just be
duplicating work that rcuog will perform when it finally gets to run.
Since this path provides no meaningful benefit and extensive testing
confirms it is never useful, remove it entirely.
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
The WakeOvfIsDeferred code path in __call_rcu_nocb_wake() attempts to
wake rcuog when the callback count exceeds qhimark and callbacks aren't
done with their GP (newly queued or awaiting GP). However, a lot of
testing proves this wake is always redundant or useless.
In the flooding case, rcuog is always waiting for a GP to finish. So
waking up the rcuog thread is pointless. The timer wakeup adds overhead,
rcuog simply wakes up and goes back to sleep achieving nothing.
This path also adds a full memory barrier, and additional timer expiry
modifications unnecessarily.
The root cause is that WakeOvfIsDeferred fires when
!rcu_segcblist_ready_cbs() (GP not complete), but waking rcuog cannot
accelerate GP completion.
This commit therefore removes this path.
Tested with rcutorture scenarios: TREE01, TREE05, TREE08 (all NOCB
configurations) - all pass. Also stress tested using a kernel module
that floods call_rcu() to trigger the overload conditions and made the
observations confirming the findings.
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
* rcu-misc.20260111a:
rcu: Reduce synchronize_rcu() latency by reporting GP kthread's CPU QS early
srcu: Use suitable gfp_flags for the init_srcu_struct_nodes()
rcu: Fix rcu_read_unlock() deadloop due to softirq
rcutorture: Correctly compute probability to invoke ->exp_current()
rcu: Make expedited RCU CPU stall warnings detect stall-end races
The RCU grace period mechanism uses a two-phase FQS (Force Quiescent
State) design where the first FQS saves dyntick-idle snapshots and
the second FQS compares them. This results in long and unnecessary latency
for synchronize_rcu() on idle systems (two FQS waits of ~3ms each with
1000HZ) whenever one FQS wait sufficed.
Some investigations showed that the GP kthread's CPU is the holdout CPU
a lot of times after the first FQS as - it cannot be detected as "idle"
because it's actively running the FQS scan in the GP kthread.
Therefore, at the end of rcu_gp_init(), immediately report a quiescent
state for the GP kthread's CPU using rcu_qs() + rcu_report_qs_rdp(). The
GP kthread cannot be in an RCU read-side critical section while running
GP initialization, so this is safe and results in significant latency
improvements.
The following tests were performed:
(1) synchronize_rcu() benchmarking
100 synchronize_rcu() calls with 32 CPUs, 10 runs each (default fqs
jiffies settings):
Baseline (without fix):
| Run | Mean | Min | Max |
|-----|-----------|----------|-----------|
| 1 | 10.088 ms | 9.989 ms | 18.848 ms |
| 2 | 10.064 ms | 9.982 ms | 16.470 ms |
| 3 | 10.051 ms | 9.988 ms | 15.113 ms |
| 4 | 10.125 ms | 9.929 ms | 22.411 ms |
| 5 | 8.695 ms | 5.996 ms | 15.471 ms |
| 6 | 10.157 ms | 9.977 ms | 25.723 ms |
| 7 | 10.102 ms | 9.990 ms | 20.224 ms |
| 8 | 8.050 ms | 5.985 ms | 10.007 ms |
| 9 | 10.059 ms | 9.978 ms | 15.934 ms |
| 10 | 10.077 ms | 9.984 ms | 17.703 ms |
With fix:
| Run | Mean | Min | Max |
|-----|----------|----------|-----------|
| 1 | 6.027 ms | 5.915 ms | 8.589 ms |
| 2 | 6.032 ms | 5.984 ms | 9.241 ms |
| 3 | 6.010 ms | 5.986 ms | 7.004 ms |
| 4 | 6.076 ms | 5.993 ms | 10.001 ms |
| 5 | 6.084 ms | 5.893 ms | 10.250 ms |
| 6 | 6.034 ms | 5.908 ms | 9.456 ms |
| 7 | 6.051 ms | 5.993 ms | 10.000 ms |
| 8 | 6.057 ms | 5.941 ms | 10.001 ms |
| 9 | 6.016 ms | 5.927 ms | 7.540 ms |
| 10 | 6.036 ms | 5.993 ms | 9.579 ms |
Summary:
- Mean latency: 9.75 ms -> 6.04 ms (38% improvement)
- Max latency: 25.72 ms -> 10.25 ms (60% improvement)
(2) Bridge setup/teardown latency (Uladzislau Rezki)
x86_64 with 64 CPUs, 100 iterations of bridge add/configure/delete:
real time
1 - default: 24.221s
2 - this patch: 20.754s (14% faster)
3 - this patch + wake_from_gp: 15.895s (34% faster)
4 - wake_from_gp only: 18.947s (22% faster)
Per-synchronize_rcu() latency (in usec):
1 2 3 4
median: 37249.5 31540.5 15765 22480
min: 7881 7918 9803 7857
max: 63651 55639 31861 32040
This patch combined with rcu_normal_wake_from_gp reduces bridge
setup/teardown time from 24 seconds to 16 seconds.
(3) CPU overhead verification (Uladzislau Rezki)
System CPU time across 5 runs showed no measurable increase:
default: 1.698s - 1.937s
this patch: 1.667s - 1.930s
Conclusion: variations are within noise, no CPU overhead regression.
(4) rcutorture
Tested TREE and SRCU configurations - no regressions.
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Samir M <samir@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
For use the init_srcu_struct*() to initialized srcu structure,
the srcu structure's->srcu_sup and sda use GFP_KERNEL flags to
allocate memory. similarly, if set SRCU_SIZING_INIT, the
srcu_sup's->node can still use GFP_KERNEL flags to allocate
memory, not need to use GFP_ATOMIC flags all the time.
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@linux.dev>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Lack of parentheses causes the ->exp_current() function, for example,
srcu_expedite_current(), to be called only once in four billion times
instead of the intended once in 256 times. This commit therefore adds
the needed parentheses.
Reported-by: Chris Mason <clm@meta.com>
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Fixes: 950063c6e8 ("rcutorture: Test srcu_expedite_current()")
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
If an expedited RCU CPU stall ends just at the stall-warning timeout,
the current code will print an expedited stall-warning message, but one
that doesn't identify any CPUs or tasks causing the stall. This is most
likely to happen for short-timeout stalls, for example, the 20-millisecond
timeouts that are sometimes used for small embedded devices. Needless to
say, these semi-empty stall-warning messages can be rather confusing.
One option would be to suppress the stall-warning message entirely in
this case, but the near-miss information can be quite valuable.
Detect this race condition and emits a "INFO: Expedited stall ended
before state dump start" message to clarify matters.
[boqun: Apply feedback from Borislav]
Reported-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
* rcu-torture.20260104a:
rcutorture: Add --kill-previous option to terminate previous kvm.sh runs
rcutorture: Prevent concurrent kvm.sh runs on same source tree
torture: Include commit discription in testid.txt
torture: Make config2csv.sh properly handle comments in .boot files
torture: Make kvm-series.sh give run numbers and totals
torture: Make kvm-series.sh give build numbers and totals
torture: Parallelize kvm-series.sh guest-OS execution
rcutorture: Add context checks to rcu_torture_timer()
This commit adds irq, NMI, and softirq context checks to the
rcu_torture_timer() function. Just because you are paranoid does not
mean that they are not out to get you... ;-)
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
This commit adds a ->exp_current member to the tasks_tracing_ops structure
to test the rcu_tasks_trace_expedite_current() function.
[ paulmck: Apply kernel test robot feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
When expressing RCU Tasks Trace in terms of SRCU-fast, it was
necessary to keep a nesting count and per-CPU srcu_ctr structure
pointer in the task_struct structure, which is slow to access.
But an alternative is to instead make rcu_read_lock_tasks_trace() and
rcu_read_unlock_tasks_trace(), which match the underlying SRCU-fast
semantics, avoiding the task_struct accesses.
When all callers have switched to the new API, the previous
rcu_read_lock_trace() and rcu_read_unlock_trace() APIs will be removed.
The rcu_read_{,un}lock_{,tasks_}trace() functions need to use smp_mb()
only if invoked where RCU is not watching, that is, from locations where
a call to rcu_is_watching() would return false. In architectures that
define the ARCH_WANTS_NO_INSTR Kconfig option, use of noinstr and friends
ensures that tracing happens only where RCU is watching, so those
architectures can dispense entirely with the read-side calls to smp_mb().
Other architectures include these read-side calls by default, but in many
installations there might be either larger than average tolerance for
risk, prohibition of removing tracing on a running system, or careful
review and approval of removing of tracing. Such installations can
build their kernels with CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_NO_MB=y to avoid those
read-side calls to smp_mb(), thus accepting responsibility for run-time
removal of tracing from code regions that RCU is not watching.
Those wishing to disable read-side memory barriers for an entire
architecture can select this TASKS_TRACE_RCU_NO_MB Kconfig option,
hence the polarity.
[ paulmck: Apply Peter Zijlstra feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Moving the rcu_tasks_trace_srcu_struct structure instance out
from under the CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_GENERIC Kconfig option permits
the CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU Kconfig option to stop enabling this
CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_GENERIC Kconfig option. This commit also therefore
makes it so.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Now that RCU Tasks Trace has been re-implemented in terms of SRCU-fast,
the ->trc_ipi_to_cpu, ->trc_blkd_cpu, ->trc_blkd_node, ->trc_holdout_list,
and ->trc_reader_special task_struct fields are no longer used.
In addition, the rcu_tasks_trace_qs(), rcu_tasks_trace_qs_blkd(),
exit_tasks_rcu_finish_trace(), and rcu_spawn_tasks_trace_kthread(),
show_rcu_tasks_trace_gp_kthread(), rcu_tasks_trace_get_gp_data(),
rcu_tasks_trace_torture_stats_print(), and get_rcu_tasks_trace_gp_kthread()
functions and all the other functions that they invoke are no longer used.
Also, the TRC_NEED_QS and TRC_NEED_QS_CHECKED CPP macros are no longer used.
Neither are the rcu_tasks_trace_lazy_ms and rcu_task_ipi_delay rcupdate
module parameters and the TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB Kconfig option.
This commit therefore removes all of them.
[ paulmck: Apply Alexei Starovoitov feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
This commit saves more than 500 lines of RCU code by re-implementing
RCU Tasks Trace in terms of SRCU-fast. Follow-up work will remove
more code that does not cause problems by its presence, but that is no
longer required.
This variant places smp_mb() in rcu_read_{,un}lock_trace(), and in the
same place that srcu_read_{,un}lock() would put them. These smp_mb()
calls will be removed on common-case architectures in a later commit.
In the meantime, it serves to enforce ordering between the underlying
srcu_read_{,un}lock_fast() markers and the intervening critical section,
even on architectures that permit attaching tracepoints on regions of
code not watched by RCU. Such architectures defeat SRCU-fast's use of
implicit single-instruction, interrupts-disabled, and atomic-operation
RCU read-side critical sections, which have no effect when RCU is not
watching. The aforementioned later commit will insert these smp_mb()
calls only on architectures that have not used noinstr to prevent
attaching tracepoints to code where RCU is not watching.
[ paulmck: Apply kernel test robot, Boqun Feng, and Zqiang feedback. ]
[ paulmck: Split out Tiny SRCU fixes per Andrii Nakryiko feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: bpf@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
SRCU
----
_ Properly handle SRCU readers within IRQ disabled sections in tiny SRCU
- Preparation to reimplement RCU Tasks Trace on top of SRCU fast:
- Introduce API to expedite a grace period and test it through
rcutorture.
- Split srcu-fast in two flavours: SRCU-fast and SRCU-fast-updown.
Both are still targeted toward faster readers (without full
barriers on LOCK and UNLOCK) at the expense of heavier write side
(using full RCU grace period ordering instead of simply full
ordering) as compared to "traditional" non-fast SRCU. But those
srcu-fast flavours are going to be optimized in two different
ways:
- SRCU-fast will become the reimplementation basis for
RCU-TASK-TRACE for consolidation. Since RCU-TASK-TRACE must
be NMI safe, SRCU-fast must be as well.
- SRCU-fast-updown will be needed for uretprobes code in order
to get rid of the read-side memory barriers while still
allowing entering the reader at task level while exiting it
in a timer handler. It is considered semaphore-like in that
it can have different owners between LOCK and UNLOCK.
However it is not NMI-safe.
The actual optimizations are work in progress for the next cycle.
Only the new interfaces are added for now, along with related
torture and scalability test code.
- Create/document/debug/torture new proper initializers for RCU fast:
DEFINE_SRCU_FAST() and init_srcu_struct_fast()
This allows for using right away the proper ordering on the write
side (either full ordering or full RCU grace period ordering) without
waiting for the read side to tell which to use. Also this optimizes
the read side altogether with moving flavour debug checks under debug
config and with removing a costly RmW operation on their first call.
- Make some diagnostic functions tracing safe.
REFSCALE
-------
Add performance testing for common context synchronizations
(Preemption, IRQ, Softirq) and per-cpu increments. Those are
relevant comparisons against SRCU-fast read side APIs, especially
as they are planned to synchronize further tracing fast-path code.
MISCELLANOUS
------
- In order to prepare the layout for nohz_full work deferral to
user exit, the context tracking state must shrink the counter
of transitions to/from RCU not watching. The only possible hazard
is to trigger wrap-around more easily, delaying a bit grace periods
when that happens. This should be a rare event though. Yet add
debugging and torture code to test that assumption.
- Fix memory leak on locktorture module
- Annotate accesses in rculist_nulls.h to prevent from KCSAN warnings.
On recent discussions, we also concluded that all those WRITE_ONCE()
and READ_ONCE() on list APIs deserve appropriate comments. Something
to be expected for the next cycle.
- Provide a script to apply several configs to several commits with torture.
- Allow torture to reuse a build directory in order to save needless
rebuild time.
- Various cleanups.
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Merge tag 'rcu.release.v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux
Pull RCU updates from Frederic Weisbecker:
"SRCU:
- Properly handle SRCU readers within IRQ disabled sections in tiny
SRCU
- Preparation to reimplement RCU Tasks Trace on top of SRCU fast:
- Introduce API to expedite a grace period and test it through
rcutorture
- Split srcu-fast in two flavours: SRCU-fast and SRCU-fast-updown.
Both are still targeted toward faster readers (without full
barriers on LOCK and UNLOCK) at the expense of heavier write
side (using full RCU grace period ordering instead of simply
full ordering) as compared to "traditional" non-fast SRCU. But
those srcu-fast flavours are going to be optimized in two
different ways:
- SRCU-fast will become the reimplementation basis for
RCU-TASK-TRACE for consolidation. Since RCU-TASK-TRACE must
be NMI safe, SRCU-fast must be as well.
- SRCU-fast-updown will be needed for uretprobes code in order
to get rid of the read-side memory barriers while still
allowing entering the reader at task level while exiting it
in a timer handler. It is considered semaphore-like in that
it can have different owners between LOCK and UNLOCK.
However it is not NMI-safe.
The actual optimizations are work in progress for the next
cycle. Only the new interfaces are added for now, along with
related torture and scalability test code.
- Create/document/debug/torture new proper initializers for RCU fast:
DEFINE_SRCU_FAST() and init_srcu_struct_fast()
This allows for using right away the proper ordering on the write
side (either full ordering or full RCU grace period ordering)
without waiting for the read side to tell which to use.
This also optimizes the read side altogether with moving flavour
debug checks under debug config and with removing a costly RmW
operation on their first call.
- Make some diagnostic functions tracing safe
Refscale:
- Add performance testing for common context synchronizations
(Preemption, IRQ, Softirq) and per-cpu increments. Those are
relevant comparisons against SRCU-fast read side APIs, especially
as they are planned to synchronize further tracing fast-path code
Miscellanous:
- In order to prepare the layout for nohz_full work deferral to user
exit, the context tracking state must shrink the counter of
transitions to/from RCU not watching. The only possible hazard is
to trigger wrap-around more easily, delaying a bit grace periods
when that happens. This should be a rare event though. Yet add
debugging and torture code to test that assumption
- Fix memory leak on locktorture module
- Annotate accesses in rculist_nulls.h to prevent from KCSAN
warnings. On recent discussions, we also concluded that all those
WRITE_ONCE() and READ_ONCE() on list APIs deserve appropriate
comments. Something to be expected for the next cycle
- Provide a script to apply several configs to several commits with
torture
- Allow torture to reuse a build directory in order to save needless
rebuild time
- Various cleanups"
* tag 'rcu.release.v6.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux: (29 commits)
refscale: Add SRCU-fast-updown readers
refscale: Exercise DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU_FAST() and init_srcu_struct_fast()
rcutorture: Make srcu{,d}_torture_init() announce the SRCU type
srcu: Create an SRCU-fast-updown API
refscale: Do not disable interrupts for tests involving local_bh_enable()
refscale: Add non-atomic per-CPU increment readers
refscale: Add this_cpu_inc() readers
refscale: Add preempt_disable() readers
refscale: Add local_bh_disable() readers
refscale: Add local_irq_disable() and local_irq_save() readers
torture: Permit negative kvm.sh --kconfig numberic arguments
srcu: Add SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_FAST_UPDOWN CPP macro
rcu: Mark diagnostic functions as notrace
rcutorture: Make TREE04 use CONFIG_RCU_DYNTICKS_TORTURE
rcutorture: Remove redundant rcutorture_one_extend() from rcu_torture_one_read()
rcutorture: Permit kvm-again.sh to re-use the build directory
torture: Add kvm-series.sh to test commit/scenario combination
rcu: use WRITE_ONCE() for ->next and ->pprev of hlist_nulls
locktorture: Fix memory leak in param_set_cpumask()
doc: Update for SRCU-fast definitions and initialization
...
- In order to prepare the layout for nohz_full work deferral to
user exit, the context tracking state must shrink the counter
of transitions to/from RCU not watching. The only possible hazard
is to trigger wrap-around more easily, delaying a bit grace periods
when that happens. This should be a rare event though. Yet add
debugging and torture code to test that assumption.
- Fix memory leak on locktorture module
- Annotate accesses in rculist_nulls.h to prevent from KCSAN warnings.
On recent discussions, we also concluded that all those WRITE_ONCE()
and READ_ONCE() on list APIs deserve appropriate comments. Something
to be expected for the next cycle.
- Provide a script to apply several configs to several commits with torture.
- Allow torture to reuse a build directory in order to save needless
rebuild time.
- Various cleanups.
Add performance testing for common context synchronizations
(Preemption, IRQ, Softirq) and per-cpu increments. Those are
relevant comparisons against SRCU-fast read side APIs, especially
as they are planned to synchronize further tracing fast-path code.
This commit adds refscale readers based on srcu_read_lock_fast_updown()
and srcu_read_unlock_fast_updown()
("refscale.scale_type=srcu-fast-updown"). On my x86 laptop, these are
about 2.2ns per pair.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
This commit updates the initialization for the "srcu-fast" scale
type to use DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU_FAST() when reader_flavor is equal to
SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_FAST.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
This commit causes rcutorture's srcu_torture_init() and
srcud_torture_init() functions to announce on the console log
which variant of SRCU is being tortured, for example: "torture:
srcud_torture_init fast SRCU".
[ paulmck: Apply feedback from kernel test robot. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
This commit creates an SRCU-fast-updown API, including
DEFINE_SRCU_FAST_UPDOWN(), DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU_FAST_UPDOWN(),
__init_srcu_struct_fast_updown(), init_srcu_struct_fast_updown(),
srcu_read_lock_fast_updown(), srcu_read_unlock_fast_updown(),
__srcu_read_lock_fast_updown(), and __srcu_read_unlock_fast_updown().
These are initially identical to their SRCU-fast counterparts, but both
SRCU-fast and SRCU-fast-updown will be optimized in different directions
by later commits. SRCU-fast will lack any sort of srcu_down_read() and
srcu_up_read() APIs, which will enable extremely efficient NMI safety.
For its part, SRCU-fast-updown will not be NMI safe, which will enable
reasonably efficient implementations of srcu_down_read_fast() and
srcu_up_read_fast().
This API fork happens to meet two different future use cases.
* SRCU-fast will become the reimplementation basis for RCU-TASK-TRACE
for consolidation. Since RCU-TASK-TRACE must be NMI safe, SRCU-fast
must be as well.
* SRCU-fast-updown will be needed for uretprobes code in order to get
rid of the read-side memory barriers while still allowing entering the
reader at task level while exiting it in a timer handler.
This commit also adds rcutorture tests for the new APIs. This
(annoyingly) needs to be in the same commit for bisectability. With this
commit, the 0x8 value tests SRCU-fast-updown. However, most SRCU-fast
testing will be via the RCU Tasks Trace wrappers.
[ paulmck: Apply s/0x8/0x4/ missing change per Boqun Feng feedback. ]
[ paulmck: Apply Akira Yokosawa feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
set_tsk_need_resched(current) requires set_preempt_need_resched(current) to
work correctly outside of the scheduler.
Provide set_need_resched_current() which wraps this correctly and replace
all the open coded instances.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251116174750.665769842@linutronix.de
Some kernel configurations prohibit invoking local_bh_enable() while
interrupts are disabled. However, refscale disables interrupts to reduce
OS noise during the tests, which results in splats. This commit therefore
adds an ->enable_irqs flag to the ref_scale_ops structure, and refrains
from disabling interrupts when that flag is set. This flag is set for
the "bh" and "incpercpubh" scale_type module-parameter values.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
This commit adds refscale readers based on READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE()
that are unprotected (can lose counts, "refscale.scale_type=incpercpu"),
preempt-disabled ("refscale.scale_type=incpercpupreempt"),
bh-disabled ("refscale.scale_type=incpercpubh"), and irq-disabled
("refscale.scale_type=incpercpuirqsave"). On my x86 laptop, these are
about 4.3ns, 3.8ns, and 7.3ns per pair, respectively.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
This commit adds refscale readers based on this_cpu_inc() and
this_cpu_inc() ("refscale.scale_type=percpuinc"). On my x86 laptop,
these are about 4.5ns per pair.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
This commit adds refscale readers based on preempt_disable() and
preempt_enable() ("refscale.scale_type=preempt"). On my x86 laptop, these
are about 2.8ns.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
This commit adds refscale readers based on local_bh_disable() and
local_bh_enable() ("refscale.scale_type=bh"). On my x86 laptop, these
are about 4.9ns.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
This commit adds refscale readers based on local_irq_disable() and
local_irq_enable() ("refscale.scale_type=irq") and on local_irq_save()
and local_irq_restore ("refscale.scale_type=irqsave"). On my x86 laptop,
these are about 2.8ns and 7.5ns per enable/disable pair, respectively.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
This commit adds the SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_FAST_UPDOWN=0x8 macro
and adjusts rcutorture to make use of it. In this commit, both
SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_FAST=0x4 and the new SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_FAST_UPDOWN
test SRCU-fast. When the SRCU-fast-updown is added, the new
SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_FAST_UPDOWN macro will test it when passed to the
rcutorture.reader_flavor module parameter.
The old SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_FAST macro's value changed from 0x8 to 0x4.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
The rcu_lockdep_current_cpu_online(), rcu_read_lock_sched_held(),
rcu_read_lock_held(), rcu_read_lock_bh_held(), rcu_read_lock_any_held()
are used by tracing-related code paths, so putting traces on them is
unlikely to make anyone happy. This commit therefore marks them all
"notrace".
Reported-by: Leon Hwang <leon.hwang@linux.dev>
Reported-by: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
This commit removes a harmless but potentially confusing invocation of
rcutorture_one_extend() within rcu_torture_one_read(). The immediately
preceding call to rcu_torture_one_read_start() already does this cleanup,
and the other call to rcu_torture_one_read_start() already relies on this.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
This commit adds CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y checking to enforce the new rule that
srcu_struct structures passed to srcu_read_lock_fast() and other SRCU-fast
read-side markers be either initialized with init_srcu_struct_fast()
on the one hand or defined using either DEFINE_SRCU_FAST() or
DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU_FAST(). This will enable removal of the non-debug
read-side checks from srcu_read_lock_fast() and friends, which on my
laptop provides a 25% speedup (which admittedly amounts to about half
a nanosecond, but when tracing fastpaths...)
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
This commit updates the initialization for the "srcu" and "srcud" torture
types to use DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU_FAST() and init_srcu_struct_fast(),
respectively, when reader_flavor is equal to SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_FAST.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
This commit causes the srcu_readers_unlock_idx() function to take the
srcu_struct structure's ->srcu_reader_flavor field into account. This
ensures that structures defined via DEFINE_SRCU_FAST( or initialized via
init_srcu_struct_fast() have their grace periods use synchronize_srcu()
or synchronize_srcu_expedited() instead of smp_mb(), even before the
first SRCU reader has been entered.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
This commit creates DEFINE_SRCU_FAST() and DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU_FAST()
macros that are similar to DEFINE_SRCU() and DEFINE_STATIC_SRCU(),
but which create srcu_struct structures that are usable only by readers
initiated by srcu_read_lock_fast() and friends.
This commit does make DEFINE_SRCU_FAST() available to modules, in which
case the per-CPU srcu_data structures are not created at compile time, but
rather at module-load time. This means that the >srcu_reader_flavor field
of the srcu_data structure is not available. Therefore,
this commit instead creates an ->srcu_reader_flavor field in the
srcu_struct structure, adds arguments to the DEFINE_SRCU()-related
macros to initialize this new field, and extends the checks in the
__srcu_check_read_flavor() function to include this new field.
This commit also allows dynamically allocated srcu_struct structure
to be marked for SRCU-fast readers. It does so by defining a new
init_srcu_struct_fast() function that marks the specified srcu_struct
structure for use by srcu_read_lock_fast() and friends.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
This commit adds a ->exp_current member to the rcu_torture_ops structure
to test the srcu_expedite_current() function.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
This commit creates an srcu_expedite_current() function that expedites
the current (and possibly the next) SRCU grace period for the specified
srcu_struct structure. This functionality will be inherited by RCU
Tasks Trace courtesy of its mapping to SRCU fast.
If the current SRCU grace period is already waiting, that wait will
complete before the expediting takes effect. If there is no SRCU grace
period in flight, this function might well create one.
[ paulmck: Apply Zqiang feedback for PREEMPT_RT use. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
The current Tiny SRCU implementation of srcu_read_unlock() awakens
the grace-period processing when exiting the outermost SRCU read-side
critical section. However, not all Linux-kernel configurations and
contexts permit swake_up_one() to be invoked while interrupts are
disabled, and this can result in indefinitely extended SRCU grace periods.
This commit therefore only invokes swake_up_one() when interrupts are
enabled, and introduces polling to the grace-period workqueue handler.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Reported-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@linux.dev>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202508261642.b15eefbb-lkp@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
A later commit will reduce the size of the RCU watching counter to free up
some bits for another purpose. Paul suggested adding a config option to
test the extreme case where the counter is reduced to its minimum usable
width for rcutorture to poke at, so do that.
Make it only configurable under RCU_EXPERT. While at it, add a comment to
explain the layout of context_tracking->state.
Link: http://lore.kernel.org/r/4c2cb573-168f-4806-b1d9-164e8276e66a@paulmck-laptop
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
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Merge tag 'hyperv-next-signed-20251006' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux
Pull hyperv updates from Wei Liu:
- Unify guest entry code for KVM and MSHV (Sean Christopherson)
- Switch Hyper-V MSI domain to use msi_create_parent_irq_domain()
(Nam Cao)
- Add CONFIG_HYPERV_VMBUS and limit the semantics of CONFIG_HYPERV
(Mukesh Rathor)
- Add kexec/kdump support on Azure CVMs (Vitaly Kuznetsov)
- Deprecate hyperv_fb in favor of Hyper-V DRM driver (Prasanna
Kumar T S M)
- Miscellaneous enhancements, fixes and cleanups (Abhishek Tiwari,
Alok Tiwari, Nuno Das Neves, Wei Liu, Roman Kisel, Michael Kelley)
* tag 'hyperv-next-signed-20251006' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hyperv/linux:
hyperv: Remove the spurious null directive line
MAINTAINERS: Mark hyperv_fb driver Obsolete
fbdev/hyperv_fb: deprecate this in favor of Hyper-V DRM driver
Drivers: hv: Make CONFIG_HYPERV bool
Drivers: hv: Add CONFIG_HYPERV_VMBUS option
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix typos in vmbus_drv.c
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Fix sysfs output format for ring buffer index
Drivers: hv: vmbus: Clean up sscanf format specifier in target_cpu_store()
x86/hyperv: Switch to msi_create_parent_irq_domain()
mshv: Use common "entry virt" APIs to do work in root before running guest
entry: Rename "kvm" entry code assets to "virt" to genericize APIs
entry/kvm: KVM: Move KVM details related to signal/-EINTR into KVM proper
mshv: Handle NEED_RESCHED_LAZY before transferring to guest
x86/hyperv: Add kexec/kdump support on Azure CVMs
Drivers: hv: Simplify data structures for VMBus channel close message
Drivers: hv: util: Cosmetic changes for hv_utils_transport.c
mshv: Add support for a new parent partition configuration
clocksource: hyper-v: Skip unnecessary checks for the root partition
hyperv: Add missing field to hv_output_map_device_interrupt
This pull request contains the following branches, non-octopus merged:
Documentation updates:
- Update whatisRCU.rst and checklist.rst for recent RCU API additions.
- Fix RCU documentation formatting and typos.
- Replace dead Ottawa Linux Symposium links in RTFP.txt.
Miscellaneous RCU updates:
- Document that rcu_barrier() hurries RCU_LAZY callbacks.
- Remove redundant interrupt disabling from
rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler().
- Move list_for_each_rcu from list.h to rculist.h, and adjust the
include directive in kernel/cgroup/dmem.c accordingly.
- Make initial set of changes to accommodate upcoming system_percpu_wq
changes.
SRCU updates:
- Create an srcu_read_lock_fast_notrace() for eventual use in tracing,
including adding guards.
- Document the reliance on per-CPU operations as implicit RCU readers
in __srcu_read_{,un}lock_fast().
- Document the srcu_flip() function's memory-barrier D's relationship
to SRCU-fast readers.
- Remove a redundant preempt_disable() and preempt_enable() pair from
srcu_gp_start_if_needed().
Torture-test updates:
- Fix jitter.sh spin time so that it actually varies as advertised.
It is still quite coarse-grained, but at least it does now vary.
- Update torture.sh help text to include the not-so-new --do-normal
parameter, which permits (for example) testing KCSAN kernels without
doing non-debug kernels.
- Fix a number of false-positive diagnostics that were being triggered
by rcutorture starting before boot completed. Running multiple
near-CPU-bound rcutorture processes when there is only the boot CPU
is after all a bit excessive.
- Substitute kcalloc() for kzalloc().
- Remove a redundant kfree() and NULL out kfree()ed objects.
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Merge tag 'rcu.2025.09.26a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux
Pull RCU updates from Paul McKenney:
"Documentation updates:
- Update whatisRCU.rst and checklist.rst for recent RCU API additions
- Fix RCU documentation formatting and typos
- Replace dead Ottawa Linux Symposium links in RTFP.txt
Miscellaneous RCU updates:
- Document that rcu_barrier() hurries RCU_LAZY callbacks
- Remove redundant interrupt disabling from
rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler()
- Move list_for_each_rcu from list.h to rculist.h, and adjust the
include directive in kernel/cgroup/dmem.c accordingly
- Make initial set of changes to accommodate upcoming
system_percpu_wq changes
SRCU updates:
- Create an srcu_read_lock_fast_notrace() for eventual use in
tracing, including adding guards
- Document the reliance on per-CPU operations as implicit RCU readers
in __srcu_read_{,un}lock_fast()
- Document the srcu_flip() function's memory-barrier D's relationship
to SRCU-fast readers
- Remove a redundant preempt_disable() and preempt_enable() pair from
srcu_gp_start_if_needed()
Torture-test updates:
- Fix jitter.sh spin time so that it actually varies as advertised.
It is still quite coarse-grained, but at least it does now vary
- Update torture.sh help text to include the not-so-new --do-normal
parameter, which permits (for example) testing KCSAN kernels
without doing non-debug kernels
- Fix a number of false-positive diagnostics that were being
triggered by rcutorture starting before boot completed. Running
multiple near-CPU-bound rcutorture processes when there is only the
boot CPU is after all a bit excessive
- Substitute kcalloc() for kzalloc()
- Remove a redundant kfree() and NULL out kfree()ed objects"
* tag 'rcu.2025.09.26a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux: (31 commits)
rcu: WQ_UNBOUND added to sync_wq workqueue
rcu: WQ_PERCPU added to alloc_workqueue users
rcu: replace use of system_wq with system_percpu_wq
refperf: Set reader_tasks to NULL after kfree()
refperf: Remove redundant kfree() after torture_stop_kthread()
srcu/tiny: Remove preempt_disable/enable() in srcu_gp_start_if_needed()
srcu: Document srcu_flip() memory-barrier D relation to SRCU-fast
srcu: Document __srcu_read_{,un}lock_fast() implicit RCU readers
rculist: move list_for_each_rcu() to where it belongs
refscale: Use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc()
rcutorture: Use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc()
docs: rcu: Replace multiple dead OLS links in RTFP.txt
doc: Fix typo in RCU's torture.rst documentation
Documentation: RCU: Retitle toctree index
Documentation: RCU: Reduce toctree depth
Documentation: RCU: Wrap kvm-remote.sh rerun snippet in literal code block
rcu: docs: Requirements.rst: Abide by conventions of kernel documentation
doc: Add RCU guards to checklist.rst
doc: Update whatisRCU.rst for recent RCU API additions
rcutorture: Delay forward-progress testing until boot completes
...
Rename the "kvm" entry code files and Kconfigs to use generic "virt"
nomenclature so that the code can be reused by other hypervisors (or
rather, their root/dom0 partition drivers), without incorrectly suggesting
the code somehow relies on and/or involves KVM.
No functional change intended.
Signed-off-by: Sean Christopherson <seanjc@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu@kernel.org>
Torture-test updates:
* rcutorture: Fix jitter.sh spin time
* torture: Add --do-normal parameter to torture.sh help text
* torture: Announce kernel boot status at torture-test startup
* rcutorture: Suppress "Writer stall state" reports during boot
* rcutorture: Delay rcutorture readers and writers until boot completes
* torture: Delay CPU-hotplug operations until boot completes
* rcutorture: Delay forward-progress testing until boot completes
* rcutorture,refscale: Use kcalloc() instead of kzalloc()
* refperf: Remove redundant kfree() after torture_stop_kthread()
* refperf: Set reader_tasks to NULL after kfree()
Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.
This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.
alloc_workqueue() treats all queues as per-CPU by default, while unbound
workqueues must opt-in via WQ_UNBOUND.
This default is suboptimal: most workloads benefit from unbound queues,
allowing the scheduler to place worker threads where they’re needed and
reducing noise when CPUs are isolated.
This change add the WQ_UNBOUND flag to sync_wq, to make explicit this
workqueue can be unbound and that it does not benefit from per-cpu work.
Once migration is complete, WQ_UNBOUND can be removed and unbound will
become the implicit default.
With the introduction of the WQ_PERCPU flag (equivalent to !WQ_UNBOUND),
any alloc_workqueue() caller that doesn’t explicitly specify WQ_UNBOUND
must now use WQ_PERCPU.
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.
This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.
alloc_workqueue() treats all queues as per-CPU by default, while unbound
workqueues must opt-in via WQ_UNBOUND.
This default is suboptimal: most workloads benefit from unbound queues,
allowing the scheduler to place worker threads where they’re needed and
reducing noise when CPUs are isolated.
This patch adds a new WQ_PERCPU flag to explicitly request the use of
the per-CPU behavior. Both flags coexist for one release cycle to allow
callers to transition their calls.
Once migration is complete, WQ_UNBOUND can be removed and unbound will
become the implicit default.
With the introduction of the WQ_PERCPU flag (equivalent to !WQ_UNBOUND),
any alloc_workqueue() caller that doesn’t explicitly specify WQ_UNBOUND
must now use WQ_PERCPU.
All existing users have been updated accordingly.
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently if a user enqueue a work item using schedule_delayed_work() the
used wq is "system_wq" (per-cpu wq) while queue_delayed_work() use
WORK_CPU_UNBOUND (used when a cpu is not specified). The same applies to
schedule_work() that is using system_wq and queue_work(), that makes use
again of WORK_CPU_UNBOUND.
This lack of consistentcy cannot be addressed without refactoring the API.
system_wq is a per-CPU worqueue, yet nothing in its name tells about that
CPU affinity constraint, which is very often not required by users. Make
it clear by adding a system_percpu_wq.
The old wq will be kept for a few release cylces.
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Marco Crivellari <marco.crivellari@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Set reader_tasks to NULL after kfree() in ref_scale_cleanup() to
improve debugging experience with kernel debugging tools. This
follows the common pattern of NULLing pointers after freeing to
avoid dangling pointer issues during debugging sessions.
Setting pointers to NULL after freeing helps debugging tools like
kdgb,drgn, and other kernel debuggers by providing clear indication
that the memory has been freed and the pointer is no longer valid.
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Kaushlendra Kumar <kaushlendra.kumar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Remove unnecessary kfree(main_task) call in ref_scale_cleanup() as
torture_stop_kthread() already handles the memory cleanup for the
task structure internally.
The additional kfree(main_task) call after torture_stop_kthread()
is redundant and confusing since torture_stop_kthread() sets the
pointer to NULL, making this a no-op.
This pattern is consistent with other torture test modules where
torture_stop_kthread() is called without explicit kfree() of the
task pointer, as the torture framework manages the task lifecycle
internally.
Signed-off-by: Kaushlendra Kumar <kaushlendra.kumar@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, the srcu_gp_start_if_needed() is always be invoked in
preempt disable's critical section, this commit therefore remove
redundant preempt_disable/enable() in srcu_gp_start_if_needed()
and adds a call to lockdep_assert_preemption_disabled() in order
to enable lockdep to diagnose mistaken invocations of this function
from preempts-enabled code.
Fixes: 65b4a59557 ("srcu: Make Tiny SRCU explicitly disable preemption")
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The smp_mb() memory barrier at the end of srcu_flip() has a comment,
but that comment does not make it clear that this memory barrier is an
optimization, as opposed to being needed for correctness. This commit
therefore adds this information and points out that it is omitted
for SRCU-fast, where a much heavier weight synchronize_srcu() would
be required.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Use kcalloc() in main_func() to gain built-in overflow protection, making
memory allocation safer when calculating allocation size compared to
explicit multiplication.
Signed-off-by: Qianfeng Rong <rongqianfeng@vivo.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Use kcalloc() in rcu_torture_writer() to gain built-in overflow protection,
making memory allocation safer when calculating allocation size compared to
explicit multiplication.
Change sizeof(ulo[0]) and sizeof(rgo[0]) to sizeof(*ulo) and sizeof(*rgo),
as this is more consistent with coding conventions.
Signed-off-by: Qianfeng Rong <rongqianfeng@vivo.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Forward-progress testing can hog CPUs, which is not a great thing to do
before boot has completed. This commit therefore makes the CPU-hotplug
operations hold off until boot has completed.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The rcutorture writers and (especially) readers are the biggest CPU
hogs of the bunch, so this commit therefore makes them wait until boot
has completed.
This makes the current setting of the boot_ended local variable dead code,
so while in the area, this commit removes that as well.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
When rcutorture is running on only the one boot-time CPU while that CPU
is busy invoking initcall() functions, the added load is quite likely to
unduly delay the RCU grace-period kthread, rcutorture readers, and much
else besides. This can result in rcu_torture_stats_print() reporting
rcutorture writer stalls, which are not really a bug in that environment.
After all, one CPU can only do so much.
This commit therefore suppresses rcutorture writer stalls while the
kernel is booting, that is, while rcu_inkernel_boot_has_ended() continues
returning false.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The per-CPU rcu_data structure's ->defer_qs_iw field is initialized
by IRQ_WORK_INIT_HARD(), which means that the subsequent invocation of
rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler() will always be executed with interrupts
disabled. This commit therefore removes the local_irq_save/restore()
operations from rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler() and adds a call to
lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled() in order to enable lockdep to diagnose
mistaken invocations of this function from interrupts-enabled code.
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds to the rcu_barrier() kerneldoc header stating that this
function hurries lazy callbacks and that it does not normally result in
additional RCU grace periods.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
RCU re-initializes the deferred QS irq work everytime before attempting
to queue it. However there are situations where the irq work is
attempted to be queued even though it is already queued. In that case
re-initializing messes-up with the irq work queue that is about to be
handled.
The chances for that to happen are higher when the architecture doesn't
support self-IPIs and irq work are then all lazy, such as with the
following sequence:
1) rcu_read_unlock() is called when IRQs are disabled and there is a
grace period involving blocked tasks on the node. The irq work
is then initialized and queued.
2) The related tasks are unblocked and the CPU quiescent state
is reported. rdp->defer_qs_iw_pending is reset to DEFER_QS_IDLE,
allowing the irq work to be requeued in the future (note the previous
one hasn't fired yet).
3) A new grace period starts and the node has blocked tasks.
4) rcu_read_unlock() is called when IRQs are disabled again. The irq work
is re-initialized (but it's queued! and its node is cleared) and
requeued. Which means it's requeued to itself.
5) The irq work finally fires with the tick. But since it was requeued
to itself, it loops and hangs.
Fix this with initializing the irq work only once before the CPU boots.
Fixes: b41642c877 ("rcu: Fix rcu_read_unlock() deadloop due to IRQ work")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202508071303.c1134cce-lkp@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
- Add support for cgroup "cpu.max" interface.
- Code organization cleanup so that ext_idle.c doesn't depend on the
source-file-inclusion build method of sched/.
- Drop UP paths in accordance with sched core changes.
- Documentation and other misc changes.
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Merge tag 'sched_ext-for-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext
Pull sched_ext updates from Tejun Heo:
- Add support for cgroup "cpu.max" interface
- Code organization cleanup so that ext_idle.c doesn't depend on the
source-file-inclusion build method of sched/
- Drop UP paths in accordance with sched core changes
- Documentation and other misc changes
* tag 'sched_ext-for-6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/sched_ext:
sched_ext: Fix scx_bpf_reenqueue_local() reference
sched_ext: Drop kfuncs marked for removal in 6.15
sched_ext, rcu: Eject BPF scheduler on RCU CPU stall panic
kernel/sched/ext.c: fix typo "occured" -> "occurred" in comments
sched_ext: Add support for cgroup bandwidth control interface
sched_ext, sched/core: Factor out struct scx_task_group
sched_ext: Return NULL in llc_span
sched_ext: Always use SMP versions in kernel/sched/ext_idle.h
sched_ext: Always use SMP versions in kernel/sched/ext_idle.c
sched_ext: Always use SMP versions in kernel/sched/ext.h
sched_ext: Always use SMP versions in kernel/sched/ext.c
sched_ext: Documentation: Clarify time slice handling in task lifecycle
sched_ext: Make scx_locked_rq() inline
sched_ext: Make scx_rq_bypassing() inline
sched_ext: idle: Make local functions static in ext_idle.c
sched_ext: idle: Remove unnecessary ifdef in scx_bpf_cpu_node()
This pull request contains the following branches:
rcu-exp.23.07.2025
- Protect against early RCU exp quiescent state reporting during exp
grace period initialization.
- Remove superfluous barrier in task unblock path.
- Remove the CPU online quiescent state report optimization, which is
error prone for certain scenarios.
- Add warning for unexpected pending requested expedited quiescent
state on dying CPU.
rcu.22.07.2025
- Robustify rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle() by using more accurate
indicators of the actual context tracking state of a CPU.
- Handle ->defer_qs_iw_pending field data race.
- Enable rcu_normal_wake_from_gp by default on systems with <= 16 CPUs.
- Fix lockup in rcu_read_unlock() due to recursive irq_exit() calls.
- Refactor expedited handling condition in rcu_read_unlock_special().
- Documentation updates for hotplug and GP init scan ordering,
separation of rcu_state and rnp's gp_seq states, quiescent state
reporting for offline CPUs.
torture-scripts.16.07.2025
- Cleanup and improve scripts : remove superfluous warnings for disabled
tests; better handling of kvm.sh --kconfig arg; suppress some confusing
diagnostics; tolerate bad kvm.sh args; add new diagnostic for build
output; fail allmodconfig testing on warnings.
- Include RCU_TORTURE_TEST_CHK_RDR_STATE config for KCSAN kernels.
- Disable default RCU-tasks and clocksource-wdog testing on arm64.
- Add EXPERT Kconfig option for arm64 KCSAN runs.
- Remove SRCU-lite testing.
rcutorture.16.07.2025
- Start torture writer threads creation after reader threads to handle
race in SRCU-P scenario.
- Add SRCU down_read()/up_read() test.
- Add diagnostics for delayed SRCU up_read(), unmatched up_read(), print
number of up/down readers and the number of such readers which
migrated to other CPU.
- Ignore certain unsupported configurations for trivial RCU test.
- Fix splats in RT kernels due to inaccurate checks for BH-disabled
context.
- Enable checks and logs to capture intentionally exercised unexpected
scenarios (too short readers) for BUSTED test.
- Remove SRCU-lite testing.
srcu.19.07.2025
- Expedite SRCU-fast grace periods.
- Remove SRCU-lite implementation.
- Add guards for SRCU-fast readers.
rcu.nocb.18.07.2025
- Dump NOCB group leader state on stall detection.
- Robustify nocb_cb_kthread pointer accesses.
- Fix delayed execution of hurry callbacks when LAZY_RCU is enabled.
refscale.07.07.2025
- Fix multiplication overflow in "loops" and "nreaders" calculations.
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Merge tag 'rcu.release.v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux
Pull RCU updates from Neeraj Upadhyay:
"Expedited grace period updates:
- Protect against early RCU exp quiescent state reporting during exp
grace period initialization
- Remove superfluous barrier in task unblock path
- Remove the CPU online quiescent state report optimization, which is
error prone for certain scenarios
- Add warning for unexpected pending requested expedited quiescent
state on dying CPU
Core:
- Robustify rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle() by using more accurate
indicators of the actual context tracking state of a CPU
- Handle ->defer_qs_iw_pending field data race
- Enable rcu_normal_wake_from_gp by default on systems with <= 16
CPUs
- Fix lockup in rcu_read_unlock() due to recursive irq_exit() calls
- Refactor expedited handling condition in rcu_read_unlock_special()
- Documentation updates for hotplug and GP init scan ordering,
separation of rcu_state and rnp's gp_seq states, quiescent state
reporting for offline CPUs
torture-scripts:
- Cleanup and improve scripts : remove superfluous warnings for
disabled tests; better handling of kvm.sh --kconfig arg; suppress
some confusing diagnostics; tolerate bad kvm.sh args; add new
diagnostic for build output; fail allmodconfig testing on warnings
- Include RCU_TORTURE_TEST_CHK_RDR_STATE config for KCSAN kernels
- Disable default RCU-tasks and clocksource-wdog testing on arm64
- Add EXPERT Kconfig option for arm64 KCSAN runs
- Remove SRCU-lite testing
rcutorture:
- Start torture writer threads creation after reader threads to
handle race in SRCU-P scenario
- Add SRCU down_read()/up_read() test
- Add diagnostics for delayed SRCU up_read(), unmatched up_read(),
print number of up/down readers and the number of such readers
which migrated to other CPU
- Ignore certain unsupported configurations for trivial RCU test
- Fix splats in RT kernels due to inaccurate checks for BH-disabled
context
- Enable checks and logs to capture intentionally exercised
unexpected scenarios (too short readers) for BUSTED test
- Remove SRCU-lite testing
srcu:
- Expedite SRCU-fast grace periods
- Remove SRCU-lite implementation
- Add guards for SRCU-fast readers
rcu nocb:
- Dump NOCB group leader state on stall detection
- Robustify nocb_cb_kthread pointer accesses
- Fix delayed execution of hurry callbacks when LAZY_RCU is enabled
refscale:
- Fix multiplication overflow in "loops" and "nreaders" calculations"
* tag 'rcu.release.v6.17' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux: (49 commits)
rcu: Document concurrent quiescent state reporting for offline CPUs
rcu: Document separation of rcu_state and rnp's gp_seq
rcu: Document GP init vs hotplug-scan ordering requirements
srcu: Add guards for SRCU-fast readers
rcu: Fix delayed execution of hurry callbacks
rcu: Refactor expedited handling check in rcu_read_unlock_special()
checkpatch: Remove SRCU-lite deprecation
srcu: Remove SRCU-lite implementation
srcu: Expedite SRCU-fast grace periods
rcutorture: Remove support for SRCU-lite
rcutorture: Remove SRCU-lite scenarios
torture: Remove support for SRCU-lite
torture: Make torture.sh --allmodconfig testing fail on warnings
torture: Add "ERROR" diagnostic for testing kernel-build output
torture: Make torture.sh tolerate runs having bad kvm.sh arguments
torture: Add textid.txt file to --do-allmodconfig and --do-rcu-rust runs
torture: Extract testid.txt generation to separate script
torture: Suppress "find" diagnostics from torture.sh --do-none run
torture: Provide EXPERT Kconfig option for arm64 KCSAN torture.sh runs
rcu: Fix rcu_read_unlock() deadloop due to IRQ work
...
* Move sysctls out of the kern_table array
This is the final move of ctl_tables into their respective subsystems. Only 5
(out of the original 50) will remain in kernel/sysctl.c file; these handle
either sysctl or common arch variables.
By decentralizing sysctl registrations, subsystem maintainers regain control
over their sysctl interfaces, improving maintainability and reducing the
likelihood of merge conflicts.
* docs: Remove false positives from check-sysctl-docs
Stopped falsely identifying sysctls as undocumented or unimplemented in the
check-sysctl-docs script. This script can now be used to automatically
identify if documentation is missing.
* Testing
All these have been in linux-next since rc3, giving them a solid 3 to 4 weeks
worth of testing. Additionally, sysctl selftests and kunit were also run
locally on my x86_64
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Merge tag 'sysctl-6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl
Pull sysctl updates from Joel Granados:
- Move sysctls out of the kern_table array
This is the final move of ctl_tables into their respective
subsystems. Only 5 (out of the original 50) will remain in
kernel/sysctl.c file; these handle either sysctl or common arch
variables.
By decentralizing sysctl registrations, subsystem maintainers regain
control over their sysctl interfaces, improving maintainability and
reducing the likelihood of merge conflicts.
- docs: Remove false positives from check-sysctl-docs
Stopped falsely identifying sysctls as undocumented or unimplemented
in the check-sysctl-docs script. This script can now be used to
automatically identify if documentation is missing.
* tag 'sysctl-6.17-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sysctl/sysctl: (23 commits)
docs: Downgrade arm64 & riscv from titles to comment
docs: Replace spaces with tabs in check-sysctl-docs
docs: Remove colon from ctltable title in vm.rst
docs: Add awk section for ucount sysctl entries
docs: Use skiplist when checking sysctl admin-guide
docs: nixify check-sysctl-docs
sysctl: rename kern_table -> sysctl_subsys_table
kernel/sys.c: Move overflow{uid,gid} sysctl into kernel/sys.c
uevent: mv uevent_helper into kobject_uevent.c
sysctl: Removed unused variable
sysctl: Nixify sysctl.sh
sysctl: Remove superfluous includes from kernel/sysctl.c
sysctl: Remove (very) old file changelog
sysctl: Move sysctl_panic_on_stackoverflow to kernel/panic.c
sysctl: move cad_pid into kernel/pid.c
sysctl: Move tainted ctl_table into kernel/panic.c
Input: sysrq: mv sysrq into drivers/tty/sysrq.c
fork: mv threads-max into kernel/fork.c
parisc/power: Move soft-power into power.c
mm: move randomize_va_space into memory.c
...
