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
...
Move sysctl_panic_on_rcu_stall and sysctl_max_rcu_stall_to_panic into
the kernel/rcu subdirectory. Make these static in tree_stall.h and
removed them as extern from panic.h as their scope is now confined into
one file.
This is part of a greater effort to move ctl tables into their
respective subsystems which will reduce the merge conflicts in
kernel/sysctl.c.
Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
The synchronization of CPU offlining with GP initialization is confusing
to put it mildly (rightfully so as the issue it deals with is complex).
Recent discussions brought up a question -- what prevents the
rcu_implicit_dyntick_qs() from warning about QS reports for offline
CPUs (missing QS reports for offline CPUs causing indefinite hangs).
QS reporting for now-offline CPUs should only happen from:
- gp_init()
- rcutree_cpu_report_dead()
Add some documentation on this and refer to it from comments in the code
explaining how QS reporting is not missed when these functions are
concurrently running.
I referred heavily to this post [1] about the need for the ofl_lock.
[1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20180924164443.GF4222@linux.ibm.com/
[ Applied paulmck feedback on moving documentation to Requirements.rst ]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/01b4d228-9416-43f8-a62e-124b92e8741a@paulmck-laptop/
Co-developed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
The details of this are subtle and was discussed recently. Add a
quick-quiz about this and refer to it from the code, for more clarity.
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
Add detailed comments explaining the critical ordering constraints
during RCU grace period initialization, based on discussions with
Frederic.
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Co-developed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
We observed a regression in our customer’s environment after enabling
CONFIG_LAZY_RCU. In the Android Update Engine scenario, where ioctl() is
used heavily, we found that callbacks queued via call_rcu_hurry (such as
percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic_rcu) can sometimes be delayed by up to 5
seconds before execution. This occurs because the new grace period does
not start immediately after the previous one completes.
The root cause is that the wake_nocb_gp_defer() function now checks
"rdp->nocb_defer_wakeup" instead of "rdp_gp->nocb_defer_wakeup". On CPUs
that are not rcuog, "rdp->nocb_defer_wakeup" may always be
RCU_NOCB_WAKE_NOT. This can cause "rdp_gp->nocb_defer_wakeup" to be
downgraded and the "rdp_gp->nocb_timer" to be postponed by up to 10
seconds, delaying the execution of hurry RCU callbacks.
The trace log of one scenario we encountered is as follow:
// previous GP ends at this point
rcu_preempt [000] d..1. 137.240210: rcu_grace_period: rcu_preempt 8369 end
rcu_preempt [000] ..... 137.240212: rcu_grace_period: rcu_preempt 8372 reqwait
// call_rcu_hurry enqueues "percpu_ref_switch_to_atomic_rcu", the callback waited on by UpdateEngine
update_engine [002] d..1. 137.301593: __call_rcu_common: wyy: unlikely p_ref = 00000000********. lazy = 0
// FirstQ on cpu 2 rdp_gp->nocb_timer is set to fire after 1 jiffy (4ms)
// and the rdp_gp->nocb_defer_wakeup is set to RCU_NOCB_WAKE
update_engine [002] d..2. 137.301595: rcu_nocb_wake: rcu_preempt 2 FirstQ on cpu2 with rdp_gp (cpu0).
// FirstBQ event on cpu2 during the 1 jiffy, make the timer postpond 10 seconds later.
// also, the rdp_gp->nocb_defer_wakeup is overwrite to RCU_NOCB_WAKE_LAZY
update_engine [002] d..1. 137.301601: rcu_nocb_wake: rcu_preempt 2 WakeEmptyIsDeferred
...
...
...
// before the 10 seconds timeout, cpu0 received another call_rcu_hurry
// reset the timer to jiffies+1 and set the waketype = RCU_NOCB_WAKE.
kworker/u32:0 [000] d..2. 142.557564: rcu_nocb_wake: rcu_preempt 0 FirstQ
kworker/u32:0 [000] d..1. 142.557576: rcu_nocb_wake: rcu_preempt 0 WakeEmptyIsDeferred
kworker/u32:0 [000] d..1. 142.558296: rcu_nocb_wake: rcu_preempt 0 WakeNot
kworker/u32:0 [000] d..1. 142.558562: rcu_nocb_wake: rcu_preempt 0 WakeNot
// idle(do_nocb_deferred_wakeup) wake rcuog due to waketype == RCU_NOCB_WAKE
<idle> [000] d..1. 142.558786: rcu_nocb_wake: rcu_preempt 0 DoWake
<idle> [000] dN.1. 142.558839: rcu_nocb_wake: rcu_preempt 0 DeferredWake
rcuog/0 [000] ..... 142.558871: rcu_nocb_wake: rcu_preempt 0 EndSleep
rcuog/0 [000] ..... 142.558877: rcu_nocb_wake: rcu_preempt 0 Check
// finally rcuog request a new GP at this point (5 seconds after the FirstQ event)
rcuog/0 [000] d..2. 142.558886: rcu_grace_period: rcu_preempt 8372 newreq
rcu_preempt [001] d..1. 142.559458: rcu_grace_period: rcu_preempt 8373 start
...
rcu_preempt [000] d..1. 142.564258: rcu_grace_period: rcu_preempt 8373 end
rcuop/2 [000] D..1. 142.566337: rcu_batch_start: rcu_preempt CBs=219 bl=10
// the hurry CB is invoked at this point
rcuop/2 [000] b.... 142.566352: blk_queue_usage_counter_release: wyy: wakeup. p_ref = 00000000********.
This patch changes the condition to check "rdp_gp->nocb_defer_wakeup" in
the lazy path. This prevents an already scheduled "rdp_gp->nocb_timer"
from being postponed and avoids overwriting "rdp_gp->nocb_defer_wakeup"
when it is not RCU_NOCB_WAKE_NOT.
Fixes: 3cb278e73b ("rcu: Make call_rcu() lazy to save power")
Co-developed-by: Cheng-jui Wang <cheng-jui.wang@mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Cheng-jui Wang <cheng-jui.wang@mediatek.com>
Co-developed-by: Lorry.Luo@mediatek.com
Signed-off-by: Lorry.Luo@mediatek.com
Tested-by: weiyangyang@vivo.com
Signed-off-by: weiyangyang@vivo.com
Signed-off-by: Tze-nan Wu <Tze-nan.Wu@mediatek.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
Extract the complex expedited handling condition in rcu_read_unlock_special()
into a separate function rcu_unlock_needs_exp_handling() with detailed
comments explaining each condition.
This improves code readability. No functional change intended.
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
Currently, SRCU-fast grace periods use synchronize_rcu() to provide the
needed ordering with readers, even given an expedited SRCU-fast grace
period, which isn't all that expedited. This commit therefore instead
uses synchronize_rcu_expedited() if there is an expedited SRCU-fast
grace period in flight.
Of course, given an non-expedited SRCU-fast grace period blocked in
synchronize_rcu(), a later request for an expedited SRCU-fast grace
period will wait for that synchronize_rcu() to return before switching
to use of synchronize_rcu_expedited(). If this turns out to be a real
problem for a production workload, we can increase the complexity (but
likely also degrade the energy efficiency) to speed things up further.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
Because SRCU-lite is being replaced by SRCU-fast, this commit removes
support for SRCU-lite from rcutorture.c
Both SRCU-lite and SRCU-fast provide faster readers by dropping the
smp_mb() call from their lock and unlock primitives, but incur a pair
of added RCU grace periods during the SRCU grace period. There is a
trivial mapping from the SRCU-lite API to that of SRCU-fast, so there
should be no transition issues.
[ paulmck: Apply Christoph Hellwig feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
Because SRCU-lite is being replaced by SRCU-fast, this commit removes
support for SRCU-lite from refscale.c.
Both SRCU-lite and SRCU-fast provide faster readers by dropping the
smp_mb() call from their lock and unlock primitives, but incur a pair
of added RCU grace periods during the SRCU grace period. There is a
trivial mapping from the SRCU-lite API to that of SRCU-fast, so there
should be no transition issues.
[ paulmck: Apply Christoph Hellwig feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
During rcu_read_unlock_special(), if this happens during irq_exit(), we
can lockup if an IPI is issued. This is because the IPI itself triggers
the irq_exit() path causing a recursive lock up.
This is precisely what Xiongfeng found when invoking a BPF program on
the trace_tick_stop() tracepoint As shown in the trace below. Fix by
managing the irq_work state correctly.
irq_exit()
__irq_exit_rcu()
/* in_hardirq() returns false after this */
preempt_count_sub(HARDIRQ_OFFSET)
tick_irq_exit()
tick_nohz_irq_exit()
tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick()
trace_tick_stop() /* a bpf prog is hooked on this trace point */
__bpf_trace_tick_stop()
bpf_trace_run2()
rcu_read_unlock_special()
/* will send a IPI to itself */
irq_work_queue_on(&rdp->defer_qs_iw, rdp->cpu);
A simple reproducer can also be obtained by doing the following in
tick_irq_exit(). It will hang on boot without the patch:
static inline void tick_irq_exit(void)
{
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ WRITE_ONCE(current->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.need_qs, true);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+
Reported-by: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/9acd5f9f-6732-7701-6880-4b51190aa070@huawei.com/
Tested-by: Qi Xi <xiqi2@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>
[neeraj: Apply Frederic's suggested fix for PREEMPT_RT]
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
On kernels built with CONFIG_IRQ_WORK=y, when rcu_read_unlock() is
invoked within an interrupts-disabled region of code [1], it will invoke
rcu_read_unlock_special(), which uses an irq-work handler to force the
system to notice when the RCU read-side critical section actually ends.
That end won't happen until interrupts are enabled at the soonest.
In some kernels, such as those booted with rcutree.use_softirq=y, the
irq-work handler is used unconditionally.
The per-CPU rcu_data structure's ->defer_qs_iw_pending field is
updated by the irq-work handler and is both read and updated by
rcu_read_unlock_special(). This resulted in the following KCSAN splat:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
BUG: KCSAN: data-race in rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler / rcu_read_unlock_special
read to 0xffff96b95f42d8d8 of 1 bytes by task 90 on cpu 8:
rcu_read_unlock_special+0x175/0x260
__rcu_read_unlock+0x92/0xa0
rt_spin_unlock+0x9b/0xc0
__local_bh_enable+0x10d/0x170
__local_bh_enable_ip+0xfb/0x150
rcu_do_batch+0x595/0xc40
rcu_cpu_kthread+0x4e9/0x830
smpboot_thread_fn+0x24d/0x3b0
kthread+0x3bd/0x410
ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
write to 0xffff96b95f42d8d8 of 1 bytes by task 88 on cpu 8:
rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler+0x1e/0x30
irq_work_single+0xaf/0x160
run_irq_workd+0x91/0xc0
smpboot_thread_fn+0x24d/0x3b0
kthread+0x3bd/0x410
ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40
ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
no locks held by irq_work/8/88.
irq event stamp: 200272
hardirqs last enabled at (200272): [<ffffffffb0f56121>] finish_task_switch+0x131/0x320
hardirqs last disabled at (200271): [<ffffffffb25c7859>] __schedule+0x129/0xd70
softirqs last enabled at (0): [<ffffffffb0ee093f>] copy_process+0x4df/0x1cc0
softirqs last disabled at (0): [<0000000000000000>] 0x0
------------------------------------------------------------------------
The problem is that irq-work handlers run with interrupts enabled, which
means that rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler() could be interrupted,
and that interrupt handler might contain an RCU read-side critical
section, which might invoke rcu_read_unlock_special(). In the strict
KCSAN mode of operation used by RCU, this constitutes a data race on
the ->defer_qs_iw_pending field.
This commit therefore disables interrupts across the portion of the
rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_handler() that updates the ->defer_qs_iw_pending
field. This suffices because this handler is not a fast path.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
In the preparation stage of CPU online, if the corresponding
the rdp's->nocb_cb_kthread does not exist, will be created,
there is a situation where the rdp's rcuop kthreads creation fails,
and then de-offload this CPU's rdp, does not assign this CPU's
rdp->nocb_cb_kthread pointer, but this rdp's->nocb_gp_rdp and
rdp's->rdp_gp->nocb_gp_kthread is still valid.
This will cause the subsequent re-offload operation of this offline
CPU, which will pass the conditional check and the kthread_unpark()
will access invalid rdp's->nocb_cb_kthread pointer.
This commit therefore use rdp's->nocb_gp_kthread instead of
rdp_gp's->nocb_gp_kthread for safety check.
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
It is not possible to send an IPI to a dying CPU that has passed the
CPUHP_TEARDOWN_CPU stage. Remaining unhandled IPIs are handled later at
CPUHP_AP_SMPCFD_DYING stage by stop machine. This is the last
opportunity for RCU exp handler to request an expedited quiescent state.
And the upcoming final context switch between stop machine and idle must
have reported the requested context switch.
Therefore, it should not be possible to observe a pending requested
expedited quiescent state when RCU finally stops watching the outgoing
CPU. Once IPIs aren't possible anymore, the QS for the target CPU will
be reported on its behalf by the RCU exp kworker.
Provide an assertion to verify those expectations.
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
A CPU coming online checks for an ongoing grace period and reports
a quiescent state accordingly if needed. This special treatment that
shortcuts the expedited IPI finds its origin as an optimization purpose
on the following commit:
338b0f760e (rcu: Better hotplug handling for synchronize_sched_expedited()
The point is to avoid an IPI while waiting for a CPU to become online
or failing to become offline.
However this is pointless and even error prone for several reasons:
* If the CPU has been seen offline in the first round scanning offline
and idle CPUs, no IPI is even tried and the quiescent state is
reported on behalf of the CPU.
* This means that if the IPI fails, the CPU just became offline. So
it's unlikely to become online right away, unless the cpu hotplug
operation failed and rolled back, which is a rare event that can
wait a jiffy for a new IPI to be issued.
* But then the "optimization" applying on failing CPU hotplug down only
applies to !PREEMPT_RCU.
* This force reports a quiescent state even if ->cpu_no_qs.b.exp is not
set. As a result it can race with remote QS reports on the same rdp.
Fortunately it happens to be OK but an accident is waiting to happen.
For all those reasons, remove this optimization that doesn't look worthy
to keep around.
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-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: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
A full memory barrier in the RCU-PREEMPT task unblock path advertizes
to order the context switch (or rather the accesses prior to
rcu_read_unlock()) with the expedited grace period fastpath.
However the grace period can not complete without the rnp calling into
rcu_report_exp_rnp() with the node locked. This reports the quiescent
state in a fully ordered fashion against updater's accesses thanks to:
1) The READ-SIDE smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() barrier across nodes
locking while propagating QS up to the root.
2) The UPDATE-SIDE smp_mb__after_unlock_lock() barrier while holding the
the root rnp to wait/check for the GP completion.
3) The (perhaps redundant given step 1) and 2)) smp_mb() in rcu_seq_end()
before the grace period completes.
This makes the explicit barrier in this place superfluous. Therefore
remove it as it is confusing.
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
The nreaders and loops variables are exposed as module parameters, which,
in certain combinations, can lead to multiplication overflow.
Besides, loops parameter is defined as long, while through the code is
used as int, which can cause truncation on 64-bit kernels and possible
zeroes where they shouldn't appear.
Since code uses result of multiplication as int anyway, it only makes sense
to replace loops with int. Multiplication overflow check is also added
due to possible multiplication between two very big numbers.
Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
Fixes: 653ed64b01 ("refperf: Add a test to measure performance of read-side synchronization")
Signed-off-by: Artem Sadovnikov <a.sadovnikov@ispras.ru>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
When a stall is detected, the state of each NOCB CPU is dumped along
with the state of each NOCB group. The latter part however is
incidentally ignored if the NOCB group leader happens not to be
offloaded itself.
Fix this to make sure related precious informations aren't lost over
a stall report.
Reported-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
Trivial RCU is a textbook implementation that is not used in the
Linux kernel, but tested to keep textbooks (and presentations) honest.
It is so trivial that it cannot deal with either CPU hotplug or external
migration from one CPU to another. This commit therefore splats whenever
onoff_interval or shuffle_interval are non-zero, and then sets them to
zero in order to avoid false-positive failures.
Those wishing to set these module parameters in order to force failures
in Trivial RCU are free to revert this commit. Just don't expect me to
be sympathetic to any resulting bug reports!
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202505131651.af6e81d7-lkp@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
Given that the rcutorture_one_extend_check() function now uses
in_serving_softirq() and in_hardirq(), it is no longer necessary to pass
insoftirq flags down the function-call stack. This commit therefore
removes those flags, and, while in the area, does a bit of whitespace
cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
This commit prints the number of RCU up/down readers and the number
of such readers that migrated from one CPU to another, along
with the rest of the periodic rcu_torture_stats_print() output.
These statistics are currently used only by srcu_down_read{,_fast}()
and srcu_up_read(,_fast)().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
The design of testing of up/down readers such as srcu_down_read()
and srcu_up_read() assumes that these are tested only by the
rcu_torture_updown() kthread, and never by the rcu_torture_reader()
kthread. Because we all know which road is paved with good intentions,
this commit adds WARN_ON_ONCE() to verify that things are going to plan.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
This commit creates counters in the rcu_torture_one_read_state_updown
structure that check for a call to ->up_read() that lacks a matching
call to ->down_read().
While in the area, add end-of-run cleanup code that prevents calls to
rcu_torture_updown_hrt() from happening after the test has moved on. Yes,
the srcu_barrier() at the end of the test will wait for them, but this
could result in confusing states, statistics, and diagnostic information.
So explicitly wait for them before we get to the end-of-test output.
[ paulmck: Apply kernel test robot feedback. ]
[ joel: Apply Boqun's fix for counter increment ordering. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
The down/up SRCU reader testing uses an hrtimer handler to exit the SRCU
read-side critical section. This might be delayed, and if delayed for
too long, it can prevent the rcutorture run from completing. This commit
therefore complains if the hrtimer handler is delayed for more than
ten seconds.
[ paulmck, joel: Apply kernel test robot feedback to avoid
false-positive complaint of excessive ->up_read() delays by using
HRTIMER_MODE_HARD ]
Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
This is strictly a code-movement commit, pulling that part of
the rcu_torture_updown() function's loop body that processes
one rcu_torture_one_read_state_updown structure into a new
rcu_torture_updown_one() function. The checks for the end of the
torture test and the current structure being in use remain in the
rcu_torture_updown() function.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
This commit adds a new rcutorture.n_up_down kernel boot parameter
that specifies the number of outstanding SRCU up/down readers, which
begin in kthread context and end in an hrtimer handler. There is a new
kthread ("rcu_torture_updown") that scans an per-reader array looking
for elements whose readers have ended. This kthread sleeps between one
and two milliseconds between consecutive scans.
[ paulmck: Apply kernel test robot feedback. ]
[ paulmck: Apply Z qiang feedback. ]
[ joel: Fix build error: hrtimer_init is replaced by hrtimer_setup. ]
[ joel: Apply Boqun bug fix to drop extra up_read() call in
rcu_torture_updown()].
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
This commit retrospectively prepares for testing of RCU readers invoked
from hardware interrupt handlers (for example, HRTIMER_MODE_HARD hrtimer
handlers) in kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_CHK_RDR_STATE=y,
which is rarely used but sometimes extremely useful. This preparation
involves taking early exits if in_hardirq(), and, while we are in the
area, a very early exit if in_nmi().
This means that a number of insoftirq parameters are no longer needed,
but that is the subject of a later commit.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202505140917.8ee62cc6-lkp@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
Testing of rcutorture's SRCU-P scenario on a large arm64 system resulted
in rcu_torture_writer() forward-progress failures, but these same tests
passed on x86. After some off-list discussion of possible memory-ordering
causes for these failures, Boqun showed that these were in fact due to
reordering, but by the scheduler, not by the memory system. On x86,
rcu_torture_writer() would have run quickly enough that by the time
the rcu_torture_updown() kthread started, the rcu_torture_current
variable would already be initialized, thus avoiding a bug in which
a NULL value would cause rcu_torture_updown() to do an extra call to
srcu_up_read_fast().
This commit therefore moves creation of the rcu_torture_writer() kthread
after that of the rcu_torture_reader() kthreads. This results in
deterministic failures on x86.
What about the double-srcu_up_read_fast() bug? Boqun has the fix.
But let's also fix the test while we are at it!
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Reported-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
The rcu_torture_writer() function scans the memory blocks after a stutter
(or forced idle) interval, complaining about any that have not passed
through ten grace periods since the start of the stutter interval.
But one splat suffices, so this commit therefore stops at the first splat.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
RCU relies on the context tracking nesting counter in order to determine
if it is running in extended quiescent state.
However the context tracking nesting counter is not completely
synchronized with the actual context tracking state:
* The nesting counter is set to 1 or incremented further _after_ the
actual state is set to RCU watching.
* The nesting counter is set to 0 or decremented further _before_ the
actual state is set to RCU not watching.
Therefore it is safe to assume that if ct_nesting() > 0, RCU is
watching. But if ct_nesting() <= 0, RCU is not watching except for tiny
windows.
This hasn't been a problem so far because rcu_is_cpu_rrupt_from_idle()
has only been called from interrupts. However the code is confusing
and abuses the role of the context tracking nesting counter while there
are more accurate indicators available.
Clarify and robustify accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
When a grace period is started, the ->expmask of each node is set up
from sync_exp_reset_tree(). Then later on each leaf node also initialize
its ->exp_tasks pointer.
This means that the initialization of the quiescent state of a node and
the initialization of its blocking tasks happen with an unlocked node
gap in-between.
It happens to be fine because nothing is expected to report an exp
quiescent state within this gap, since no IPI have been issued yet and
every rdp's ->cpu_no_qs.b.exp should be false.
However if it were to happen by accident, the quiescent state could be
reported and propagated while ignoring tasks that blocked _before_ the
start of the grace period.
Prevent such trouble to happen in the future and initialize both the
quiescent states mask to report and the blocked tasks head from the same
node locked block.
If a task blocks within an RCU read side critical section before
sync_exp_reset_tree() is called and is then unblocked between
sync_exp_reset_tree() and __sync_rcu_exp_select_node_cpus(), the QS
won't be reported because no RCU exp IPI had been issued to request it
through the setting of srdp->cpu_no_qs.b.exp.
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
For systems using a sched_ext scheduler and has panic_on_rcu_stall
enabled, try kicking out the current scheduler before issuing a panic.
While there are numerous reasons for RCU CPU stalls that are not
directly attributed to the scheduler, deferring the panic gives
sched_ext an opportunity to provide additional debug info when ejecting
the current scheduler. Also, handling the event more gracefully allows
us to potentially recover the system instead of incurring additional
down time.
Suggested-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David Dai <david.dai@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Currently the call_rcu() API does not check whether a callback
pointer is NULL. If NULL is passed, rcu_core() will try to invoke
it, resulting in NULL pointer dereference and a kernel crash.
To prevent this and improve debuggability, this patch adds a check
for NULL and emits a kernel stack trace to help identify a faulty
caller.
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Move this API to the canonical timer_*() namespace.
[ tglx: Redone against pre rc1 ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/aB2X0jCKQO56WdMt@gmail.com
Expose a simple counter to userspace for monitoring tools.
(akpm: 2536c5c7d6 added the documentation but the code changes were lost)
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250504180831.4190860-3-max.kellermann@ionos.com
Fixes: 2536c5c7d6 ("kernel/rcu/tree_stall: add /sys/kernel/rcu_stall_count")
Signed-off-by: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@ionos.com>
Cc: Core Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Cc: Doug Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
Cc: Max Kellermann <max.kellermann@ionos.com>
Cc: Song Liu <song@kernel.org>
Cc: Sourabh Jain <sourabhjain@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
- Convert init_timer*(), try_to_del_timer_sync() and
destroy_timer_on_stack() over to the canonical timer_*() namespace
convention.
There are is another large converstion pending, which has not been included
because it would have caused a gazillion of merge conflicts in next. The
conversion scripts will be run towards the end of the merge window and a
pull request sent once all conflict dependencies have been merged.
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Merge tag 'timers-cleanups-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull timer cleanups from Thomas Gleixner:
"Another set of timer API cleanups:
- Convert init_timer*(), try_to_del_timer_sync() and
destroy_timer_on_stack() over to the canonical timer_*()
namespace convention.
There is another large conversion pending, which has not been included
because it would have caused a gazillion of merge conflicts in next.
The conversion scripts will be run towards the end of the merge window
and a pull request sent once all conflict dependencies have been
merged"
* tag 'timers-cleanups-2025-05-25' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
treewide, timers: Rename destroy_timer_on_stack() as timer_destroy_on_stack()
treewide, timers: Rename try_to_del_timer_sync() as timer_delete_sync_try()
timers: Rename init_timers() as timers_init()
timers: Rename NEXT_TIMER_MAX_DELTA as TIMER_NEXT_MAX_DELTA
timers: Rename __init_timer_on_stack() as __timer_init_on_stack()
timers: Rename __init_timer() as __timer_init()
timers: Rename init_timer_on_stack_key() as timer_init_key_on_stack()
timers: Rename init_timer_key() as timer_init_key()
Currently, the ->gpwrap is not tested (at all per my testing) due to the
requirement of a large delta between a CPU's rdp->gp_seq and its node's
rnp->gpseq.
This results in no testing of ->gpwrap being set. This patch by default
adds 5 minutes of testing with ->gpwrap forced by lowering the delta
between rdp->gp_seq and rnp->gp_seq to just 8 GPs. All of this is
configurable, including the active time for the setting and a full
testing cycle.
By default, the first 25 minutes of a test will have the _default_
behavior there is right now (ULONG_MAX / 4) delta. Then for 5 minutes,
we switch to a smaller delta causing 1-2 wraps in 5 minutes. I believe
this is reasonable since we at least add a little bit of testing for
usecases where ->gpwrap is set.
[ Apply fix for Dan Carpenter's bug report on init path cleanup. ]
[ Apply kernel doc warning fix from Akira Yokosawa. ]
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
The rcu_torture_reader() and rcu_torture_fwd_prog_cr() functions
run CPU-bound for extended periods of time (tens or even
hundreds of milliseconds), so they invoke tick_dep_set_task() and
tick_dep_clear_task() to ensure that the scheduling-clock tick helps
move grace periods forward.
So why doesn't rcu_torture_fwd_prog_nr() also invoke tick_dep_set_task()
and tick_dep_clear_task()? Because the point of this function is to test
RCU's ability to (eventually) force grace periods forward even when the
tick has been disabled during long CPU-bound kernel execution.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
For built with CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y and CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT=y kernels,
Disable BH does not change the SOFTIRQ corresponding bits in
preempt_count(), but change current->softirq_disable_cnt, this
resulted in the following splat:
WARNING: suspicious RCU usage
kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h:36 Unsafe read of RCU_NOCB offloaded state!
stack backtrace:
CPU: 0 UID: 0 PID: 22 Comm: rcuc/0
Call Trace:
[ 0.407907] <TASK>
[ 0.407910] dump_stack_lvl+0xbb/0xd0
[ 0.407917] dump_stack+0x14/0x20
[ 0.407920] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x133/0x210
[ 0.407932] rcu_rdp_is_offloaded+0x1c3/0x270
[ 0.407939] rcu_core+0x471/0x900
[ 0.407942] ? lockdep_hardirqs_on+0xd5/0x160
[ 0.407954] rcu_cpu_kthread+0x25f/0x870
[ 0.407959] ? __pfx_rcu_cpu_kthread+0x10/0x10
[ 0.407966] smpboot_thread_fn+0x34c/0xa50
[ 0.407970] ? trace_preempt_on+0x54/0x120
[ 0.407977] ? __pfx_smpboot_thread_fn+0x10/0x10
[ 0.407982] kthread+0x40e/0x840
[ 0.407990] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[ 0.407994] ? rt_spin_unlock+0x4e/0xb0
[ 0.407997] ? rt_spin_unlock+0x4e/0xb0
[ 0.408000] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[ 0.408006] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[ 0.408011] ret_from_fork+0x40/0x70
[ 0.408013] ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
[ 0.408018] ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30
[ 0.408042] </TASK>
Currently, triggering an rdp offloaded state change need the
corresponding rdp's CPU goes offline, and at this time the rcuc
kthreads has already in parking state. this means the corresponding
rcuc kthreads can safely read offloaded state of rdp while it's
corresponding cpu is online.
This commit therefore add softirq_count() check for
Preempt-RT kernels.
Suggested-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
It's safer to using kcalloc() because it can prevent overflow
problem.
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Su Hui <suhui@nfschina.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
This reverts commit f7345ccc62.
swake_up_one_online() has been removed because hrtimers can now assign
a proper online target to hrtimers queued from offline CPUs. Therefore
remove the related hackery.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241231170712.149394-4-frederic@kernel.org/
Reviewed-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
It's now ok to perform a wake-up from an offline CPU because the
resulting armed scheduler bandwidth hrtimers are now correctly targeted
by hrtimer infrastructure.
Remove the obsolete hackerry.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20241231170712.149394-3-frederic@kernel.org/
Reviewed-by: Usama Arif <usamaarif642@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
poll_state_synchronize_srcu() uses rcu_seq_done() unlike
poll_state_synchronize_rcu() which uses rcu_seq_done_exact().
The rcu_seq_done_exact() makes more sense for polling API, as with
this API, there is a higher chance that there is a significant delay
between the get_state..() and poll_state..() calls since a cookie
can be stored and reused at a later time. During such a delay, if
the gp_seq counter progresses more than ULONG_MAX/2 distance, then
poll_state..() may return false for a long time unwantedly.
Fix by using the more accurate rcu_seq_done_exact() API which is
exactly what straight RCU's polling does.
It may make sense, as future work, to add debug code here as well, where
we compare a physical timestamp between get_state..() and poll_state()
calls and yell if significant time has past but the grace period has
still not progressed.
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <Neeraj.Upadhyay@amd.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
The numbers used in rcu_seq_done_exact() lack some explanation behind
their magic. Especially after the commit:
85aad7cc41 ("rcu: Fix get_state_synchronize_rcu_full() GP-start detection")
which reported a subtle issue where a new GP sequence snapshot was taken
on the root node state while a grace period had already been started and
reflected on the global state sequence but not yet on the root node
sequence, making a polling user waiting on a wrong already started grace
period that would ignore freshly online CPUs.
The fix involved taking the snaphot on the global state sequence and
waiting on the root node sequence. And since a grace period is first
started on the global state and only afterward reflected on the root
node, a snapshot taken on the global state sequence might be two full
grace periods ahead of the root node as in the following example:
rnp->gp_seq = rcu_state.gp_seq = 0
CPU 0 CPU 1
----- -----
// rcu_state.gp_seq = 1
rcu_seq_start(&rcu_state.gp_seq)
// snap = 8
snap = rcu_seq_snap(&rcu_state.gp_seq)
// Two full GP differences
rcu_seq_done_exact(&rnp->gp_seq, snap)
// rnp->gp_seq = 1
WRITE_ONCE(rnp->gp_seq, rcu_state.gp_seq);
Add a comment about those expectations and to clarify the magic within
the relevant function.
Note that the issue arises mainly with the use of rcu_seq_done_exact()
which has a much tigher guardband (of 2 GPs) to ensure the false-negative
window of the API during wraparound is limited to just 2 GPs.
rcu_seq_done() does not have such strict requirements, however its large
false-negative window of ULONG_MAX/2 is not ideal for the polling API.
However, this also means care is needed to ensure the guardband is as
large as needed to avoid the example scenario describe above which a
warning added in an earlier patch does.
[ Comment wordsmithing by Joel ]
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
The previous patch improved the rcu_seq_done_exact() function by adding
a meaningful constant for the guardband.
Ensure that this is working for the future by a quick check during
rcu_gp_init().
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
The rcu_seq_done_exact() function checks if a grace period has completed by
comparing sequence numbers. It includes a guard band to handle sequence number
wraparound, which was previously expressed using the magic number calculation
'3 * RCU_SEQ_STATE_MASK + 1'.
This magic number is not immediately obvious in terms of what it represents.
Instead, the reason we need this tiny guardband is because of the lag between
the setting of rcu_state.gp_seq_polled and root rnp's gp_seq in rcu_gp_init().
This guardband needs to be at least 2 GPs worth of counts, to avoid recognizing
the newly started GP as completed immediately, due to the following sequence
which arises due to the delay between update of rcu_state.gp_seq_polled and
root rnp's gp_seq:
rnp->gp_seq = rcu_state.gp_seq = 0
CPU 0 CPU 1
----- -----
// rcu_state.gp_seq = 1
rcu_seq_start(&rcu_state.gp_seq)
// snap = 8
snap = rcu_seq_snap(&rcu_state.gp_seq)
// Two full GP differences
rcu_seq_done_exact(&rnp->gp_seq, snap)
// rnp->gp_seq = 1
WRITE_ONCE(rnp->gp_seq, rcu_state.gp_seq);
This can happen due to get_state_synchronize_rcu_full() sampling
rcu_state.gp_seq_polled, however the poll_state_synchronize_rcu_full()
sampling the root rnp's gp_seq. The delay between the update of the 2
counters occurs in rcu_gp_init() during which the counters briefly go
out of sync.
Make the guardband explictly 2 GPs. This improves code readability and
maintainability by making the intent clearer as well.
Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
The rcu_torture_one_read() function is designed for RCU readers that are
confined to a task, such that a single thread of control extends from the
beginning of a given RCU read-side critical section to its end. This does
not suffice for things like srcu_down_read() and srcu_up_read(), where
the critical section might start at task level and end in a timer handler.
This commit therefore creates separate init_rcu_torture_one_read_state(),
rcu_torture_one_read_start(), and rcu_torture_one_read_end() functions,
along with a rcu_torture_one_read_state structure to coordinate their
actions. These will be used to create tests for srcu_down_read()
and friends.
One caution: The caller to rcu_torture_one_read_start() must enter the
initial read-side critical section prior to the call. This enables use
of non-standard primitives such as srcu_down_read() while still using
the same validation code.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
timer_delete[_sync]() replaces del_timer[_sync](). Convert the whole tree
over and remove the historical wrapper inlines.
Conversion was done with coccinelle plus manual fixups where necessary.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
- srcu: Make FORCE_NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE depend on RCU_EXPERT
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Merge tag 'rcu-fixes-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux
Pull RCU fix from Boqun Feng:
- srcu: Make FORCE_NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE depend on RCU_EXPERT
* tag 'rcu-fixes-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux:
srcu: Make FORCE_NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE depend on RCU_EXPERT
The FORCE_NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE is useful only for those wishing to test
the SRCU code paths that accommodate architectures that do not have
NMI-safe per-CPU operations, that is, those architectures that do not
select the ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS Kconfig option. As such, this
is a specialized Kconfig option that is not intended for casual users.
This commit therefore hides it behind the RCU_EXPERT Kconfig option.
Given that this new FORCE_NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE Kconfig option has no effect
unless the ARCH_HAS_NMI_SAFE_THIS_CPU_OPS Kconfig option is also selected,
it also depends on this Kconfig option.
[ paulmck: Apply Geert Uytterhoeven feedback. ]
[ boqun: Add the "Fixes" tag. ]
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMuHMdX6dy9_tmpLkpcnGzxyRbe6qSWYukcPp=H1GzZdyd3qBQ@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: 536e8b9b80 ("srcu: Add FORCE_NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE Kconfig for testing")
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
This pull request contains the following branches:
docs.2025.02.04a:
- Add broken-timing possibility to stallwarn.rst.
- Improve discussion of this_cpu_ptr(), add raw_cpu_ptr().
- Document self-propagating callbacks.
- Point call_srcu() to call_rcu() for detailed memory ordering.
- Add CONFIG_RCU_LAZY delays to call_rcu() kernel-doc header.
- Clarify RCU_LAZY and RCU_LAZY_DEFAULT_OFF help text.
- Remove references to old grace-period-wait primitives.
srcu.2025.02.05a:
- Introduce srcu_read_{un,}lock_fast(), which is similar to
srcu_read_{un,}lock_lite(): avoid smp_mb()s in lock and unlock at the
cost of calling synchronize_rcu() in synchronize_srcu(). Moreover, by
returning the percpu offset of the counter at srcu_read_lock_fast()
time, srcu_read_unlock_fast() can save extra pointer dereferencing,
which makes it faster than srcu_read_{un,}lock_lite().
srcu_read_{un,}lock_fast() are intended to replace
rcu_read_{un,}lock_trace() if possible.
torture.2025.02.05a:
- Add get_torture_init_jiffies() to return the start time of the test.
- Add a test_boost_holdoff module parameter to allow delaying boosting
tests when building rcutorture as built-in.
- Add grace period sequence number logging at the beginning and end of
failure/close-call results.
- Switch to hexadecimal for the expedited grace period sequence number
in the rcu_exp_grace_period trace point.
- Make cur_ops->format_gp_seqs take buffer length.
- Move RCU_TORTURE_TEST_{CHK_RDR_STATE,LOG_CPU} to bool.
- Complain when invalid SRCU reader_flavor is specified.
- Add FORCE_NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE Kconfig for testing, which forces SRCU
uses atomics even when percpu ops are NMI safe, and use the Kconfig
for SRCU lockdep testing.
misc.2025.03.04a:
- Split rcu_report_exp_cpu_mult() mask parameter and use for tracing.
- Remove READ_ONCE() for rdp->gpwrap access in __note_gp_changes().
- Fix get_state_synchronize_rcu_full() GP-start detection.
- Move RCU Tasks self-tests to core_initcall().
- Print segment lengths in show_rcu_nocb_gp_state().
- Make RCU watch ct_kernel_exit_state() warning.
- Flush console log from kernel_power_off().
- rcutorture: Allow a negative value for nfakewriters.
- rcu: Update TREE05.boot to test normal synchronize_rcu().
- rcu: Use _full() API to debug synchronize_rcu().
lazypreempt.2025.03.04a: Make RCU handle PREEMPT_LAZY better:
- Fix header guard for rcu_all_qs().
- rcu: Rename PREEMPT_AUTO to PREEMPT_LAZY.
- Update __cond_resched comment about RCU quiescent states.
- Handle unstable rdp in rcu_read_unlock_strict().
- Handle quiescent states for PREEMPT_RCU=n, PREEMPT_COUNT=y.
- osnoise: Provide quiescent states.
- Adjust rcutorture with possible PREEMPT_RCU=n && PREEMPT_COUNT=y
combination.
- Limit PREEMPT_RCU configurations.
- Make rcutorture senario TREE07 and senario TREE10 use PREEMPT_LAZY=y.
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Merge tag 'rcu-next-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux
Pull RCU updates from Boqun Feng:
"Documentation:
- Add broken-timing possibility to stallwarn.rst
- Improve discussion of this_cpu_ptr(), add raw_cpu_ptr()
- Document self-propagating callbacks
- Point call_srcu() to call_rcu() for detailed memory ordering
- Add CONFIG_RCU_LAZY delays to call_rcu() kernel-doc header
- Clarify RCU_LAZY and RCU_LAZY_DEFAULT_OFF help text
- Remove references to old grace-period-wait primitives
srcu:
- Introduce srcu_read_{un,}lock_fast(), which is similar to
srcu_read_{un,}lock_lite(): avoid smp_mb()s in lock and unlock
at the cost of calling synchronize_rcu() in synchronize_srcu()
Moreover, by returning the percpu offset of the counter at
srcu_read_lock_fast() time, srcu_read_unlock_fast() can avoid
extra pointer dereferencing, which makes it faster than
srcu_read_{un,}lock_lite()
srcu_read_{un,}lock_fast() are intended to replace
rcu_read_{un,}lock_trace() if possible
RCU torture:
- Add get_torture_init_jiffies() to return the start time of the test
- Add a test_boost_holdoff module parameter to allow delaying
boosting tests when building rcutorture as built-in
- Add grace period sequence number logging at the beginning and end
of failure/close-call results
- Switch to hexadecimal for the expedited grace period sequence
number in the rcu_exp_grace_period trace point
- Make cur_ops->format_gp_seqs take buffer length
- Move RCU_TORTURE_TEST_{CHK_RDR_STATE,LOG_CPU} to bool
- Complain when invalid SRCU reader_flavor is specified
- Add FORCE_NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE Kconfig for testing, which forces SRCU
uses atomics even when percpu ops are NMI safe, and use the Kconfig
for SRCU lockdep testing
Misc:
- Split rcu_report_exp_cpu_mult() mask parameter and use for tracing
- Remove READ_ONCE() for rdp->gpwrap access in __note_gp_changes()
- Fix get_state_synchronize_rcu_full() GP-start detection
- Move RCU Tasks self-tests to core_initcall()
- Print segment lengths in show_rcu_nocb_gp_state()
- Make RCU watch ct_kernel_exit_state() warning
- Flush console log from kernel_power_off()
- rcutorture: Allow a negative value for nfakewriters
- rcu: Update TREE05.boot to test normal synchronize_rcu()
- rcu: Use _full() API to debug synchronize_rcu()
Make RCU handle PREEMPT_LAZY better:
- Fix header guard for rcu_all_qs()
- rcu: Rename PREEMPT_AUTO to PREEMPT_LAZY
- Update __cond_resched comment about RCU quiescent states
- Handle unstable rdp in rcu_read_unlock_strict()
- Handle quiescent states for PREEMPT_RCU=n, PREEMPT_COUNT=y
- osnoise: Provide quiescent states
- Adjust rcutorture with possible PREEMPT_RCU=n && PREEMPT_COUNT=y
combination
- Limit PREEMPT_RCU configurations
- Make rcutorture senario TREE07 and senario TREE10 use
PREEMPT_LAZY=y"
* tag 'rcu-next-v6.15' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux: (59 commits)
rcutorture: Make scenario TREE07 build CONFIG_PREEMPT_LAZY=y
rcutorture: Make scenario TREE10 build CONFIG_PREEMPT_LAZY=y
rcu: limit PREEMPT_RCU configurations
rcutorture: Update ->extendables check for lazy preemption
rcutorture: Update rcutorture_one_extend_check() for lazy preemption
osnoise: provide quiescent states
rcu: Use _full() API to debug synchronize_rcu()
rcu: Update TREE05.boot to test normal synchronize_rcu()
rcutorture: Allow a negative value for nfakewriters
Flush console log from kernel_power_off()
context_tracking: Make RCU watch ct_kernel_exit_state() warning
rcu/nocb: Print segment lengths in show_rcu_nocb_gp_state()
rcu-tasks: Move RCU Tasks self-tests to core_initcall()
rcu: Fix get_state_synchronize_rcu_full() GP-start detection
torture: Make SRCU lockdep testing use srcu_read_lock_nmisafe()
srcu: Add FORCE_NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE Kconfig for testing
rcutorture: Complain when invalid SRCU reader_flavor is specified
rcutorture: Move RCU_TORTURE_TEST_{CHK_RDR_STATE,LOG_CPU} to bool
rcutorture: Make cur_ops->format_gp_seqs take buffer length
rcutorture: Add ftrace-compatible timestamp to GP# failure/close-call output
...
PREEMPT_LAZY can be enabled stand-alone or alongside PREEMPT_DYNAMIC
which allows for dynamic switching of preemption models.
The choice of PREEMPT_RCU or not, however, is fixed at compile time.
Given that PREEMPT_RCU makes some trade-offs to optimize for latency
as opposed to throughput, configurations with limited preemption
might prefer the stronger forward-progress guarantees of PREEMPT_RCU=n.
Accordingly, explicitly limit PREEMPT_RCU=y to the latency oriented
preemption models: PREEMPT, PREEMPT_RT, and the runtime configurable
model PREEMPT_DYNAMIC.
This means the throughput oriented models, PREEMPT_NONE,
PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY, and PREEMPT_LAZY will run with PREEMPT_RCU=n.
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
The rcutorture_one_extend_check() function's second last check assumes
that "preempt_count() & PREEMPT_MASK" is non-zero only if
RCUTORTURE_RDR_PREEMPT or RCUTORTURE_RDR_SCHED bit is set.
This works for preemptible RCU and for non-preemptible RCU running in
a non-preemptible kernel. But it fails for non-preemptible RCU running
in a preemptible kernel because then rcu_read_lock() is just
preempt_disable(), which increases preempt count.
This commit therefore adjusts this check to take into account the case
fo non-preemptible RCU running in a preemptible kernel.
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
The rcutorture_one_extend_check() function's last check assumes that
if cur_ops->readlock_nesting() returns greater than zero, either the
RCUTORTURE_RDR_RCU_1 or the RCUTORTURE_RDR_RCU_2 bit must be set, that
is, there must be at least one rcu_read_lock() in effect.
This works for preemptible RCU and for non-preemptible RCU running in
a non-preemptible kernel. But it fails for non-preemptible RCU running
in a preemptible kernel because then RCU's cur_ops->readlock_nesting()
function, which is rcu_torture_readlock_nesting(), will return
the PREEMPT_MASK mask bits from preempt_count(). The result will
be greater than zero if preemption is disabled, including by the
RCUTORTURE_RDR_PREEMPT and RCUTORTURE_RDR_SCHED bits.
This commit therefore adjusts this check to take into account the case
fo non-preemptible RCU running in a preemptible kernel.
[boqun: Fix the if condition and add comment]
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202502171415.8ec87c87-lkp@intel.com
Co-developed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Co-developed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Switch for using of get_state_synchronize_rcu_full() and
poll_state_synchronize_rcu_full() pair to debug a normal
synchronize_rcu() call.
Just using "not" full APIs to identify if a grace period is
passed or not might lead to a false-positive kernel splat.
It can happen, because get_state_synchronize_rcu() compresses
both normal and expedited states into one single unsigned long
value, so a poll_state_synchronize_rcu() can miss GP-completion
when synchronize_rcu()/synchronize_rcu_expedited() concurrently
run.
To address this, switch to poll_state_synchronize_rcu_full() and
get_state_synchronize_rcu_full() APIs, which use separate variables
for expedited and normal states.
Reported-by: cheung wall <zzqq0103.hey@gmail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/Z5ikQeVmVdsWQrdD@pc636/T/
Fixes: 988f569ae0 ("rcu: Reduce synchronize_rcu() latency")
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250227131613.52683-3-urezki@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Currently "nfakewriters" parameter can be set to any value but
there is no possibility to adjust it automatically based on how
many CPUs a system has where a test is run on.
To address this, if the "nfakewriters" is set to negative it will
be adjusted to num_online_cpus() during torture initialization.
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250227131613.52683-1-urezki@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Analysis of an rcutorture callback-based forward-progress test failure was
hampered by the lack of ->cblist segment lengths. This commit therefore
adds this information, so that what would have been ".W85620.N." (there
are some callbacks waiting for grace period sequence number 85620 and
some number more that have not yet been assigned to a grace period)
now prints as ".W2(85620).N6." (there are 2 callbacks waiting for grace
period 85620 and 6 not yet assigned to a grace period). Note that
"D" (done), "N" (next and not yet assigned to a grace period, and "B"
(bypass, also not yet assigned to a grace period) have just the number
of callbacks without the parenthesized grace-period sequence number.
In contrast, "W" (waiting for the current grace period) and "R" (ready
to wait for the next grace period to start) both have parenthesized
grace-period sequence numbers.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
The timer and hrtimer softirq processing has moved to dedicated threads
for kernels built with CONFIG_IRQ_FORCED_THREADING=y. This results in
timers not expiring until later in early boot, which in turn causes the
RCU Tasks self-tests to hang in kernels built with CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y,
which further causes the entire kernel to hang. One fix would be to
make timers work during this time, but there are no known users of RCU
Tasks grace periods during that time, so no justification for the added
complexity. Not yet, anyway.
This commit therefore moves the call to rcu_init_tasks_generic() from
kernel_init_freeable() to a core_initcall(). This works because the
timer and hrtimer kthreads are created at early_initcall() time.
Fixes: 49a1763950 ("softirq: Use a dedicated thread for timer wakeups on PREEMPT_RT.")
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-trace-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
The get_state_synchronize_rcu_full() and poll_state_synchronize_rcu_full()
functions use the root rcu_node structure's ->gp_seq field to detect
the beginnings and ends of grace periods, respectively. This choice is
necessary for the poll_state_synchronize_rcu_full() function because
(give or take counter wrap), the following sequence is guaranteed not
to trigger:
get_state_synchronize_rcu_full(&rgos);
synchronize_rcu();
WARN_ON_ONCE(!poll_state_synchronize_rcu_full(&rgos));
The RCU callbacks that awaken synchronize_rcu() instances are
guaranteed not to be invoked before the root rcu_node structure's
->gp_seq field is updated to indicate the end of the grace period.
However, these callbacks might start being invoked immediately
thereafter, in particular, before rcu_state.gp_seq has been updated.
Therefore, poll_state_synchronize_rcu_full() must refer to the
root rcu_node structure's ->gp_seq field. Because this field is
updated under this structure's ->lock, any code following a call to
poll_state_synchronize_rcu_full() will be fully ordered after the
full grace-period computation, as is required by RCU's memory-ordering
semantics.
By symmetry, the get_state_synchronize_rcu_full() function should also
use this same root rcu_node structure's ->gp_seq field. But it turns out
that symmetry is profoundly (though extremely infrequently) destructive
in this case. To see this, consider the following sequence of events:
1. CPU 0 starts a new grace period, and updates rcu_state.gp_seq
accordingly.
2. As its first step of grace-period initialization, CPU 0 examines
the current CPU hotplug state and decides that it need not wait
for CPU 1, which is currently offline.
3. CPU 1 comes online, and updates its state. But this does not
affect the current grace period, but rather the one after that.
After all, CPU 1 was offline when the current grace period
started, so all pre-existing RCU readers on CPU 1 must have
completed or been preempted before it last went offline.
The current grace period therefore has nothing it needs to wait
for on CPU 1.
4. CPU 1 switches to an rcutorture kthread which is running
rcutorture's rcu_torture_reader() function, which starts a new
RCU reader.
5. CPU 2 is running rcutorture's rcu_torture_writer() function
and collects a new polled grace-period "cookie" using
get_state_synchronize_rcu_full(). Because the newly started
grace period has not completed initialization, the root rcu_node
structure's ->gp_seq field has not yet been updated to indicate
that this new grace period has already started.
This cookie is therefore set up for the end of the current grace
period (rather than the end of the following grace period).
6. CPU 0 finishes grace-period initialization.
7. If CPU 1’s rcutorture reader is preempted, it will be added to
the ->blkd_tasks list, but because CPU 1’s ->qsmask bit is not
set in CPU 1's leaf rcu_node structure, the ->gp_tasks pointer
will not be updated. Thus, this grace period will not wait on
it. Which is only fair, given that the CPU did not come online
until after the grace period officially started.
8. CPUs 0 and 2 then detect the new grace period and then report
a quiescent state to the RCU core.
9. Because CPU 1 was offline at the start of the current grace
period, CPUs 0 and 2 are the only CPUs that this grace period
needs to wait on. So the grace period ends and post-grace-period
cleanup starts. In particular, the root rcu_node structure's
->gp_seq field is updated to indicate that this grace period
has now ended.
10. CPU 2 continues running rcu_torture_writer() and sees that,
from the viewpoint of the root rcu_node structure consulted by
the poll_state_synchronize_rcu_full() function, the grace period
has ended. It therefore updates state accordingly.
11. CPU 1 is still running the same RCU reader, which notices this
update and thus complains about the too-short grace period.
The fix is for the get_state_synchronize_rcu_full() function to use
rcu_state.gp_seq instead of the root rcu_node structure's ->gp_seq field.
With this change in place, if step 5's cookie indicates that the grace
period has not yet started, then any prior code executed by CPU 2 must
have happened before CPU 1 came online. This will in turn prevent CPU
1's code in steps 3 and 11 from spanning CPU 2's grace-period wait,
thus preventing CPU 1 from being subjected to a too-short grace period.
This commit therefore makes this change. Note that there is no change to
the poll_state_synchronize_rcu_full() function, which as noted above,
must continue to use the root rcu_node structure's ->gp_seq field.
This is of course an asymmetry between these two functions, but is an
asymmetry that is absolutely required for correct operation. It is a
common human tendency to greatly value symmetry, and sometimes symmetry
is a wonderful thing. Other times, symmetry results in poor performance.
But in this case, symmetry is just plain wrong.
Nevertheless, the asymmetry does require an additional adjustment.
It is possible for get_state_synchronize_rcu_full() to see a given
grace period as having started, but for an immediately following
poll_state_synchronize_rcu_full() to see it as having not yet started.
Given the current rcu_seq_done_exact() implementation, this will
result in a false-positive indication that the grace period is done
from poll_state_synchronize_rcu_full(). This is dealt with by making
rcu_seq_done_exact() reach back three grace periods rather than just
two of them.
However, simply changing get_state_synchronize_rcu_full() function to
use rcu_state.gp_seq instead of the root rcu_node structure's ->gp_seq
field results in a theoretical bug in kernels booted with
rcutree.rcu_normal_wake_from_gp=1 due to the following sequence of
events:
o The rcu_gp_init() function invokes rcu_seq_start() to officially
start a new grace period.
o A new RCU reader begins, referencing X from some RCU-protected
list. The new grace period is not obligated to wait for this
reader.
o An updater removes X, then calls synchronize_rcu(), which queues
a wait element.
o The grace period ends, awakening the updater, which frees X
while the reader is still referencing it.
The reason that this is theoretical is that although the grace period
has officially started, none of the CPUs are officially aware of this,
and thus will have to assume that the RCU reader pre-dated the start of
the grace period. Detailed explanation can be found at [2] and [3].
Except for kernels built with CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y, which use the polled
grace-period APIs, which can and do complain bitterly when this sequence
of events occurs. Not only that, there might be some future RCU
grace-period mechanism that pulls this sequence of events from theory
into practice. This commit therefore also pulls the call to
rcu_sr_normal_gp_init() to precede that to rcu_seq_start().
Although this fixes commit 91a967fd69 ("rcu: Add full-sized polling
for get_completed*() and poll_state*()"), it is not clear that it is
worth backporting this commit. First, it took me many weeks to convince
rcutorture to reproduce this more frequently than once per year.
Second, this cannot be reproduced at all without frequent CPU-hotplug
operations, as in waiting all of 50 milliseconds from the end of the
previous operation until starting the next one. Third, the TREE03.boot
settings cause multi-millisecond delays during RCU grace-period
initialization, which greatly increase the probability of the above
sequence of events. (Don't do this in production workloads!) Fourth,
the TREE03 rcutorture scenario was modified to use four-CPU guest OSes,
to have a single-rcu_node combining tree, no testing of RCU priority
boosting, and no random preemption, and these modifications were
necessary to reproduce this issue in a reasonable timeframe. Fifth,
extremely heavy use of get_state_synchronize_rcu_full() and/or
poll_state_synchronize_rcu_full() is required to reproduce this, and as
of v6.12, only kfree_rcu() uses it, and even then not particularly
heavily.
[boqun: Apply the fix [1], and add the comment before the moved
rcu_sr_normal_gp_init(). Additional links are added for explanation.]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Tested-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/d90bd6d9-d15c-4b9b-8a69-95336e74e8f4@paulmck-laptop/ [1]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/20250303001507.GA3994772@joelnvbox/ [2]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/Z8bcUsZ9IpRi1QoP@pc636/ [3]
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes <joelagnelf@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
The srcu_read_lock_nmisafe() and srcu_read_unlock_nmisafe() functions
map to __srcu_read_lock() and __srcu_read_unlock() on systems like x86
that have NMI-safe this_cpu_inc() operations. This makes the underlying
__srcu_read_lock_nmisafe() and __srcu_read_unlock_nmisafe() functions
difficult to test on (for example) x86 systems, allowing bugs to creep in.
This commit therefore creates a FORCE_NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE Kconfig that
forces those underlying functions to be used even on systems where they
are not needed, thus providing better testing coverage.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Currently, rcutorture ignores reader_flavor bits that are not in the
SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_ALL bitmask, which could confuse rcutorture users into
believing buggy patches had been fully tested. This commit therefore
produces a splat in this case.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
The RCU_TORTURE_TEST_CHK_RDR_STATE and RCU_TORTURE_TEST_LOG_CPU Kconfig
options are pointlessly defined as tristate. This commit therefore
converts them to bool.
Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-lkp/202412241458.150d082b-lkp@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
The Tree and Tiny implementations of rcutorture_format_gp_seqs() use
hard-coded constants for the length of the buffer that they format into.
This is of course an accident waiting to happen, so this commit therefore
makes them take a length argument. The rcutorture calling code uses
ARRAY_SIZE() to safely compute this new argument.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
This commit adds an ftrace-compatible microsecond-scale timestamp
to the failure/close-call output, but only in kernels built with
CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_LOG_GP=y.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
With only eight bits per grace-period sequence number, wrap can happen
in 64 grace periods. This commit therefore increases this to sixteen
bits for normal grace-period sequence numbers and the combined short-form
polling sequence numbers, thus deferring wrap for at least 16,384 grace
periods. Because expedited grace periods go faster, expand these to 24
bits, deferring wrap for at least 4,194,304 expedited grace periods.
These longer wrap times makes it easier to correlate these numbers to
trace-event output.
Note that the low-order two bits are reserved for intra-grace-period
state, hence the above wrap numbers being a factor of four smaller than
you might expect.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
This commit includes the grace-period sequence numbers at the beginning
and end of each segment in the "Failure/close-call rcutorture reader
segments" list. These are in hexadecimal, and only the bottom byte.
Currently, only RCU is supported, with its three sequence numbers (normal,
expedited, and polled).
Note that if all the grace-period sequence numbers remain the same across
a given reader segment, only one copy of the number will be printed.
Of course, if there is a change, both sets of values will be printed.
Because the overhead of collecting this information can suppress
heisenbugs, this information is collected and printed only in kernels
built with CONFIG_RCU_TORTURE_TEST_LOG_GP=y.
[ paulmck: Apply Nathan Chancellor feedback for IS_ENABLED(). ]
[ paulmck: Apply feedback from kernel test robot. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
This commit adds a test_boost_holdoff module parameter that tells the RCU
priority-boosting tests to wait for the specified number of seconds past
the start of the rcutorture test. This can be useful when rcutorture
is built into the kernel (as opposed to being modprobed), especially on
large systems where early start of RCU priority boosting can delay the
boot sequence, which adds a full CPU's worth of load onto the system.
This can in turn result in pointless stall warnings.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
This commit creates a new srcu-fast option for the refscale.scale_type
module parameter that selects srcu_read_lock_fast() and
srcu_read_unlock_fast().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
This commit permits rcutorture to test srcu_read_{,un}lock_fast(), which
is specified by the rcutorture.reader_flavor=0x8 kernel boot parameter.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
This commit abstracts the srcu_read_unlock*() integer-to-pointer
conversion into a new __srcu_ctr_to_ptr(). This will be used
in rcutorture for testing an srcu_read_unlock_fast() that avoids
array-indexing overhead by taking a pointer rather than an integer.
[ paulmck: Apply kernel test robot feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
This commit abstracts the srcu_read_lock*() pointer-to-integer conversion
into a new __srcu_ptr_to_ctr(). This will be used in rcutorture for
testing an srcu_read_lock_fast() that returns a pointer rather than
an integer.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
This commit switches from a direct test of SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_LITE to a new
SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_SLOWGP macro to check for substituting synchronize_rcu()
for smp_mb() in SRCU grace periods. Right now, SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_SLOWGP
is exactly SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_LITE, but the addition of the _fast() flavor
of SRCU will change that.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Currently, srcu_get_delay() can be called concurrently, for example,
by a CPU that is the first to request a new grace period and the CPU
processing the current grace period. Although concurrent access is
harmless, it unnecessarily expands the state space. Additionally,
all calls to srcu_get_delay() are from slow paths.
This commit therefore protects all calls to srcu_get_delay() with
ssp->srcu_sup->lock, which is already held on the invocation from the
srcu_funnel_gp_start() function. While in the area, this commit also
adds a lockdep_assert_held() to srcu_get_delay() itself.
Reported-by: syzbot+16a19b06125a2963eaee@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
This commit makes Tree SRCU updates independent of ->srcu_idx, then
drop ->srcu_idx.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
This commit causes SRCU readers to use ->srcu_ctrs for counter
selection instead of ->srcu_idx. This takes another step towards
array-indexing-free SRCU readers.
[ paulmck: Apply kernel test robot feedback. ]
Co-developed-by: Z qiang <qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Z qiang <qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Tested-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
This commit prepares for array-index-free srcu_read_lock*() by moving the
->srcu_{un,}lock_count fields into a new srcu_ctr structure. This will
permit ->srcu_index to be replaced by a per-CPU pointer to this structure.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
This commit stops using ->srcu_idx for rcutorture's reader-batch
consistency checking, using ->srcu_gp_seq instead. This is a first
step towards a faster srcu_read_{,un}lock_lite() that avoids the array
accesses that use ->srcu_idx.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Given that SRCU allows its read-side critical sections are not just
preemptible, but also allow general blocking, there is not much
reason to restrict Tiny SRCU to non-preemptible kernels. This commit
therefore removes Tiny SRCU dependencies on non-preemptibility, primarily
surrounding its interaction with rcutorture and early boot.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@linux.dev>
Cc: <bpf@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
With PREEMPT_RCU=n, cond_resched() provides urgently needed quiescent
states for read-side critical sections via rcu_all_qs().
One reason why this was needed: lacking preempt-count, the tick
handler has no way of knowing whether it is executing in a
read-side critical section or not.
With (PREEMPT_LAZY=y, PREEMPT_DYNAMIC=n), we get (PREEMPT_COUNT=y,
PREEMPT_RCU=n). In this configuration cond_resched() is a stub and
does not provide quiescent states via rcu_all_qs().
(PREEMPT_RCU=y provides this information via rcu_read_unlock() and
its nesting counter.)
So, use the availability of preempt_count() to report quiescent states
in rcu_flavor_sched_clock_irq().
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
rcu_read_unlock_strict() can be called with preemption enabled
which can make for an unstable rdp and a racy norm value.
Fix this by dropping the preempt-count in __rcu_read_unlock()
after the call to rcu_read_unlock_strict(), adjusting the
preempt-count check appropriately.
Suggested-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Replace mentions of PREEMPT_AUTO with PREEMPT_LAZY.
Also, since PREMPT_LAZY implies PREEMPTION, we can reduce the
TASKS_RCU selection criteria from this:
NEED_TASKS_RCU && (PREEMPTION || PREEMPT_AUTO)
to this:
NEED_TASKS_RCU && PREEMPTION
CC: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
RCU has been special-casing callback function pointers that are integers
lower than 4096 as offsets of rcu_head for kvfree() instead. The tree
RCU implementation no longer does that as the batched kvfree_rcu() is
not a simple call_rcu(). The tiny RCU still does, and the plan is also
to make tree RCU use call_rcu() for SLUB_TINY configurations.
Instead of teaching tree RCU again to special case the offsets, let's
remove the special casing completely. Since there's no SLOB anymore, it
is possible to create a callback function that can take a pointer to a
middle of slab object with unknown offset and determine the object's
pointer before freeing it, so implement that as kvfree_rcu_cb().
Large kmalloc and vmalloc allocations are handled simply by aligning
down to page size. For that we retain the requirement that the offset is
smaller than 4096. But we can remove __is_kvfree_rcu_offset() completely
and instead just opencode the condition in the BUILD_BUG_ON() check.
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Tree RCU does not handle kvfree_rcu() by queueing individual objects by
call_rcu() anymore, thus the tracepoint and associated
__is_kvfree_rcu_offset() check is dead code now. Remove it.
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Following the move of TREE_RCU implementation, let's move also the
TINY_RCU one for consistency and subsequent refactoring.
For simplicity, remove the separate inline __kvfree_call_rcu() as
TINY_RCU is not meant for high-performance hardware anyway.
Declare kvfree_call_rcu() in rcupdate.h to avoid header dependency
issues.
Also move the kvfree_rcu_barrier() declaration to slab.h
Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reviewed-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
There is one access to the per-CPU rdp->gpwrap field in the
__note_gp_changes() function that does not use READ_ONCE(), but all other
accesses do use READ_ONCE(). When using the 8*TREE03 and CONFIG_NR_CPUS=8
configuration, KCSAN found no data races at that point. This is because
all calls to __note_gp_changes() hold rnp->lock, which excludes writes
to the rdp->gpwrap fields for all CPUs associated with that same leaf
rcu_node structure.
This commit therefore removes READ_ONCE() from rdp->gpwrap accesses
within the __note_gp_changes() function.
Signed-off-by: Zilin Guan <zilinguan811@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
This commit renames the rcu_report_exp_cpu_mult() function from "mask"
to "mask_in" and introduced a "mask" local variable to better support
upcoming event-tracing additions.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
This commit wordsmiths the RCU_LAZY and RCU_LAZY_DEFAULT_OFF Kconfig
options' help text.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
This commit adds a description of the energy-efficiency delays that
call_rcu() can impose, along with a pointer to call_rcu_hurry() for
latency-sensitive kernel code.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
This commit causes the call_srcu() kernel-doc header to reference that
of call_rcu() for detailed memory-ordering guarantees.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
This commit documents the fact that a given RCU callback function can
repost itself.
Reported-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
indivudual patches which are described in their changelogs.
- "Allocate and free frozen pages" from Matthew Wilcox reorganizes the
page allocator so we end up with the ability to allocate and free
zero-refcount pages. So that callers (ie, slab) can avoid a refcount
inc & dec.
- "Support large folios for tmpfs" from Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to use
large folios other than PMD-sized ones.
- "Fix mm/rodata_test" from Petr Tesarik performs some maintenance and
fixes for this small built-in kernel selftest.
- "mas_anode_descend() related cleanup" from Wei Yang tidies up part of
the mapletree code.
- "mm: fix format issues and param types" from Keren Sun implements a
few minor code cleanups.
- "simplify split calculation" from Wei Yang provides a few fixes and a
test for the mapletree code.
- "mm/vma: make more mmap logic userland testable" from Lorenzo Stoakes
continues the work of moving vma-related code into the (relatively) new
mm/vma.c.
- "mm/page_alloc: gfp flags cleanups for alloc_contig_*()" from David
Hildenbrand cleans up and rationalizes handling of gfp flags in the page
allocator.
- "readahead: Reintroduce fix for improper RA window sizing" from Jan
Kara is a second attempt at fixing a readahead window sizing issue. It
should reduce the amount of unnecessary reading.
- "synchronously scan and reclaim empty user PTE pages" from Qi Zheng
addresses an issue where "huge" amounts of pte pagetables are
accumulated
(https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1718267194.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/).
Qi's series addresses this windup by synchronously freeing PTE memory
within the context of madvise(MADV_DONTNEED).
- "selftest/mm: Remove warnings found by adding compiler flags" from
Muhammad Usama Anjum fixes some build warnings in the selftests code
when optional compiler warnings are enabled.
- "mm: don't use __GFP_HARDWALL when migrating remote pages" from David
Hildenbrand tightens the allocator's observance of __GFP_HARDWALL.
- "pkeys kselftests improvements" from Kevin Brodsky implements various
fixes and cleanups in the MM selftests code, mainly pertaining to the
pkeys tests.
- "mm/damon: add sample modules" from SeongJae Park enhances DAMON to
estimate application working set size.
- "memcg/hugetlb: Rework memcg hugetlb charging" from Joshua Hahn
provides some cleanups to memcg's hugetlb charging logic.
- "mm/swap_cgroup: remove global swap cgroup lock" from Kairui Song
removes the global swap cgroup lock. A speedup of 10% for a tmpfs-based
kernel build was demonstrated.
- "zram: split page type read/write handling" from Sergey Senozhatsky
has several fixes and cleaups for zram in the area of zram_write_page().
A watchdog softlockup warning was eliminated.
- "move pagetable_*_dtor() to __tlb_remove_table()" from Kevin Brodsky
cleans up the pagetable destructor implementations. A rare
use-after-free race is fixed.
- "mm/debug: introduce and use VM_WARN_ON_VMG()" from Lorenzo Stoakes
simplifies and cleans up the debugging code in the VMA merging logic.
- "Account page tables at all levels" from Kevin Brodsky cleans up and
regularizes the pagetable ctor/dtor handling. This results in
improvements in accounting accuracy.
- "mm/damon: replace most damon_callback usages in sysfs with new core
functions" from SeongJae Park cleans up and generalizes DAMON's sysfs
file interface logic.
- "mm/damon: enable page level properties based monitoring" from
SeongJae Park increases the amount of information which is presented in
response to DAMOS actions.
- "mm/damon: remove DAMON debugfs interface" from SeongJae Park removes
DAMON's long-deprecated debugfs interfaces. Thus the migration to sysfs
is completed.
- "mm/hugetlb: Refactor hugetlb allocation resv accounting" from Peter
Xu cleans up and generalizes the hugetlb reservation accounting.
- "mm: alloc_pages_bulk: small API refactor" from Luiz Capitulino
removes a never-used feature of the alloc_pages_bulk() interface.
- "mm/damon: extend DAMOS filters for inclusion" from SeongJae Park
extends DAMOS filters to support not only exclusion (rejecting), but
also inclusion (allowing) behavior.
- "Add zpdesc memory descriptor for zswap.zpool" from Alex Shi
"introduces a new memory descriptor for zswap.zpool that currently
overlaps with struct page for now. This is part of the effort to reduce
the size of struct page and to enable dynamic allocation of memory
descriptors."
- "mm, swap: rework of swap allocator locks" from Kairui Song redoes and
simplifies the swap allocator locking. A speedup of 400% was
demonstrated for one workload. As was a 35% reduction for kernel build
time with swap-on-zram.
- "mm: update mips to use do_mmap(), make mmap_region() internal" from
Lorenzo Stoakes reworks MIPS's use of mmap_region() so that
mmap_region() can be made MM-internal.
- "mm/mglru: performance optimizations" from Yu Zhao fixes a few MGLRU
regressions and otherwise improves MGLRU performance.
- "Docs/mm/damon: add tuning guide and misc updates" from SeongJae Park
updates DAMON documentation.
- "Cleanup for memfd_create()" from Isaac Manjarres does that thing.
- "mm: hugetlb+THP folio and migration cleanups" from David Hildenbrand
provides various cleanups in the areas of hugetlb folios, THP folios and
migration.
- "Uncached buffered IO" from Jens Axboe implements the new
RWF_DONTCACHE flag which provides synchronous dropbehind for pagecache
reading and writing. To permite userspace to address issues with
massive buildup of useless pagecache when reading/writing fast devices.
- "selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: Reduce memory" from Thomas
Weißschuh fixes and optimizes some of the MM selftests.
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Merge tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
Pull MM updates from Andrew Morton:
"The various patchsets are summarized below. Plus of course many
indivudual patches which are described in their changelogs.
- "Allocate and free frozen pages" from Matthew Wilcox reorganizes
the page allocator so we end up with the ability to allocate and
free zero-refcount pages. So that callers (ie, slab) can avoid a
refcount inc & dec
- "Support large folios for tmpfs" from Baolin Wang teaches tmpfs to
use large folios other than PMD-sized ones
- "Fix mm/rodata_test" from Petr Tesarik performs some maintenance
and fixes for this small built-in kernel selftest
- "mas_anode_descend() related cleanup" from Wei Yang tidies up part
of the mapletree code
- "mm: fix format issues and param types" from Keren Sun implements a
few minor code cleanups
- "simplify split calculation" from Wei Yang provides a few fixes and
a test for the mapletree code
- "mm/vma: make more mmap logic userland testable" from Lorenzo
Stoakes continues the work of moving vma-related code into the
(relatively) new mm/vma.c
- "mm/page_alloc: gfp flags cleanups for alloc_contig_*()" from David
Hildenbrand cleans up and rationalizes handling of gfp flags in the
page allocator
- "readahead: Reintroduce fix for improper RA window sizing" from Jan
Kara is a second attempt at fixing a readahead window sizing issue.
It should reduce the amount of unnecessary reading
- "synchronously scan and reclaim empty user PTE pages" from Qi Zheng
addresses an issue where "huge" amounts of pte pagetables are
accumulated:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1718267194.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com/
Qi's series addresses this windup by synchronously freeing PTE
memory within the context of madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)
- "selftest/mm: Remove warnings found by adding compiler flags" from
Muhammad Usama Anjum fixes some build warnings in the selftests
code when optional compiler warnings are enabled
- "mm: don't use __GFP_HARDWALL when migrating remote pages" from
David Hildenbrand tightens the allocator's observance of
__GFP_HARDWALL
- "pkeys kselftests improvements" from Kevin Brodsky implements
various fixes and cleanups in the MM selftests code, mainly
pertaining to the pkeys tests
- "mm/damon: add sample modules" from SeongJae Park enhances DAMON to
estimate application working set size
- "memcg/hugetlb: Rework memcg hugetlb charging" from Joshua Hahn
provides some cleanups to memcg's hugetlb charging logic
- "mm/swap_cgroup: remove global swap cgroup lock" from Kairui Song
removes the global swap cgroup lock. A speedup of 10% for a
tmpfs-based kernel build was demonstrated
- "zram: split page type read/write handling" from Sergey Senozhatsky
has several fixes and cleaups for zram in the area of
zram_write_page(). A watchdog softlockup warning was eliminated
- "move pagetable_*_dtor() to __tlb_remove_table()" from Kevin
Brodsky cleans up the pagetable destructor implementations. A rare
use-after-free race is fixed
- "mm/debug: introduce and use VM_WARN_ON_VMG()" from Lorenzo Stoakes
simplifies and cleans up the debugging code in the VMA merging
logic
- "Account page tables at all levels" from Kevin Brodsky cleans up
and regularizes the pagetable ctor/dtor handling. This results in
improvements in accounting accuracy
- "mm/damon: replace most damon_callback usages in sysfs with new
core functions" from SeongJae Park cleans up and generalizes
DAMON's sysfs file interface logic
- "mm/damon: enable page level properties based monitoring" from
SeongJae Park increases the amount of information which is
presented in response to DAMOS actions
- "mm/damon: remove DAMON debugfs interface" from SeongJae Park
removes DAMON's long-deprecated debugfs interfaces. Thus the
migration to sysfs is completed
- "mm/hugetlb: Refactor hugetlb allocation resv accounting" from
Peter Xu cleans up and generalizes the hugetlb reservation
accounting
- "mm: alloc_pages_bulk: small API refactor" from Luiz Capitulino
removes a never-used feature of the alloc_pages_bulk() interface
- "mm/damon: extend DAMOS filters for inclusion" from SeongJae Park
extends DAMOS filters to support not only exclusion (rejecting),
but also inclusion (allowing) behavior
- "Add zpdesc memory descriptor for zswap.zpool" from Alex Shi
introduces a new memory descriptor for zswap.zpool that currently
overlaps with struct page for now. This is part of the effort to
reduce the size of struct page and to enable dynamic allocation of
memory descriptors
- "mm, swap: rework of swap allocator locks" from Kairui Song redoes
and simplifies the swap allocator locking. A speedup of 400% was
demonstrated for one workload. As was a 35% reduction for kernel
build time with swap-on-zram
- "mm: update mips to use do_mmap(), make mmap_region() internal"
from Lorenzo Stoakes reworks MIPS's use of mmap_region() so that
mmap_region() can be made MM-internal
- "mm/mglru: performance optimizations" from Yu Zhao fixes a few
MGLRU regressions and otherwise improves MGLRU performance
- "Docs/mm/damon: add tuning guide and misc updates" from SeongJae
Park updates DAMON documentation
- "Cleanup for memfd_create()" from Isaac Manjarres does that thing
- "mm: hugetlb+THP folio and migration cleanups" from David
Hildenbrand provides various cleanups in the areas of hugetlb
folios, THP folios and migration
- "Uncached buffered IO" from Jens Axboe implements the new
RWF_DONTCACHE flag which provides synchronous dropbehind for
pagecache reading and writing. To permite userspace to address
issues with massive buildup of useless pagecache when
reading/writing fast devices
- "selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: Reduce memory" from Thomas
Weißschuh fixes and optimizes some of the MM selftests"
* tag 'mm-stable-2025-01-26-14-59' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm: (321 commits)
mm/compaction: fix UBSAN shift-out-of-bounds warning
s390/mm: add missing ctor/dtor on page table upgrade
kasan: sw_tags: use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_sw_tags()
tools: add VM_WARN_ON_VMG definition
mm/damon/core: use str_high_low() helper in damos_wmark_wait_us()
seqlock: add missing parameter documentation for raw_seqcount_try_begin()
mm/page-writeback: consolidate wb_thresh bumping logic into __wb_calc_thresh
mm/page_alloc: remove the incorrect and misleading comment
zram: remove zcomp_stream_put() from write_incompressible_page()
mm: separate move/undo parts from migrate_pages_batch()
mm/kfence: use str_write_read() helper in get_access_type()
selftests/mm/mkdirty: fix memory leak in test_uffdio_copy()
kasan: hw_tags: Use str_on_off() helper in kasan_init_hw_tags()
selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: avoid reading from VM_IO mappings
selftests/mm: vm_util: split up /proc/self/smaps parsing
selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: unmap chunks after validation
selftests/mm: virtual_address_range: mmap() without PROT_WRITE
selftests/memfd/memfd_test: fix possible NULL pointer dereference
mm: add FGP_DONTCACHE folio creation flag
mm: call filemap_fdatawrite_range_kick() after IOCB_DONTCACHE issue
...
1) Per-CPU kthreads must stay affine to a single CPU and never execute
relevant code on any other CPU. This is currently handled by smpboot
code which takes care of CPU-hotplug operations. Affinity here is
a correctness constraint.
2) Some kthreads _have_ to be affine to a specific set of CPUs and can't
run anywhere else. The affinity is set through kthread_bind_mask()
and the subsystem takes care by itself to handle CPU-hotplug
operations. Affinity here is assumed to be a correctness constraint.
3) Per-node kthreads _prefer_ to be affine to a specific NUMA node. This
is not a correctness constraint but merely a preference in terms of
memory locality. kswapd and kcompactd both fall into this category.
The affinity is set manually like for any other task and CPU-hotplug
is supposed to be handled by the relevant subsystem so that the task
is properly reaffined whenever a given CPU from the node comes up.
Also care should be taken so that the node affinity doesn't cross
isolated (nohz_full) cpumask boundaries.
4) Similar to the previous point except kthreads have a _preferred_
affinity different than a node. Both RCU boost kthreads and RCU
exp kworkers fall into this category as they refer to "RCU nodes"
from a distinctly distributed tree.
Currently the preferred affinity patterns (3 and 4) have at least 4
identified users, with more or less success when it comes to handle
CPU-hotplug operations and CPU isolation. Each of which do it in its own
ad-hoc way.
This is an infrastructure proposal to handle this with the following API
changes:
_ kthread_create_on_node() automatically affines the created kthread to
its target node unless it has been set as per-cpu or bound with
kthread_bind[_mask]() before the first wake-up.
- kthread_affine_preferred() is a new function that can be called right
after kthread_create_on_node() to specify a preferred affinity
different than the specified node.
When the preferred affinity can't be applied because the possible
targets are offline or isolated (nohz_full), the kthread is affine
to the housekeeping CPUs (which means to all online CPUs most of the
time or only the non-nohz_full CPUs when nohz_full= is set).
kswapd, kcompactd, RCU boost kthreads and RCU exp kworkers have been
converted, along with a few old drivers.
Summary of the changes:
* Consolidate a bunch of ad-hoc implementations of kthread_run_on_cpu()
* Introduce task_cpu_fallback_mask() that defines the default last
resort affinity of a task to become nohz_full aware
* Add some correctness check to ensure kthread_bind() is always called
before the first kthread wake up.
* Default affine kthread to its preferred node.
* Convert kswapd / kcompactd and remove their halfway working ad-hoc
affinity implementation
* Implement kthreads preferred affinity
* Unify kthread worker and kthread API's style
* Convert RCU kthreads to the new API and remove the ad-hoc affinity
implementation.
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Merge tag 'kthread-for-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks
Pull kthread updates from Frederic Weisbecker:
"Kthreads affinity follow either of 4 existing different patterns:
1) Per-CPU kthreads must stay affine to a single CPU and never
execute relevant code on any other CPU. This is currently handled
by smpboot code which takes care of CPU-hotplug operations.
Affinity here is a correctness constraint.
2) Some kthreads _have_ to be affine to a specific set of CPUs and
can't run anywhere else. The affinity is set through
kthread_bind_mask() and the subsystem takes care by itself to
handle CPU-hotplug operations. Affinity here is assumed to be a
correctness constraint.
3) Per-node kthreads _prefer_ to be affine to a specific NUMA node.
This is not a correctness constraint but merely a preference in
terms of memory locality. kswapd and kcompactd both fall into this
category. The affinity is set manually like for any other task and
CPU-hotplug is supposed to be handled by the relevant subsystem so
that the task is properly reaffined whenever a given CPU from the
node comes up. Also care should be taken so that the node affinity
doesn't cross isolated (nohz_full) cpumask boundaries.
4) Similar to the previous point except kthreads have a _preferred_
affinity different than a node. Both RCU boost kthreads and RCU
exp kworkers fall into this category as they refer to "RCU nodes"
from a distinctly distributed tree.
Currently the preferred affinity patterns (3 and 4) have at least 4
identified users, with more or less success when it comes to handle
CPU-hotplug operations and CPU isolation. Each of which do it in its
own ad-hoc way.
This is an infrastructure proposal to handle this with the following
API changes:
- kthread_create_on_node() automatically affines the created kthread
to its target node unless it has been set as per-cpu or bound with
kthread_bind[_mask]() before the first wake-up.
- kthread_affine_preferred() is a new function that can be called
right after kthread_create_on_node() to specify a preferred
affinity different than the specified node.
When the preferred affinity can't be applied because the possible
targets are offline or isolated (nohz_full), the kthread is affine to
the housekeeping CPUs (which means to all online CPUs most of the time
or only the non-nohz_full CPUs when nohz_full= is set).
kswapd, kcompactd, RCU boost kthreads and RCU exp kworkers have been
converted, along with a few old drivers.
Summary of the changes:
- Consolidate a bunch of ad-hoc implementations of
kthread_run_on_cpu()
- Introduce task_cpu_fallback_mask() that defines the default last
resort affinity of a task to become nohz_full aware
- Add some correctness check to ensure kthread_bind() is always
called before the first kthread wake up.
- Default affine kthread to its preferred node.
- Convert kswapd / kcompactd and remove their halfway working ad-hoc
affinity implementation
- Implement kthreads preferred affinity
- Unify kthread worker and kthread API's style
- Convert RCU kthreads to the new API and remove the ad-hoc affinity
implementation"
* tag 'kthread-for-6.14-rc1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks:
kthread: modify kernel-doc function name to match code
rcu: Use kthread preferred affinity for RCU exp kworkers
treewide: Introduce kthread_run_worker[_on_cpu]()
kthread: Unify kthread_create_on_cpu() and kthread_create_worker_on_cpu() automatic format
rcu: Use kthread preferred affinity for RCU boost
kthread: Implement preferred affinity
mm: Create/affine kswapd to its preferred node
mm: Create/affine kcompactd to its preferred node
kthread: Default affine kthread to its preferred NUMA node
kthread: Make sure kthread hasn't started while binding it
sched,arm64: Handle CPU isolation on last resort fallback rq selection
arm64: Exclude nohz_full CPUs from 32bits el0 support
lib: test_objpool: Use kthread_run_on_cpu()
kallsyms: Use kthread_run_on_cpu()
soc/qman: test: Use kthread_run_on_cpu()
arm/bL_switcher: Use kthread_run_on_cpu()
This pull request contains the following branches:
fixes.2024.12.14a: Misc fixes, check if IRQs are disabled in rcu_exp_need_qs(),
instrument KCSAN exclusive-writer assertions, add extra WARN_ON_ONCE() check,
set the cpu_no_qs.b.exp under lock, warn if callback enqueued on offline CPU.
rcutorture.2024.12.14a: Torture-test updates, add rcutorture.preempt_duration kernel
module parameter, make the TREE03 scenario do preemption, improve pooling timeouts
for rcu_torture_writer(), improve output of "Failure/close-call rcutorture reader
segments", add some reader-state debugging checks, update doc of polled APIs, add
extra diagnostics for per-reader-segment preemption.
srcu.2024.12.14a: SRCU updates, improve doc for srcu_read_lock() in terms of return
value, fix typo in comments, remove redundant GP sequence checks in the
srcu_funnel_gp_start.
torture-test.2024.12.14a: Add an extra test for sched_clock(), improve testing
on unresponsive systems.
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Merge tag 'rcu.release.v6.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux
Pull RCU updates from Uladzislau Rezki:
"Misc fixes:
- check if IRQs are disabled in rcu_exp_need_qs()
- instrument KCSAN exclusive-writer assertions
- add extra WARN_ON_ONCE() check
- set the cpu_no_qs.b.exp under lock
- warn if callback enqueued on offline CPU
Torture-test updates:
- add rcutorture.preempt_duration kernel module parameter
- make the TREE03 scenario do preemption
- improve pooling timeouts for rcu_torture_writer()
- improve output of "Failure/close-call rcutorture reader segments"
- add some reader-state debugging checks
- update doc of polled APIs
- add extra diagnostics for per-reader-segment preemption
- add an extra test for sched_clock()
- improve testing on unresponsive systems
SRCU updates:
- improve doc for srcu_read_lock() in terms of return value
- fix typo in comments
- remove redundant GP sequence checks in the srcu_funnel_gp_start"
* tag 'rcu.release.v6.14' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rcu/linux: (31 commits)
srcu: Remove redundant GP sequence checks in srcu_funnel_gp_start
srcu: Fix typo s/srcu_check_read_flavor()/__srcu_check_read_flavor()/
srcu: Guarantee non-negative return value from srcu_read_lock()
MAINTAINERS: Update RCU git tree
rcu: Add lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled() to rcu_exp_need_qs()
rcu: Add KCSAN exclusive-writer assertions for rdp->cpu_no_qs.b.exp
rcu: Make preemptible rcu_exp_handler() check idempotency
rcu: Replace open-coded rcu_exp_need_qs() from rcu_exp_handler() with call
rcu: Move rcu_report_exp_rdp() setting of ->cpu_no_qs.b.exp under lock
rcu: Make rcu_report_exp_cpu_mult() caller acquire lock
rcu: Report callbacks enqueued on offline CPU blind spot
rcutorture: Use symbols for SRCU reader flavors
rcutorture: Add per-reader-segment preemption diagnostics
rcutorture: Read CPU ID for decoration protected by both reader types
rcutorture: Add preempt_count() to rcutorture_one_extend_check() diagnostics
rcutorture: Add parameters to control polled/conditional wait interval
rcutorture: Add documentation for recent conditional and polled APIs
rcutorture: Ignore attempts to test preemption and forward progress
rcutorture: Make rcutorture_one_extend() check reader state
rcutorture: Pretty-print rcutorture reader segments
...
kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc() was introduced to record a stack trace
without allocating memory in the process. It has been added to callers
which were invoked while a raw_spinlock_t was held. More and more callers
were identified and changed over time. Is it a good thing to have this
while functions try their best to do a locklessly setup? The only
downside of having kasan_record_aux_stack() not allocate any memory is
that we end up without a stacktrace if stackdepot runs out of memory and
at the same stacktrace was not recorded before To quote Marco Elver from
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CANpmjNPmQYJ7pv1N3cuU8cP18u7PP_uoZD8YxwZd4jtbof9nVQ@mail.gmail.com/
| I'd be in favor, it simplifies things. And stack depot should be
| able to replenish its pool sufficiently in the "non-aux" cases
| i.e. regular allocations. Worst case we fail to record some
| aux stacks, but I think that's only really bad if there's a bug
| around one of these allocations. In general the probabilities
| of this being a regression are extremely small [...]
Make the kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc() behaviour default as
kasan_record_aux_stack().
[bigeasy@linutronix.de: dressed the diff as patch]
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241122155451.Mb2pmeyJ@linutronix.de
Fixes: 7cb3007ce2 ("kasan: generic: introduce kasan_record_aux_stack_noalloc()")
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: syzbot+39f85d612b7c20d8db48@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/67275485.050a0220.3c8d68.0a37.GAE@google.com
Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: <kasan-dev@googlegroups.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Liam R. Howlett <Liam.Howlett@Oracle.com>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: syzkaller-bugs@googlegroups.com
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Zqiang <qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Move kvfree_rcu() functionality to the slab_common.c file.
The reason to have kvfree_rcu() functionality as part of SLAB is that
there is a clear trend and need of closer integration. One of the recent
example is creating a barrier function for SLAB caches.
Another reason is to prevent of having several implementations of RCU
machinery for reclaiming objects after a GP. As future steps, it can be
more integrated(easier) with SLAB internals.
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <hyeonggon.yoo@sk.com>
Tested-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <hyeonggon.yoo@sk.com>
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>