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author | Linus Torvalds | 2022-08-02 19:12:45 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds | 2022-08-02 19:12:45 -0700 |
commit | 7d9d077c783e33995c80d8b28fea1a98161934f4 (patch) | |
tree | 5404e84d237b764a07aaf299d175c1dcfbad9966 /Documentation | |
parent | c2a24a7a036b3bd3a2e6c66730dfc777cae6540a (diff) | |
parent | 34bc7b454dc31f75a0be7ee8ab378135523d7c51 (diff) |
Merge tag 'rcu.2022.07.26a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu
Pull RCU updates from Paul McKenney:
- Documentation updates
- Miscellaneous fixes
- Callback-offload updates, perhaps most notably a new
RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL Kconfig option that causes all CPUs to be
offloaded at boot time, regardless of kernel boot parameters.
This is useful to battery-powered systems such as ChromeOS and
Android. In addition, a new RCU_NOCB_CPU_CB_BOOST kernel boot
parameter prevents offloaded callbacks from interfering with
real-time workloads and with energy-efficiency mechanisms
- Polled grace-period updates, perhaps most notably making these APIs
account for both normal and expedited grace periods
- Tasks RCU updates, perhaps most notably reducing the CPU overhead of
RCU tasks trace grace periods by more than a factor of two on a
system with 15,000 tasks.
The reduction is expected to increase with the number of tasks, so it
seems reasonable to hypothesize that a system with 150,000 tasks
might see a 20-fold reduction in CPU overhead
- Torture-test updates
- Updates that merge RCU's dyntick-idle tracking into context tracking,
thus reducing the overhead of transitioning to kernel mode from
either idle or nohz_full userspace execution for kernels that track
context independently of RCU.
This is expected to be helpful primarily for kernels built with
CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y
* tag 'rcu.2022.07.26a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: (98 commits)
rcu: Add irqs-disabled indicator to expedited RCU CPU stall warnings
rcu: Diagnose extended sync_rcu_do_polled_gp() loops
rcu: Put panic_on_rcu_stall() after expedited RCU CPU stall warnings
rcutorture: Test polled expedited grace-period primitives
rcu: Add polled expedited grace-period primitives
rcutorture: Verify that polled GP API sees synchronous grace periods
rcu: Make Tiny RCU grace periods visible to polled APIs
rcu: Make polled grace-period API account for expedited grace periods
rcu: Switch polled grace-period APIs to ->gp_seq_polled
rcu/nocb: Avoid polling when my_rdp->nocb_head_rdp list is empty
rcu/nocb: Add option to opt rcuo kthreads out of RT priority
rcu: Add nocb_cb_kthread check to rcu_is_callbacks_kthread()
rcu/nocb: Add an option to offload all CPUs on boot
rcu/nocb: Fix NOCB kthreads spawn failure with rcu_nocb_rdp_deoffload() direct call
rcu/nocb: Invert rcu_state.barrier_mutex VS hotplug lock locking order
rcu/nocb: Add/del rdp to iterate from rcuog itself
rcu/tree: Add comment to describe GP-done condition in fqs loop
rcu: Initialize first_gp_fqs at declaration in rcu_gp_fqs()
rcu/kvfree: Remove useless monitor_todo flag
rcu: Cleanup RCU urgency state for offline CPU
...
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst | 10 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 34 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/features/time/context-tracking/arch-support.txt | 6 |
4 files changed, 45 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst index 04ed8bf27a0e..a0f8164c8513 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst +++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst @@ -1844,10 +1844,10 @@ that meets this requirement. Furthermore, NMI handlers can be interrupted by what appear to RCU to be normal interrupts. One way that this can happen is for code that -directly invokes rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit() to be called +directly invokes ct_irq_enter() and ct_irq_exit() to be called from an NMI handler. This astonishing fact of life prompted the current -code structure, which has rcu_irq_enter() invoking -rcu_nmi_enter() and rcu_irq_exit() invoking rcu_nmi_exit(). +code structure, which has ct_irq_enter() invoking +ct_nmi_enter() and ct_irq_exit() invoking ct_nmi_exit(). And yes, I also learned of this requirement the hard way. Loadable Modules @@ -2195,7 +2195,7 @@ scheduling-clock interrupt be enabled when RCU needs it to be: sections, and RCU believes this CPU to be idle, no problem. This sort of thing is used by some architectures for light-weight exception handlers, which can then avoid the overhead of - rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit() at exception entry and + ct_irq_enter() and ct_irq_exit() at exception entry and exit, respectively. Some go further and avoid the entireties of irq_enter() and irq_exit(). Just make very sure you are running some of your tests with @@ -2226,7 +2226,7 @@ scheduling-clock interrupt be enabled when RCU needs it to be: +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | **Answer**: | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ -| One approach is to do ``rcu_irq_exit();rcu_irq_enter();`` every so | +| One approach is to do ``ct_irq_exit();ct_irq_enter();`` every so | | often. But given that long-running interrupt handlers can cause other | | problems, not least for response time, shouldn't you work to keep | | your interrupt handler's runtime within reasonable bounds? | diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst index 794837eb519b..e38c587067fc 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst +++ b/Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst @@ -97,12 +97,12 @@ warnings: which will include additional debugging information. - A low-level kernel issue that either fails to invoke one of the - variants of rcu_user_enter(), rcu_user_exit(), rcu_idle_enter(), - rcu_idle_exit(), rcu_irq_enter(), or rcu_irq_exit() on the one + variants of rcu_eqs_enter(true), rcu_eqs_exit(true), ct_idle_enter(), + ct_idle_exit(), ct_irq_enter(), or ct_irq_exit() on the one hand, or that invokes one of them too many times on the other. Historically, the most frequent issue has been an omission of either irq_enter() or irq_exit(), which in turn invoke - rcu_irq_enter() or rcu_irq_exit(), respectively. Building your + ct_irq_enter() or ct_irq_exit(), respectively. Building your kernel with CONFIG_RCU_EQS_DEBUG=y can help track down these types of issues, which sometimes arise in architecture-specific code. diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt index 79e724175a49..df9a5b60ee46 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -3667,6 +3667,9 @@ just as if they had also been called out in the rcu_nocbs= boot parameter. + Note that this argument takes precedence over + the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. + noiotrap [SH] Disables trapped I/O port accesses. noirqdebug [X86-32] Disables the code which attempts to detect and @@ -4560,6 +4563,9 @@ no-callback mode from boot but the mode may be toggled at runtime via cpusets. + Note that this argument takes precedence over + the CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL option. + rcu_nocb_poll [KNL] Rather than requiring that offloaded CPUs (specified by rcu_nocbs= above) explicitly @@ -4669,6 +4675,34 @@ When RCU_NOCB_CPU is set, also adjust the priority of NOCB callback kthreads. + rcutree.rcu_divisor= [KNL] + Set the shift-right count to use to compute + the callback-invocation batch limit bl from + the number of callbacks queued on this CPU. + The result will be bounded below by the value of + the rcutree.blimit kernel parameter. Every bl + callbacks, the softirq handler will exit in + order to allow the CPU to do other work. + + Please note that this callback-invocation batch + limit applies only to non-offloaded callback + invocation. Offloaded callbacks are instead + invoked in the context of an rcuoc kthread, which + scheduler will preempt as it does any other task. + + rcutree.nocb_nobypass_lim_per_jiffy= [KNL] + On callback-offloaded (rcu_nocbs) CPUs, + RCU reduces the lock contention that would + otherwise be caused by callback floods through + use of the ->nocb_bypass list. However, in the + common non-flooded case, RCU queues directly to + the main ->cblist in order to avoid the extra + overhead of the ->nocb_bypass list and its lock. + But if there are too many callbacks queued during + a single jiffy, RCU pre-queues the callbacks into + the ->nocb_bypass queue. The definition of "too + many" is supplied by this kernel boot parameter. + rcutree.rcu_nocb_gp_stride= [KNL] Set the number of NOCB callback kthreads in each group, which defaults to the square root diff --git a/Documentation/features/time/context-tracking/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/time/context-tracking/arch-support.txt index c9e0a16290e6..e59071a49090 100644 --- a/Documentation/features/time/context-tracking/arch-support.txt +++ b/Documentation/features/time/context-tracking/arch-support.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ # -# Feature name: context-tracking -# Kconfig: HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING -# description: arch supports context tracking for NO_HZ_FULL +# Feature name: user-context-tracking +# Kconfig: HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER +# description: arch supports user context tracking for NO_HZ_FULL # ----------------------- | arch |status| |