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authorLinus Torvalds2022-08-02 19:12:45 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds2022-08-02 19:12:45 -0700
commit7d9d077c783e33995c80d8b28fea1a98161934f4 (patch)
tree5404e84d237b764a07aaf299d175c1dcfbad9966 /Documentation
parentc2a24a7a036b3bd3a2e6c66730dfc777cae6540a (diff)
parent34bc7b454dc31f75a0be7ee8ab378135523d7c51 (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.rst10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/RCU/stallwarn.rst6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt34
-rw-r--r--Documentation/features/time/context-tracking/arch-support.txt6
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|