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authorPaul E. McKenney2018-03-02 16:35:27 -0800
committerPaul E. McKenney2018-05-15 10:27:29 -0700
commitcee4393989333795ae04dc9f3b83a578afe3fca6 (patch)
tree9b3afa8f132956c603f83a1fb098f8d30a81d7c1 /kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
parent6fba2b3767ea6e3e1204855031492415cc4dce4f (diff)
rcu: Rename cond_resched_rcu_qs() to cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs()
Commit e31d28b6ab8f ("trace: Eliminate cond_resched_rcu_qs() in favor of cond_resched()") substituted cond_resched() for the earlier call to cond_resched_rcu_qs(). However, the new-age cond_resched() does not do anything to help RCU-tasks grace periods because (1) RCU-tasks is only enabled when CONFIG_PREEMPT=y and (2) cond_resched() is a complete no-op when preemption is enabled. This situation results in hangs when running the trace benchmarks. A number of potential fixes were discussed on LKML (https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180224151240.0d63a059@vmware.local.home), including making cond_resched() not be a no-op; making cond_resched() not be a no-op, but only when running tracing benchmarks; reverting the aforementioned commit (which works because cond_resched_rcu_qs() does provide an RCU-tasks quiescent state; and adding a call to the scheduler/RCU rcu_note_voluntary_context_switch() function. All were deemed unsatisfactory, either due to added cond_resched() overhead or due to magic functions inviting cargo culting. This commit renames cond_resched_rcu_qs() to cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs(), which provides a clear hint as to what this function is doing and why and where it should be used, and then replaces the call to cond_resched() with cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs() in the trace benchmark's benchmark_event_kthread() function. Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
index 12774c4fb546..dfc42c3d52d4 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
@@ -1598,7 +1598,7 @@ static int rcu_oom_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
smp_call_function_single(cpu, rcu_oom_notify_cpu, NULL, 1);
- cond_resched_rcu_qs();
+ cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs();
}
/* Unconditionally decrement: no need to wake ourselves up. */
@@ -2227,7 +2227,7 @@ static int rcu_nocb_kthread(void *arg)
cl++;
c++;
local_bh_enable();
- cond_resched_rcu_qs();
+ cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs();
list = next;
}
trace_rcu_batch_end(rdp->rsp->name, c, !!list, 0, 0, 1);