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<entry>
<title>rcu: Make TASKS_RUDE_RCU select IRQ_WORK</title>
<updated>2022-06-09T08:22:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2022-03-17T16:30:10+00:00</published>
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[ Upstream commit 46e861be589881e0905b9ade3d8439883858721c ]

The TASKS_RUDE_RCU does not select IRQ_WORK, which can result in build
failures for kernels that do not otherwise select IRQ_WORK.  This commit
therefore causes the TASKS_RUDE_RCU Kconfig option to select IRQ_WORK.

Reported-by: Hyeonggon Yoo &lt;42.hyeyoo@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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[ Upstream commit 46e861be589881e0905b9ade3d8439883858721c ]

The TASKS_RUDE_RCU does not select IRQ_WORK, which can result in build
failures for kernels that do not otherwise select IRQ_WORK.  This commit
therefore causes the TASKS_RUDE_RCU Kconfig option to select IRQ_WORK.

Reported-by: Hyeonggon Yoo &lt;42.hyeyoo@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin &lt;sashal@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'doc.2021.01.06a', 'fixes.2021.01.04b', 'kfree_rcu.2021.01.04a', 'mmdumpobj.2021.01.22a', 'nocb.2021.01.06a', 'rt.2021.01.04a', 'stall.2021.01.06a', 'torture.2021.01.12a' and 'tortureall.2021.01.06a' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2021-01-22T23:26:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-01-22T23:26:44+00:00</published>
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doc.2021.01.06a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2021.01.04b: Miscellaneous fixes.
kfree_rcu.2021.01.04a: kfree_rcu() updates.
mmdumpobj.2021.01.22a: Dump allocation point for memory blocks.
nocb.2021.01.06a: RCU callback offload updates and cblist segment lengths.
rt.2021.01.04a: Real-time updates.
stall.2021.01.06a: RCU CPU stall warning updates.
torture.2021.01.12a: Torture-test updates and polling SRCU grace-period API.
tortureall.2021.01.06a: Torture-test script updates.
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doc.2021.01.06a: Documentation updates.
fixes.2021.01.04b: Miscellaneous fixes.
kfree_rcu.2021.01.04a: kfree_rcu() updates.
mmdumpobj.2021.01.22a: Dump allocation point for memory blocks.
nocb.2021.01.06a: RCU callback offload updates and cblist segment lengths.
rt.2021.01.04a: Real-time updates.
stall.2021.01.06a: RCU CPU stall warning updates.
torture.2021.01.12a: Torture-test updates and polling SRCU grace-period API.
tortureall.2021.01.06a: Torture-test script updates.
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Make TASKS_TRACE_RCU select IRQ_WORK</title>
<updated>2021-01-04T23:54:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-22T05:00:18+00:00</published>
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Tasks Trace RCU uses irq_work_queue() to safely awaken its grace-period
kthread, so this commit therefore causes the TASKS_TRACE_RCU Kconfig
option select the IRQ_WORK Kconfig option.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt; # build-tested
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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Tasks Trace RCU uses irq_work_queue() to safely awaken its grace-period
kthread, so this commit therefore causes the TASKS_TRACE_RCU Kconfig
option select the IRQ_WORK Kconfig option.

Reported-by: kernel test robot &lt;lkp@intel.com&gt;
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt; # build-tested
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Make RCU_BOOST default on CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT</title>
<updated>2021-01-04T21:43:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Sebastian Andrzej Siewior</name>
<email>bigeasy@linutronix.de</email>
</author>
<published>2020-12-15T14:16:45+00:00</published>
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On PREEMPT_RT kernels, RCU callbacks are deferred to the `rcuc' kthread.
This can stall RCU grace periods due to lengthy preemption not only of RCU
readers but also of 'rcuc' kthreads, either of which prevent grace periods
from completing, which can in turn result in OOM.  Because PREEMPT_RT
kernels have more kthreads that can block grace periods, it is more
important for such kernels to enable RCU_BOOST.

This commit therefore makes RCU_BOOST the default on PREEMPT_RT.
RCU_BOOST can still be manually disabled if need be.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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On PREEMPT_RT kernels, RCU callbacks are deferred to the `rcuc' kthread.
This can stall RCU grace periods due to lengthy preemption not only of RCU
readers but also of 'rcuc' kthreads, either of which prevent grace periods
from completing, which can in turn result in OOM.  Because PREEMPT_RT
kernels have more kthreads that can block grace periods, it is more
important for such kernels to enable RCU_BOOST.

This commit therefore makes RCU_BOOST the default on PREEMPT_RT.
RCU_BOOST can still be manually disabled if need be.

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Clarify nocb kthreads naming in RCU_NOCB_CPU config</title>
<updated>2020-11-20T03:37:16+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Neeraj Upadhyay</name>
<email>neeraju@codeaurora.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-09-24T06:34:10+00:00</published>
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This commit clarifies that the "p" and the "s" in the in the RCU_NOCB_CPU
config-option description refer to the "x" in the "rcuox/N" kthread name.

Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraju@codeaurora.org&gt;
[ paulmck: While in the area, update description and advice. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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This commit clarifies that the "p" and the "s" in the in the RCU_NOCB_CPU
config-option description refer to the "x" in the "rcuox/N" kthread name.

Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraju@codeaurora.org&gt;
[ paulmck: While in the area, update description and advice. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Reduce leaf fanout for strict RCU grace periods</title>
<updated>2020-08-25T01:40:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-08-05T23:52:17+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=dc1269186bed3afc5a2018527516be84fe55d3e0'/>
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Because strict RCU grace periods will complete more quickly, they will
experience greater lock contention on each leaf rcu_node structure's
-&gt;lock.  This commit therefore reduces the leaf fanout in order to reduce
this lock contention.

Note that this also has the effect of reducing the number of CPUs
supported to 16 in the case of CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF=2 or 81 in the
case of CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF=3.  However, greater numbers of CPUs are
probably a bad idea when using CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y.  Those
wishing to live dangerously are free to edit their kernel/rcu/Kconfig
files accordingly.

Reported-by Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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Because strict RCU grace periods will complete more quickly, they will
experience greater lock contention on each leaf rcu_node structure's
-&gt;lock.  This commit therefore reduces the leaf fanout in order to reduce
this lock contention.

Note that this also has the effect of reducing the number of CPUs
supported to 16 in the case of CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF=2 or 81 in the
case of CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT_LEAF=3.  However, greater numbers of CPUs are
probably a bad idea when using CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y.  Those
wishing to live dangerously are free to edit their kernel/rcu/Kconfig
files accordingly.

Reported-by Jann Horn &lt;jannh@google.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu-tasks: Add Kconfig option to mediate smp_mb() vs. IPI</title>
<updated>2020-04-27T18:03:52+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-19T00:16:37+00:00</published>
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This commit provides a new TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB Kconfig option that
enables use of read-side memory barriers by both rcu_read_lock_trace()
and rcu_read_unlock_trace() when the are executed with the
current-&gt;trc_reader_special.b.need_mb flag set.  This flag is currently
never set.  Doing that is the subject of a later commit.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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This commit provides a new TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB Kconfig option that
enables use of read-side memory barriers by both rcu_read_lock_trace()
and rcu_read_unlock_trace() when the are executed with the
current-&gt;trc_reader_special.b.need_mb flag set.  This flag is currently
never set.  Doing that is the subject of a later commit.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu-tasks: Add an RCU Tasks Trace to simplify protection of tracing hooks</title>
<updated>2020-04-27T18:03:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-10T02:56:53+00:00</published>
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Because RCU does not watch exception early-entry/late-exit, idle-loop,
or CPU-hotplug execution, protection of tracing and BPF operations is
needlessly complicated.  This commit therefore adds a variant of
Tasks RCU that:

o	Has explicit read-side markers to allow finite grace periods in
	the face of in-kernel loops for PREEMPT=n builds.  These markers
	are rcu_read_lock_trace() and rcu_read_unlock_trace().

o	Protects code in the idle loop, exception entry/exit, and
	CPU-hotplug code paths.  In this respect, RCU-tasks trace is
	similar to SRCU, but with lighter-weight readers.

o	Avoids expensive read-side instruction, having overhead similar
	to that of Preemptible RCU.

There are of course downsides:

o	The grace-period code can send IPIs to CPUs, even when those
	CPUs are in the idle loop or in nohz_full userspace.  This is
	mitigated by later commits.

o	It is necessary to scan the full tasklist, much as for Tasks RCU.

o	There is a single callback queue guarded by a single lock,
	again, much as for Tasks RCU.  However, those early use cases
	that request multiple grace periods in quick succession are
	expected to do so from a single task, which makes the single
	lock almost irrelevant.  If needed, multiple callback queues
	can be provided using any number of schemes.

Perhaps most important, this variant of RCU does not affect the vanilla
flavors, rcu_preempt and rcu_sched.  The fact that RCU Tasks Trace
readers can operate from idle, offline, and exception entry/exit in no
way enables rcu_preempt and rcu_sched readers to do so.

The memory ordering was outlined here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200319034030.GX3199@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72/

This effort benefited greatly from off-list discussions of BPF
requirements with Alexei Starovoitov and Andrii Nakryiko.  At least
some of the on-list discussions are captured in the Link: tags below.
In addition, KCSAN was quite helpful in finding some early bugs.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200219150744.428764577@infradead.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87mu8p797b.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200225221305.605144982@linutronix.de/
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
[ paulmck: Apply feedback from Steve Rostedt and Joel Fernandes. ]
[ paulmck: Decrement trc_n_readers_need_end upon IPI failure. ]
[ paulmck: Fix locking issue reported by rcutorture. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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Because RCU does not watch exception early-entry/late-exit, idle-loop,
or CPU-hotplug execution, protection of tracing and BPF operations is
needlessly complicated.  This commit therefore adds a variant of
Tasks RCU that:

o	Has explicit read-side markers to allow finite grace periods in
	the face of in-kernel loops for PREEMPT=n builds.  These markers
	are rcu_read_lock_trace() and rcu_read_unlock_trace().

o	Protects code in the idle loop, exception entry/exit, and
	CPU-hotplug code paths.  In this respect, RCU-tasks trace is
	similar to SRCU, but with lighter-weight readers.

o	Avoids expensive read-side instruction, having overhead similar
	to that of Preemptible RCU.

There are of course downsides:

o	The grace-period code can send IPIs to CPUs, even when those
	CPUs are in the idle loop or in nohz_full userspace.  This is
	mitigated by later commits.

o	It is necessary to scan the full tasklist, much as for Tasks RCU.

o	There is a single callback queue guarded by a single lock,
	again, much as for Tasks RCU.  However, those early use cases
	that request multiple grace periods in quick succession are
	expected to do so from a single task, which makes the single
	lock almost irrelevant.  If needed, multiple callback queues
	can be provided using any number of schemes.

Perhaps most important, this variant of RCU does not affect the vanilla
flavors, rcu_preempt and rcu_sched.  The fact that RCU Tasks Trace
readers can operate from idle, offline, and exception entry/exit in no
way enables rcu_preempt and rcu_sched readers to do so.

The memory ordering was outlined here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200319034030.GX3199@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72/

This effort benefited greatly from off-list discussions of BPF
requirements with Alexei Starovoitov and Andrii Nakryiko.  At least
some of the on-list discussions are captured in the Link: tags below.
In addition, KCSAN was quite helpful in finding some early bugs.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200219150744.428764577@infradead.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87mu8p797b.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200225221305.605144982@linutronix.de/
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov &lt;alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko &lt;andriin@fb.com&gt;
[ paulmck: Apply feedback from Steve Rostedt and Joel Fernandes. ]
[ paulmck: Decrement trc_n_readers_need_end upon IPI failure. ]
[ paulmck: Fix locking issue reported by rcutorture. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu-tasks: Add an RCU-tasks rude variant</title>
<updated>2020-04-27T18:03:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-03T05:06:43+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=c84aad765406c4c7573ce449e8a9977ebb8f4cb9'/>
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This commit adds a "rude" variant of RCU-tasks that has as quiescent
states schedule(), cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs(), userspace execution,
and (in theory, anyway) cond_resched().  In other words, RCU-tasks rude
readers are regions of code with preemption disabled, but excluding code
early in the CPU-online sequence and late in the CPU-offline sequence.
Updates make use of IPIs and force an IPI and a context switch on each
online CPU.  This variant is useful in some situations in tracing.

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[ paulmck: Apply EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() feedback from Qiujun Huang. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
[ paulmck: Apply review feedback from Steve Rostedt. ]
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This commit adds a "rude" variant of RCU-tasks that has as quiescent
states schedule(), cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs(), userspace execution,
and (in theory, anyway) cond_resched().  In other words, RCU-tasks rude
readers are regions of code with preemption disabled, but excluding code
early in the CPU-online sequence and late in the CPU-offline sequence.
Updates make use of IPIs and force an IPI and a context switch on each
online CPU.  This variant is useful in some situations in tracing.

Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
[ paulmck: Apply EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() feedback from Qiujun Huang. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
[ paulmck: Apply review feedback from Steve Rostedt. ]
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu-tasks: Refactor RCU-tasks to allow variants to be added</title>
<updated>2020-04-27T18:03:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2020-03-03T19:49:21+00:00</published>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='https://git.exis.tech/linux.git/commit/?id=5873b8a94e5dae04b8e11fc798df512614e6d1e7'/>
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This commit splits out generic processing from RCU-tasks-specific
processing in order to allow additional flavors to be added.  It also
adds a def_bool TASKS_RCU_GENERIC to enable the common RCU-tasks
infrastructure code.

This is primarily, but not entirely, a code-movement commit.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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This commit splits out generic processing from RCU-tasks-specific
processing in order to allow additional flavors to be added.  It also
adds a def_bool TASKS_RCU_GENERIC to enable the common RCU-tasks
infrastructure code.

This is primarily, but not entirely, a code-movement commit.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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