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<title>srcu: Make FORCE_NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE depend on RCU_EXPERT</title>
<updated>2025-03-29T04:19:17+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2025-03-25T14:31:45+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMuHMdX6dy9_tmpLkpcnGzxyRbe6qSWYukcPp=H1GzZdyd3qBQ@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: 536e8b9b80bc ("srcu: Add FORCE_NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE Kconfig for testing")
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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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 &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAMuHMdX6dy9_tmpLkpcnGzxyRbe6qSWYukcPp=H1GzZdyd3qBQ@mail.gmail.com/
Fixes: 536e8b9b80bc ("srcu: Add FORCE_NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE Kconfig for testing")
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven &lt;geert@linux-m68k.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'docs.2025.02.04a', 'lazypreempt.2025.03.04a', 'misc.2025.03.04a', 'srcu.2025.02.05a' and 'torture.2025.02.05a'</title>
<updated>2025-03-05T02:47:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Boqun Feng</name>
<email>boqun.feng@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-03-05T02:47:32+00:00</published>
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<entry>
<title>rcu: limit PREEMPT_RCU configurations</title>
<updated>2025-03-05T02:46:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ankur Arora</name>
<email>ankur.a.arora@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-13T04:06:58+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora &lt;ankur.a.arora@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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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 &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Peter Zijlstra &lt;peterz@infradead.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora &lt;ankur.a.arora@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>srcu: Add FORCE_NEED_SRCU_NMI_SAFE Kconfig for testing</title>
<updated>2025-02-05T15:14:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-10T19:26:23+00:00</published>
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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 &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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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 &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: rename PREEMPT_AUTO to PREEMPT_LAZY</title>
<updated>2025-02-05T15:01:55+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ankur Arora</name>
<email>ankur.a.arora@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-12-13T04:06:53+00:00</published>
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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 &amp;&amp; (PREEMPTION || PREEMPT_AUTO)

to this:

  NEED_TASKS_RCU &amp;&amp; PREEMPTION

CC: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora &lt;ankur.a.arora@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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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 &amp;&amp; (PREEMPTION || PREEMPT_AUTO)

to this:

  NEED_TASKS_RCU &amp;&amp; PREEMPTION

CC: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora &lt;ankur.a.arora@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Clarify RCU_LAZY and RCU_LAZY_DEFAULT_OFF help text</title>
<updated>2025-02-05T05:50:06+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2025-01-09T03:50:37+00:00</published>
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This commit wordsmiths the RCU_LAZY and RCU_LAZY_DEFAULT_OFF Kconfig
options' help text.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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This commit wordsmiths the RCU_LAZY and RCU_LAZY_DEFAULT_OFF Kconfig
options' help text.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Add rcuog kthreads to RCU_NOCB_CPU help text</title>
<updated>2024-11-12T20:41:08+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-10-09T18:00:39+00:00</published>
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The RCU_NOCB_CPU help text currently fails to mention rcuog kthreads,
so this commit adds this information.

Reported-by: Olivier Langlois &lt;olivier@trillion01.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;Neeraj.Upadhyay@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
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The RCU_NOCB_CPU help text currently fails to mention rcuog kthreads,
so this commit adds this information.

Reported-by: Olivier Langlois &lt;olivier@trillion01.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;Neeraj.Upadhyay@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Create NEED_TASKS_RCU to factor out enablement logic</title>
<updated>2024-04-15T09:29:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-22T18:09:19+00:00</published>
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Currently, if a Kconfig option depends on TASKS_RCU, it conditionally does
"select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION".  This works, but requires any change in
this enablement logic to be replicated across all such "select" clauses.
This commit therefore creates a new NEED_TASKS_RCU Kconfig option so
that the default value of TASKS_RCU can depend on a combination of this
new option and any needed enablement logic, so that this logic is in
one place.

While in the area, also anticipate a likely future change by adding
PREEMPT_AUTO to that logic.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ankur Arora &lt;ankur.a.arora@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
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Currently, if a Kconfig option depends on TASKS_RCU, it conditionally does
"select TASKS_RCU if PREEMPTION".  This works, but requires any change in
this enablement logic to be replicated across all such "select" clauses.
This commit therefore creates a new NEED_TASKS_RCU Kconfig option so
that the default value of TASKS_RCU can depend on a combination of this
new option and any needed enablement logic, so that this logic is in
one place.

While in the area, also anticipate a likely future change by adding
PREEMPT_AUTO to that logic.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ankur Arora &lt;ankur.a.arora@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mark Rutland &lt;mark.rutland@arm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Make TINY_RCU depend on !PREEMPT_RCU rather than !PREEMPTION</title>
<updated>2024-04-15T09:29:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-14T23:33:55+00:00</published>
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Right now, TINY_RCU depends on (!PREEMPTION &amp;&amp; !SMP), which has served the
kernel well for many years due to the fact that PREEMPT_RCU is normally
a synonym for PREEMPTION.  But with the advent of lazy preemption,
it will be possible to have non-preemptible RCU in a preemptible kernel,
so that kernels could be built with PREEMPT_RCU=n and PREEMPTION=y.

This commit therefore makes TINY_RCU depend on (!PREEMPT_RCU &amp;&amp; !SMP),
thus allowing for a non-preemptible RCU in preemptible kernels.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ankur Arora &lt;ankur.a.arora@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
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Right now, TINY_RCU depends on (!PREEMPTION &amp;&amp; !SMP), which has served the
kernel well for many years due to the fact that PREEMPT_RCU is normally
a synonym for PREEMPTION.  But with the advent of lazy preemption,
it will be possible to have non-preemptible RCU in a preemptible kernel,
so that kernels could be built with PREEMPT_RCU=n and PREEMPTION=y.

This commit therefore makes TINY_RCU depend on (!PREEMPT_RCU &amp;&amp; !SMP),
thus allowing for a non-preemptible RCU in preemptible kernels.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Ankur Arora &lt;ankur.a.arora@oracle.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Provide a boot time parameter to control lazy RCU</title>
<updated>2024-02-14T16:00:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Qais Yousef</name>
<email>qyousef@layalina.io</email>
</author>
<published>2023-12-03T01:12:52+00:00</published>
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To allow more flexible arrangements while still provide a single kernel
for distros, provide a boot time parameter to enable/disable lazy RCU.

Specify:

	rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy=[y|1|n|0]

Which also requires

	rcu_nocbs=all

at boot time to enable/disable lazy RCU.

To disable it by default at build time when CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, the new
CONFIG_RCU_LAZY_DEFAULT_OFF can be used.

Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef (Google) &lt;qyousef@layalina.io&gt;
Tested-by: Andrea Righi &lt;andrea.righi@canonical.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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To allow more flexible arrangements while still provide a single kernel
for distros, provide a boot time parameter to enable/disable lazy RCU.

Specify:

	rcutree.enable_rcu_lazy=[y|1|n|0]

Which also requires

	rcu_nocbs=all

at boot time to enable/disable lazy RCU.

To disable it by default at build time when CONFIG_RCU_LAZY=y, the new
CONFIG_RCU_LAZY_DEFAULT_OFF can be used.

Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef (Google) &lt;qyousef@layalina.io&gt;
Tested-by: Andrea Righi &lt;andrea.righi@canonical.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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