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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	rcu <rcu@vger.kernel.org>,
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	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
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	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>, fweisbec <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>,
	"Joel Fernandes, Google" <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 rcu 04/18] rcu: Weaken ->dynticks accesses and updates
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 11:46:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210728184651.GJ4397@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1810346528.8990.1627495925037.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com>

On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 02:12:05PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> ----- On Jul 28, 2021, at 1:58 PM, Linus Torvalds torvalds@linux-foundation.org wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 10:37 AM Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> wrote:
> >>
> >> +/*
> >> + * Increment the current CPU's rcu_data structure's ->dynticks field
> >> + * with ordering.  Return the new value.
> >> + */
> >> +static noinstr unsigned long rcu_dynticks_inc(int incby)
> >> +{
> >> +       return arch_atomic_add_return(incby, this_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data.dynticks));
> >> +}
> > 
> > Maybe inline?
> > 
> > But more I reacted to how we sadly don't have percpu atomics. They'd
> > be fairly easy to add on x86, but I guess it's not a huge deal.
> 
> Are the percpu atomics you have in mind different from what is found in
> Documentation/core-api/this_cpu_ops.rst ?
> 
> Namely this_cpu_add_return(pcp, val) in this case.
> 
> I must be missing something subtle because AFAIU those are already
> available. Those per-cpu atomics don't provide any memory ordering
> though, which may be why those are not used here.

Good point, but this code does indeed need the ordering.  It also must
support the occasional off-CPU access.

							Thanx, Paul

  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-07-28 18:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-21 20:20 [PATCH rcu 0/18] Miscellaneous fixes for v5.15 Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 01/18] rcu: Fix to include first blocked task in stall warning Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 02/18] rcu: Fix stall-warning deadlock due to non-release of rcu_node ->lock Paul E. McKenney
2021-08-03 14:24   ` Qais Yousef
2021-08-03 15:52     ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-08-03 16:12       ` Qais Yousef
2021-08-03 16:28         ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-08-03 16:33           ` Qais Yousef
2021-08-04 13:50           ` Qais Yousef
2021-08-04 22:33             ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-08-06  9:56               ` Qais Yousef
2021-08-06  9:57   ` Qais Yousef
2021-08-06 11:43     ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-08-06 12:33       ` Qais Yousef
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 03/18] rcu: Remove special bit at the bottom of the ->dynticks counter Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 04/18] rcu: Weaken ->dynticks accesses and updates Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:41   ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-21 21:25     ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-28 17:37   ` [PATCH v2 " Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-28 17:58     ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-28 18:12       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-07-28 18:32         ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-28 18:39           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-07-28 18:46         ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2021-07-28 18:46       ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-28 18:57         ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-28 18:23     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-07-28 18:58       ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-28 19:45         ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-28 20:03           ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-07-28 20:28             ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-29 14:41               ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-07-29 15:57                 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-29 17:41                   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-07-29 18:05                     ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-29 18:42                       ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-07-28 20:37     ` Josh Triplett
2021-07-28 20:47       ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-28 22:23         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2021-07-29  1:07           ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-29  7:58   ` [PATCH " Boqun Feng
2021-07-29 10:53     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2021-07-30  5:56       ` Boqun Feng
2021-07-30 17:18         ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 05/18] rcu: Mark accesses to ->rcu_read_lock_nesting Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 06/18] rculist: Unify documentation about missing list_empty_rcu() Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 07/18] rcu/tree: Handle VM stoppage in stall detection Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 08/18] rcu: Do not disable GP stall detection in rcu_cpu_stall_reset() Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 09/18] rcu: Start timing stall repetitions after warning complete Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 10/18] srcutiny: Mark read-side data races Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-29  8:23   ` Boqun Feng
2021-07-29 13:36     ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 11/18] rcu: Mark lockless ->qsmask read in rcu_check_boost_fail() Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-29  8:54   ` Boqun Feng
2021-07-29 14:03     ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-30  2:28       ` Boqun Feng
2021-07-30  3:26         ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 12/18] rcu: Make rcu_gp_init() and rcu_gp_fqs_loop noinline to conserve stack Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 13/18] rcu: Remove trailing spaces and tabs Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 14/18] rcu: Mark accesses in tree_stall.h Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 15/18] rcu: Remove useless "ret" update in rcu_gp_fqs_loop() Paul E. McKenney
2021-08-03 16:48   ` Joe Perches
2021-08-03 17:10     ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 16/18] rcu: Use per_cpu_ptr to get the pointer of per_cpu variable Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 17/18] rcu: Explain why rcu_all_qs() is a stub in preemptible TREE RCU Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 18/18] rcu: Print human-readable message for schedule() in RCU reader Paul E. McKenney

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