From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: Michel Lespinasse <michel@lespinasse.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>, Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
Laurent Dufour <ldufour@linux.ibm.com>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Suren Baghdasaryan <surenb@google.com>,
Joel Fernandes <joelaf@google.com>,
Rom Lemarchand <romlem@google.com>,
Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 13/37] mm: implement speculative handling in __handle_mm_fault().
Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 09:32:49 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210503163249.GW975577@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210503043430.GA16059@lespinasse.org>
On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 09:34:30PM -0700, Michel Lespinasse wrote:
> On Sun, May 02, 2021 at 08:40:49PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > @@ -634,6 +644,12 @@ do { \
> > * sections, invocation of the corresponding RCU callback is deferred
> > * until after the all the other CPUs exit their critical sections.
> > *
> > + * In recent kernels, synchronize_rcu() and call_rcu() also wait for
> > + * regions of code with preemption disabled, including regions of code
> > + * with interrupts or softirqs disabled. If your kernel is old enough
> > + * for synchronize_sched() to be defined, only code enclosed within
> > + * rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock() are guaranteed to be waited for.
> > + *
> > * Note, however, that RCU callbacks are permitted to run concurrently
> > * with new RCU read-side critical sections. One way that this can happen
> > * is via the following sequence of events: (1) CPU 0 enters an RCU
>
> You still have "old enough" / "recent kernels" here. But maybe it's OK
> given that you added relevant version numbers elsewhere.
>
> Everything else looks great to me.
Good point! Like this?
Thanx, Paul
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commit fd8393a2a8a5ffd25d0766abb262137c36bda9f3
Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Date: Mon May 3 09:32:14 2021 -0700
fixup! rcu: Improve comments describing RCU read-side critical sections
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index 901ab6fa252b..323954363389 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -644,11 +644,11 @@ do { \
* sections, invocation of the corresponding RCU callback is deferred
* until after the all the other CPUs exit their critical sections.
*
- * In recent kernels, synchronize_rcu() and call_rcu() also wait for
- * regions of code with preemption disabled, including regions of code
- * with interrupts or softirqs disabled. If your kernel is old enough
- * for synchronize_sched() to be defined, only code enclosed within
- * rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock() are guaranteed to be waited for.
+ * In v5.0 and later kernels, synchronize_rcu() and call_rcu() also
+ * wait for regions of code with preemption disabled, including regions of
+ * code with interrupts or softirqs disabled. In pre-v5.0 kernels, which
+ * define synchronize_sched(), only code enclosed within rcu_read_lock()
+ * and rcu_read_unlock() are guaranteed to be waited for.
*
* Note, however, that RCU callbacks are permitted to run concurrently
* with new RCU read-side critical sections. One way that this can happen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-03 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 85+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-07 1:44 [RFC PATCH 00/37] Speculative page faults Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 01/37] mmap locking API: mmap_lock_is_contended returns a bool Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 02/37] mmap locking API: name the return values Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 03/37] do_anonymous_page: use update_mmu_tlb() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 2:06 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 04/37] do_anonymous_page: reduce code duplication Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 05/37] mm: introduce CONFIG_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 06/37] x86/mm: define ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 07/37] mm: add FAULT_FLAG_SPECULATIVE flag Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 08/37] mm: add do_handle_mm_fault() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 09/37] mm: add per-mm mmap sequence counter for speculative page fault handling Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 14:47 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 20:50 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 10/37] mm: rcu safe vma freeing Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 11/37] x86/mm: attempt speculative mm faults first Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 14:48 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 15:35 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-07 20:32 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 20:14 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 20:18 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 12/37] mm: refactor __handle_mm_fault() / handle_pte_fault() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 13/37] mm: implement speculative handling in __handle_mm_fault() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 15:36 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-04-28 14:58 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-28 15:13 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-04-28 16:11 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-04-29 0:02 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-29 0:05 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-04-29 16:12 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-29 18:04 ` Andy Lutomirski
2021-04-29 19:14 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-29 19:34 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-29 23:56 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-29 15:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-04-29 18:34 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-04-29 18:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-05-03 3:14 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-04-29 21:17 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-05-03 3:40 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-05-03 4:34 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-05-03 16:32 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 14/37] mm: add pte_map_lock() and pte_spinlock() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 15/37] mm: implement speculative handling in do_anonymous_page() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 16/37] mm: enable speculative fault handling through do_anonymous_page() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 17/37] mm: implement speculative handling in do_numa_page() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 18/37] mm: enable speculative fault " Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 19/37] mm: implement speculative handling in wp_page_copy() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 20/37] mm: implement and enable speculative fault handling in handle_pte_fault() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 21/37] mm: implement speculative handling in do_swap_page() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 22/37] mm: enable speculative fault handling through do_swap_page() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 23/37] mm: rcu safe vma->vm_file freeing Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-08 5:12 ` [mm] 87b1c39af4: nvml.blk_rw_mt_TEST0_check_pmem_debug.fail kernel test robot
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 24/37] mm: implement speculative handling in __do_fault() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 2:35 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-07 2:53 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 3:01 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-07 14:40 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-07 21:20 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 21:27 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-08 7:00 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-08 7:13 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-08 8:18 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-04-08 8:37 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-08 11:28 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 25/37] mm: implement speculative handling in filemap_fault() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 26/37] mm: implement speculative fault handling in finish_fault() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 27/37] mm: implement speculative handling in do_fault_around() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 2:37 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 28/37] mm: implement speculative handling in filemap_map_pages() Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 29/37] fs: list file types that support speculative faults Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 2:39 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 30/37] mm: enable speculative fault handling for supported file types Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 31/37] ext4: implement speculative fault handling Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 32/37] f2fs: " Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 33/37] mm: enable speculative fault handling only for multithreaded user space Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 2:48 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-07 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 34/37] mm: rcu safe vma freeing " Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 2:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2021-04-08 7:53 ` Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:45 ` [RFC PATCH 35/37] mm: spf statistics Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:45 ` [RFC PATCH 36/37] arm64/mm: define ARCH_SUPPORTS_SPECULATIVE_PAGE_FAULT Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-07 1:45 ` [RFC PATCH 37/37] arm64/mm: attempt speculative mm faults first Michel Lespinasse
2021-04-21 1:44 ` [RFC PATCH 00/37] Speculative page faults Chinwen Chang
2021-06-28 22:14 ` Axel Rasmussen
2021-07-21 11:33 ` vjitta
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