From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: rcu@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com,
mingo@kernel.org, jiangshanlai@gmail.com,
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fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com, joel@joelfernandes.org,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH rcu 08/14] rcu: Move rcu_dynticks_eqs_online() to rcu_cpu_starting()
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 16:33:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210915233343.3906738-8-paulmck@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210915233305.GA3906641@paulmck-ThinkPad-P17-Gen-1>
The purpose of rcu_dynticks_eqs_online() is to adjust the ->dynticks
counter of an incoming CPU when required. It is currently invoked
from rcutree_prepare_cpu(), which runs before the incoming CPU is
running, and thus on some other CPU. This makes the per-CPU accesses in
rcu_dynticks_eqs_online() iffy at best, and it all "works" only because
the running CPU cannot possibly be in dyntick-idle mode, which means
that rcu_dynticks_eqs_online() never has any effect.
It is currently OK for rcu_dynticks_eqs_online() to have no effect, but
only because the CPU-offline process just happens to leave ->dynticks in
the correct state. After all, if ->dynticks were in the wrong state on a
just-onlined CPU, rcutorture would complain bitterly the next time that
CPU went idle, at least in kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_EQS_DEBUG=y,
for example, those built by rcutorture scenario TREE04. One could
argue that this means that rcu_dynticks_eqs_online() is unnecessary,
however, removing it would make the CPU-online process vulnerable to
slight changes in the CPU-offline process.
One could also ask why it is safe to move the rcu_dynticks_eqs_online()
call so late in the CPU-online process. Indeed, there was a time when it
would not have been safe, which does much to explain its current location.
However, the marking of a CPU as online from an RCU perspective has long
since moved from rcutree_prepare_cpu() to rcu_cpu_starting(), and all
that is required is that ->dynticks be set correctly by the time that
the CPU is marked as online from an RCU perspective. After all, the RCU
grace-period kthread does not check to see if offline CPUs are also idle.
(In case you were curious, this is one reason why there is quiescent-state
reporting as part of the offlining process.)
This commit therefore moves the call to rcu_dynticks_eqs_online() from
rcutree_prepare_cpu() to rcu_cpu_starting(), this latter being guaranteed
to be running on the incoming CPU. The call to this function must of
course be placed before this rcu_cpu_starting() announces this CPU's
presence to RCU.
Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
---
kernel/rcu/tree.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index e6e1b9281530..801075e36515 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -4129,7 +4129,6 @@ int rcutree_prepare_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
rdp->n_force_qs_snap = READ_ONCE(rcu_state.n_force_qs);
rdp->blimit = blimit;
rdp->dynticks_nesting = 1; /* CPU not up, no tearing. */
- rcu_dynticks_eqs_online();
raw_spin_unlock_rcu_node(rnp); /* irqs remain disabled. */
/*
@@ -4249,6 +4248,7 @@ void rcu_cpu_starting(unsigned int cpu)
mask = rdp->grpmask;
WRITE_ONCE(rnp->ofl_seq, rnp->ofl_seq + 1);
WARN_ON_ONCE(!(rnp->ofl_seq & 0x1));
+ rcu_dynticks_eqs_online();
smp_mb(); // Pair with rcu_gp_cleanup()'s ->ofl_seq barrier().
raw_spin_lock_irqsave_rcu_node(rnp, flags);
WRITE_ONCE(rnp->qsmaskinitnext, rnp->qsmaskinitnext | mask);
--
2.31.1.189.g2e36527f23
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-15 23:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-15 23:33 [PATCH rcu 0/14] Miscellaneous fixes for v5.16 Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 01/14] rcu: Mark accesses to rcu_state.n_force_qs Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 02/14] rcu-nocb: Fix a couple of tree_nocb code-style nits Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 03/14] rcu: Eliminate rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() local variable rnhqp Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 04/14] rcu: Eliminate rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs() local variable ruqp Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 05/14] doc: Add another stall-warning root cause in stallwarn.rst Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 06/14] rcu: Fix undefined Kconfig macros Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 07/14] rcu: Comment rcu_gp_init() code waiting for CPU-hotplug operations Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-15 23:33 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 09/14] rcu: Simplify rcu_report_dead() call to rcu_report_exp_rdp() Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 10/14] rcu: Make rcutree_dying_cpu() use its "cpu" parameter Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-16 7:28 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 11/14] rcu: Make rcu_normal_after_boot writable again Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-16 7:30 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-16 13:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-16 14:27 ` Peter Zijlstra
2021-09-16 16:53 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 12/14] rcu: Make rcu update module parameters world-readable Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 13/14] rcu: Fix existing exp request check in sync_sched_exp_online_cleanup() Paul E. McKenney
2021-09-15 23:33 ` [PATCH rcu 14/14] rcu: Avoid unneeded function call in rcu_read_unlock() Paul E. McKenney
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