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author | Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> | 2018-10-04 03:37:25 +0300 |
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committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> | 2018-11-12 19:49:05 +0300 |
commit | c9b6f899e120c83ef144b3d4a8365413ef49cce4 (patch) | |
tree | d544ef2b827ba0fb53871f8143cc02a41d53adbc /Documentation/RCU/Design | |
parent | 5cc379a42acd7104747077db7aaf4b01115ee484 (diff) | |
download | linux-c9b6f899e120c83ef144b3d4a8365413ef49cce4.tar.xz |
doc: Remove rcu_dynticks from Data-Structures
rcu_dynticks was folded into rcu_data structure. Update the data
structures RCU document accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: <kernel-team@android.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RCU/Design')
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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/Design/Data-Structures/Data-Structures.html | 90 |
2 files changed, 25 insertions, 760 deletions
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The <tt>rcu_segcblist</tt> Structure</a> <li> <a href="#The rcu_data Structure"> The <tt>rcu_data</tt> Structure</a> -<li> <a href="#The rcu_dynticks Structure"> - The <tt>rcu_dynticks</tt> Structure</a> <li> <a href="#The rcu_head Structure"> The <tt>rcu_head</tt> Structure</a> <li> <a href="#RCU-Specific Fields in the task_struct Structure"> @@ -174,16 +172,8 @@ said to be in <i>dyntick-idle mode</i>. RCU must handle dyntick-idle CPUs specially because RCU would otherwise wake up each CPU on every grace period, which would defeat the whole purpose of <tt>CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE</tt>. -RCU uses the <tt>rcu_dynticks</tt> structure to track -which CPUs are in dyntick idle mode, as shown below: - -</p><p><img src="BigTreeClassicRCUBHdyntick.svg" alt="BigTreeClassicRCUBHdyntick.svg" width="33%"> - -</p><p>However, if a CPU is in dyntick-idle mode, it is in that mode -for all flavors of RCU. -Therefore, a single <tt>rcu_dynticks</tt> structure is allocated per -CPU, and all of a given CPU's <tt>rcu_data</tt> structures share -that <tt>rcu_dynticks</tt>, as shown in the figure. +RCU uses the dynticks related fields in the <tt>rcu_data</tt> structure +to track which CPUs are in dyntick idle mode. </p><p>Kernels built with <tt>CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU</tt> support rcu_preempt in addition to rcu_sched and rcu_bh, as shown below: @@ -216,9 +206,6 @@ its own synchronization: <li> Each <tt>rcu_node</tt> structure has a spinlock. <li> The fields in <tt>rcu_data</tt> are private to the corresponding CPU, although a few can be read and written by other CPUs. -<li> Similarly, the fields in <tt>rcu_dynticks</tt> are private - to the corresponding CPU, although a few can be read by - other CPUs. </ol> <p>It is important to note that different data structures can have @@ -274,11 +261,6 @@ follows: access to this information from the corresponding CPU. Finally, this structure records past dyntick-idle state for the corresponding CPU and also tracks statistics. -<li> <tt>rcu_dynticks</tt>: - This per-CPU structure tracks the current dyntick-idle - state for the corresponding CPU. - Unlike the other three structures, the <tt>rcu_dynticks</tt> - structure is not replicated per RCU flavor. <li> <tt>rcu_head</tt>: This structure represents RCU callbacks, and is the only structure allocated and managed by RCU users. @@ -289,8 +271,8 @@ follows: <p>If all you wanted from this article was a general notion of how RCU's data structures are related, you are done. Otherwise, each of the following sections give more details on -the <tt>rcu_state</tt>, <tt>rcu_node</tt>, <tt>rcu_data</tt>, -and <tt>rcu_dynticks</tt> data structures. +the <tt>rcu_state</tt>, <tt>rcu_node</tt> and <tt>rcu_data</tt> data +structures. <h3><a name="The rcu_state Structure"> The <tt>rcu_state</tt> Structure</a></h3> @@ -1017,30 +999,19 @@ as follows: <pre> 1 int cpu; - 2 struct rcu_state *rsp; - 3 struct rcu_node *mynode; - 4 struct rcu_dynticks *dynticks; - 5 unsigned long grpmask; - 6 bool beenonline; + 2 struct rcu_node *mynode; + 3 unsigned long grpmask; + 4 bool beenonline; </pre> <p>The <tt>->cpu</tt> field contains the number of the -corresponding CPU, the <tt>->rsp</tt> pointer references -the corresponding <tt>rcu_state</tt> structure (and is most frequently -used to locate the name of the corresponding flavor of RCU for tracing), -and the <tt>->mynode</tt> field references the corresponding -<tt>rcu_node</tt> structure. +corresponding CPU and the <tt>->mynode</tt> field references the +corresponding <tt>rcu_node</tt> structure. The <tt>->mynode</tt> is used to propagate quiescent states up the combining tree. -<p>The <tt>->dynticks</tt> pointer references the -<tt>rcu_dynticks</tt> structure corresponding to this -CPU. -Recall that a single per-CPU instance of the <tt>rcu_dynticks</tt> -structure is shared among all flavors of RCU. -These first four fields are constant and therefore require not -synchronization. +These two fields are constant and therefore do not require synchronization. -</p><p>The <tt>->grpmask</tt> field indicates the bit in +<p>The <tt>->grpmask</tt> field indicates the bit in the <tt>->mynode->qsmask</tt> corresponding to this <tt>rcu_data</tt> structure, and is also used when propagating quiescent states. @@ -1181,26 +1152,22 @@ Finally, the <tt>->dynticks_fqs</tt> field is used to count the number of times this CPU is determined to be in dyntick-idle state, and is used for tracing and debugging purposes. -<h3><a name="The rcu_dynticks Structure"> -The <tt>rcu_dynticks</tt> Structure</a></h3> - -<p>The <tt>rcu_dynticks</tt> maintains the per-CPU dyntick-idle state -for the corresponding CPU. -Unlike the other structures, <tt>rcu_dynticks</tt> is not -replicated over the different flavors of RCU. -The fields in this structure may be accessed only from the corresponding -CPU (and from tracing) unless otherwise stated. -Its fields are as follows: +<p> +This portion of the rcu_data structure is declared as follows: <pre> 1 long dynticks_nesting; 2 long dynticks_nmi_nesting; 3 atomic_t dynticks; 4 bool rcu_need_heavy_qs; - 5 unsigned long rcu_qs_ctr; - 6 bool rcu_urgent_qs; + 5 bool rcu_urgent_qs; </pre> +<p>These fields in the rcu_data structure maintain the per-CPU dyntick-idle +state for the corresponding CPU. +The fields may be accessed only from the corresponding CPU (and from tracing) +unless otherwise stated. + <p>The <tt>->dynticks_nesting</tt> field counts the nesting depth of process execution, so that in normal circumstances this counter has value zero or one. @@ -1242,19 +1209,12 @@ it is willing to call for heavy-weight dyntick-counter operations. This flag is checked by RCU's context-switch and <tt>cond_resched()</tt> code, which provide a momentary idle sojourn in response. -</p><p>The <tt>->rcu_qs_ctr</tt> field is used to record -quiescent states from <tt>cond_resched()</tt>. -Because <tt>cond_resched()</tt> can execute quite frequently, this -must be quite lightweight, as in a non-atomic increment of this -per-CPU field. - </p><p>Finally, the <tt>->rcu_urgent_qs</tt> field is used to record -the fact that the RCU core code would really like to see a quiescent -state from the corresponding CPU, with the various other fields indicating -just how badly RCU wants this quiescent state. -This flag is checked by RCU's context-switch and <tt>cond_resched()</tt> -code, which, if nothing else, non-atomically increment <tt>->rcu_qs_ctr</tt> -in response. +the fact that the RCU core code would really like to see a quiescent state from +the corresponding CPU, with the various other fields indicating just how badly +RCU wants this quiescent state. +This flag is checked by RCU's context-switch path +(<tt>rcu_note_context_switch</tt>) and the cond_resched code. <table> <tr><th> </th></tr> @@ -1431,7 +1391,7 @@ So each flavor of RCU is represented by an <tt>rcu_state</tt> structure, which contains a combining tree of <tt>rcu_node</tt> and <tt>rcu_data</tt> structures. Finally, in <tt>CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE</tt> kernels, each CPU's dyntick-idle -state is tracked by an <tt>rcu_dynticks</tt> structure. +state is tracked by dynticks-related fields in the <tt>rcu_data</tt> structure. If you made it this far, you are well prepared to read the code walkthroughs in the other articles in this series. |