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2024-04-15rcu: Fix buffer overflow in print_cpu_stall_info()Nikita Kiryushin1-1/+2
The rcuc-starvation output from print_cpu_stall_info() might overflow the buffer if there is a huge difference in jiffies difference. The situation might seem improbable, but computers sometimes get very confused about time, which can result in full-sized integers, and, in this case, buffer overflow. Also, the unsigned jiffies difference is printed using %ld, which is normally for signed integers. This is intentional for debugging purposes, but it is not obvious from the code. This commit therefore changes sprintf() to snprintf() and adds a clarifying comment about intention of %ld format. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE. Fixes: 245a62982502 ("rcu: Dump rcuc kthread status for CPUs not reporting quiescent state") Signed-off-by: Nikita Kiryushin <kiryushin@ancud.ru> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
2024-04-15rcu: Mark loads from rcu_state.n_online_cpusPaul E. McKenney1-2/+4
The rcu_state.n_online_cpus value is only ever updated by CPU-hotplug operations, which are serialized. However, this value is read locklessly. This commit therefore marks those reads. While in the area, it also adds ASSERT_EXCLUSIVE_WRITER() calls just in case parallel CPU hotplug becomes a thing. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
2024-04-15rcu: Bring diagnostic read of rcu_state.gp_flags into alignmentPaul E. McKenney1-1/+1
This commit adds READ_ONCE() to a lockless diagnostic read from rcu_state.gp_flags to avoid giving the compiler any chance whatsoever of confusing the diagnostic state printed. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com>
2023-12-12rcu: Restrict access to RCU CPU stall notifiersPaul E. McKenney1-1/+10
Although the RCU CPU stall notifiers can be useful for dumping state when tracking down delicate forward-progress bugs where NUMA effects cause cache lines to be delivered to a given CPU regularly, but always in a state that prevents that CPU from making forward progress. These bugs can be detected by the RCU CPU stall-warning mechanism, but in some cases, the stall-warnings printk()s disrupt the forward-progress bug before any useful state can be obtained. Unfortunately, the notifier mechanism added by commit 5b404fdabacf ("rcu: Add RCU CPU stall notifier") can make matters worse if used at all carelessly. For example, if the stall warning was caused by a lock not being released, then any attempt to acquire that lock in the notifier will hang. This will prevent not only the notifier from producing any useful output, but it will also prevent the stall-warning message from ever appearing. This commit therefore hides this new RCU CPU stall notifier mechanism under a new RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig option that depends on both DEBUG_KERNEL and RCU_EXPERT. In addition, the rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_notifiers=1 kernel boot parameter must also be specified. The RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER Kconfig option's help text contains a warning and explains the dangers of careless use, recommending lockless notifier code. In addition, a WARN() is triggered each time that an attempt is made to register a stall-warning notifier in kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_NOTIFIER=y. This combination of measures will keep use of this mechanism confined to debug kernels and away from routine deployments. [ paulmck: Apply Dan Carpenter feedback. ] Fixes: 5b404fdabacf ("rcu: Add RCU CPU stall notifier") Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay (AMD) <neeraj.iitr10@gmail.com>
2023-09-11rcu/tree: Defer setting of jiffies during stall resetJoel Fernandes (Google)1-2/+18
There are instances where rcu_cpu_stall_reset() is called when jiffies did not get a chance to update for a long time. Before jiffies is updated, the CPU stall detector can go off triggering false-positives where a just-started grace period appears to be ages old. In the past, we disabled stall detection in rcu_cpu_stall_reset() however this got changed [1]. This is resulting in false-positives in KGDB usecase [2]. Fix this by deferring the update of jiffies to the third run of the FQS loop. This is more robust, as, even if rcu_cpu_stall_reset() is called just before jiffies is read, we would end up pushing out the jiffies read by 3 more FQS loops. Meanwhile the CPU stall detection will be delayed and we will not get any false positives. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20210521155624.174524-2-senozhatsky@chromium.org/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230814020045.51950-2-chenhuacai@loongson.cn/ Tested with rcutorture.cpu_stall option as well to verify stall behavior with/without patch. Tested-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@loongson.cn> Reported-by: Binbin Zhou <zhoubinbin@loongson.cn> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230814020045.51950-2-chenhuacai@loongson.cn/ Suggested-by: Paul McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: a80be428fbc1 ("rcu: Do not disable GP stall detection in rcu_cpu_stall_reset()") Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
2023-09-11rcu: Add RCU CPU stall notifierPaul E. McKenney1-1/+58
It is sometimes helpful to have a way for the subsystem causing the stall to dump its state when an RCU CPU stall occurs. This commit therefore bases rcu_stall_chain_notifier_register() and rcu_stall_chain_notifier_unregister() on atomic notifiers in order to provide this functionality. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
2023-09-11rcu: Eliminate check_cpu_stall() duplicate codeZhen Lei1-27/+15
The code and comments of self-detected and other-detected RCU CPU stall warnings are identical except the output function. This commit therefore refactors so as to consolidate the duplicate code. Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
2023-09-11rcu: Don't redump the stalled CPU where RCU GP kthread last ranZhen Lei1-1/+3
The stacks of all stalled CPUs will be dumped in rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(). If the CPU on where RCU GP kthread last ran is stalled, its stack does not need to be dumped again. We can search the corresponding backtrace based on the printed CPU ID. For example: [ 87.328275] rcu: rcu_sched kthread starved for ... ->cpu=3 <--------| ... ... | [ 89.385007] NMI backtrace for cpu 3 <--------| [ 89.385179] CPU: 3 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/3 Not tainted 5.10.0+ #22 <--| [ 89.385188] Hardware name: linux,dummy-virt (DT) [ 89.385196] pstate: 60000005 (nZCv daif -PAN -UAO -TCO BTYPE=--) [ 89.385204] pc : arch_cpu_idle+0x40/0xc0 [ 89.385211] lr : arch_cpu_idle+0x2c/0xc0 ... ... [ 89.385566] Call trace: [ 89.385574] arch_cpu_idle+0x40/0xc0 [ 89.385581] default_idle_call+0x100/0x450 [ 89.385589] cpuidle_idle_call+0x2f8/0x460 [ 89.385596] do_idle+0x1dc/0x3d0 [ 89.385604] cpu_startup_entry+0x5c/0xb0 [ 89.385613] secondary_start_kernel+0x35c/0x520 Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
2023-09-11rcu: Delete a redundant check in rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation()Zhen Lei1-7/+5
The rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation() function uses task_cpu() to sample the last CPU that the grace-period kthread ran on, and task_cpu() samples the thread_info structure's ->cpu field. But this field will always contain a number corresponding to a CPU that was online some time in the past, thus never a negative number. This invariant is checked by a WARN_ON_ONCE() in set_task_cpu(). This means that if the grace-period kthread exists, that is, if the "gpk" local variable is non-NULL, the "cpu" local variable will be non-negative. This in turn means that the existing check for non-negative "cpu" is redundant with the enclosing check for non-NULL "gpk". This commit threefore removes the redundant check of "cpu". Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
2023-07-25tty: sysrq: switch sysrq handlers from int to u8Jiri Slaby1-1/+1
The passed parameter to sysrq handlers is a key (a character). So change the type from 'int' to 'u8'. Let it specifically be 'u8' for two reasons: * unsigned: unsigned values come from the upper layers (devices) and the tty layer assumes unsigned on most places, and * 8-bit: as that what's supposed to be one day in all the layers built on the top of tty. (Currently, we use mostly 'unsigned char' and somewhere still only 'char'. (But that also translates to the former thanks to -funsigned-char.)) Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby (SUSE) <jirislaby@kernel.org> Cc: Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org> Cc: WANG Xuerui <kernel@xen0n.name> Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com> Cc: Maxime Ripard <mripard@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch> Cc: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Cc: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@kernel.org> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com> Cc: Zqiang <qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com> Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> # DRM Acked-by: WANG Xuerui <git@xen0n.name> # loongarch Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230712081811.29004-3-jirislaby@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2023-01-09rcu: Allow up to five minutes expedited RCU CPU stall-warning timeoutsPaul E. McKenney1-1/+1
The maximum value of RCU CPU stall-warning timeouts has historically been five minutes (300 seconds). However, the recently introduced expedited RCU CPU stall-warning timeout is instead limited to 21 seconds. This causes problems for CI/fuzzing services such as syzkaller by obscuring the issue in question with expedited RCU CPU stall-warning timeout splats. This commit therefore sets the RCU_EXP_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT Kconfig options upper bound to 300000 milliseconds, which is 300 seconds (AKA 5 minutes). [ paulmck: Apply feedback from Hillf Danton. ] [ paulmck: Apply feedback from Geert Uytterhoeven. ] Reported-by: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com> Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2023-01-05rcu: Align the output of RCU CPU stall warning messagesZhen Lei1-2/+2
Time stamps are added to the output in kernels built with CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME=y, which causes misaligned output. Therefore, replace pr_cont() with pr_err(), which fixes alignment and gets rid of a couple of despised pr_cont() calls. Before: [ 37.567343] rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU [ 37.567839] rcu: 0-....: (1500 ticks this GP) idle=*** [ 37.568270] (t=1501 jiffies g=4717 q=28 ncpus=4) [ 37.568668] CPU: 0 PID: 313 Comm: test0 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc4 #8 After: [ 36.762074] rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU [ 36.762543] rcu: 0-....: (1499 ticks this GP) idle=*** [ 36.763003] rcu: (t=1500 jiffies g=5097 q=27 ncpus=4) [ 36.763522] CPU: 0 PID: 313 Comm: test0 Not tainted 6.1.0-rc4 #9 Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2023-01-05rcu: Add RCU stall diagnosis informationZhen Lei1-0/+31
Because RCU CPU stall warnings are driven from the scheduling-clock interrupt handler, a workload consisting of a very large number of short-duration hardware interrupts can result in misleading stall-warning messages. On systems supporting only a single level of interrupts, that is, where interrupts handlers cannot be interrupted, this can produce misleading diagnostics. The stack traces will show the innocent-bystander interrupted task, not the interrupts that are at the very least exacerbating the stall. This situation can be improved by displaying the number of interrupts and the CPU time that they have consumed. Diagnosing other types of stalls can be eased by also providing the count of softirqs and the CPU time that they consumed as well as the number of context switches and the task-level CPU time consumed. Consider the following output given this change: rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU rcu: 0-....: (1250 ticks this GP) <omitted> rcu: hardirqs softirqs csw/system rcu: number: 624 45 0 rcu: cputime: 69 1 2425 ==> 2500(ms) This output shows that the number of hard and soft interrupts is small, there are no context switches, and the system takes up a lot of time. This indicates that the current task is looping with preemption disabled. The impact on system performance is negligible because snapshot is recorded only once for all continuous RCU stalls. This added debugging information is suppressed by default and can be enabled by building the kernel with CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_CPUTIME=y or by booting with rcupdate.rcu_cpu_stall_cputime=1. Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> Reviewed-by: Mukesh Ojha <quic_mojha@quicinc.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2022-08-31sched/debug: Try trigger_single_cpu_backtrace(cpu) in dump_cpu_task()Zhen Lei1-3/+2
The trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() function attempts to send an NMI to the target CPU, which usually provides much better stack traces than the dump_cpu_task() function's approach of dumping that stack from some other CPU. So much so that most calls to dump_cpu_task() only happen after a call to trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() has failed. And the exception to this rule really should attempt to use trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() first. Therefore, move the trigger_all_cpu_backtrace() invocation into dump_cpu_task(). Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com> Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org> Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com> Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
2022-08-03Merge tag 'rcu.2022.07.26a' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-31/+24
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu Pull RCU updates from Paul McKenney: - Documentation updates - Miscellaneous fixes - Callback-offload updates, perhaps most notably a new RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL Kconfig option that causes all CPUs to be offloaded at boot time, regardless of kernel boot parameters. This is useful to battery-powered systems such as ChromeOS and Android. In addition, a new RCU_NOCB_CPU_CB_BOOST kernel boot parameter prevents offloaded callbacks from interfering with real-time workloads and with energy-efficiency mechanisms - Polled grace-period updates, perhaps most notably making these APIs account for both normal and expedited grace periods - Tasks RCU updates, perhaps most notably reducing the CPU overhead of RCU tasks trace grace periods by more than a factor of two on a system with 15,000 tasks. The reduction is expected to increase with the number of tasks, so it seems reasonable to hypothesize that a system with 150,000 tasks might see a 20-fold reduction in CPU overhead - Torture-test updates - Updates that merge RCU's dyntick-idle tracking into context tracking, thus reducing the overhead of transitioning to kernel mode from either idle or nohz_full userspace execution for kernels that track context independently of RCU. This is expected to be helpful primarily for kernels built with CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y * tag 'rcu.2022.07.26a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: (98 commits) rcu: Add irqs-disabled indicator to expedited RCU CPU stall warnings rcu: Diagnose extended sync_rcu_do_polled_gp() loops rcu: Put panic_on_rcu_stall() after expedited RCU CPU stall warnings rcutorture: Test polled expedited grace-period primitives rcu: Add polled expedited grace-period primitives rcutorture: Verify that polled GP API sees synchronous grace periods rcu: Make Tiny RCU grace periods visible to polled APIs rcu: Make polled grace-period API account for expedited grace periods rcu: Switch polled grace-period APIs to ->gp_seq_polled rcu/nocb: Avoid polling when my_rdp->nocb_head_rdp list is empty rcu/nocb: Add option to opt rcuo kthreads out of RT priority rcu: Add nocb_cb_kthread check to rcu_is_callbacks_kthread() rcu/nocb: Add an option to offload all CPUs on boot rcu/nocb: Fix NOCB kthreads spawn failure with rcu_nocb_rdp_deoffload() direct call rcu/nocb: Invert rcu_state.barrier_mutex VS hotplug lock locking order rcu/nocb: Add/del rdp to iterate from rcuog itself rcu/tree: Add comment to describe GP-done condition in fqs loop rcu: Initialize first_gp_fqs at declaration in rcu_gp_fqs() rcu/kvfree: Remove useless monitor_todo flag rcu: Cleanup RCU urgency state for offline CPU ...
2022-07-05context_tracking: Convert state to atomic_tFrederic Weisbecker1-2/+2
Context tracking's state and dynticks counter are going to be merged in a single field so that both updates can happen atomically and at the same time. Prepare for that with converting the state into an atomic_t. [ paulmck: Apply kernel test robot feedback. ] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <uladzislau.rezki@sony.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenz@kernel.org> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com> Cc: Yu Liao <liaoyu15@huawei.com> Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker<paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Alex Belits <abelits@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com> Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
2022-07-05rcu/context_tracking: Move dynticks_nmi_nesting to context trackingFrederic Weisbecker1-1/+1
The RCU eqs tracking is going to be performed by the context tracking subsystem. The related nesting counters thus need to be moved to the context tracking structure. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <uladzislau.rezki@sony.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenz@kernel.org> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com> Cc: Yu Liao <liaoyu15@huawei.com> Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker<paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Alex Belits <abelits@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com> Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
2022-07-05rcu/context_tracking: Move dynticks_nesting to context trackingFrederic Weisbecker1-1/+1
The RCU eqs tracking is going to be performed by the context tracking subsystem. The related nesting counters thus need to be moved to the context tracking structure. Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <uladzislau.rezki@sony.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenz@kernel.org> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com> Cc: Yu Liao <liaoyu15@huawei.com> Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker<paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Alex Belits <abelits@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com> Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
2022-07-05rcu/context_tracking: Move dynticks counter to context trackingFrederic Weisbecker1-2/+2
In order to prepare for merging RCU dynticks counter into the context tracking state, move the rcu_data's dynticks field to the context tracking structure. It will later be mixed within the context tracking state itself. [ paulmck: Move enum ctx_state into global scope. ] Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <uladzislau.rezki@sony.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenz@kernel.org> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Cc: Xiongfeng Wang <wangxiongfeng2@huawei.com> Cc: Yu Liao <liaoyu15@huawei.com> Cc: Phil Auld <pauld@redhat.com> Cc: Paul Gortmaker<paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Cc: Alex Belits <abelits@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com> Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzju@redhat.com>
2022-06-23Revert "printk: add functions to prefer direct printing"Petr Mladek1-2/+0
This reverts commit 2bb2b7b57f81255c13f4395ea911d6bdc70c9fe2. The testing of 5.19 release candidates revealed missing synchronization between early and regular console functionality. It would be possible to start the console kthreads later as a workaround. But it is clear that console lock serialized console drivers between each other. It opens a big area of possible problems that were not considered by people involved in the development and review. printk() is crucial for debugging kernel issues and console output is very important part of it. The number of consoles is huge and a proper review would take some time. As a result it need to be reverted for 5.19. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/YrBdjVwBOVgLfHyb@alley Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220623145157.21938-7-pmladek@suse.com
2022-06-20rcu: Dump rcuc kthread status for CPUs not reporting quiescent stateZqiang1-28/+21
If the rcutree.use_softirq kernel boot parameter is disabled, then it is possible that a RCU CPU stall is due to the rcuc kthreads being starved of CPU time. There is currently no easy way to infer this from the RCU CPU stall warning output. This commit therefore adds a string of the form " rcuc=%ld jiffies(starved)" to a given CPU's output if the corresponding rcuc kthread has been starved for more than two seconds. [ paulmck: Eliminate extraneous space characters. ] Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2022-05-25Merge tag 'printk-for-5.19' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-0/+2
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux Pull printk updates from Petr Mladek: - Offload writing printk() messages on consoles to per-console kthreads. It prevents soft-lockups when an extensive amount of messages is printed. It was observed, for example, during boot of large systems with a lot of peripherals like disks or network interfaces. It prevents live-lockups that were observed, for example, when messages about allocation failures were reported and a CPU handled consoles instead of reclaiming the memory. It was hard to solve even with rate limiting because it would need to take into account the amount of messages and the speed of all consoles. It is a must to have for real time. Otherwise, any printk() might break latency guarantees. The per-console kthreads allow to handle each console on its own speed. Slow consoles do not longer slow down faster ones. And printk() does not longer unpredictably slows down various code paths. There are situations when the kthreads are either not available or not reliable, for example, early boot, suspend, or panic. In these situations, printk() uses the legacy mode and tries to handle consoles immediately. - Add documentation for the printk index. * tag 'printk-for-5.19' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/printk/linux: printk, tracing: fix console tracepoint printk: remove @console_locked printk: extend console_lock for per-console locking printk: add kthread console printers printk: add functions to prefer direct printing printk: add pr_flush() printk: move buffer definitions into console_emit_next_record() caller printk: refactor and rework printing logic printk: add con_printk() macro for console details printk: call boot_delay_msec() in printk_delay() printk: get caller_id/timestamp after migration disable printk: wake waiters for safe and NMI contexts printk: wake up all waiters printk: add missing memory barrier to wake_up_klogd() printk: cpu sync always disable interrupts printk: rename cpulock functions printk/index: Printk index feature documentation MAINTAINERS: Add printk indexing maintainers on mention of printk_index
2022-05-11Merge branch 'exp.2022.05.11a' into HEADPaul E. McKenney1-0/+28
exp.2022.05.11a: Expedited-grace-period latency-reduction updates.
2022-05-11rcu: Introduce CONFIG_RCU_EXP_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUTUladzislau Rezki1-0/+28
Currently both expedited and regular grace period stall warnings use a single timeout value that with units of seconds. However, recent Android use cases problem require a sub-100-millisecond expedited RCU CPU stall warning. Given that expedited RCU grace periods normally complete in far less than a single millisecond, especially for small systems, this is not unreasonable. Therefore introduce the CONFIG_RCU_EXP_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT kernel configuration that defaults to 20 msec on Android and remains the same as that of the non-expedited stall warnings otherwise. It also can be changed in run-time via: /sys/.../parameters/rcu_exp_cpu_stall_timeout. [ paulmck: Default of zero to use CONFIG_RCU_STALL_TIMEOUT. ] Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki <uladzislau.rezki@sony.com> Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2022-04-22printk: add functions to prefer direct printingJohn Ogness1-0/+2
Once kthread printing is available, console printing will no longer occur in the context of the printk caller. However, there are some special contexts where it is desirable for the printk caller to directly print out kernel messages. Using pr_flush() to wait for threaded printers is only possible if the caller is in a sleepable context and the kthreads are active. That is not always the case. Introduce printk_prefer_direct_enter() and printk_prefer_direct_exit() functions to explicitly (and globally) activate/deactivate preferred direct console printing. The term "direct console printing" refers to printing to all enabled consoles from the context of the printk caller. The term "prefer" is used because this type of printing is only best effort. If the console is currently locked or other printers are already actively printing, the printk caller will need to rely on the other contexts to handle the printing. This preferred direct printing is how all printing has been handled until now (unless it was explicitly deferred). When kthread printing is introduced, there may be some unanticipated problems due to kthreads being unable to flush important messages. In order to minimize such risks, preferred direct printing is activated for the primary important messages when the system experiences general types of major errors. These are: - emergency reboot/shutdown - cpu and rcu stalls - hard and soft lockups - hung tasks - warn - sysrq Note that since kthread printing does not yet exist, no behavior changes result from this commit. This is only implementing the counter and marking the various places where preferred direct printing is active. Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> # for RCU Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220421212250.565456-13-john.ogness@linutronix.de
2022-04-21rcu: Print number of online CPUs in RCU CPU stall-warning messagesPaul E. McKenney1-4/+4
RCU's synchronous grace periods act quite differently when there is only one online CPU, especially in the no-op case in kernels built with CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n. This change in behavior can be important debugging information, so this commit adds the number of online CPUs to the RCU CPU stall warning messages. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2022-02-02rcu: Add per-CPU rcuc task dumps to RCU CPU stall warningsZqiang1-0/+35
When the rcutree.use_softirq kernel boot parameter is set to zero, all RCU_SOFTIRQ processing is carried out by the per-CPU rcuc kthreads. If these kthreads are being starved, quiescent states will not be reported, which in turn means that the grace period will not end, which can in turn trigger RCU CPU stall warnings. This commit therefore dumps stack traces of stalled CPUs' rcuc kthreads, which can help identify what is preventing those kthreads from running. Suggested-by: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org> Reviewed-by: Ammar Faizi <ammarfaizi2@gnuweeb.org> Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-12-01rcu: Remove the RCU_FAST_NO_HZ Kconfig optionPaul E. McKenney1-25/+2
All of the uses of CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ=y that I have seen involve systems with RCU callbacks offloaded. In this situation, all that this Kconfig option does is slow down idle entry/exit with an additional allways-taken early exit. If this is the only use case, then this Kconfig option nothing but an attractive nuisance that needs to go away. This commit therefore removes the RCU_FAST_NO_HZ Kconfig option. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-10-07sched,rcu: Rework try_invoke_on_locked_down_task()Peter Zijlstra1-4/+4
Give try_invoke_on_locked_down_task() a saner name and have it return an int so that the caller might distinguish between different reasons of failure. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Acked-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Tested-by: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> # on s390 Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210929152428.649944917@infradead.org
2021-08-06rcu: Use per_cpu_ptr to get the pointer of per_cpu variableLiu Song1-1/+1
There are a few remaining locations in kernel/rcu that still use "&per_cpu()". This commit replaces them with "per_cpu_ptr(&)", and does not introduce any functional change. Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org> Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Liu Song <liu.song11@zte.com.cn> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-08-06rcu: Mark accesses in tree_stall.hPaul E. McKenney1-30/+33
This commit marks the accesses in tree_stall.h so as to both avoid undesirable compiler optimizations and to keep KCSAN focused on the accesses of the core algorithm. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-08-06rcu: Mark lockless ->qsmask read in rcu_check_boost_fail()Paul E. McKenney1-1/+1
Accesses to ->qsmask are normally protected by ->lock, but there is an exception in the diagnostic code in rcu_check_boost_fail(). This commit therefore applies data_race() to this access to avoid KCSAN complaining about the C-language writes protected by ->lock. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-08-06rcu: Start timing stall repetitions after warning completePaul E. McKenney1-1/+8
Systems with low-bandwidth consoles can have very large printk() latencies, and on such systems it makes no sense to have the next RCU CPU stall warning message start output before the prior message completed. This commit therefore sets the time of the next stall only after the prints have completed. While printing, the time of the next stall message is set to ULONG_MAX/2 jiffies into the future. Reviewed-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-08-06rcu: Do not disable GP stall detection in rcu_cpu_stall_reset()Sergey Senozhatsky1-6/+3
rcu_cpu_stall_reset() is one of the functions virtual CPUs execute during VM resume in order to handle jiffies skew that can trigger false positive stall warnings. Paul has pointed out that this approach is problematic because rcu_cpu_stall_reset() disables RCU grace period stall-detection virtually forever, while in fact it can just restart the stall-detection timeout. Suggested-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-08-06rcu/tree: Handle VM stoppage in stall detectionSergey Senozhatsky1-0/+18
The soft watchdog timer function checks if a virtual machine was suspended and hence what looks like a lockup in fact is a false positive. This is what kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused() does: it tests guest PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED (which is set by the host) and if it's set then we need to touch all watchdogs and bail out. Watchdog timer function runs from IRQ, so PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED check works fine. There is, however, one more watchdog that runs from IRQ, so watchdog timer fn races with it, and that watchdog is not aware of PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED - RCU stall detector. apic_timer_interrupt() smp_apic_timer_interrupt() hrtimer_interrupt() __hrtimer_run_queues() tick_sched_timer() tick_sched_handle() update_process_times() rcu_sched_clock_irq() This triggers RCU stalls on our devices during VM resume. If tick_sched_handle()->rcu_sched_clock_irq() runs on a VCPU before watchdog_timer_fn()->kvm_check_and_clear_guest_paused() then there is nothing on this VCPU that touches watchdogs and RCU reads stale gp stall timestamp and new jiffies value, which makes it think that RCU has stalled. Make RCU stall watchdog aware of PVCLOCK_GUEST_STOPPED and don't report RCU stalls when we resume the VM. Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org> Signed-off-by: Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-08-06rcu: Fix stall-warning deadlock due to non-release of rcu_node ->lockYanfei Xu1-1/+3
If rcu_print_task_stall() is invoked on an rcu_node structure that does not contain any tasks blocking the current grace period, it takes an early exit that fails to release that rcu_node structure's lock. This results in a self-deadlock, which is detected by lockdep. To reproduce this bug: tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/bin/kvm.sh --allcpus --duration 3 --trust-make --configs "TREE03" --kconfig "CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y" --bootargs "rcutorture.stall_cpu=30 rcutorture.stall_cpu_block=1 rcutorture.fwd_progress=0 rcutorture.test_boost=0" This will also result in other complaints, including RCU's scheduler hook complaining about blocking rather than preemption and an rcutorture writer stall. Only a partial RCU CPU stall warning message will be printed because of the self-deadlock. This commit therefore releases the lock on the rcu_print_task_stall() function's early exit path. Fixes: c583bcb8f5ed ("rcu: Don't invoke try_invoke_on_locked_down_task() with irqs disabled") Tested-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-08-06rcu: Fix to include first blocked task in stall warningYanfei Xu1-2/+2
The for loop in rcu_print_task_stall() always omits ts[0], which points to the first task blocking the stalled grace period. This in turn fails to count this first task, which means that ndetected will be equal to zero when all CPUs have passed through their quiescent states and only one task is blocking the stalled grace period. This zero value for ndetected will in turn result in an incorrect "All QSes seen" message: rcu: INFO: rcu_preempt detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: rcu: Tasks blocked on level-1 rcu_node (CPUs 12-23): (detected by 15, t=6504 jiffies, g=164777, q=9011209) rcu: All QSes seen, last rcu_preempt kthread activity 1 (4295252379-4295252378), jiffies_till_next_fqs=1, root ->qsmask 0x2 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/uaccess.h:156 in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 70613, name: msgstress04 INFO: lockdep is turned off. Preemption disabled at: [<ffff8000104031a4>] create_object.isra.0+0x204/0x4b0 CPU: 15 PID: 70613 Comm: msgstress04 Kdump: loaded Not tainted 5.12.2-yoctodev-standard #1 Hardware name: Marvell OcteonTX CN96XX board (DT) Call trace: dump_backtrace+0x0/0x2cc show_stack+0x24/0x30 dump_stack+0x110/0x188 ___might_sleep+0x214/0x2d0 __might_sleep+0x7c/0xe0 This commit therefore fixes the loop to include ts[0]. Fixes: c583bcb8f5ed ("rcu: Don't invoke try_invoke_on_locked_down_task() with irqs disabled") Tested-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Yanfei Xu <yanfei.xu@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-07-07rcu: Fix pr_info() formats and values in show_rcu_gp_kthreads()Paul E. McKenney1-2/+2
This commit changes from "%lx" to "%x" and from "0x1ffffL" to "0x1ffff" to match the change in type between the old field ->state (unsigned long) and the new field ->__state (unsigned int). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-07-04Merge branch 'core-rcu-2021.07.04' of ↵Linus Torvalds1-8/+76
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu Pull RCU updates from Paul McKenney: - Bitmap parsing support for "all" as an alias for all bits - Documentation updates - Miscellaneous fixes, including some that overlap into mm and lockdep - kvfree_rcu() updates - mem_dump_obj() updates, with acks from one of the slab-allocator maintainers - RCU NOCB CPU updates, including limited deoffloading - SRCU updates - Tasks-RCU updates - Torture-test updates * 'core-rcu-2021.07.04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: (78 commits) tasks-rcu: Make show_rcu_tasks_gp_kthreads() be static inline rcu-tasks: Make ksoftirqd provide RCU Tasks quiescent states rcu: Add missing __releases() annotation rcu: Remove obsolete rcu_read_unlock() deadlock commentary rcu: Improve comments describing RCU read-side critical sections rcu: Create an unrcu_pointer() to remove __rcu from a pointer srcu: Early test SRCU polling start rcu: Fix various typos in comments rcu/nocb: Unify timers rcu/nocb: Prepare for fine-grained deferred wakeup rcu/nocb: Only cancel nocb timer if not polling rcu/nocb: Delete bypass_timer upon nocb_gp wakeup rcu/nocb: Cancel nocb_timer upon nocb_gp wakeup rcu/nocb: Allow de-offloading rdp leader rcu/nocb: Directly call __wake_nocb_gp() from bypass timer rcu: Don't penalize priority boosting when there is nothing to boost rcu: Point to documentation of ordering guarantees rcu: Make rcu_gp_cleanup() be noinline for tracing rcu: Restrict RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD to at most four CPUs rcu: Make show_rcu_gp_kthreads() dump rcu_node structures blocking GP ...
2021-06-18sched: Change task_struct::statePeter Zijlstra1-6/+6
Change the type and name of task_struct::state. Drop the volatile and shrink it to an 'unsigned int'. Rename it in order to find all uses such that we can use READ_ONCE/WRITE_ONCE as appropriate. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com> Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Acked-by: Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@linaro.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210611082838.550736351@infradead.org
2021-05-18Merge branches 'bitmaprange.2021.05.10c', 'doc.2021.05.10c', ↵Paul E. McKenney1-8/+76
'fixes.2021.05.13a', 'kvfree_rcu.2021.05.10c', 'mmdumpobj.2021.05.10c', 'nocb.2021.05.12a', 'srcu.2021.05.12a', 'tasks.2021.05.18a' and 'torture.2021.05.10c' into HEAD bitmaprange.2021.05.10c: Allow "all" for bitmap ranges. doc.2021.05.10c: Documentation updates. fixes.2021.05.13a: Miscellaneous fixes. kvfree_rcu.2021.05.10c: kvfree_rcu() updates. mmdumpobj.2021.05.10c: mem_dump_obj() updates. nocb.2021.05.12a: RCU NOCB CPU updates, including limited deoffloading. srcu.2021.05.12a: SRCU updates. tasks.2021.05.18a: Tasks-RCU updates. torture.2021.05.10c: Torture-test updates.
2021-05-13rcu: Add missing __releases() annotationJules Irenge1-0/+1
Sparse reports a warning at rcu_print_task_stall(): "warning: context imbalance in rcu_print_task_stall - unexpected unlock" The root cause is a missing annotation on rcu_print_task_stall(). This commit therefore adds the missing __releases(rnp->lock) annotation. Signed-off-by: Jules Irenge <jbi.octave@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-05-11rcu: Don't penalize priority boosting when there is nothing to boostPaul E. McKenney1-3/+14
RCU priority boosting cannot do anything unless there is at least one task blocking the current RCU grace period that was preempted within the RCU read-side critical section that it still resides in. However, the current rcu_torture_boost_failed() code will count this as an RCU priority-boosting failure if there were no CPUs blocking the current grace period. This situation can happen (for example) if the last CPU blocking the current grace period was subjected to vCPU preemption, which is always a risk for rcutorture guest OSes. This commit therefore causes rcu_torture_boost_failed() to refrain from reporting failure unless there is at least one task blocking the current RCU grace period that was preempted within the RCU read-side critical section that it still resides in. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-05-11rcu: Make show_rcu_gp_kthreads() dump rcu_node structures blocking GPPaul E. McKenney1-2/+3
Currently, show_rcu_gp_kthreads() only dumps rcu_node structures that have outdated ideas of the current grace-period number. This commit also dumps those that are in any way blocking the current grace period. This helps diagnose RCU priority boosting failures. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-05-11rcu: Add quiescent states and boost states to show_rcu_gp_kthreads() outputPaul E. McKenney1-3/+9
This commit adds each rcu_node structure's ->qsmask and "bBEG" output indicating whether: (1) There is a boost kthread, (2) A reader needs to be (or is in the process of being) boosted, (3) A reader is blocking an expedited grace period, and (4) A reader is blocking a normal grace period. This helps diagnose RCU priority boosting failures. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-05-11rcu: Add ->gp_max to show_rcu_gp_kthreads() outputPaul E. McKenney1-1/+2
This commit adds ->gp_max to show_rcu_gp_kthreads() output in order to better diagnose RCU priority boosting failures. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-05-11rcu: Add ->rt_priority and ->gp_start to show_rcu_gp_kthreads() outputPaul E. McKenney1-3/+5
This commit adds ->rt_priority and ->gp_start to show_rcu_gp_kthreads() output in order to better diagnose RCU priority boosting failures. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-05-11rcutorture: Don't count CPU-stalled time against priority boostingPaul E. McKenney1-0/+10
It will frequently be the case that rcu_torture_boost() will get a ->start_gp_poll() cookie that needs almost all of the current grace period plus an additional grace period to elapse before ->poll_gp_state() will return true. It is quite possible that the current grace period will have (say) two seconds of stall by a CPU failing to pass through a quiescent state, followed by 300 milliseconds of delay due to a preempted reader. The next grace period might suffer only one second of stall by a CPU, followed by another 300 milliseconds of delay due to a preempted reader. This is an example of RCU priority boosting doing its job, but the full elapsed time of 3.6 seconds exceeds the 3.5-second limit. In addition, there is no CPU stall in force at the 3.5-second mark, so this would nevertheless currently be counted as an RCU priority boosting failure. This commit therefore avoids this sort of false positive by resetting the gp_state_time timestamp any time that the current grace period is being blocked by a CPU. This results in extremely frequent calls to the ->check_boost_failed() function, so this commit provides a lockless fastpath that is selected by supplying a NULL CPU-number pointer. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-05-11rcutorture: Forgive RCU boost failures when CPUs don't pass through QSPaul E. McKenney1-0/+36
Currently, rcu_torture_boost() runs CPU-bound at real-time priority to force RCU priority inversions. It then checks that grace periods progress during this CPU-bound time. If grace periods fail to progress, it reports and RCU priority boosting failure. However, it is possible (and sometimes does happen) that the grace period fails to progress due to a CPU failing to pass through a quiescent state for an extended time period (3.5 seconds by default). This can happen due to vCPU preemption, long-running interrupts, and much else besides. There is nothing that RCU priority boosting can do about these situations, and so they should not be counted as RCU priority boosting failures. This commit therefore checks for CPUs (as opposed to preempted tasks) holding up a grace period, and flags the resulting RCU priority boosting failures, but does not splat nor count them as errors. It does rate-limit them to avoid flooding the console log. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2021-03-15rcu/tree: Add a trace event for RCU CPU stall warningsSangmoon Kim1-0/+2
This commit adds a trace event which allows tracing the beginnings of RCU CPU stall warnings on systems where sysctl_panic_on_rcu_stall is disabled. The first parameter is the name of RCU flavor like other trace events. The second parameter indicates whether this is a stall of an expedited grace period, a self-detected stall of a normal grace period, or a stall of a normal grace period detected by some CPU other than the one that is stalled. RCU CPU stall warnings are often caused by external-to-RCU issues, for example, in interrupt handling or task scheduling. Therefore, this event uses TRACE_EVENT, not TRACE_EVENT_RCU, to avoid requiring those interested in tracing RCU CPU stalls to rebuild their kernels with CONFIG_RCU_TRACE=y. Reviewed-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Sangmoon Kim <sangmoon.kim@samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>