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<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branches 'context_tracking.15.08.24a', 'csd.lock.15.08.24a', 'nocb.09.09.24a', 'rcutorture.14.08.24a', 'rcustall.09.09.24a', 'srcu.12.08.24a', 'rcu.tasks.14.08.24a', 'rcu_scaling_tests.15.08.24a', 'fixes.12.08.24a' and 'misc.11.08.24a' into next.09.09.24a</title>
<updated>2024-09-08T18:39:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Neeraj Upadhyay</name>
<email>neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org</email>
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<published>2024-09-08T18:39:47+00:00</published>
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<title>rcu: Rename rcu_dynticks_zero_in_eqs() into rcu_watching_zero_in_eqs()</title>
<updated>2024-08-15T16:00:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Valentin Schneider</name>
<email>vschneid@redhat.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-04-29T11:11:34+00:00</published>
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The context_tracking.state RCU_DYNTICKS subvariable has been renamed to
RCU_WATCHING, reflect that change in the related helpers.

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;vschneid@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org&gt;
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The context_tracking.state RCU_DYNTICKS subvariable has been renamed to
RCU_WATCHING, reflect that change in the related helpers.

Signed-off-by: Valentin Schneider &lt;vschneid@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>rcu: Provide rcu_barrier_cb_is_done() to check rcu_barrier() CBs</title>
<updated>2024-08-14T11:19:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-02T00:34:23+00:00</published>
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This commit provides a rcu_barrier_cb_is_done() function that returns
true if the *rcu_barrier*() callback passed in is done.  This will be
used when printing grace-period debugging information.

Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org&gt;
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This commit provides a rcu_barrier_cb_is_done() function that returns
true if the *rcu_barrier*() callback passed in is done.  This will be
used when printing grace-period debugging information.

Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>srcu: faster gp seq wrap-around</title>
<updated>2024-08-12T18:20:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>JP Kobryn</name>
<email>inwardvessel@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2024-07-15T23:23:24+00:00</published>
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Using a higher value for the initial gp sequence counters allows for
wrapping to occur faster. It can help with surfacing any issues that may
be happening as a result of the wrap around.

Signed-off-by: JP Kobryn &lt;inwardvessel@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org&gt;
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Using a higher value for the initial gp sequence counters allows for
wrapping to occur faster. It can help with surfacing any issues that may
be happening as a result of the wrap around.

Signed-off-by: JP Kobryn &lt;inwardvessel@gmail.com&gt;
Tested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org&gt;
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<title>rcutorture: Make rcutorture support print rcu-tasks gp state</title>
<updated>2024-04-16T09:16:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Zqiang</name>
<email>qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com</email>
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<published>2024-03-18T09:34:11+00:00</published>
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This commit make rcu-tasks related rcutorture test support rcu-tasks
gp state printing when the writer stall occurs or the at the end of
rcutorture test, and generate rcu_ops-&gt;get_gp_data() operation to
simplify the acquisition of gp state for different types of rcutorture
tests.

Signed-off-by: Zqiang &lt;qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
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This commit make rcu-tasks related rcutorture test support rcu-tasks
gp state printing when the writer stall occurs or the at the end of
rcutorture test, and generate rcu_ops-&gt;get_gp_data() operation to
simplify the acquisition of gp state for different types of rcutorture
tests.

Signed-off-by: Zqiang &lt;qiang.zhang1211@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) &lt;urezki@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'rcu-doc.2024.02.14a', 'rcu-nocb.2024.02.14a', 'rcu-exp.2024.02.14a', 'rcu-tasks.2024.02.26a' and 'rcu-misc.2024.02.14a' into rcu.2024.02.26a</title>
<updated>2024-02-27T01:37:25+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Boqun Feng</name>
<email>boqun.feng@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-27T01:37:25+00:00</published>
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<title>rcu-tasks: Initialize callback lists at rcu_init() time</title>
<updated>2024-02-25T22:21:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-22T20:29:54+00:00</published>
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In order for RCU Tasks to reliably maintain per-CPU lists of exiting
tasks, those lists must be initialized before it is possible for tasks
to exit, especially given that the boot CPU is not necessarily CPU 0
(an example being, powerpc kexec() kernels).  And at the time that
rcu_init_tasks_generic() is called, a task could potentially exit,
unconventional though that sort of thing might be.

This commit therefore moves the calls to cblist_init_generic() from
functions called from rcu_init_tasks_generic() to a new function named
tasks_cblist_init_generic() that is invoked from rcu_init().

This constituted a bug in a commit that never went to mainline, so
there is no need for any backporting to -stable.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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In order for RCU Tasks to reliably maintain per-CPU lists of exiting
tasks, those lists must be initialized before it is possible for tasks
to exit, especially given that the boot CPU is not necessarily CPU 0
(an example being, powerpc kexec() kernels).  And at the time that
rcu_init_tasks_generic() is called, a task could potentially exit,
unconventional though that sort of thing might be.

This commit therefore moves the calls to cblist_init_generic() from
functions called from rcu_init_tasks_generic() to a new function named
tasks_cblist_init_generic() that is invoked from rcu_init().

This constituted a bug in a commit that never went to mainline, so
there is no need for any backporting to -stable.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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<title>rcu: Rename jiffies_till_flush to jiffies_lazy_flush</title>
<updated>2024-02-14T16:00:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2023-11-15T19:11:26+00:00</published>
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The variable name jiffies_till_flush is too generic and therefore:

* It may shadow a global variable
* It doesn't tell on what it operates

Make the name more precise, along with the related APIs.

Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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The variable name jiffies_till_flush is too generic and therefore:

* It may shadow a global variable
* It doesn't tell on what it operates

Make the name more precise, along with the related APIs.

Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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<title>rcu/exp: Remove rcu_par_gp_wq</title>
<updated>2024-02-14T15:51:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-12T15:46:21+00:00</published>
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TREE04 running on short iterations can produce writer stalls of the
following kind:

 ??? Writer stall state RTWS_EXP_SYNC(4) g3968 f0x0 -&gt;state 0x2 cpu 0
 task:rcu_torture_wri state:D stack:14568 pid:83    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
 Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  __schedule+0x2de/0x850
  ? trace_event_raw_event_rcu_exp_funnel_lock+0x6d/0xb0
  schedule+0x4f/0x90
  synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x430/0x670
  ? __pfx_autoremove_wake_function+0x10/0x10
  ? __pfx_synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x10/0x10
  do_rtws_sync.constprop.0+0xde/0x230
  rcu_torture_writer+0x4b4/0xcd0
  ? __pfx_rcu_torture_writer+0x10/0x10
  kthread+0xc7/0xf0
  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
  ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x50
  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
  &lt;/TASK&gt;

Waiting for an expedited grace period and polling for an expedited
grace period both are operations that internally rely on the same
workqueue performing necessary asynchronous work.

However, a dependency chain is involved between those two operations,
as depicted below:

       ====== CPU 0 =======                          ====== CPU 1 =======

                                                     synchronize_rcu_expedited()
                                                         exp_funnel_lock()
                                                             mutex_lock(&amp;rcu_state.exp_mutex);
    start_poll_synchronize_rcu_expedited
        queue_work(rcu_gp_wq, &amp;rnp-&gt;exp_poll_wq);
                                                         synchronize_rcu_expedited_queue_work()
                                                             queue_work(rcu_gp_wq, &amp;rew-&gt;rew_work);
                                                         wait_event() // A, wait for &amp;rew-&gt;rew_work completion
                                                         mutex_unlock() // B
    //======&gt; switch to kworker

    sync_rcu_do_polled_gp() {
        synchronize_rcu_expedited()
            exp_funnel_lock()
                mutex_lock(&amp;rcu_state.exp_mutex); // C, wait B
                ....
    } // D

Since workqueues are usually implemented on top of several kworkers
handling the queue concurrently, the above situation wouldn't deadlock
most of the time because A then doesn't depend on D. But in case of
memory stress, a single kworker may end up handling alone all the works
in a serialized way. In that case the above layout becomes a problem
because A then waits for D, closing a circular dependency:

	A -&gt; D -&gt; C -&gt; B -&gt; A

This however only happens when CONFIG_RCU_EXP_KTHREAD=n. Indeed
synchronize_rcu_expedited() is otherwise implemented on top of a kthread
worker while polling still relies on rcu_gp_wq workqueue, breaking the
above circular dependency chain.

Fix this with making expedited grace period to always rely on kthread
worker. The workqueue based implementation is essentially a duplicate
anyway now that the per-node initialization is performed by per-node
kthread workers.

Meanwhile the CONFIG_RCU_EXP_KTHREAD switch is still kept around to
manage the scheduler policy of these kthread workers.

Reported-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Suggested-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Neeraj upadhyay &lt;Neeraj.Upadhyay@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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TREE04 running on short iterations can produce writer stalls of the
following kind:

 ??? Writer stall state RTWS_EXP_SYNC(4) g3968 f0x0 -&gt;state 0x2 cpu 0
 task:rcu_torture_wri state:D stack:14568 pid:83    ppid:2      flags:0x00004000
 Call Trace:
  &lt;TASK&gt;
  __schedule+0x2de/0x850
  ? trace_event_raw_event_rcu_exp_funnel_lock+0x6d/0xb0
  schedule+0x4f/0x90
  synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x430/0x670
  ? __pfx_autoremove_wake_function+0x10/0x10
  ? __pfx_synchronize_rcu_expedited+0x10/0x10
  do_rtws_sync.constprop.0+0xde/0x230
  rcu_torture_writer+0x4b4/0xcd0
  ? __pfx_rcu_torture_writer+0x10/0x10
  kthread+0xc7/0xf0
  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
  ret_from_fork+0x2f/0x50
  ? __pfx_kthread+0x10/0x10
  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1b/0x30
  &lt;/TASK&gt;

Waiting for an expedited grace period and polling for an expedited
grace period both are operations that internally rely on the same
workqueue performing necessary asynchronous work.

However, a dependency chain is involved between those two operations,
as depicted below:

       ====== CPU 0 =======                          ====== CPU 1 =======

                                                     synchronize_rcu_expedited()
                                                         exp_funnel_lock()
                                                             mutex_lock(&amp;rcu_state.exp_mutex);
    start_poll_synchronize_rcu_expedited
        queue_work(rcu_gp_wq, &amp;rnp-&gt;exp_poll_wq);
                                                         synchronize_rcu_expedited_queue_work()
                                                             queue_work(rcu_gp_wq, &amp;rew-&gt;rew_work);
                                                         wait_event() // A, wait for &amp;rew-&gt;rew_work completion
                                                         mutex_unlock() // B
    //======&gt; switch to kworker

    sync_rcu_do_polled_gp() {
        synchronize_rcu_expedited()
            exp_funnel_lock()
                mutex_lock(&amp;rcu_state.exp_mutex); // C, wait B
                ....
    } // D

Since workqueues are usually implemented on top of several kworkers
handling the queue concurrently, the above situation wouldn't deadlock
most of the time because A then doesn't depend on D. But in case of
memory stress, a single kworker may end up handling alone all the works
in a serialized way. In that case the above layout becomes a problem
because A then waits for D, closing a circular dependency:

	A -&gt; D -&gt; C -&gt; B -&gt; A

This however only happens when CONFIG_RCU_EXP_KTHREAD=n. Indeed
synchronize_rcu_expedited() is otherwise implemented on top of a kthread
worker while polling still relies on rcu_gp_wq workqueue, breaking the
above circular dependency chain.

Fix this with making expedited grace period to always rely on kthread
worker. The workqueue based implementation is essentially a duplicate
anyway now that the per-node initialization is performed by per-node
kthread workers.

Meanwhile the CONFIG_RCU_EXP_KTHREAD switch is still kept around to
manage the scheduler policy of these kthread workers.

Reported-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen &lt;anna-maria@linutronix.de&gt;
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Suggested-by: Joel Fernandes &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Suggested-by: Neeraj upadhyay &lt;Neeraj.Upadhyay@amd.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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<title>rcu/exp: Make parallel exp gp kworker per rcu node</title>
<updated>2024-02-14T15:51:36+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2024-01-12T15:46:19+00:00</published>
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When CONFIG_RCU_EXP_KTHREAD=n, the expedited grace period per node
initialization is performed in parallel via workqueues (one work per
node).

However in CONFIG_RCU_EXP_KTHREAD=y, this per node initialization is
performed by a single kworker serializing each node initialization (one
work for all nodes).

The second part is certainly less scalable and efficient beyond a single
leaf node.

To improve this, expand this single kworker into per-node kworkers. This
new layout is eventually intended to remove the workqueues based
implementation since it will essentially now become duplicate code.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
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When CONFIG_RCU_EXP_KTHREAD=n, the expedited grace period per node
initialization is performed in parallel via workqueues (one work per
node).

However in CONFIG_RCU_EXP_KTHREAD=y, this per node initialization is
performed by a single kworker serializing each node initialization (one
work for all nodes).

The second part is certainly less scalable and efficient beyond a single
leaf node.

To improve this, expand this single kworker into per-node kworkers. This
new layout is eventually intended to remove the workqueues based
implementation since it will essentially now become duplicate code.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
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