linux-toradex.git/kernel/rcupdate.c, branch v3.0.16

rcu: Use WARN_ON_ONCE for DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD warnings

2011-05-06T06:16:57+00:00

Avoid additional multiple-warning confusion in memory-corruption scenarios.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

rcu: Enable DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD from !PREEMPT

2011-05-06T06:16:57+00:00

The prohibition of DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD from !PREEMPT was due to the
fixup actions.  So just produce a warning from !PREEMPT.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

rcu: add comment saying why DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD depends on PREEMPT.

2011-03-04T16:05:41+00:00

The build will break if you change the Kconfig to allow
DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD and !PREEMPT, so document the reasoning
near where the breakage would occur.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcupdate: remove dead code

2011-03-04T16:05:33+00:00

DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD depends on PREEMPT, so #ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT
is totally useless in kernel/rcupdate.c.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

Merge branch 'rcu/urgent' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-2.6-rcu into core/rcu

2010-10-07T07:43:11+00:00

rcu: move check from rcu_dereference_bh to rcu_read_lock_bh_held

2010-10-05T21:03:02+00:00

As suggested by Linus, push the irqs_disabled() down to the
rcu_read_lock_bh_held() level so that all callers get the benefit
of the correct check.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcu: define __rcu address space modifier for sparse

2010-08-20T00:17:59+00:00

This commit provides definitions for the __rcu annotation defined earlier.
This annotation permits sparse to check for correct use of RCU-protected
pointers.  If a pointer that is annotated with __rcu is accessed
directly (as opposed to via rcu_dereference(), rcu_assign_pointer(),
or one of their variants), sparse can be made to complain.  To enable
such complaints, use the new default-disabled CONFIG_SPARSE_RCU_POINTER
kernel configuration option.  Please note that these sparse complaints are
intended to be a debugging aid, -not- a code-style-enforcement mechanism.

There are special rcu_dereference_protected() and rcu_access_pointer()
accessors for use when RCU read-side protection is not required, for
example, when no other CPU has access to the data structure in question
or while the current CPU hold the update-side lock.

This patch also updates a number of docbook comments that were showing
their age.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Christopher Li 
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett

tree/tiny rcu: Add debug RCU head objects

2010-06-14T23:37:26+00:00

Helps finding racy users of call_rcu(), which results in hangs because list
entries are overwritten and/or skipped.

Changelog since v4:
- Bissectability is now OK
- Now generate a WARN_ON_ONCE() for non-initialized rcu_head passed to
  call_rcu(). Statically initialized objects are detected with
  object_is_static().
- Rename rcu_head_init_on_stack to init_rcu_head_on_stack.
- Remove init_rcu_head() completely.

Changelog since v3:
- Include comments from Lai Jiangshan

This new patch version is based on the debugobjects with the newly introduced
"active state" tracker.

Non-initialized entries are all considered as "statically initialized". An
activation fixup (triggered by call_rcu()) takes care of performing the debug
object initialization without issuing any warning. Since we cannot increase the
size of struct rcu_head, I don't see much room to put an identifier for
statically initialized rcu_head structures. So for now, we have to live without
"activation without explicit init" detection. But the main purpose of this debug
option is to detect double-activations (double call_rcu() use of a rcu_head
before the callback is executed), which is correctly addressed here.

This also detects potential internal RCU callback corruption, which would cause
the callbacks to be executed twice.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
CC: David S. Miller 
CC: "Paul E. McKenney" 
CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org
CC: mingo@elte.hu
CC: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
CC: dipankar@in.ibm.com
CC: josh@joshtriplett.org
CC: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
CC: niv@us.ibm.com
CC: tglx@linutronix.de
CC: peterz@infradead.org
CC: rostedt@goodmis.org
CC: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
CC: dhowells@redhat.com
CC: eric.dumazet@gmail.com
CC: Alexey Dobriyan 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan

rcu: slim down rcutiny by removing rcu_scheduler_active and friends

2010-05-10T18:08:34+00:00

TINY_RCU does not need rcu_scheduler_active unless CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC.
So conditionally compile rcu_scheduler_active in order to slim down
rcutiny a bit more.  Also gets rid of an EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, which is
responsible for most of the slimming.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcu: create rcu_my_thread_group_empty() wrapper

2010-05-06T16:28:41+00:00

Some RCU-lockdep splat repairs need to know whether they are running
in a single-threaded process.  Unfortunately, the thread_group_empty()
primitive is defined in sched.h, and can induce #include hell.  This
commit therefore introduces a rcu_my_thread_group_empty() wrapper that
is defined in rcupdate.c, thus avoiding the need to include sched.h
everywhere.

Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney"