linux-toradex.git/kernel/rcutorture.c, branch v2.6.38.2

rcu: add priority-inversion testing to rcutorture

2010-10-07T17:41:08+00:00

Add an optional test to force long-term preemption of RCU read-side
critical sections, controlled by new test_boost, test_boost_interval,
and test_boost_duration module parameters.  This is to be used to
test RCU priority boosting.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcu: fix sparse errors in rcutorture.c

2010-09-23T16:16:42+00:00

Add the sparse __rcu address-space identifier and make a couple of
variables static.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcutorture: add random preemption

2010-08-20T00:18:01+00:00

Add random preemption to help we to torture the preemptable rcu.

srcu_read_delay() also calls rcu_read_delay() for shorter delays.

Added comment to preempt_schedule() call indicating that no quiescent
states happen if preemption is disabled.

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

sched_clock: Add local_clock() API and improve documentation

2010-06-09T08:34:49+00:00

For people who otherwise get to write: cpu_clock(smp_processor_id()),
there is now: local_clock().

Also, as per suggestion from Andrew, provide some documentation on
the various clock interfaces, and minimize the unsigned long long vs
u64 mess.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Jens Axboe 
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

Merge branch 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip

2010-05-18T15:27:54+00:00

* 'sched-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (49 commits)
  stop_machine: Move local variable closer to the usage site in cpu_stop_cpu_callback()
  sched, wait: Use wrapper functions
  sched: Remove a stale comment
  ondemand: Make the iowait-is-busy time a sysfs tunable
  ondemand: Solve a big performance issue by counting IOWAIT time as busy
  sched: Intoduce get_cpu_iowait_time_us()
  sched: Eliminate the ts->idle_lastupdate field
  sched: Fold updating of the last_update_time_info into update_ts_time_stats()
  sched: Update the idle statistics in get_cpu_idle_time_us()
  sched: Introduce a function to update the idle statistics
  sched: Add a comment to get_cpu_idle_time_us()
  cpu_stop: add dummy implementation for UP
  sched: Remove rq argument to the tracepoints
  rcu: need barrier() in UP synchronize_sched_expedited()
  sched: correctly place paranioa memory barriers in synchronize_sched_expedited()
  sched: kill paranoia check in synchronize_sched_expedited()
  sched: replace migration_thread with cpu_stop
  stop_machine: reimplement using cpu_stop
  cpu_stop: implement stop_cpu[s]()
  sched: Fix select_idle_sibling() logic in select_task_rq_fair()
  ...

rcu: remove all rcu head initializations, except on_stack initializations

2010-05-11T23:10:47+00:00

Remove all rcu head inits. We don't care about the RCU head state before passing
it to call_rcu() anyway. Only leave the "on_stack" variants so debugobjects can
keep track of objects on stack.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

sched: replace migration_thread with cpu_stop

2010-05-06T16:49:21+00:00

Currently migration_thread is serving three purposes - migration
pusher, context to execute active_load_balance() and forced context
switcher for expedited RCU synchronize_sched.  All three roles are
hardcoded into migration_thread() and determining which job is
scheduled is slightly messy.

This patch kills migration_thread and replaces all three uses with
cpu_stop.  The three different roles of migration_thread() are
splitted into three separate cpu_stop callbacks -
migration_cpu_stop(), active_load_balance_cpu_stop() and
synchronize_sched_expedited_cpu_stop() - and each use case now simply
asks cpu_stop to execute the callback as necessary.

synchronize_sched_expedited() was implemented with private
preallocated resources and custom multi-cpu queueing and waiting
logic, both of which are provided by cpu_stop.
synchronize_sched_expedited_count is made atomic and all other shared
resources along with the mutex are dropped.

synchronize_sched_expedited() also implemented a check to detect cases
where not all the callback got executed on their assigned cpus and
fall back to synchronize_sched().  If called with cpu hotplug blocked,
cpu_stop already guarantees that and the condition cannot happen;
otherwise, stop_machine() would break.  However, this patch preserves
the paranoid check using a cpumask to record on which cpus the stopper
ran so that it can serve as a bisection point if something actually
goes wrong theree.

Because the internal execution state is no longer visible,
rcu_expedited_torture_stats() is removed.

This patch also renames cpu_stop threads to from "stopper/%d" to
"migration/%d".  The names of these threads ultimately don't matter
and there's no reason to make unnecessary userland visible changes.

With this patch applied, stop_machine() and sched now share the same
resources.  stop_machine() is faster without wasting any resources and
sched migration users are much cleaner.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo 
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Ingo Molnar 
Cc: Dipankar Sarma 
Cc: Josh Triplett 
Cc: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Dimitri Sivanich

Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu

2010-03-03T15:34:18+00:00

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu:
  percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to what's left
  percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to fs
  percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to core kernel subsystems
  local_t: Remove leftover local.h
  this_cpu: Remove pageset_notifier
  this_cpu: Page allocator conversion
  percpu, x86: Generic inc / dec percpu instructions
  local_t: Move local.h include to ringbuffer.c and ring_buffer_benchmark.c
  module: Use this_cpu_xx to dynamically allocate counters
  local_t: Remove cpu_local_xx macros
  percpu: refactor the code in pcpu_[de]populate_chunk()
  percpu: remove compile warnings caused by __verify_pcpu_ptr()
  percpu: make accessors check for percpu pointer in sparse
  percpu: add __percpu for sparse.
  percpu: make access macros universal
  percpu: remove per_cpu__ prefix.

rcu: Fix rcutorture mod_timer argument to delay one jiffy

2010-02-25T09:35:00+00:00

The current "mod_timer(&t, 1)" potentially makes the timer fire
immediately, change this to wait one jiffy.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter 
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

rcu: Introduce lockdep-based checking to RCU read-side primitives

2010-02-25T08:40:59+00:00

Inspection is proving insufficient to catch all RCU misuses,
which is understandable given that rcu_dereference() might be
protected by any of four different flavors of RCU (RCU, RCU-bh,
RCU-sched, and SRCU), and might also/instead be protected by any
of a number of locking primitives. It is therefore time to
enlist the aid of lockdep.

This set of patches is inspired by earlier work by Peter
Zijlstra and Thomas Gleixner, and takes the following approach:

o	Set up separate lockdep classes for RCU, RCU-bh, and RCU-sched.

o	Set up separate lockdep classes for each instance of SRCU.

o	Create primitives that check for being in an RCU read-side
	critical section.  These return exact answers if lockdep is
	fully enabled, but if unsure, report being in an RCU read-side
	critical section.  (We want to avoid false positives!)
	The primitives are:

	For RCU: rcu_read_lock_held(void)

	For RCU-bh: rcu_read_lock_bh_held(void)

	For RCU-sched: rcu_read_lock_sched_held(void)

	For SRCU: srcu_read_lock_held(struct srcu_struct *sp)

o	Add rcu_dereference_check(), which takes a second argument
	in which one places a boolean expression based on the above
	primitives and/or lockdep_is_held().

o	A new kernel configuration parameter, CONFIG_PROVE_RCU, enables
	rcu_dereference_check().  This depends on CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING,
	and should be quite helpful during the transition period while
	CONFIG_PROVE_RCU-unaware patches are in flight.

The existing rcu_dereference() primitive does no checking, but
upcoming patches will change that.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar