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2013-08-18rcu: Make call_rcu() leak callbacks for debug-object errorsPaul E. McKenney
If someone does a duplicate call_rcu(), the worst thing the second call_rcu() could do would be to actually queue the callback the second time because doing so corrupts whatever list the callback was already queued on. This commit therefore makes __call_rcu() check the new return value from debug-objects and leak the callback upon error. This commit also substitutes rcu_leak_callback() for whatever callback function was previously in place in order to avoid freeing the callback out from under any readers that might still be referencing it. These changes increase the probability that the debug-objects error messages will actually make it somewhere visible. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Cc: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr.bueso@hp.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2013-07-29rcu: Add const annotation to char * for RCU tracepoints and functionsSteven Rostedt (Red Hat)
All the RCU tracepoints and functions that reference char pointers do so with just 'char *' even though they do not modify the contents of the string itself. This will cause warnings if a const char * is used in one of these functions. The RCU tracepoints store the pointer to the string to refer back to them when the trace output is displayed. As this can be minutes, hours or even days later, those strings had better be constant. This change also opens the door to allow the RCU tracepoint strings and their addresses to be exported so that userspace tracing tools can translate the contents of the pointers of the RCU tracepoints. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
2013-01-28rcu: Provide RCU CPU stall warnings for tiny RCUPaul E. McKenney
Tiny RCU has historically omitted RCU CPU stall warnings in order to reduce memory requirements, however, lack of these warnings caused Thomas Gleixner some debugging pain recently. Therefore, this commit adds RCU CPU stall warnings to tiny RCU if RCU_TRACE=y. This keeps the memory footprint small, while still enabling CPU stall warnings in kernels built to enable them. Updated to include Josh Triplett's suggested use of RCU_STALL_COMMON config variable to simplify #if expressions. Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2012-10-23rcu: Add a module parameter to force use of expedited RCU primitivesAntti P Miettinen
There have been some embedded applications that would benefit from use of expedited grace-period primitives. In some ways, this is similar to synchronize_net() doing either a normal or an expedited grace period depending on lock state, but with control outside of the kernel. This commit therefore adds rcu_expedited boot and sysfs parameters that cause the kernel to substitute expedited primitives for the normal grace-period primitives. [ paulmck: Add trace/event/rcu.h to kernel/srcu.c to avoid build error. Get rid of infinite loop through contention path.] Signed-off-by: Antti P Miettinen <amiettinen@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-02-21rcu: Allow nesting of rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit()Paul E. McKenney
Use of RCU in the idle loop is incorrect, quite a few instances of just that have made their way into mainline, primarily event tracing. The problem with RCU read-side critical sections on CPUs that RCU believes to be idle is that RCU is completely ignoring the CPU, along with any attempts and RCU read-side critical sections. The approaches of eliminating the offending uses and of pushing the definition of idle down beyond the offending uses have both proved impractical. The new approach is to encapsulate offending uses of RCU with rcu_idle_exit() and rcu_idle_enter(), but this requires nesting for code that is invoked both during idle and and during normal execution. Therefore, this commit modifies rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() to permit nesting. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Acked-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-02-21rcu: Remove redundant check for rcu_head misalignmentPaul E. McKenney
There is now an unconditional check for rcu_head misalignment in __call_rcu(), so remove the old conditional one in debug_rcu_head_queue(). Reported-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-02-21rcu: Avoid waking up CPUs having only kfree_rcu() callbacksPaul E. McKenney
When CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ is enabled, RCU will allow a given CPU to enter dyntick-idle mode even if it still has RCU callbacks queued. RCU avoids system hangs in this case by scheduling a timer for several jiffies in the future. However, if all of the callbacks on that CPU are from kfree_rcu(), there is no reason to wake the CPU up, as it is not a problem to defer freeing of memory. This commit therefore tracks the number of callbacks on a given CPU that are from kfree_rcu(), and avoids scheduling the timer if all of a given CPU's callbacks are from kfree_rcu(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11rcu: Deconfuse dynticks entry-exit tracingPaul E. McKenney
The trace_rcu_dyntick() trace event did not print both the old and the new value of the nesting level, and furthermore printed only the low-order 32 bits of it. This could result in some confusion when interpreting trace-event dumps, so this commit prints both the old and the new value, prints the full 64 bits, and also selects the process-entry/exit increment to print nicely in hexadecimal. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2011-09-28rcu: Add grace-period, quiescent-state, and call_rcu trace eventsPaul E. McKenney
Add trace events to record grace-period start and end, quiescent states, CPUs noticing grace-period start and end, grace-period initialization, call_rcu() invocation, tasks blocking in RCU read-side critical sections, tasks exiting those same critical sections, force_quiescent_state() detection of dyntick-idle and offline CPUs, CPUs entering and leaving dyntick-idle mode (except from NMIs), CPUs coming online and going offline, and CPUs being kicked for staying in dyntick-idle mode for too long (as in many weeks, even on 32-bit systems). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> rcu: Add the rcu flavor to callback trace events The earlier trace events for registering RCU callbacks and for invoking them did not include the RCU flavor (rcu_bh, rcu_preempt, or rcu_sched). This commit adds the RCU flavor to those trace events. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28rcu: Put names into TINY_RCU structures under RCU_TRACEPaul E. McKenney
In order to allow event tracing to distinguish between flavors of RCU, we need those names in the relevant RCU data structures. TINY_RCU has avoided them for memory-footprint reasons, so add them only if CONFIG_RCU_TRACE=y. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-09-28rcu: Add event-tracing for RCU callback invocationPaul E. McKenney
There was recently some controversy about the overhead of invoking RCU callbacks. Add TRACE_EVENT()s to obtain fine-grained timings for the start and stop of a batch of callbacks and also for each callback invoked. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>