Because RCU does not watch exception early-entry/late-exit, idle-loop,
or CPU-hotplug execution, protection of tracing and BPF operations is
needlessly complicated. This commit therefore adds a variant of
Tasks RCU that:
o Has explicit read-side markers to allow finite grace periods in
the face of in-kernel loops for PREEMPT=n builds. These markers
are rcu_read_lock_trace() and rcu_read_unlock_trace().
o Protects code in the idle loop, exception entry/exit, and
CPU-hotplug code paths. In this respect, RCU-tasks trace is
similar to SRCU, but with lighter-weight readers.
o Avoids expensive read-side instruction, having overhead similar
to that of Preemptible RCU.
There are of course downsides:
o The grace-period code can send IPIs to CPUs, even when those
CPUs are in the idle loop or in nohz_full userspace. This is
mitigated by later commits.
o It is necessary to scan the full tasklist, much as for Tasks RCU.
o There is a single callback queue guarded by a single lock,
again, much as for Tasks RCU. However, those early use cases
that request multiple grace periods in quick succession are
expected to do so from a single task, which makes the single
lock almost irrelevant. If needed, multiple callback queues
can be provided using any number of schemes.
Perhaps most important, this variant of RCU does not affect the vanilla
flavors, rcu_preempt and rcu_sched. The fact that RCU Tasks Trace
readers can operate from idle, offline, and exception entry/exit in no
way enables rcu_preempt and rcu_sched readers to do so.
The memory ordering was outlined here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200319034030.GX3199@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72/
This effort benefited greatly from off-list discussions of BPF
requirements with Alexei Starovoitov and Andrii Nakryiko. At least
some of the on-list discussions are captured in the Link: tags below.
In addition, KCSAN was quite helpful in finding some early bugs.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200219150744.428764577@infradead.org/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87mu8p797b.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200225221305.605144982@linutronix.de/
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andriin@fb.com>
[ paulmck: Apply feedback from Steve Rostedt and Joel Fernandes. ]
[ paulmck: Decrement trc_n_readers_need_end upon IPI failure. ]
[ paulmck: Fix locking issue reported by rcutorture. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit refactors RCU tasks to allow variants to be added. These
variants will share the current Tasks-RCU tasklist scan and the holdout
list processing.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit causes the flavors of RCU Tasks to use different names
for their kthreads and in their console messages.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds a "rude" variant of RCU-tasks that has as quiescent
states schedule(), cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs(), userspace execution,
and (in theory, anyway) cond_resched(). In other words, RCU-tasks rude
readers are regions of code with preemption disabled, but excluding code
early in the CPU-online sequence and late in the CPU-offline sequence.
Updates make use of IPIs and force an IPI and a context switch on each
online CPU. This variant is useful in some situations in tracing.
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
[ paulmck: Apply EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() feedback from Qiujun Huang. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
[ paulmck: Apply review feedback from Steve Rostedt. ]
This commit splits out generic processing from RCU-tasks-specific
processing in order to allow additional flavors to be added. It also
adds a def_bool TASKS_RCU_GENERIC to enable the common RCU-tasks
infrastructure code.
This is primarily, but not entirely, a code-movement commit.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit creates an rcu_tasks struct to hold state information for
RCU Tasks. This is a preparation commit for adding additional flavors
of Tasks RCU, each of which would have its own rcu_tasks struct.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This code-movement-only commit is in preparation for adding an additional
flavor of Tasks RCU, which relies on workqueues to detect grace periods.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
