This patch simplifies the memory bitmap manipulations.
- remove the member size in struct bm_block
It is not necessary for struct bm_block to have the number of bit chunks that
can be calculated by using end_pfn and start_pfn.
- use find_next_bit() for memory_bm_next_pfn
No need to invent the bitmap library only for the memory bitmap.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Boot-time test for system suspend states (STR or standby). The generic
RTC framework triggers wakeup alarms, which are used to exit those states.
- Measures some aspects of suspend time ... this uses "jiffies" until
someone converts it to use a timebase that works properly even while
timer IRQs are disabled.
- Triggered by a command line parameter. By default nothing even
vaguely troublesome will happen, but "test_suspend=mem" will give
you a brief STR test during system boot. (Or you may need to use
"test_suspend=standby" instead, if your hardware needs that.)
This isn't without problems. It fires early enough during boot that for
example both PCMCIA and MMC stacks have misbehaved. The workaround in
those cases was to boot without such media cards inserted.
[matthltc@us.ibm.com: fix compile failure in boot time suspend selftest]
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tell the user about the no_console_suspend option, so that we don't have to
tell each bug reporter personally.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clarify the text a little]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To date, we've tried hard to confine filesystem support for capabilities
to the security modules. This has left a lot of the code in
kernel/capability.c in a state where it looks like it supports something
that filesystem support for capabilities actually suppresses when the LSM
security/commmoncap.c code runs. What is left is a lot of code that uses
sub-optimal locking in the main kernel
With this change we refactor the main kernel code and make it explicit
which locks are needed and that the only remaining kernel races in this
area are associated with non-filesystem capability code.
Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add basic support for more than one hstate in hugetlbfs. This is the key
to supporting multiple hugetlbfs page sizes at once.
- Rather than a single hstate, we now have an array, with an iterator
- default_hstate continues to be the struct hstate which we use by default
- Add functions for architectures to register new hstates
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes]
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch reserves huge pages at mmap() time for MAP_PRIVATE mappings in
a similar manner to the reservations taken for MAP_SHARED mappings. The
reserve count is accounted both globally and on a per-VMA basis for
private mappings. This guarantees that a process that successfully calls
mmap() will successfully fault all pages in the future unless fork() is
called.
The characteristics of private mappings of hugetlbfs files behaviour after
this patch are;
1. The process calling mmap() is guaranteed to succeed all future faults until
it forks().
2. On fork(), the parent may die due to SIGKILL on writes to the private
mapping if enough pages are not available for the COW. For reasonably
reliable behaviour in the face of a small huge page pool, children of
hugepage-aware processes should not reference the mappings; such as
might occur when fork()ing to exec().
3. On fork(), the child VMAs inherit no reserves. Reads on pages already
faulted by the parent will succeed. Successful writes will depend on enough
huge pages being free in the pool.
4. Quotas of the hugetlbfs mount are checked at reserve time for the mapper
and at fault time otherwise.
Before this patch, all reads or writes in the child potentially needs page
allocations that can later lead to the death of the parent. This applies
to reads and writes of uninstantiated pages as well as COW. After the
patch it is only a write to an instantiated page that causes problems.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This patch adds proper extern declarations for five variables in
include/linux/vmstat.h
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
remove the :vim=ft=help tag from trace files.
I used them years ago to syntax-highlight traces and forgot about this hack.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* 'sched/for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
sched: hrtick_enabled() should use cpu_active()
sched, x86: clean up hrtick implementation
sched: fix build error, provide partition_sched_domains() unconditionally
sched: fix warning in inc_rt_tasks() to not declare variable 'rq' if it's not needed
cpu hotplug: Make cpu_active_map synchronization dependency clear
cpu hotplug, sched: Introduce cpu_active_map and redo sched domain managment (take 2)
sched: rework of "prioritize non-migratable tasks over migratable ones"
sched: reduce stack size in isolated_cpu_setup()
Revert parts of "ftrace: do not trace scheduler functions"
Fixed up conflicts in include/asm-x86/thread_info.h (due to the
TIF_SINGLESTEP unification vs TIF_HRTICK_RESCHED removal) and
kernel/sched_fair.c (due to cpu_active_map vs for_each_cpu_mask_nr()
introduction).
* 'cpus4096-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (31 commits)
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in speedstep-centrino.c
cpumask: Provide a generic set of CPUMASK_ALLOC macros, FIXUP
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in cpufreq userspace routines
NR_CPUS: Replace per_cpu(..., smp_processor_id()) with __get_cpu_var
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/genapic_flat_64.c
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/genx2apic_uv_x.c
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/proc.c
NR_CPUS: Replace NR_CPUS in arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_64.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in lib/smp_processor_id.c, fix
cpumask: Use optimized CPUMASK_ALLOC macros in the centrino_target
cpumask: Provide a generic set of CPUMASK_ALLOC macros
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in lib/smp_processor_id.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in kernel/time/tick-common.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_main.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c
cpumask: Optimize cpumask_of_cpu in arch/x86/kernel/io_apic_64.c
cpumask: Replace cpumask_of_cpu with cpumask_of_cpu_ptr
Revert "cpumask: introduce new APIs"
cpumask: make for_each_cpu_mask a bit smaller
net: Pass reference to cpumask variable in net/sunrpc/svc.c
...
Fix up trivial conflicts in drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c manually
* 'core/softlockup-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
softlockup: fix invalid proc_handler for softlockup_panic
softlockup: fix watchdog task wakeup frequency
softlockup: fix watchdog task wakeup frequency
softlockup: show irqtrace
softlockup: print a module list on being stuck
softlockup: fix NMI hangs due to lock race - 2.6.26-rc regression
softlockup: fix false positives on nohz if CPU is 100% idle for more than 60 seconds
softlockup: fix softlockup_thresh fix
softlockup: fix softlockup_thresh unaligned access and disable detection at runtime
softlockup: allow panic on lockup
This adds a fast path for 64-bit syscall entry and exit when
TIF_SYSCALL_AUDIT is set, but no other kind of syscall tracing.
This path does not need to save and restore all registers as
the general case of tracing does. Avoiding the iret return path
when syscall audit is enabled helps performance a lot.
Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
The bug was reported and analysed by Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>,
the patch is based on his and Roland's suggestions.
posix_timer_event() always rewrites the pre-allocated siginfo before sending
the signal. Most of the written info is the same all the time, but memset(0)
is very wrong. If ->sigq is queued we can race with collect_signal() which
can fail to find this siginfo looking at .si_signo, or copy_siginfo() can
copy the wrong .si_code/si_tid/etc.
In short, sys_timer_settime() can in fact stop the active timer, or the user
can receive the siginfo with the wrong .si_xxx values.
Move "memset(->info, 0)" from posix_timer_event() to alloc_posix_timer(),
change send_sigqueue() to set .si_overrun = 0 when ->sigq is not queued.
It would be nice to move the whole sigq->info initialization from send to
create path, but this is not easy to do without uglifying timer_create()
further.
As Roland rightly pointed out, we need more cleanups/fixes here, see the
"FIXME" comment in the patch. Hopefully this patch makes sense anyway, and
it can mask the most bad implications.
Reported-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>
Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
kernel/posix-timers.c | 17 +++++++++++++----
kernel/signal.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
Since 15a647eba9 set_irq_wake returned -ENXIO
if another device had it already enabled. Zero is the right value to
return in this case. Moreover the change to desc->status was not reverted
if desc->chip->set_wake returned an error.
Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>
Acked-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Andrew Morton reported this s390 allmodconfig build failure:
kernel/built-in.o: In function `hrtick_start_fair':
sched.c:(.text+0x69c6): undefined reference to `__smp_call_function_single'
the reason is that s390 is not a generic-ipi SMP platform yet, while
the hrtick code relies on it. Fix the dependency.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
remove CONFIG_KMOD from core kernel code
remove CONFIG_KMOD from lib
remove CONFIG_KMOD from sparc64
rework try_then_request_module to do less in non-modular kernels
remove mention of CONFIG_KMOD from documentation
make CONFIG_KMOD invisible
modules: Take a shortcut for checking if an address is in a module
module: turn longs into ints for module sizes
Shrink struct module: CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS ifdefs
module: reorder struct module to save space on 64 bit builds
module: generic each_symbol iterator function
module: don't use stop_machine for waiting rmmod
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (79 commits)
arm: bus_id -> dev_name() and dev_set_name() conversions
sparc64: fix up bus_id changes in sparc core code
3c59x: handle pci_name() being const
MTD: handle pci_name() being const
HP iLO driver
sysdev: Convert the x86 mce tolerant sysdev attribute to generic attribute
sysdev: Add utility functions for simple int/ulong variable sysdev attributes
sysdev: Pass the attribute to the low level sysdev show/store function
driver core: Suppress sysfs warnings for device_rename().
kobject: Transmit return value of call_usermodehelper() to caller
sysfs-rules.txt: reword API stability statement
debugfs: Implement debugfs_remove_recursive()
HOWTO: change email addresses of James in HOWTO
always enable FW_LOADER unless EMBEDDED=y
uio-howto.tmpl: use unique output names
uio-howto.tmpl: use standard copyright/legal markings
sysfs: don't call notify_change
sysdev: fix debugging statements in registration code.
kobject: should use kobject_put() in kset-example
kobject: reorder kobject to save space on 64 bit builds
...
Always compile request_module when the kernel allows modules.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This patch keeps track of the boundaries of module allocation, in
order to speed up module_text_address().
Inspired by Arjan's version, which required arch-specific defines:
Various pieces of the kernel (lockdep, latencytop, etc) tend
to store backtraces, sometimes at a relatively high
frequency. In itself this isn't a big performance deal (after
all you're using diagnostics features), but there have been
some complaints from people who have over 100 modules loaded
that this is a tad too slow.
This is due to the new backtracer code which looks at every
slot on the stack to see if it's a kernel/module text address,
so that's 1024 slots. 1024 times 100 modules... that's a lot
of list walking.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This shrinks module.o and each *.ko file.
And finally, structure members which hold length of module
code (four such members there) and count of symbols
are converted from longs to ints.
We cannot possibly have a module where 32 bits won't
be enough to hold such counts.
For one, module loading checks module size for sanity
before loading, so such insanely big module will fail
that test first.
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
module.c and module.h conatains code for finding
exported symbols which are declared with EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL,
and this code is compiled in even if CONFIG_UNUSED_SYMBOLS is not set
and thus there can be no EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOLs in modules anyway
(because EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL(x) are compiled out to nothing then).
This patch adds required #ifdefs.
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Introduce an each_symbol() iterator to avoid duplicating the knowledge
about the 5 different sections containing symbols. Currently only
used by find_symbol(), but will be used by symbol_put_addr() too.
(Includes NULL ptr deref fix by Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>)
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
rmmod has a little-used "-w" option, meaning that instead of failing if the
module is in use, it should block until the module becomes unused.
In this case, we don't need to use stop_machine: Max Krasnyansky
indicated that would be useful for SystemTap which loads/unloads new
modules frequently.
Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
This allow to dynamically generate attributes and share show/store
functions between attributes. Right now most attributes are generated
by special macros and lots of duplicated code. With the attribute
passed it's instead possible to attach some data to the attribute
and then use that in shared low level functions to do different things.
I need this for the dynamically generated bank attributes in the x86
machine check code, but it'll allow some further cleanups.
I converted all users in tree to the new show/store prototype. It's a single
huge patch to avoid unbisectable sections.
Runtime tested: x86-32, x86-64
Compiled only: ia64, powerpc
Not compile tested/only grep converted: sh, arm, avr32
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
random uvesafb failures were reported against Gentoo:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=222799
and Mihai Moldovan bisected it back to:
> 8f4d37ec07 is first bad commit
> commit 8f4d37ec07
> Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
> Date: Fri Jan 25 21:08:29 2008 +0100
>
> sched: high-res preemption tick
Linus suspected it to be hrtick + vm86 interaction and observed:
> Btw, Peter, Ingo: I think that commit is doing bad things. They aren't
> _incorrect_ per se, but they are definitely bad.
>
> Why?
>
> Using random _TIF_WORK_MASK flags is really impolite for doing
> "scheduling" work. There's a reason that arch/x86/kernel/entry_32.S
> special-cases the _TIF_NEED_RESCHED flag: we don't want to exit out of
> vm86 mode unnecessarily.
>
> See the "work_notifysig_v86" label, and how it does that
> "save_v86_state()" thing etc etc.
Right, I never liked having to fiddle with those TIF flags. Initially I
needed it because the hrtimer base lock could not nest in the rq lock.
That however is fixed these days.
Currently the only reason left to fiddle with the TIF flags is remote
wakeups. We cannot program a remote cpu's hrtimer. I've been thinking
about using the new and improved IPI function call stuff to implement
hrtimer_start_on().
However that does require that smp_call_function_single(.wait=0) works
from interrupt context - /me looks at the latest series from Jens - Yes
that does seem to be supported, good.
Here's a stab at cleaning this stuff up ...
Mihai reported test success as well.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Tested-by: Mihai Moldovan <ionic@ionic.de>
Cc: Michal Januszewski <spock@gentoo.org>
Cc: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Optimize various places where a pointer to the cpumask_of_cpu value
will result in reducing stack pressure.
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* This patch replaces the dangerous lvalue version of cpumask_of_cpu
with new cpumask_of_cpu_ptr macros. These are patterned after the
node_to_cpumask_ptr macros.
In general terms, if there is a cpumask_of_cpu_map[] then a pointer to
the cpumask_of_cpu_map[cpu] entry is used. The cpumask_of_cpu_map
is provided when there is a large NR_CPUS count, reducing
greatly the amount of code generated and stack space used for
cpumask_of_cpu(). The pointer to the cpumask_t value is needed for
calling set_cpus_allowed_ptr() to reduce the amount of stack space
needed to pass the cpumask_t value.
If there isn't a cpumask_of_cpu_map[], then a temporary variable is
declared and filled in with value from cpumask_of_cpu(cpu) as well as
a pointer variable pointing to this temporary variable. Afterwards,
the pointer is used to reference the cpumask value. The compiler
will optimize out the extra dereference through the pointer as well
as the stack space used for the pointer, resulting in identical code.
A good example of the orthogonal usages is in net/sunrpc/svc.c:
case SVC_POOL_PERCPU:
{
unsigned int cpu = m->pool_to[pidx];
cpumask_of_cpu_ptr(cpumask, cpu);
*oldmask = current->cpus_allowed;
set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpumask);
return 1;
}
case SVC_POOL_PERNODE:
{
unsigned int node = m->pool_to[pidx];
node_to_cpumask_ptr(nodecpumask, node);
*oldmask = current->cpus_allowed;
set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, nodecpumask);
return 1;
}
Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When we disable a screaming irq we never see it again. If the irq
line is shared or if the driver half works this is a real pain. So
periodically poll the handlers for screaming interrupts.
I use a timer instead of the classic irq poll technique of working off
the timer interrupt because when we use the local apic timers
note_interrupt is never called (bug?). Further on a system with
dynamic ticks the timer interrupt might not even fire unless there is
a timer telling it it needs to.
I forced this case on my test system with an e1000 nic and my ssh
session remained responsive despite the interrupt handler only being
called every 10th of a second.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
When PREEMPT_TRACER and IRQSOFF_TRACER are both configured and irqsoff
tracer is running, the preempt_off sections might also be traced.
Thanks to Andrew Morton for pointing out my mistake of spin_lock disabling
interrupts while he was reviewing ftrace.txt. Seems that my example I used
actually hit this bug.
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
The type of softlockup_panic is int, but the proc_handler is
proc_doulongvec_minmax(). This handler is for unsigned long.
This handler should be proc_dointvec_minmax().
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Jack Ren and Eric Miao tracked down the following long standing
problem in the NOHZ code:
scheduler switch to idle task
enable interrupts
Window starts here
----> interrupt happens (does not set NEED_RESCHED)
irq_exit() stops the tick
----> interrupt happens (does set NEED_RESCHED)
return from schedule()
cpu_idle(): preempt_disable();
Window ends here
The interrupts can happen at any point inside the race window. The
first interrupt stops the tick, the second one causes the scheduler to
rerun and switch away from idle again and we end up with the tick
disabled.
The fact that it needs two interrupts where the first one does not set
NEED_RESCHED and the second one does made the bug obscure and extremly
hard to reproduce and analyse. Kudos to Jack and Eric.
Solution: Limit the NOHZ functionality to the idle loop to make sure
that we can not run into such a situation ever again.
cpu_idle()
{
preempt_disable();
while(1) {
tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(1); <- tell NOHZ code that we
are in the idle loop
while (!need_resched())
halt();
tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(); <- disables NOHZ mode
preempt_enable_no_resched();
schedule();
preempt_disable();
}
}
In hindsight we should have done this forever, but ...
/me grabs a large brown paperbag.
Debugged-by: Jack Ren <jack.ren@marvell.com>,
Debugged-by: eric miao <eric.y.miao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
This is v2, it's a little deference from v1 that I
had send to lkml.
use ACCESS_ONCE
use rcu_batch_after/rcu_batch_before for batch # comparison.
rcutorture test result:
(hotplugs: do cpu-online/offline once per second)
No CONFIG_NO_HZ: OK, 12hours
No CONFIG_NO_HZ, hotplugs: OK, 12hours
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y: OK, 24hours
CONFIG_NO_HZ=y, hotplugs: Failed.
(Failed also without my patch applied, exactly the same bug occurred,
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/3/24)
v1's email thread:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/2/539
v1's description:
The code/algorithm of the implement of current callbacks-processing
is very efficient and technical. But when I studied it and I found
a disadvantage:
In multi-CPU systems, when a new RCU callback is being
queued(call_rcu[_bh]), this callback will be invoked after the grace
period for the batch with batch number = rcp->cur+2 has completed
very very likely in current implement. Actually, this callback can be
invoked after the grace period for the batch with
batch number = rcp->cur+1 has completed. The delay of invocation means
that latency of synchronize_rcu() is extended. But more important thing
is that the callbacks usually free memory, and these works are delayed
too! it's necessary for reclaimer to free memory as soon as
possible when left memory is few.
A very simple way can solve this problem:
a field(struct rcu_head::batch) is added to record the batch number for
the RCU callback. And when a new RCU callback is being queued, we
determine the batch number for this callback(head->batch = rcp->cur+1)
and we move this callback to rdp->donelist if we find
that head->batch <= rcp->completed when we process callbacks.
This simple way reduces the wait time for invocation a lot. (about
2.5Grace Period -> 1.5Grace Period in average in multi-CPU systems)
This is my algorithm. But I do not add any field for struct rcu_head
in my implement. We just need to memorize the last 2 batches and
their batch number, because these 2 batches include all entries that
for whom the grace period hasn't completed. So we use a special
linked-list rather than add a field.
Please see the comment of struct rcu_data.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Gautham Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
use a batch number(rcp->pending) instead of a flag(rcp->next_pending)
rcu_start_batch() need to change this flag, so mb()s is needed
for memory-access safe.
but(after this patch applied) rcu_start_batch() do not change
this batch number(rcp->pending), rcp->pending is managed by
__rcu_process_callbacks only, and troublesome mb()s are eliminated.
And codes look simpler and clearer.
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Gautham Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
