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sched,rcu: Make cond_resched() report RCU quiescent states

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Given a CPU running a loop containing cond_resched(), with no
other tasks runnable on that CPU, RCU will eventually report RCU
CPU stall warnings due to lack of quiescent states.  Fortunately,
every call to cond_resched() is a perfectly good quiescent state.
Unfortunately, invoking rcu_note_context_switch() is a bit heavyweight
for cond_resched(), especially given the need to disable preemption,
and, for RCU-preempt, interrupts as well.

This commit therefore maintains a per-CPU counter that causes
cond_resched(), cond_resched_lock(), and cond_resched_softirq() to call
rcu_note_context_switch(), but only about once per 256 invocations.
This ratio was chosen in keeping with the relative time constants of
RCU grace periods.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney 2014-03-16 21:36:25 -07:00
parent 0e980234c9
commit ac1bea8578
3 changed files with 60 additions and 1 deletions
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include/linux/rcupdate.h
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@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
#include <linux/debugobjects.h>
#include <linux/bug.h>
#include <linux/compiler.h>
#include <linux/percpu.h>
#include <asm/barrier.h>
extern int rcu_expedited; /* for sysctl */
@ -286,6 +287,41 @@ static inline void rcu_user_hooks_switch(struct task_struct *prev,
bool __rcu_is_watching(void);
#endif /* #if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC) || defined(CONFIG_RCU_TRACE) || defined(CONFIG_SMP) */
/*
* Hooks for cond_resched() and friends to avoid RCU CPU stall warnings.
*/
#define RCU_COND_RESCHED_LIM 256 /* ms vs. 100s of ms. */
DECLARE_PER_CPU(int, rcu_cond_resched_count);
void rcu_resched(void);
/*
* Is it time to report RCU quiescent states?
*
* Note unsynchronized access to rcu_cond_resched_count. Yes, we might
* increment some random CPU's count, and possibly also load the result from
* yet another CPU's count. We might even clobber some other CPU's attempt
* to zero its counter. This is all OK because the goal is not precision,
* but rather reasonable amortization of rcu_note_context_switch() overhead
* and extremely high probability of avoiding RCU CPU stall warnings.
* Note that this function has to be preempted in just the wrong place,
* many thousands of times in a row, for anything bad to happen.
*/
static inline bool rcu_should_resched(void)
{
return raw_cpu_inc_return(rcu_cond_resched_count) >=
RCU_COND_RESCHED_LIM;
}
/*
* Report quiscent states to RCU if it is time to do so.
*/
static inline void rcu_cond_resched(void)
{
if (unlikely(rcu_should_resched()))
rcu_resched();
}
/*
* Infrastructure to implement the synchronize_() primitives in
* TREE_RCU and rcu_barrier_() primitives in TINY_RCU.