From 2232c2d8e0a6a31061dec311f3d1cf7624bc14f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steven Rostedt Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 18:46:50 +0100 Subject: rcu: add support for dynamic ticks and preempt rcu The PREEMPT-RCU can get stuck if a CPU goes idle and NO_HZ is set. The idle CPU will not progress the RCU through its grace period and a synchronize_rcu my get stuck. Without this patch I have a box that will not boot when PREEMPT_RCU and NO_HZ are set. That same box boots fine with this patch. This patch comes from the -rt kernel where it has been tested for several months. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/rcupreempt.c | 224 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 220 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'kernel/rcupreempt.c') diff --git a/kernel/rcupreempt.c b/kernel/rcupreempt.c index 987cfb7..c7c5209 100644 --- a/kernel/rcupreempt.c +++ b/kernel/rcupreempt.c @@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ * to Suparna Bhattacharya for pushing me completely away * from atomic instructions on the read side. * + * - Added handling of Dynamic Ticks + * Copyright 2007 - Paul E. Mckenney + * - Steven Rostedt + * * Papers: http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU * * Design Document: http://lwn.net/Articles/253651/ @@ -409,6 +413,212 @@ static void __rcu_advance_callbacks(struct rcu_data *rdp) } } +#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ + +DEFINE_PER_CPU(long, dynticks_progress_counter) = 1; +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(long, rcu_dyntick_snapshot); +static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, rcu_update_flag); + +/** + * rcu_irq_enter - Called from Hard irq handlers and NMI/SMI. + * + * If the CPU was idle with dynamic ticks active, this updates the + * dynticks_progress_counter to let the RCU handling know that the + * CPU is active. + */ +void rcu_irq_enter(void) +{ + int cpu = smp_processor_id(); + + if (per_cpu(rcu_update_flag, cpu)) + per_cpu(rcu_update_flag, cpu)++; + + /* + * Only update if we are coming from a stopped ticks mode + * (dynticks_progress_counter is even). + */ + if (!in_interrupt() && + (per_cpu(dynticks_progress_counter, cpu) & 0x1) == 0) { + /* + * The following might seem like we could have a race + * with NMI/SMIs. But this really isn't a problem. + * Here we do a read/modify/write, and the race happens + * when an NMI/SMI comes in after the read and before + * the write. But NMI/SMIs will increment this counter + * twice before returning, so the zero bit will not + * be corrupted by the NMI/SMI which is the most important + * part. + * + * The only thing is that we would bring back the counter + * to a postion that it was in during the NMI/SMI. + * But the zero bit would be set, so the rest of the + * counter would again be ignored. + * + * On return from the IRQ, the counter may have the zero + * bit be 0 and the counter the same as the return from + * the NMI/SMI. If the state machine was so unlucky to + * see that, it still doesn't matter, since all + * RCU read-side critical sections on this CPU would + * have already completed. + */ + per_cpu(dynticks_progress_counter, cpu)++; + /* + * The following memory barrier ensures that any + * rcu_read_lock() primitives in the irq handler + * are seen by other CPUs to follow the above + * increment to dynticks_progress_counter. This is + * required in order for other CPUs to correctly + * determine when it is safe to advance the RCU + * grace-period state machine. + */ + smp_mb(); /* see above block comment. */ + /* + * Since we can't determine the dynamic tick mode from + * the dynticks_progress_counter after this routine, + * we use a second flag to acknowledge that we came + * from an idle state with ticks stopped. + */ + per_cpu(rcu_update_flag, cpu)++; + /* + * If we take an NMI/SMI now, they will also increment + * the rcu_update_flag, and will not update the + * dynticks_progress_counter on exit. That is for + * this IRQ to do. + */ + } +} + +/** + * rcu_irq_exit - Called from exiting Hard irq context. + * + * If the CPU was idle with dynamic ticks active, update the + * dynticks_progress_counter to put let the RCU handling be + * aware that the CPU is going back to idle with no ticks. + */ +void rcu_irq_exit(void) +{ + int cpu = smp_processor_id(); + + /* + * rcu_update_flag is set if we interrupted the CPU + * when it was idle with ticks stopped. + * Once this occurs, we keep track of interrupt nesting + * because a NMI/SMI could also come in, and we still + * only want the IRQ that started the increment of the + * dynticks_progress_counter to be the one that modifies + * it on exit. + */ + if (per_cpu(rcu_update_flag, cpu)) { + if (--per_cpu(rcu_update_flag, cpu)) + return; + + /* This must match the interrupt nesting */ + WARN_ON(in_interrupt()); + + /* + * If an NMI/SMI happens now we are still + * protected by the dynticks_progress_counter being odd. + */ + + /* + * The following memory barrier ensures that any + * rcu_read_unlock() primitives in the irq handler + * are seen by other CPUs to preceed the following + * increment to dynticks_progress_counter. This + * is required in order for other CPUs to determine + * when it is safe to advance the RCU grace-period + * state machine. + */ + smp_mb(); /* see above block comment. */ + per_cpu(dynticks_progress_counter, cpu)++; + WARN_ON(per_cpu(dynticks_progress_counter, cpu) & 0x1); + } +} + +static void dyntick_save_progress_counter(int cpu) +{ + per_cpu(rcu_dyntick_snapshot, cpu) = + per_cpu(dynticks_progress_counter, cpu); +} + +static inline int +rcu_try_flip_waitack_needed(int cpu) +{ + long curr; + long snap; + + curr = per_cpu(dynticks_progress_counter, cpu); + snap = per_cpu(rcu_dyntick_snapshot, cpu); + smp_mb(); /* force ordering with cpu entering/leaving dynticks. */ + + /* + * If the CPU remained in dynticks mode for the entire time + * and didn't take any interrupts, NMIs, SMIs, or whatever, + * then it cannot be in the middle of an rcu_read_lock(), so + * the next rcu_read_lock() it executes must use the new value + * of the counter. So we can safely pretend that this CPU + * already acknowledged the counter. + */ + + if ((curr == snap) && ((curr & 0x1) == 0)) + return 0; + + /* + * If the CPU passed through or entered a dynticks idle phase with + * no active irq handlers, then, as above, we can safely pretend + * that this CPU already acknowledged the counter. + */ + + if ((curr - snap) > 2 || (snap & 0x1) == 0) + return 0; + + /* We need this CPU to explicitly acknowledge the counter flip. */ + + return 1; +} + +static inline int +rcu_try_flip_waitmb_needed(int cpu) +{ + long curr; + long snap; + + curr = per_cpu(dynticks_progress_counter, cpu); + snap = per_cpu(rcu_dyntick_snapshot, cpu); + smp_mb(); /* force ordering with cpu entering/leaving dynticks. */ + + /* + * If the CPU remained in dynticks mode for the entire time + * and didn't take any interrupts, NMIs, SMIs, or whatever, + * then it cannot have executed an RCU read-side critical section + * during that time, so there is no need for it to execute a + * memory barrier. + */ + + if ((curr == snap) && ((curr & 0x1) == 0)) + return 0; + + /* + * If the CPU either entered or exited an outermost interrupt, + * SMI, NMI, or whatever handler, then we know that it executed + * a memory barrier when doing so. So we don't need another one. + */ + if (curr != snap) + return 0; + + /* We need the CPU to execute a memory barrier. */ + + return 1; +} + +#else /* !CONFIG_NO_HZ */ + +# define dyntick_save_progress_counter(cpu) do { } while (0) +# define rcu_try_flip_waitack_needed(cpu) (1) +# define rcu_try_flip_waitmb_needed(cpu) (1) + +#endif /* CONFIG_NO_HZ */ + /* * Get here when RCU is idle. Decide whether we need to * move out of idle state, and return non-zero if so. @@ -447,8 +657,10 @@ rcu_try_flip_idle(void) /* Now ask each CPU for acknowledgement of the flip. */ - for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, rcu_cpu_online_map) + for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, rcu_cpu_online_map) { per_cpu(rcu_flip_flag, cpu) = rcu_flipped; + dyntick_save_progress_counter(cpu); + } return 1; } @@ -464,7 +676,8 @@ rcu_try_flip_waitack(void) RCU_TRACE_ME(rcupreempt_trace_try_flip_a1); for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, rcu_cpu_online_map) - if (per_cpu(rcu_flip_flag, cpu) != rcu_flip_seen) { + if (rcu_try_flip_waitack_needed(cpu) && + per_cpu(rcu_flip_flag, cpu) != rcu_flip_seen) { RCU_TRACE_ME(rcupreempt_trace_try_flip_ae1); return 0; } @@ -509,8 +722,10 @@ rcu_try_flip_waitzero(void) smp_mb(); /* ^^^^^^^^^^^^ */ /* Call for a memory barrier from each CPU. */ - for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, rcu_cpu_online_map) + for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, rcu_cpu_online_map) { per_cpu(rcu_mb_flag, cpu) = rcu_mb_needed; + dyntick_save_progress_counter(cpu); + } RCU_TRACE_ME(rcupreempt_trace_try_flip_z2); return 1; @@ -528,7 +743,8 @@ rcu_try_flip_waitmb(void) RCU_TRACE_ME(rcupreempt_trace_try_flip_m1); for_each_cpu_mask(cpu, rcu_cpu_online_map) - if (per_cpu(rcu_mb_flag, cpu) != rcu_mb_done) { + if (rcu_try_flip_waitmb_needed(cpu) && + per_cpu(rcu_mb_flag, cpu) != rcu_mb_done) { RCU_TRACE_ME(rcupreempt_trace_try_flip_me1); return 0; } -- cgit v1.1