From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com,
josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, dvhltc@us.ibm.com, niv@us.ibm.com,
tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org,
hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk, benh@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: [PATCH -tip/core/rcu 1/6] Cleanups and fixes for RCU in face of heavy CPU-hotplug stress
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 09:51:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090815165153.GA8886@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
This patch set provides the following cleanups and fixes for RCU in
workloads that involve lots of CPU hotplugging. Ingo, please reset
core/rcu to 240ebbf before applying these patches.
o Split Hierarchical RCU initialization into boot-time and
CPU-hotplug pieces, so that other CPUs never see the data
structures in the act of being stitched together.
o Introduce a cpu_notifier() that works as does the current
hotcpu_notifier(), but also notifies during boot time even
if !HOTPLUG_CPU.
o Make RCU use the new cpu_notifier() to simplify hotplug code
and reduce the number of notifiers in use. (This also fixes
the problem Ingo and Hugh found.)
o Preemptable RCU had a bug due to its overly clever attempt
to move counts from CPUs going offline. This is "unsafe
at any speed", so remove the cleverness.
o Since offline CPUs now can have non-zero counts, they must
now be included in the tracing.
o Fix typo in preemptable RCU's rcu_irq_enter() comment
submitted by Josh Triplett.
These pass tests combining rcutorture and continuous CPU-hotplug
operations, in other words, no sleeping between successive CPU-hotplug
operations. This set does not fix the bug involving deadlocks through
rcutorture, kthread_stop(), and migration threads. However, this bug
does not affect production systems, so should not stand in the way of
applying these patches.
Thanx, Paul
b/include/linux/cpu.h | 18 +++++++++-----
b/kernel/rcupdate.c | 16 ++++++++++++-
b/kernel/rcupreempt.c | 25 +-------------------
b/kernel/rcupreempt_trace.c | 6 ++--
b/kernel/rcutree.c | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
kernel/rcupreempt.c | 12 +--------
kernel/rcutree.c | 18 ++++----------
7 files changed, 72 insertions(+), 77 deletions(-)
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Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-15 16:51 Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2009-08-15 16:53 ` [PATCH -tip/core/rcu 1/6] Split hierarchical RCU initialization into boot-time and CPU-online pieces Paul E. McKenney
2009-08-15 17:07 ` [tip:core/rcu] rcu: " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2009-08-15 16:53 ` [PATCH -tip/core/rcu 2/6] Introduce cpu_notifier() to handle !HOTPLUG_CPU case Paul E. McKenney
2009-08-15 17:07 ` [tip:core/rcu] cpu hotplug: " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2009-08-17 17:21 ` [PATCH -tip/core/rcu 2/6] " Josh Triplett
2009-08-17 18:28 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-08-15 16:53 ` [PATCH -tip/core/rcu 3/6] Simplify RCU CPU-hotplug notification Paul E. McKenney
2009-08-15 17:07 ` [tip:core/rcu] rcu: " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2009-08-20 4:02 ` [PATCH -tip/core/rcu 3/6] " Lai Jiangshan
2009-08-20 4:21 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-08-15 16:53 ` [PATCH -tip/core/rcu 4/6] Make preemptable RCU scan all CPUs when summing RCU counters Paul E. McKenney
2009-08-15 17:07 ` [tip:core/rcu] rcu: " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2009-08-15 16:53 ` [PATCH -tip/core/rcu 5/6] Make rcupreempt_trace.c look at offline CPUs Paul E. McKenney
2009-08-15 17:07 ` [tip:core/rcu] rcu: " tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2009-08-15 16:53 ` [PATCH -tip/core/rcu 6/6] Fix typo in rcu_irq_exit() comment header Paul E. McKenney
2009-08-15 17:00 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-15 17:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-08-15 17:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-15 17:08 ` [tip:core/rcu] rcu: " tip-bot for Josh Triplett
2009-08-17 18:24 ` [PATCH -tip/core/rcu 1/6] Cleanups and fixes for RCU in face of heavy CPU-hotplug stress Josh Triplett
2009-08-17 19:20 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-08-18 15:26 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-18 20:07 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-08-19 6:06 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-08-19 11:59 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-19 12:09 ` [tip:core/rcu] rcu: Delay rcu_barrier() wait until beginning of next CPU-hotunplug operation tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
2009-08-19 15:24 ` [PATCH -tip/core/rcu 1/6] Cleanups and fixes for RCU in face of heavy CPU-hotplug stress Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-08-19 16:38 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-08-19 18:10 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-08-19 18:31 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-08-20 14:03 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-08-21 14:17 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-21 14:29 ` Steven Rostedt
2009-08-21 14:44 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-08-21 15:00 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-08-21 15:37 ` Paul E. McKenney
2009-08-21 14:58 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
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