[PATCH rcu 0/3] Reference-side scalability test updates for v6.6

[PATCH rcu 0/3] Reference-side scalability test updates for v6.6

[Paul E. McKenney]

Hello!

This series contains reference-side scalability tests:

1.	Add CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC=n to NOPREEMPT scenario.

2.	Fix uninitalized use of wait_queue_head_t, courtesy of Waiman
	Long.

3.	Add a "jiffies" test.

						Thanx, Paul

------------------------------------------------------------------------

 b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c                                         |    3 
 b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/refscale/NOPREEMPT |    1 
 kernel/rcu/refscale.c                                           |   34 +++++++++-
 3 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

[PATCH rcu 1/3] refscale: Add CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC=n to NOPREEMPT scenario

[Paul E. McKenney]

It is no longer possible to build a kernel with a preemption-disabled
RCU without use of CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC=n.  This commit therefore
adds CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC=n to the refscale torture type's NOPREEMPT
scenario file.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
---
 tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/refscale/NOPREEMPT | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/refscale/NOPREEMPT b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/refscale/NOPREEMPT
index ef2b501a6971..67f9d2998afd 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/refscale/NOPREEMPT
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/rcutorture/configs/refscale/NOPREEMPT
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ CONFIG_SMP=y
 CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y
 CONFIG_PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY=n
 CONFIG_PREEMPT=n
+CONFIG_PREEMPT_DYNAMIC=n
 #CHECK#CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=n
 CONFIG_HZ_PERIODIC=n
 CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE=y
-- 
2.40.1

[PATCH rcu 2/3] refscale: Fix uninitalized use of wait_queue_head_t

[Paul E. McKenney]

From: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>

Running the refscale test occasionally crashes the kernel with the
following error:

[ 8569.952896] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffffffffffffe8
[ 8569.952900] #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
[ 8569.952902] #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
[ 8569.952904] PGD c4b048067 P4D c4b049067 PUD c4b04b067 PMD 0
[ 8569.952910] Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT_RT SMP NOPTI
[ 8569.952916] Hardware name: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R750/0WMWCR, BIOS 1.2.4 05/28/2021
[ 8569.952917] RIP: 0010:prepare_to_wait_event+0x101/0x190
  :
[ 8569.952940] Call Trace:
[ 8569.952941]  <TASK>
[ 8569.952944]  ref_scale_reader+0x380/0x4a0 [refscale]
[ 8569.952959]  kthread+0x10e/0x130
[ 8569.952966]  ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
[ 8569.952973]  </TASK>

The likely cause is that init_waitqueue_head() is called after the call to
the torture_create_kthread() function that creates the ref_scale_reader
kthread.  Although this init_waitqueue_head() call will very likely
complete before this kthread is created and starts running, it is
possible that the calling kthread will be delayed between the calls to
torture_create_kthread() and init_waitqueue_head().  In this case, the
new kthread will use the waitqueue head before it is properly initialized,
which is not good for the kernel's health and well-being.

The above crash happened here:

	static inline void __add_wait_queue(...)
	{
		:
		if (!(wq->flags & WQ_FLAG_PRIORITY)) <=== Crash here

The offset of flags from list_head entry in wait_queue_entry is
-0x18. If reader_tasks[i].wq.head.next is NULL as allocated reader_task
structure is zero initialized, the instruction will try to access address
0xffffffffffffffe8, which is exactly the fault address listed above.

This commit therefore invokes init_waitqueue_head() before creating
the kthread.

Fixes: 653ed64b01dc ("refperf: Add a test to measure performance of read-side synchronization")
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Qiuxu Zhuo <qiuxu.zhuo@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/refscale.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/refscale.c b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
index 1970ce5f22d4..71d138573856 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
@@ -1107,12 +1107,11 @@ ref_scale_init(void)
 	VERBOSE_SCALEOUT("Starting %d reader threads", nreaders);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < nreaders; i++) {
+		init_waitqueue_head(&reader_tasks[i].wq);
 		firsterr = torture_create_kthread(ref_scale_reader, (void *)i,
 						  reader_tasks[i].task);
 		if (torture_init_error(firsterr))
 			goto unwind;
-
-		init_waitqueue_head(&(reader_tasks[i].wq));
 	}
 
 	// Main Task
-- 
2.40.1

[PATCH rcu 3/3] refscale: Add a "jiffies" test

[Paul E. McKenney]

This commit adds a "jiffies" test to refscale, allowing use of jiffies
to be compared to ktime_get_real_fast_ns().  On my x86 laptop, jiffies
is more than 20x faster.  (Though for many uses, the tens-of-nanoseconds
overhead of ktime_get_real_fast_ns() will be just fine.)

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/refscale.c | 34 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/refscale.c b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
index 71d138573856..91a0fd0d4d9a 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
@@ -528,6 +528,38 @@ static struct ref_scale_ops clock_ops = {
 	.name		= "clock"
 };
 
+static void ref_jiffies_section(const int nloops)
+{
+	u64 x = 0;
+	int i;
+
+	preempt_disable();
+	for (i = nloops; i >= 0; i--)
+		x += jiffies;
+	preempt_enable();
+	stopopts = x;
+}
+
+static void ref_jiffies_delay_section(const int nloops, const int udl, const int ndl)
+{
+	u64 x = 0;
+	int i;
+
+	preempt_disable();
+	for (i = nloops; i >= 0; i--) {
+		x += jiffies;
+		un_delay(udl, ndl);
+	}
+	preempt_enable();
+	stopopts = x;
+}
+
+static struct ref_scale_ops jiffies_ops = {
+	.readsection	= ref_jiffies_section,
+	.delaysection	= ref_jiffies_delay_section,
+	.name		= "jiffies"
+};
+
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 //
 // Methods leveraging SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU.
@@ -1047,7 +1079,7 @@ ref_scale_init(void)
 	int firsterr = 0;
 	static struct ref_scale_ops *scale_ops[] = {
 		&rcu_ops, &srcu_ops, RCU_TRACE_OPS RCU_TASKS_OPS &refcnt_ops, &rwlock_ops,
-		&rwsem_ops, &lock_ops, &lock_irq_ops, &acqrel_ops, &clock_ops,
+		&rwsem_ops, &lock_ops, &lock_irq_ops, &acqrel_ops, &clock_ops, &jiffies_ops,
 		&typesafe_ref_ops, &typesafe_lock_ops, &typesafe_seqlock_ops,
 	};
 
-- 
2.40.1