From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: rcu@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com,
rostedt@goodmis.org, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Subject: [PATCH rcu 1/2] doc: Update Tasks RCU and Tasks Rude RCU description in Requirements.rst
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2024 15:21:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240604222155.2370541-1-paulmck@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e5dc5f14-04c1-494b-9044-e837279a7bcd@paulmck-laptop>
This commit adds more detail to the Tasks RCU and Tasks Rude RCU
descriptions in Requirements.rst. While in the area, add Tasks Trace
RCU to the Tasks-RCU table of contents.
Reported-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
---
.../RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst
index cccafdaa1f849..f511476b45506 100644
--- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst
+++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst
@@ -2357,6 +2357,7 @@ section.
#. `Sched Flavor (Historical)`_
#. `Sleepable RCU`_
#. `Tasks RCU`_
+#. `Tasks Trace RCU`_
Bottom-Half Flavor (Historical)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -2610,6 +2611,16 @@ critical sections that are delimited by voluntary context switches, that
is, calls to schedule(), cond_resched(), and
synchronize_rcu_tasks(). In addition, transitions to and from
userspace execution also delimit tasks-RCU read-side critical sections.
+Idle tasks are ignored by Tasks RCU, and Tasks Rude RCU may be used to
+interact with them.
+
+Note well that involuntary context switches are *not* Tasks-RCU quiescent
+states. After all, in preemptible kernels, a task executing code in a
+trampoline might be preempted. In this case, the Tasks-RCU grace period
+clearly cannot end until that task resumes and its execution leaves that
+trampoline. This means, among other things, that cond_resched() does
+not provide a Tasks RCU quiescent state. (Instead, use rcu_softirq_qs()
+from softirq or rcu_tasks_classic_qs() otherwise.)
The tasks-RCU API is quite compact, consisting only of
call_rcu_tasks(), synchronize_rcu_tasks(), and
@@ -2632,6 +2643,11 @@ moniker. And this operation is considered to be quite rude by real-time
workloads that don't want their ``nohz_full`` CPUs receiving IPIs and
by battery-powered systems that don't want their idle CPUs to be awakened.
+Once kernel entry/exit and deep-idle functions have been properly tagged
+``noinstr``, Tasks RCU can start paying attention to idle tasks (except
+those that are idle from RCU's perspective) and then Tasks Rude RCU can
+be removed from the kernel.
+
The tasks-rude-RCU API is also reader-marking-free and thus quite compact,
consisting of call_rcu_tasks_rude(), synchronize_rcu_tasks_rude(),
and rcu_barrier_tasks_rude().
--
2.40.1
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-06-04 22:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-06-04 22:21 [PATCH rcu 0/2] RCU documentation updates for v6.11 Paul E. McKenney
2024-06-04 22:21 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2024-06-05 11:42 ` [PATCH rcu 1/2] doc: Update Tasks RCU and Tasks Rude RCU description in Requirements.rst Frederic Weisbecker
2024-06-05 18:30 ` Paul E. McKenney
2024-06-04 22:21 ` [PATCH rcu 2/2] doc: Clarify rcu_assign_pointer() and rcu_dereference() ordering Paul E. McKenney
2024-06-05 11:56 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2024-06-05 18:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
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