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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull RCU changes from Ingo Molnar:
- Debugging for smp_call_function()
- RT raw/non-raw lock ordering fixes
- Strict grace periods for KASAN
- New smp_call_function() torture test
- Torture-test updates
- Documentation updates
- Miscellaneous fixes
[ This doesn't actually pull the tag - I've dropped the last merge from
the RCU branch due to questions about the series. - Linus ]
* tag 'core-rcu-2020-10-12' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (77 commits)
smp: Make symbol 'csd_bug_count' static
kernel/smp: Provide CSD lock timeout diagnostics
smp: Add source and destination CPUs to __call_single_data
rcu: Shrink each possible cpu krcp
rcu/segcblist: Prevent useless GP start if no CBs to accelerate
torture: Add gdb support
rcutorture: Allow pointer leaks to test diagnostic code
rcutorture: Hoist OOM registry up one level
refperf: Avoid null pointer dereference when buf fails to allocate
rcutorture: Properly synchronize with OOM notifier
rcutorture: Properly set rcu_fwds for OOM handling
torture: Add kvm.sh --help and update help message
rcutorture: Add CONFIG_PROVE_RCU_LIST to TREE05
torture: Update initrd documentation
rcutorture: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
locktorture: Make function torture_percpu_rwsem_init() static
torture: document --allcpus argument added to the kvm.sh script
rcutorture: Output number of elapsed grace periods
rcutorture: Remove KCSAN stubs
rcu: Remove unused "cpu" parameter from rcu_report_qs_rdp()
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Fix multiple occurrences of duplicated words in kernel/.
Fix one typo/spello on the same line as a duplicate word. Change one
instance of "the the" to "that the". Otherwise just drop one of the
repeated words.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/98202fa6-8919-ef63-9efe-c0fad5ca7af1@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The sparse tool complains as follows:
kernel/smp.c:107:10: warning:
symbol 'csd_bug_count' was not declared. Should it be static?
Because variable is not used outside of smp.c, this commit marks it
static.
Reported-by: Hulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun <weiyongjun1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
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This commit causes csd_lock_wait() to emit diagnostics when a CPU
fails to respond quickly enough to one of the smp_call_function()
family of function calls. These diagnostics are enabled by a new
CSD_LOCK_WAIT_DEBUG Kconfig option that depends on DEBUG_KERNEL.
This commit was inspired by an earlier patch by Josef Bacik.
[ paulmck: Fix for syzbot+0f719294463916a3fc0e@syzkaller.appspotmail.com ]
[ paulmck: Fix KASAN use-after-free issue reported by Qian Cai. ]
[ paulmck: Fix botched nr_cpu_ids comparison per Dan Carpenter. ]
[ paulmck: Apply Peter Zijlstra feedback. ]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/00000000000042f21905a991ecea@google.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/0000000000002ef21705a9933cf3@google.com
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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This commit adds a destination CPU to __call_single_data, and is inspired
by an earlier commit by Peter Zijlstra. This version adds #ifdef to
permit use by 32-bit systems and supplying the destination CPU for all
smp_call_function*() requests, not just smp_call_function_single().
If need be, 32-bit systems could be accommodated by shrinking the flags
field to 16 bits (the atomic_t variant is currently unused) and by
providing only eight bits for CPU on such systems.
It is not clear that the addition of the fields to __call_single_node
are really needed.
[ paulmck: Apply Boqun Feng feedback on 32-bit builds. ]
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200615164048.GC2531@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net/
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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The get_option() maybe return 0, it means that the nr_cpus is
not initialized. Then we will use the stale nr_cpus to initialize
the nr_cpu_ids. So fix it.
Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200716070457.53255-1-songmuchun@bytedance.com
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Instead of relying on BUG_ON() to ensure the various data structures
line up, use a bunch of horrible unions to make it all automatic.
Much of the union magic is to ensure irq_work and smp_call_function do
not (yet) see the members of their respective data structures change
name.
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200622100825.844455025@infradead.org
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull scheduler updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The changes in this cycle are:
- Optimize the task wakeup CPU selection logic, to improve
scalability and reduce wakeup latency spikes
- PELT enhancements
- CFS bandwidth handling fixes
- Optimize the wakeup path by remove rq->wake_list and replacing it
with ->ttwu_pending
- Optimize IPI cross-calls by making flush_smp_call_function_queue()
process sync callbacks first.
- Misc fixes and enhancements"
* tag 'sched-core-2020-06-02' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (36 commits)
irq_work: Define irq_work_single() on !CONFIG_IRQ_WORK too
sched/headers: Split out open-coded prototypes into kernel/sched/smp.h
sched: Replace rq::wake_list
sched: Add rq::ttwu_pending
irq_work, smp: Allow irq_work on call_single_queue
smp: Optimize send_call_function_single_ipi()
smp: Move irq_work_run() out of flush_smp_call_function_queue()
smp: Optimize flush_smp_call_function_queue()
sched: Fix smp_call_function_single_async() usage for ILB
sched/core: Offload wakee task activation if it the wakee is descheduling
sched/core: Optimize ttwu() spinning on p->on_cpu
sched: Defend cfs and rt bandwidth quota against overflow
sched/cpuacct: Fix charge cpuacct.usage_sys
sched/fair: Replace zero-length array with flexible-array
sched/pelt: Sync util/runnable_sum with PELT window when propagating
sched/cpuacct: Use __this_cpu_add() instead of this_cpu_ptr()
sched/fair: Optimize enqueue_task_fair()
sched: Make scheduler_ipi inline
sched: Clean up scheduler_ipi()
sched/core: Simplify sched_init()
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Some SMP platforms don't have CONFIG_IRQ_WORK defined, resulting in a link
error at build time.
Define a stub and clean up the prototype definitions.
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Move the prototypes for sched_ttwu_pending() and send_call_function_single_ipi()
into the newly created kernel/sched/smp.h header, to make sure they are all
the same, and to architectures happy that use -Wmissing-prototypes.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The recent commit: 90b5363acd47 ("sched: Clean up scheduler_ipi()")
got smp_call_function_single_async() subtly wrong. Even though it will
return -EBUSY when trying to re-use a csd, that condition is not
atomic and still requires external serialization.
The change in ttwu_queue_remote() got this wrong.
While on first reading ttwu_queue_remote() has an atomic test-and-set
that appears to serialize the use, the matching 'release' is not in
the right place to actually guarantee this serialization.
The actual race is vs the sched_ttwu_pending() call in the idle loop;
that can run the wakeup-list without consuming the CSD.
Instead of trying to chain the lists, merge them.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526161908.129371594@infradead.org
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Currently irq_work_queue_on() will issue an unconditional
arch_send_call_function_single_ipi() and has the handler do
irq_work_run().
This is unfortunate in that it makes the IPI handler look at a second
cacheline and it misses the opportunity to avoid the IPI. Instead note
that struct irq_work and struct __call_single_data are very similar in
layout, so use a few bits in the flags word to encode a type and stick
the irq_work on the call_single_queue list.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526161908.011635912@infradead.org
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Just like the ttwu_queue_remote() IPI, make use of _TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG
to avoid sending IPIs to idle CPUs.
[ mingo: Fix UP build bug. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526161907.953304789@infradead.org
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This ensures flush_smp_call_function_queue() is strictly about
call_single_queue.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526161907.895109676@infradead.org
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The call_single_queue can contain (two) different callbacks,
synchronous and asynchronous. The current interrupt handler runs them
in-order, which means that remote CPUs that are waiting for their
synchronous call can be delayed by running asynchronous callbacks.
Rework the interrupt handler to first run the synchonous callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200526161907.836818381@infradead.org
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Use smp_call_func_t instead of the open coded function pointer argument.
Signed-off-by: Kaitao Cheng <pilgrimtao@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200417162451.91969-1-pilgrimtao@gmail.com
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This is the last direct user of cpu_up() before it can become an internal
implementation detail of the cpu subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Qais Yousef <qais.yousef@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200323135110.30522-17-qais.yousef@arm.com
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Previously we will raise an warning if we want to insert a csd object
which is with the LOCK flag set, and if it happens we'll also wait for
the lock to be released. However, this operation does not match
perfectly with how the function is named - the name with "_async"
suffix hints that this function should not block, while we will.
This patch changed this behavior by simply return -EBUSY instead of
waiting, at the meantime we allow this operation to happen without
warning the user to change this into a feature when the caller wants
to "insert a csd object, if it's there, just wait for that one".
This is pretty safe because in flush_smp_call_function_queue() for
async csd objects (where csd->flags&SYNC is zero) we'll first do the
unlock then we call the csd->func(). So if we see the csd->flags&LOCK
is true in smp_call_function_single_async(), then it's guaranteed that
csd->func() will be called after this smp_call_function_single_async()
returns -EBUSY.
Update the comment of the function too to refect this.
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191216213125.9536-2-peterx@redhat.com
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It was requested to remove the cond_func check but the follow up patch was
overlooked. Remove it now.
Fixes: 67719ef25eeb ("smp: Add a smp_cond_func_t argument to smp_call_function_many()")
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200127083915.434tdkztorkklpdu@linutronix.de
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The allocation mask is no longer used by on_each_cpu_cond() and
on_each_cpu_cond_mask() and can be removed.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200117090137.1205765-4-bigeasy@linutronix.de
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on_each_cpu_cond_mask() allocates a new CPU mask. The newly allocated
mask is a subset of the provided mask based on the conditional function.
This memory allocation can be avoided by extending smp_call_function_many()
with the conditional function and performing the remote function call based
on the mask and the conditional function.
Rename smp_call_function_many() to smp_call_function_many_cond() and add
the smp_cond_func_t argument. If smp_cond_func_t is provided then it is
used before invoking the function. Provide smp_call_function_many() with
cond_func set to NULL. Let on_each_cpu_cond_mask() use
smp_call_function_many_cond().
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200117090137.1205765-3-bigeasy@linutronix.de
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Use a typdef for the conditional function instead defining it each time in
the function prototype.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200117090137.1205765-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de
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It's clearly documented that smp function calls cannot be invoked from
softirq handling context. Unfortunately nothing enforces that or emits a
warning.
A single function call can be invoked from softirq context only via
smp_call_function_single_async().
The only legit context is task context, so add a warning to that effect.
Reported-by: luferry <luferry@163.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190718160601.GP3402@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
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The return value is fixed. Remove it and amend the callers.
[ tglx: Fixup arm/bL_switcher and powerpc/rtas ]
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190613064813.8102-2-namit@vmware.com
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cfd_data is marked as shared, but although it hold pointers to shared
data structures, it is private per core.
Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190613064813.8102-8-namit@vmware.com
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which:
- Have no license information of any form
- Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the
initial scan/conversion to ignore the file
These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:
GPL-2.0-only
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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With the following commit:
73d5e2b47264 ("cpu/hotplug: detect SMT disabled by BIOS")
... the hotplug code attempted to detect when SMT was disabled by BIOS,
in which case it reported SMT as permanently disabled. However, that
code broke a virt hotplug scenario, where the guest is booted with only
primary CPU threads, and a sibling is brought online later.
The problem is that there doesn't seem to be a way to reliably
distinguish between the HW "SMT disabled by BIOS" case and the virt
"sibling not yet brought online" case. So the above-mentioned commit
was a bit misguided, as it permanently disabled SMT for both cases,
preventing future virt sibling hotplugs.
Going back and reviewing the original problems which were attempted to
be solved by that commit, when SMT was disabled in BIOS:
1) /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control showed "on" instead of
"notsupported"; and
2) vmx_vm_init() was incorrectly showing the L1TF_MSG_SMT warning.
I'd propose that we instead consider #1 above to not actually be a
problem. Because, at least in the virt case, it's possible that SMT
wasn't disabled by BIOS and a sibling thread could be brought online
later. So it makes sense to just always default the smt control to "on"
to allow for that possibility (assuming cpuid indicates that the CPU
supports SMT).
The real problem is #2, which has a simple fix: change vmx_vm_init() to
query the actual current SMT state -- i.e., whether any siblings are
currently online -- instead of looking at the SMT "control" sysfs value.
So fix it by:
a) reverting the original "fix" and its followup fix:
73d5e2b47264 ("cpu/hotplug: detect SMT disabled by BIOS")
bc2d8d262cba ("cpu/hotplug: Fix SMT supported evaluation")
and
b) changing vmx_vm_init() to query the actual current SMT state --
instead of the sysfs control value -- to determine whether the L1TF
warning is needed. This also requires the 'sched_smt_present'
variable to exported, instead of 'cpu_smt_control'.
Fixes: 73d5e2b47264 ("cpu/hotplug: detect SMT disabled by BIOS")
Reported-by: Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Joe Mario <jmario@redhat.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/e3a85d585da28cc333ecbc1e78ee9216e6da9396.1548794349.git.jpoimboe@redhat.com
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Introduce a variant of on_each_cpu_cond that iterates only over the
CPUs in a cpumask, in order to avoid making callbacks for every single
CPU in the system when we only need to test a subset.
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: mingo@kernel.org
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Cc: songliubraving@fb.com
Cc: kernel-team@fb.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180926035844.1420-5-riel@surriel.com
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The code in on_each_cpu_cond sets CPUs in a locally allocated bitmask,
which should never be used by other CPUs simultaneously. There is no
need to use locked memory accesses to set the bits in this bitmap.
Switch to __cpumask_set_cpu.
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: mingo@kernel.org
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Cc: songliubraving@fb.com
Cc: kernel-team@fb.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180926035844.1420-4-riel@surriel.com
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Josh reported that the late SMT evaluation in cpu_smt_state_init() sets
cpu_smt_control to CPU_SMT_NOT_SUPPORTED in case that 'nosmt' was supplied
on the kernel command line as it cannot differentiate between SMT disabled
by BIOS and SMT soft disable via 'nosmt'. That wreckages the state and
makes the sysfs interface unusable.
Rework this so that during bringup of the non boot CPUs the availability of
SMT is determined in cpu_smt_allowed(). If a newly booted CPU is not a
'primary' thread then set the local cpu_smt_available marker and evaluate
this explicitely right after the initial SMP bringup has finished.
SMT evaulation on x86 is a trainwreck as the firmware has all the
information _before_ booting the kernel, but there is no interface to query
it.
Fixes: 73d5e2b47264 ("cpu/hotplug: detect SMT disabled by BIOS")
Reported-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Use lockdep to check that IRQs are enabled or disabled as expected. This
way the sanity check only shows overhead when concurrency correctness
debug code is enabled.
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: David S . Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1509980490-4285-7-git-send-email-frederic@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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First, number of CPUs can't be negative number.
Second, different signnnedness leads to suboptimal code in the following
cases:
1)
kmalloc(nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(X));
"int" has to be sign extended to size_t.
2)
while (loff_t *pos < nr_cpu_ids)
MOVSXD is 1 byte longed than the same MOV.
Other cases exist as well. Basically compiler is told that nr_cpu_ids
can't be negative which can't be deduced if it is "int".
Code savings on allyesconfig kernel: -3KB
add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 25/264 up/down: 261/-3631 (-3370)
function old new delta
coretemp_cpu_online 450 512 +62
rcu_init_one 1234 1272 +38
pci_device_probe 374 399 +25
...
pgdat_reclaimable_pages 628 556 -72
select_fallback_rq 446 369 -77
task_numa_find_cpu 1923 1807 -116
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170819114959.GA30580@avx2
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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struct call_single_data is used in IPIs to transfer information between
CPUs. Its size is bigger than sizeof(unsigned long) and less than
cache line size. Currently it is not allocated with any explicit alignment
requirements. This makes it possible for allocated call_single_data to
cross two cache lines, which results in double the number of the cache lines
that need to be transferred among CPUs.
This can be fixed by requiring call_single_data to be aligned with the
size of call_single_data. Currently the size of call_single_data is the
power of 2. If we add new fields to call_single_data, we may need to
add padding to make sure the size of new definition is the power of 2
as well.
Fortunately, this is enforced by GCC, which will report bad sizes.
To set alignment requirements of call_single_data to the size of
call_single_data, a struct definition and a typedef is used.
To test the effect of the patch, I used the vm-scalability multiple
thread swap test case (swap-w-seq-mt). The test will create multiple
threads and each thread will eat memory until all RAM and part of swap
is used, so that huge number of IPIs are triggered when unmapping
memory. In the test, the throughput of memory writing improves ~5%
compared with misaligned call_single_data, because of faster IPIs.
Suggested-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
[ Add call_single_data_t and align with size of call_single_data. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/87bmnqd6lz.fsf@yhuang-mobile.sh.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The cpumasks in smp_call_function_many() are private and not subject
to concurrency, atomic bitops are pointless and expensive.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Inter-Processor-Interrupt(IPI) is needed when a page is unmapped and the
process' mm_cpumask() shows the process has ever run on other CPUs. page
migration, page reclaim all need IPIs. The number of IPI needed to send
to different CPUs is especially large for multi-threaded workload since
mm_cpumask() is per process.
For smp_call_function_many(), whenever a CPU queues a CSD to a target
CPU, it will send an IPI to let the target CPU to handle the work.
This isn't necessary - we need only send IPI when queueing a CSD
to an empty call_single_queue.
The reason:
flush_smp_call_function_queue() that is called upon a CPU receiving an
IPI will empty the queue and then handle all of the CSDs there. So if
the target CPU's call_single_queue is not empty, we know that:
i. An IPI for the target CPU has already been sent by 'previous queuers';
ii. flush_smp_call_function_queue() hasn't emptied that CPU's queue yet.
Thus, it's safe for us to just queue our CSD there without sending an
addtional IPI. And for the 'previous queuers', we can limit it to the
first queuer.
To demonstrate the effect of this patch, a multi-thread workload that
spawns 80 threads to equally consume 100G memory is used. This is tested
on a 2 node broadwell-EP which has 44cores/88threads and 32G memory. So
after 32G memory is used up, page reclaiming starts to happen a lot.
With this patch, IPI number dropped 88% and throughput increased about
15% for the above workload.
Signed-off-by: Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170519075331.GE2084@aaronlu.sh.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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<linux/sched/idle.h>
We are going to split <linux/sched/idle.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.
Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/idle.h> file that just
maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.
Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Currently we don't print anything before starting to bring up secondary
CPUs. This can be confusing if it takes a long time to bring up the
secondaries, or if the kernel crashes while doing so and produces no
further output.
On x86 they work around this by detecting when the first secondary CPU
comes up and printing a message (see announce_cpu()). But doing it in
smp_init() is simpler and works for all arches.
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Cc: len.brown@intel.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: richard@nod.at
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: mgorman@techsingularity.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477460275-8266-3-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Currently after bringing up secondary CPUs all arches print "Brought up
%d CPUs". On x86 they also print the number of nodes that were brought
online.
It would be nice to also print the number of nodes on other arches.
Although we could override smp_announce() on the other ~10 NUMA aware
arches, it seems simpler to just always print the number of nodes. On
non-NUMA arches there is just always 1 node.
Having done that, smp_announce() is no longer weak, and seems small
enough to just pull directly into smp_init().
Also update the printing of "%d CPUs" to be smart when an SMP kernel is
booted on a single CPU system, or when only one CPU is available, eg:
smp: Brought up 2 nodes, 1 CPU
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Reviewed-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Cc: len.brown@intel.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: richard@nod.at
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: mgorman@techsingularity.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477460275-8266-2-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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This makes all our pr_xxx()'s start with "smp: ", which helps pin down
where they come from and generally looks nice. There is actually only
one pr_xxx() use in smp.c at the moment, but we will add some more in
the next commit.
Suggested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org
Cc: jgross@suse.com
Cc: ak@linux.intel.com
Cc: tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com
Cc: len.brown@intel.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: richard@nod.at
Cc: jolsa@redhat.com
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: mgorman@techsingularity.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477460275-8266-1-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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The SMP IPI struct descriptor is allocated on the stack except for the
workqueue and lockdep complains:
INFO: trying to register non-static key.
the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation.
turning off the locking correctness validator.
CPU: 0 PID: 110 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 4.8.0-rc5+ #14
Hardware name: Dell Inc. Precision T3600/0PTTT9, BIOS A13 05/11/2014
Workqueue: events smp_call_on_cpu_callback
...
Call Trace:
dump_stack
register_lock_class
? __lock_acquire
__lock_acquire
? __lock_acquire
lock_acquire
? process_one_work
process_one_work
? process_one_work
worker_thread
? process_one_work
? process_one_work
kthread
? kthread_create_on_node
ret_from_fork
So allocate it on the stack too.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
[ Test and write commit message. ]
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160911084323.jhtnpb4b37t5tlno@pd.tnic
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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On some hardware models (e.g. Dell Studio 1555 laptop) some hardware
related functions (e.g. SMIs) are to be executed on physical CPU 0
only. Instead of open coding such a functionality multiple times in
the kernel add a service function for this purpose. This will enable
the possibility to take special measures in virtualized environments
like Xen, too.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Douglas_Warzecha@dell.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akataria@vmware.com
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: chrisw@sous-sol.org
Cc: david.vrabel@citrix.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: jdelvare@suse.com
Cc: jeremy@goop.org
Cc: linux@roeck-us.net
Cc: pali.rohar@gmail.com
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472453327-19050-4-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Add generic virtualization support for pinning the current vCPU to a
specified physical CPU. As this operation isn't performance critical
(a very limited set of operations like BIOS calls and SMIs is expected
to need this) just add a hypervisor specific indirection.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Douglas_Warzecha@dell.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akataria@vmware.com
Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com
Cc: chrisw@sous-sol.org
Cc: david.vrabel@citrix.com
Cc: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: jdelvare@suse.com
Cc: jeremy@goop.org
Cc: linux@roeck-us.net
Cc: pali.rohar@gmail.com
Cc: rusty@rustcorp.com.au
Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Cc: xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1472453327-19050-3-git-send-email-jgross@suse.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull smp hotplug updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"This is the next part of the hotplug rework.
- Convert all notifiers with a priority assigned
- Convert all CPU_STARTING/DYING notifiers
The final removal of the STARTING/DYING infrastructure will happen
when the merge window closes.
Another 700 hundred line of unpenetrable maze gone :)"
* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (70 commits)
timers/core: Correct callback order during CPU hot plug
leds/trigger/cpu: Move from CPU_STARTING to ONLINE level
powerpc/numa: Convert to hotplug state machine
arm/perf: Fix hotplug state machine conversion
irqchip/armada: Avoid unused function warnings
ARC/time: Convert to hotplug state machine
clocksource/atlas7: Convert to hotplug state machine
clocksource/armada-370-xp: Convert to hotplug state machine
clocksource/exynos_mct: Convert to hotplug state machine
clocksource/arm_global_timer: Convert to hotplug state machine
rcu: Convert rcutree to hotplug state machine
KVM/arm/arm64/vgic-new: Convert to hotplug state machine
smp/cfd: Convert core to hotplug state machine
x86/x2apic: Convert to CPU hotplug state machine
profile: Convert to hotplug state machine
timers/core: Convert to hotplug state machine
hrtimer: Convert to hotplug state machine
x86/tboot: Convert to hotplug state machine
arm64/armv8 deprecated: Convert to hotplug state machine
hwtracing/coresight-etm4x: Convert to hotplug state machine
...
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Install the callbacks via the state machine. They are installed at runtime so
smpcfd_prepare_cpu() needs to be invoked by the boot-CPU.
Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
[ Added the dropped CPU dying case back in. ]
Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <rcochran@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: rt@linutronix.de
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160713153337.818376366@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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This new form allows using hardware assisted waiting.
Some hardware (ARM64 and x86) allow monitoring an address for changes,
so by providing a pointer we can use this to replace the cpu_relax()
with hardware optimized methods in the future.
Requested-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull cpu hotplug updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"This is the first part of the ongoing cpu hotplug rework:
- Initial implementation of the state machine
- Runs all online and prepare down callbacks on the plugged cpu and
not on some random processor
- Replaces busy loop waiting with completions
- Adds tracepoints so the states can be followed"
More detailed commentary on this work from an earlier email:
"What's wrong with the current cpu hotplug infrastructure?
- Asymmetry
The hotplug notifier mechanism is asymmetric versus the bringup and
teardown. This is mostly caused by the notifier mechanism.
- Largely undocumented dependencies
While some notifiers use explicitely defined notifier priorities,
we have quite some notifiers which use numerical priorities to
express dependencies without any documentation why.
- Control processor driven
Most of the bringup/teardown of a cpu is driven by a control
processor. While it is understandable, that preperatory steps,
like idle thread creation, memory allocation for and initialization
of essential facilities needs to be done before a cpu can boot,
there is no reason why everything else must run on a control
processor. Before this patch series, bringup looks like this:
Control CPU Booting CPU
do preparatory steps
kick cpu into life
do low level init
sync with booting cpu sync with control cpu
bring the rest up
- All or nothing approach
There is no way to do partial bringups. That's something which is
really desired because we waste e.g. at boot substantial amount of
time just busy waiting that the cpu comes to life. That's stupid
as we could very well do preparatory steps and the initial IPI for
other cpus and then go back and do the necessary low level
synchronization with the freshly booted cpu.
- Minimal debuggability
Due to the notifier based design, it's impossible to switch between
two stages of the bringup/teardown back and forth in order to test
the correctness. So in many hotplug notifiers the cancel
mechanisms are either not existant or completely untested.
- Notifier [un]registering is tedious
To [un]register notifiers we need to protect against hotplug at
every callsite. There is no mechanism that bringup/teardown
callbacks are issued on the online cpus, so every caller needs to
do it itself. That also includes error rollback.
What's the new design?
The base of the new design is a symmetric state machine, where both
the control processor and the booting/dying cpu execute a well
defined set of states. Each state is symmetric in the end, except
for some well defined exceptions, and the bringup/teardown can be
stopped and reversed at almost all states.
So the bringup of a cpu will look like this in the future:
Control CPU Booting CPU
do preparatory steps
kick cpu into life
do low level init
sync with booting cpu sync with control cpu
bring itself up
The synchronization step does not require the control cpu to wait.
That mechanism can be done asynchronously via a worker or some
other mechanism.
The teardown can be made very similar, so that the dying cpu cleans
up and brings itself down. Cleanups which need to be done after
the cpu is gone, can be scheduled asynchronously as well.
There is a long way to this, as we need to refactor the notion when a
cpu is available. Today we set the cpu online right after it comes
out of the low level bringup, which is not really correct.
The proper mechanism is to set it to available, i.e. cpu local
threads, like softirqd, hotplug thread etc. can be scheduled on that
cpu, and once it finished all booting steps, it's set to online, so
general workloads can be scheduled on it. The reverse happens on
teardown. First thing to do is to forbid scheduling of general
workloads, then teardown all the per cpu resources and finally shut it
off completely.
This patch series implements the basic infrastructure for this at the
core level. This includes the following:
- Basic state machine implementation with well defined states, so
ordering and prioritization can be expressed.
- Interfaces to [un]register state callbacks
This invokes the bringup/teardown callback on all online cpus with
the proper protection in place and [un]installs the callbacks in
the state machine array.
For callbacks which have no particular ordering requirement we have
a dynamic state space, so that drivers don't have to register an
explicit hotplug state.
If a callback fails, the code automatically does a rollback to the
previous state.
- Sysfs interface to drive the state machine to a particular step.
This is only partially functional today. Full functionality and
therefor testability will be achieved once we converted all
existing hotplug notifiers over to the new scheme.
- Run all CPU_ONLINE/DOWN_PREPARE notifiers on the booting/dying
processor:
Control CPU Booting CPU
do preparatory steps
kick cpu into life
do low level init
sync with booting cpu sync with control cpu
wait for boot
bring itself up
Signal completion to control cpu
In a previous step of this work we've done a full tree mechanical
conversion of all hotplug notifiers to the new scheme. The balance
is a net removal of about 4000 lines of code.
This is not included in this series, as we decided to take a
different approach. Instead of mechanically converting everything
over, we will do a proper overhaul of the usage sites one by one so
they nicely fit into the symmetric callback scheme.
I decided to do that after I looked at the ugliness of some of the
converted sites and figured out that their hotplug mechanism is
completely buggered anyway. So there is no point to do a
mechanical conversion first as we need to go through the usage
sites one by one again in order to achieve a full symmetric and
testable behaviour"
* 'smp-hotplug-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (23 commits)
cpu/hotplug: Document states better
cpu/hotplug: Fix smpboot thread ordering
cpu/hotplug: Remove redundant state check
cpu/hotplug: Plug death reporting race
rcu: Make CPU_DYING_IDLE an explicit call
cpu/hotplug: Make wait for dead cpu completion based
cpu/hotplug: Let upcoming cpu bring itself fully up
arch/hotplug: Call into idle with a proper state
cpu/hotplug: Move online calls to hotplugged cpu
cpu/hotplug: Create hotplug threads
cpu/hotplug: Split out the state walk into functions
cpu/hotplug: Unpark smpboot threads from the state machine
cpu/hotplug: Move scheduler cpu_online notifier to hotplug core
cpu/hotplug: Implement setup/removal interface
cpu/hotplug: Make target state writeable
cpu/hotplug: Add sysfs state interface
cpu/hotplug: Hand in target state to _cpu_up/down
cpu/hotplug: Convert the hotplugged cpu work to a state machine
cpu/hotplug: Convert to a state machine for the control processor
cpu/hotplug: Add tracepoints
...
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We can micro-optimize this call and mildly relax the
barrier requirements by relying on ctrl + rmb, keeping
the acquire semantics. In addition, this is pretty much
the now standard for busy-waiting under such restraints.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457574936-19065-3-git-send-email-dbueso@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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While the compiler tends to already to it for us (except for
csd_unlock), make it explicit. These helpers mainly deal with
the ->flags, are short-lived and can be called, for example,
from smp_call_function_many().
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dave@stgolabs.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1457574936-19065-2-git-send-email-dbueso@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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In order to let the hotplugged cpu take care of the setup/teardown, we need a
seperate hotplug thread.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Rafael Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Cc: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa@mit.edu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul Turner <pjt@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160226182341.454541272@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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sleep and avoiding waking kswapd
__GFP_WAIT has been used to identify atomic context in callers that hold
spinlocks or are in interrupts. They are expected to be high priority and
have access one of two watermarks lower than "min" which can be referred
to as the "atomic reserve". __GFP_HIGH users get access to the first
lower watermark and can be called the "high priority reserve".
Over time, callers had a requirement to not block when fallback options
were available. Some have abused __GFP_WAIT leading to a situation where
an optimisitic allocation with a fallback option can access atomic
reserves.
This patch uses __GFP_ATOMIC to identify callers that are truely atomic,
cannot sleep and have no alternative. High priority users continue to use
__GFP_HIGH. __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM identifies callers that can sleep and
are willing to enter direct reclaim. __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to identify
callers that want to wake kswapd for background reclaim. __GFP_WAIT is
redefined as a caller that is willing to enter direct reclaim and wake
kswapd for background reclaim.
This patch then converts a number of sites
o __GFP_ATOMIC is used by callers that are high priority and have memory
pools for those requests. GFP_ATOMIC uses this flag.
o Callers that have a limited mempool to guarantee forward progress clear
__GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM but keep __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. bio allocations fall
into this category where kswapd will still be woken but atomic reserves
are not used as there is a one-entry mempool to guarantee progress.
o Callers that are checking if they are non-blocking should use the
helper gfpflags_allow_blocking() where possible. This is because
checking for __GFP_WAIT as was done historically now can trigger false
positives. Some exceptions like dm-crypt.c exist where the code intent
is clearer if __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is used instead of the helper due to
flag manipulations.
o Callers that built their own GFP flags instead of starting with GFP_KERNEL
and friends now also need to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM.
The first key hazard to watch out for is callers that removed __GFP_WAIT
and was depending on access to atomic reserves for inconspicuous reasons.
In some cases it may be appropriate for them to use __GFP_HIGH.
The second key hazard is callers that assembled their own combination of
GFP flags instead of starting with something like GFP_KERNEL. They may
now wish to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. It's almost certainly harmless
if it's missed in most cases as other activity will wake kswapd.
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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