user/sven/linux.git/include/linux/rcupdate.h, branch v3.10.65

rcu: Add _notrace variation of rcu_dereference_raw() and hlist_for_each_entry_rcu()

2013-05-29T02:47:13Z

As rcu_dereference_raw() under RCU debug config options can add quite a bit of checks, and that tracing uses rcu_dereference_raw(), these checks happen with the function tracer. The function tracer also happens to trace these debug checks too. This added overhead can livelock the system. Add a new interface to RCU for both rcu_dereference_raw_notrace() as well as hlist_for_each_entry_rcu_notrace() as the hlist iterator uses the rcu_dereference_raw() as well, and is used a bit with the function tracer. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130528184209.304356745@goodmis.org Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt

Merge commit '8700c95adb03' into timers/nohz

2013-05-02T15:54:19Z

The full dynticks tree needs the latest RCU and sched upstream updates in order to fix some dependencies. Merge a common upstream merge point that has these updates. Conflicts: include/linux/perf_event.h kernel/rcutree.h kernel/rcutree_plugin.h Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker

nohz: Ensure full dynticks CPUs are RCU nocbs

2013-04-19T11:54:04Z

We need full dynticks CPU to also be RCU nocb so that we don't have to keep the tick to handle RCU callbacks. Make sure the range passed to nohz_full= boot parameter is a subset of rcu_nocbs= The CPUs that fail to meet this requirement will be excluded from the nohz_full range. This is checked early in boot time, before any CPU has the opportunity to stop its tick. Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Geoff Levand Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef Cc: Hakan Akkan Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Kevin Hilman Cc: Li Zhong Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleixner

rcu: Make RCU_FAST_NO_HZ take advantage of numbered callbacks

2013-03-26T15:04:51Z

Because RCU callbacks are now associated with the number of the grace period that they must wait for, CPUs can now take advance callbacks corresponding to grace periods that ended while a given CPU was in dyntick-idle mode. This eliminates the need to try forcing the RCU state machine while entering idle, thus reducing the CPU intensiveness of RCU_FAST_NO_HZ, which should increase its energy efficiency. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

Merge branches 'doctorture.2013.01.29a', 'fixes.2013.01.26a', 'tagcb.2013.01.24a' and 'tiny.2013.01.29b' into HEAD

2013-01-29T06:25:21Z

doctorture.2013.01.11a: Changes to rcutorture and to RCU documentation. fixes.2013.01.26a: Miscellaneous fixes. tagcb.2013.01.24a: Tag RCU callbacks with grace-period number to simplify callback advancement. tiny.2013.01.29b: Enhancements to uniprocessor handling in tiny RCU.

rcu: Remove obsolete Kconfig option from comment

2013-01-27T00:34:49Z

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcu: Reduce rcutorture tracing

2013-01-08T22:14:55Z

Currently, rcutorture traces every read-side access. This can be problematic because even a two-minute rcutorture run on a two-CPU system can generate 28,853,363 reads. Normally, only a failing read is of interest, so this commit traces adjusts rcutorture's tracing to only trace failing reads. The resulting event tracing records the time and the ->completed value captured at the beginning of the RCU read-side critical section, allowing correlation with other event-tracing messages. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett [ paulmck: Add fix to build problem located by Randy Dunlap based on diagnosis by Steven Rostedt. ]

context_tracking: New context tracking susbsystem

2012-11-30T19:40:07Z

Create a new subsystem that probes on kernel boundaries to keep track of the transitions between level contexts with two basic initial contexts: user or kernel. This is an abstraction of some RCU code that use such tracking to implement its userspace extended quiescent state. We need to pull this up from RCU into this new level of indirection because this tracking is also going to be used to implement an "on demand" generic virtual cputime accounting. A necessary step to shutdown the tick while still accounting the cputime. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Li Zhong Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt [ paulmck: fix whitespace error and email address. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

Merge branches 'urgent.2012.10.27a', 'doc.2012.11.16a', 'fixes.2012.11.13a', 'srcu.2012.10.27a', 'stall.2012.11.13a', 'tracing.2012.11.08a' and 'idle.2012.10.24a' into HEAD

2012-11-16T17:59:58Z

urgent.2012.10.27a: Fix for RCU user-mode transition (already in -tip). doc.2012.11.08a: Documentation updates, most notably codifying the memory-barrier guarantees inherent to grace periods. fixes.2012.11.13a: Miscellaneous fixes. srcu.2012.10.27a: Allow statically allocated and initialized srcu_struct structures (courtesy of Lai Jiangshan). stall.2012.11.13a: Add more diagnostic information to RCU CPU stall warnings, also decrease from 60 seconds to 21 seconds. hotplug.2012.11.08a: Minor updates to CPU hotplug handling. tracing.2012.11.08a: Improved debugfs tracing, courtesy of Michael Wang. idle.2012.10.24a: Updates to RCU idle/adaptive-idle handling, including a boot parameter that maps normal grace periods to expedited. Resolved conflict in kernel/rcutree.c due to side-by-side change.

rcu: Clarify memory-ordering properties of grace-period primitives

2012-11-13T22:08:23Z

This commit explicitly states the memory-ordering properties of the RCU grace-period primitives. Although these properties were in some sense implied by the fundmental property of RCU ("a grace period must wait for all pre-existing RCU read-side critical sections to complete"), stating it explicitly will be a great labor-saving device. Reported-by: Oleg Nesterov Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov