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<title>rcu: Correctly handle non-empty Tiny RCU callback list with none ready</title>
<updated>2015-08-12T14:33:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
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<published>2015-05-11T18:13:05Z</published>
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commit 6e91f8cb138625be96070b778d9ba71ce520ea7e upstream.

If, at the time __rcu_process_callbacks() is invoked,  there are callbacks
in Tiny RCU's callback list, but none of them are ready to be invoked,
the current list-management code will knit the non-ready callbacks out
of the list.  This can result in hangs and possibly worse.  This commit
therefore inserts a check for there being no callbacks that can be
invoked immediately.

This bug is unlikely to occur -- you have to get a new callback between
the time rcu_sched_qs() or rcu_bh_qs() was called, but before we get to
__rcu_process_callbacks().  It was detected by the addition of RCU-bh
testing to rcutorture, which in turn was instigated by Iftekhar Ahmed's
mutation testing.  Although this bug was made much more likely by
915e8a4fe45e (rcu: Remove fastpath from __rcu_process_callbacks()), this
did not cause the bug, but rather made it much more probable.   That
said, it takes more than 40 hours of rcutorture testing, on average,
for this bug to appear, so this fix cannot be considered an emergency.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
[bwh: Backported to 3.2: adjust filename, context]
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings &lt;ben@decadent.org.uk&gt;
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<title>kernel: fix up module header handling in rcutiny files</title>
<updated>2011-10-31T13:20:13Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-10-25T17:13:57Z</published>
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The file rcutiny.c does not need moduleparam.h header, as
there are no modparams in this file.

However rcutiny_plugin.h does define a module_init() and
a module_exit() and it uses the various MODULE_ macros, so
it really does need module.h included.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.h</title>
<updated>2011-10-31T13:20:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul Gortmaker</name>
<email>paul.gortmaker@windriver.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-23T18:51:41Z</published>
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The changed files were only including linux/module.h for the
EXPORT_SYMBOL infrastructure, and nothing else.  Revector them
onto the isolated export header for faster compile times.

Nothing to see here but a whole lot of instances of:

  -#include &lt;linux/module.h&gt;
  +#include &lt;linux/export.h&gt;

This commit is only changing the kernel dir; next targets
will probably be mm, fs, the arch dirs, etc.

Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker &lt;paul.gortmaker@windriver.com&gt;
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<title>rcu: Add grace-period, quiescent-state, and call_rcu trace events</title>
<updated>2011-09-29T04:38:21Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paul.mckenney@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-25T13:36:56Z</published>
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Add trace events to record grace-period start and end, quiescent states,
CPUs noticing grace-period start and end, grace-period initialization,
call_rcu() invocation, tasks blocking in RCU read-side critical sections,
tasks exiting those same critical sections, force_quiescent_state()
detection of dyntick-idle and offline CPUs, CPUs entering and leaving
dyntick-idle mode (except from NMIs), CPUs coming online and going
offline, and CPUs being kicked for staying in dyntick-idle mode for too
long (as in many weeks, even on 32-bit systems).

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;

rcu: Add the rcu flavor to callback trace events

The earlier trace events for registering RCU callbacks and for invoking
them did not include the RCU flavor (rcu_bh, rcu_preempt, or rcu_sched).
This commit adds the RCU flavor to those trace events.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>rcu: Make TINY_RCU also use softirq for RCU_BOOST=n</title>
<updated>2011-09-29T04:38:20Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paul.mckenney@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-18T16:55:39Z</published>
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This patch #ifdefs TINY_RCU kthreads out of the kernel unless RCU_BOOST=y,
thus eliminating context-switch overhead if RCU priority boosting has
not been configured.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>rcu: Add RCU type to callback-invocation tracing</title>
<updated>2011-09-29T04:38:15Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paul.mckenney@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-21T08:14:54Z</published>
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Add a string to the rcu_batch_start() and rcu_batch_end() trace
messages that indicates the RCU type ("rcu_sched", "rcu_bh", or
"rcu_preempt").  The trace messages for the actual invocations
themselves are not marked, as it should be clear from the
rcu_batch_start() and rcu_batch_end() events before and after.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>rcu: Put names into TINY_RCU structures under RCU_TRACE</title>
<updated>2011-09-29T04:38:14Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paul.mckenney@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-21T07:13:44Z</published>
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In order to allow event tracing to distinguish between flavors of
RCU, we need those names in the relevant RCU data structures.  TINY_RCU
has avoided them for memory-footprint reasons, so add them only if
CONFIG_RCU_TRACE=y.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>rcu: Add event-tracing for RCU callback invocation</title>
<updated>2011-09-29T04:38:12Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paul.mckenney@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-06-17T22:53:19Z</published>
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There was recently some controversy about the overhead of invoking RCU
callbacks.  Add TRACE_EVENT()s to obtain fine-grained timings for the
start and stop of a batch of callbacks and also for each callback invoked.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paul.mckenney@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<title>rcu: Abstract common code for RCU grace-period-wait primitives</title>
<updated>2011-09-29T04:36:42Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-27T05:14:36Z</published>
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Pull the code that waits for an RCU grace period into a single function,
which is then called by synchronize_rcu() and friends in the case of
TREE_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, and from rcu_barrier() and friends in
the case of TINY_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>sanitize &lt;linux/prefetch.h&gt; usage</title>
<updated>2011-05-20T19:50:29Z</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2011-05-20T19:50:29Z</published>
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Commit e66eed651fd1 ("list: remove prefetching from regular list
iterators") removed the include of prefetch.h from list.h, which
uncovered several cases that had apparently relied on that rather
obscure header file dependency.

So this fixes things up a bit, using

   grep -L linux/prefetch.h $(git grep -l '[^a-z_]prefetchw*(' -- '*.[ch]')
   grep -L 'prefetchw*(' $(git grep -l 'linux/prefetch.h' -- '*.[ch]')

to guide us in finding files that either need &lt;linux/prefetch.h&gt;
inclusion, or have it despite not needing it.

There are more of them around (mostly network drivers), but this gets
many core ones.

Reported-by: Stephen Rothwell &lt;sfr@canb.auug.org.au&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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