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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-08-02 19:12:45 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2022-08-02 19:12:45 -0700 |
commit | 7d9d077c783e33995c80d8b28fea1a98161934f4 (patch) | |
tree | 5404e84d237b764a07aaf299d175c1dcfbad9966 /kernel/time | |
parent | c2a24a7a036b3bd3a2e6c66730dfc777cae6540a (diff) | |
parent | 34bc7b454dc31f75a0be7ee8ab378135523d7c51 (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'rcu.2022.07.26a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu
Pull RCU updates from Paul McKenney:
- Documentation updates
- Miscellaneous fixes
- Callback-offload updates, perhaps most notably a new
RCU_NOCB_CPU_DEFAULT_ALL Kconfig option that causes all CPUs to be
offloaded at boot time, regardless of kernel boot parameters.
This is useful to battery-powered systems such as ChromeOS and
Android. In addition, a new RCU_NOCB_CPU_CB_BOOST kernel boot
parameter prevents offloaded callbacks from interfering with
real-time workloads and with energy-efficiency mechanisms
- Polled grace-period updates, perhaps most notably making these APIs
account for both normal and expedited grace periods
- Tasks RCU updates, perhaps most notably reducing the CPU overhead of
RCU tasks trace grace periods by more than a factor of two on a
system with 15,000 tasks.
The reduction is expected to increase with the number of tasks, so it
seems reasonable to hypothesize that a system with 150,000 tasks
might see a 20-fold reduction in CPU overhead
- Torture-test updates
- Updates that merge RCU's dyntick-idle tracking into context tracking,
thus reducing the overhead of transitioning to kernel mode from
either idle or nohz_full userspace execution for kernels that track
context independently of RCU.
This is expected to be helpful primarily for kernels built with
CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=y
* tag 'rcu.2022.07.26a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: (98 commits)
rcu: Add irqs-disabled indicator to expedited RCU CPU stall warnings
rcu: Diagnose extended sync_rcu_do_polled_gp() loops
rcu: Put panic_on_rcu_stall() after expedited RCU CPU stall warnings
rcutorture: Test polled expedited grace-period primitives
rcu: Add polled expedited grace-period primitives
rcutorture: Verify that polled GP API sees synchronous grace periods
rcu: Make Tiny RCU grace periods visible to polled APIs
rcu: Make polled grace-period API account for expedited grace periods
rcu: Switch polled grace-period APIs to ->gp_seq_polled
rcu/nocb: Avoid polling when my_rdp->nocb_head_rdp list is empty
rcu/nocb: Add option to opt rcuo kthreads out of RT priority
rcu: Add nocb_cb_kthread check to rcu_is_callbacks_kthread()
rcu/nocb: Add an option to offload all CPUs on boot
rcu/nocb: Fix NOCB kthreads spawn failure with rcu_nocb_rdp_deoffload() direct call
rcu/nocb: Invert rcu_state.barrier_mutex VS hotplug lock locking order
rcu/nocb: Add/del rdp to iterate from rcuog itself
rcu/tree: Add comment to describe GP-done condition in fqs loop
rcu: Initialize first_gp_fqs at declaration in rcu_gp_fqs()
rcu/kvfree: Remove useless monitor_todo flag
rcu: Cleanup RCU urgency state for offline CPU
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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/Kconfig | 37 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 2 |
2 files changed, 27 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/Kconfig b/kernel/time/Kconfig index 27b7868b5c30..a41753be1a2b 100644 --- a/kernel/time/Kconfig +++ b/kernel/time/Kconfig @@ -73,6 +73,15 @@ config TIME_KUNIT_TEST If unsure, say N. +config CONTEXT_TRACKING + bool + +config CONTEXT_TRACKING_IDLE + bool + select CONTEXT_TRACKING + help + Tracks idle state on behalf of RCU. + if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS menu "Timers subsystem" @@ -111,7 +120,7 @@ config NO_HZ_FULL # NO_HZ_COMMON dependency # We need at least one periodic CPU for timekeeping depends on SMP - depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING + depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER # VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN dependency depends on HAVE_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING_GEN select NO_HZ_COMMON @@ -137,31 +146,37 @@ config NO_HZ_FULL endchoice -config CONTEXT_TRACKING - bool +config CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER + bool + depends on HAVE_CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER + select CONTEXT_TRACKING + help + Track transitions between kernel and user on behalf of RCU and + tickless cputime accounting. The former case relies on context + tracking to enter/exit RCU extended quiescent states. -config CONTEXT_TRACKING_FORCE - bool "Force context tracking" - depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING +config CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER_FORCE + bool "Force user context tracking" + depends on CONTEXT_TRACKING_USER default y if !NO_HZ_FULL help The major pre-requirement for full dynticks to work is to - support the context tracking subsystem. But there are also + support the user context tracking subsystem. But there are also other dependencies to provide in order to make the full dynticks working. This option stands for testing when an arch implements the - context tracking backend but doesn't yet fulfill all the + user context tracking backend but doesn't yet fulfill all the requirements to make the full dynticks feature working. Without the full dynticks, there is no way to test the support - for context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU + for user context tracking and the subsystems that rely on it: RCU userspace extended quiescent state and tickless cputime accounting. This option copes with the absence of the full - dynticks subsystem by forcing the context tracking on all + dynticks subsystem by forcing the user context tracking on all CPUs in the system. Say Y only if you're working on the development of an - architecture backend for the context tracking. + architecture backend for the user context tracking. Say N otherwise, this option brings an overhead that you don't want in production. diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index 30049580cd62..b0e3c9205946 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -570,7 +570,7 @@ void __init tick_nohz_init(void) } for_each_cpu(cpu, tick_nohz_full_mask) - context_tracking_cpu_set(cpu); + ct_cpu_track_user(cpu); ret = cpuhp_setup_state_nocalls(CPUHP_AP_ONLINE_DYN, "kernel/nohz:predown", NULL, |