From 65d798f0f9339ae2c4ebe9480e3260b33382a584 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:19:10 -0700 Subject: rcu: Kick adaptive-ticks CPUs that are holding up RCU grace periods Adaptive-ticks CPUs inform RCU when they enter kernel mode, but they do not necessarily turn the scheduler-clock tick back on. This state of affairs could result in RCU waiting on an adaptive-ticks CPU running for an extended period in kernel mode. Such a CPU will never run the RCU state machine, and could therefore indefinitely extend the RCU state machine, sooner or later resulting in an OOM condition. This patch, inspired by an earlier patch by Frederic Weisbecker, therefore causes RCU's force-quiescent-state processing to check for this condition and to send an IPI to CPUs that remain in that state for too long. "Too long" currently means about three jiffies by default, which is quite some time for a CPU to remain in the kernel without blocking. The rcu_tree.jiffies_till_first_fqs and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs sysfs variables may be used to tune "too long" if needed. Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker 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 --- kernel/rcutree.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'kernel/rcutree.h') diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h index c896b5045d9d..f993c0ac47db 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.h +++ b/kernel/rcutree.h @@ -539,6 +539,7 @@ static void rcu_boot_init_nocb_percpu_data(struct rcu_data *rdp); static void rcu_spawn_nocb_kthreads(struct rcu_state *rsp); static void init_nocb_callback_list(struct rcu_data *rdp); static void __init rcu_init_nocb(void); +static void rcu_kick_nohz_cpu(int cpu); #endif /* #ifndef RCU_TREE_NONCORE */ -- cgit v1.2.3