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2013-04-30kernel/smp.c: cleanupsAndrew Morton
We sometimes use "struct call_single_data *data" and sometimes "struct call_single_data *csd". Use "csd" consistently. We sometimes use "struct call_function_data *data" and sometimes "struct call_function_data *cfd". Use "cfd" consistently. Also, avoid some 80-col layout tricks. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Cc: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-04-30kernel/smp.c: use '|=' for csd_lockliguang
csd_lock() uses assignment to data->flags rather than |=. That is not buggy at present because only one bit (CSD_FLAG_LOCK) is defined in call_single_data.flags. But it will become buggy if we later add another flag, so fix it now. Signed-off-by: liguang <lig.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-02-21smp: make smp_call_function_many() use logic similar to ↵Shaohua Li
smp_call_function_single() I'm testing swapout workload in a two-socket Xeon machine. The workload has 10 threads, each thread sequentially accesses separate memory region. TLB flush overhead is very big in the workload. For each page, page reclaim need move it from active lru list and then unmap it. Both need a TLB flush. And this is a multthread workload, TLB flush happens in 10 CPUs. In X86, TLB flush uses generic smp_call)function. So this workload stress smp_call_function_many heavily. Without patch, perf shows: + 24.49% [k] generic_smp_call_function_interrupt - 21.72% [k] _raw_spin_lock - _raw_spin_lock + 79.80% __page_check_address + 6.42% generic_smp_call_function_interrupt + 3.31% get_swap_page + 2.37% free_pcppages_bulk + 1.75% handle_pte_fault + 1.54% put_super + 1.41% grab_super_passive + 1.36% __swap_duplicate + 0.68% blk_flush_plug_list + 0.62% swap_info_get + 6.55% [k] flush_tlb_func + 6.46% [k] smp_call_function_many + 5.09% [k] call_function_interrupt + 4.75% [k] default_send_IPI_mask_sequence_phys + 2.18% [k] find_next_bit swapout throughput is around 1300M/s. With the patch, perf shows: - 27.23% [k] _raw_spin_lock - _raw_spin_lock + 80.53% __page_check_address + 8.39% generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt + 2.44% get_swap_page + 1.76% free_pcppages_bulk + 1.40% handle_pte_fault + 1.15% __swap_duplicate + 1.05% put_super + 0.98% grab_super_passive + 0.86% blk_flush_plug_list + 0.57% swap_info_get + 8.25% [k] default_send_IPI_mask_sequence_phys + 7.55% [k] call_function_interrupt + 7.47% [k] smp_call_function_many + 7.25% [k] flush_tlb_func + 3.81% [k] _raw_spin_lock_irqsave + 3.78% [k] generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt swapout throughput is around 1400M/s. So there is around a 7% improvement, and total cpu utilization doesn't change. Without the patch, cfd_data is shared by all CPUs. generic_smp_call_function_interrupt does read/write cfd_data several times which will create a lot of cache ping-pong. With the patch, the data becomes per-cpu. The ping-pong is avoided. And from the perf data, this doesn't make call_single_queue lock contend. Next step is to remove generic_smp_call_function_interrupt() from arch code. Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shli@fusionio.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2013-01-28smp: Fix SMP function call empty cpu mask raceWang YanQing
I get the following warning every day with v3.7, once or twice a day: [ 2235.186027] WARNING: at /mnt/sda7/kernel/linux/arch/x86/kernel/apic/ipi.c:109 default_send_IPI_mask_logical+0x2f/0xb8() As explained by Linus as well: | | Once we've done the "list_add_rcu()" to add it to the | queue, we can have (another) IPI to the target CPU that can | now see it and clear the mask. | | So by the time we get to actually send the IPI, the mask might | have been cleared by another IPI. | This patch also fixes a system hang problem, if the data->cpumask gets cleared after passing this point: if (WARN_ONCE(!mask, "empty IPI mask")) return; then the problem in commit 83d349f35e1a ("x86: don't send an IPI to the empty set of CPU's") will happen again. Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@gmail.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: mina86@mina86.org Cc: srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130126075357.GA3205@udknight [ Tidied up the changelog and the comment in the code. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2012-06-05smp: Remove ipi_call_lock[_irq]()/ipi_call_unlock[_irq]()Yong Zhang
There is no user of those APIs anymore, just remove it. Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org Cc: sshtylyov@mvista.com Cc: david.daney@cavium.com Cc: nikunj@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: axboe@kernel.dk Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1338275765-3217-11-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com Acked-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-05-08smp: Implement kick_all_cpus_sync()Thomas Gleixner
Will replace the misnomed cpu_idle_wait() function which is copied a gazillion times all over arch/* Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20120507175652.049316594@linutronix.de
2012-05-03smp, idle: Allocate idle thread for each possible cpu during bootSuresh Siddha
percpu areas are already allocated during boot for each possible cpu. percpu idle threads can be considered as an extension of the percpu areas, and allocate them for each possible cpu during boot. This will eliminate the need for workqueue based idle thread allocation. In future we can move the idle thread area into the percpu area too. [ tglx: Moved the loop into smpboot.c and added an error check when the init code failed to allocate an idle thread for a cpu which should be onlined ] Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: venki@google.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334966930.28674.245.camel@sbsiddha-desk.sc.intel.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2012-03-28smp: add func to IPI cpus based on parameter funcGilad Ben-Yossef
Add the on_each_cpu_cond() function that wraps on_each_cpu_mask() and calculates the cpumask of cpus to IPI by calling a function supplied as a parameter in order to determine whether to IPI each specific cpu. The function works around allocation failure of cpumask variable in CONFIG_CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y by itereating over cpus sending an IPI a time via smp_call_function_single(). The function is useful since it allows to seperate the specific code that decided in each case whether to IPI a specific cpu for a specific request from the common boilerplate code of handling creating the mask, handling failures etc. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/gfpflags/gfp_flags/] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: avoid double-evaluation of `info' (per Michal), parenthesise evaluation of `cond_func'] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: s/CPU/CPUs, use all 80 cols in comment] Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.org> Cc: Kosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Reviewed-by: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-28smp: introduce a generic on_each_cpu_mask() functionGilad Ben-Yossef
We have lots of infrastructure in place to partition multi-core systems such that we have a group of CPUs that are dedicated to specific task: cgroups, scheduler and interrupt affinity, and cpuisol= boot parameter. Still, kernel code will at times interrupt all CPUs in the system via IPIs for various needs. These IPIs are useful and cannot be avoided altogether, but in certain cases it is possible to interrupt only specific CPUs that have useful work to do and not the entire system. This patch set, inspired by discussions with Peter Zijlstra and Frederic Weisbecker when testing the nohz task patch set, is a first stab at trying to explore doing this by locating the places where such global IPI calls are being made and turning the global IPI into an IPI for a specific group of CPUs. The purpose of the patch set is to get feedback if this is the right way to go for dealing with this issue and indeed, if the issue is even worth dealing with at all. Based on the feedback from this patch set I plan to offer further patches that address similar issue in other code paths. This patch creates an on_each_cpu_mask() and on_each_cpu_cond() infrastructure API (the former derived from existing arch specific versions in Tile and Arm) and uses them to turn several global IPI invocation to per CPU group invocations. Core kernel: on_each_cpu_mask() calls a function on processors specified by cpumask, which may or may not include the local processor. You must not call this function with disabled interrupts or from a hardware interrupt handler or from a bottom half handler. arch/arm: Note that the generic version is a little different then the Arm one: 1. It has the mask as first parameter 2. It calls the function on the calling CPU with interrupts disabled, but this should be OK since the function is called on the other CPUs with interrupts disabled anyway. arch/tile: The API is the same as the tile private one, but the generic version also calls the function on the with interrupts disabled in UP case This is OK since the function is called on the other CPUs with interrupts disabled. Signed-off-by: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Reviewed-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.org> Cc: Kosaki Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-10-31kernel: Map most files to use export.h instead of module.hPaul Gortmaker
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 <linux/module.h> +#include <linux/export.h> This commit is only changing the kernel dir; next targets will probably be mm, fs, the arch dirs, etc. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
2011-06-17generic-ipi: Fix kexec boot crash by initializing call_single_queue before ↵Takao Indoh
enabling interrupts There is a problem that kdump(2nd kernel) sometimes hangs up due to a pending IPI from 1st kernel. Kernel panic occurs because IPI comes before call_single_queue is initialized. To fix the crash, rename init_call_single_data() to call_function_init() and call it in start_kernel() so that call_single_queue can be initialized before enabling interrupts. The details of the crash are: (1) 2nd kernel boots up (2) A pending IPI from 1st kernel comes when irqs are first enabled in start_kernel(). (3) Kernel tries to handle the interrupt, but call_single_queue is not initialized yet at this point. As a result, in the generic_smp_call_function_single_interrupt(), NULL pointer dereference occurs when list_replace_init() tries to access &q->list.next. Therefore this patch changes the name of init_call_single_data() to call_function_init() and calls it before local_irq_enable() in start_kernel(). Signed-off-by: Takao Indoh <indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com> Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/D6CBEE2F420741indou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-03-22smp: move smp setup functions to kernel/smp.cAmerigo Wang
Move setup_nr_cpu_ids(), smp_init() and some other SMP boot parameter setup functions from init/main.c to kenrel/smp.c, saves some #ifdef CONFIG_SMP. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: Rakib Mullick <rakib.mullick@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-17smp_call_function_interrupt: use typedef and %pfMilton Miller
Use the newly added smp_call_func_t in smp_call_function_interrupt for the func variable, and make the comment above the WARN more assertive and explicit. Also, func is a function pointer and does not need an offset, so use %pf not %pS. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-17smp_call_function_many: handle concurrent clearing of maskMilton Miller
Mike Galbraith reported finding a lockup ("perma-spin bug") where the cpumask passed to smp_call_function_many was cleared by other cpu(s) while a cpu was preparing its call_data block, resulting in no cpu to clear the last ref and unlock the block. Having cpus clear their bit asynchronously could be useful on a mask of cpus that might have a translation context, or cpus that need a push to complete an rcu window. Instead of adding a BUG_ON and requiring yet another cpumask copy, just detect the race and handle it. Note: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask must still handle an empty cpumask because the data block is globally visible before the that arch callback is made. And (obviously) there are no guarantees to which cpus are notified if the mask is changed during the call; only cpus that were online and had their mask bit set during the whole call are guaranteed to be called. Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Reported-by: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@novell.com> Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-17call_function_many: add missing orderingMilton Miller
Paul McKenney's review pointed out two problems with the barriers in the 2.6.38 update to the smp call function many code. First, a barrier that would force the func and info members of data to be visible before their consumption in the interrupt handler was missing. This can be solved by adding a smp_wmb between setting the func and info members and setting setting the cpumask; this will pair with the existing and required smp_rmb ordering the cpumask read before the read of refs. This placement avoids the need a second smp_rmb in the interrupt handler which would be executed on each of the N cpus executing the call request. (I was thinking this barrier was present but was not). Second, the previous write to refs (establishing the zero that we the interrupt handler was testing from all cpus) was performed by a third party cpu. This would invoke transitivity which, as a recient or concurrent addition to memory-barriers.txt now explicitly states, would require a full smp_mb(). However, we know the cpumask will only be set by one cpu (the data owner) and any preivous iteration of the mask would have cleared by the reading cpu. By redundantly writing refs to 0 on the owning cpu before the smp_wmb, the write to refs will follow the same path as the writes that set the cpumask, which in turn allows us to keep the barrier in the interrupt handler a smp_rmb instead of promoting it to a smp_mb (which will be be executed by N cpus for each of the possible M elements on the list). I moved and expanded the comment about our (ab)use of the rcu list primitives for the concurrent walk earlier into this function. I considered moving the first two paragraphs to the queue list head and lock, but felt it would have been too disconected from the code. Cc: Paul McKinney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org (2.6.32 and later) Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-03-17call_function_many: fix list delete vs add raceMilton Miller
Peter pointed out there was nothing preventing the list_del_rcu in smp_call_function_interrupt from running before the list_add_rcu in smp_call_function_many. Fix this by not setting refs until we have gotten the lock for the list. Take advantage of the wmb in list_add_rcu to save an explicit additional one. I tried to force this race with a udelay before the lock & list_add and by mixing all 64 online cpus with just 3 random cpus in the mask, but was unsuccessful. Still, inspection shows a valid race, and the fix is a extension of the existing protection window in the current code. Cc: stable@kernel.org (v2.6.32 and later) Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-20Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: smp: Allow on_each_cpu() to be called while early_boot_irqs_disabled status to init/main.c lockdep: Move early boot local IRQ enable/disable status to init/main.c
2011-01-20kernel/smp.c: consolidate writes in smp_call_function_interrupt()Milton Miller
We have to test the cpu mask in the interrupt handler before checking the refs, otherwise we can start to follow an entry before its deleted and find it partially initailzed for the next trip. Presently we also clear the cpumask bit before executing the called function, which implies getting write access to the line. After the function is called we then decrement refs, and if they go to zero we then unlock the structure. However, this implies getting write access to the call function data before and after another the function is called. If we can assert that no smp_call_function execution function is allowed to enable interrupts, then we can move both writes to after the function is called, hopfully allowing both writes with one cache line bounce. On a 256 thread system with a kernel compiled for 1024 threads, the time to execute testcase in the "smp_call_function_many race" changelog was reduced by about 30-40ms out of about 545 ms. I decided to keep this as WARN because its now a buggy function, even though the stack trace is of no value -- a simple printk would give us the information needed. Raw data: Without patch: ipi_test startup took 1219366ns complete 539819014ns total 541038380ns ipi_test startup took 1695754ns complete 543439872ns total 545135626ns ipi_test startup took 7513568ns complete 539606362ns total 547119930ns ipi_test startup took 13304064ns complete 533898562ns total 547202626ns ipi_test startup took 8668192ns complete 544264074ns total 552932266ns ipi_test startup took 4977626ns complete 548862684ns total 553840310ns ipi_test startup took 2144486ns complete 541292318ns total 543436804ns ipi_test startup took 21245824ns complete 530280180ns total 551526004ns With patch: ipi_test startup took 5961748ns complete 500859628ns total 506821376ns ipi_test startup took 8975996ns complete 495098924ns total 504074920ns ipi_test startup took 19797750ns complete 492204740ns total 512002490ns ipi_test startup took 14824796ns complete 487495878ns total 502320674ns ipi_test startup took 11514882ns complete 494439372ns total 505954254ns ipi_test startup took 8288084ns complete 502570774ns total 510858858ns ipi_test startup took 6789954ns complete 493388112ns total 500178066ns #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/init.h> #include <linux/sched.h> /* sched clock */ #define ITERATIONS 100 static void do_nothing_ipi(void *dummy) { } static void do_ipis(struct work_struct *dummy) { int i; for (i = 0; i < ITERATIONS; i++) smp_call_function(do_nothing_ipi, NULL, 1); printk(KERN_DEBUG "cpu %d finished\n", smp_processor_id()); } static struct work_struct work[NR_CPUS]; static int __init testcase_init(void) { int cpu; u64 start, started, done; start = local_clock(); for_each_online_cpu(cpu) { INIT_WORK(&work[cpu], do_ipis); schedule_work_on(cpu, &work[cpu]); } started = local_clock(); for_each_online_cpu(cpu) flush_work(&work[cpu]); done = local_clock(); pr_info("ipi_test startup took %lldns complete %lldns total %lldns\n", started-start, done-started, done-start); return 0; } static void __exit testcase_exit(void) { } module_init(testcase_init) module_exit(testcase_exit) MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); MODULE_AUTHOR("Anton Blanchard"); Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-20kernel/smp.c: fix smp_call_function_many() SMP raceAnton Blanchard
I noticed a failure where we hit the following WARN_ON in generic_smp_call_function_interrupt: if (!cpumask_test_and_clear_cpu(cpu, data->cpumask)) continue; data->csd.func(data->csd.info); refs = atomic_dec_return(&data->refs); WARN_ON(refs < 0); <------------------------- We atomically tested and cleared our bit in the cpumask, and yet the number of cpus left (ie refs) was 0. How can this be? It turns out commit 54fdade1c3332391948ec43530c02c4794a38172 ("generic-ipi: make struct call_function_data lockless") is at fault. It removes locking from smp_call_function_many and in doing so creates a rather complicated race. The problem comes about because: - The smp_call_function_many interrupt handler walks call_function.queue without any locking. - We reuse a percpu data structure in smp_call_function_many. - We do not wait for any RCU grace period before starting the next smp_call_function_many. Imagine a scenario where CPU A does two smp_call_functions back to back, and CPU B does an smp_call_function in between. We concentrate on how CPU C handles the calls: CPU A CPU B CPU C CPU D smp_call_function smp_call_function_interrupt walks call_function.queue sees data from CPU A on list smp_call_function smp_call_function_interrupt walks call_function.queue sees (stale) CPU A on list smp_call_function int clears last ref on A list_del_rcu, unlock smp_call_function reuses percpu *data A data->cpumask sees and clears bit in cpumask might be using old or new fn! decrements refs below 0 set data->refs (too late!) The important thing to note is since the interrupt handler walks a potentially stale call_function.queue without any locking, then another cpu can view the percpu *data structure at any time, even when the owner is in the process of initialising it. The following test case hits the WARN_ON 100% of the time on my PowerPC box (having 128 threads does help :) #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/init.h> #define ITERATIONS 100 static void do_nothing_ipi(void *dummy) { } static void do_ipis(struct work_struct *dummy) { int i; for (i = 0; i < ITERATIONS; i++) smp_call_function(do_nothing_ipi, NULL, 1); printk(KERN_DEBUG "cpu %d finished\n", smp_processor_id()); } static struct work_struct work[NR_CPUS]; static int __init testcase_init(void) { int cpu; for_each_online_cpu(cpu) { INIT_WORK(&work[cpu], do_ipis); schedule_work_on(cpu, &work[cpu]); } return 0; } static void __exit testcase_exit(void) { } module_init(testcase_init) module_exit(testcase_exit) MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); MODULE_AUTHOR("Anton Blanchard"); I tried to fix it by ordering the read and the write of ->cpumask and ->refs. In doing so I missed a critical case but Paul McKenney was able to spot my bug thankfully :) To ensure we arent viewing previous iterations the interrupt handler needs to read ->refs then ->cpumask then ->refs _again_. Thanks to Milton Miller and Paul McKenney for helping to debug this issue. [miltonm@bga.com: add WARN_ON and BUG_ON, remove extra read of refs before initial read of mask that doesn't help (also noted by Peter Zijlstra), adjust comments, hopefully clarify scenario ] [miltonm@bga.com: remove excess tests] Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> [2.6.32+] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-01-20smp: Allow on_each_cpu() to be called while early_boot_irqs_disabled status ↵Tejun Heo
to init/main.c percpu may end up calling vfree() during early boot which in turn may call on_each_cpu() for TLB flushes. The function of on_each_cpu() can be done safely while IRQ is disabled during early boot but it assumed that the function is always called with local IRQ enabled which ended up enabling local IRQ prematurely during boot and triggering a couple of warnings. This patch updates on_each_cpu() and smp_call_function_many() such on_each_cpu() can be used safely while early_boot_irqs_disabled is set. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <20110120110713.GC6036@htj.dyndns.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Reported-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2011-01-13kernel: clean up USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERSAmerigo Wang
For arch which needs USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS, it has to select USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS, rather than leaving a choice to user, since they don't provide their own implementions. Also, move on_each_cpu() to kernel/smp.c, it is strange to put it in kernel/softirq.c. For arch which doesn't use USE_GENERIC_SMP_HELPERS, e.g. blackfin, only on_each_cpu() is compiled. Signed-off-by: Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-27Typedef SMP call function pointerDavid Howells
Typedef the pointer to the function to be called by smp_call_function() and friends: typedef void (*smp_call_func_t)(void *info); as it is used in a fair number of places. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
2010-09-10generic-ipi: Fix deadlock in __smp_call_function_singleHeiko Carstens
Just got my 6 way machine to a state where cpu 0 is in an endless loop within __smp_call_function_single. All other cpus are idle. The call trace on cpu 0 looks like this: __smp_call_function_single scheduler_tick update_process_times tick_sched_timer __run_hrtimer hrtimer_interrupt clock_comparator_work do_extint ext_int_handler ----> timer irq cpu_idle __smp_call_function_single() got called from nohz_balancer_kick() (inlined) with the remote cpu being 1, wait being 0 and the per cpu variable remote_sched_softirq_cb (call_single_data) of the current cpu (0). Then it loops forever when it tries to grab the lock of the call_single_data, since it is already locked and enqueued on cpu 0. My theory how this could have happened: for some reason the scheduler decided to call __smp_call_function_single() on it's own cpu, and sends an IPI to itself. The interrupt stays pending since IRQs are disabled. If then the hypervisor schedules the cpu away it might happen that upon rescheduling both the IPI and the timer IRQ are pending. If then interrupts are enabled again it depends which one gets scheduled first. If the timer interrupt gets delivered first we end up with the local deadlock as seen in the calltrace above. Let's make __smp_call_function_single() check if the target cpu is the current cpu and execute the function immediately just like smp_call_function_single does. That should prevent at least the scenario described here. It might also be that the scheduler is not supposed to call __smp_call_function_single with the remote cpu being the current cpu, but that is a different issue. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jaxboe@fusionio.com> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> LKML-Reference: <20100910114729.GB2827@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-05-27kernel/: convert cpu notifier to return encapsulate errno valueAkinobu Mita
By the previous modification, the cpu notifier can return encapsulate errno value. This converts the cpu notifiers for kernel/*.c Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-03-30include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking ↵Tejun Heo
implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies. percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is used as the basis of conversion. http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py The script does the followings. * Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used, gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h. * When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered - alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there doesn't seem to be any matching order. * If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the file. The conversion was done in the following steps. 1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400 files. 2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion, some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added inclusions to around 150 files. 3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits from #2 to make sure no file was left behind. 4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed. e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually. 5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as necessary. 6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h. 7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq). * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config. * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig * ia64 SMP allmodconfig * s390 SMP allmodconfig * alpha SMP allmodconfig * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig 8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as a separate patch and serve as bisection point. Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step 6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch. If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of the specific arch. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-01-18generic-ipi: Optimize accesses by using DEFINE_PER_CPU_SHARED_ALIGNED for ↵Milton Miller
IPI data The smp ipi data is passed around and given write access by other cpus and should be separated from per-cpu data consumed by this cpu. Looking for hot lines, I saw call_function_data shared with tick_cpu_sched. Signed-off-by: Milton Miller <miltonm@bga.com> Acked-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: : Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> LKML-Reference: <20100118020051.GR12666@kryten> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2010-01-16smp_call_function_any(): pass the node value to cpumask_of_node()David John
The change in acpi_cpufreq to use smp_call_function_any causes a warning when it is called since the function erroneously passes the cpu id to cpumask_of_node rather than the node that the cpu is on. Fix this. cpumask_of_node(3): node > nr_node_ids(1) Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.33-rc3-00097-g2c1f189 #223 Call Trace: [<ffffffff81028bb3>] cpumask_of_node+0x23/0x58 [<ffffffff81061f51>] smp_call_function_any+0x65/0xfa [<ffffffff810160d1>] ? do_drv_read+0x0/0x2f [<ffffffff81015fba>] get_cur_val+0xb0/0x102 [<ffffffff81016080>] get_cur_freq_on_cpu+0x74/0xc5 [<ffffffff810168a7>] acpi_cpufreq_cpu_init+0x417/0x515 [<ffffffff81562ce9>] ? __down_write+0xb/0xd [<ffffffff8148055e>] cpufreq_add_dev+0x278/0x922 Signed-off-by: David John <davidjon@xenontk.org> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-15Merge branch 'core-locking-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (26 commits) clockevents: Convert to raw_spinlock clockevents: Make tick_device_lock static debugobjects: Convert to raw_spinlocks perf_event: Convert to raw_spinlock hrtimers: Convert to raw_spinlocks genirq: Convert irq_desc.lock to raw_spinlock smp: Convert smplocks to raw_spinlocks rtmutes: Convert rtmutex.lock to raw_spinlock sched: Convert pi_lock to raw_spinlock sched: Convert cpupri lock to raw_spinlock sched: Convert rt_runtime_lock to raw_spinlock sched: Convert rq->lock to raw_spinlock plist: Make plist debugging raw_spinlock aware bkl: Fixup core_lock fallout locking: Cleanup the name space completely locking: Further name space cleanups alpha: Fix fallout from locking changes locking: Implement new raw_spinlock locking: Convert raw_rwlock functions to arch_rwlock locking: Convert raw_rwlock to arch_rwlock ...
2009-12-15generic-ipi: cleanup for generic_smp_call_function_interrupt()Xiao Guangrong
Use smp_processor_id() instead of get_cpu() and put_cpu() in generic_smp_call_function_interrupt(), It's no need to disable preempt, because we must call generic_smp_call_function_interrupt() with interrupts disabled. Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-12-14smp: Convert smplocks to raw_spinlocksThomas Gleixner
Convert locks which cannot be sleeping locks in preempt-rt to raw_spinlocks. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-18generic-ipi: Add smp_call_function_any()Rusty Russell
Andrew points out that acpi-cpufreq uses cpumask_any, when it really would prefer to use the same CPU if possible (to avoid an IPI). In general, this seems a good idea to offer. [ tglx: Documented selection preference and Inlined the UP case to avoid the copy of smp_call_function_single() and the extra EXPORT ] Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@intel.com> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: "Zhang, Yanmin" <yanmin_zhang@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2009-10-23generic-ipi: Fix misleading smp_call_function*() descriptionSheng Yang
After commit:8969a5ede0f9e17da4b943712429aef2c9bcd82b "generic-ipi: remove kmalloc()", wait = 0 can be guaranteed. Signed-off-by: Sheng Yang <sheng@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> LKML-Reference: <1256210374-25354-1-git-send-email-sheng@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-24cpumask: remove arch_send_call_function_ipiRusty Russell
Now everyone is converted to arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask, remove the shim and the #defines. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-09-23generic-ipi: make struct call_function_data locklessXiao Guangrong
This patch can remove spinlock from struct call_function_data, the reasons are below: 1: add a new interface for cpumask named cpumask_test_and_clear_cpu(), it can atomically test and clear specific cpu, we can use it instead of cpumask_test_cpu() and cpumask_clear_cpu() and no need data->lock to protect those in generic_smp_call_function_interrupt(). 2: in smp_call_function_many(), after csd_lock() return, the current's cfd_data is deleted from call_function list, so it not have race between other cpus, then cfs_data is only used in smp_call_function_many() that must disable preemption and not from a hardware interrupthandler or from a bottom half handler to call, only the correspond cpu can use it, so it not have race in current cpu, no need cfs_data->lock to protect it. 3: after 1 and 2, cfs_data->lock is only use to protect cfs_data->refs in generic_smp_call_function_interrupt(), so we can define cfs_data->refs to atomic_t, and no need cfs_data->lock any more. Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> [akpm@linux-foundation.org: use atomic_dec_return()] Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-08-26Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/patH. Peter Anvin
Reason: Change to is_new_memtype_allowed() in x86/urgent Resolved semantic conflicts in: arch/x86/mm/pat.c arch/x86/mm/ioremap.c Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-08-21generic-ipi: Allow cpus not yet online to call smp_call_function with irqs ↵Suresh Siddha
disabled Because of deadlock possiblities smp_call_function() is not allowed to be called with interrupts disabled. Add an exception for the cpu not yet online, as no one else can send smp call function interrupt to this cpu that is not yet online and as such deadlock condition is not possible. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Acked-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-08-07generic-ipi: fix hotplug_cfd()Xiao Guangrong
Use CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU, not CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG When hot-unpluging a cpu, it will leak memory allocated at cpu hotplug, but only if CPUMASK_OFFSTACK=y, which is default to n. The bug was introduced by 8969a5ede0f9e17da4b943712429aef2c9bcd82b ("generic-ipi: remove kmalloc()"). Signed-off-by: Xiao Guangrong <xiaoguangrong@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-09cpumask: alloc zeroed cpumask for static cpumask_var_tsYinghai Lu
These are defined as static cpumask_var_t so if MAXSMP is not used, they are cleared already. Avoid surprises when MAXSMP is enabled. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai.lu@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-03-13generic-ipi: eliminate WARN_ON()s during oops/panicIngo Molnar
Do not output smp-call related warnings in the oops/panic codepath. Reported-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> LKML-Reference: <49B91A7E.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25generic-ipi: cleanupsIngo Molnar
Andrew pointed out that there's some small amount of style rot in kernel/smp.c. Clean it up. Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25generic-ipi: remove CSD_FLAG_WAITPeter Zijlstra
Oleg noticed that we don't strictly need CSD_FLAG_WAIT, rework the code so that we can use CSD_FLAG_LOCK for both purposes. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25generic-ipi: remove kmalloc()Peter Zijlstra
Remove the use of kmalloc() from the smp_call_function_*() calls. Steven's generic-ipi patch (d7240b98: generic-ipi: use per cpu data for single cpu ipi calls) started the discussion on the use of kmalloc() in this code and fixed the smp_call_function_single(.wait=0) fallback case. In this patch we complete this by also providing means for the _many() call, which fully removes the need for kmalloc() in this code. The problem with the _many() call is that other cpus might still be observing our entry when we're done with it. It solved this by dynamically allocating data elements and RCU-freeing it. We solve it by using a single per-cpu entry which provides static storage and solves one half of the problem (avoiding referencing freed data). The other half, ensuring the queue iteration it still possible, is done by placing re-used entries at the head of the list. This means that if someone was still iterating that entry when it got moved, he will now re-visit the entries on the list he had already seen, but avoids skipping over entries like would have happened had we placed the new entry at the end. Furthermore, visiting entries twice is not a problem, since we remove our cpu from the entry's cpumask once its called. Many thanks to Oleg for his suggestions and him poking holes in my earlier attempts. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-25generic IPI: simplify barriers and lockingNick Piggin
Simplify the barriers in generic remote function call interrupt code. Firstly, just unconditionally take the lock and check the list in the generic_call_function_single_interrupt IPI handler. As we've just taken an IPI here, the chances are fairly high that there will be work on the list for us, so do the locking unconditionally. This removes the tricky lockless list_empty check and dubious barriers. The change looks bigger than it is because it is just removing an outer loop. Secondly, clarify architecture specific IPI locking rules. Generic code has no tools to impose any sane ordering on IPIs if they go outside normal cache coherency, ergo the arch code must make them appear to obey cache coherency as a "memory operation" to initiate an IPI, and a "memory operation" to receive one. This way at least they can be reasoned about in generic code, and smp_mb used to provide ordering. The combination of these two changes means that explict barriers can be taken out of queue handling for the single case -- shared data is explicitly locked, and ipi ordering must conform to that, so no barriers needed. An extra barrier is needed in the many handler, so as to ensure we load the list element after the IPI is received. Does any architecture actually *need* these barriers? For the initiator I could see it, but for the handler I would be surprised. So the other thing we could do for simplicity is just to require that, rather than just matching with cache coherency, we just require a full barrier before generating an IPI, and after receiving an IPI. In which case, the smp_mb()s can go away. But just for now, we'll be on the safe side and use the barriers (they're in the slow case anyway). Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-30generic-ipi: use per cpu data for single cpu ipi callsSteven Rostedt
The smp_call_function can be passed a wait parameter telling it to wait for all the functions running on other CPUs to complete before returning, or to return without waiting. Unfortunately, this is currently just a suggestion and not manditory. That is, the smp_call_function can decide not to return and wait instead. The reason for this is because it uses kmalloc to allocate storage to send to the called CPU and that CPU will free it when it is done. But if we fail to allocate the storage, the stack is used instead. This means we must wait for the called CPU to finish before continuing. Unfortunatly, some callers do no abide by this hint and act as if the non-wait option is mandatory. The MTRR code for instance will deadlock if the smp_call_function is set to wait. This is because the smp_call_function will wait for the other CPUs to finish their called functions, but those functions are waiting on the caller to continue. This patch changes the generic smp_call_function code to use per cpu variables if the allocation of the data fails for a single CPU call. The smp_call_function_many will fall back to the smp_call_function_single if it fails its alloc. The smp_call_function_single is modified to not force the wait state. Since we now are using a single data per cpu we must synchronize the callers to prevent a second caller modifying the data before the first called IPI functions complete. To do so, I added a flag to the call_single_data called CSD_FLAG_LOCK. When the single CPU is called (which can be called when a many call fails an alloc), we set the LOCK bit on this per cpu data. When the caller finishes it clears the LOCK bit. The caller must wait till the LOCK bit is cleared before setting it. When it is cleared, there is no IPI function using it. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-01-01cpumask: prepare for iterators to only go to nr_cpu_ids/nr_cpumask_bits.: coreRusty Russell
Impact: cleanup In future, all cpumask ops will only be valid (in general) for bit numbers < nr_cpu_ids. So use that instead of NR_CPUS in iterators and other comparisons. This is always safe: no cpu number can be >= nr_cpu_ids, and nr_cpu_ids is initialized to NR_CPUS at boot. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2008-12-30cpumask: arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask: coreRusty Russell
Impact: new API to reduce stack usage We're weaning the core code off handing cpumask's around on-stack. This introduces arch_send_call_function_ipi_mask(). Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-12-30cpumask: smp_call_function_many()Rusty Russell
Impact: Implementation change to remove cpumask_t from stack. Actually change smp_call_function_mask() to smp_call_function_many(). We avoid cpumasks on the stack in this version. (S390 has its own version, but that's going away apparently). We have to do some dancing to figure out if 0 or 1 other cpus are in the mask supplied and the online mask without allocating a tmp cpumask. It's still fairly cheap. We allocate the cpumask at the end of the call_function_data structure: if allocation fails we fallback to smp_call_function_single rather than using the baroque quiescing code (which needs a cpumask on stack). (Thanks to Hiroshi Shimamoto for spotting several bugs in previous versions!) Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Cc: npiggin@suse.de Cc: axboe@kernel.dk
2008-11-06generic-ipi: fix the smp_mb() placementSuresh Siddha
smp_mb() is needed (to make the memory operations visible globally) before sending the ipi on the sender and the receiver (on Alpha atleast) needs smp_read_barrier_depends() in the handler before reading the call_single_queue list in a lock-free fashion. On x86, x2apic mode register accesses for sending IPI's don't have serializing semantics. So the need for smp_mb() before sending the IPI becomes more critical in x2apic mode. Remove the unnecessary smp_mb() in csd_flag_wait(), as the presence of that smp_mb() doesn't mean anything on the sender, when the ipi receiver is not doing any thing special (like memory fence) after clearing the CSD_FLAG_WAIT. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-08-25smp: have smp_call_function_single() detect invalid CPUsH. Peter Anvin
Have smp_call_function_single() return invalid CPU indicies and return -ENXIO. This function is already executed inside a get_cpu()..put_cpu() which locks out CPU removal, so rather than having the higher layers doing another layer of locking to guard against unplugged CPUs do the test here. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2008-08-12generic-ipi: fix stack and rcu interaction bug in smp_call_function_mask(), fixNick Piggin
> > Nick Piggin (1): > > generic-ipi: fix stack and rcu interaction bug in > > smp_call_function_mask() > > I'm still not 100% sure that I have this patch right... I might have seen > a lockup trace implicating the smp call function path... which may have > been due to some other problem or a different bug in the new call function > code, but if some more people can take a look at it before merging? OK indeed it did have a couple of bugs. Firstly, I wasn't freeing the data properly in the alloc && wait case. Secondly, I wasn't resetting CSD_FLAG_WAIT in the for each cpu loop (so only the first CPU would wait). After those fixes, the patch boots and runs with the kmalloc commented out (so it always executes the slowpath). Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>