- Jul 20, 2019
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Peter Zijlstra authored
It's clearly documented that smp function calls cannot be invoked from softirq handling context. Unfortunately nothing enforces that or emits a warning. A single function call can be invoked from softirq context only via smp_call_function_single_async(). The only legit context is task context, so add a warning to that effect. Reported-by:
luferry <luferry@163.com> Signed-off-by:
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by:
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190718160601.GP3402@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net
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- Jun 23, 2019
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Nadav Amit authored
The return value is fixed. Remove it and amend the callers. [ tglx: Fixup arm/bL_switcher and powerpc/rtas ] Signed-off-by:
Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Signed-off-by:
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Nadav Amit authored
cfd_data is marked as shared, but although it hold pointers to shared data structures, it is private per core. Signed-off-by:
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- May 21, 2019
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Thomas Gleixner authored
Add SPDX license identifiers to all files which: - Have no license information of any form - Have EXPORT_.*_SYMBOL_GPL inside which was used in the initial scan/conversion to ignore the file These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX license identifier is: GPL-2.0-only Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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- Jan 30, 2019
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Josh Poimboeuf authored
With the following commit: 73d5e2b4 ("cpu/hotplug: detect SMT disabled by BIOS") ... the hotplug code attempted to detect when SMT was disabled by BIOS, in which case it reported SMT as permanently disabled. However, that code broke a virt hotplug scenario, where the guest is booted with only primary CPU threads, and a sibling is brought online later. The problem is that there doesn't seem to be a way to reliably distinguish between the HW "SMT disabled by BIOS" case and the virt "sibling not yet brought online" case. So the above-mentioned commit was a bit misguided, as it permanently disabled SMT for both cases, preventing future virt sibling hotplugs. Going back and reviewing the original problems which were attempted to be solved by that commit, when SMT was disabled in BIOS: 1) /sys/devices/system/cpu/smt/control showed "on" instead of "notsupported"; and 2) vmx_vm_init() was incorrectly showing the L1TF_MSG_SMT warning. I'd propose that we instead consider #1 above to not actually be a problem. Because, at least in the virt case, it's possible that SMT wasn't disabled by BIOS and a sibling thread could be brought online later. So it makes sense to just always default the smt control to "on" to allow for that possibility (assuming cpuid indicates that the CPU supports SMT). The real problem is #2, which has a simple fix: change vmx_vm_init() to query the actual current SMT state -- i.e., whether any siblings are currently online -- instead of looking at the SMT "control" sysfs value. So fix it by: a) reverting the original "fix" and its followup fix: 73d5e2b4 ("cpu/hotplug: detect SMT disabled by BIOS") bc2d8d26 ("cpu/hotplug: Fix SMT supported evaluation") and b) changing vmx_vm_init() to query the actual current SMT state -- instead of the sysfs control value -- to determine whether the L1TF warning is needed. This also requires the 'sched_smt_present' variable to exported, instead of 'cpu_smt_control'. Fixes: 73d5e2b4 ("cpu/hotplug: detect SMT disabled by BIOS") Reported-by:
Igor Mammedov <imammedo@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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- Oct 09, 2018
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Rik van Riel authored
Introduce a variant of on_each_cpu_cond that iterates only over the CPUs in a cpumask, in order to avoid making callbacks for every single CPU in the system when we only need to test a subset. Cc: npiggin@gmail.com Cc: mingo@kernel.org Cc: will.deacon@arm.com Cc: songliubraving@fb.com Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: hpa@zytor.com Cc: luto@kernel.org Signed-off-by:
Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Signed-off-by:
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Rik van Riel authored
The code in on_each_cpu_cond sets CPUs in a locally allocated bitmask, which should never be used by other CPUs simultaneously. There is no need to use locked memory accesses to set the bits in this bitmap. Switch to __cpumask_set_cpu. Cc: npiggin@gmail.com Cc: mingo@kernel.org Cc: will.deacon@arm.com Cc: songliubraving@fb.com Cc: kernel-team@fb.com Cc: hpa@zytor.com Suggested-by:
Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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- Aug 07, 2018
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Thomas Gleixner authored
Josh reported that the late SMT evaluation in cpu_smt_state_init() sets cpu_smt_control to CPU_SMT_NOT_SUPPORTED in case that 'nosmt' was supplied on the kernel command line as it cannot differentiate between SMT disabled by BIOS and SMT soft disable via 'nosmt'. That wreckages the state and makes the sysfs interface unusable. Rework this so that during bringup of the non boot CPUs the availability of SMT is determined in cpu_smt_allowed(). If a newly booted CPU is not a 'primary' thread then set the local cpu_smt_available marker and evaluate this explicitely right after the initial SMP bringup has finished. SMT evaulation on x86 is a trainwreck as the firmware has all the information _before_ booting the kernel, but there is no interface to query it. Fixes: 73d5e2b4 ("cpu/hotplug: detect SMT disabled by BIOS") Reported-by:
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- Nov 08, 2017
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Use lockdep to check that IRQs are enabled or disabled as expected. This way the sanity check only shows overhead when concurrency correctness debug code is enabled. Signed-off-by:
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Acked-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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- Sep 09, 2017
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
First, number of CPUs can't be negative number. Second, different signnnedness leads to suboptimal code in the following cases: 1) kmalloc(nr_cpu_ids * sizeof(X)); "int" has to be sign extended to size_t. 2) while (loff_t *pos < nr_cpu_ids) MOVSXD is 1 byte longed than the same MOV. Other cases exist as well. Basically compiler is told that nr_cpu_ids can't be negative which can't be deduced if it is "int". Code savings on allyesconfig kernel: -3KB add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 25/264 up/down: 261/-3631 (-3370) function old new delta coretemp_cpu_online 450 512 +62 rcu_init_one 1234 1272 +38 pci_device_probe 374 399 +25 ... pgdat_reclaimable_pages 628 556 -72 select_fallback_rq 446 369 -77 task_numa_find_cpu 1923 1807 -116 Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170819114959.GA30580@avx2 Signed-off-by:
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Aug 29, 2017
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Ying Huang authored
struct call_single_data is used in IPIs to transfer information between CPUs. Its size is bigger than sizeof(unsigned long) and less than cache line size. Currently it is not allocated with any explicit alignment requirements. This makes it possible for allocated call_single_data to cross two cache lines, which results in double the number of the cache lines that need to be transferred among CPUs. This can be fixed by requiring call_single_data to be aligned with the size of call_single_data. Currently the size of call_single_data is the power of 2. If we add new fields to call_single_data, we may need to add padding to make sure the size of new definition is the power of 2 as well. Fortunately, this is enforced by GCC, which will report bad sizes. To set alignment requirements of call_single_data to the size of call_single_data, a struct definition and a typedef is used. To test the effect of the patch, I used the vm-scalability multiple thread swap test case (swap-w-seq-mt). The test will create multiple threads and each thread will eat memory until all RAM and part of swap is used, so that huge number of IPIs are triggered when unmapping memory. In the test, the throughput of memory writing improves ~5% compared with misaligned call_single_data, because of faster IPIs. Suggested-by:
Huang, Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> [ Add call_single_data_t and align with size of call_single_data. ] Signed-off-by:
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- May 23, 2017
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Peter Zijlstra authored
The cpumasks in smp_call_function_many() are private and not subject to concurrency, atomic bitops are pointless and expensive. Signed-off-by:
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Aaron Lu authored
Inter-Processor-Interrupt(IPI) is needed when a page is unmapped and the process' mm_cpumask() shows the process has ever run on other CPUs. page migration, page reclaim all need IPIs. The number of IPI needed to send to different CPUs is especially large for multi-threaded workload since mm_cpumask() is per process. For smp_call_function_many(), whenever a CPU queues a CSD to a target CPU, it will send an IPI to let the target CPU to handle the work. This isn't necessary - we need only send IPI when queueing a CSD to an empty call_single_queue. The reason: flush_smp_call_function_queue() that is called upon a CPU receiving an IPI will empty the queue and then handle all of the CSDs there. So if the target CPU's call_single_queue is not empty, we know that: i. An IPI for the target CPU has already been sent by 'previous queuers'; ii. flush_smp_call_function_queue() hasn't emptied that CPU's queue yet. Thus, it's safe for us to just queue our CSD there without sending an addtional IPI. And for the 'previous queuers', we can limit it to the first queuer. To demonstrate the effect of this patch, a multi-thread workload that spawns 80 threads to equally consume 100G memory is used. This is tested on a 2 node broadwell-EP which has 44cores/88threads and 32G memory. So after 32G memory is used up, page reclaiming starts to happen a lot. With this patch, IPI number dropped 88% and throughput increased about 15% for the above workload. Signed-off-by:
Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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- Mar 02, 2017
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Ingo Molnar authored
We are going to split <linux/sched/idle.h> out of <linux/sched.h>, which will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files. Create a trivial placeholder <linux/sched/idle.h> file that just maps to <linux/sched.h> to make this patch obviously correct and bisectable. Include the new header in the files that are going to need it. Acked-by:
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- Oct 26, 2016
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Michael Ellerman authored
Currently we don't print anything before starting to bring up secondary CPUs. This can be confusing if it takes a long time to bring up the secondaries, or if the kernel crashes while doing so and produces no further output. On x86 they work around this by detecting when the first secondary CPU comes up and printing a message (see announce_cpu()). But doing it in smp_init() is simpler and works for all arches. Signed-off-by:
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Reviewed-by:
Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: akpm@osdl.org Cc: jgross@suse.com Cc: ak@linux.intel.com Cc: tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com Cc: len.brown@intel.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: richard@nod.at Cc: jolsa@redhat.com Cc: boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com Cc: mgorman@techsingularity.net Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1477460275-8266-3-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au Signed-off-by:
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Michael Ellerman authored
Currently after bringing up secondary CPUs all arches print "Brought up %d CPUs". On x86 they also print the number of nodes that were brought online. It would be nice to also print the number of nodes on other arches. Although we could override smp_announce() on the other ~10 NUMA aware arches, it seems simpler to just always print the number of nodes. On non-NUMA arches there is just always 1 node. Having done that, smp_announce() is no longer weak, and seems small enough to just pull directly into smp_init(). Also update the printing of "%d CPUs" to be smart when an SMP kernel is booted on a single CPU system, or when only one CPU is available, eg: smp: Brought up 2 nodes, 1 CPU Signed-off-by:
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Michael Ellerman authored
This makes all our pr_xxx()'s start with "smp: ", which helps pin down where they come from and generally looks nice. There is actually only one pr_xxx() use in smp.c at the moment, but we will add some more in the next commit. Suggested-by:
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- Sep 22, 2016
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Peter Zijlstra authored
The SMP IPI struct descriptor is allocated on the stack except for the workqueue and lockdep complains: INFO: trying to register non-static key. the code is fine but needs lockdep annotation. turning off the locking correctness validator. CPU: 0 PID: 110 Comm: kworker/0:1 Not tainted 4.8.0-rc5+ #14 Hardware name: Dell Inc. Precision T3600/0PTTT9, BIOS A13 05/11/2014 Workqueue: events smp_call_on_cpu_callback ... Call Trace: dump_stack register_lock_class ? __lock_acquire __lock_acquire ? __lock_acquire lock_acquire ? process_one_work process_one_work ? process_one_work worker_thread ? process_one_work ? process_one_work kthread ? kthread_create_on_node ret_from_fork So allocate it on the stack too. Signed-off-by:
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- Sep 05, 2016
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Juergen Gross authored
On some hardware models (e.g. Dell Studio 1555 laptop) some hardware related functions (e.g. SMIs) are to be executed on physical CPU 0 only. Instead of open coding such a functionality multiple times in the kernel add a service function for this purpose. This will enable the possibility to take special measures in virtualized environments like Xen, too. Signed-off-by:
Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Signed-off-by:
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Juergen Gross authored
Add generic virtualization support for pinning the current vCPU to a specified physical CPU. As this operation isn't performance critical (a very limited set of operations like BIOS calls and SMIs is expected to need this) just add a hypervisor specific indirection. Signed-off-by:
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- Jul 15, 2016
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Richard Weinberger authored
Install the callbacks via the state machine. They are installed at runtime so smpcfd_prepare_cpu() needs to be invoked by the boot-CPU. Signed-off-by:
Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> [ Added the dropped CPU dying case back in. ] Signed-off-by:
Richard Cochran <rcochran@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by:
Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by:
Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: rt@linutronix.de Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160713153337.818376366@linutronix.de Signed-off-by:
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- Jun 14, 2016
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Peter Zijlstra authored
This new form allows using hardware assisted waiting. Some hardware (ARM64 and x86) allow monitoring an address for changes, so by providing a pointer we can use this to replace the cpu_relax() with hardware optimized methods in the future. Requested-by:
Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Suggested-by:
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- Mar 10, 2016
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Davidlohr Bueso authored
We can micro-optimize this call and mildly relax the barrier requirements by relying on ctrl + rmb, keeping the acquire semantics. In addition, this is pretty much the now standard for busy-waiting under such restraints. Signed-off-by:
Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de> Acked-by:
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Davidlohr Bueso authored
While the compiler tends to already to it for us (except for csd_unlock), make it explicit. These helpers mainly deal with the ->flags, are short-lived and can be called, for example, from smp_call_function_many(). Signed-off-by:
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- Mar 01, 2016
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Thomas Gleixner authored
In order to let the hotplugged cpu take care of the setup/teardown, we need a seperate hotplug thread. Signed-off-by:
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- Nov 07, 2015
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Mel Gorman authored
mm, page_alloc: distinguish between being unable to sleep, unwilling to sleep and avoiding waking kswapd __GFP_WAIT has been used to identify atomic context in callers that hold spinlocks or are in interrupts. They are expected to be high priority and have access one of two watermarks lower than "min" which can be referred to as the "atomic reserve". __GFP_HIGH users get access to the first lower watermark and can be called the "high priority reserve". Over time, callers had a requirement to not block when fallback options were available. Some have abused __GFP_WAIT leading to a situation where an optimisitic allocation with a fallback option can access atomic reserves. This patch uses __GFP_ATOMIC to identify callers that are truely atomic, cannot sleep and have no alternative. High priority users continue to use __GFP_HIGH. __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM identifies callers that can sleep and are willing to enter direct reclaim. __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM to identify callers that want to wake kswapd for background reclaim. __GFP_WAIT is redefined as a caller that is willing to enter direct reclaim and wake kswapd for background reclaim. This patch then converts a number of sites o __GFP_ATOMIC is used by callers that are high priority and have memory pools for those requests. GFP_ATOMIC uses this flag. o Callers that have a limited mempool to guarantee forward progress clear __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM but keep __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. bio allocations fall into this category where kswapd will still be woken but atomic reserves are not used as there is a one-entry mempool to guarantee progress. o Callers that are checking if they are non-blocking should use the helper gfpflags_allow_blocking() where possible. This is because checking for __GFP_WAIT as was done historically now can trigger false positives. Some exceptions like dm-crypt.c exist where the code intent is clearer if __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM is used instead of the helper due to flag manipulations. o Callers that built their own GFP flags instead of starting with GFP_KERNEL and friends now also need to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. The first key hazard to watch out for is callers that removed __GFP_WAIT and was depending on access to atomic reserves for inconspicuous reasons. In some cases it may be appropriate for them to use __GFP_HIGH. The second key hazard is callers that assembled their own combination of GFP flags instead of starting with something like GFP_KERNEL. They may now wish to specify __GFP_KSWAPD_RECLAIM. It's almost certainly harmless if it's missed in most cases as other activity will wake kswapd. Signed-off-by:
Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net> Acked-by:
Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Acked-by:
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com> Acked-by:
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@gmail.com> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
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- Apr 19, 2015
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Linus Torvalds authored
Commit 8053871d ("smp: Fix smp_call_function_single_async() locking") fixed the locking for the asynchronous smp-call case, but in the process of moving the lock handling around, one of the error cases ended up not unlocking the call data at all. This went unnoticed on x86, because this is a "caller is buggy" case, where the caller is trying to call a non-existent CPU. But apparently ARM does that (at least under qemu-arm). Bindly doing cross-cpu calls to random CPU's that aren't even online seems a bit fishy, but the error handling was clearly not correct. Simply add the missing "csd_unlock()" to the error path. Reported-and-tested-by:
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net> Analyzed-by:
Rabin Vincent <rabin@rab.in> Acked-by:
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- Apr 17, 2015
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Linus Torvalds authored
The current smp_function_call code suffers a number of problems, most notably smp_call_function_single_async() is broken. The problem is that flush_smp_call_function_queue() does csd_unlock() _after_ calling csd->func(). This means that a caller cannot properly synchronize the csd usage as it has to. Change the code to release the csd before calling ->func() for the async case, and put a WARN_ON_ONCE(csd->flags & CSD_FLAG_LOCK) in smp_call_function_single_async() to warn us of improper serialization, because any waiting there can results in deadlocks when called with IRQs disabled. Rename the (currently) unused WAIT flag to SYNCHRONOUS and (re)use it such that we know what to do in flush_smp_call_function_queue(). Rework csd_{,un}lock() to use smp_load_acquire() / smp_store_release() to avoid some full barriers while more clearly providing lock semantics. Finally move the csd maintenance out of generic_exec_single() into its callers for clearer code. Signed-off-by:
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- Sep 19, 2014
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Chuansheng Liu authored
Currently kick_all_cpus_sync() can break non-polling idle cpus thru IPI interrupts. But sometimes we need to break the polling idle cpus immediately to reselect the suitable c-state, also for non-idle cpus, we need to do nothing if we try to wake up them. Here adding one new function wake_up_all_idle_cpus() to let all cpus out of idle based on function wake_up_if_idle(). Signed-off-by:
Chuansheng Liu <chuansheng.liu@intel.com> Signed-off-by:
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- Aug 26, 2014
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Christoph Lameter authored
Replace uses of __get_cpu_var for address calculation with this_cpu_ptr. Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by:
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com> Signed-off-by:
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
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- Aug 07, 2014
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Sasha Levin authored
The rarely-executed memry-allocation-failed callback path generates a WARN_ON_ONCE() when smp_call_function_single() succeeds. Presumably it's supposed to warn on failures. Signed-off-by:
Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@gentwo.org> Cc: Gilad Ben-Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by:
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- Jun 23, 2014
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Srivatsa S. Bhat authored
There is a race between the CPU offline code (within stop-machine) and the smp-call-function code, which can lead to getting IPIs on the outgoing CPU, *after* it has gone offline. Specifically, this can happen when using smp_call_function_single_async() to send the IPI, since this API allows sending asynchronous IPIs from IRQ disabled contexts. The exact race condition is described below. During CPU offline, in stop-machine, we don't enforce any rule in the _DISABLE_IRQ stage, regarding the order in which the outgoing CPU and the other CPUs disable their local interrupts. Due to this, we can encounter a situation in which an IPI is sent by one of the other CPUs to the outgoing CPU (while it is *still* online), but the outgoing CPU ends up noticing it only *after* it has gone offline. CPU 1 CPU 2 (Online CPU) (CPU going offline) Enter _PREPARE stage Enter _PREPARE stage Enter _DISABLE_IRQ stage = Got a device interrupt, and | Didn't notice the IPI the interrupt handler sent an | since interrupts were IPI to CPU 2 using | disabled on this CPU. smp_call_function_single_async() | = Enter _DISABLE_IRQ stage Enter _RUN stage Enter _RUN stage = Busy loop with interrupts | Invoke take_cpu_down() disabled. | and take CPU 2 offline = Enter _EXIT stage Enter _EXIT stage Re-enable interrupts Re-enable interrupts The pending IPI is noted immediately, but alas, the CPU is offline at this point. This of course, makes the smp-call-function IPI handler code running on CPU 2 unhappy and it complains about "receiving an IPI on an offline CPU". One real example of the scenario on CPU 1 is the block layer's complete-request call-path: __blk_complete_request() [interrupt-handler] raise_blk_irq() smp_call_function_single_async() However, if we look closely, the block layer does check that the target CPU is online before firing the IPI. So in this case, it is actually the unfortunate ordering/timing of events in the stop-machine phase that leads to receiving IPIs after the target CPU has gone offline. In reality, getting a late IPI on an offline CPU is not too bad by itself (this can happen even due to hardware latencies in IPI send-receive). It is a bug only if the target CPU really went offline without executing all the callbacks queued on its list. (Note that a CPU is free to execute its pending smp-call-function callbacks in a batch, without waiting for the corresponding IPIs to arrive for each one of those callbacks). So, fixing this issue can be broken up into two parts: 1. Ensure that a CPU goes offline only after executing all the callbacks queued on it. 2. Modify the warning condition in the smp-call-function IPI handler code such that it warns only if an offline CPU got an IPI *and* that CPU had gone offline with callbacks still pending in its queue. Achieving part 1 is straight-forward - just flush (execute) all the queued callbacks on the outgoing CPU in the CPU_DYING stage[1], including those callbacks for which the source CPU's IPIs might not have been received on the outgoing CPU yet. Once we do this, an IPI that arrives late on the CPU going offline (either due to the race mentioned above, or due to hardware latencies) will be completely harmless, since the outgoing CPU would have executed all the queued callbacks before going offline. Overall, this fix (parts 1 and 2 put together) additionally guarantees that we will see a warning only when the *IPI-sender code* is buggy - that is, if it queues the callback _after_ the target CPU has gone offline. [1]. The CPU_DYING part needs a little more explanation: by the time we execute the CPU_DYING notifier callbacks, the CPU would have already been marked offline. But we want to flush out the pending callbacks at this stage, ignoring the fact that the CPU is offline. So restructure the IPI handler code so that we can by-pass the "is-cpu-offline?" check in this particular case. (Of course, the right solution here is to fix CPU hotplug to mark the CPU offline _after_ invoking the CPU_DYING notifiers, but this requires a lot of audit to ensure that this change doesn't break any existing code; hence lets go with the solution proposed above until that is done). [akpm@linux-foundation.org: coding-style fixes] Signed-off-by:Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Suggested-by:
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Mike Galbraith <mgalbraith@suse.de> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@rjwysocki.net> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Tested-by:
Sachin Kamat <sachin.kamat@samsung.com> Signed-off-by:
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- Jun 16, 2014
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
irq work currently only supports local callbacks. However its code is mostly ready to run remote callbacks and we have some potential user. The full nohz subsystem currently open codes its own remote irq work on top of the scheduler ipi when it wants a CPU to reevaluate its next tick. However this ad hoc solution bloats the scheduler IPI. Lets just extend the irq work subsystem to support remote queuing on top of the generic SMP IPI to handle this kind of user. This shouldn't add noticeable overhead. Suggested-by:
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- Jun 06, 2014
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Srivatsa S. Bhat authored
There is a longstanding problem related to CPU hotplug which causes IPIs to be delivered to offline CPUs, and the smp-call-function IPI handler code prints out a warning whenever this is detected. Every once in a while this (usually harmless) warning gets reported on LKML, but so far it has not been completely fixed. Usually the solution involves finding out the IPI sender and fixing it by adding appropriate synchronization with CPU hotplug. However, while going through one such internal bug reports, I found that there is a significant bug in the receiver side itself (more specifically, in stop-machine) that can lead to this problem even when the sender code is perfectly fine. This patchset fixes that synchronization problem in the CPU hotplug stop-machine code. Patch 1 adds some additional debug code to the smp-call-function framework, to help debug such issues easily. Patch 2 modifies the stop-machine code to ensure that any IPIs that were sent while the target CPU was online, would be noticed and handled by that CPU without fail before it goes offline. Thus, this avoids scenarios where IPIs are received on offline CPUs (as long as the sender uses proper hotplug synchronization). In fact, I debugged the problem by using Patch 1, and found that the payload of the IPI was always the block layer's trigger_softirq() function. But I was not able to find anything wrong with the block layer code. That's when I started looking at the stop-machine code and realized that there is a race-window which makes the IPI _receiver_ the culprit, not the sender. Patch 2 fixes that race and hence this should put an end to most of the hard-to-debug IPI-to-offline-CPU issues. This patch (of 2): Today the smp-call-function code just prints a warning if we get an IPI on an offline CPU. This info is sufficient to let us know that something went wrong, but often it is very hard to debug exactly who sent the IPI and why, from this info alone. In most cases, we get the warning about the IPI to an offline CPU, immediately after the CPU going offline comes out of the stop-machine phase and reenables interrupts. Since all online CPUs participate in stop-machine, the information regarding the sender of the IPI is already lost by the time we exit the stop-machine loop. So even if we dump the stack on each CPU at this point, we won't find anything useful since all of them will show the stack-trace of the stopper thread. So we need a better way to figure out who sent the IPI and why. To achieve this, when we detect an IPI targeted to an offline CPU, loop through the call-single-data linked list and print out the payload (i.e., the name of the function which was supposed to be executed by the target CPU). This would give us an insight as to who might have sent the IPI and help us debug this further. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: correctly suppress warning output on second and later occurrences] Signed-off-by:
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- Feb 24, 2014
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
The name __smp_call_function_single() doesn't tell much about the properties of this function, especially when compared to smp_call_function_single(). The comments above the implementation are also misleading. The main point of this function is actually not to be able to embed the csd in an object. This is actually a requirement that result from the purpose of this function which is to raise an IPI asynchronously. As such it can be called with interrupts disabled. And this feature comes at the cost of the caller who then needs to serialize the IPIs on this csd. Lets rename the function and enhance the comments so that they reflect these properties. Suggested-by:
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Signed-off-by:
Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com>
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
The main point of calling __smp_call_function_single() is to send an IPI in a pure asynchronous way. By embedding a csd in an object, a caller can send the IPI without waiting for a previous one to complete as is required by smp_call_function_single() for example. As such, sending this kind of IPI can be safe even when irqs are disabled. This flexibility comes at the expense of the caller who then needs to synchronize the csd lifecycle by himself and make sure that IPIs on a single csd are serialized. This is how __smp_call_function_single() works when wait = 0 and this usecase is relevant. Now there don't seem to be any usecase with wait = 1 that can't be covered by smp_call_function_single() instead, which is safer. Lets look at the two possible scenario: 1) The user calls __smp_call_function_single(wait = 1) on a csd embedded in an object. It looks like a nice and convenient pattern at the first sight because we can then retrieve the object from the IPI handler easily. But actually it is a waste of memory space in the object since the csd can be allocated from the stack by smp_call_function_single(wait = 1) and the object can be passed an the IPI argument. Besides that, embedding the csd in an object is more error prone because the caller must take care of the serialization of the IPIs for this csd. 2) The user calls __smp_call_function_single(wait = 1) on a csd that is allocated on the stack. It's ok but smp_call_function_single() can do it as well and it already takes care of the allocation on the stack. Again it's more simple and less error prone. Therefore, using the underscore prepend API version with wait = 1 is a bad pattern and a sign that the caller can do safer and more simple. There was a single user of that which has just been converted. So lets remove this option to discourage further users. Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Signed-off-by:
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
Move this function closer to __smp_call_function_single(). These functions have very similar behavior and should be displayed in the same block for clarity. Reviewed-by:
Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Signed-off-by:
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Frederic Weisbecker authored
__smp_call_function_single() and smp_call_function_single() share some code that can be factorized: execute inline when the target is local, check if the target is online, lock the csd, call generic_exec_single(). Lets move the common parts to generic_exec_single(). Reviewed-by:
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Jan Kara authored
Align __smp_call_function_single() with smp_call_function_single() so that it also checks whether requested cpu is still online. Signed-off-by:
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Jan Kara authored
The IPI function llist iteration is open coded. Lets simplify this with using an llist iterator. Also we want to keep the iteration safe against possible csd.llist->next value reuse from the IPI handler. At least the block subsystem used to do such things so lets stay careful and use llist_for_each_entry_safe(). Signed-off-by:
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