Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:34:22 -0700 | From | "Paul E. McKenney" <> | Subject | Re: CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU in next/mmotm |
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On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 03:43:45PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 08:39:07PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 02:16:29PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 09, 2009 at 09:53:53PM +0100, Hugh Dickins wrote:
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> > > > That builds and works for me, with or without CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU. > > > > > > > > But I didn't get what you're achieving with the MODULE part of it; > > > > and (I'm not a notifier buff at all) it does seems rather baroque to > > > > me - a single callsite, why not stick with register_cpu_notifier()? > > > > > > > > Ah, perhaps it's your ambition to move others over to this > > > > (or perhaps it's your ambition to leave that to someone else ;-) > > > > > > Actually, nothing quite that clearly thought out. I was just following > > > the pattern set for register_cpu_notifier(). My guess at the reasoning > > > is that when !HOTPLUG_CPU, modules cannot be loaded until all the CPUs > > > are online, so there is no point in letting a module set itself up for > > > notification. > > > > > > But whatever their reasoning, mine was that there is no point in > > > creating a struct notifier_block that wasn't going to be used. ;-) > > > > And the above patch fails for !CONFIG_SMP. Here is an update, testing > > in progress. Still not fully tested, but results are encouraging. > > In particular, this one is more likely to compile. > > And this handled !CONFIG_SMP, but fails two of fifteen test cases. > So better, but still far from perfect. > > Chasing the failures down.
And I believe I have a patch that works for all of my test cases, but am rerunning the full set to double-check. Patch against tip/core/rcu below for your collective amusement.
Should these tests pass...
Unless someone tells me otherwise, I will make a patch series intended to replace tip/core/rcu commits 7fe616c5d ("Simplify RCU CPU-hotplug notification"), 04b06256c ("Fix RCU & CPU hotplug hang"), and 7256cf0e83b ("Add diagnostic check for a possible CPU-hotplug race"), re-run all tests on that patchset, and submit the series. I expect the resulting patch set to have three patches, one to split out boot-time initialization for RCU_TREE, a second to create the cpu_notifier() API, and the third to make RCU use it.
I guess the lesson to me is that although I should send a patch quickly in response to bug reports, I need to nevertheless run my full set of RCU torture tests on it -- and verify that the specified kernel configuration parameters actually were in effect for those tests. :-/
Thanx, Paul
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diff --git a/include/linux/cpu.h b/include/linux/cpu.h index 4d668e0..4753619 100644 --- a/include/linux/cpu.h +++ b/include/linux/cpu.h @@ -48,6 +48,15 @@ struct notifier_block; #ifdef CONFIG_SMP /* Need to know about CPUs going up/down? */ +#if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU) || !defined(MODULE) +#define cpu_notifier(fn, pri) { \ + static struct notifier_block fn##_nb __cpuinitdata = \ + { .notifier_call = fn, .priority = pri }; \ + register_cpu_notifier(&fn##_nb); \ +} +#else /* #if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU) || !defined(MODULE) */ +#define cpu_notifier(fn, pri) do { (void)(fn); } while (0) +#endif /* #else #if defined(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU) || !defined(MODULE) */ #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU extern int register_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); extern void unregister_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb); @@ -74,6 +83,8 @@ extern void cpu_maps_update_done(void); #else /* CONFIG_SMP */ +#define cpu_notifier(fn, pri) do { (void)(fn); } while (0) + static inline int register_cpu_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb) { return 0; @@ -99,11 +110,7 @@ extern struct sysdev_class cpu_sysdev_class; extern void get_online_cpus(void); extern void put_online_cpus(void); -#define hotcpu_notifier(fn, pri) { \ - static struct notifier_block fn##_nb __cpuinitdata = \ - { .notifier_call = fn, .priority = pri }; \ - register_cpu_notifier(&fn##_nb); \ -} +#define hotcpu_notifier(fn, pri) cpu_notifier(fn, pri) #define register_hotcpu_notifier(nb) register_cpu_notifier(nb) #define unregister_hotcpu_notifier(nb) unregister_cpu_notifier(nb) int cpu_down(unsigned int cpu); diff --git a/kernel/rcupdate.c b/kernel/rcupdate.c index 9f0584e..8df1156 100644 --- a/kernel/rcupdate.c +++ b/kernel/rcupdate.c @@ -238,7 +238,7 @@ static int __cpuinit rcu_barrier_cpu_hotplug(struct notifier_block *self, call_rcu_bh(rcu_migrate_head, rcu_migrate_callback); call_rcu_sched(rcu_migrate_head + 1, rcu_migrate_callback); call_rcu(rcu_migrate_head + 2, rcu_migrate_callback); - } else if (action == CPU_DEAD) { + } else if (action == CPU_POST_DEAD) { /* rcu_migrate_head is protected by cpu_add_remove_lock */ wait_migrated_callbacks(); } @@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ void __init rcu_init(void) int i; __rcu_init(); - hotcpu_notifier(rcu_barrier_cpu_hotplug, 0); + cpu_notifier(rcu_barrier_cpu_hotplug, 0); /* * We don't need protection against CPU-hotplug here because
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