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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-02-04 09:01:12 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2015-02-04 09:01:12 +0100
commit0967160ad615985c7c35443156ea9aecc60c37b8 (patch)
tree658f728aff1be23540180091b718452a6848a6b0 /kernel
parentperf: Decouple unthrottling and rotating (diff)
parentMerge tag 'pr-20150201-x86-entry' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kerne... (diff)
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Merge branch 'x86/asm' into perf/x86, to avoid conflicts with upcoming patches
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/tree.c66
1 files changed, 49 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 7680fc275036..4c106fcc0d54 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -759,39 +759,71 @@ void rcu_irq_enter(void)
/**
* rcu_nmi_enter - inform RCU of entry to NMI context
*
- * If the CPU was idle with dynamic ticks active, and there is no
- * irq handler running, this updates rdtp->dynticks_nmi to let the
- * RCU grace-period handling know that the CPU is active.
+ * If the CPU was idle from RCU's viewpoint, update rdtp->dynticks and
+ * rdtp->dynticks_nmi_nesting to let the RCU grace-period handling know
+ * that the CPU is active. This implementation permits nested NMIs, as
+ * long as the nesting level does not overflow an int. (You will probably
+ * run out of stack space first.)
*/
void rcu_nmi_enter(void)
{
struct rcu_dynticks *rdtp = this_cpu_ptr(&rcu_dynticks);
+ int incby = 2;
- if (rdtp->dynticks_nmi_nesting == 0 &&
- (atomic_read(&rdtp->dynticks) & 0x1))
- return;
- rdtp->dynticks_nmi_nesting++;
- smp_mb__before_atomic(); /* Force delay from prior write. */
- atomic_inc(&rdtp->dynticks);
- /* CPUs seeing atomic_inc() must see later RCU read-side crit sects */
- smp_mb__after_atomic(); /* See above. */
- WARN_ON_ONCE(!(atomic_read(&rdtp->dynticks) & 0x1));
+ /* Complain about underflow. */
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(rdtp->dynticks_nmi_nesting < 0);
+
+ /*
+ * If idle from RCU viewpoint, atomically increment ->dynticks
+ * to mark non-idle and increment ->dynticks_nmi_nesting by one.
+ * Otherwise, increment ->dynticks_nmi_nesting by two. This means
+ * if ->dynticks_nmi_nesting is equal to one, we are guaranteed
+ * to be in the outermost NMI handler that interrupted an RCU-idle
+ * period (observation due to Andy Lutomirski).
+ */
+ if (!(atomic_read(&rdtp->dynticks) & 0x1)) {
+ smp_mb__before_atomic(); /* Force delay from prior write. */
+ atomic_inc(&rdtp->dynticks);
+ /* atomic_inc() before later RCU read-side crit sects */
+ smp_mb__after_atomic(); /* See above. */
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!(atomic_read(&rdtp->dynticks) & 0x1));
+ incby = 1;
+ }
+ rdtp->dynticks_nmi_nesting += incby;
+ barrier();
}
/**
* rcu_nmi_exit - inform RCU of exit from NMI context
*
- * If the CPU was idle with dynamic ticks active, and there is no
- * irq handler running, this updates rdtp->dynticks_nmi to let the
- * RCU grace-period handling know that the CPU is no longer active.
+ * If we are returning from the outermost NMI handler that interrupted an
+ * RCU-idle period, update rdtp->dynticks and rdtp->dynticks_nmi_nesting
+ * to let the RCU grace-period handling know that the CPU is back to
+ * being RCU-idle.
*/
void rcu_nmi_exit(void)
{
struct rcu_dynticks *rdtp = this_cpu_ptr(&rcu_dynticks);
- if (rdtp->dynticks_nmi_nesting == 0 ||
- --rdtp->dynticks_nmi_nesting != 0)
+ /*
+ * Check for ->dynticks_nmi_nesting underflow and bad ->dynticks.
+ * (We are exiting an NMI handler, so RCU better be paying attention
+ * to us!)
+ */
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(rdtp->dynticks_nmi_nesting <= 0);
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(!(atomic_read(&rdtp->dynticks) & 0x1));
+
+ /*
+ * If the nesting level is not 1, the CPU wasn't RCU-idle, so
+ * leave it in non-RCU-idle state.
+ */
+ if (rdtp->dynticks_nmi_nesting != 1) {
+ rdtp->dynticks_nmi_nesting -= 2;
return;
+ }
+
+ /* This NMI interrupted an RCU-idle CPU, restore RCU-idleness. */
+ rdtp->dynticks_nmi_nesting = 0;
/* CPUs seeing atomic_inc() must see prior RCU read-side crit sects */
smp_mb__before_atomic(); /* See above. */
atomic_inc(&rdtp->dynticks);