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Lazy call_rcu() updates for v6.2 #24
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Most Linux-kernel uses of locking are straightforward, but there are corner-case uses that rely on less well-known aspects of the lock and unlock primitives. This commit therefore adds a locking.txt and litmus tests in Documentation/litmus-tests/locking to explain these corner-case uses. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, judgelitmus.sh treats timeouts (as in the "--timeout" argument) as "!!! Verification error". This can be misleading because it is quite possible that running the test longer would have produced a verification. This commit therefore changes judgelitmus.sh to check for timeouts and to report them with "!!! Timeout". Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, cmplitmushist.sh treats timeouts (as in the "--timeout" argument) as "Missing Observation line". This can be misleading because it is quite possible that running the test longer would have produced a verification. This commit therefore changes cmplitmushist.sh to check for timeouts and to report them with "Timed out". Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, judgelitmus.sh treats use of unknown primitives (such as srcu_read_lock() prior to SRCU support) as "!!! Verification error". This can be misleading because it fails to call out typos and running a version LKMM on a litmus test requiring a feature not provided by that version. This commit therefore changes judgelitmus.sh to check for unknown primitives and to report them, for example, with: '!!! Current LKMM version does not know "rcu_write_lock"'. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
If a litmus test specifies "Result: Never" and if it contains an unconditional ("hard") deadlock, then running checklitmus.sh on it will not flag any errors, despite the fact that there are no executions. This commit therefore updates judgelitmus.sh to complain about tests with no executions that are marked, but not as "Result: DEADLOCK". Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds a --hw argument to parseargs.sh to specify the CPU family for a hardware verification. For example, "--hw AArch64" will specify that a C-language litmus test is to be translated to ARMv8 and the result verified. This will set the LKMM_HW_MAP_FILE environment variable accordingly. If there is no --hw argument, this environment variable will be set to the empty string. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit makes the judgelitmus.sh script check the --hw argument (AKA the LKMM_HW_MAP_FILE environment variable) and to adjust its judgment for a run where a C-language litmus test has been translated to assembly and the assembly version verified. In this case, the assembly verification output is checked against the C-language script's "Result:" comment. However, because hardware can be stronger than LKMM requires, the judgelitmus.sh script forgives verification mismatches featuring a "Sometimes" in the C-language script and an "Always" or "Never" assembly-language verification. Note that deadlock is not forgiven, however, this should not normally be an issue given that C-language tests containing locking, RCU, or SRCU cannot be translated to assembly. However, this issue can crop up in litmus tests that mimic deadlock by using the "filter" clause to ignore all executions. It can also crop up when certain herd arguments are used to autofilter everything that does not match the "exists" clause in cases where the "exists" clause cannot be satisfied. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit abstracts out common function to check a given litmus test for locking, RCU, and SRCU in order to avoid duplicating code. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The checkalllitmus.sh runs litmus tests in the litmus-tests directory, not those in the github archive, so this commit updates the comment to reflect this reality. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit makes checklitmus.sh and checkalllitmus.sh check to see if a hardware verification was specified (via the --hw command-line argument, which sets the LKMM_HW_MAP_FILE environment variable). If so, the C-language litmus test is converted to the specified type of assembly-language litmus test and herd is run on it. Hardware is permitted to be stronger than LKMM requires, so "Always" and "Never" verifications of "Sometimes" C-language litmus tests are forgiven. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The judgelitmus.sh script currently relies solely on the "Result:" comment in the .litmus file. This is problematic when using the --hw argument, because it is necessary to check the hardware model against LKMM even in the absence of "Result:" comments. This commit therefore modifies judgelitmus.sh to check the observation in a .litmus.out file, in case one was generated by a previous LKMM run. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit prepares for adding --hw capability to github litmus-test scripts by splitting runlitmus.sh (which simply runs the verification) out of checklitmus.sh (which also judges the results). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
In the absence of "Result:" comments, the runlitmus.sh script relies on litmus.out files from prior LKMM runs. This can be a bit user-hostile, so this commit makes runlitmus.sh generate any needed .litmus.out files that don't already exist. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
When the github scripts see ".litmus.out", they assume that there must be a corresponding C-language ".litmus" file. Won't they be disappointed when they instead see nothing, or, worse yet, the corresponding assembly-language litmus test? This commit therefore swaps the hardware tag with the "litmus" to avoid this sort of disappointment. This commit also adjusts the .gitignore file so as to avoid adding these new ".out" files to git. [ paulmck: Apply Akira Yokosawa feedback. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit retains the assembly-language litmus tests generated from the C-language litmus tests, appending the hardware tag to the original C-language litmus test's filename. Thus, S+poonceonces.litmus.AArch64 contains the Armv8 assembly language corresponding to the C-language S+poonceonces.litmus test. This commit also updates the .gitignore to avoid committing these automatically generated assembly-language litmus tests. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, the scripts specify the CPU's .cat file to herd. But this is pointless because herd will select a good and sufficient .cat file from the assembly-language litmus test itself. This commit therefore removes the -model argument to herd, allowing herd to figure the CPU family out itself. Note that the user can override herd's choice using the "--herdopts" argument to the scripts. Suggested-by: Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
It turns out that the jingle7 tool is currently a bit picky about the litmus tests it is willing to process. This commit therefore ensures that jingle7 failures are reported. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Adding the -v flag to jingle7 invocations gives much useful information on why jingle7 didn't like a given litmus test. This commit therefore adds this flag and saves off any such information into a .err file. Suggested-by: Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commits enables the "--hw" argument for the checkghlitmus.sh script, causing it to convert any applicable C-language litmus tests to the specified flavor of assembly language, to verify these assembly-language litmus tests, and checking compatibility of the outcomes. Note that the conversion does not yet handle locking, RCU, SRCU, plain C-language memory accesses, or casts. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The parseargs.sh regular expression for the --jobs argument incorrectly requires that the number of jobs be at least 10, that is, have at least two digits. This commit therefore adjusts this regular expression to allow single-digit numbers of jobs to be specified. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The checkghlitmus.sh script currently uses grep to ignore non-C-language litmus tests, which is a bit fragile. This commit therefore enlists the aid of "mselect7 -arch C", given Luc Maraget's recent modifications that allow mselect7 to operate in filter mode. This change requires herdtools 7.52-32-g1da3e0e50977 or later. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The history-check scripts currently use grep to ignore non-C-language litmus tests, which is a bit fragile. This commit therefore enlists the aid of "mselect7 -arch C", given Luc Maraget's recent modifications that allow mselect7 to operate in filter mode. This change requires herdtools 7.52-32-g1da3e0e50977 or later. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Currently, parseargs.sh expects to consume all the command-line arguments, which prevents the calling script from having any of its own arguments. This commit therefore causes parseargs.sh to stop consuming arguments when it encounters a "--" argument, leaving any remaining arguments for the calling script. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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…ests This commit adds a checktheselitmus.sh script that runs the litmus tests specified on the command line. This is useful for verifying fixes to specific litmus tests. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds functionality to judgelitmus.sh to allow it to handle both the "DATARACE" markers in the "Result:" comments in litmus tests and the "Flag data-race" markers in LKMM output. For C-language tests, if either marker is present, the other must also be as well, at least for litmus tests having a "Result:" comment. If the LKMM output indicates a data race, then failures of the Always/Sometimes/Never portion of the "Result:" prediction are forgiven. The reason for forgiving "Result:" mispredictions is that data races can result in "interesting" compiler optimizations, so that all bets are off in the data-race case. [ paulmck: Apply Akira Yokosawa feedback. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The scripts that generate the litmus tests in the "auto" directory of the https://github.com/paulmckrcu/litmus archive place the "Result:" tag into a single-line ocaml comment, which judgelitmus.sh currently does not recognize. This commit therefore makes judgelitmus.sh recognize both the multiline comment format that it currently does and the automatically generated single-line format. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Litmus tests involving atomic operations produce LL/SC loops on a number of architectures, and unrolling these loops can result in excessive verification times or even stack overflows. This commit therefore uses the "-unroll 0" herd7 argument to avoid unrolling, on the grounds that additional passes through an LL/SC loop should not change the verification. Note however, that certain bugs in the mapping of the LL/SC loop to machine instructions may go undetected. On the other hand, herd7 might not be the best vehicle for finding such bugs in any case. (You do stress-test your architecture-specific code, don't you?) Suggested-by: Luc Maranget <luc.maranget@inria.fr> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
nolibc.2022.08.31b: nolibc updates
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In preparation for RCU lazy changes, wake up the RCU nocb gp thread if needed after an entrain. This change prevents the RCU barrier callback from waiting in the queue for several seconds before the lazy callbacks in front of it are serviced. Reported-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Implement timer-based RCU callback batching (also known as lazy callbacks). With this we save about 5-10% of power consumed due to RCU requests that happen when system is lightly loaded or idle. By default, all async callbacks (queued via call_rcu) are marked lazy. An alternate API call_rcu_flush() is provided for the few users, for example synchronize_rcu(), that need the old behavior. The batch is flushed whenever a certain amount of time has passed, or the batch on a particular CPU grows too big. Also memory pressure will flush it in a future patch. To handle several corner cases automagically (such as rcu_barrier() and hotplug), we re-use bypass lists which were originally introduced to address lock contention, to handle lazy CBs as well. The bypass list length has the lazy CB length included in it. A separate lazy CB length counter is also introduced to keep track of the number of lazy CBs. [ paulmck: Fix formatting of inline call_rcu_lazy() definition. ] Suggested-by: Paul McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This consolidates the code a bit and makes it cleaner. Functionally it is the same. Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
The shrinker is used to speed up the free'ing of memory potentially held by RCU lazy callbacks. RCU kernel module test cases show this to be effective. Test is introduced in a later patch. Signed-off-by: Vineeth Pillai <vineeth@bitbyteword.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
This commit adds 2 tests to rcuscale. The first one is a startup test to check whether we are not too lazy or too hard working. The second one causes kfree_rcu() itself to use call_rcu() and checks memory pressure. Testing indicates that the new call_rcu() keeps memory pressure under control roughly as well as does kfree_rcu(). Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
call_rcu() changes to save power will slow down the percpu refcounter's "per-CPU to atomic switch" path. The primitive uses RCU when switching to atomic mode. The enqueued async callback wakes up waiters waiting in the percpu_ref_switch_waitq. Due to this, per-CPU refcount users will slow down, such as blk_pre_runtime_suspend(). Use the call_rcu_flush() API instead which reverts to the old behavior. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
call_rcu() changes to save power will slow down rcu sync. Use the call_rcu_flush() API instead which reverts to the old behavior. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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rcuscale uses call_rcu() to queue async readers. With recent changes to save power, the test will have fewer async readers in flight. Use the call_rcu_flush() API instead to revert to the old behavior. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
call_rcu() changes to save power will change the behavior of rcutorture tests. Use the call_rcu_flush() API instead which reverts to the old behavior. Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Slow boot time is seen on KVM running typical Linux distributions due to SCSI layer calling call_rcu(). Recent changes to save power may be causing this slowness. Using call_rcu_flush() fixes the issue and brings the boot time back to what it originally was. Convert it. Tested-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
call_rcu() changes to save power will slow down RCU workqueue items queued via queue_rcu_work(). This may not be an issue, however we cannot assume that workqueue users are OK with long delays. Use call_rcu_flush() API instead which reverts to the old behavior. Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
call_rcu() changes to save power may cause slowness. Use the call_rcu_flush() API instead which reverts to the old behavior. We find this via inspection that the RCU callback does a wakeup of a thread. This usually indicates that something is waiting on it. To be safe, let us use call_rcu_flush() here instead. Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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