Today rcu_barrier() is calling stop_machine_run() to synchronize all
physical cpus in order to ensure all pending rcu calls have finished
when returning.
As stop_machine_run() is using tasklets this requires scheduling of
idle vcpus on all cpus imposing the need to call rcu_barrier() on idle
cpus only in case of core scheduling being active, as otherwise a
scheduling deadlock would occur.
There is no need at all to do the syncing of the cpus in tasklets, as
rcu activity is started in __do_softirq() called whenever softirq
activity is allowed. So rcu_barrier() can easily be modified to use
softirq for synchronization of the cpus no longer requiring any
scheduling activity.
As there already is a rcu softirq reuse that for the synchronization.
Remove the barrier element from struct rcu_data as it isn't used.
Finally switch rcu_barrier() to return void as it now can never fail.
Partially-based-on-patch-by: Igor Druzhinin <igor.druzhinin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>
---
V2:
- add recursion detection
V3:
- fix races (Igor Druzhinin)
V5:
- rename done_count to pending_count (Jan Beulich)
- fix race (Jan Beulich)
V6:
- add barrier (Julien Grall)
- add ASSERT() (Julien Grall)
- hold cpu_map lock until end of rcu_barrier() (Julien Grall)
---
xen/common/rcupdate.c | 95
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------
xen/include/xen/rcupdate.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
diff --git a/xen/common/rcupdate.c b/xen/common/rcupdate.c
index 03d84764d2..ed9083d2b2 100644
--- a/xen/common/rcupdate.c
+++ b/xen/common/rcupdate.c
@@ -83,7 +83,6 @@ struct rcu_data {
struct rcu_head **donetail;
long blimit; /* Upper limit on a processed batch */
int cpu;
- struct rcu_head barrier;
long last_rs_qlen; /* qlen during the last resched */
/* 3) idle CPUs handling */
@@ -91,6 +90,7 @@ struct rcu_data {
bool idle_timer_active;
bool process_callbacks;
+ bool barrier_active;
};
/*
@@ -143,51 +143,85 @@ static int qhimark = 10000;
static int qlowmark = 100;
static int rsinterval = 1000;
-struct rcu_barrier_data {
- struct rcu_head head;
- atomic_t *cpu_count;
-};
+/*
+ * rcu_barrier() handling:
+ * cpu_count holds the number of cpus required to finish barrier handling.
+ * pending_count is initialized to nr_cpus + 1.
+ * Cpus are synchronized via softirq mechanism. rcu_barrier() is regarded to
+ * be active if pending_count is not zero. In case rcu_barrier() is called on
+ * multiple cpus it is enough to check for pending_count being not zero on
entry
+ * and to call process_pending_softirqs() in a loop until pending_count drops
to
+ * zero, before starting the new rcu_barrier() processing.
+ * In order to avoid hangs when rcu_barrier() is called multiple times on the
+ * same cpu in fast sequence and a slave cpu couldn't drop out of the
+ * barrier handling fast enough a second counter pending_count is needed.
+ * The rcu_barrier() invoking cpu will wait until pending_count reaches 1
+ * (meaning that all cpus have finished processing the barrier) and then will
+ * reset pending_count to 0 to enable entering rcu_barrier() again.
+ */
+static atomic_t cpu_count = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
+static atomic_t pending_count = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
static void rcu_barrier_callback(struct rcu_head *head)
{
- struct rcu_barrier_data *data = container_of(
- head, struct rcu_barrier_data, head);
- atomic_inc(data->cpu_count);
+ smp_wmb(); /* Make all previous writes visible to other cpus. */
+ atomic_dec(&cpu_count);
}
-static int rcu_barrier_action(void *_cpu_count)
+static void rcu_barrier_action(void)
{
- struct rcu_barrier_data data = { .cpu_count = _cpu_count };
-
- ASSERT(!local_irq_is_enabled());
- local_irq_enable();
+ struct rcu_head head;
/*
* When callback is executed, all previously-queued RCU work on this CPU
- * is completed. When all CPUs have executed their callback, data.cpu_count
- * will have been incremented to include every online CPU.
+ * is completed. When all CPUs have executed their callback, cpu_count
+ * will have been decremented to 0.
*/
- call_rcu(&data.head, rcu_barrier_callback);
+ call_rcu(&head, rcu_barrier_callback);
- while ( atomic_read(data.cpu_count) != num_online_cpus() )
+ while ( atomic_read(&cpu_count) )
{
process_pending_softirqs();
cpu_relax();
}
- local_irq_disable();
-
- return 0;
+ atomic_dec(&pending_count);
}
-/*
- * As rcu_barrier() is using stop_machine_run() it is allowed to be used in
- * idle context only (see comment for stop_machine_run()).
- */
-int rcu_barrier(void)
+void rcu_barrier(void)
{
- atomic_t cpu_count = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
- return stop_machine_run(rcu_barrier_action, &cpu_count, NR_CPUS);
+ unsigned int n_cpus;
+
+ ASSERT(!in_irq() && local_irq_is_enabled());
+
+ for ( ;; )
+ {
+ if ( !atomic_read(&pending_count) && get_cpu_maps() )
+ {
