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* rcu/torture: Dynamically allocate SRCU output buffer to avoid overflow - 13
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http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/t/1131984c6dc6a091?hl=en
* power: Change device_wakeup_enable() to check for null dev_name(dev) - 1
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* cpufreq: stats: Do not populate stats when policy->cur has no exact match -
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http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/t/2e12f19e7e33481e?hl=en
* Cpufreq: Make governor data on nonboot cpus across system suspend/resume - 1
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http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/t/8cd1f356eda2a3b0?hl=en
* rcutorture: Test summary at end of run with less chattiness - 9 messages, 1
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http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/t/51df2e84d49b971c?hl=en

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TOPIC: rcu/torture: Dynamically allocate SRCU output buffer to avoid overflow
http://groups.google.com/group/linux.kernel/t/1131984c6dc6a091?hl=en
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== 1 of 13 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 15 2013 4:30 pm
From: "Paul E. McKenney"


From: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>

If the rcutorture SRCU output exceeds 4096 bytes, for example, if you
have more than about 75 CPUs, it will overflow the current statically
allocated buffer. This commit therefore replaces this static buffer
with a dynamically buffer whose size is based on the number of CPUs.

Benefits:

- Avoids both buffer overflow and output truncation.
- Handles an arbitrarily large number of CPUs.
- Straightforward implementation.

Shortcomings:

- Some memory is wasted:

1 cpu now comsumes 50 - 60 bytes, and this patch provides 200 bytes.
Therefore, for 1K CPUs, roughly 100KB of memory will be wasted.
However, the memory is freed immediately after printing, so this
wastage should not be a problem in practice.

Testing (Fedora16 2 CPUs, 2GB RAM x86_64):

- as module, with/without "torture_type=srcu".
- build-in not boot runnable, with/without "torture_type=srcu".
- build-in let boot runnable, with/without "torture_type=srcu".

Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
kernel/rcu/torture.c | 67 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 33 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/torture.c b/kernel/rcu/torture.c
index 69a4ec80a788..732f8ae3086a 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/torture.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/torture.c
@@ -139,8 +139,6 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(verbose, "Enable verbose debugging printk()s");
#define VERBOSE_PRINTK_ERRSTRING(s) \
do { if (verbose) pr_alert("%s" TORTURE_FLAG "!!! " s "\n", torture_type); } while (0)

-static char printk_buf[4096];
-
static int nrealreaders;
static struct task_struct *writer_task;
static struct task_struct **fakewriter_tasks;
@@ -376,7 +374,7 @@ struct rcu_torture_ops {
void (*call)(struct rcu_head *head, void (*func)(struct rcu_head *rcu));
void (*cb_barrier)(void);
void (*fqs)(void);
- int (*stats)(char *page);
+ void (*stats)(char *page);
int irq_capable;
int can_boost;
const char *name;
@@ -578,21 +576,19 @@ static void srcu_torture_barrier(void)
srcu_barrier(&srcu_ctl);
}

-static int srcu_torture_stats(char *page)
+static void srcu_torture_stats(char *page)
{
- int cnt = 0;
int cpu;
int idx = srcu_ctl.completed & 0x1;

- cnt += sprintf(&page[cnt], "%s%s per-CPU(idx=%d):",
+ page += sprintf(page, "%s%s per-CPU(idx=%d):",
torture_type, TORTURE_FLAG, idx);
for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
- cnt += sprintf(&page[cnt], " %d(%lu,%lu)", cpu,
+ page += sprintf(page, " %d(%lu,%lu)", cpu,
per_cpu_ptr(srcu_ctl.per_cpu_ref, cpu)->c[!idx],
per_cpu_ptr(srcu_ctl.per_cpu_ref, cpu)->c[idx]);
}
- cnt += sprintf(&page[cnt], "\n");
- return cnt;
+ sprintf(page, "\n");
}

static void srcu_torture_synchronize_expedited(void)
@@ -1052,10 +1048,9 @@ rcu_torture_reader(void *arg)
/*
* Create an RCU-torture statistics message in the specified buffer.
*/
-static int
+static void
rcu_torture_printk(char *page)
{
- int cnt = 0;
int cpu;
int i;
long pipesummary[RCU_TORTURE_PIPE_LEN + 1] = { 0 };
@@ -1071,8 +1066,8 @@ rcu_torture_printk(char *page)
if (pipesummary[i] != 0)
break;
}
- cnt += sprintf(&page[cnt], "%s%s ", torture_type, TORTURE_FLAG);
- cnt += sprintf(&page[cnt],
+ page += sprintf(page, "%s%s ", torture_type, TORTURE_FLAG);
+ page += sprintf(page,
"rtc: %p ver: %lu tfle: %d rta: %d rtaf: %d rtf: %d ",
rcu_torture_current,
rcu_torture_current_version,
@@ -1080,53 +1075,52 @@ rcu_torture_printk(char *page)
atomic_read(&n_rcu_torture_alloc),
atomic_read(&n_rcu_torture_alloc_fail),
atomic_read(&n_rcu_torture_free));
- cnt += sprintf(&page[cnt], "rtmbe: %d rtbke: %ld rtbre: %ld ",
+ page += sprintf(page, "rtmbe: %d rtbke: %ld rtbre: %ld ",
atomic_read(&n_rcu_torture_mberror),
n_rcu_torture_boost_ktrerror,
n_rcu_torture_boost_rterror);
- cnt += sprintf(&page[cnt], "rtbf: %ld rtb: %ld nt: %ld ",
+ page += sprintf(page, "rtbf: %ld rtb: %ld nt: %ld ",
n_rcu_torture_boost_failure,
n_rcu_torture_boosts,
n_rcu_torture_timers);
- cnt += sprintf(&page[cnt],
+ page += sprintf(page,
"onoff: %ld/%ld:%ld/%ld %d,%d:%d,%d %lu:%lu (HZ=%d) ",
n_online_successes, n_online_attempts,
n_offline_successes, n_offline_attempts,
min_online, max_online,
min_offline, max_offline,
sum_online, sum_offline, HZ);
- cnt += sprintf(&page[cnt], "barrier: %ld/%ld:%ld",
+ page += sprintf(page, "barrier: %ld/%ld:%ld",
n_barrier_successes,
n_barrier_attempts,
n_rcu_torture_barrier_error);
- cnt += sprintf(&page[cnt], "\n%s%s ", torture_type, TORTURE_FLAG);
+ page += sprintf(page, "\n%s%s ", torture_type, TORTURE_FLAG);
if (atomic_read(&n_rcu_torture_mberror) != 0 ||
n_rcu_torture_barrier_error != 0 ||
n_rcu_torture_boost_ktrerror != 0 ||
n_rcu_torture_boost_rterror != 0 ||
n_rcu_torture_boost_failure != 0 ||
i > 1) {
- cnt += sprintf(&page[cnt], "!!! ");
+ page += sprintf(page, "!!! ");
atomic_inc(&n_rcu_torture_error);
WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
}
- cnt += sprintf(&page[cnt], "Reader Pipe: ");
+ page += sprintf(page, "Reader Pipe: ");
for (i = 0; i < RCU_TORTURE_PIPE_LEN + 1; i++)
- cnt += sprintf(&page[cnt], " %ld", pipesummary[i]);
- cnt += sprintf(&page[cnt], "\n%s%s ", torture_type, TORTURE_FLAG);
- cnt += sprintf(&page[cnt], "Reader Batch: ");
+ page += sprintf(page, " %ld", pipesummary[i]);
+ page += sprintf(page, "\n%s%s ", torture_type, TORTURE_FLAG);
+ page += sprintf(page, "Reader Batch: ");
for (i = 0; i < RCU_TORTURE_PIPE_LEN + 1; i++)
- cnt += sprintf(&page[cnt], " %ld", batchsummary[i]);
- cnt += sprintf(&page[cnt], "\n%s%s ", torture_type, TORTURE_FLAG);
- cnt += sprintf(&page[cnt], "Free-Block Circulation: ");
+ page += sprintf(page, " %ld", batchsummary[i]);
+ page += sprintf(page, "\n%s%s ", torture_type, TORTURE_FLAG);
+ page += sprintf(page, "Free-Block Circulation: ");
for (i = 0; i < RCU_TORTURE_PIPE_LEN + 1; i++) {
- cnt += sprintf(&page[cnt], " %d",
+ page += sprintf(page, " %d",
atomic_read(&rcu_torture_wcount[i]));
}
- cnt += sprintf(&page[cnt], "\n");
+ page += sprintf(page, "\n");
if (cur_ops->stats)
- cnt += cur_ops->stats(&page[cnt]);
- return cnt;
+ cur_ops->stats(page);
}

/*
@@ -1140,10 +1134,17 @@ rcu_torture_printk(char *page)
static void
rcu_torture_stats_print(void)
{
- int cnt;
+ int size = nr_cpu_ids * 200 + 8192;
+ char *buf;

- cnt = rcu_torture_printk(printk_buf);
- pr_alert("%s", printk_buf);
+ buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!buf) {
+ pr_err("rcu-torture: Out of memory, need: %d", size);
+ return;
+ }
+ rcu_torture_printk(buf);
+ pr_alert("%s", buf);
+ kfree(buf);
}

/*
--
1.8.1.5

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== 2 of 13 ==
Date: Fri, Nov 15 2013 4:30 pm
From: "Paul E. McKenney"


From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Whenever a CPU receives a scheduling-clock interrupt, RCU checks to see
if the RCU core needs anything from this CPU. If so, RCU raises
RCU_SOFTIRQ to carry out any needed processing.

This approach has worked well historically, but it is undesirable on
NO_HZ_FULL CPUs. Such CPUs are expected to spend almost all of their time
in userspace, so that scheduling-clock interrupts can be disabled while
there is only one runnable task on the CPU in question. Unfortunately,
raising any softirq has the potential to wake up ksoftirqd, which would
provide the second runnable task on that CPU, preventing disabling of
scheduling-clock interrupts.

What is needed instead is for RCU to leave NO_HZ_FULL CPUs alone,
relying on the grace-period kthreads' quiescent-state forcing to
do any needed RCU work on behalf of those CPUs.

This commit therefore refrains from raising RCU_SOFTIRQ on any
NO_HZ_FULL CPUs during any grace periods that have been in effect
for less than one second. The one-second limit handles the case
where an inappropriate workload is running on a NO_HZ_FULL CPU
that features lots of scheduling-clock interrupts, but no idle
or userspace time.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <bitbucket@online.de>
Toasted-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
---
kernel/rcu/tree.c | 4 ++++
kernel/rcu/tree.h | 1 +
kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 13d1a1a0d60a..7be5efd62fe5 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -2783,6 +2783,10 @@ static int __rcu_pending(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_data *rdp)
/* Check for CPU stalls, if enabled. */
check_cpu_stall(rsp, rdp);

+ /* Is this CPU a NO_HZ_FULL CPU that should ignore RCU? */
+ if (rcu_nohz_full_cpu(rsp))
+ return 0;
+
/* Is the RCU core waiting for a quiescent state from this CPU? */
if (rcu_scheduler_fully_active &&
rdp->qs_pending && !rdp->passed_quiesce) {
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.h b/kernel/rcu/tree.h
index a87adfc2916b..8c19873f1ac9 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.h
@@ -571,6 +571,7 @@ static void rcu_sysidle_report_gp(struct rcu_state *rsp, int isidle,
unsigned long maxj);
static void rcu_bind_gp_kthread(void);
static void rcu_sysidle_init_percpu_data(struct rcu_dynticks *rdtp);
+static bool rcu_nohz_full_cpu(struct rcu_state *rsp);