linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 02/26] rcu: New rcu_user_enter_irq() and rcu_user_exit

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Date:	Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:05:19 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca,
	josh@...htriplett.org, niv@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	dhowells@...hat.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com, darren@...art.com,
	fweisbec@...il.com, sbw@....edu, patches@...aro.org,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 02/26] rcu: New rcu_user_enter_irq() and rcu_user_exit_irq() APIs

From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>

In some cases, it is necessary to enter or exit userspace-RCU-idle mode
from an interrupt handler, for example, if some other CPU sends this
CPU a resched IPI.  In this case, the current CPU would enter the IPI
handler in userspace-RCU-idle mode, but would need to exit the IPI handler
after having exited that mode.

To allow this to work, this commit adds two new APIs to TREE_RCU:

- rcu_user_enter_irq(). This must be called from an interrupt between
rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit().  After the irq calls rcu_irq_exit(),
the irq handler will return into an RCU extended quiescent state.
In theory, this interrupt is never a nested interrupt, but in practice
it might interrupt softirq, which looks to RCU like a nested interrupt.

- rcu_user_exit_irq(). This must be called from a non-nesting
interrupt, interrupting an RCU extended quiescent state, also
between rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit(). After the irq calls
rcu_irq_exit(), the irq handler will return in an RCU non-quiescent
state.

[ Combined with "Allow calls to rcu_exit_user_irq from nesting irqs." ]

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 include/linux/rcupdate.h |    2 ++
 kernel/rcutree.c         |   43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 45 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index 2a7549c..81d3d5c 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -193,6 +193,8 @@ extern void rcu_irq_enter(void);
 extern void rcu_irq_exit(void);
 extern void rcu_user_enter(void);
 extern void rcu_user_exit(void);
+extern void rcu_user_enter_irq(void);
+extern void rcu_user_exit_irq(void);
 extern void exit_rcu(void);
 
 /**
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index c0507b7..8fdea17 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -440,6 +440,27 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_user_enter);
 
 
 /**
+ * rcu_user_enter_irq - inform RCU that we are going to resume userspace
+ * after the current irq returns.
+ *
+ * This is similar to rcu_user_enter() but in the context of a non-nesting
+ * irq. After this call, RCU enters into idle mode when the interrupt
+ * returns.
+ */
+void rcu_user_enter_irq(void)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+	struct rcu_dynticks *rdtp;
+
+	local_irq_save(flags);
+	rdtp = &__get_cpu_var(rcu_dynticks);
+	/* Ensure this irq is interrupting a non-idle RCU state.  */
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(!(rdtp->dynticks_nesting & DYNTICK_TASK_MASK));
+	rdtp->dynticks_nesting = 1;
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
+}
+
+/**
  * rcu_irq_exit - inform RCU that current CPU is exiting irq towards idle
  *
  * Exit from an interrupt handler, which might possibly result in entering
@@ -554,6 +575,28 @@ void rcu_user_exit(void)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_user_exit);
 
 /**
+ * rcu_user_exit_irq - inform RCU that we won't resume to userspace
+ * idle mode after the current non-nesting irq returns.
+ *
+ * This is similar to rcu_user_exit() but in the context of an irq.
+ * This is called when the irq has interrupted a userspace RCU idle mode
+ * context. When the current non-nesting interrupt returns after this call,
+ * the CPU won't restore the RCU idle mode.
+ */
+void rcu_user_exit_irq(void)
+{
+	unsigned long flags;
+	struct rcu_dynticks *rdtp;
+
+	local_irq_save(flags);
+	rdtp = &__get_cpu_var(rcu_dynticks);
+	/* Ensure we are interrupting an RCU idle mode. */
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(rdtp->dynticks_nesting & DYNTICK_TASK_NEST_MASK);
+	rdtp->dynticks_nesting += DYNTICK_TASK_EXIT_IDLE;
+	local_irq_restore(flags);
+}
+
+/**
  * rcu_irq_enter - inform RCU that current CPU is entering irq away from idle
  *
  * Enter an interrupt handler, which might possibly result in exiting
-- 
1.7.8

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