linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/21] rcu: Make rcu_gp_kthread() check for early-boot activity

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Date:   Sun, 22 Apr 2018 20:03:27 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     mingo@...nel.org, jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
        josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com, joel.opensrc@...il.com,
        torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, npiggin@...il.com,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/21] rcu: Make rcu_gp_kthread() check for early-boot activity

The rcu_gp_kthread() function immediately sleeps waiting to be notified
of the need for a new grace period, which currently works because there
are a number of code sequences that will provide the needed wakeup later.
However, some of these code sequences need to acquire the root rcu_node
structure's ->lock, and contention on that lock has started manifesting.
This commit therefore makes rcu_gp_kthread() check for early-boot activity
when it starts up, omitting the initial sleep in that case.

Reported-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 79fb99951a0c..497f139056c7 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -2192,6 +2192,12 @@ static int __noreturn rcu_gp_kthread(void *arg)
 	struct rcu_state *rsp = arg;
 	struct rcu_node *rnp = rcu_get_root(rsp);
 
+	/* Check for early-boot work. */
+	raw_spin_lock_irq_rcu_node(rnp);
+	if (need_any_future_gp(rnp))
+		WRITE_ONCE(rsp->gp_flags, RCU_GP_FLAG_INIT);
+	raw_spin_unlock_irq_rcu_node(rnp);
+
 	rcu_bind_gp_kthread();
 	for (;;) {
 
-- 
2.5.2