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Message-ID: <20110405230745.GA5972@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2011 16:07:45 -0700
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@...fujitsu.com>,
Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.cz>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...ux.intel.com>,
Jan Beulich <JBeulich@...ell.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Alexander van Heukelum <heukelum@...tmail.fm>,
Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@...ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>,
Serge Hallyn <serue@...ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 4/5] RCU: Add TASK_RCU_OFFSET
On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 02:54:50PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 01:35:49PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 09:57 +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote:
> > >
> > > We are trying to use inlined read_read_[un]lock(), it is required that sched.h
> > > needs include rcupdate.h which causes many recursive including. Splitting rcupdate.h
> > > only does not help.
> >
> > You're not making any kind of sense there.
> >
> > linux-2.6# cat kernel/sched_tmp.c
> >
> > #include <linux/sched.h>
> >
> > linux-2.6# make kernel/sched_tmp.i
> > linux-2.6# awk '/^#/ { t=$0 } /rcu_read_lock/ { print t " " $0 }' kernel/sched_tmp.i
> > # 60 "/usr/src/linux-2.6/include/linux/rcupdate.h" static inline void __rcu_read_lock_bh(void)
> > # 60 "/usr/src/linux-2.6/include/linux/rcupdate.h" extern void __rcu_read_lock(void);
> > # 258 "/usr/src/linux-2.6/include/linux/rcupdate.h" static inline int rcu_read_lock_held(void)
> > # 258 "/usr/src/linux-2.6/include/linux/rcupdate.h" static inline int rcu_read_lock_bh_held(void)
> > # 258 "/usr/src/linux-2.6/include/linux/rcupdate.h" static inline int rcu_read_lock_sched_held(void)
> > # 559 "/usr/src/linux-2.6/include/linux/rcupdate.h" static inline void rcu_read_lock(void)
> > # 559 "/usr/src/linux-2.6/include/linux/rcupdate.h" __rcu_read_lock();
> > # 600 "/usr/src/linux-2.6/include/linux/rcupdate.h" static inline void rcu_read_lock_bh(void)
> > # 600 "/usr/src/linux-2.6/include/linux/rcupdate.h" __rcu_read_lock_bh();
> > # 627 "/usr/src/linux-2.6/include/linux/rcupdate.h" static inline void rcu_read_lock_sched(void)
> > # 627 "/usr/src/linux-2.6/include/linux/rcupdate.h" static inline __attribute__((no_instrument_function)) void rcu_read_lock_sched_notrace(void)
> > # 70 "/usr/src/linux-2.6/include/linux/srcu.h" int __srcu_read_lock(struct srcu_struct *sp) ;
> > # 103 "/usr/src/linux-2.6/include/linux/srcu.h" static inline int srcu_read_lock_held(struct srcu_struct *sp)
> > # 149 "/usr/src/linux-2.6/include/linux/srcu.h" static inline int srcu_read_lock(struct srcu_struct *sp)
> > # 149 "/usr/src/linux-2.6/include/linux/srcu.h" int retval = __srcu_read_lock(sp);
> > # 1227 "/usr/src/linux-2.6/include/linux/sched.h" int rcu_read_lock_nesting;
> > # 1786 "/usr/src/linux-2.6/include/linux/sched.h" p->rcu_read_lock_nesting = 0;
> >
> > There isn't a single rcu_read_lock() user in the include chain of
> > sched.h, therefore its possible to split rcupdate.h such that one part
> > includes the bits needed for sched.h and another part that includes
> > sched.h and provides rcu_read_lock().
>
> Yep, you can easily split struct rcu_head out into its own header file,
> and then include that into sched.h in place of rcupdate.h without trouble
> (at least in the few builds I tried).
>
> The trouble comes when you take the next step and include sched.h
> into include/linux/rcutree.h, which would be needed to allow
> TREE_PREEMPT_RCU's rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock() to be
> inlined. This pulls sched.h into files that it was not already
> included into, and we do get build failures (the first of which
> requires changes local to RCU, FWIW).
>
> Of course, it would be good to straighten this out.
And here is a start -- the build is -much- quieter with this patch.
The next layer on this onion is the use of the ctl_table typedef
in include/linux/key.h -- which is defined to be struct ctl_table.
Anyone know where struct ctl_table is defined? Color me blind, but I
am not seeing it...
Thanx, Paul
------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/include/linux/rcu_head.h b/include/linux/rcu_head.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e0b8add
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/rcu_head.h
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+/*
+ * Read-Copy Update mechanism for mutual exclusion: base structures
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+ *
+ * Copyright IBM Corporation, 2001
+ *
+ * Author: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@...ibm.com>
+ *
+ * Based on the original work by Paul McKenney <paulmck@...ibm.com>
+ * and inputs from Rusty Russell, Andrea Arcangeli and Andi Kleen.
+ * Papers:
+ * http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/paper/rclockpdcsproof.pdf
+ * http://lse.sourceforge.net/locking/rclock_OLS.2001.05.01c.sc.pdf (OLS2001)
+ *
+ * For detailed explanation of Read-Copy Update mechanism see -
+ * http://lse.sourceforge.net/locking/rcupdate.html
+ *
+ */
+
+#ifndef __LINUX_RCU_HEAD_H
+#define __LINUX_RCU_HEAD_H
+
+/**
+ * struct rcu_head - callback structure for use with RCU
+ * @next: next update requests in a list
+ * @func: actual update function to call after the grace period.
+ */
+struct rcu_head {
+ struct rcu_head *next;
+ void (*func)(struct rcu_head *head);
+};
+
+#endif /* __LINUX_RCU_HEAD_H */
diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index ff422d2..ab94fcfb 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -52,15 +52,7 @@ extern int rcutorture_runnable; /* for sysctl */
#define ULONG_CMP_GE(a, b) (ULONG_MAX / 2 >= (a) - (b))
#define ULONG_CMP_LT(a, b) (ULONG_MAX / 2 < (a) - (b))
-/**
- * struct rcu_head - callback structure for use with RCU
- * @next: next update requests in a list
- * @func: actual update function to call after the grace period.
- */
-struct rcu_head {
- struct rcu_head *next;
- void (*func)(struct rcu_head *head);
-};
+#include <linux/rcu_head.h>
/* Exported common interfaces */
extern void call_rcu_sched(struct rcu_head *head,
@@ -141,14 +133,6 @@ static inline void rcu_exit_nohz(void)
#endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ */
-#if defined(CONFIG_TREE_RCU) || defined(CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU)
-#include <linux/rcutree.h>
-#elif defined(CONFIG_TINY_RCU) || defined(CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU)
-#include <linux/rcutiny.h>
-#else
-#error "Unknown RCU implementation specified to kernel configuration"
-#endif
-
/*
* init_rcu_head_on_stack()/destroy_rcu_head_on_stack() are needed for dynamic
* initialization and destruction of rcu_head on the stack. rcu_head structures
@@ -797,4 +781,12 @@ static inline void debug_rcu_head_unqueue(struct rcu_head *head)
}
#endif /* #else !CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD */
+#if defined(CONFIG_TREE_RCU) || defined(CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU)
+#include <linux/rcutree.h>
+#elif defined(CONFIG_TINY_RCU) || defined(CONFIG_TINY_PREEMPT_RCU)
+#include <linux/rcutiny.h>
+#else
+#error "Unknown RCU implementation specified to kernel configuration"
+#endif
+
#endif /* __LINUX_RCUPDATE_H */
diff --git a/include/linux/rcutree.h b/include/linux/rcutree.h
index 3a93348..c317eec 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcutree.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcutree.h
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@
#ifndef __LINUX_RCUTREE_H
#define __LINUX_RCUTREE_H
+#include <linux/sched.h>
+
extern void rcu_init(void);
extern void rcu_note_context_switch(int cpu);
extern int rcu_needs_cpu(int cpu);
diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index 83bd2e2..e7c6a90 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ struct sched_param {
#include <linux/topology.h>
#include <linux/proportions.h>
#include <linux/seccomp.h>
-#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
+#include <linux/rcu_head.h>
#include <linux/rculist.h>
#include <linux/rtmutex.h>
@@ -2241,11 +2241,9 @@ int same_thread_group(struct task_struct *p1, struct task_struct *p2)
return p1->tgid == p2->tgid;
}
-static inline struct task_struct *next_thread(const struct task_struct *p)
-{
- return list_entry_rcu(p->thread_group.next,
- struct task_struct, thread_group);
-}
+/* Avoid #include hell for inlining rcu_read_lock(). */
+#define next_thread(p) \
+ list_entry_rcu((p)->thread_group.next, struct task_struct, thread_group)
static inline int thread_group_empty(struct task_struct *p)
{
--
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