linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 16/27] rcu: Add comment documenting how rcu_seq

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Message-ID: <20180626173055.GJ2494@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net>
Date:   Tue, 26 Jun 2018 19:30:55 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org,
        jiangshanlai@...il.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 16/27] rcu: Add comment documenting how
 rcu_seq_snap works

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 05:35:02PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> +/*
> + * rcu_seq_snap - Take a snapshot of the update side's sequence number.
> + *
> + * This function returns the earliest value of the grace-period sequence number
> + * that will indicate that a full grace period has elapsed since the current
> + * time.  Once the grace-period sequence number has reached this value, it will
> + * be safe to invoke all callbacks that have been registered prior to the
> + * current time. This value is the current grace-period number plus two to the
> + * power of the number of low-order bits reserved for state, then rounded up to
> + * the next value in which the state bits are all zero.

If you complete that by saying _why_ you need to round up there, then
the below verbiage is completely redundant.

> + * In the current design, RCU_SEQ_STATE_MASK=3 and the least significant bit of
> + * the seq is used to track if a GP is in progress or not. Given this, it is
> + * sufficient if we add (6+1) and mask with ~3 to get the next GP. Let's see
> + * why with an example:
> + *
> + * Say the current seq is 12 which is 0b1100 (GP is 3 and state bits are 0b00).
> + * To get to the next GP number of 4, we have to add 0b100 to this (0x1 << 2)
> + * to account for the shift due to 2 state bits. Now, if the current seq is
> + * 13 (GP is 3 and state bits are 0b01), then it means the current grace period
> + * is already in progress so the next GP that a future call back will be queued
> + * to run at is GP+2 = 5, not 4. To account for the extra +1, we just overflow
> + * the 2 lower bits by adding 0b11. In case the lower bit was set, the overflow
> + * will cause the extra +1 to the GP, along with the usual +1 explained before.
> + * This gives us GP+2. Finally we mask the lower to bits by ~0x3 in case the
> + * overflow didn't occur. This masking is needed because in case RCU was idle
> + * (no GP in progress so lower 2 bits are 0b00), then the overflow of the lower
> + * 2 state bits wouldn't occur, so we mask to zero out those lower 2 bits.
> + *
> + * In other words, the next seq can be obtained by (0b11 + 0b100) & (~0b11)
> + * which can be generalized to:
> + * seq + (RCU_SEQ_STATE_MASK + (RCU_SEQ_STATE_MASK + 1)) & (~RCU_SEQ_STATE_MASK)
> + */

Is the below not much simpler:

>  static inline unsigned long rcu_seq_snap(unsigned long *sp)
>  {
>  	unsigned long s;

	s = smp_load_aquire(sp);

	/* Add one GP */
	s += 1 << RCU_SEQ_CTR_SHIFT;

	/* Complete any pending state by rounding up */
	s = __ALIGN_MASK(s, RCU_SEQ_STATE_MASK);

	return s;
}