linux-kernel - [tip: core/rcu] rcu-tasks: Make RCU tasks trace also wait for idle tasks

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Date:   Mon, 11 May 2020 20:59:24 -0000
From:   "tip-bot2 for Paul E. McKenney" <tip-bot2@...utronix.de>
To:     linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>, x86 <x86@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [tip: core/rcu] rcu-tasks: Make RCU tasks trace also wait for idle tasks

The following commit has been merged into the core/rcu branch of tip:

Commit-ID:     9796e1ae7386ecf66eb234f7db7753845ebb2139
Gitweb:        https://git.kernel.org/tip/9796e1ae7386ecf66eb234f7db7753845ebb2139
Author:        Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
AuthorDate:    Sun, 22 Mar 2020 13:18:54 -07:00
Committer:     Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
CommitterDate: Mon, 27 Apr 2020 11:03:52 -07:00

rcu-tasks: Make RCU tasks trace also wait for idle tasks

This commit scans the CPUs, adding each CPU's idle task to the list of
tasks that need quiescent states.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/tasks.h | 18 +++++++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
index e3a42d8..f272e8f 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ struct rcu_tasks;
 typedef void (*rcu_tasks_gp_func_t)(struct rcu_tasks *rtp);
 typedef void (*pregp_func_t)(void);
 typedef void (*pertask_func_t)(struct task_struct *t, struct list_head *hop);
-typedef void (*postscan_func_t)(void);
+typedef void (*postscan_func_t)(struct list_head *hop);
 typedef void (*holdouts_func_t)(struct list_head *hop, bool ndrpt, bool *frptp);
 typedef void (*postgp_func_t)(struct rcu_tasks *rtp);
 
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ static void rcu_tasks_wait_gp(struct rcu_tasks *rtp)
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 
 	set_tasks_gp_state(rtp, RTGS_POST_SCAN_TASKLIST);
-	rtp->postscan_func();
+	rtp->postscan_func(&holdouts);
 
 	/*
 	 * Each pass through the following loop scans the list of holdout
@@ -415,7 +415,7 @@ static void rcu_tasks_pertask(struct task_struct *t, struct list_head *hop)
 }
 
 /* Processing between scanning taskslist and draining the holdout list. */
-void rcu_tasks_postscan(void)
+void rcu_tasks_postscan(struct list_head *hop)
 {
 	/*
 	 * Wait for tasks that are in the process of exiting.  This
@@ -936,9 +936,17 @@ static void rcu_tasks_trace_pertask(struct task_struct *t,
 	trc_wait_for_one_reader(t, hop);
 }
 
-/* Do intermediate processing between task and holdout scans. */
-static void rcu_tasks_trace_postscan(void)
+/*
+ * Do intermediate processing between task and holdout scans and
+ * pick up the idle tasks.
+ */
+static void rcu_tasks_trace_postscan(struct list_head *hop)
 {
+	int cpu;
+
+	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
+		rcu_tasks_trace_pertask(idle_task(cpu), hop);
+
 	// Re-enable CPU hotplug now that the tasklist scan has completed.
 	cpus_read_unlock();