linux-kernel - [PATCH 5.4 179/183] rcu: add a helper to report consolidated flavor QS

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Message-ID: <20240324234638.1355609-180-sashal@kernel.org>
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2024 19:46:32 -0400
From: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Yan Zhai <yan@...udflare.com>,
	"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 5.4 179/183] rcu: add a helper to report consolidated flavor QS

From: Yan Zhai <yan@...udflare.com>

[ Upstream commit 1a77557d48cff187a169c2aec01c0dd78a5e7e50 ]

When under heavy load, network processing can run CPU-bound for many
tens of seconds. Even in preemptible kernels (non-RT kernel), this can
block RCU Tasks grace periods, which can cause trace-event removal to
take more than a minute, which is unacceptably long.

This commit therefore creates a new helper function that passes through
both RCU and RCU-Tasks quiescent states every 100 milliseconds. This
hard-coded value suffices for current workloads.

Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
Reviewed-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Yan Zhai <yan@...udflare.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
Acked-by: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...nel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/90431d46ee112d2b0af04dbfe936faaca11810a5.1710877680.git.yan@cloudflare.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Stable-dep-of: 00bf63122459 ("bpf: report RCU QS in cpumap kthread")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@...nel.org>
---
 include/linux/rcupdate.h | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index c75b38ba4a728..bc4b5c905a602 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -164,6 +164,37 @@ do { \
 	cond_resched(); \
 } while (0)
 
+/**
+ * rcu_softirq_qs_periodic - Report RCU and RCU-Tasks quiescent states
+ * @old_ts: jiffies at start of processing.
+ *
+ * This helper is for long-running softirq handlers, such as NAPI threads in
+ * networking. The caller should initialize the variable passed in as @old_ts
+ * at the beginning of the softirq handler. When invoked frequently, this macro
+ * will invoke rcu_softirq_qs() every 100 milliseconds thereafter, which will
+ * provide both RCU and RCU-Tasks quiescent states. Note that this macro
+ * modifies its old_ts argument.
+ *
+ * Because regions of code that have disabled softirq act as RCU read-side
+ * critical sections, this macro should be invoked with softirq (and
+ * preemption) enabled.
+ *
+ * The macro is not needed when CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT is defined. RT kernels would
+ * have more chance to invoke schedule() calls and provide necessary quiescent
+ * states. As a contrast, calling cond_resched() only won't achieve the same
+ * effect because cond_resched() does not provide RCU-Tasks quiescent states.
+ */
+#define rcu_softirq_qs_periodic(old_ts) \
+do { \
+	if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT) && \
+	    time_after(jiffies, (old_ts) + HZ / 10)) { \
+		preempt_disable(); \
+		rcu_softirq_qs(); \
+		preempt_enable(); \
+		(old_ts) = jiffies; \
+	} \
+} while (0)
+
 /*
  * Infrastructure to implement the synchronize_() primitives in
  * TREE_RCU and rcu_barrier_() primitives in TINY_RCU.
-- 
2.43.0