linux-kernel - [PATCH rcu 4/4] rcu: Finer-grained grace-period-end checks in rcu_dump_cpu

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Message-Id: <20240823211516.2984627-4-paulmck@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:15:15 -0700
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To: rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...a.com,
	rostedt@...dmis.org,
	riel@...riel.com,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH rcu 4/4] rcu: Finer-grained grace-period-end checks in rcu_dump_cpu_stacks()

This commit pushes the grace-period-end checks further down into
rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(), and also uses lockless checks coupled with
finer-grained locking.

The result is that the current leaf rcu_node structure's ->lock is
acquired only if a stack backtrace might be needed from the current CPU,
and is held across only that CPU's backtrace.  As a result, if there are
no stalled CPUs associated with a given rcu_node structure, then its
->lock will not be acquired at all.  On large systems, it is usually
(though not always) the case that a small number of CPUs are stalling
the current grace period, which means that the ->lock need be acquired
only for a small fraction of the rcu_node structures.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h | 18 +++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
index 9c8eb4b8dfb33..ab6848baba4f6 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
@@ -341,20 +341,24 @@ static void rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(unsigned long gp_seq)
 	struct rcu_node *rnp;
 
 	rcu_for_each_leaf_node(rnp) {
-		if (gp_seq != rcu_state.gp_seq) {
-			pr_err("INFO: Stall ended during stack backtracing.\n");
-			return;
-		}
 		printk_deferred_enter();
-		raw_spin_lock_irqsave_rcu_node(rnp, flags);
-		for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu(rnp, cpu)
+		for_each_leaf_node_possible_cpu(rnp, cpu) {
+			if (gp_seq != data_race(rcu_state.gp_seq)) {
+				printk_deferred_exit();
+				pr_err("INFO: Stall ended during stack backtracing.\n");
+				return;
+			}
+			if (!(data_race(rnp->qsmask) & leaf_node_cpu_bit(rnp, cpu)))
+				continue;
+			raw_spin_lock_irqsave_rcu_node(rnp, flags);
 			if (rnp->qsmask & leaf_node_cpu_bit(rnp, cpu)) {
 				if (cpu_is_offline(cpu))
 					pr_err("Offline CPU %d blocking current GP.\n", cpu);
 				else
 					dump_cpu_task(cpu);
+			raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore_rcu_node(rnp, flags);
 			}
-		raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore_rcu_node(rnp, flags);
+		}
 		printk_deferred_exit();
 	}
 }
-- 
2.40.1