[PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/6] Remove scheduler restriction, update for v5.8

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Apr 15 2020 - 13:58:57 EST


Hello!

This series removes the long-standing restriction preventing holding
of scheduler locks across rcu_read_unlock() unless interrupts have
been disabled across the entire RCU read-side critical section.

For example, with this series, the following code is now perfectly legal,
and is in fact tested by rcutorture:

// Preemption is enabled.
rcu_read_lock();
do_something();
raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&current->pi_lock, flags);
rcu_read_unlock();
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&current->pi_lock, flags);

This change was enabled by the earlier changes that turn on
scheduler-clock interrupts for nohz_full CPUs that take too long to
report a quiescent state during a given grace period. (Yes, nohz_full
CPUs executing in userspace still have their quiescent states implicitly
reported by the RCU grace-period kthread!)

And here is the series:

1. Add KCSAN stubs to update.c.

2. Make rcu_read_unlock_special() safe for rq/pi locks.

3. Don't set nesting depth negative in rcu_preempt_deferred_qs(),
courtesy of Lai Jiangshan.

4. Remove unused ->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.deferred_qs field,
courtesy of Lai Jiangshan.

5. Don't use negative nesting depth in __rcu_read_unlock(),
courtesy of Lai Jiangshan.

6. Add test of holding scheduler locks across rcu_read_unlock().

Thanx, Paul

------------------------------------------------------------------------

include/linux/sched.h | 2 +-
kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c | 10 +++++++++-
kernel/rcu/tree_exp.h | 31 +++++--------------------------
kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 45 +++++++++++++++------------------------------
kernel/rcu/update.c | 13 +++++++++++++
5 files changed, 43 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)