Re: [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 1/6] srcu: Make Tiny SRCU use multi-bit grace-period counter

From: Neeraj Upadhyay
Date: Tue Nov 24 2020 - 23:35:20 EST




On 11/24/2020 10:48 AM, Neeraj Upadhyay wrote:


On 11/24/2020 1:25 AM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 10:01:13AM +0530, Neeraj Upadhyay wrote:
On 11/21/2020 6:29 AM, paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>

There is a need for a polling interface for SRCU grace periods.  This
polling needs to distinguish between an SRCU instance being idle on the
one hand or in the middle of a grace period on the other.  This commit
therefore converts the Tiny SRCU srcu_struct structure's srcu_idx from
a defacto boolean to a free-running counter, using the bottom bit to
indicate that a grace period is in progress.  The second-from-bottom
bit is thus used as the index returned by srcu_read_lock().

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/20201112201547.GF3365678@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/
Reported-by: Kent Overstreet <kent.overstreet@xxxxxxxxx>
[ paulmck: Fix __srcu_read_lock() idx computation Neeraj per Upadhyay. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
   include/linux/srcutiny.h | 4 ++--
   kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c    | 5 +++--
   2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/srcutiny.h b/include/linux/srcutiny.h
index 5a5a194..d9edb67 100644
--- a/include/linux/srcutiny.h
+++ b/include/linux/srcutiny.h
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
   struct srcu_struct {
       short srcu_lock_nesting[2];    /* srcu_read_lock() nesting depth. */
-    short srcu_idx;            /* Current reader array element. */
+    unsigned short srcu_idx;    /* Current reader array element in bit 0x2. */
       u8 srcu_gp_running;        /* GP workqueue running? */
       u8 srcu_gp_waiting;        /* GP waiting for readers? */
       struct swait_queue_head srcu_wq;
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ static inline int __srcu_read_lock(struct srcu_struct *ssp)
   {
       int idx;
-    idx = READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_idx);
+    idx = ((READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_idx) + 1) & 0x2) >> 1;
       WRITE_ONCE(ssp->srcu_lock_nesting[idx], ssp->srcu_lock_nesting[idx] + 1);
       return idx;
   }

Need change in idx calcultion in srcu_torture_stats_print() ?

static inline void srcu_torture_stats_print(struct srcu_struct *ssp,
   idx = READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_idx) & 0x1;

Excellent point!  It should match the calculation in __srcu_read_lock(),
shouldn't it?  I have updated this, thank you!

                            Thanx, Paul


Updated version looks good!


Thanks
Neeraj


For the version in rcu -dev:

Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Only minor point which I have is, the idx calculation can be made an inline func (though srcu_drive_gp() does not require a READ_ONCE for ->srcu_idx):

__srcu_read_lock() and srcu_torture_stats_print() are using

idx = ((READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_idx) + 1) & 0x2) >> 1;

whereas srcu_drive_gp() uses:

idx = (ssp->srcu_idx & 0x2) / 2;

Thanks
Neeraj

Thanks
Neeraj

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c b/kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c
index 6208c1d..5598cf6 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c
@@ -124,11 +124,12 @@ void srcu_drive_gp(struct work_struct *wp)
       ssp->srcu_cb_head = NULL;
       ssp->srcu_cb_tail = &ssp->srcu_cb_head;
       local_irq_enable();
-    idx = ssp->srcu_idx;
-    WRITE_ONCE(ssp->srcu_idx, !ssp->srcu_idx);
+    idx = (ssp->srcu_idx & 0x2) / 2;
+    WRITE_ONCE(ssp->srcu_idx, ssp->srcu_idx + 1);
       WRITE_ONCE(ssp->srcu_gp_waiting, true);  /* srcu_read_unlock() wakes! */
       swait_event_exclusive(ssp->srcu_wq, !READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_lock_nesting[idx]));
       WRITE_ONCE(ssp->srcu_gp_waiting, false); /* srcu_read_unlock() cheap. */
+    WRITE_ONCE(ssp->srcu_idx, ssp->srcu_idx + 1);
       /* Invoke the callbacks we removed above. */
       while (lh) {


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