Re: [PATCH v3] rcu: Allow to eliminate softirq processing from rcutree

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Fri, Mar 22, 2019 at 12:35:53AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 04:32:44PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 04:46:01PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 10:13:33PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > > > Running RCU out of softirq is a problem for some workloads that would
> > > > like to manage RCU core processing independently of other softirq
> > > > work, for example, setting kthread priority.  This commit therefore
> > > > introduces the `rcunosoftirq' option which moves the RCU core work
> > > > from softirq to a per-CPU/per-flavor SCHED_OTHER kthread named rcuc.
> > > > The SCHED_OTHER approach avoids the scalability problems that appeared
> > > > with the earlier attempt to move RCU core processing to from softirq
> > > > to kthreads.  That said, kernels built with RCU_BOOST=y will run the
> > > > rcuc kthreads at the RCU-boosting priority.
> > > > 
> > > > Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > Tested-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@xxxxxx>
> > > > Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Thank you!  I reverted v2 and applied this one with the same sort of
> > > update.  Testing is going well thus far aside from my failing to add
> > > the required "=0" after the rcutree.use_softirq.  I will probably not
> > > be the only one who will run afoul of this, so I updated the commit log
> > > and the documentation accordingly, as shown below.
> > 
> > And I took a look, please see updates/questions interspersed.
> > 
> > I didn't find anything substantive, but still I get hangs.  Which is
> > the normal situation.  ;-)
> > 
> > Will fire off more testing...
> 
> And despite my protestations about restrictions involving the scheduler
> and rcu_read_unlock(), with the patch below TREE01, TREE02, TREE03, and
> TREE09 pass an hour of rcutorture with rcutree.use_softirq=0.  Without
> this patch, seven-minute runs get hard hangs and this:
> 
> [   18.417315] BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#5, rcu_torture_rea/763
> [   18.418624]  lock: 0xffff9d207eb61940, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: rcu_torture_rea/763, .owner_cpu: 5
> [   18.420418] CPU: 5 PID: 763 Comm: rcu_torture_rea Not tainted 5.1.0-rc1+ #1
> [   18.421786] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
> [   18.423375] Call Trace:
> [   18.423880]  <IRQ>
> [   18.424284]  dump_stack+0x46/0x5b
> [   18.424953]  do_raw_spin_lock+0x8d/0x90
> [   18.425699]  try_to_wake_up+0x2cd/0x4f0
> [   18.426493]  invoke_rcu_core_kthread+0x63/0x80
> [   18.427337]  rcu_read_unlock_special+0x41/0x80
> [   18.428212]  __rcu_read_unlock+0x48/0x50
> [   18.428984]  cpuacct_charge+0x96/0xd0
> [   18.429725]  ? cpuacct_charge+0x2e/0xd0
> [   18.430463]  update_curr+0x112/0x240
> [   18.431172]  enqueue_task_fair+0xa9/0x1220
> [   18.432009]  ttwu_do_activate+0x49/0xa0
> [   18.432741]  sched_ttwu_pending+0x75/0xa0
> [   18.433583]  scheduler_ipi+0x53/0x150
> [   18.434291]  reschedule_interrupt+0xf/0x20
> [   18.435137]  </IRQ
> 
> I clearly need to audit the setting of ->rcu_read_unlock_special.
> 
> Again, the patch below is bad for expedited grace periods, so it is
> experimental.

And this was just me being slow.  A prior RCU read-side critical
section might have been preempted, but have had something (bh, irq,
preempt) disabled at rcu_read_unlock() time.  Then the task remains
queued until the next full-up quiescent state.

So this hack is what I have for the time being.  I will be looking
into it more...

							Thanx, Paul

> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
> index ca972b0b2467..d133fa837426 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
> @@ -607,12 +607,9 @@ static void rcu_read_unlock_special(struct task_struct *t)
>  	if (preempt_bh_were_disabled || irqs_were_disabled) {
>  		WRITE_ONCE(t->rcu_read_unlock_special.b.exp_hint, false);
>  		/* Need to defer quiescent state until everything is enabled. */
> -		if (irqs_were_disabled) {
> +		if (irqs_were_disabled && use_softirq) {
>  			/* Enabling irqs does not reschedule, so... */
> -			if (use_softirq)
> -				raise_softirq_irqoff(RCU_SOFTIRQ);
> -			else
> -				invoke_rcu_core();
> +			raise_softirq_irqoff(RCU_SOFTIRQ);
>  		} else {
>  			/* Enabling BH or preempt does reschedule, so... */
>  			set_tsk_need_resched(current);