[PATCH rcu/urgent 2/2] refscale: Avoid false-positive warnings in ref_scale_reader()

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Jul 14 2021 - 16:50:49 EST


If the call to set_cpus_allowed_ptr() in ref_scale_reader()
fails, a later WARN_ONCE() complains. But with the advent of
570a752b7a9b ("lib/smp_processor_id: Use is_percpu_thread() instead of
nr_cpus_allowed"), this complaint can be drowned out by complaints from
smp_processor_id(). The rationale for this change is that refscale's
kthreads are not marked with PF_NO_SETAFFINITY, which means that a system
administrator could change affinity at any time.

However, refscale is a performance/stress test, and the system
administrator might well have a valid test-the-test reason for changing
affinity. This commit therefore changes to raw_smp_processor_id()
in order to avoid the noise, and also adds a WARN_ON_ONCE() to the
call to set_cpus_allowed_ptr() in order to directly detect immediate
failure. There is no WARN_ON_ONCE() within the test loop, allowing
human-reflex-based affinity resetting, if desired.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/rcu/refscale.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/refscale.c b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
index 313d4547cbc7..d998a76fb542 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/refscale.c
@@ -487,13 +487,13 @@ ref_scale_reader(void *arg)
s64 duration;

VERBOSE_SCALEOUT_BATCH("ref_scale_reader %ld: task started", me);
- set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpumask_of(me % nr_cpu_ids));
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(set_cpus_allowed_ptr(current, cpumask_of(me % nr_cpu_ids)));
set_user_nice(current, MAX_NICE);
atomic_inc(&n_init);
if (holdoff)
schedule_timeout_interruptible(holdoff * HZ);
repeat:
- VERBOSE_SCALEOUT_BATCH("ref_scale_reader %ld: waiting to start next experiment on cpu %d", me, smp_processor_id());
+ VERBOSE_SCALEOUT_BATCH("ref_scale_reader %ld: waiting to start next experiment on cpu %d", me, raw_smp_processor_id());

// Wait for signal that this reader can start.
wait_event(rt->wq, (atomic_read(&nreaders_exp) && smp_load_acquire(&rt->start_reader)) ||
@@ -503,7 +503,7 @@ ref_scale_reader(void *arg)
goto end;

// Make sure that the CPU is affinitized appropriately during testing.
- WARN_ON_ONCE(smp_processor_id() != me);
+ WARN_ON_ONCE(raw_smp_processor_id() != me);

WRITE_ONCE(rt->start_reader, 0);
if (!atomic_dec_return(&n_started))
--
2.31.1.189.g2e36527f23