Re: [PATCH v9 4/7] rcu/trace: Add tracing for how segcb list changes

Paul E. McKenney
2020-11-04T14:08:10Z

On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 04:17:31PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 09:26:00AM -0500, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote:
> > +/*
> > + * Return how many CBs each segment along with their gp_seq values.
> > + *
> > + * This function is O(N) where N is the number of segments. Only used from
> > + * tracing code which is usually disabled in production.
> > + */
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TRACE
> > +static void rcu_segcblist_countseq(struct rcu_segcblist *rsclp,
> > + int cbcount[RCU_CBLIST_NSEGS],
> > + unsigned long gpseq[RCU_CBLIST_NSEGS])
> > +{
> > + int i;
> > +
> > + for (i = 0; i < RCU_CBLIST_NSEGS; i++) {
> > + cbcount[i] = rcu_segcblist_get_seglen(rsclp, i);
> > + gpseq[i] = rsclp->gp_seq[i];
> > + }
> > +}
> > +
> > +void __trace_rcu_segcb_stats(struct rcu_segcblist *rsclp, const char *context)
> > +{
> > + int cbs[RCU_CBLIST_NSEGS];
> > + unsigned long gps[RCU_CBLIST_NSEGS];
> > +
> > + if (!trace_rcu_segcb_stats_enabled())
> > + return;
>
> Yes, very good!
>
> Paul just told me that RCU_TRACE can be used in production so that confirms that we
> wanted to avoid this loop of 8 iterations when tracing is disabled.

RCU's "don't try this in production" Kconfig option is PROVE_RCU.

I would be looking for checks that the sum of the segment lengths
match the overall ->len or checks that all of the segment lengths
are zero when ->cblist is empty to be guarded by something like
IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PROVE_RCU). Of course, checks of this sort need to
be confined to those portions of rcu_do_batch() that are excluding other
accesses to ->cblist.

But if rcu_segcblist_countseq() is invoked only when a specific trace
event is enabled, it should be OK to have it guarded only by RCU_TRACE.

Thanx, Paul