[PATCH rcu 12/12] srcu: Block less aggressively for expedited grace periods

Paul E. McKenney
2022-06-20T22:21:07Z

Commit 282d8998e997 ("srcu: Prevent expedited GPs and blocking readers
from consuming CPU") fixed a problem where a long-running expedited SRCU
grace period could block kernel live patching. It did so by giving up
on expediting once a given SRCU expedited grace period grew too old.

Unfortunately, this added excessive delays to boots of embedded systems
running on qemu that use the ARM IORT RMR feature. This commit therefore
makes the transition away from expediting less aggressive, increasing
the per-grace-period phase number of non-sleeping polls of readers from
one to three and increasing the required grace-period age from one jiffy
(actually from zero to one jiffies) to two jiffies (actually from one
to two jiffies).

Fixes: 282d8998e997 ("srcu: Prevent expedited GPs and blocking readers from consuming CPU")
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Zhangfei Gao <zhangfei.gao@linaro.org>
Reported-by: chenxiang (M)" <chenxiang66@hisilicon.com>
Cc: Shameerali Kolothum Thodi <shameerali.kolothum.thodi@huawei.com>
Cc: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20615615-0013-5adc-584f-2b1d5c03ebfc@linaro.org/
---
kernel/rcu/srcutree.c | 20 +++++++++++++-------
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
index 50ba70f019dea..0db7873f4e95b 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
@@ -513,7 +513,7 @@ static bool srcu_readers_active(struct srcu_struct *ssp)

#define SRCU_INTERVAL 1 // Base delay if no expedited GPs pending.
#define SRCU_MAX_INTERVAL 10 // Maximum incremental delay from slow readers.
-#define SRCU_MAX_NODELAY_PHASE 1 // Maximum per-GP-phase consecutive no-delay instances.
+#define SRCU_MAX_NODELAY_PHASE 3 // Maximum per-GP-phase consecutive no-delay instances.
#define SRCU_MAX_NODELAY 100 // Maximum consecutive no-delay instances.

/*
@@ -522,16 +522,22 @@ static bool srcu_readers_active(struct srcu_struct *ssp)
*/
static unsigned long srcu_get_delay(struct srcu_struct *ssp)
{
+ unsigned long gpstart;
+ unsigned long j;
unsigned long jbase = SRCU_INTERVAL;

if (ULONG_CMP_LT(READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_gp_seq), READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_gp_seq_needed_exp)))
jbase = 0;
- if (rcu_seq_state(READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_gp_seq)))
- jbase += jiffies - READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_gp_start);
- if (!jbase) {
- WRITE_ONCE(ssp->srcu_n_exp_nodelay, READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_n_exp_nodelay) + 1);
- if (READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_n_exp_nodelay) > SRCU_MAX_NODELAY_PHASE)
- jbase = 1;
+ if (rcu_seq_state(READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_gp_seq))) {
+ j = jiffies - 1;
+ gpstart = READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_gp_start);
+ if (time_after(j, gpstart))
+ jbase += j - gpstart;
+ if (!jbase) {
+ WRITE_ONCE(ssp->srcu_n_exp_nodelay, READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_n_exp_nodelay) + 1);
+ if (READ_ONCE(ssp->srcu_n_exp_nodelay) > SRCU_MAX_NODELAY_PHASE)
+ jbase = 1;
+ }
}
return jbase > SRCU_MAX_INTERVAL ? SRCU_MAX_INTERVAL : jbase;
}
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