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On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 09:55:54PM +0300, Julian Anastasov wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, 2 May 2013, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
>
> > On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 06:54:05PM +0300, Julian Anastasov wrote:
> > >
> > > I tested the following patch in 2 variants,
> > > TINY_RCU and CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU. I see the
> >
> > Could you please also try CONFIG_TREE_RCU?
>
> Note that I'm testing on some 9-year old
> UP system, i.e. 1 CPU. Now I enabled SMP to test CONFIG_TREE_RCU
> and the results are same. I think, it should be just like
> the TINY_RCU in terms of these debuggings (non-preempt). Extra
> rcu_read_lock gives me "Illegal context switch in RCU read-side
> critical section" in addition to the "BUG: sleeping function
> called from invalid context" message.
OK...
> > > error if extra rcu_read_lock is added for testing.
> > >
> > > I'm using the PREEMPT_ACTIVE flag to indicate
> > > that we are already under lock. It should work because
> > > __might_sleep is not called with such bit. I also tried to
> > > add new flag in include/linux/hardirq.h but PREEMPT_ACTIVE
> > > depends on the arch, so this alternative looked difficult to
> > > implement.
>
> > > +extern int __cond_resched_rcu(void);
> > > +
> > > +#define cond_resched_rcu() ({ \
> > > + __might_sleep(__FILE__, __LINE__, PREEMPT_ACTIVE | \
> > > + PREEMPT_RCU_OFFSET); \
> > > + __cond_resched_rcu(); \
> > > +})
> > > +
>
> > > @@ -7062,7 +7076,9 @@ void __might_sleep(const char *file, int line, int
> > > preempt_offset)
> > > {
> > > static unsigned long prev_jiffy; /* ratelimiting */
> > >
> > > - rcu_sleep_check(); /* WARN_ON_ONCE() by default, no rate limit reqd. */
> > > + /* WARN_ON_ONCE() by default, no rate limit reqd. */
> > > + rcu_sleep_check(preempt_offset & PREEMPT_ACTIVE);
> >
> > Color me confused.
> >
> > >From what I can see, the two values passed in through preempt_offset
> > are PREEMPT_LOCK_OFFSET and SOFTIRQ_DISABLE_OFFSET. PREEMPT_ACTIVE
> > is normally a high-order bit, above PREEMPT_MASK, SOFTIRQ_MASK, and
> > HARDIRQ_MASK.
> >
> > PREEMPT_LOCK_OFFSET and SOFTIRQ_DISABLE_OFFSET have only low-order bits,
> > so I don't see how rcu_sleep_check() is passed anything other than zero.
> > Am I going blind, or what?
>
> Only the new cond_resched_rcu() macro provides
> PREEMPT_ACTIVE flag to skip the rcu_preempt_sleep_check()
> call. The old macros provide locked=0 as you noticed. Does it
> answer your question or I'm missing something?
PREEMPT_ACTIVE's value is usually 0x10000000. Did it change
since 3.9? If not, rcu_sleep_check(preempt_offset & PREEMPT_ACTIVE)
is the same as rcu_sleep_check(0).
Thanx, Paul
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