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can still use the lock object after it's unlocked
Clarify the mutex lock lifetime rules a bit more.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231201121808.GL3818@noisy.programming.kicks-ass.net
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I have seen several cases of attempts to use mutex_unlock() to release an
object such that the object can then be freed by another task.
This is not safe because mutex_unlock(), in the
MUTEX_FLAG_WAITERS && !MUTEX_FLAG_HANDOFF case, accesses the mutex
structure after having marked it as unlocked; so mutex_unlock() requires
its caller to ensure that the mutex stays alive until mutex_unlock()
returns.
If MUTEX_FLAG_WAITERS is set and there are real waiters, those waiters
have to keep the mutex alive, but we could have a spurious
MUTEX_FLAG_WAITERS left if an interruptible/killable waiter bailed
between the points where __mutex_unlock_slowpath() did the cmpxchg
reading the flags and where it acquired the wait_lock.
( With spinlocks, that kind of code pattern is allowed and, from what I
remember, used in several places in the kernel. )
Document this, such a semantic difference between mutexes and spinlocks
is fairly unintuitive.
[ mingo: Made the changelog a bit more assertive, refined the comments. ]
Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231130204817.2031407-1-jannh@google.com
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Fix typos in Documentation.
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230814212822.193684-4-helgaas@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Use capital letters in acronyms for CD-ROM, FPGA, and PCMCIA.
Use capital letter in the first word of chapter headings for
Locking, Timers, and "Brief tutorial on CRC computation".
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Moritz Fischer <mdf@kernel.org>
Cc: Wu Hao <hao.wu@intel.com>
Cc: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Xu Yilun <yilun.xu@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Phillip Potter <phil@philpotter.co.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230516001518.14514-1-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The config is actually called CONFIG_RT_MUTEXES, not CONFIG_RT_MUTEX.
The config CONFIG_LOCK_TORTURE_TEST should be connected by underscore, for
the sake of consistent referencing to configs in the kernel documentation.
Address those issues.
Signed-off-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230220165749.12850-1-lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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I have removed repeated `the` inside the documentation
Signed-off-by: Akhil Raj <lf32.dev@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220827145359.32599-1-lf32.dev@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Unless it was duplicate on purpose, to emphasize that a raw_spinlock_t
is always a spinning lock regardless of PREEMPT_RT or kernel config,
it's a bit odd that this text is duplicate. So, this patch just clean
it up, keeping the consistency with the other sections of the text.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Fixes: 919e9e6395cf ("Documentation: Add lock ordering and nesting documentation")
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220321144133.49804-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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With PREEMPT_RT the _bh() version of a spinlock leaves preemption
enabled, align the doc to say that instead of the opposite.
Reported-by: Leah Leshchinsky <lleshchi@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220224212312.2601153-1-ahalaney@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The initial implementation of migrate_disable() for mainline was a
wrapper around preempt_disable(). RT kernels substituted this with
a real migrate disable implementation.
Later on mainline gained true migrate disable support, but the
documentation was not updated.
Update the documentation, remove the claims about migrate_disable()
mapping to preempt_disable() on non-PREEMPT_RT kernels.
Fixes: 74d862b682f51 ("sched: Make migrate_disable/enable() independent of RT")
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20211127163200.10466-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de
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The previous commits do exactly what this entry in the TODO file asks
for, thus we can remove it now as it is no longer applicable.
Signed-off-by: Fernando Ramos <greenfoo@u92.eu>
Reviewed-by: Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run>
Signed-off-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20210924064324.229457-18-greenfoo@u92.eu
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This patch fixes file references from txt to rst file ending in
ww-mutex-design.rst and futex-requeue-pi.rst. While on it fix a spelling
issue "desgin" to "design" reported by Matthew Wilcox.
Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <aahringo@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210823183143.1691344-1-aahringo@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The block condition matrix is using 'E' as the writer notation,
however, the writer reminder below the matrix is using 'W', to make
them consistent and make the matrix more readable, we'd better to use
'W' to represent writer.
Suggested-by: Waiman Long <llong@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Xiongwei Song <sxwjean@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/1621868745-23311-1-git-send-email-sxwjean@me.com
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Sequence counters with an associated write serialization lock are called
seqcount_LOCKNAME_t. Fix the documentation accordingly.
While at it, remove a paragraph that inappropriately discussed a
seqlock.h implementation detail.
Fixes: 6dd699b13d53 ("seqlock: seqcount_LOCKNAME_t: Standardize naming convention")
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <a.darwish@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20201206162143.14387-2-a.darwish@linutronix.de
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There are several warnings caused by a recent change
224ec489d3cd ("lockdep/Documention: Recursive read lock detection reasoning")
Those are reported by htmldocs build:
Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst:429: WARNING: Definition list ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst:452: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst:453: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst:453: WARNING: Blank line required after table.
Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst:454: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst:455: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst:455: WARNING: Blank line required after table.
Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst:456: WARNING: Block quote ends without a blank line; unexpected unindent.
Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst:457: WARNING: Unexpected indentation.
Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst:457: WARNING: Blank line required after table.
Besides the reported issues, there are some missing blank
lines that ended producing wrong html output, and some
literals are not properly identified.
Also, the symbols used at the irq enabled/disable table
are not displayed as expected, as they're not literals.
Also, on another table they're using a different notation.
Fixes: 224ec489d3cd ("lockdep/Documention: Recursive read lock detection reasoning")
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/3b9431ac5c01e38111cd59928a93e7259ab7db0f.1603791716.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Latch sequence counters are a multiversion concurrency control mechanism
where the seqcount_t counter even/odd value is used to switch between
two copies of protected data. This allows the seqcount_t read path to
safely interrupt its write side critical section (e.g. from NMIs).
Initially, latch sequence counters were implemented as a single write
function above plain seqcount_t: raw_write_seqcount_latch(). The read
side was expected to use plain seqcount_t raw_read_seqcount().
A specialized latch read function, raw_read_seqcount_latch(), was later
added. It became the standardized way for latch read paths. Due to the
dependent load, it has one read memory barrier less than the plain
seqcount_t raw_read_seqcount() API.
Only raw_write_seqcount_latch() and raw_read_seqcount_latch() should be
used with latch sequence counters. Having *unique* read and write path
APIs means that latch sequence counters are actually a data type of
their own -- just inappropriately overloading plain seqcount_t.
Introduce seqcount_latch_t. This adds type-safety and ensures that only
the correct latch-safe APIs are to be used.
Not to break bisection, let the latch APIs also accept plain seqcount_t
or seqcount_raw_spinlock_t. After converting all call sites to
seqcount_latch_t, only that new data type will be allowed.
References: 9b0fd802e8c0 ("seqcount: Add raw_write_seqcount_latch()")
References: 7fc26327b756 ("seqlock: Introduce raw_read_seqcount_latch()")
References: aadd6e5caaac ("time/sched_clock: Use raw_read_seqcount_latch()")
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <a.darwish@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200827114044.11173-4-a.darwish@linutronix.de
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This patch add the documentation piece for the reasoning of deadlock
detection related to recursive read lock. The following sections are
added:
* Explain what is a recursive read lock, and what deadlock cases
they could introduce.
* Introduce the notations for different types of dependencies, and
the definition of strong paths.
* Proof for a closed strong path is both sufficient and necessary
for deadlock detections with recursive read locks involved. The
proof could also explain why we call the path "strong"
Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200807074238.1632519-3-boqun.feng@gmail.com
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Fix issues with local_locks documentation:
- fix function names, local_lock.h has local_unlock_irqrestore(), not
local_lock_irqrestore()
- fix mapping table, local_unlock_irqrestore() maps to
local_irq_restore(), not _save()
Signed-off-by: Marta Rybczynska <rybczynska@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/CAApg2=SKxQ3Sqwj6TZnV-0x0cKLXFKDaPvXT4N15MPDMKq724g@mail.gmail.com
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Pull documentation fixes from Jonathan Corbet:
"A handful of obvious fixes that wandered in during the merge window"
* tag 'docs-5.9-2' of git://git.lwn.net/linux:
Documentation/locking/locktypes: fix the typo
doc/zh_CN: resolve undefined label warning in admin-guide index
doc/zh_CN: fix title heading markup in admin-guide cpu-load
docs: remove the 2.6 "Upgrading I2C Drivers" guide
docs: Correct the release date of 5.2 stable
mailmap: Update comments for with format and more detalis
docs: cdrom: Fix a typo and rst markup
Doc: admin-guide: use correct legends in kernel-parameters.txt
Documentation/features: refresh RISC-V arch support files
documentation: coccinelle: Improve command example for make C={1,2}
Core-api: Documentation: Replace deprecated :c:func: Usage
Dev-tools: Documentation: Replace deprecated :c:func: Usage
Filesystems: Documentation: Replace deprecated :c:func: Usage
docs: trace: fix a typo
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We have three categories locks, not two.
Signed-off-by: Huang Shijie <sjhuang@iluvatar.ai>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200813060220.18199-1-sjhuang@iluvatar.ai
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking updates from Thomas Gleixner:
"A set of locking fixes and updates:
- Untangle the header spaghetti which causes build failures in
various situations caused by the lockdep additions to seqcount to
validate that the write side critical sections are non-preemptible.
- The seqcount associated lock debug addons which were blocked by the
above fallout.
seqcount writers contrary to seqlock writers must be externally
serialized, which usually happens via locking - except for strict
per CPU seqcounts. As the lock is not part of the seqcount, lockdep
cannot validate that the lock is held.
This new debug mechanism adds the concept of associated locks.
sequence count has now lock type variants and corresponding
initializers which take a pointer to the associated lock used for
writer serialization. If lockdep is enabled the pointer is stored
and write_seqcount_begin() has a lockdep assertion to validate that
the lock is held.
Aside of the type and the initializer no other code changes are
required at the seqcount usage sites. The rest of the seqcount API
is unchanged and determines the type at compile time with the help
of _Generic which is possible now that the minimal GCC version has
been moved up.
Adding this lockdep coverage unearthed a handful of seqcount bugs
which have been addressed already independent of this.
While generally useful this comes with a Trojan Horse twist: On RT
kernels the write side critical section can become preemtible if
the writers are serialized by an associated lock, which leads to
the well known reader preempts writer livelock. RT prevents this by
storing the associated lock pointer independent of lockdep in the
seqcount and changing the reader side to block on the lock when a
reader detects that a writer is in the write side critical section.
- Conversion of seqcount usage sites to associated types and
initializers"
* tag 'locking-urgent-2020-08-10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (25 commits)
locking/seqlock, headers: Untangle the spaghetti monster
locking, arch/ia64: Reduce <asm/smp.h> header dependencies by moving XTP bits into the new <asm/xtp.h> header
x86/headers: Remove APIC headers from <asm/smp.h>
seqcount: More consistent seqprop names
seqcount: Compress SEQCNT_LOCKNAME_ZERO()
seqlock: Fold seqcount_LOCKNAME_init() definition
seqlock: Fold seqcount_LOCKNAME_t definition
seqlock: s/__SEQ_LOCKDEP/__SEQ_LOCK/g
hrtimer: Use sequence counter with associated raw spinlock
kvm/eventfd: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
userfaultfd: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
NFSv4: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
iocost: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
raid5: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
vfs: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
timekeeping: Use sequence counter with associated raw spinlock
xfrm: policy: Use sequence counters with associated lock
netfilter: nft_set_rbtree: Use sequence counter with associated rwlock
netfilter: conntrack: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
sched: tasks: Use sequence counter with associated spinlock
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"It's been a busy cycle for documentation - hopefully the busiest for a
while to come. Changes include:
- Some new Chinese translations
- Progress on the battle against double words words and non-HTTPS
URLs
- Some block-mq documentation
- More RST conversions from Mauro. At this point, that task is
essentially complete, so we shouldn't see this kind of churn again
for a while. Unless we decide to switch to asciidoc or
something...:)
- Lots of typo fixes, warning fixes, and more"
* tag 'docs-5.9' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (195 commits)
scripts/kernel-doc: optionally treat warnings as errors
docs: ia64: correct typo
mailmap: add entry for <alobakin@marvell.com>
doc/zh_CN: add cpu-load Chinese version
Documentation/admin-guide: tainted-kernels: fix spelling mistake
MAINTAINERS: adjust kprobes.rst entry to new location
devices.txt: document rfkill allocation
PCI: correct flag name
docs: filesystems: vfs: correct flag name
docs: filesystems: vfs: correct sync_mode flag names
docs: path-lookup: markup fixes for emphasis
docs: path-lookup: more markup fixes
docs: path-lookup: fix HTML entity mojibake
CREDITS: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
docs: process: Add an example for creating a fixes tag
doc/zh_CN: add Chinese translation prefer section
doc/zh_CN: add clearing-warn-once Chinese version
doc/zh_CN: add admin-guide index
doc:it_IT: process: coding-style.rst: Correct __maybe_unused compiler label
futex: MAINTAINERS: Re-add selftests directory
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
- LKMM updates: mostly documentation changes, but also some new litmus
tests for atomic ops.
- KCSAN updates: the most important change is that GCC 11 now has all
fixes in place to support KCSAN, so GCC support can be enabled again.
Also more annotations.
- futex updates: minor cleanups and simplifications
- seqlock updates: merge preparatory changes/cleanups for the
'associated locks' facilities.
- lockdep updates:
- simplify IRQ trace event handling
- add various new debug checks
- simplify header dependencies, split out <linux/lockdep_types.h>,
decouple lockdep from other low level headers some more
- fix NMI handling
- misc cleanups and smaller fixes
* tag 'locking-core-2020-08-03' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (60 commits)
kcsan: Improve IRQ state trace reporting
lockdep: Refactor IRQ trace events fields into struct
seqlock: lockdep assert non-preemptibility on seqcount_t write
lockdep: Add preemption enabled/disabled assertion APIs
seqlock: Implement raw_seqcount_begin() in terms of raw_read_seqcount()
seqlock: Add kernel-doc for seqcount_t and seqlock_t APIs
seqlock: Reorder seqcount_t and seqlock_t API definitions
seqlock: seqcount_t latch: End read sections with read_seqcount_retry()
seqlock: Properly format kernel-doc code samples
Documentation: locking: Describe seqlock design and usage
locking/qspinlock: Do not include atomic.h from qspinlock_types.h
locking/atomic: Move ATOMIC_INIT into linux/types.h
lockdep: Move list.h inclusion into lockdep.h
locking/lockdep: Fix TRACE_IRQFLAGS vs. NMIs
futex: Remove unused or redundant includes
futex: Consistently use fshared as boolean
futex: Remove needless goto's
futex: Remove put_futex_key()
rwsem: fix commas in initialisation
docs: locking: Replace HTTP links with HTTPS ones
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A sequence counter write side critical section must be protected by some
form of locking to serialize writers. If the serialization primitive is
not disabling preemption implicitly, preemption has to be explicitly
disabled before entering the write side critical section.
There is no built-in debugging mechanism to verify that the lock used
for writer serialization is held and preemption is disabled. Some usage
sites like dma-buf have explicit lockdep checks for the writer-side
lock, but this covers only a small portion of the sequence counter usage
in the kernel.
Add new sequence counter types which allows to associate a lock to the
sequence counter at initialization time. The seqcount API functions are
extended to provide appropriate lockdep assertions depending on the
seqcount/lock type.
For sequence counters with associated locks that do not implicitly
disable preemption, preemption protection is enforced in the sequence
counter write side functions. This removes the need to explicitly add
preempt_disable/enable() around the write side critical sections: the
write_begin/end() functions for these new sequence counter types
automatically do this.
Introduce the following seqcount types with associated locks:
seqcount_spinlock_t
seqcount_raw_spinlock_t
seqcount_rwlock_t
seqcount_mutex_t
seqcount_ww_mutex_t
Extend the seqcount read and write functions to branch out to the
specific seqcount_LOCKTYPE_t implementation at compile-time. This avoids
kernel API explosion per each new seqcount_LOCKTYPE_t added. Add such
compile-time type detection logic into a new, internal, seqlock header.
Document the proper seqcount_LOCKTYPE_t usage, and rationale, at
Documentation/locking/seqlock.rst.
If lockdep is disabled, this lock association is compiled out and has
neither storage size nor runtime overhead.
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <a.darwish@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200720155530.1173732-10-a.darwish@linutronix.de
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Proper documentation for the design and usage of sequence counters and
sequential locks does not exist. Complete the seqlock.h documentation as
follows:
- Divide all documentation on a seqcount_t vs. seqlock_t basis. The
description for both mechanisms was intermingled, which is incorrect
since the usage constrains for each type are vastly different.
- Add an introductory paragraph describing the internal design of, and
rationale for, sequence counters.
- Document seqcount_t writer non-preemptibility requirement, which was
not previously documented anywhere, and provide a clear rationale.
- Provide template code for seqcount_t and seqlock_t initialization
and reader/writer critical sections.
- Recommend using seqlock_t by default. It implicitly handles the
serialization and non-preemptibility requirements of writers.
At seqlock.h:
- Remove references to brlocks as they've long been removed from the
kernel.
- Remove references to gcc-3.x since the kernel's minimum supported
gcc version is 4.9.
References: 0f6ed63b1707 ("no need to keep brlock macros anymore...")
References: 6ec4476ac825 ("Raise gcc version requirement to 4.9")
Signed-off-by: Ahmed S. Darwish <a.darwish@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200720155530.1173732-2-a.darwish@linutronix.de
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Rationale:
Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.
Deterministic algorithm:
For each file:
If not .svg:
For each line:
If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
If neither `\bgnu\.org/license`, nor `\bmozilla\.org/MPL\b`:
If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
return 200 OK and serve the same content:
Replace HTTP with HTTPS.
Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200713115728.33905-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de
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Drop the doubled word "up".
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200703213649.30948-3-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Change the phrase "at at least" to "to at least" to be more
readable.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200703213649.30948-2-rdunlap@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Rationale:
Reduces attack surface on kernel devs opening the links for MITM
as HTTPS traffic is much harder to manipulate.
Deterministic algorithm:
For each file:
If not .svg:
For each line:
If doesn't contain `\bxmlns\b`:
For each link, `\bhttp://[^# \t\r\n]*(?:\w|/)`:
If neither `\bgnu\.org/license`, nor `\bmozilla\.org/MPL\b`:
If both the HTTP and HTTPS versions
return 200 OK and serve the same content:
Replace HTTP with HTTPS.
Signed-off-by: Alexander A. Klimov <grandmaster@al2klimov.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200713115728.33905-1-grandmaster@al2klimov.de
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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- Add a SPDX header;
- Adjust document and section titles;
- Some whitespace fixes and new line breaks;
- Mark literal blocks as such;
- Add it to RCU/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"A fair amount of stuff this time around, dominated by yet another
massive set from Mauro toward the completion of the RST conversion. I
*really* hope we are getting close to the end of this. Meanwhile,
those patches reach pretty far afield to update document references
around the tree; there should be no actual code changes there. There
will be, alas, more of the usual trivial merge conflicts.
Beyond that we have more translations, improvements to the sphinx
scripting, a number of additions to the sysctl documentation, and lots
of fixes"
* tag 'docs-5.8' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (130 commits)
Documentation: fixes to the maintainer-entry-profile template
zswap: docs/vm: Fix typo accept_threshold_percent in zswap.rst
tracing: Fix events.rst section numbering
docs: acpi: fix old http link and improve document format
docs: filesystems: add info about efivars content
Documentation: LSM: Correct the basic LSM description
mailmap: change email for Ricardo Ribalda
docs: sysctl/kernel: document unaligned controls
Documentation: admin-guide: update bug-hunting.rst
docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max
nvdimm: fixes to maintainter-entry-profile
Documentation/features: Correct RISC-V kprobes support entry
Documentation/features: Refresh the arch support status files
Revert "docs: sysctl/kernel: document ngroups_max"
docs: move locking-specific documents to locking/
docs: move digsig docs to the security book
docs: move the kref doc into the core-api book
docs: add IRQ documentation at the core-api book
docs: debugging-via-ohci1394.txt: add it to the core-api book
docs: fix references for ipmi.rst file
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preempt_disable() and local_irq_disable/save() are in principle per CPU big
kernel locks. This has several downsides:
- The protection scope is unknown
- Violation of protection rules is hard to detect by instrumentation
- For PREEMPT_RT such sections, unless in low level critical code, can
violate the preemptability constraints.
To address this PREEMPT_RT introduced the concept of local_locks which are
strictly per CPU.
The lock operations map to preempt_disable(), local_irq_disable/save() and
the enabling counterparts on non RT enabled kernels.
If lockdep is enabled local locks gain a lock map which tracks the usage
context. This will catch cases where an area is protected by
preempt_disable() but the access also happens from interrupt context. local
locks have identified quite a few such issues over the years, the most
recent example is:
b7d5dc21072cd ("random: add a spinlock_t to struct batched_entropy")
Aside of the lockdep coverage this also improves code readability as it
precisely annotates the protection scope.
PREEMPT_RT substitutes these local locks with 'sleeping' spinlocks to
protect such sections while maintaining preemtability and CPU locality.
local locks can replace:
- preempt_enable()/disable() pairs
- local_irq_disable/enable() pairs
- local_irq_save/restore() pairs
They are also used to replace code which implicitly disables preemption
like:
- get_cpu()/put_cpu()
- get_cpu_var()/put_cpu_var()
with PREEMPT_RT friendly constructs.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200527201119.1692513-2-bigeasy@linutronix.de
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Several files under Documentation/*.txt describe some type of
locking API. Move them to locking/ subdir and add to the
locking/index.rst index file.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/dd833a10bbd0b2c1461d78913f5ec28a7e27f00b.1588345503.git.mchehab+huawei@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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It is not useful to know what was the default at some point in the
past: remove the information.
Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200426211429.29133-1-federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Minor editorial fixes:
- remove 'enabled' from PREEMPT_RT enabled kernels for consistency
- add some periods for consistency
- add "'" for possessive CPU's
- spell out interrupts
[ tglx: Picked up Paul's suggestions ]
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/ac615f36-0b44-408d-aeab-d76e4241add4@infradead.org
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The documentation of rw_semaphores is wrong as it claims that the non-owner
reader release is not supported by RT. That's just history biased memory
distortion.
Split the 'Owner semantics' section up and add separate sections for
semaphore and rw_semaphore to reflect reality.
Aside of that the following updates are done:
- Add pseudo code to document the spinlock state preserving mechanism on
PREEMPT_RT
- Wordsmith the bitspinlock and lock nesting sections
Co-developed-by: Paul McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/87wo78y5yy.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de
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The kernel provides a variety of locking primitives. The nesting of these
lock types and the implications of them on RT enabled kernels is nowhere
documented.
Add initial documentation.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200321113242.026561244@linutronix.de
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Commit 2e4f5382d12a ("locking/doc: Rename LOCK/UNLOCK to
ACQUIRE/RELEASE") has not appied to 'spinlock.rst'. This commit updates
the doc for the change.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sjpark@amazon.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200131205237.29535-2-sj38.park@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The description was talking about two default values: I removed the
wrong one.
Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191201121941.6971-1-federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Remove the clever example about read-write lock because this type of
lock is not recommended anymore (according to the very same document).
So there is no reason to teach clever things that people should not do.
Signed-off-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Some files got renamed but probably due to some merge conflicts,
a few references still point to the old locations.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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The locking directory is part of the Kernel API bookset. Add
it to the index file.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
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Convert the locking documents to ReST and add them to the
kernel development book where it belongs.
Most of the stuff here is just to make Sphinx to properly
parse the text file, as they're already in good shape,
not requiring massive changes in order to be parsed.
The conversion is actually:
- add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
- fix tables markups;
- add some lists markups;
- mark literal blocks;
- adjust title markups.
At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>
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The irq usage and lock dependency rules that if violated a deacklock may
happen are explained in more detail.
Signed-off-by: Yuyang Du <duyuyang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: bvanassche@acm.org
Cc: frederic@kernel.org
Cc: ming.lei@redhat.com
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190506081939.74287-17-duyuyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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More words are added to lockdep design document regarding key concepts,
which should help people without lockdep experience read and understand
lockdep reports.
Signed-off-by: Yuyang Du <duyuyang@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: bvanassche@acm.org
Cc: frederic@kernel.org
Cc: ming.lei@redhat.com
Cc: will.deacon@arm.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190506081939.74287-3-duyuyang@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Since the removal of FS_RECLAIM annotations, lockdep states contain four
characters, not six.
Fixes: e5684bbfc3f03480 ("Documentation/locking/lockdep: Update info about states")
Fixes: d92a8cfcb37ecd13 ("locking/lockdep: Rework FS_RECLAIM annotation")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Acked-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome
readability improvements for the formatted output, some LICENSES
updates including the addition of the ISC license, the removal of the
unloved and unmaintained 00-INDEX files, the deprecated APIs document
from Kees, more MM docs from Mike Rapoport, and the usual pile of typo
fixes and corrections"
* tag 'docs-4.20' of git://git.lwn.net/linux: (41 commits)
docs: Fix typos in histogram.rst
docs: Introduce deprecated APIs list
kernel-doc: fix declaration type determination
doc: fix a typo in adding-syscalls.rst
docs/admin-guide: memory-hotplug: remove table of contents
doc: printk-formats: Remove bogus kobject references for device nodes
Documentation: preempt-locking: Use better example
dm flakey: Document "error_writes" feature
docs/completion.txt: Fix a couple of punctuation nits
LICENSES: Add ISC license text
LICENSES: Add note to CDDL-1.0 license that it should not be used
docs/core-api: memory-hotplug: add some details about locking internals
docs/core-api: rename memory-hotplug-notifier to memory-hotplug
docs: improve readability for people with poorer eyesight
yama: clarify ptrace_scope=2 in Yama documentation
docs/vm: split memory hotplug notifier description to Documentation/core-api
docs: move memory hotplug description into admin-guide/mm
doc: Fix acronym "FEKEK" in ecryptfs
docs: fix some broken documentation references
iommu: Fix passthrough option documentation
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Fix incorrect line number in example output
Signed-off-by: Andrew Murray <andrew.murray@arm.com>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1538391663-54524-1-git-send-email-andrew.murray@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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This is a respin with a wider audience (all that get_maintainer returned)
and I know this spams a *lot* of people. Not sure what would be the correct
way, so my apologies for ruining your inbox.
The 00-INDEX files are supposed to give a summary of all files present
in a directory, but these files are horribly out of date and their
usefulness is brought into question. Often a simple "ls" would reveal
the same information as the filenames are generally quite descriptive as
a short introduction to what the file covers (it should not surprise
anyone what Documentation/sched/sched-design-CFS.txt covers)
A few years back it was mentioned that these files were no longer really
needed, and they have since then grown further out of date, so perhaps
it is time to just throw them out.
A short status yields the following _outdated_ 00-INDEX files, first
counter is files listed in 00-INDEX but missing in the directory, last
is files present but not listed in 00-INDEX.
List of outdated 00-INDEX:
Documentation: (4/10)
Documentation/sysctl: (0/1)
Documentation/timers: (1/0)
Documentation/blockdev: (3/1)
Documentation/w1/slaves: (0/1)
Documentation/locking: (0/1)
Documentation/devicetree: (0/5)
Documentation/power: (1/1)
Documentation/powerpc: (0/5)
Documentation/arm: (1/0)
Documentation/x86: (0/9)
Documentation/x86/x86_64: (1/1)
Documentation/scsi: (4/4)
Documentation/filesystems: (2/9)
Documentation/filesystems/nfs: (0/2)
Documentation/cgroup-v1: (0/2)
Documentation/kbuild: (0/4)
Documentation/spi: (1/0)
Documentation/virtual/kvm: (1/0)
Documentation/scheduler: (0/2)
Documentation/fb: (0/1)
Documentation/block: (0/1)
Documentation/networking: (6/37)
Documentation/vm: (1/3)
Then there are 364 subdirectories in Documentation/ with several files that
are missing 00-INDEX alltogether (and another 120 with a single file and no
00-INDEX).
I don't really have an opinion to whether or not we /should/ have 00-INDEX,
but the above 00-INDEX should either be removed or be kept up to date. If
we should keep the files, I can try to keep them updated, but I rather not
if we just want to delete them anyway.
As a starting point, remove all index-files and references to 00-INDEX and
see where the discussion is going.
Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Acked-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Just-do-it-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Reviewed-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Acked-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: [Almost everybody else]
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The current Wound-Wait mutex algorithm is actually not Wound-Wait but
Wait-Die. Implement also Wound-Wait as a per-ww-class choice. Wound-Wait
is, contrary to Wait-Die a preemptive algorithm and is known to generate
fewer backoffs. Testing reveals that this is true if the
number of simultaneous contending transactions is small.
As the number of simultaneous contending threads increases, Wait-Wound
becomes inferior to Wait-Die in terms of elapsed time.
Possibly due to the larger number of held locks of sleeping transactions.
Update documentation and callers.
Timings using git://people.freedesktop.org/~thomash/ww_mutex_test
tag patch-18-06-15
Each thread runs 100000 batches of lock / unlock 800 ww mutexes randomly
chosen out of 100000. Four core Intel x86_64:
Algorithm #threads Rollbacks time
Wound-Wait 4 ~100 ~17s.
Wait-Die 4 ~150000 ~19s.
Wound-Wait 16 ~360000 ~109s.
Wait-Die 16 ~450000 ~82s.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@padovan.org>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org
Co-authored-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Make the WW mutex code more readable by adding comments, splitting up
functions and pointing out that we're actually using the Wait-Die
algorithm.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@padovan.org>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org
Co-authored-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Add section about annotations that can be used to perform additional runtime
checking of locking correctness: assert that certain locks are held and
prevent accidental unlocking.
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180213185519.18186-3-juri.lelli@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Commit:
d92a8cfcb37e ("locking/lockdep: Rework FS_RECLAIM annotation")
removed the 'reclaim_fs' lockdep STATE.
Reflect the change in the documentation.
While we are at it, also clarify the formula to calculate the number of state bits.
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180213185519.18186-2-juri.lelli@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Commit 3ca0ff571b09 ("locking/mutex: Rework mutex::owner") reworked the
basic mutex implementation to deal with several problems. Documentation
was however left unchanged and became stale.
Update mutex-design.txt to reflect changes introduced by the above commit.
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180209160114.19980-1-juri.lelli@redhat.com
[ Small readability tweaks to the text. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu into core/rcu
Pull RCU updates from Paul E. McKenney:
- Updates to use cond_resched() instead of cond_resched_rcu_qs()
where feasible (currently everywhere except in kernel/rcu and
in kernel/torture.c). Also a couple of fixes to avoid sending
IPIs to offline CPUs.
- Updates to simplify RCU's dyntick-idle handling.
- Updates to remove almost all uses of smp_read_barrier_depends()
and read_barrier_depends().
- Miscellaneous fixes.
- Torture-test updates.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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This code (CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE=y and CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS=y),
while it found a number of old bugs initially, was also causing too many
false positives that caused people to disable lockdep - which is arguably
a worse overall outcome.
If we disable cross-release by default but keep the code upstream then
in practice the most likely outcome is that we'll allow the situation
to degrade gradually, by allowing entropy to introduce more and more
false positives, until it overwhelms maintenance capacity.
Another bad side effect was that people were trying to work around
the false positives by uglifying/complicating unrelated code. There's
a marked difference between annotating locking operations and
uglifying good code just due to bad lock debugging code ...
This gradual decrease in quality happened to a number of debugging
facilities in the kernel, and lockdep is pretty complex already,
so we cannot risk this outcome.
Either cross-release checking can be done right with no false positives,
or it should not be included in the upstream kernel.
( Note that it might make sense to maintain it out of tree and go through
the false positives every now and then and see whether new bugs were
introduced. )
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The purpose of torture_runnable is to allow rcutorture and locktorture
to be started and stopped via sysfs when they are built into the kernel
(as in not compiled as loadable modules). However, the 0444 permissions
for both instances of torture_runnable prevent this use case from ever
being put into practice. Given that there have been no complaints
about this deficiency, it is reasonable to conclude that no one actually
makes use of this sysfs capability. The perf_runnable module parameter
for rcuperf is in the same situation.
This commit therefore removes both torture_runnable instances as well
as perf_runnable.
Reported-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger <tom.saeger@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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Conflicts:
mm/page_alloc.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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The rtmutex remove a pending owner bit in in rt_mutex::owner, in
commit 8161239a8bcc ("rtmutex: Simplify PI algorithm and make highest prio task get lock")
But the document was changed accordingly. Updating it to a meaningful
state.
BTW, as 'Steven Rostedt' mentioned:
There is still technically a "Pending Owner", it's just not called
that anymore. The pending owner happens to be the top_waiter of a lock
that has no owner and has been woken up to grab the lock.
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The rt-mutex-design documents didn't gotten meaningful update from its
first version. Even after owner's pending bit was removed in commit 8161239a8bcc
("rtmutex: Simplify PI algorithm and make highest prio task get lock")
and priority list 'plist' changed to rbtree. And Peter Zijlstra did some
clean up and fix for deadline task changes on tip tree.
So update it to latest code and make it meaningful.
Steven Rostedt and Sebastian Siewior gave much of comments and input
in this doc. Thanks!
Signed-off-by: Alex Shi <alex.shi@linaro.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@linaro.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@arm.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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This document describes the concept of crossrelease feature.
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: kernel-team@lge.com
Cc: kirill@shutemov.name
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: walken@google.com
Cc: willy@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502089981-21272-15-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Document the invariants we maintain for the wait list of ww_mutexes.
Signed-off-by: Nicolai Hähnle <Nicolai.Haehnle@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <dev@mblankhorst.nl>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1482346000-9927-13-git-send-email-nhaehnle@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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It is now unused, remove it before someone else thinks its a good idea
to use this.
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1461566229-4717-2-git-send-email-eric@engestrom.ch
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking changes from Ingo Molnar:
"The main changes in this cycle were:
- More gradual enhancements to atomic ops: new atomic*_read_ctrl()
ops, synchronize atomic_{read,set}() ordering requirements between
architectures, add atomic_long_t bitops. (Peter Zijlstra)
- Add _{relaxed|acquire|release}() variants for inc/dec atomics and
use them in various locking primitives: mutex, rtmutex, mcs, rwsem.
This enables weakly ordered architectures (such as arm64) to make
use of more locking related optimizations. (Davidlohr Bueso)
- Implement atomic[64]_{inc,dec}_relaxed() on ARM. (Will Deacon)
- Futex kernel data cache footprint micro-optimization. (Rasmus
Villemoes)
- pvqspinlock runtime overhead micro-optimization. (Waiman Long)
- misc smaller fixlets"
* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
ARM, locking/atomics: Implement _relaxed variants of atomic[64]_{inc,dec}
locking/rwsem: Use acquire/release semantics
locking/mcs: Use acquire/release semantics
locking/rtmutex: Use acquire/release semantics
locking/mutex: Use acquire/release semantics
locking/asm-generic: Add _{relaxed|acquire|release}() variants for inc/dec atomics
atomic: Implement atomic_read_ctrl()
atomic, arch: Audit atomic_{read,set}()
atomic: Add atomic_long_t bitops
futex: Force hot variables into a single cache line
locking/pvqspinlock: Kick the PV CPU unconditionally when _Q_SLOW_VAL
locking/osq: Relax atomic semantics
locking/qrwlock: Rename ->lock to ->wait_lock
locking/Documentation/lockstat: Fix typo - lokcing -> locking
locking/atomics, cmpxchg: Privatize the inclusion of asm/cmpxchg.h
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Real time mutexes is one of the few general primitives
that we do not have in locktorture. Address this -- a few
considerations:
o To spice things up, enable competing thread(s) to become
rt, such that we can stress different prio boosting paths
in the rtmutex code. Introduce a ->task_boost callback,
only used by rtmutex-torturer. Tasks will boost/deboost
around every 50k (arbitrarily) lock/unlock operations.
o Hold times are similar to what we have for other locks:
only occasionally having longer hold times (per ~200k ops).
So we roughly do two full rt boost+deboosting ops with
short hold times.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1441842398-25063-1-git-send-email-sboyd@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Pull documentation updates from Jonathan Corbet:
"Highlights this time around include:
- A thrashing of SubmittingPatches to bring it out of the "send
everything to Linus" era of kernel development.
- A new document on completions from Nicholas McGuire
- Lots of typo fixes, formatting improvements, corrections, build
fixes, and more"
* tag 'docs-for-linus' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: (35 commits)
Documentation: Fix the wrong command `echo -1 > set_ftrace_pid` for cleaning the filter.
can-doc: Fixed a wrong filepath in can.txt
Documentation: Fix trivial typo in comment.
kgdb,docs: Fix typo and minor style issues
Documentation: add description for FTRACE probe status
doc: brief user documentation for completion
Documentation/misc-devices/mei: Fix indentation of embedded code.
Documentation/misc-devices/mei: Fix indentation of enumeration.
Documentation/misc-devices/mei: Fix spacing around parentheses.
Documentation/misc-devices/mei: Fix formatting of headings.
Documentation: devicetree: Fix double words in Doumentation/devicetree
Documentation: mm: Fix typo in vm.txt
lockstat: Add documentation on contention and contenting points
Documentation: fix blackfin gptimers-example build errors
Fixes column alignment in table of contents entry 1.9 in Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
CodingStyle: enable emacs display of trailing whitespace
DocBook: Do not exceed argument list limit
gpio: board.txt: Fix the gpio name example
Documentation/SubmittingPatches: unify whitespace/tabs for the DCO
MAINTAINERS: Add the docs-next git tree to the maintainer entry
...
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Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@bmw-carit.de>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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lockdep code has been moved from kernel/ to kernel/locking/ by commit
8eddac3f103736163f49255bcb109edadea167f6 ("locking: Move the lockdep
code to kernel/locking/"). But, path to lockdep code in document was not
updated.
This commit updates the path.
Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1421176921-27688-1-git-send-email-sj38.park@gmail.com
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Added files
- hsi.txt was added by 3a8ab8af (HSI: Add some general description for
the HSI subsystem)
- lzo.txt was added by d98a0526 (lzo: document part of the encoding)
- xillybus.txt was added by 7051924f (xillybus: Move out of staging)
- mailbox.txt was added by 15320fbc (add documentation for mailbox
framework)
Moved files
- xommit 214e0aed (Move locking related docs into Documentation/locking/):
* lockdep-design.txt
* lockstat.txt
* mutex-design.txt
* rt-mutex-design.txt
* rt-mutex.txt
* spinlocks.txt
* ww-mutex-design.txt
- kselftest.txt was moved by 3c415707 (kselftest: Move the docs to the
Documentation dir)
CC: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
CC: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
CC: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
CC: Sebastian Reichel <sre@kernel.org>
CC: Eli Billauer <eli.billauer@gmail.com>
CC: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
CC: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>
CC: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Tim Bird <tim.bird@sonymobile.com>
Cc: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Henrik Austad <henrik@austad.us>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull locking tree changes from Ingo Molnar:
"Two changes: a documentation update and a ticket locks live lock fix"
* 'core-locking-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
x86/ticketlock: Fix spin_unlock_wait() livelock
locking/lglocks: Add documentation of current lglocks implementation
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Local/global locks are currently not documented anywhere other
than in an somewhat out-of-date LWN article - this is an attempt
to document the current state of lglocks.
This patch is against linux-next 3.18.0-rc6
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Carsten Emde <c.emde@osadl.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20141208083326.GA29895@opentech.at
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
Pull core locking updates from Ingo Molnar:
"The main updates in this cycle were:
- mutex MCS refactoring finishing touches: improve comments, refactor
and clean up code, reduce debug data structure footprint, etc.
- qrwlock finishing touches: remove old code, self-test updates.
- small rwsem optimization
- various smaller fixes/cleanups"
* 'locking-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip:
locking/lockdep: Revert qrwlock recusive stuff
locking/rwsem: Avoid double checking before try acquiring write lock
locking/rwsem: Move EXPORT_SYMBOL() lines to follow function definition
locking/rwlock, x86: Delete unused asm/rwlock.h and rwlock.S
locking/rwlock, x86: Clean up asm/spinlock*.h to remove old rwlock code
locking/semaphore: Resolve some shadow warnings
locking/selftest: Support queued rwlock
locking/lockdep: Restrict the use of recursive read_lock() with qrwlock
locking/spinlocks: Always evaluate the second argument of spin_lock_nested()
locking/Documentation: Update locking/mutex-design.txt disadvantages
locking/Documentation: Move locking related docs into Documentation/locking/
locking/mutexes: Use MUTEX_SPIN_ON_OWNER when appropriate
locking/mutexes: Refactor optimistic spinning code
locking/mcs: Remove obsolete comment
locking/mutexes: Document quick lock release when unlocking
locking/mutexes: Standardize arguments in lock/unlock slowpaths
locking: Remove deprecated smp_mb__() barriers
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Add a "rw_lock" torture test to stress kernel rwlocks and their irq
variant. Reader critical regions are 5x longer than writers. As such
a similar ratio of lock acquisitions is seen in the statistics. In the
case of massive contention, both hold the lock for 1/10 of a second.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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We can easily do so with our new reader lock support. Just an arbitrary
design default: readers have higher (5x) critical region latencies than
writers: 50 ms and 10 ms, respectively.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Most of it is based on what we already have for writers. This allows
readers to be very independent (and thus configurable), enabling
future module parameters to control things such as rw distribution.
Furthermore, readers have their own delaying function, allowing us
to test different rw critical region latencies, and stress locking
internals. Similarly, statistics, for now will only serve for the
number of lock acquisitions -- as opposed to writers, readers have
no failure detection.
In addition, introduce a new nreaders_stress module parameter. The
default number of readers will be the same number of writers threads.
Writer threads are interleaved with readers. Documentation is updated,
respectively.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Add a "mutex_lock" torture test. The main difference with the already
existing spinlock tests is that the latency of the critical region
is much larger. We randomly delay for (arbitrarily) either 500 ms or,
otherwise, 25 ms. While this can considerably reduce the amount of
writes compared to non blocking locks, if run long enough it can have
the same torturous effect. Furthermore it is more representative of
mutex hold times and can stress better things like thrashing.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Just like Documentation/RCU/torture.txt, begin a document for the
locktorture module. This module is still pretty green, so I have
just added some specific sections to the doc (general desc, params,
usage, etc.). Further development should update the file.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
[ paulmck: Apply Randy Dunlap review comments. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Fortunately Jason was able to reduce some of the overhead we
had introduced in the original rwsem optimistic spinning -
an it is now the same size as mutexes. Update the documentation
accordingly.
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: aswin@hp.com
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406752916-3341-7-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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Specifically:
Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt
Documentation/locking/lockstat.txt
Documentation/locking/mutex-design.txt
Documentation/locking/rt-mutex-design.txt
Documentation/locking/rt-mutex.txt
Documentation/locking/spinlocks.txt
Documentation/locking/ww-mutex-design.txt
Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: jason.low2@hp.com
Cc: aswin@hp.com
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Chris Mason <clm@fb.com>
Cc: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jason Low <jason.low2@hp.com>
Cc: Josef Bacik <jbacik@fusionio.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
Cc: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: fengguang.wu@intel.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1406752916-3341-6-git-send-email-davidlohr@hp.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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