rcu: Kick adaptive-ticks CPUs that are holding up RCU grace periods

Adaptive-ticks CPUs inform RCU when they enter kernel mode, but they do
not necessarily turn the scheduler-clock tick back on.  This state of
affairs could result in RCU waiting on an adaptive-ticks CPU running
for an extended period in kernel mode.  Such a CPU will never run the
RCU state machine, and could therefore indefinitely extend the RCU state
machine, sooner or later resulting in an OOM condition.

This patch, inspired by an earlier patch by Frederic Weisbecker, therefore
causes RCU's force-quiescent-state processing to check for this condition
and to send an IPI to CPUs that remain in that state for too long.
"Too long" currently means about three jiffies by default, which is
quite some time for a CPU to remain in the kernel without blocking.
The rcu_tree.jiffies_till_first_fqs and rcutree.jiffies_till_next_fqs
sysfs variables may be used to tune "too long" if needed.

Reported-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@linaro.org>
Cc: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
index c1cc7e17ff9..a5745e9b5d5 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #include <linux/gfp.h>
 #include <linux/oom.h>
 #include <linux/smpboot.h>
+#include <linux/tick.h>
 
 #define RCU_KTHREAD_PRIO 1
 
@@ -2502,3 +2503,20 @@ static void __init rcu_init_nocb(void)
 }
 
 #endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU */
+
+/*
+ * An adaptive-ticks CPU can potentially execute in kernel mode for an
+ * arbitrarily long period of time with the scheduling-clock tick turned
+ * off.  RCU will be paying attention to this CPU because it is in the
+ * kernel, but the CPU cannot be guaranteed to be executing the RCU state
+ * machine because the scheduling-clock tick has been disabled.  Therefore,
+ * if an adaptive-ticks CPU is failing to respond to the current grace
+ * period and has not be idle from an RCU perspective, kick it.
+ */
+static void rcu_kick_nohz_cpu(int cpu)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
+	if (tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu))
+		smp_send_reschedule(cpu);
+#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL */
+}