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The bypass lock contention mitigation assumes there can be at most 2 contenders on the bypass lock, following this scheme: 1) One kthread takes the bypass lock 2) Another one spins on it and increment the contended counter 3) A third one (a bypass enqueuer) sees the contended counter on and busy loops waiting on it to decrement. However this assumption is wrong. There can be only one CPU to find the lock contended because call_rcu() (the bypass enqueuer) is the only bypass lock acquire site that may not already hold the NOCB lock beforehand, all the other sites must first contend on the NOCB lock. Therefore step 2) is impossible. The other problem is that the mitigation assumes that contenders all belong to the same rdp CPU, which is also impossible for a raw spinlock. In theory the warning could trigger if the enqueuer holds the bypass lock and another CPU flushes the bypass queue concurrently but this is prevented from all flush users: 1) NOCB kthreads only flush if they successfully _tried_ to lock the bypass lock. So no contention management here. 2) Flush on callbacks migration happen remotely when the CPU is offline. No concurrency against bypass enqueue. 3) Flush on deoffloading happen either locally with IRQs disabled or remotely when the CPU is not yet online. No concurrency against bypass enqueue. 4) Flush on barrier entrain happen either locally with IRQs disabled or remotely when the CPU is offline. No concurrency against bypass enqueue. For those reasons, the bypass lock contention mitigation isn't needed and is even wrong. Remove it but keep the warning reporting a contended bypass lock on a remote CPU, to keep unexpected contention awareness. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> |
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Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.