rcu-tasks: Avoid IPIing userspace/idle tasks if kernel is so built

Systems running CPU-bound real-time task do not want IPIs sent to CPUs
executing nohz_full userspace tasks.  Battery-powered systems don't
want IPIs sent to idle CPUs in low-power mode.  Unfortunately, RCU tasks
trace can and will send such IPIs in some cases.

Both of these situations occur only when the target CPU is in RCU
dyntick-idle mode, in other words, when RCU is not watching the
target CPU.  This suggests that CPUs in dyntick-idle mode should use
memory barriers in outermost invocations of rcu_read_lock_trace()
and rcu_read_unlock_trace(), which would allow the RCU tasks trace
grace period to directly read out the target CPU's read-side state.
One challenge is that RCU tasks trace is not targeting a specific
CPU, but rather a task.  And that task could switch from one CPU to
another at any time.

This commit therefore uses try_invoke_on_locked_down_task()
and checks for task_curr() in trc_inspect_reader_notrunning().
When this condition holds, the target task is running and cannot move.
If CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB=y, the new rcu_dynticks_zero_in_eqs()
function can be used to check if the specified integer (in this case,
t->trc_reader_nesting) is zero while the target CPU remains in that same
dyntick-idle sojourn.  If so, the target task is in a quiescent state.
If not, trc_read_check_handler() must indicate failure so that the
grace-period kthread can take appropriate action or retry after an
appropriate delay, as the case may be.

With this change, given CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB=y, if a given
CPU remains idle or a given task continues executing in nohz_full mode,
the RCU tasks trace grace-period kthread will detect this without the
need to send an IPI.

Suggested-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcu.h b/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
index e1089fdf8626..296f9262d119 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
@@ -501,6 +501,7 @@ void srcutorture_get_gp_data(enum rcutorture_type test_type,
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_TINY_RCU
+static inline bool rcu_dynticks_zero_in_eqs(int cpu, int *vp) { return false; }
 static inline unsigned long rcu_get_gp_seq(void) { return 0; }
 static inline unsigned long rcu_exp_batches_completed(void) { return 0; }
 static inline unsigned long
@@ -510,6 +511,7 @@ static inline void show_rcu_gp_kthreads(void) { }
 static inline int rcu_get_gp_kthreads_prio(void) { return 0; }
 static inline void rcu_fwd_progress_check(unsigned long j) { }
 #else /* #ifdef CONFIG_TINY_RCU */
+bool rcu_dynticks_zero_in_eqs(int cpu, int *vp);
 unsigned long rcu_get_gp_seq(void);
 unsigned long rcu_exp_batches_completed(void);
 unsigned long srcu_batches_completed(struct srcu_struct *sp);