sched/wait, RCU: Introduce rcuwait machinery
authorDavidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:22:25 +0000 (07:22 -0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sat, 14 Jan 2017 10:14:33 +0000 (11:14 +0100)
commit8f95c90ceb541a38ac16fec48c05142ef1450c25
tree53675e769e1b84b81d25e22a68983b978eff72bd
parent642fa448ae6b3a4e5e8737054a094173405b7643
sched/wait, RCU: Introduce rcuwait machinery

rcuwait provides support for (single) RCU-safe task wait/wake functionality,
with the caveat that it must not be called after exit_notify(), such that
we avoid racing with rcu delayed_put_task_struct callbacks, task_struct
being rcu unaware in this context -- for which we similarly have
task_rcu_dereference() magic, but with different return semantics, which
can conflict with the wakeup side.

The interfaces are quite straightforward:

  rcuwait_wait_event()
  rcuwait_wake_up()

More details are in the comments, but it's perhaps worth mentioning at least,
that users must provide proper serialization when waiting on a condition, and
avoid corrupting a concurrent waiter. Also care must be taken between the task
and the condition for when calling the wakeup -- we cannot miss wakeups. When
porting users, this is for example, a given when using waitqueues in that
everything is done under the q->lock. As such, it can remove sources of non
preemptable unbounded work for realtime.

Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dbueso@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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: dave@stgolabs.net
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1484148146-14210-2-git-send-email-dave@stgolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
include/linux/rcuwait.h [new file with mode: 0644]
kernel/exit.c