This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled tick/nohz: Only check for RCU deferred wakeup on user/guest entry when needed to the 5.12-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: tick-nohz-only-check-for-rcu-deferred-wakeup-on-user-guest-entry-when-needed.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.12 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From f268c3737ecaefcfeecfb4cb5e44958a8976f067 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 27 May 2021 13:34:41 +0200 Subject: tick/nohz: Only check for RCU deferred wakeup on user/guest entry when needed From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> commit f268c3737ecaefcfeecfb4cb5e44958a8976f067 upstream. Checking for and processing RCU-nocb deferred wakeup upon user/guest entry is only relevant when nohz_full runs on the local CPU, otherwise the periodic tick should take care of it. Make sure we don't needlessly pollute these fast-paths as a -3% performance regression on a will-it-scale.per_process_ops has been reported so far. Fixes: 47b8ff194c1f (entry: Explicitly flush pending rcuog wakeup before last rescheduling point) Fixes: 4ae7dc97f726 (entry/kvm: Explicitly flush pending rcuog wakeup before last rescheduling point) Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210527113441.465489-1-frederic@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/entry-kvm.h | 3 ++- include/linux/tick.h | 7 +++++++ kernel/entry/common.c | 5 +++-- kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 1 + 4 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/entry-kvm.h b/include/linux/entry-kvm.h index 8b2b1d68b954..136b8d97d8c0 100644 --- a/include/linux/entry-kvm.h +++ b/include/linux/entry-kvm.h @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ #define __LINUX_ENTRYKVM_H #include <linux/entry-common.h> +#include <linux/tick.h> /* Transfer to guest mode work */ #ifdef CONFIG_KVM_XFER_TO_GUEST_WORK @@ -57,7 +58,7 @@ int xfer_to_guest_mode_handle_work(struct kvm_vcpu *vcpu); static inline void xfer_to_guest_mode_prepare(void) { lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled(); - rcu_nocb_flush_deferred_wakeup(); + tick_nohz_user_enter_prepare(); } /** diff --git a/include/linux/tick.h b/include/linux/tick.h index 7340613c7eff..1a0ff88fa107 100644 --- a/include/linux/tick.h +++ b/include/linux/tick.h @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ #include <linux/context_tracking_state.h> #include <linux/cpumask.h> #include <linux/sched.h> +#include <linux/rcupdate.h> #ifdef CONFIG_GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS extern void __init tick_init(void); @@ -300,4 +301,10 @@ static inline void tick_nohz_task_switch(void) __tick_nohz_task_switch(); } +static inline void tick_nohz_user_enter_prepare(void) +{ + if (tick_nohz_full_cpu(smp_processor_id())) + rcu_nocb_flush_deferred_wakeup(); +} + #endif diff --git a/kernel/entry/common.c b/kernel/entry/common.c index a0b3b04fb596..bf16395b9e13 100644 --- a/kernel/entry/common.c +++ b/kernel/entry/common.c @@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ #include <linux/highmem.h> #include <linux/livepatch.h> #include <linux/audit.h> +#include <linux/tick.h> #include "common.h" @@ -186,7 +187,7 @@ static unsigned long exit_to_user_mode_loop(struct pt_regs *regs, local_irq_disable_exit_to_user(); /* Check if any of the above work has queued a deferred wakeup */ - rcu_nocb_flush_deferred_wakeup(); + tick_nohz_user_enter_prepare(); ti_work = READ_ONCE(current_thread_info()->flags); } @@ -202,7 +203,7 @@ static void exit_to_user_mode_prepare(struct pt_regs *regs) lockdep_assert_irqs_disabled(); /* Flush pending rcuog wakeup before the last need_resched() check */ - rcu_nocb_flush_deferred_wakeup(); + tick_nohz_user_enter_prepare(); if (unlikely(ti_work & EXIT_TO_USER_MODE_WORK)) ti_work = exit_to_user_mode_loop(regs, ti_work); diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c index 828b091501ca..6784f27a3099 100644 --- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c +++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c @@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ static void tick_sched_handle(struct tick_sched *ts, struct pt_regs *regs) #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL cpumask_var_t tick_nohz_full_mask; +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tick_nohz_full_mask); bool tick_nohz_full_running; EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tick_nohz_full_running); static atomic_t tick_dep_mask; -- 2.32.0 Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from frederic@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.12/tick-nohz-only-check-for-rcu-deferred-wakeup-on-user-guest-entry-when-needed.patch