From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>, rcu@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@fb.com,
mingo@kernel.org, jiangshanlai@gmail.com,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com,
josh@joshtriplett.org, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org,
rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com,
fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com, joel@joelfernandes.org,
Liu Song <liu.song11@zte.com.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rcu 15/18] rcu: Remove useless "ret" update in rcu_gp_fqs_loop()
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2021 09:48:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5a494dd8d0e04030204f61067cb1010ef0c78f27.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210721202127.2129660-15-paulmck@kernel.org>
On Wed, 2021-07-21 at 13:21 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> From: Liu Song <liu.song11@zte.com.cn>
>
> Within rcu_gp_fqs_loop(), the "ret" local variable is set to the
> return value from swait_event_idle_timeout_exclusive(), but "ret" is
> unconditionally overwritten later in the code. This commit therefore
> removes this useless assignment.
[]
> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
[]
> @@ -1960,8 +1960,8 @@ static noinline_for_stack void rcu_gp_fqs_loop(void)
> trace_rcu_grace_period(rcu_state.name, rcu_state.gp_seq,
> TPS("fqswait"));
> WRITE_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_state, RCU_GP_WAIT_FQS);
> - ret = swait_event_idle_timeout_exclusive(
> - rcu_state.gp_wq, rcu_gp_fqs_check_wake(&gf), j);
> + (void)swait_event_idle_timeout_exclusive(rcu_state.gp_wq,
> + rcu_gp_fqs_check_wake(&gf), j);
It doesn't seem this is a __must_check routine so why
bother to cast to void ?
> rcu_gp_torture_wait();
> WRITE_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_state, RCU_GP_DOING_FQS);
> /* Locking provides needed memory barriers. */
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-03 16:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-21 20:20 [PATCH rcu 0/18] Miscellaneous fixes for v5.15 Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 01/18] rcu: Fix to include first blocked task in stall warning Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 02/18] rcu: Fix stall-warning deadlock due to non-release of rcu_node ->lock Paul E. McKenney
2021-08-03 14:24 ` Qais Yousef
2021-08-03 15:52 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-08-03 16:12 ` Qais Yousef
2021-08-03 16:28 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-08-03 16:33 ` Qais Yousef
2021-08-04 13:50 ` Qais Yousef
2021-08-04 22:33 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-08-06 9:56 ` Qais Yousef
2021-08-06 9:57 ` Qais Yousef
2021-08-06 11:43 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-08-06 12:33 ` Qais Yousef
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 03/18] rcu: Remove special bit at the bottom of the ->dynticks counter Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 04/18] rcu: Weaken ->dynticks accesses and updates Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-21 21:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-28 17:37 ` [PATCH v2 " Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-28 17:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-28 18:12 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-07-28 18:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-28 18:39 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-07-28 18:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-28 18:46 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-28 18:57 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-07-28 18:23 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-07-28 18:58 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-28 19:45 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-28 20:03 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-07-28 20:28 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-29 14:41 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-07-29 15:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-29 17:41 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-07-29 18:05 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-29 18:42 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2021-07-28 20:37 ` Josh Triplett
2021-07-28 20:47 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-28 22:23 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2021-07-29 1:07 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-29 7:58 ` [PATCH " Boqun Feng
2021-07-29 10:53 ` Frederic Weisbecker
2021-07-30 5:56 ` Boqun Feng
2021-07-30 17:18 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 05/18] rcu: Mark accesses to ->rcu_read_lock_nesting Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 06/18] rculist: Unify documentation about missing list_empty_rcu() Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 07/18] rcu/tree: Handle VM stoppage in stall detection Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 08/18] rcu: Do not disable GP stall detection in rcu_cpu_stall_reset() Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 09/18] rcu: Start timing stall repetitions after warning complete Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 10/18] srcutiny: Mark read-side data races Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-29 8:23 ` Boqun Feng
2021-07-29 13:36 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 11/18] rcu: Mark lockless ->qsmask read in rcu_check_boost_fail() Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-29 8:54 ` Boqun Feng
2021-07-29 14:03 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-30 2:28 ` Boqun Feng
2021-07-30 3:26 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 12/18] rcu: Make rcu_gp_init() and rcu_gp_fqs_loop noinline to conserve stack Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 13/18] rcu: Remove trailing spaces and tabs Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 14/18] rcu: Mark accesses in tree_stall.h Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 15/18] rcu: Remove useless "ret" update in rcu_gp_fqs_loop() Paul E. McKenney
2021-08-03 16:48 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2021-08-03 17:10 ` Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 16/18] rcu: Use per_cpu_ptr to get the pointer of per_cpu variable Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 17/18] rcu: Explain why rcu_all_qs() is a stub in preemptible TREE RCU Paul E. McKenney
2021-07-21 20:21 ` [PATCH rcu 18/18] rcu: Print human-readable message for schedule() in RCU reader Paul E. McKenney
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