From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754808Ab2H3SWQ (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:22:16 -0400 Received: from e7.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.137]:59261 "EHLO e7.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754461Ab2H3STg (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:19:36 -0400 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, darren@dvhart.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, sbw@mit.edu, patches@linaro.org, "Paul E. McKenney" , "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 05/23] rcu: Prevent offline CPUs from executing RCU core code Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 11:18:20 -0700 Message-Id: <1346350718-30937-5-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.8 In-Reply-To: <1346350718-30937-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20120830181811.GA29154@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1346350718-30937-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 12083018-5806-0000-0000-000018FC3D89 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Paul E. McKenney" Earlier versions of RCU invoked the RCU core from the CPU_DYING notifier in order to note a quiescent state for the outgoing CPU. Because the CPU is marked "offline" during the execution of the CPU_DYING notifiers, the RCU core had to tolerate being invoked from an offline CPU. However, commit b1420f1c (Make rcu_barrier() less disruptive) left only tracing code in the CPU_DYING notifier, so the RCU core need no longer execute on offline CPUs. This commit therefore enforces this restriction. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- kernel/rcutree.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c index 300aba6..84a6f55 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c @@ -1892,6 +1892,8 @@ static void rcu_process_callbacks(struct softirq_action *unused) { struct rcu_state *rsp; + if (cpu_is_offline(smp_processor_id())) + return; trace_rcu_utilization("Start RCU core"); for_each_rcu_flavor(rsp) __rcu_process_callbacks(rsp); -- 1.7.8