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From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
To: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
	"Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
	Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org>,
	Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/16] rcu: De-offloading CB kthread
Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2020 15:45:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201104144521.GD467220@lothringen> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201104144209.GA2748545@boqun-archlinux>

On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 10:42:09PM +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 03:31:35PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> [...]
> > > 
> > > > +	rcu_segcblist_offload(cblist, false);
> > > > +	raw_spin_unlock_rcu_node(rnp);
> > > > +
> > > > +	if (rdp->nocb_cb_sleep) {
> > > > +		rdp->nocb_cb_sleep = false;
> > > > +		wake_cb = true;
> > > > +	}
> > > > +	rcu_nocb_unlock_irqrestore(rdp, flags);
> > > > +
> > > > +	if (wake_cb)
> > > > +		swake_up_one(&rdp->nocb_cb_wq);
> > > > +
> > > > +	swait_event_exclusive(rdp->nocb_state_wq,
> > > > +			      !rcu_segcblist_test_flags(cblist, SEGCBLIST_KTHREAD_CB));
> > > > +
> > > > +	return 0;
> > > > +}
> > > > +
> > > > +static long rcu_nocb_rdp_deoffload(void *arg)
> > > > +{
> > > > +	struct rcu_data *rdp = arg;
> > > > +
> > > > +	WARN_ON_ONCE(rdp->cpu != raw_smp_processor_id());
> > > 
> > > I think this warning can actually happen, if I understand how workqueue
> > > works correctly. Consider that the corresponding cpu gets offlined right
> > > after the rcu_nocb_cpu_deoffloaed(), and the workqueue of that cpu
> > > becomes unbound, and IIUC, workqueues don't do migration during
> > > cpu-offlining, which means the worker can be scheduled to other CPUs,
> > > and the work gets executed on another cpu. Am I missing something here?.
> > 
> > We are holding cpus_read_lock() in rcu_nocb_cpu_offload(), this should
> > prevent from that.
> > 
> 
> But what if the work doesn't get executed until we cpus_read_unlock()
> and someone offlines that CPU?

work_on_cpu() waits for completion before returning.

> Regards,
> Boqun
> 
> > Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-04 14:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-23 14:46 [PATCH 00/16] rcu/nocb: De-offload and re-offload support v3 Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-23 14:46 ` [PATCH 01/16] rcu: Implement rcu_segcblist_is_offloaded() config dependent Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-23 14:46 ` [PATCH 02/16] rcu: Turn enabled/offload states into a common flag Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-23 14:46 ` [PATCH 03/16] rcu: Provide basic callback offloading state machine bits Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-23 14:46 ` [PATCH 04/16] rcu/nocb: Always init segcblist on CPU up Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-23 14:46 ` [PATCH 05/16] rcu: De-offloading CB kthread Frederic Weisbecker
2020-11-02 13:38   ` Boqun Feng
2020-11-04 14:31     ` Frederic Weisbecker
2020-11-04 14:42       ` Boqun Feng
2020-11-04 14:45         ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2020-10-23 14:46 ` [PATCH 06/16] rcu/nocb: Don't deoffload an offline CPU with pending work Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-23 14:46 ` [PATCH 07/16] rcu: De-offloading GP kthread Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-23 14:46 ` [PATCH 08/16] rcu: Re-offload support Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-23 14:46 ` [PATCH 09/16] rcu: Shutdown nocb timer on de-offloading Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-23 14:46 ` [PATCH 10/16] rcu: Flush bypass before setting SEGCBLIST_SOFTIRQ_ONLY Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-23 14:46 ` [PATCH 11/16] rcu: Set SEGCBLIST_SOFTIRQ_ONLY at the very last stage of de-offloading Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-23 14:46 ` [PATCH 12/16] rcu/nocb: Only cond_resched() from actual offloaded batch processing Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-23 14:46 ` [PATCH 13/16] rcu: Process batch locally as long as offloading isn't complete Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-23 14:46 ` [PATCH 14/16] rcu: Locally accelerate callbacks " Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-23 14:46 ` [PATCH 15/16] rcutorture: Test runtime toggling of CPUs' callback offloading Frederic Weisbecker
2020-10-23 14:46 ` [PATCH 16/16] tools/rcutorture: Support nocb toggle in TREE01 Frederic Weisbecker

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