Hi Paul, I think this is the only contentious patch preventing my resend of the series, let me know what you think, I replied below: On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 02:56:36PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 03:01:59PM -0400, Joel Fernandes (Google) wrote: [snip] > > diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c > > index 12c17e10f2b4..c767973d62ac 100644 > > --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c > > +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c > > @@ -2777,8 +2777,10 @@ static void kfree_rcu_work(struct work_struct *work) > > rcu_lock_acquire(&rcu_callback_map); > > trace_rcu_invoke_kfree_callback(rcu_state.name, head, offset); > > > > - /* Could be possible to optimize with kfree_bulk in future */ > > - kfree((void *)head - offset); > > + if (!WARN_ON_ONCE(!__is_kfree_rcu_offset(offset))) { > > + /* Could be optimized with kfree_bulk() in future. */ > > + kfree((void *)head - offset); > > + } > > This really needs to be in the previous patch until such time as Tiny RCU > no longer needs the restriction. I was only going by whatever is already committed to the -rcu dev branch. The series is based on the -dev branch. The original patch adding the kfree_rcu() batching is already merged into the -rcu dev branch (that version just had 1 list, this series adds multiple lists). In the above diff, I just added the WARN_ON_ONCE() as extra checking for tree RCU kfree batching. It has nothing to do with tiny RCU per-se. Should I submit the WARN_ON_ONCE() as a separate patch then? To prevent confusion, could you let me know if I am supposed to submitting patches against a branch other than the dev branch? > > rcu_lock_release(&rcu_callback_map); > > cond_resched_tasks_rcu_qs(); > > @@ -2856,16 +2858,6 @@ static void kfree_rcu_monitor(struct work_struct *work) > > spin_unlock_irqrestore(&krcp->lock, flags); > > } > > > > -/* > > - * This version of kfree_call_rcu does not do batching of kfree_rcu() requests. > > - * Used only by rcuperf torture test for comparison with kfree_rcu_batch(). > > - */ > > -void kfree_call_rcu_nobatch(struct rcu_head *head, rcu_callback_t func) > > -{ > > - __call_rcu(head, func); > > -} > > -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kfree_call_rcu_nobatch); > > - > > /* > > * Queue a request for lazy invocation of kfree() after a grace period. > > * > > @@ -2885,12 +2877,6 @@ void kfree_call_rcu(struct rcu_head *head, rcu_callback_t func) > > unsigned long flags; > > struct kfree_rcu_cpu *krcp; > > > > - /* kfree_call_rcu() batching requires timers to be up. If the scheduler > > - * is not yet up, just skip batching and do the non-batched version. > > - */ > > - if (rcu_scheduler_active != RCU_SCHEDULER_RUNNING) > > - return kfree_call_rcu_nobatch(head, func); > > - > > if (debug_rcu_head_queue(head)) { > > /* Probable double kfree_rcu() */ > > WARN_ONCE(1, "kfree_call_rcu(): Double-freed call. rcu_head %p\n", > > @@ -2909,8 +2895,15 @@ void kfree_call_rcu(struct rcu_head *head, rcu_callback_t func) > > krcp->head = head; > > > > /* Schedule monitor for timely drain after KFREE_DRAIN_JIFFIES. */ > > - if (!xchg(&krcp->monitor_todo, true)) > > - schedule_delayed_work(&krcp->monitor_work, KFREE_DRAIN_JIFFIES); > > + if (!xchg(&krcp->monitor_todo, true)) { > > + /* Scheduling the monitor requires scheduler/timers to be up, > > + * if it is not, just skip it. An eventual kfree_rcu() will > > + * kick it again. > > + */ > > + if ((rcu_scheduler_active == RCU_SCHEDULER_RUNNING)) { > > + schedule_delayed_work(&krcp->monitor_work, KFREE_DRAIN_JIFFIES); > > + } > > + } > > And this also needs to be in an earlier patch. Bisectability and all that! > > Are we really guaranteed that there will be an eventual kfree_rcu()? > More of a worry for Tiny RCU than for Tree RCU, but still could be > annoying for someone trying to debug a memory leak. Same comment as above, the original patch adding the schedule_delayed_work() is already merged into the -dev branch. This series is based on top of that. The reason I had to rearrange &krcp->monitor_todo code above is because we no longer have kfree_rcu_no_batch() which this patch removes. thanks, - Joel