From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> Offloaded CPUs do not migrate their callbacks, instead relying on their rcuo kthread to invoke them. But if the CPU is offline, it will be running neither its RCU_SOFTIRQ handler nor its rcuc kthread. This means that de-offloading an offline CPU that still has pending callbacks will strand those callbacks. This commit therefore refuses to toggle offline CPUs having pending callbacks. Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h index 1b870d0..b70cc91 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h @@ -2227,6 +2227,15 @@ static int __rcu_nocb_rdp_deoffload(struct rcu_data *rdp) printk("De-offloading %d\n", rdp->cpu); rcu_nocb_lock_irqsave(rdp, flags); + /* + * If there are still pending work offloaded, the offline + * CPU won't help much handling them. + */ + if (cpu_is_offline(rdp->cpu) && !rcu_segcblist_empty(&rdp->cblist)) { + rcu_nocb_unlock_irqrestore(rdp, flags); + return -EBUSY; + } + rcu_segcblist_offload(cblist, false); if (rdp->nocb_cb_sleep) { -- 2.9.5