The purpose of rcu_dynticks_eqs_online() is to adjust the ->dynticks counter of an incoming CPU when required. It is currently invoked from rcutree_prepare_cpu(), which runs before the incoming CPU is running, and thus on some other CPU. This makes the per-CPU accesses in rcu_dynticks_eqs_online() iffy at best, and it all "works" only because the running CPU cannot possibly be in dyntick-idle mode, which means that rcu_dynticks_eqs_online() never has any effect. It is currently OK for rcu_dynticks_eqs_online() to have no effect, but only because the CPU-offline process just happens to leave ->dynticks in the correct state. After all, if ->dynticks were in the wrong state on a just-onlined CPU, rcutorture would complain bitterly the next time that CPU went idle, at least in kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_EQS_DEBUG=y, for example, those built by rcutorture scenario TREE04. One could argue that this means that rcu_dynticks_eqs_online() is unnecessary, however, removing it would make the CPU-online process vulnerable to slight changes in the CPU-offline process. One could also ask why it is safe to move the rcu_dynticks_eqs_online() call so late in the CPU-online process. Indeed, there was a time when it would not have been safe, which does much to explain its current location. However, the marking of a CPU as online from an RCU perspective has long since moved from rcutree_prepare_cpu() to rcu_cpu_starting(), and all that is required is that ->dynticks be set correctly by the time that the CPU is marked as online from an RCU perspective. After all, the RCU grace-period kthread does not check to see if offline CPUs are also idle. (In case you were curious, this is one reason why there is quiescent-state reporting as part of the offlining process.) This commit therefore moves the call to rcu_dynticks_eqs_online() from rcutree_prepare_cpu() to rcu_cpu_starting(), this latter being guaranteed to be running on the incoming CPU. The call to this function must of course be placed before this rcu_cpu_starting() announces this CPU's presence to RCU. Reported-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/rcu/tree.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c index e6e1b9281530..801075e36515 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c @@ -4129,7 +4129,6 @@ int rcutree_prepare_cpu(unsigned int cpu) rdp->n_force_qs_snap = READ_ONCE(rcu_state.n_force_qs); rdp->blimit = blimit; rdp->dynticks_nesting = 1; /* CPU not up, no tearing. */ - rcu_dynticks_eqs_online(); raw_spin_unlock_rcu_node(rnp); /* irqs remain disabled. */ /* @@ -4249,6 +4248,7 @@ void rcu_cpu_starting(unsigned int cpu) mask = rdp->grpmask; WRITE_ONCE(rnp->ofl_seq, rnp->ofl_seq + 1); WARN_ON_ONCE(!(rnp->ofl_seq & 0x1)); + rcu_dynticks_eqs_online(); smp_mb(); // Pair with rcu_gp_cleanup()'s ->ofl_seq barrier(). raw_spin_lock_irqsave_rcu_node(rnp, flags); WRITE_ONCE(rnp->qsmaskinitnext, rnp->qsmaskinitnext | mask); -- 2.31.1.189.g2e36527f23
