Re: [PATCH 1/4] rcu/nocb: Protect lazy shrinker against concurrent (de-)offloading

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On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 01:44:53PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2023 at 06:02:00PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > +		/*
> > +		 * But really don't insist if barrier_mutex is contended since we
> > +		 * can't guarantee that it will never engage in a dependency
> > +		 * chain involving memory allocation. The lock is seldom contended
> > +		 * anyway.
> > +		 */
> > +		return 0;
> > +	}
> > +
> >  	/* Snapshot count of all CPUs */
> >  	for_each_possible_cpu(cpu) {
> >  		struct rcu_data *rdp = per_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data, cpu);
> > -		int _count = READ_ONCE(rdp->lazy_len);
> > +		int _count;
> > +
> > +		if (!rcu_rdp_is_offloaded(rdp))
> > +			continue;
> > +
> > +		_count = READ_ONCE(rdp->lazy_len);
> >  
> >  		if (_count == 0)
> >  			continue;
> > +
> 
> And I just might have unconfused myself here.  We get here only if this
> CPU is offloaded, in which case it might also have non-zero ->lazy_len,
> so this is in fact *not* dead code.

Right. Now whether it's really alive remains to be proven ;)



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