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 ;)