From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> RCU stall printout fetches the EQS state of a CPU with a preceding full memory barrier. However there is nothing to order this read against at this debugging stage. It is inherently racy when performed remotely. Do a plain read instead. This was the last user of rcu_dynticks_snap(). Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/rcu/tree.c | 10 ---------- kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c index 9fa6d2b557d6c..db9ca6c0c9b30 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c @@ -295,16 +295,6 @@ static void rcu_dynticks_eqs_online(void) ct_state_inc(RCU_DYNTICKS_IDX); } -/* - * Snapshot the ->dynticks counter with full ordering so as to allow - * stable comparison of this counter with past and future snapshots. - */ -static int rcu_dynticks_snap(int cpu) -{ - smp_mb(); // Fundamental RCU ordering guarantee. - return ct_dynticks_cpu_acquire(cpu); -} - /* * Return true if the snapshot returned from rcu_dynticks_snap() * indicates that RCU is in an extended quiescent state. diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h index 460efecd077be..4b0e9d7c4c68e 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h @@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ static void print_cpu_stall_info(int cpu) } delta = rcu_seq_ctr(rdp->mynode->gp_seq - rdp->rcu_iw_gp_seq); falsepositive = rcu_is_gp_kthread_starving(NULL) && - rcu_dynticks_in_eqs(rcu_dynticks_snap(cpu)); + rcu_dynticks_in_eqs(ct_dynticks_cpu(cpu)); rcuc_starved = rcu_is_rcuc_kthread_starving(rdp, &j); if (rcuc_starved) // Print signed value, as negative values indicate a probable bug. @@ -515,7 +515,7 @@ static void print_cpu_stall_info(int cpu) rdp->rcu_iw_pending ? (int)min(delta, 9UL) + '0' : "!."[!delta], ticks_value, ticks_title, - rcu_dynticks_snap(cpu) & 0xffff, + ct_dynticks_cpu(cpu) & 0xffff, ct_dynticks_nesting_cpu(cpu), ct_dynticks_nmi_nesting_cpu(cpu), rdp->softirq_snap, kstat_softirqs_cpu(RCU_SOFTIRQ, cpu), data_race(rcu_state.n_force_qs) - rcu_state.n_force_qs_gpstart, -- 2.40.1