Commit a16b7a69 authored May 26, 2012 by Paul E. McKenney Committed by Paul E. McKenney Jul 02, 2012

rcu: Prevent __call_rcu() from invoking RCU core on offline CPUs



The __call_rcu() function will invoke the RCU core, for example, if
it detects that the current CPU has too many callbacks.  However, this
can happen on an offline CPU that is on its way to the idle loop, in
which case it is an error to invoke the RCU core, and the excess callbacks
will be adopted in any case.  This commit therefore adds checks to
__call_rcu() for running on an offline CPU, refraining from invoking
the RCU core in this case.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

parent 62fde6ed

kernel/rcutree.c

+3 −3

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		@@ -1904,11 +1904,11 @@ __call_rcu(struct rcu_head head, void (func)(struct rcu_head *rcu),
		* If called from an extended quiescent state, invoke the RCU
		* core in order to force a re-evaluation of RCU's idleness.
		*/
		if (rcu_is_cpu_idle())
		if (rcu_is_cpu_idle() && cpu_online(smp_processor_id()))
		invoke_rcu_core();

		/* If interrupts were disabled, don't dive into RCU core. */
		if (irqs_disabled_flags(flags)) {
		/* If interrupts were disabled or CPU offline, don't invoke RCU core. */
		if (irqs_disabled_flags(flags) \|\| cpu_is_offline(smp_processor_id())) {
		local_irq_restore(flags);
		return;
		}

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