From 2036d94a7b61ca5032ce90f2bda06afec0fe713e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:02:47 -0800 Subject: rcu: Rework detection of use of RCU by offline CPUs Because newly offlined CPUs continue executing after completing the CPU_DYING notifiers, they legitimately enter the scheduler and use RCU while appearing to be offline. This calls for a more sophisticated approach as follows: 1. RCU marks the CPU online during the CPU_UP_PREPARE phase. 2. RCU marks the CPU offline during the CPU_DEAD phase. 3. Diagnostics regarding use of read-side RCU by offline CPUs use RCU's accounting rather than the cpu_online_map. (Note that __call_rcu() still uses cpu_online_map to detect illegal invocations within CPU_DYING notifiers.) 4. Offline CPUs are prevented from hanging the system by force_quiescent_state(), which pays attention to cpu_online_map. Some additional work (in a later commit) will be needed to guarantee that force_quiescent_state() waits a full jiffy before assuming that a CPU is offline, for example, when called from idle entry. (This commit also makes the one-jiffy wait explicit, since the old-style implicit wait can now be defeated by RCU_FAST_NO_HZ and by rcutorture.) This approach avoids the false positives encountered when attempting to use more exact classification of CPU online/offline state. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- kernel/rcutree.h | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'kernel/rcutree.h') diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h index e2ac8ee415bb..cdd1be0a4072 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.h +++ b/kernel/rcutree.h @@ -289,7 +289,6 @@ struct rcu_data { /* 4) reasons this CPU needed to be kicked by force_quiescent_state */ unsigned long dynticks_fqs; /* Kicked due to dynticks idle. */ unsigned long offline_fqs; /* Kicked due to being offline. */ - unsigned long resched_ipi; /* Sent a resched IPI. */ /* 5) __rcu_pending() statistics. */ unsigned long n_rcu_pending; /* rcu_pending() calls since boot. */ -- cgit v1.2.3