From: Paul E. McKenney Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:51:39 +0000 (-0800) Subject: rcu: Eliminate __rcu_pending() false positives X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2f51f9884f6a36b0fe9636d5a1937e5cbd25723b;p=linux-beck.git rcu: Eliminate __rcu_pending() false positives Now that there are both ->gpnum and ->completed fields in the rcu_node structure, __rcu_pending() should check rdp->gpnum and rdp->completed against rnp->gpnum and rdp->completed, respectively, instead of the prior comparison against the rcu_state fields rsp->gpnum and rsp->completed. Given the old comparison, __rcu_pending() could return 1, resulting in a needless raise_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ). This useless work would happen if RCU responded to a scheduling-clock interrupt after the rcu_state fields had been updated, but before the rcu_node fields had been updated. Changing the comparison from the rcu_state fields to the rcu_node fields prevents this useless work from happening. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <12581706991966-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c index 24bbf2ce0605..9b36d6d7fb97 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c @@ -1403,6 +1403,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(call_rcu_bh); */ static int __rcu_pending(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_data *rdp) { + struct rcu_node *rnp = rdp->mynode; + rdp->n_rcu_pending++; /* Check for CPU stalls, if enabled. */ @@ -1427,13 +1429,13 @@ static int __rcu_pending(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_data *rdp) } /* Has another RCU grace period completed? */ - if (ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->completed) != rdp->completed) { /* outside lock */ + if (ACCESS_ONCE(rnp->completed) != rdp->completed) { /* outside lock */ rdp->n_rp_gp_completed++; return 1; } /* Has a new RCU grace period started? */ - if (ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gpnum) != rdp->gpnum) { /* outside lock */ + if (ACCESS_ONCE(rnp->gpnum) != rdp->gpnum) { /* outside lock */ rdp->n_rp_gp_started++; return 1; }