rcu: Prevent offline CPUs from executing RCU core code
authorPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:54:10 +0000 (09:54 -0700)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Sun, 23 Sep 2012 14:41:53 +0000 (07:41 -0700)
Earlier versions of RCU invoked the RCU core from the CPU_DYING notifier
in order to note a quiescent state for the outgoing CPU.  Because the
CPU is marked "offline" during the execution of the CPU_DYING notifiers,
the RCU core had to tolerate being invoked from an offline CPU.  However,
commit b1420f1c (Make rcu_barrier() less disruptive) left only tracing
code in the CPU_DYING notifier, so the RCU core need no longer execute
on offline CPUs.  This commit therefore enforces this restriction.

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>
kernel/rcutree.c

index f0c0c1b4b6d4e02f1cacb3ce62ce19906d887515..340a5f54b6aff814c0edfbea4aa30af0fd15cda7 100644 (file)
@@ -1892,6 +1892,8 @@ static void rcu_process_callbacks(struct softirq_action *unused)
 {
        struct rcu_state *rsp;
 
+       if (cpu_is_offline(smp_processor_id()))
+               return;
        trace_rcu_utilization("Start RCU core");
        for_each_rcu_flavor(rsp)
                __rcu_process_callbacks(rsp);