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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu/tree.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcu/tree.c | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c index e905d7e4ddb9..a329adfece86 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c @@ -2707,6 +2707,23 @@ static __latent_entropy void rcu_core(void) unsigned long flags; struct rcu_data *rdp = raw_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data); struct rcu_node *rnp = rdp->mynode; + /* + * On RT rcu_core() can be preempted when IRQs aren't disabled. + * Therefore this function can race with concurrent NOCB (de-)offloading + * on this CPU and the below condition must be considered volatile. + * However if we race with: + * + * _ Offloading: In the worst case we accelerate or process callbacks + * concurrently with NOCB kthreads. We are guaranteed to + * call rcu_nocb_lock() if that happens. + * + * _ Deoffloading: In the worst case we miss callbacks acceleration or + * processing. This is fine because the early stage + * of deoffloading invokes rcu_core() after setting + * SEGCBLIST_RCU_CORE. So we guarantee that we'll process + * what could have been dismissed without the need to wait + * for the next rcu_pending() check in the next jiffy. + */ const bool do_batch = !rcu_segcblist_completely_offloaded(&rdp->cblist); if (cpu_is_offline(smp_processor_id())) |