linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 09/10] rcu: Fix RCU CPU stall detection in tiny implementation

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Date:	Wed,  7 Jan 2015 09:52:47 -0800
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	mingo@...nel.org, laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
	josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, peterz@...radead.org,
	rostedt@...dmis.org, dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
	dvhart@...ux.intel.com, fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com,
	bobby.prani@...il.com, Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 09/10] rcu: Fix RCU CPU stall detection in tiny implementation

From: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>

The tiny RCU CPU stall detection depends on *rcp->curtail not being
NULL. It is however a tail pointer and thus NULL by definition. Instead we
should check rcp->rcucblist for the presence of pending callbacks which
need to be processed. With this fix INFO about the stall is printed and
jiffies_stall (jiffies at next stall) correctly updated.

Note that the check for pending callback is necessary to avoid spurious
warnings if there are no pendings callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Miroslav Benes <mbenes@...e.cz>
[ paulmck: Fused identical "if" statements, ported to -rcu. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/rcu/tiny_plugin.h | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tiny_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tiny_plugin.h
index 858c56569127..80f908afe348 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tiny_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tiny_plugin.h
@@ -145,17 +145,16 @@ static void check_cpu_stall(struct rcu_ctrlblk *rcp)
 	rcp->ticks_this_gp++;
 	j = jiffies;
 	js = ACCESS_ONCE(rcp->jiffies_stall);
-	if (*rcp->curtail && ULONG_CMP_GE(j, js)) {
+	if (rcp->rcucblist && ULONG_CMP_GE(j, js)) {
 		pr_err("INFO: %s stall on CPU (%lu ticks this GP) idle=%llx (t=%lu jiffies q=%ld)\n",
 		       rcp->name, rcp->ticks_this_gp, rcu_dynticks_nesting,
 		       jiffies - rcp->gp_start, rcp->qlen);
 		dump_stack();
-	}
-	if (*rcp->curtail && ULONG_CMP_GE(j, js))
 		ACCESS_ONCE(rcp->jiffies_stall) = jiffies +
 			3 * rcu_jiffies_till_stall_check() + 3;
-	else if (ULONG_CMP_GE(j, js))
+	} else if (ULONG_CMP_GE(j, js)) {
 		ACCESS_ONCE(rcp->jiffies_stall) = jiffies + rcu_jiffies_till_stall_check();
+	}
 }
 
 static void reset_cpu_stall_ticks(struct rcu_ctrlblk *rcp)
-- 
1.8.1.5

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