linux-kernel - [PATCH] srcu: Fix incorrect condition in srcu_funnel_exp

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Date:   Wed, 14 Feb 2018 17:59:54 +0900
From:   Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>
To:     jiangshanlai@...il.com, paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        josh@...htriplett.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
        mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@....com
Subject: [PATCH] srcu: Fix incorrect condition in srcu_funnel_exp_start()

We should've kept sp->srcu_gp_seq_needed_exp the furthest. But
it probably fails because of the incorrect condition. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>
---
 kernel/rcu/srcutree.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
index d5cea81..44bc0fa 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
@@ -626,7 +626,7 @@ static void srcu_funnel_exp_start(struct srcu_struct *sp, struct srcu_node *snp,
 		spin_unlock_irqrestore_rcu_node(snp, flags);
 	}
 	spin_lock_irqsave_rcu_node(sp, flags);
-	if (!ULONG_CMP_LT(sp->srcu_gp_seq_needed_exp, s))
+	if (ULONG_CMP_LT(sp->srcu_gp_seq_needed_exp, s))
 		sp->srcu_gp_seq_needed_exp = s;
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore_rcu_node(sp, flags);
 }
-- 
1.9.1