linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 34/40] rcu: Fix cpustart tracepoint gp

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Date:   Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:08:53 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     mingo@...nel.org, jiangshanlai@...il.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,
        fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com, joel@...lfernandes.org,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 34/40] rcu: Fix cpustart tracepoint gp_seq number

From: "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>

The "cpustart" trace event shows a stale gp_seq. This is because it uses
rdp->gp_seq, which is updated only at the end of the __note_gp_changes()
function. This commit therefore instead uses rnp->gp_seq.

An alternative fix would be to update rdp->gp_seq earlier, but this would
break RCU's detection of the beginning of a new-to-this-CPU grace period.

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 8dab564be8e7..5c6f59b4fc9c 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -1801,7 +1801,7 @@ static bool __note_gp_changes(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_node *rnp,
 		 * set up to detect a quiescent state, otherwise don't
 		 * go looking for one.
 		 */
-		trace_rcu_grace_period(rsp->name, rdp->gp_seq, TPS("cpustart"));
+		trace_rcu_grace_period(rsp->name, rnp->gp_seq, TPS("cpustart"));
 		need_gp = !!(rnp->qsmask & rdp->grpmask);
 		rdp->cpu_no_qs.b.norm = need_gp;
 		rdp->rcu_qs_ctr_snap = __this_cpu_read(rcu_dynticks.rcu_qs_ctr);
-- 
2.17.1