linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 09/27] rcu: Remove unused rcu_kick_nohz

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Date:   Mon, 25 Jun 2018 17:34:55 -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 09/27] rcu: Remove unused rcu_kick_nohz_cpu() function

The rcu_kick_nohz_cpu() function is no longer used, and the functionality
it used to provide is now provided by a call to resched_cpu() in the
force-quiescent-state function rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs().  This commit
therefore removes rcu_kick_nohz_cpu().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree.h        |  1 -
 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 17 -----------------
 2 files changed, 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.h b/kernel/rcu/tree.h
index d51e6edc8e83..4e74df768c57 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.h
@@ -483,7 +483,6 @@ static void __init rcu_spawn_nocb_kthreads(void);
 #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU
 static void __init rcu_organize_nocb_kthreads(struct rcu_state *rsp);
 #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU */
-static void __maybe_unused rcu_kick_nohz_cpu(int cpu);
 static bool init_nocb_callback_list(struct rcu_data *rdp);
 static void rcu_bind_gp_kthread(void);
 static bool rcu_nohz_full_cpu(struct rcu_state *rsp);
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
index 07d1ad175994..75a91d58b8f7 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
@@ -2645,23 +2645,6 @@ static bool init_nocb_callback_list(struct rcu_data *rdp)
 
 #endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU */
 
-/*
- * An adaptive-ticks CPU can potentially execute in kernel mode for an
- * arbitrarily long period of time with the scheduling-clock tick turned
- * off.  RCU will be paying attention to this CPU because it is in the
- * kernel, but the CPU cannot be guaranteed to be executing the RCU state
- * machine because the scheduling-clock tick has been disabled.  Therefore,
- * if an adaptive-ticks CPU is failing to respond to the current grace
- * period and has not be idle from an RCU perspective, kick it.
- */
-static void __maybe_unused rcu_kick_nohz_cpu(int cpu)
-{
-#ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL
-	if (tick_nohz_full_cpu(cpu))
-		smp_send_reschedule(cpu);
-#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL */
-}
-
 /*
  * Is this CPU a NO_HZ_FULL CPU that should ignore RCU so that the
  * grace-period kthread will do force_quiescent_state() processing?
-- 
2.17.1