linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 15/47] rcu: Check for callback invocation from offline CPUs

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Date:	Fri,  3 Feb 2012 17:44:50 -0800
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca,
	josh@...htriplett.org, niv@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu,
	dhowells@...hat.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com, darren@...art.com,
	fweisbec@...il.com, patches@...aro.org,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paul.mckenney@...aro.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 15/47] rcu: Check for callback invocation from offline CPUs

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paul.mckenney@...aro.org>

Because quiescent states are now reported from offline CPUs in
CPU_DYING state, there is some possibility that such a CPU might
note the end of a grace period and attempt to start invoking
callbacks.  This would be a very bad thing, and is supposed to
be prevented by the fact that the CPU_DYING CPU gets rid of all
its callbacks before reporting the quiescent state.  However,
there is other CPU-offline code in the kernel, and it is quite
possible that someone will invoke RCU core processing from that
code.  Therefore, this commit adds a warning for this case.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@...aro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 kernel/rcutree.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index 575f91d..ac3a810 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -1373,6 +1373,7 @@ static void rcu_do_batch(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_data *rdp)
 	 * races with call_rcu() from interrupt handlers.
 	 */
 	local_irq_save(flags);
+	WARN_ON_ONCE(cpu_is_offline(smp_processor_id()));
 	bl = rdp->blimit;
 	trace_rcu_batch_start(rsp->name, rdp->qlen_lazy, rdp->qlen, bl);
 	list = rdp->nxtlist;
-- 
1.7.8

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