linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 01/22] smpboot: Add common code for notification from dying CPU

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Message-ID: <20150317113648.GC3589@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Tue, 17 Mar 2015 04:36:48 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mingo@...nel.org,
	laijs@...fujitsu.com, dipankar@...ibm.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com,
	josh@...htriplett.org, tglx@...utronix.de, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	dhowells@...hat.com, edumazet@...gle.com, dvhart@...ux.intel.com,
	fweisbec@...il.com, oleg@...hat.com, bobby.prani@...il.com,
	linux-api@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 tip/core/rcu 01/22] smpboot: Add common code for
 notification from dying CPU

On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 09:18:07AM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 11:37:45AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > 
> > RCU ignores offlined CPUs, so they cannot safely run RCU read-side code.
> > (They -can- use SRCU, but not RCU.)  This means that any use of RCU
> > during or after the call to arch_cpu_idle_dead().  Unfortunately,
> > commit 2ed53c0d6cc99 added a complete() call, which will contain RCU
> > read-side critical sections if there is a task waiting to be awakened.
> 
> Got a little more detail there?

Quite possibly.  But exactly what sort of detail are you looking for?

							Thanx, Paul

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