linux-kernel - Re: [patch 59/66] rcu: Convert rcutree to hotplug state machine

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Date:   Thu, 18 Aug 2016 19:35:35 +0200
From:   Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@...akpoint.cc>
To:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Anna-Maria Gleixner <anna-maria@...utronix.de>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 59/66] rcu: Convert rcutree to hotplug state machine

On 2016-07-11 11:38:28 [-0700], Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> commit da7095f39456dd0f28fa21697f2f976a61bc6d0a
> Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Date:   Thu Jun 30 13:58:26 2016 -0700
> 
>     rcu: Exact CPU-online tracking for RCU
…

I don't pretend that I know what I going on here. I have just one simple
question :)
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> --- a/kernel/cpu.c
> +++ b/kernel/cpu.c
> @@ -882,6 +882,7 @@ void notify_cpu_starting(unsigned int cpu)
>  	struct cpuhp_cpu_state *st = per_cpu_ptr(&cpuhp_state, cpu);
>  	enum cpuhp_state target = min((int)st->target, CPUHP_AP_ONLINE);
>  
> +	rcu_cpu_starting(cpu);  /* All CPU_STARTING notifiers can use RCU. */
>  	while (st->state < target) {
>  		struct cpuhp_step *step;

What happens if something post CPUHP_AP_ONLINE fails and we do a
rollback to 0? Do we need to revert / undo rcu_cpu_starting() doing?

> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> index 3121242b8579..5e7c1d6a6108 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> @@ -3793,8 +3793,6 @@ rcu_init_percpu_data(int cpu, struct rcu_state *rsp)
>  	rnp = rdp->mynode;
>  	mask = rdp->grpmask;
>  	raw_spin_lock_rcu_node(rnp);		/* irqs already disabled. */
> -	rnp->qsmaskinitnext |= mask;
> -	rnp->expmaskinitnext |= mask;
>  	if (!rdp->beenonline)
>  		WRITE_ONCE(rsp->ncpus, READ_ONCE(rsp->ncpus) + 1);
>  	rdp->beenonline = true;	 /* We have now been online. */
> @@ -4211,8 +4235,10 @@ void __init rcu_init(void)
>  	 */
>  	cpu_notifier(rcu_cpu_notify, 0);
>  	pm_notifier(rcu_pm_notify, 0);
> -	for_each_online_cpu(cpu)
> +	for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
>  		rcu_cpu_notify(NULL, CPU_UP_PREPARE, (void *)(long)cpu);
> +		rcu_cpu_starting(cpu);
> +	}

and looking at this from x86-64 then at this point I have CPU0 online
and all other are down (or not yet up). So this is invoked for one CPU
only. And later via hotplug callbacks for the other CPUs.

>  }
>  
>  #include "tree_exp.h"

Sebastian