linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 -rcu 1/4] rcu/segcblist: Do not depend on rcl->len to store the segcb len during merge

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Message-Id: <20200825024842.3408659-2-joel@joelfernandes.org>
Date:   Mon, 24 Aug 2020 22:48:39 -0400
From:   "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     "Joel Fernandes (Google)" <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        boqun.feng@...il.com, dave@...olabs.net,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@...il.com>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        neeraj.iitr10@...il.com, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        rcu@...r.kernel.org, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        "Uladzislau Rezki (Sony)" <urezki@...il.com>, vineethrp@...il.com
Subject: [PATCH v4 -rcu 1/4] rcu/segcblist: Do not depend on rcl->len to store the segcb len during merge

The donecbs's ->len field is used to store the total count of the segmented
callback list's length. This ->len field is then added to the destination segcb
list.

However, this presents a problem for per-segment length counting which is added
in a future patch. This future patch sets the rcl->len field as we move
segments of callbacks between source and destination lists, thus becoming
incompatible with the donecb's ->len field.

This commit therefore avoids depending on the ->len field in this way. IMHO,
this is also less error-prone and is more accurate - the donecb's ->len field
should be the length of the done segment and not just used as a temporarily
variable.

Signed-off-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/rcu_segcblist.c | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcu_segcblist.c b/kernel/rcu/rcu_segcblist.c
index 2d2a6b6b9dfb..b70d4154433c 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcu_segcblist.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcu_segcblist.c
@@ -513,14 +513,18 @@ void rcu_segcblist_merge(struct rcu_segcblist *dst_rsclp,
 {
 	struct rcu_cblist donecbs;
 	struct rcu_cblist pendcbs;
+	long src_len;
 
 	rcu_cblist_init(&donecbs);
 	rcu_cblist_init(&pendcbs);
-	rcu_segcblist_extract_count(src_rsclp, &donecbs);
+
+	src_len = rcu_segcblist_xchg_len(src_rsclp, 0);
 	rcu_segcblist_extract_done_cbs(src_rsclp, &donecbs);
 	rcu_segcblist_extract_pend_cbs(src_rsclp, &pendcbs);
-	rcu_segcblist_insert_count(dst_rsclp, &donecbs);
+
+	rcu_segcblist_add_len(dst_rsclp, src_len);
 	rcu_segcblist_insert_done_cbs(dst_rsclp, &donecbs);
 	rcu_segcblist_insert_pend_cbs(dst_rsclp, &pendcbs);
+
 	rcu_segcblist_init(src_rsclp);
 }
-- 
2.28.0.297.g1956fa8f8d-goog