linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 08/24] rcu/tree: Force quiescent state on callback overload

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Message-Id: <20200831180116.32690-8-paulmck@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 31 Aug 2020 11:01:00 -0700
From:   paulmck@...nel.org
To:     rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com, 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,
        Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@...eaurora.org>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 08/24] rcu/tree: Force quiescent state on callback overload

From: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@...eaurora.org>

On callback overload, it is necessary to quickly detect idle CPUs,
and rcu_gp_fqs_check_wake() checks for this condition.  Unfortunately,
the code following the call to this function does not repeat this check,
which means that in reality no actual quiescent-state forcing, instead
only a couple of quick and pointless wakeups at the beginning of the
grace period.

This commit therefore adds a check for the RCU_GP_FLAG_OVLD flag in
the post-wakeup "if" statement in rcu_gp_fqs_loop().

Fixes: 1fca4d12f4637 ("rcu: Expedite first two FQS scans under callback-overload conditions")
Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@...eaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 8969120..4770d77 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -1884,7 +1884,7 @@ static void rcu_gp_fqs_loop(void)
 			break;
 		/* If time for quiescent-state forcing, do it. */
 		if (!time_after(rcu_state.jiffies_force_qs, jiffies) ||
-		    (gf & RCU_GP_FLAG_FQS)) {
+		    (gf & (RCU_GP_FLAG_FQS | RCU_GP_FLAG_OVLD))) {
 			trace_rcu_grace_period(rcu_state.name, rcu_state.gp_seq,
 					       TPS("fqsstart"));
 			rcu_gp_fqs(first_gp_fqs);
-- 
2.9.5