linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 07/12] rcu: Shutdown nocb timer on de-offloading

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Date:   Wed, 23 Sep 2020 17:29:52 +0200
From:   Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
To:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 07/12] rcu: Shutdown nocb timer on de-offloading

On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 05:17:56PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 02:43:46PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > Make sure the nocb timer can't fire anymore before we reach the final
> > de-offload state. Spuriously waking up the GP kthread is no big deal but
> > we must prevent from executing the timer callback without nocb locking.
> 
> If we had just the previous patch and not this patch, would things break?
> Or are you relying on the fact that there is not yet a connection to
> userspace controls for this functionality?

Exactly it shouldn't break because only the last patch makes the code
eventually used.

Thanks.