linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 05/21] rcu/nocb: Don't deoffload an offline CPU with pending work

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Date:   Tue,  5 Jan 2021 20:48:37 -0800
From:   paulmck@...nel.org
To:     rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com, mingo@...nel.org,
        jiangshanlai@...il.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,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@...eaurora.org>,
        "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 05/21] rcu/nocb: Don't deoffload an offline CPU with pending work

From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>

Offloaded CPUs do not migrate their callbacks, instead relying on
their rcuo kthread to invoke them.  But if the CPU is offline, it
will be running neither its RCU_SOFTIRQ handler nor its rcuc kthread.
This means that de-offloading an offline CPU that still has pending
callbacks will strand those callbacks.  This commit therefore refuses
to toggle offline CPUs having pending callbacks.

Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@...eaurora.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Suggested-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
Tested-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
index 1b870d0..b70cc91 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
@@ -2227,6 +2227,15 @@ static int __rcu_nocb_rdp_deoffload(struct rcu_data *rdp)
 	printk("De-offloading %d\n", rdp->cpu);
 
 	rcu_nocb_lock_irqsave(rdp, flags);
+	/*
+	 * If there are still pending work offloaded, the offline
+	 * CPU won't help much handling them.
+	 */
+	if (cpu_is_offline(rdp->cpu) && !rcu_segcblist_empty(&rdp->cblist)) {
+		rcu_nocb_unlock_irqrestore(rdp, flags);
+		return -EBUSY;
+	}
+
 	rcu_segcblist_offload(cblist, false);
 
 	if (rdp->nocb_cb_sleep) {
-- 
2.9.5