linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/3] srcu: Remove superfluous ssp initialization on deferred work queue

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Date:   Fri,  2 Apr 2021 01:47:02 +0200
From:   Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
To:     "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc:     LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
        Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
        Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@...eaurora.org>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] srcu: Remove superfluous ssp initialization on deferred work queue

When an ssp has already started a grace period and queued an early work
to flush after SRCU workqueues are created, we expect the ssp to be
properly initialized already. So we can skip this step at this stage.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@...eaurora.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>
---
 kernel/rcu/srcutree.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
index 036ff5499ad5..7197156418e4 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
@@ -1396,7 +1396,6 @@ void __init srcu_init(void)
 	while (!list_empty(&srcu_boot_list)) {
 		ssp = list_first_entry(&srcu_boot_list, struct srcu_struct,
 				      work.work.entry);
-		check_init_srcu_struct(ssp);
 		list_del_init(&ssp->work.work.entry);
 		queue_work(rcu_gp_wq, &ssp->work.work);
 	}
-- 
2.25.1