linux-kernel - [PATCH tip/core/rcu 18/19] rcu: Remove obsolete rcu_read

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Date:   Tue, 11 May 2021 15:53:03 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <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,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 18/19] rcu: Remove obsolete rcu_read_unlock() deadlock commentary

The deferred quiescent states resulting from the consolidation of RCU-bh
and RCU-sched into RCU means that rcu_read_unlock() will no longer attempt
to acquire scheduler locks if interrupts were disabled across that call
to rcu_read_unlock().  The cautions in the rcu_read_unlock() header
comment are therefore obsolete.  This commit therefore removes them.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
---
 include/linux/rcupdate.h | 33 ++++++---------------------------
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index 45e58f14b1ce..323954363389 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -702,33 +702,12 @@ static __always_inline void rcu_read_lock(void)
 /**
  * rcu_read_unlock() - marks the end of an RCU read-side critical section.
  *
- * In most situations, rcu_read_unlock() is immune from deadlock.
- * However, in kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_BOOST, rcu_read_unlock()
- * is responsible for deboosting, which it does via rt_mutex_unlock().
- * Unfortunately, this function acquires the scheduler's runqueue and
- * priority-inheritance spinlocks.  This means that deadlock could result
- * if the caller of rcu_read_unlock() already holds one of these locks or
- * any lock that is ever acquired while holding them.
- *
- * That said, RCU readers are never priority boosted unless they were
- * preempted.  Therefore, one way to avoid deadlock is to make sure
- * that preemption never happens within any RCU read-side critical
- * section whose outermost rcu_read_unlock() is called with one of
- * rt_mutex_unlock()'s locks held.  Such preemption can be avoided in
- * a number of ways, for example, by invoking preempt_disable() before
- * critical section's outermost rcu_read_lock().
- *
- * Given that the set of locks acquired by rt_mutex_unlock() might change
- * at any time, a somewhat more future-proofed approach is to make sure
- * that that preemption never happens within any RCU read-side critical
- * section whose outermost rcu_read_unlock() is called with irqs disabled.
- * This approach relies on the fact that rt_mutex_unlock() currently only
- * acquires irq-disabled locks.
- *
- * The second of these two approaches is best in most situations,
- * however, the first approach can also be useful, at least to those
- * developers willing to keep abreast of the set of locks acquired by
- * rt_mutex_unlock().
+ * In almost all situations, rcu_read_unlock() is immune from deadlock.
+ * In recent kernels that have consolidated synchronize_sched() and
+ * synchronize_rcu_bh() into synchronize_rcu(), this deadlock immunity
+ * also extends to the scheduler's runqueue and priority-inheritance
+ * spinlocks, courtesy of the quiescent-state deferral that is carried
+ * out when rcu_read_unlock() is invoked with interrupts disabled.
  *
  * See rcu_read_lock() for more information.
  */
-- 
2.31.1.189.g2e36527f23