linux-kernel - [PATCH 04/10] rcu/nocb: Make rcu_core() callbacks acceleration (de-)offloading safe

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Date:   Tue, 19 Oct 2021 02:08:10 +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>,
        Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>,
        Valentin Schneider <Valentin.Schneider@....com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@...eaurora.org>,
        Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
        Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Subject: [PATCH 04/10] rcu/nocb: Make rcu_core() callbacks acceleration (de-)offloading safe

When callbacks are offloaded, the NOCB kthreads handle the callbacks
progression on behalf of rcu_core().

However during the (de-)offloading process, the kthread may not be
entirely up to the task. As a result some callbacks grace period
sequence number may remain stale for a while because rcu_core() won't
take care of them either.

Fix this with forcing callbacks acceleration from rcu_core() as long
as the offloading process isn't complete.

Reported-and-tested-by: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>
Tested-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@....com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@...eaurora.org>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@...il.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 4869a6856bf1..a43924244000 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -2288,6 +2288,7 @@ rcu_report_qs_rdp(struct rcu_data *rdp)
 	unsigned long flags;
 	unsigned long mask;
 	bool needwake = false;
+	bool needacc = false;
 	struct rcu_node *rnp;
 
 	WARN_ON_ONCE(rdp->cpu != smp_processor_id());
@@ -2315,16 +2316,29 @@ rcu_report_qs_rdp(struct rcu_data *rdp)
 		 * This GP can't end until cpu checks in, so all of our
 		 * callbacks can be processed during the next GP.
 		 *
-		 * NOCB kthreads have their own way to deal with that.
+		 * NOCB kthreads have their own way to deal with that...
 		 */
-		if (!rcu_rdp_is_offloaded(rdp))
+		if (!rcu_rdp_is_offloaded(rdp)) {
 			needwake = rcu_accelerate_cbs(rnp, rdp);
+		} else if (!rcu_segcblist_completely_offloaded(&rdp->cblist)) {
+			/*
+			 * ...but NOCB kthreads may miss or delay callbacks acceleration
+			 * if in the middle of a (de-)offloading process.
+			 */
+			needacc = true;
+		}
 
 		rcu_disable_urgency_upon_qs(rdp);
 		rcu_report_qs_rnp(mask, rnp, rnp->gp_seq, flags);
 		/* ^^^ Released rnp->lock */
 		if (needwake)
 			rcu_gp_kthread_wake();
+
+		if (needacc) {
+			rcu_nocb_lock_irqsave(rdp, flags);
+			rcu_accelerate_cbs_unlocked(rnp, rdp);
+			rcu_nocb_unlock_irqrestore(rdp, flags);
+		}
 	}
 }
 
-- 
2.25.1