linux-kernel - [PATCH rcu 10/32] rcu-tasks: RCU Tasks Trace grace-period kthread has implicit QS

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Message-Id: <20220620225411.3842519-10-paulmck@kernel.org>
Date:   Mon, 20 Jun 2022 15:53:49 -0700
From:   "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
To:     rcu@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com,
        rostedt@...dmis.org, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
        Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@...cinc.com>,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>,
        Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>,
        KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH rcu 10/32] rcu-tasks: RCU Tasks Trace grace-period kthread has implicit QS

Because the task driving the grace-period kthread is in quiescent state
throughout, this commit excludes it from the list of tasks from which
a quiescent state is needed.

This does mean that attaching a sleepable BPF program to function in
kernel/rcu/tasks.h is a bad idea, by the way.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@...cinc.com>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...nel.org>
Cc: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@...nel.org>
Cc: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@...com>
Cc: KP Singh <kpsingh@...nel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/tasks.h | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
index 414861d651964..554b2e59a1d5a 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tasks.h
@@ -1433,8 +1433,9 @@ static void rcu_tasks_trace_pertask(struct task_struct *t,
 				    struct list_head *hop)
 {
 	// During early boot when there is only the one boot CPU, there
-	// is no idle task for the other CPUs. Just return.
-	if (unlikely(t == NULL))
+	// is no idle task for the other CPUs.  Also, the grace-period
+	// kthread is always in a quiescent state.  Either way, just return.
+	if (unlikely(t == NULL) || t == current)
 		return;
 
 	rcu_st_need_qs(t, 0);
-- 
2.31.1.189.g2e36527f23