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Message-ID: <0b503f77-1269-7fef-7c70-0e572f7e5907@quicinc.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 11:27:28 +0530
From: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@...cinc.com>
To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>, <rcu@...r.kernel.org>
CC: <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <kernel-team@...com>,
<rostedt@...dmis.org>, Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH rcu 03/12] rcu: Add rnp->cbovldmask check in
rcutree_migrate_callbacks()
On 6/21/2022 3:50 AM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> From: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@...el.com>
>
> Currently, the rcu_node structure's ->cbovlmask field is set in call_rcu()
> when a given CPU is suffering from callback overload. But if that CPU
> goes offline, the outgoing CPU's callbacks is migrated to the running
> CPU, which is likely to overload the running CPU. However, that CPU's
> bit in its leaf rcu_node structure's ->cbovlmask field remains zero.
>
> Initially, this is OK because the outgoing CPU's bit remains set.
> However, that bit will be cleared at the next end of a grace period,
> at which time it is quite possible that the running CPU will still
> be overloaded. If the running CPU invokes call_rcu(), then overload
> will be checked for and the bit will be set. Except that there is no
> guarantee that the running CPU will invoke call_rcu(), in which case the
> next grace period will fail to take the running CPU's overload condition
> into account. Plus, because the bit is not set, the end of the grace
> period won't check for overload on this CPU.
>
> This commit therefore adds a call to check_cb_ovld_locked() in
> check_cb_ovld_locked() to set the running CPU's ->cbovlmask bit
Nit: s/check_cb_ovld_locked/rcutree_migrate_callbacks/
> appropriately.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@...nel.org>
> ---
Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@...cinc.com>
Thanks
Neeraj
> kernel/rcu/tree.c | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> index c19d5926886fb..f4a37f2032664 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> @@ -4491,6 +4491,7 @@ void rcutree_migrate_callbacks(int cpu)
> needwake = needwake || rcu_advance_cbs(my_rnp, my_rdp);
> rcu_segcblist_disable(&rdp->cblist);
> WARN_ON_ONCE(rcu_segcblist_empty(&my_rdp->cblist) != !rcu_segcblist_n_cbs(&my_rdp->cblist));
> + check_cb_ovld_locked(my_rdp, my_rnp);
> if (rcu_rdp_is_offloaded(my_rdp)) {
> raw_spin_unlock_rcu_node(my_rnp); /* irqs remain disabled. */
> __call_rcu_nocb_wake(my_rdp, true, flags);
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