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Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2022 23:14:29 -0400
From: Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
To: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@...il.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, rcu <rcu@...r.kernel.org>,
"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>,
Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@...cinc.com>,
Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Steven Price <steven.price@....com>,
Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan
<sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com>,
"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 06/10] rcu/hotplug: Make rcutree_dead_cpu() parallel
On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 9:56 PM Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 02:08:38PM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 10:16 PM Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@...il.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > In order to support parallel, rcu_state.n_online_cpus should be
> > > atomic_dec()
> >
> > What does Parallel mean? Is that some kexec terminology?
> >
>
> 'Parallel' means concurrent. It is not a kexec terminology, instead,
> should be SMP.
Ah ok! Makes sense. Apologies to be the word-police here, but you
probably could reword it to "In order to support parallel offlining"
or some such.
- Joel
>
> Thanks,
>
> Pingfan
>
>
> > Thanks,
> >
> > - Joel
> >
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@...il.com>
> > > Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...nel.org>
> > > Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@...nel.org>
> > > Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@...cinc.com>
> > > Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@...htriplett.org>
> > > Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
> > > Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
> > > Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@...il.com>
> > > Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@...lfernandes.org>
> > > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> > > Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
> > > Cc: "Peter Zijlstra
> > > Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
> > > Cc: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@...ux.intel.com>
> > > Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>
> > > To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> > > To: rcu@...r.kernel.org
> > > ---
> > > kernel/cpu.c | 1 +
> > > kernel/rcu/tree.c | 3 ++-
> > > 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
> > > index 1261c3f3be51..90debbe28e85 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/cpu.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/cpu.c
> > > @@ -1872,6 +1872,7 @@ static struct cpuhp_step cpuhp_hp_states[] = {
> > > .name = "RCU/tree:prepare",
> > > .startup.single = rcutree_prepare_cpu,
> > > .teardown.single = rcutree_dead_cpu,
> > > + .support_kexec_parallel = true,
> > > },
> > > /*
> > > * On the tear-down path, timers_dead_cpu() must be invoked
> > > diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> > > index 79aea7df4345..07d31e16c65e 100644
> > > --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> > > +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> > > @@ -2168,7 +2168,8 @@ int rcutree_dead_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
> > > if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU))
> > > return 0;
> > >
> > > - WRITE_ONCE(rcu_state.n_online_cpus, rcu_state.n_online_cpus - 1);
> > > + /* Hot remove path allows parallel, while Hot add races against remove on lock */
> > > + atomic_dec((atomic_t *)&rcu_state.n_online_cpus);
> > > /* Adjust any no-longer-needed kthreads. */
> > > rcu_boost_kthread_setaffinity(rnp, -1);
> > > // Stop-machine done, so allow nohz_full to disable tick.
> > > --
> > > 2.31.1
> > >
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