From: Paul E. McKenney Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:12:09 +0000 (-0700) Subject: rcu: Permit call_rcu() from CPU_DYING notifiers X-Git-Url: http://git.alex.org.uk rcu: Permit call_rcu() from CPU_DYING notifiers As of: 29494be71afe ("rcu,cleanup: simplify the code when cpu is dying") RCU adopts callbacks from the dying CPU in its CPU_DYING notifier, which means that any callbacks posted by later CPU_DYING notifiers are ignored until the CPU comes back online. A WARN_ON_ONCE() was added to __call_rcu() by: e56014000816 ("rcu: Simplify offline processing") to check for this condition. Although this condition did not trigger (at least as far as I know) during -next testing, it did recently trigger in mainline: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/2/34 What is needed longer term is for RCU's CPU_DEAD notifier to adopt any callbacks that were posted by CPU_DYING notifiers, however, the Linux kernel has been running with this sort of thing happening for quite some time. So the only thing that qualifies as a regression is the WARN_ON_ONCE(), which this commit removes. Making RCU's CPU_DEAD notifier adopt callbacks posted by CPU_DYING notifiers is a topic for the 3.5 release of the Linux kernel. Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c index 1050d6d..d0c5baf 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c @@ -1820,7 +1820,6 @@ __call_rcu(struct rcu_head *head, void (*func)(struct rcu_head *rcu), * a quiescent state betweentimes. */ local_irq_save(flags); - WARN_ON_ONCE(cpu_is_offline(smp_processor_id())); rdp = this_cpu_ptr(rsp->rda); /* Add the callback to our list. */