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Re: [PATCH v3 3/4] rcu/nocb: Protect NOCB state via local_lock() under PREEMPT_RT

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Date: 2021-08-17 15:36:21
Also in: linux-rt-users, lkml, rcu

On 2021-08-11 21:13:53 [+0100], Valentin Schneider wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
index 0ff5e4fb933e..11c4ff00afde 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
@@ -21,6 +21,17 @@ static inline int rcu_lockdep_is_held_nocb(struct rcu_data *rdp)
 	return lockdep_is_held(&rdp->nocb_lock);
 }
 
+static inline int rcu_lockdep_is_held_nocb_local(struct rcu_data *rdp)
+{
+	return lockdep_is_held(
+#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
+		&rdp->nocb_local_lock.lock
+#else
+		&rdp->nocb_local_lock
+#endif
+	);
+}
Now that I see it and Paul asked for it, please just use !RT version.
	return lockdep_is_held(&rdp->nocb_local_lock);

and RT will work, too.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
 static inline bool rcu_current_is_nocb_kthread(struct rcu_data *rdp)
 {
 	/* Race on early boot between thread creation and assignment */
@@ -1629,6 +1664,22 @@ static void rcu_nocb_unlock_irqrestore(struct rcu_data *rdp,
 	}
 }
 
+/*
+ * The invocation of rcu_core() within the RCU core kthreads remains preemptible
+ * under PREEMPT_RT, thus the offload state of a CPU could change while
+ * said kthreads are preempted. Prevent this from happening by protecting the
+ * offload state with a local_lock().
+ */
+static void rcu_nocb_local_lock(struct rcu_data *rdp)
+{
+	local_lock(&rcu_data.nocb_local_lock);
+}
+
+static void rcu_nocb_local_unlock(struct rcu_data *rdp)
+{
+	local_unlock(&rcu_data.nocb_local_lock);
+}
+
Do you need to pass rdp given that it is not used?
 /* Lockdep check that ->cblist may be safely accessed. */
 static void rcu_lockdep_assert_cblist_protected(struct rcu_data *rdp)
 {
Sebastian

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