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authorFrederic Weisbecker2021-01-28 18:12:08 +0100
committerPaul E. McKenney2021-03-08 14:20:20 -0800
commit5de2e5bb80aeef82f75fff76120874cdc86f935d (patch)
treebaac323b6e80f3a46e4ef1a694f1b598eed07610 /kernel/rcu
parent3820b513a2e33d6dee1caa3b4815f92079cb9890 (diff)
rcu/nocb: Comment the reason behind BH disablement on batch processing
This commit explains why softirqs need to be disabled while invoking callbacks, even when callback processing has been offloaded. After all, invoking callbacks concurrently is one thing, but concurrently invoking the same callback is quite another. Reported-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
index cd513ea7b0f9..013142d1ef76 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
@@ -2235,6 +2235,12 @@ static void nocb_cb_wait(struct rcu_data *rdp)
local_irq_save(flags);
rcu_momentary_dyntick_idle();
local_irq_restore(flags);
+ /*
+ * Disable BH to provide the expected environment. Also, when
+ * transitioning to/from NOCB mode, a self-requeuing callback might
+ * be invoked from softirq. A short grace period could cause both
+ * instances of this callback would execute concurrently.
+ */
local_bh_disable();
rcu_do_batch(rdp);
local_bh_enable();