Re: [PATCH 2/5] rcu/nocb: Move rcu_nocb_is_setup to rcu_state

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Wed Feb 16 2022 - 16:30:45 EST


On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 04:42:05PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> In order to avoid scattering the global RCU states, move the RCU nocb
> initialization witness within rcu_state.
>
> Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <uladzislau.rezki@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>

Build testing for CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL=n kernels suggested the following
patch be merged into this one. Or does this variable need to be used
somewhere? Either way, please let me know!

Thanx, Paul

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commit 1a4f308b3b3841ef10043fe6c3dd12fc872b0400
Author: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Feb 16 13:27:42 2022 -0800

squash! rcu/nocb: Move rcu_nocb_is_setup to rcu_state

[ paulmck: Remove unused need_rcu_nocb_mask local variable. ]

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h
index 9d6d4786bc703..9d97aa1f4d6ce 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_nocb.h
@@ -1154,14 +1154,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_nocb_cpu_offload);
void __init rcu_init_nohz(void)
{
int cpu;
- bool need_rcu_nocb_mask = false;
struct rcu_data *rdp;

-#if defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL)
- if (tick_nohz_full_running && !cpumask_empty(tick_nohz_full_mask))
- need_rcu_nocb_mask = true;
-#endif /* #if defined(CONFIG_NO_HZ_FULL) */
-
if (rcu_state.nocb_is_setup) {
if (!cpumask_available(rcu_nocb_mask)) {
if (!zalloc_cpumask_var(&rcu_nocb_mask, GFP_KERNEL)) {