[PATCH v2 1/2] rcu: Delete a redundant check in rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation()

From: Zhen Lei
Date: Wed Jul 12 2023 - 11:16:29 EST


The kernel provides the only legal way, that is, function set_task_cpu(),
to dynamically change the value of task_cpu(p). And in which the validity
of the CPU ID is checked.
set_task_cpu():
WARN_ON_ONCE(!cpu_online(new_cpu));
__set_task_cpu(p, new_cpu);

Therefore, in normal cases, the value of task_cpu(gpk) is always valid.
Then for the following snippet in rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation():
cpu = gpk ? task_cpu(gpk) : -1;
if (gpk) {
if (cpu >= 0) {

The above condition "if (gpk)" already ensures that gp_kthread is created,
so the local variable 'cpu' cannot be negative here.

Signed-off-by: Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h | 12 +++++-------
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
index b10b8349bb2a48b..dcfaa3d5db2cbc7 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_stall.h
@@ -537,13 +537,11 @@ static void rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation(void)
pr_err("\tUnless %s kthread gets sufficient CPU time, OOM is now expected behavior.\n", rcu_state.name);
pr_err("RCU grace-period kthread stack dump:\n");
sched_show_task(gpk);
- if (cpu >= 0) {
- if (cpu_is_offline(cpu)) {
- pr_err("RCU GP kthread last ran on offline CPU %d.\n", cpu);
- } else {
- pr_err("Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:\n");
- dump_cpu_task(cpu);
- }
+ if (cpu_is_offline(cpu)) {
+ pr_err("RCU GP kthread last ran on offline CPU %d.\n", cpu);
+ } else {
+ pr_err("Stack dump where RCU GP kthread last ran:\n");
+ dump_cpu_task(cpu);
}
wake_up_process(gpk);
}
--
2.25.1