rcu: Fix attempt to avoid unsolicited offloading of callbacks

Commit b58cc46c5f (rcu: Don't offload callbacks unless specifically
requested) failed to adjust the callback lists of the CPUs that are
known to be no-CBs CPUs only because they are also nohz_full= CPUs.
This failure can result in callbacks that are posted during early boot
getting stranded on nxtlist for CPUs whose no-CBs property becomes
apparent late, and there can also be spurious warnings about offline
CPUs posting callbacks.

This commit fixes these problems by adding an early-boot rcu_init_nohz()
that properly initializes the no-CBs CPUs.

Note that kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL=y or with
CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=n do not exhibit this bug.  Neither do kernels
booted without the nohz_full= boot parameter.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Pranith Kumar <bobby.prani@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
This commit is contained in:
Paul E. McKenney
2014-07-25 11:21:47 -07:00
parent 11ed7f934c
commit f4579fc57c
4 changed files with 72 additions and 33 deletions

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@@ -269,6 +269,14 @@ static inline void rcu_user_hooks_switch(struct task_struct *prev,
struct task_struct *next) { }
#endif /* CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS */
#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU
void rcu_init_nohz(void);
#else /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU */
static inline void rcu_init_nohz(void)
{
}
#endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU */
/**
* RCU_NONIDLE - Indicate idle-loop code that needs RCU readers
* @a: Code that RCU needs to pay attention to.