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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2021-07-28 11:32:28 -0700
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2021-09-15 11:37:50 -0700
commit18f08e758f34e6dfe0668bee51bd2af7adacf381 (patch)
tree82b2a416900287bb08cae7a357ab9dcb6cc26b0e /Documentation/kernel-hacking
parent96017bf9039763a2e02dcc6adaa18592cd73a39d (diff)
rcu-tasks: Add trc_inspect_reader() checks for exiting critical section
Currently, trc_inspect_reader() treats a task exiting its RCU Tasks Trace read-side critical section the same as being within that critical section. However, this can fail because that task might have already checked its .need_qs field, which means that it might never decrement the all-important trc_n_readers_need_end counter. Of course, for that to happen, the task would need to never again execute an RCU Tasks Trace read-side critical section, but this really could happen if the system's last trampoline was removed. Note that exit from such a critical section cannot be treated as a quiescent state due to the possibility of nested critical sections. This means that if trc_inspect_reader() sees a negative nesting value, it must set up to try again later. This commit therefore ignores tasks that are exiting their RCU Tasks Trace read-side critical sections so that they will be rechecked later. [ paulmck: Apply feedback from Neeraj Upadhyay and Boqun Feng. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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