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authorZqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com>2022-03-24 19:15:15 +0800
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>2022-04-20 16:51:11 -0700
commit88ca472f80604c070526eb58b977ea0a9c3c2e1f (patch)
treec72cd8a73d898aa1b7b7773ba6ab62ecbd18e674 /kernel/rcu
parent70ae7b0ce03347fab35d6d8df81e1165d7ea8045 (diff)
rcu: Check for successful spawn of ->boost_kthread_task
For the spawning of the priority-boost kthreads can fail, improbable though this might seem. This commit therefore refrains from attemoting to initiate RCU priority boosting when The ->boost_kthread_task pointer is NULL. Signed-off-by: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
index 176639c6215f..5c23aceecd62 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
@@ -1125,7 +1125,8 @@ static void rcu_initiate_boost(struct rcu_node *rnp, unsigned long flags)
__releases(rnp->lock)
{
raw_lockdep_assert_held_rcu_node(rnp);
- if (!rcu_preempt_blocked_readers_cgp(rnp) && rnp->exp_tasks == NULL) {
+ if (!rnp->boost_kthread_task ||
+ (!rcu_preempt_blocked_readers_cgp(rnp) && !rnp->exp_tasks)) {
raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore_rcu_node(rnp, flags);
return;
}