Re: [PATCH] rcu: Fix up pending cbs check in rcu_prepare_for_idle

From: Neeraj Upadhyay
Date: Mon Aug 07 2017 - 10:01:39 EST




On 08/07/2017 06:10 PM, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
On Mon, Aug 07, 2017 at 11:20:10AM +0530, Neeraj Upadhyay wrote:
Pending cbs check in rcu_prepare_for_idle is inversed
in the sense that, it should accelerate if there are
pending cbs; but, the check does the opposite. So,
fix it.

Fixes: 15fecf89e46a ("srcu: Abstract multi-tail callback list handling")
Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Good catch! Queued for review and testing.

Just out of curiosity, how did you find this one?

Thanx, Paul

Hi Paul, found the issue while reading the code.


---
kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
index 908b309..b8f51df 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
@@ -1493,7 +1493,7 @@ static void rcu_prepare_for_idle(void)
rdtp->last_accelerate = jiffies;
for_each_rcu_flavor(rsp) {
rdp = this_cpu_ptr(rsp->rda);
- if (rcu_segcblist_pend_cbs(&rdp->cblist))
+ if (!rcu_segcblist_pend_cbs(&rdp->cblist))
continue;
rnp = rdp->mynode;
raw_spin_lock_rcu_node(rnp); /* irqs already disabled. */
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