Re: [paulmck-rcu:locktorture.2023.08.17a 14/20] kernel/rcu/tree.c:4100:6: warning: no previous declaration for 'rcu_barrier_throttled'

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 09:02:35AM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu.git locktorture.2023.08.17a
> head:   ccd7c62460a1ca6a8fb800de0d50d973ba62dcb8
> commit: 365332de5f7bd1ab448ad4a6bd73a4fc8f1cc8ec [14/20] rcu: Add sysfs to provide throttled access to rcu_barrier()
> config: x86_64-randconfig-x071-20230818 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20230818/202308180853.brWVZKoo-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/config)
> compiler: gcc-7 (Ubuntu 7.5.0-6ubuntu2) 7.5.0
> reproduce: (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20230818/202308180853.brWVZKoo-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/reproduce)
> 
> If you fix the issue in a separate patch/commit (i.e. not just a new version of
> the same patch/commit), kindly add following tags
> | Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> | Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202308180853.brWVZKoo-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
> 
> All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):
> 
> >> kernel/rcu/tree.c:4100:6: warning: no previous declaration for 'rcu_barrier_throttled' [-Wmissing-declarations]
>     void rcu_barrier_throttled(void)
>          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This has since been declared static in a later version of this commit at:

f9d771b016ca ("rcu: Add sysfs to provide throttled access to rcu_barrier()")

Thank you for your testing efforts!

							Thanx, Paul

> vim +/rcu_barrier_throttled +4100 kernel/rcu/tree.c
> 
>   4083	
>   4084	/**
>   4085	 * rcu_barrier_throttled - Do rcu_barrier(), but limit to one per second
>   4086	 *
>   4087	 * This can be thought of as guard rails around rcu_barrier() that
>   4088	 * permits unrestricted userspace use, at least assuming the hardware's
>   4089	 * try_cmpxchg() is robust.  There will be at most one call per second to
>   4090	 * rcu_barrier() system-wide from use of this function, which means that
>   4091	 * callers might needlessly wait a second or three.
>   4092	 *
>   4093	 * This is intended for use by test suites to avoid OOM by flushing RCU
>   4094	 * callbacks from the previous test before starting the next.  See the
>   4095	 * rcutree.do_rcu_barrier module parameter for more information.
>   4096	 *
>   4097	 * Why not simply make rcu_barrier() more scalable?  That might be the
>   4098	 * eventual endpoint, but let's keep it simple for the time being.
>   4099	 */
> > 4100	void rcu_barrier_throttled(void)
>   4101	{
>   4102		unsigned long j = jiffies;
>   4103		unsigned long old = READ_ONCE(rcu_barrier_last_throttle);
>   4104		unsigned long s = rcu_seq_snap(&rcu_state.barrier_sequence);
>   4105	
>   4106		while (time_after(old + HZ, j) || !try_cmpxchg(&rcu_barrier_last_throttle, &old, j + HZ)) {
>   4107			schedule_timeout_idle(HZ);
>   4108			if (rcu_seq_done(&rcu_state.barrier_sequence, s))
>   4109				return;
>   4110			old = READ_ONCE(rcu_barrier_last_throttle);
>   4111		}
>   4112		rcu_barrier();
>   4113	}
>   4114	
> 
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