Re: [PATCH 06/10] rcu: Assume rcu_report_dead() is always called locally

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Fri, Sep 08, 2023 at 10:35:59PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> rcu_report_dead() has to be called locally by the CPU that is going to
> exit the RCU state machine. Passing a cpu argument here is error-prone
> and leaves the possibility for a racy remote call.
> 
> Use local access instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>

I was going to ask for an assertion for "cpu" in cpu_die_early(), but
given that its value comes from smp_processor_id() just a few lines
earlier, there isn't a whole lot of point to that.  So:

Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c  | 2 +-
>  include/linux/rcupdate.h | 2 +-
>  kernel/cpu.c             | 2 +-
>  kernel/rcu/tree.c        | 4 ++--
>  4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> index edd63894d61e..ce672cb69f1c 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/smp.c
> @@ -401,7 +401,7 @@ void __noreturn cpu_die_early(void)
>  
>  	/* Mark this CPU absent */
>  	set_cpu_present(cpu, 0);
> -	rcu_report_dead(cpu);
> +	rcu_report_dead();
>  
>  	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU)) {
>  		update_cpu_boot_status(CPU_KILL_ME);
> diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> index 5e5f920ade90..aa351ddcbe8d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> +++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> @@ -122,7 +122,7 @@ static inline void call_rcu_hurry(struct rcu_head *head, rcu_callback_t func)
>  void rcu_init(void);
>  extern int rcu_scheduler_active;
>  void rcu_sched_clock_irq(int user);
> -void rcu_report_dead(unsigned int cpu);
> +void rcu_report_dead(void);
>  void rcutree_migrate_callbacks(int cpu);
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_GENERIC
> diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
> index 88a7ede322bd..86f08eafbd9f 100644
> --- a/kernel/cpu.c
> +++ b/kernel/cpu.c
> @@ -1368,7 +1368,7 @@ void cpuhp_report_idle_dead(void)
>  	struct cpuhp_cpu_state *st = this_cpu_ptr(&cpuhp_state);
>  
>  	BUG_ON(st->state != CPUHP_AP_OFFLINE);
> -	rcu_report_dead(smp_processor_id());
> +	rcu_report_dead();
>  	st->state = CPUHP_AP_IDLE_DEAD;
>  	/*
>  	 * We cannot call complete after rcu_report_dead() so we delegate it
> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> index 8b5ebef32e17..289c51417cbc 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> @@ -4551,11 +4551,11 @@ void rcu_cpu_starting(unsigned int cpu)
>   * from the outgoing CPU rather than from the cpuhp_step mechanism.
>   * This is because this function must be invoked at a precise location.
>   */
> -void rcu_report_dead(unsigned int cpu)
> +void rcu_report_dead(void)
>  {
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  	unsigned long mask;
> -	struct rcu_data *rdp = per_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data, cpu);
> +	struct rcu_data *rdp = this_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data);
>  	struct rcu_node *rnp = rdp->mynode;  /* Outgoing CPU's rdp & rnp. */
>  
>  	/*
> -- 
> 2.41.0
>