[PATCH v3 09/15] rcu: convert process/thread iterator to for_each_process_thread_rculock

From: Ye Liu

Date: Fri Sep 11 2026 - 04:09:37 EST


From: Ye Liu <liuye@xxxxxxxxxx>

Replace the manual rcu_read_lock()/rcu_read_unlock() pair combined
with for_each_process_thread() loop in kernel/rcu/update.c with
for_each_process_thread_rculock(), which scopes the RCU read lock
to the loop body via scoped_guard(rcu).

No functional change.

Signed-off-by: Ye Liu <liuye@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@xxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: SJ Park <sj@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes (ARM) <ljs@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v3:
- Split from kernel/ patch in v2 (Peter Zijlstra, Steven Rostedt)

Changes in v2:
- Rename *_rcu to *_rculock
kernel/rcu/update.c | 4 +---
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/update.c b/kernel/rcu/update.c
index 2a778b8ab4ad..d8e0b5896db9 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/update.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/update.c
@@ -548,15 +548,13 @@ void synchronize_rcu_trivial_preempt(void)
struct task_struct *t;

smp_mb(); // Order prior accesses before grace-period start.
- rcu_read_lock(); // Protect task list.
- for_each_process_thread(g, t) {
+ for_each_process_thread_rculock(g, t) {
if (t == current)
continue; // Don't deadlock on ourselves!
// Order later rcu_read_lock() on other tasks after QS.
while (smp_load_acquire(&t->rcu_trivial_preempt_nesting))
continue;
}
- rcu_read_unlock();
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(synchronize_rcu_trivial_preempt);
#endif // #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TRIVIAL_PREEMPT_RCU)
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