From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755899AbbGQWW3 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2015 18:22:29 -0400 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.153]:58530 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754905AbbGQWU2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jul 2015 18:20:28 -0400 X-Helo: d03dlp02.boulder.ibm.com X-MailFrom: paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com X-RcptTo: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@kernel.org, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, josh@joshtriplett.org, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, dhowells@redhat.com, edumazet@google.com, dvhart@linux.intel.com, fweisbec@gmail.com, oleg@redhat.com, bobby.prani@gmail.com, "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 16/16] rcu: Don't disable CPU hotplug during OOM notifiers Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2015 15:20:16 -0700 Message-Id: <1437171616-13832-16-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.5 In-Reply-To: <1437171616-13832-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20150717221949.GA12304@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <1437171616-13832-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-TM-AS-MML: disable X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 15071722-0013-0000-0000-0000144307F2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: "Paul E. McKenney" RCU's rcu_oom_notify() disables CPU hotplug in order to stabilize the list of online CPUs, which it traverses. However, this is completely pointless because smp_call_function_single() will quietly fail if invoked on an offline CPU. Because the count of requests is incremented in the rcu_oom_notify_cpu() function that is remotely invoked, everything works nicely even in the face of concurrent CPU-hotplug operations. Furthermore, in recent kernels, invoking get_online_cpus() from an OOM notifier can result in deadlock. This commit therefore removes the call to get_online_cpus() and put_online_cpus() from rcu_oom_notify(). Reported-by: Marcin Ślusarz Reported-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Acked-by: David Rientjes --- kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h index 9e922f111d63..80a7c17907fe 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h @@ -1679,12 +1679,10 @@ static int rcu_oom_notify(struct notifier_block *self, */ atomic_set(&oom_callback_count, 1); - get_online_cpus(); for_each_online_cpu(cpu) { smp_call_function_single(cpu, rcu_oom_notify_cpu, NULL, 1); cond_resched_rcu_qs(); } - put_online_cpus(); /* Unconditionally decrement: no need to wake ourselves up. */ atomic_dec(&oom_callback_count); -- 1.8.1.5