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From:   Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To:     Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
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Subject: Re: RCU use of swait
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On 2020-03-18 20:47:18 [-0400], Joel Fernandes wrote:
> In RCU, there are some truly-atomic code sections containing an
> swake_upXX() call, which would be considered atomic also on
> PREEMPT_RT, one example is:
> 
> rcu_core() contains an local_irq_{save,restore}() section.
> 
>         /* No grace period and unregistered callbacks? */
>         if (!rcu_gp_in_progress() &&
>             rcu_segcblist_is_enabled(&rdp->cblist) && !offloaded) {
>                 local_irq_save(flags);
>                 if (!rcu_segcblist_restempty(&rdp->cblist, RCU_NEXT_READY_TAIL))
>                         rcu_accelerate_cbs_unlocked(rnp, rdp);
>                 local_irq_restore(flags);
>         }
> 
> And rcu_accelerate_cbs_unlocked(rnp, rdp) calls rcu_gp_kthread_wake()
> which does an swake_up_one(), so I think we will have to leave it as
> swake_up() the way it is.

There is also this:
irq_exit()
 rcu_irq_exit()
  rcu_nmi_exit_common(true);
   rcu_prepare_for_idle()
    if (rcu_segcblist_pend_cbs(&rdp->cblist))
      rcu_gp_kthread_wake()
       swake_up_one(&rcu_state.gp_wq);

So I *think* this is another one.

> thanks,
> 
>  - Joel

Sebastian