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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: rcu@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 01/19] srcutiny: Make a Tiny SRCU grace period imply an RCU grace period
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2026 17:35:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260919003521.3134552-1-paulmck@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <13d6be93-8d9d-47a2-beb0-99c8a90938d4@paulmck-laptop>

In non-preemptible kernels, a Tiny SRCU grace period implies an RCU
grace period because any context switch suffices.  But in preemptible
kernels, it is possible for a Tiny SRCU grace period to elapse without
a corresponding RCU grace period.

Which was OK until RCU Tasks Trace was re-implemented in terms
of SRCU-fast, which in Tiny SRCU is implemented as SRCU, which is
already fast.  And RCU Tasks Trace grace periods are required to imply
RCU grace periods.  This commit therefore adds a synchronize_rcu(),
but only in preemptible kernels.

Because preemptible Tiny SRCU is not in mainline, this added call to
synchronize_rcu() will not slow anything down:  The comparison would
instead be with TREE SRCU.  But if this added call ever becomes a problem,
the Tiny SRCU srcu_struct structure could track whether or not this is for
SRCU-fast, and to add the synchronize_rcu() only in the SRCU-fast case.
However, at the moment, this is seen as unnecessary complexity.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c b/kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c
index 5de9a6905838..32b37d63d58a 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/srcutiny.c
@@ -159,6 +159,8 @@ void srcu_drive_gp(struct work_struct *wp)
 	WRITE_ONCE(ssp->srcu_idx, ssp->srcu_idx + 1);
 	WRITE_ONCE(ssp->srcu_gp_waiting, true);  /* srcu_read_unlock() wakes! */
 	preempt_enable();
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPTION))
+		synchronize_rcu(); // Needed for RCU Tasks Trace to imply RCU grace period
 	do {
 		// Deadlock issues prevent __srcu_read_unlock() from
 		// doing an unconditional wakeup, so polling is required.
-- 
2.40.1


  reply	other threads:[~2026-09-19  0:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-19  0:35 [PATCH 0/19] Add atomic SRCU Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-19  0:35 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2026-09-19  0:35 ` [PATCH 02/19] srcutree: Suppress srcu_advance_state() mutex_lock in atomic Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-19  0:35 ` [PATCH 03/19] srcutree: Suppress to-big transition for atomic SRCU Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-19  0:35 ` [PATCH 04/19] srcutree: Add an atomic Tree SRCU Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-19  0:35 ` [PATCH 05/19] srcutiny: Add an atomic Tiny SRCU Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-19  0:35 ` [PATCH 06/19] rcutorture: Add support for testing synchronize_srcu_atomic() Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-19  0:35 ` [PATCH 07/19] srcutree: Disable preemption across synchronize_srcu_atomic() Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-19  0:35 ` [PATCH 08/19] srcu: Use IRQ_WORK_INIT_HARD for srcu's irq_work Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-19  0:35 ` [PATCH 09/19] srcu: Fix WARN_ON() for rcu_segcblist_n_cbs() in cleanup_srcu_struct() Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-19  0:35 ` [PATCH 10/19] srcutree: Warn if Tiny SRCU readers are preempted Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-19  0:35 ` [PATCH 11/19] srcutree: Explicitly note DEFINE_SRCU() needs for srcu_barrier() Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-19  0:35 ` [PATCH 12/19] rcutorture: Add atomic-SRCU support to torture.sh Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-19  0:35 ` [PATCH 13/19] srcutree: Add reader-free fastpath to synchronize_srcu_atomic() Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-19  0:35 ` [PATCH 14/19] srcutree: Skip callback scheduling for atomic SRCU grace periods Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-19  0:35 ` [PATCH 15/19] srcutree: Remove srcu_barrier() sleep for atomic SRCU Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-19  0:35 ` [PATCH 16/19] srcu: Restrict atomic-SRCU non_block annotation to task context Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-19  0:35 ` [PATCH 17/19] srcutree: Make init_srcu_struct_atomic() prevent transition to big Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-19  0:35 ` [PATCH 18/19] srcutree: Don't transition atomic SRCU to big in srcu_gp_end() Paul E. McKenney
2026-09-19  0:35 ` [PATCH 19/19] srcutree: Skip torture to-big transition for atomic SRCU Paul E. McKenney

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