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 v2 01/21] srcutiny: Make a Tiny SRCU grace period imply an RCU grace period
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2026 13:59:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261007205924.1983367-1-paulmck@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <546c81a7-f677-4d8e-a304-746b227058b0@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 5de9a69058383..32b37d63d58aa 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-07 20:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-07 20:59 [PATCH v2 0/21] Add atomic SRCU &c for v7.4 Paul E. McKenney
2026-10-07 20:59 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2026-10-07 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 02/21] srcutree: Suppress srcu_advance_state() mutex_lock in atomic Paul E. McKenney
2026-10-07 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 03/21] srcutree: Suppress to-big transition for atomic SRCU Paul E. McKenney
2026-10-07 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 04/21] srcutree: Add an atomic Tree SRCU Paul E. McKenney
2026-10-08 7:39 ` David Woodhouse
2026-10-08 15:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2026-10-07 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 05/21] srcutiny: Add an atomic Tiny SRCU Paul E. McKenney
2026-10-07 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 06/21] rcutorture: Add support for testing synchronize_srcu_atomic() Paul E. McKenney
2026-10-07 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 07/21] srcutree: Disable preemption across synchronize_srcu_atomic() Paul E. McKenney
2026-10-07 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 08/21] srcu: Use IRQ_WORK_INIT_HARD for srcu's irq_work Paul E. McKenney
2026-10-07 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 09/21] srcutree: Warn if Tiny SRCU readers are preempted Paul E. McKenney
2026-10-07 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 10/21] srcutree: Explicitly note DEFINE_SRCU() needs for srcu_barrier() Paul E. McKenney
2026-10-07 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 11/21] rcutorture: Add atomic-SRCU support to torture.sh Paul E. McKenney
2026-10-07 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 12/21] srcutree: Add reader-free fastpath to synchronize_srcu_atomic() Paul E. McKenney
2026-10-07 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 13/21] srcutree: Skip callback scheduling for atomic SRCU grace periods Paul E. McKenney
2026-10-07 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 14/21] srcutree: Remove srcu_barrier() sleep for atomic SRCU Paul E. McKenney
2026-10-07 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 15/21] srcu: Restrict atomic-SRCU non_block annotation to task context Paul E. McKenney
2026-10-07 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 16/21] srcutree: Make init_srcu_struct_atomic() prevent transition to big Paul E. McKenney
2026-10-07 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 17/21] srcutree: Don't transition atomic SRCU to big in srcu_gp_end() Paul E. McKenney
2026-10-07 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 18/21] srcutree: Skip torture to-big transition for atomic SRCU Paul E. McKenney
2026-10-07 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 19/21] srcutree: Add lockdep and early-boot checks to synchronize_srcu_atomic() Paul E. McKenney
2026-10-07 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 20/21] srcutiny: " Paul E. McKenney
2026-10-07 20:59 ` [PATCH v2 21/21] srcutree: Preserve IRQ state in synchronize_srcu_atomic() callchain Paul E. McKenney
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