Re: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 04/41] rcu: Add diagnostic formisaligned rcu_head structures

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Thu Feb 02 2012 - 11:27:08 EST


On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 05:00:26PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 01, 2012 at 11:41:22AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > The push for energy efficiency will require that RCU tag rcu_head
> > structures to indicate whether or not their invocation is time critical.
> > This tagging is best carried out in the bottom bits of the ->next
> > pointers in the rcu_head structures. This tagging requires that the
> > rcu_head structures be properly aligned, so this commit adds the required
> > diagnostics.
>
> > --- a/kernel/rcutree.c
> > +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
> > @@ -1707,6 +1707,7 @@ __call_rcu(struct rcu_head *head, void (*func)(struct rcu_head *rcu),
> > unsigned long flags;
> > struct rcu_data *rdp;
> >
> > + WARN_ON_ONCE((unsigned long)head & 0x3); /* Misaligned rcu_head! */
>
> I wonder if this should go out in one of the wrapper macros, so that the
> _ONCE means once per call site?

Certainly past experience introducing lockdep-RCU would argue that way. ;-)

However, my testing thus far (famous last words!) has found no
misalignments. So I expect that these will be caught as they are
inserted, so one at a time should be fine.

Thanx, Paul

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