Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/18] rcu: Use single-stage IPI algorithm for RCU expedited grace period

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Oct 07 2015 - 09:25:17 EST


On Tue, Oct 06, 2015 at 09:29:23AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> @@ -3494,19 +3483,21 @@ static int sync_rcu_preempt_exp_done(struct rcu_node *rnp)
> * recursively up the tree. (Calm down, calm down, we do the recursion
> * iteratively!)
> *
> - * Caller must hold the root rcu_node's exp_funnel_mutex.
> + * Caller must hold the root rcu_node's exp_funnel_mutex and the
> + * specified rcu_node structure's ->lock.
> */
> -static void __maybe_unused rcu_report_exp_rnp(struct rcu_state *rsp,
> - struct rcu_node *rnp, bool wake)
> +static void __rcu_report_exp_rnp(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_node *rnp,
> + bool wake, unsigned long flags)
> + __releases(rnp->lock)
> {
> - unsigned long flags;
> unsigned long mask;
>
> - raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rnp->lock, flags);
> - smp_mb__after_unlock_lock();

lockdep_assert_held(&rnp->lock);

> +/*
> + * Report expedited quiescent state for specified node. This is a
> + * lock-acquisition wrapper function for __rcu_report_exp_rnp().
> + *
> + * Caller must hold the root rcu_node's exp_funnel_mutex.
> + */
> +static void __maybe_unused rcu_report_exp_rnp(struct rcu_state *rsp,
> + struct rcu_node *rnp, bool wake)
> +{
> + unsigned long flags;

lockdep_assert_held(&rcu_get_root(rsp)->exp_funnel_mutex);

> +
> + raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&rnp->lock, flags);
> + smp_mb__after_unlock_lock();
> + __rcu_report_exp_rnp(rsp, rnp, wake, flags);
> +}


Etc.. these are much harder to ignore than comments.
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