[PATCH tip/core/rcu 04/10] rcu/nocb: Allow de-offloading rdp leader

[Paul E. McKenney]

From: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>

The only thing that prevented an rdp leader from being de-offloaded was
the nocb_bypass_timer that used to lock the nocb_lock of the rdp leader.

If an rdp gets de-offloaded, it will subtlely ignore rcu_nocb_lock()
calls and do its job in the timer unsafely.  Worse yet:  If it gets
re-offloaded in the middle of the timer, rcu_nocb_unlock() would try to
unlock, leaving it imbalanced.

Now that the nocb_bypass_timer doesn't use the nocb_lock anymore,
de-offloading the rdp leader is now safe.  This commit therefore allows
the rdp leader to be de-offloaded.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 4 ----
 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
index 82e9ffb92347..015adec5bdc5 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
@@ -2489,10 +2489,6 @@ int rcu_nocb_cpu_deoffload(int cpu)
 	struct rcu_data *rdp = per_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data, cpu);
 	int ret = 0;
 
-	if (rdp == rdp->nocb_gp_rdp) {
-		pr_info("Can't deoffload an rdp GP leader (yet)\n");
-		return -EINVAL;
-	}
 	mutex_lock(&rcu_state.barrier_mutex);
 	cpus_read_lock();
 	if (rcu_rdp_is_offloaded(rdp)) {
-- 
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