From: "Paul E. McKenney" <[email protected]> The rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_irqrestore() function is invoked at the end of an RCU read-side critical section (for example, directly from rcu_read_unlock()) and, if .need_qs is set, invokes rcu_qs() to report the new quiescent state. This works, except that rcu_qs() only updates per-CPU state, leaving reporting of the actual quiescent state to a later call to rcu_report_qs_rdp(), for example from within a later RCU_SOFTIRQ instance. Although this approach is exactly what you want if you are more concerned about efficiency than about short grace periods, in CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y kernels, short grace periods are the name of the game.
This commit therefore makes rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_irqrestore() directly invoke rcu_report_qs_rdp() in CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y, thus shortening grace periods. Historical note: To the best of my knowledge, causing rcu_read_unlock() to directly report a quiescent state first appeared in Jim Houston's and Joe Korty's JRCU. This is the second instance of a Linux-kernel RCU feature being inspired by JRCU, the first being RCU callback offloading (as in the RCU_NOCB_CPU Kconfig option). Reported-by Jann Horn <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]> --- kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 8 ++++++-- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h index 7ed55c5..1761ff4 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h @@ -459,8 +459,12 @@ rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_irqrestore(struct task_struct *t, unsigned long flags) return; } t->rcu_read_unlock_special.s = 0; - if (special.b.need_qs) - rcu_qs(); + if (special.b.need_qs) { + if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD)) + rcu_report_qs_rdp(rdp->cpu, rdp); + else + rcu_qs(); + } /* * Respond to a request by an expedited grace period for a -- 2.9.5
