On 11 September 2026 08:21:25 BST, Kunwu Chan <[email protected]> wrote:

Better late than never.

>Atomic SRCU must remain in the small size state. Warn if this
>invariant is violated and avoid transitioning to big in that case.

Fair enough.

Reviewed-by: Bradley Morgan <[email protected]>


>
>Signed-off-by: Kunwu Chan <[email protected]>
>---
>Changes since v2:
>- Also prevent the transition when the atomic SRCU size-state
>  invariant is violated, per Paul McKenney's suggestion.
>-v2: https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/[email protected]/
>
>Changes since v1:
>- Drop the !is_atomic guard from v1 and add WARN_ON_ONCE() instead,
>  per Paul McKenney's suggestion.
>- v1: 
>https://lore.kernel.org/rcu/[email protected]/
>---
> kernel/rcu/srcutree.c | 7 +++++--
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
>index 84c022ec8e09..07db4e459b30 100644
>--- a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
>+++ b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c
>@@ -1073,8 +1073,11 @@ static void srcu_gp_end(struct srcu_struct *ssp, bool 
>is_atomic)
>               raw_spin_unlock_irq_rcu_node(sup);
>       }
> 
>-      /* Transition to big if needed. */
>-      if (ss_state != SRCU_SIZE_SMALL && ss_state != SRCU_SIZE_BIG) {
>+      /* Transition to big if needed, but never for atomic SRCU. */
>+      if (ssp->srcu_reader_flavor == SRCU_READ_FLAVOR_ATOMIC &&
>+          ss_state != SRCU_SIZE_SMALL) {
>+              WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
>+      } else if (ss_state != SRCU_SIZE_SMALL && ss_state != SRCU_SIZE_BIG) {

I like this fix.

>               if (ss_state == SRCU_SIZE_ALLOC)
>                       init_srcu_struct_nodes(ssp, GFP_KERNEL);
>               else
>

--- Thanks!
https://lore.kernel.org/all/[email protected]/

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