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NOCB rdp's are part of a group whose list is iterated by the corresponding rdp leader. This list is RCU traversed because an rdp can be either added or deleted concurrently. Upon addition, a new iteration to the list after a synchronization point (a pair of LOCK/UNLOCK ->nocb_gp_lock) is forced to make sure: 1) we didn't miss a new element added in the middle of an iteration 2) we didn't ignore a whole subset of the list due to an element being quickly deleted and then re-added. 3) we prevent from probably other surprises... Although this layout is expected to be safe, it doesn't help anybody to sleep well. Simplify instead the nocb state toggling with moving the list modification from the nocb (de-)offloading workqueue to the rcuog kthreads instead. Whenever the rdp leader is expected to (re-)set the SEGCBLIST_KTHREAD_GP flag of a target rdp, the latter is queued so that the leader handles the flag flip along with adding or deleting the target rdp to the list to iterate. This way the list modification and iteration happen from the same kthread and those operations can't race altogether. As a bonus, the flags for each rdp don't need to be checked locklessly before each iteration, which is one less opportunity to produce nightmares. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <uladzislau.rezki@sony.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Zqiang <qiang1.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
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