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When a NOCB CPU fails to create a nocb kthread on bringup, the CPU is then deoffloaded. The barrier mutex is locked at this stage. It is typically used to protect against concurrent (de-)offloading and/or concurrent rcu_barrier() that would otherwise risk a nocb locking imbalance. However: * rcu_barrier() can't run concurrently if it's the boot CPU on early boot-up. * rcu_barrier() can run concurrently if it's a secondary CPU but it is expected to see 0 callbacks on this target because it's the first time it boots. * (de-)offloading can't happen concurrently with smp_init(), as rcutorture is initialized later, at least not before device_initcall(), and userspace isn't available yet. * (de-)offloading can't happen concurrently with cpu_up(), courtesy of cpu_hotplug_lock. But: * The lazy shrinker might run concurrently with cpu_up(). It shouldn't try to grab the nocb_lock and risk an imbalance due to lazy_len supposed to be 0 but be extra cautious. * Also be cautious against resume from hibernation potential subtleties. So keep the locking and add some assertions and comments. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.