Commit 630c7ed9 authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney

rcu: Don't wake rcuc/X kthreads on NOCB CPUs

Chris Friesen notice that rcuc/X kthreads were consuming CPU even on
NOCB CPUs.  This makes no sense because the only purpose or these
kthreads is to invoke normal (non-offloaded) callbacks, of which there
will never be any on NOCB CPUs.  This problem was due to a bug in
cpu_has_callbacks_ready_to_invoke(), which should have been checking
->nxttail[RCU_NEXT_TAIL] for NULL, but which was instead (incorrectly)
checking ->nxttail[RCU_DONE_TAIL].  Because ->nxttail[RCU_DONE_TAIL] is
never NULL, the only effect is to cause the rcuc/X kthread to execute
when it should not do so.

This commit therefore checks ->nxttail[RCU_NEXT_TAIL], which is NULL
for NOCB CPUs.
Reported-by: default avatarChris Friesen <chris.friesen@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
parent 1626c365
......@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ static int
cpu_has_callbacks_ready_to_invoke(struct rcu_data *rdp)
{
return &rdp->nxtlist != rdp->nxttail[RCU_DONE_TAIL] &&
rdp->nxttail[RCU_DONE_TAIL] != NULL;
rdp->nxttail[RCU_NEXT_TAIL] != NULL;
}
/*
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