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Up to now, RCU has assumed that the CPU-online process makes it from CPU_UP_PREPARE to set_cpu_online() within one jiffy. Given the recent rise of virtualized environments, this assumption is very clearly obsolete. Failing to meet this deadline can result in RCU paying attention to an incoming CPU for one jiffy, then ignoring it until the grace period following the one in which that CPU sets itself online. This situation might prove to be fatally disappointing to any RCU read-side critical sections that had the misfortune to execute during the time in which RCU was ignoring the slow-to-come-online CPU. This commit therefore updates RCU's internal CPU state-tracking information at notify_cpu_starting() time, thus providing RCU with an exact transition of the CPU's state from offline to online. Note that this means that incoming CPUs must not use RCU read-side critical section (other than those of SRCU) until notify_cpu_starting() time. Note also that the CPU_STARTING notifiers -are- allowed to use RCU read-side critical sections. (Of course, CPU-hotplug notifiers are rapidly becoming obsolete, so you need to act fast!) If a given architecture or CPU family needs to use RCU read-side critical sections earlier, the call to rcu_cpu_starting() from notify_cpu_starting() will need to be architecture-specific, with architectures that need early use being required to hand-place the call to rcu_cpu_starting() at some point preceding the call to notify_cpu_starting(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> |
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