From: Zqiang Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 06:42:24 +0000 (+0800) Subject: rcu: Update rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() comments for !PREEMPT kernels X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bca4fa8cb0f4c096b515952f64e560fd784a0514;p=linux.git rcu: Update rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() comments for !PREEMPT kernels In non-premptible kernels, tasks never do context switches within RCU read-side critical sections. Therefore, in such kernels, each leaf rcu_node structure's ->blkd_tasks list will always be empty. The comment on the non-preemptible version of rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() confuses this point, so this commit therefore fixes it. Signed-off-by: Zqiang Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h index 86772c95ed0ae..4152816dd29f6 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h @@ -932,10 +932,13 @@ static notrace bool rcu_preempt_need_deferred_qs(struct task_struct *t) return false; } -// Except that we do need to respond to a request by an expedited grace -// period for a quiescent state from this CPU. Note that requests from -// tasks are handled when removing the task from the blocked-tasks list -// below. +// Except that we do need to respond to a request by an expedited +// grace period for a quiescent state from this CPU. Note that in +// non-preemptible kernels, there can be no context switches within RCU +// read-side critical sections, which in turn means that the leaf rcu_node +// structure's blocked-tasks list is always empty. is therefore no need to +// actually check it. Instead, a quiescent state from this CPU suffices, +// and this function is only called from such a quiescent state. notrace void rcu_preempt_deferred_qs(struct task_struct *t) { struct rcu_data *rdp = this_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data);