From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
RCU's rcu_oom_notify() disables CPU hotplug in order to stabilize the
list of online CPUs, which it traverses. However, this is completely
pointless because smp_call_function_single() will quietly fail if invoked
on an offline CPU. Because the count of requests is incremented in the
rcu_oom_notify_cpu() function that is remotely invoked, everything works
nicely even in the face of concurrent CPU-hotplug operations.
Furthermore, in recent kernels, invoking get_online_cpus() from an OOM
notifier can result in deadlock. This commit therefore removes the
call to get_online_cpus() and put_online_cpus() from rcu_oom_notify().
Reported-by: Marcin Ślusarz <marcin.slus...@gmail.com>
Reported-by: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rient...@google.com>
---
kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 2 --
1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
index 9e922f111d63..80a7c17907fe 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
@@ -1679,12 +1679,10 @@ static int rcu_oom_notify(struct notifier_block *self,
*/
atomic_set(&oom_callback_count, 1);
- get_online_cpus();
for_each_online_cpu(cpu) {
smp_call_function_single(cpu, rcu_oom_notify_cpu, NULL, 1);
cond_resched_rcu_qs();
}
- put_online_cpus();
/* Unconditionally decrement: no need to wake ourselves up. */
atomic_dec(&oom_callback_count);
--
1.8.1.5
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