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On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 05:13:16PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 04:27:38PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > All callers should still have RCU enabled.
>
> IIUC with that true we should be able to drop the RCU_NONIDLE() from
> drivers/perf/arm_pmu.c, as we only needed that for an invocation via a pm
> notifier.
>
> I should be able to give that a spin on some hardware.
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <pet...@infradead.org>
> > ---
> > kernel/cpu_pm.c | 9 ---------
> > 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)
> >
> > --- a/kernel/cpu_pm.c
> > +++ b/kernel/cpu_pm.c
> > @@ -30,16 +30,9 @@ static int cpu_pm_notify(enum cpu_pm_eve
> > {
> > int ret;
> >
> > - /*
> > - * This introduces a RCU read critical section, which could be
> > - * disfunctional in cpu idle. Copy RCU_NONIDLE code to let RCU know
> > - * this.
> > - */
> > - rcu_irq_enter_irqson();
> > rcu_read_lock();
> > ret = raw_notifier_call_chain(&cpu_pm_notifier.chain, event, NULL);
> > rcu_read_unlock();
> > - rcu_irq_exit_irqson();
>
> To make this easier to debug, is it worth adding an assertion that RCU is
> watching here? e.g.
>
> RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN(!rcu_is_watching(),
> "cpu_pm_notify() used illegally from EQS");
>
My understanding is that rcu_read_lock() implies something along those
lines when PROVE_RCU.
