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Commit 90d2efe7 authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney
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rcu: Fix rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_irqrestore() strict QS reporting



Suppose we have a kernel built with both CONFIG_RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD=y
and CONFIG_PREEMPT=y.  Suppose further that an RCU reader from which RCU
core needs a quiescent state ends in rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_irqrestore().
This function will then invoke rcu_report_qs_rdp() in order to immediately
report that quiescent state.  Unfortunately, it will not have cleared
that reader's CPU's rcu_data structure's ->cpu_no_qs.b.norm field.
As a result, rcu_report_qs_rdp() will take an early exit because it
will believe that this CPU has not yet encountered a quiescent state,
and there will be no reporting of the current quiescent state.

This commit therefore causes rcu_preempt_deferred_qs_irqrestore() to
clear the ->cpu_no_qs.b.norm field before invoking rcu_report_qs_rdp().

Kudos to Boqun Feng and Neeraj Upadhyay for helping with analysis of
this issue!

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
parent d22959aa
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