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2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from rcu_boot_init_percpu_data() and friendsPaul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from rcu_boot_init_percpu_data(), rcu_init_percpu_data(), rcu_cleanup_dying_idle_cpu(), and rcu_migrate_callbacks(). While in the neighborhood, line the last three into rcutree_prepare_cpu(), rcu_report_dead() and rcutree_migrate_callbacks(), respectively. This also gets rid of the for_each_rcu_flavor() calls that were in those tree functions. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from _rcu_barrier() and friendsPaul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from _rcu_barrier_trace() and _rcu_barrier(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from __rcu_pending()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from __rcu_pending(), and also inlines it into rcu_pending(), removing the for_each_rcu_flavor() while in the neighborhood.. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from __call_rcu() and friendPaul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from __call_rcu_core() and __call_rcu(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from __rcu_process_callbacks()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from __rcu_process_callbacks(), and also inlines it into rcu_process_callbacks(), removing the for_each_rcu_flavor() while in the neighborhood. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from rcu_check_gp_start_stall()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from rcu_check_gp_start_stall(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from force-quiescent-state functionsPaul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from force_qs_rnp() and force_quiescent_state(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from rcu_do_batch()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from rcu_do_batch(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from CPU hotplug functionsPaul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from rcu_cleanup_dying_cpu() and rcu_cleanup_dead_cpu(). And, as long as we are in the neighborhood, inlines them into rcutree_dying_cpu() and rcutree_dead_cpu(), respectively. This also eliminates a pair of for_each_rcu_flavor() loops. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from rcu_check_quiescent_state()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from rcu_check_quiescent_state(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from rcu_gp_kthread() and friendsPaul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from rcu_gp_init(), rcu_gp_fqs_check_wake(), rcu_gp_fqs(), rcu_gp_cleanup(), and rcu_gp_kthread(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from rcu_gp_slow()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from rcu_gp_slow(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from note_gp_changes()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from note_gp_changes(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from __note_gp_changes()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from __note_gp_changes(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from rcu_advance_cbs()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from rcu_advance_cbs(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from rcu_accelerate_cbs_unlocked()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from rcu_accelerate_cbs_unlocked(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from rcu_accelerate_cbs()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from rcu_accelerate_cbs(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from rcu_gp_kthread_wake()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from rcu_gp_kthread_wake(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from rcu_future_gp_cleanup()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from rcu_future_gp_cleanup(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from check_cpu_stall()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from check_cpu_stall(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from print_cpu_stall()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from print_cpu_stall(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from print_other_cpu_stall()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from print_other_cpu_stall(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from rcu_stall_kick_kthreads()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from rcu_stall_kick_kthreads(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from rcu_dump_cpu_stacks()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from rcu_check_gp_kthread_starvation(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from record_gp_stall_check_time()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from record_gp_stall_check_time(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from rcu_get_root()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from rcu_get_root(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from rcu_gp_in_progress()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from rcu_gp_in_progress(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from rcu_report_qs_rdp()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from rcu_report_qs_rdp(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from rcu_report_unblock_qs_rnp(), which is particularly appropriate in this case given that this parameter is no longer used. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from rcu_report_qs_rsp()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from rcu_report_qs_rsp(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rsp parameter from rcu_report_qs_rnp()Paul E. McKenney
There now is only one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, so there is no need to pass it as a parameter to RCU's functions. This commit therefore removes the rsp parameter from rcu_report_qs_rnp(). Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rcu_data_p pointer to default rcu_data structurePaul E. McKenney
The rcu_data_p pointer references the default set of per-CPU rcu_data structures, that is, those that call_rcu() uses, as opposed to call_rcu_bh() and sometimes call_rcu_sched(). But there is now only one set of per-CPU rcu_data structures, so that one set is by definition the default, which means that the rcu_data_p pointer no longer serves any useful purpose. This commit therefore removes it. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rcu_state_p pointer to default rcu_state structurePaul E. McKenney
The rcu_state_p pointer references the default rcu_state structure, that is, the one that call_rcu() uses, as opposed to call_rcu_bh() and sometimes call_rcu_sched(). But there is now only one rcu_state structure, so that one structure is by definition the default, which means that the rcu_state_p pointer no longer serves any useful purpose. This commit therefore removes it. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove rcu_state structure's ->rda fieldPaul E. McKenney
The rcu_state structure's ->rda field was used to find the per-CPU rcu_data structures corresponding to that rcu_state structure. But now there is only one rcu_state structure (creatively named "rcu_state") and one set of per-CPU rcu_data structures (creatively named "rcu_data"). Therefore, uses of the ->rda field can always be replaced by "rcu_data, and this commit makes that change and removes the ->rda field. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Eliminate rcu_state structure's ->call fieldPaul E. McKenney
The rcu_state structure's ->call field references the corresponding RCU flavor's call_rcu() function. However, now that there is only ever one rcu_state structure in a given build of the Linux kernel, and that flavor uses plain old call_rcu(), there is not a lot of point in continuing to have the ->call field. This commit therefore removes it. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER()Paul E. McKenney
Now that a given build of the Linux kernel has only one set of rcu_state, rcu_node, and rcu_data structures, there is no point in creating a macro to declare and compile-time initialize them. This commit therefore just does normal declaration and compile-time initialization of these structures. While in the area, this commit also removes #ifndefs of the no-longer-ever-defined preprocessor macro RCU_TREE_NONCORE. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Express Tiny RCU updates in terms of RCU rather than RCU-schedPaul E. McKenney
This commit renames Tiny RCU functions so that the lowest level of functionality is RCU (e.g., synchronize_rcu()) rather than RCU-sched (e.g., synchronize_sched()). This provides greater naming compatibility with Tree RCU, which will in turn permit more LoC removal once the RCU-sched and RCU-bh update-side API is removed. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Fix Tiny call_rcu()'s EXPORT_SYMBOL() in response to a bug report from kbuild test robot. ]
2018-08-30rcu: Define RCU-sched API in terms of RCU for Tree RCU PREEMPT buildsPaul E. McKenney
Now that RCU-preempt knows about preemption disabling, its implementation of synchronize_rcu() works for synchronize_sched(), and likewise for the other RCU-sched update-side API members. This commit therefore confines the RCU-sched update-side code to CONFIG_PREEMPT=n builds, and defines RCU-sched's update-side API members in terms of those of RCU-preempt. This means that any given build of the Linux kernel has only one update-side flavor of RCU, namely RCU-preempt for CONFIG_PREEMPT=y builds and RCU-sched for CONFIG_PREEMPT=n builds. This in turn means that kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y have only one rcuo kthread per CPU. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Fix typo in rcu_get_gp_kthreads_prio() header commentPaul E. McKenney
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Drop "wake" parameter from rcu_report_exp_rdp()Paul E. McKenney
The rcu_report_exp_rdp() function is always invoked with its "wake" argument set to "true", so this commit drops this parameter. The only potential call site that would use "false" is in the code driving the expedited grace period, and that code uses rcu_report_exp_cpu_mult() instead, which therefore retains its "wake" parameter. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Update comments and help text for no more RCU-bh updatersPaul E. McKenney
This commit updates comments and help text to account for the fact that RCU-bh update-side functions are now simple wrappers for their RCU or RCU-sched counterparts. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Define RCU-bh update API in terms of RCUPaul E. McKenney
Now that the main RCU API knows about softirq disabling and softirq's quiescent states, the RCU-bh update code can be dispensed with. This commit therefore removes the RCU-bh update-side implementation and defines RCU-bh's update-side API in terms of that of either RCU-preempt or RCU-sched, depending on the setting of the CONFIG_PREEMPT Kconfig option. In kernels built with CONFIG_RCU_NOCB_CPU=y this has the knock-on effect of reducing by one the number of rcuo kthreads per CPU. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Report expedited grace periods at context-switch timePaul E. McKenney
This commit reduces the latency of expedited RCU grace periods by reporting a quiescent state for the CPU at context-switch time. In CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernels, if the outgoing task is still within an RCU read-side critical section (and thus still blocking some grace period, perhaps including this expedited grace period), then that task will already have been placed on one of the leaf rcu_node structures' ->blkd_tasks list. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Apply RCU-bh QSes to RCU-sched and RCU-preempt when safePaul E. McKenney
One necessary step towards consolidating the three flavors of RCU is to make sure that the resulting consolidated "one flavor to rule them all" correctly handles networking denial-of-service attacks. One thing that allows RCU-bh to do so is that __do_softirq() invokes rcu_bh_qs() every so often, and so something similar has to happen for consolidated RCU. This must be done carefully. For example, if a preemption-disabled region of code takes an interrupt which does softirq processing before returning, consolidated RCU must ignore the resulting rcu_bh_qs() invocations -- preemption is still disabled, and that means an RCU reader for the consolidated flavor. This commit therefore creates a new rcu_softirq_qs() that is called only from the ksoftirqd task, thus avoiding the interrupted-a-preempted-region problem. This new rcu_softirq_qs() function invokes rcu_sched_qs(), rcu_preempt_qs(), and rcu_preempt_deferred_qs(). The latter call handles any deferred quiescent states. Note that __do_softirq() still invokes rcu_bh_qs(). It will continue to do so until a later stage of cleanup when the RCU-bh flavor is removed. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Fix !SMP issue located by kbuild test robot. ]
2018-08-30rcu: Add warning to detect half-interruptsPaul E. McKenney
RCU's dyntick-idle code is written to tolerate half-interrupts, that it, either an interrupt that invokes rcu_irq_enter() but never invokes the corresponding rcu_irq_exit() on the one hand, or an interrupt that never invokes rcu_irq_enter() but does invoke the "corresponding" rcu_irq_exit() on the other. These things really did happen at one time, as evidenced by this ca-2011 LKML post: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20111014170019.GE2428@linux.vnet.ibm.com The reason why RCU tolerates half-interrupts is that usermode helpers used exceptions to invoke a system call from within the kernel such that the system call did a normal return (not a return from exception) to the calling context. This caused rcu_irq_enter() to be invoked without a matching rcu_irq_exit(). However, usermode helpers have since been rewritten to make much more housebroken use of workqueues, kernel threads, and do_execve(), and therefore should no longer produce half-interrupts. No one knows of any other source of half-interrupts, but then again, no one seems insane enough to go audit the entire kernel to verify that half-interrupts really are a relic of the past. This commit therefore adds a pair of WARN_ON_ONCE() calls that will trigger in the presence of half interrupts, which the code will continue to handle correctly. If neither of these WARN_ON_ONCE() trigger by mid-2021, then perhaps RCU can stop handling half-interrupts, which would be a considerable simplification. Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Reported-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org>
2018-08-30rcu: Remove now-unused ->b.exp_need_qs field from the rcu_special unionPaul E. McKenney
The ->b.exp_need_qs field is now set only to false, so this commit removes it. The job this field used to do is now done by the rcu_data structure's ->deferred_qs field, which is a consequence of a better split between task-based (the rcu_node structure's ->exp_tasks field) and CPU-based (the aforementioned rcu_data structure's ->deferred_qs field) tracking of quiescent states for RCU-preempt expedited grace periods. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Allow processing deferred QSes for exiting RCU-preempt readersPaul E. McKenney
If an RCU-preempt read-side critical section is exiting, that is, ->rcu_read_lock_nesting is negative, then it is a good time to look at the possibility of reporting deferred quiescent states. This commit therefore updates the checks in rcu_preempt_need_deferred_qs() to allow exiting critical sections to report deferred quiescent states. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcutorture: Test extended "rcu" read-side critical sectionsPaul E. McKenney
This commit makes the "rcu" torture type test extended read-side critical sections in order to test the deferral of RCU-preempt quiescent-state testing. In CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernels, this simply duplicates the setup already in place for the "sched" torture type. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2018-08-30rcu: Defer reporting RCU-preempt quiescent states when disabledPaul E. McKenney
This commit defers reporting of RCU-preempt quiescent states at rcu_read_unlock_special() time when any of interrupts, softirq, or preemption are disabled. These deferred quiescent states are reported at a later RCU_SOFTIRQ, context switch, idle entry, or CPU-hotplug offline operation. Of course, if another RCU read-side critical section has started in the meantime, the reporting of the quiescent state will be further deferred. This also means that disabling preemption, interrupts, and/or softirqs will act as an RCU-preempt read-side critical section. This is enforced by checking preempt_count() as needed. Some special cases must be handled on an ad-hoc basis, for example, context switch is a quiescent state even though both the scheduler and do_exit() disable preemption. In these cases, additional calls to rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() override the preemption disabling. Similar logic overrides disabled interrupts in rcu_preempt_check_callbacks() because in this case the quiescent state happened just before the corresponding scheduling-clock interrupt. In theory, this change lifts a long-standing restriction that required that if interrupts were disabled across a call to rcu_read_unlock() that the matching rcu_read_lock() also be contained within that interrupts-disabled region of code. Because the reporting of the corresponding RCU-preempt quiescent state is now deferred until after interrupts have been enabled, it is no longer possible for this situation to result in deadlocks involving the scheduler's runqueue and priority-inheritance locks. This may allow some code simplification that might reduce interrupt latency a bit. Unfortunately, in practice this would also defer deboosting a low-priority task that had been subjected to RCU priority boosting, so real-time-response considerations might well force this restriction to remain in place. Because RCU-preempt grace periods are now blocked not only by RCU read-side critical sections, but also by disabling of interrupts, preemption, and softirqs, it will be possible to eliminate RCU-bh and RCU-sched in favor of RCU-preempt in CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernels. This may require some additional plumbing to provide the network denial-of-service guarantees that have been traditionally provided by RCU-bh. Once these are in place, CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernels will be able to fold RCU-bh into RCU-sched. This would mean that all kernels would have but one flavor of RCU, which would open the door to significant code cleanup. Moving to a single flavor of RCU would also have the beneficial effect of reducing the NOCB kthreads by at least a factor of two. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> [ paulmck: Apply rcu_read_unlock_special() preempt_count() feedback from Joel Fernandes. ] [ paulmck: Adjust rcu_eqs_enter() call to rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() in response to bug reports from kbuild test robot. ] [ paulmck: Fix bug located by kbuild test robot involving recursion via rcu_preempt_deferred_qs(). ]