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author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2015-07-14 16:24:14 -0700 |
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committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2015-07-22 15:27:43 -0700 |
commit | 9a54f98e341d09793247a6e598012edefb5ae7cb (patch) | |
tree | 4a30b36698274e22b17651a0cad70500af2cef21 /Documentation/RCU | |
parent | 3ad81779ad35cd2e2ab34ba3f47f6f485696a105 (diff) | |
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rcu: Don't disable CPU hotplug during OOM notifiers
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.slusarz@gmail.com>
Reported-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Tested-by: Marcin Ślusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com>
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