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<title>linux-toradex.git/kernel/rcu/tree.c, branch v5.14-rc2</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel for Apalis and Colibri modules</subtitle>
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<title>Merge branch 'core-rcu-2021.07.04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu</title>
<updated>2021-07-04T19:58:33+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-04T19:58:33+00:00</published>
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Pull RCU updates from Paul McKenney:

 - Bitmap parsing support for "all" as an alias for all bits

 - Documentation updates

 - Miscellaneous fixes, including some that overlap into mm and lockdep

 - kvfree_rcu() updates

 - mem_dump_obj() updates, with acks from one of the slab-allocator
   maintainers

 - RCU NOCB CPU updates, including limited deoffloading

 - SRCU updates

 - Tasks-RCU updates

 - Torture-test updates

* 'core-rcu-2021.07.04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: (78 commits)
  tasks-rcu: Make show_rcu_tasks_gp_kthreads() be static inline
  rcu-tasks: Make ksoftirqd provide RCU Tasks quiescent states
  rcu: Add missing __releases() annotation
  rcu: Remove obsolete rcu_read_unlock() deadlock commentary
  rcu: Improve comments describing RCU read-side critical sections
  rcu: Create an unrcu_pointer() to remove __rcu from a pointer
  srcu: Early test SRCU polling start
  rcu: Fix various typos in comments
  rcu/nocb: Unify timers
  rcu/nocb: Prepare for fine-grained deferred wakeup
  rcu/nocb: Only cancel nocb timer if not polling
  rcu/nocb: Delete bypass_timer upon nocb_gp wakeup
  rcu/nocb: Cancel nocb_timer upon nocb_gp wakeup
  rcu/nocb: Allow de-offloading rdp leader
  rcu/nocb: Directly call __wake_nocb_gp() from bypass timer
  rcu: Don't penalize priority boosting when there is nothing to boost
  rcu: Point to documentation of ordering guarantees
  rcu: Make rcu_gp_cleanup() be noinline for tracing
  rcu: Restrict RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD to at most four CPUs
  rcu: Make show_rcu_gp_kthreads() dump rcu_node structures blocking GP
  ...
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Pull RCU updates from Paul McKenney:

 - Bitmap parsing support for "all" as an alias for all bits

 - Documentation updates

 - Miscellaneous fixes, including some that overlap into mm and lockdep

 - kvfree_rcu() updates

 - mem_dump_obj() updates, with acks from one of the slab-allocator
   maintainers

 - RCU NOCB CPU updates, including limited deoffloading

 - SRCU updates

 - Tasks-RCU updates

 - Torture-test updates

* 'core-rcu-2021.07.04' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu: (78 commits)
  tasks-rcu: Make show_rcu_tasks_gp_kthreads() be static inline
  rcu-tasks: Make ksoftirqd provide RCU Tasks quiescent states
  rcu: Add missing __releases() annotation
  rcu: Remove obsolete rcu_read_unlock() deadlock commentary
  rcu: Improve comments describing RCU read-side critical sections
  rcu: Create an unrcu_pointer() to remove __rcu from a pointer
  srcu: Early test SRCU polling start
  rcu: Fix various typos in comments
  rcu/nocb: Unify timers
  rcu/nocb: Prepare for fine-grained deferred wakeup
  rcu/nocb: Only cancel nocb timer if not polling
  rcu/nocb: Delete bypass_timer upon nocb_gp wakeup
  rcu/nocb: Cancel nocb_timer upon nocb_gp wakeup
  rcu/nocb: Allow de-offloading rdp leader
  rcu/nocb: Directly call __wake_nocb_gp() from bypass timer
  rcu: Don't penalize priority boosting when there is nothing to boost
  rcu: Point to documentation of ordering guarantees
  rcu: Make rcu_gp_cleanup() be noinline for tracing
  rcu: Restrict RCU_STRICT_GRACE_PERIOD to at most four CPUs
  rcu: Make show_rcu_gp_kthreads() dump rcu_node structures blocking GP
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kernel.h: split out panic and oops helpers</title>
<updated>2021-07-01T18:06:04+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Andy Shevchenko</name>
<email>andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com</email>
</author>
<published>2021-07-01T01:54:59+00:00</published>
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kernel.h is being used as a dump for all kinds of stuff for a long time.
Here is the attempt to start cleaning it up by splitting out panic and
oops helpers.

There are several purposes of doing this:
- dropping dependency in bug.h
- dropping a loop by moving out panic_notifier.h
- unload kernel.h from something which has its own domain

At the same time convert users tree-wide to use new headers, although for
the time being include new header back to kernel.h to avoid twisted
indirected includes for existing users.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: thread_info.h needs limits.h]
[andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com: ia64 fix]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210520130557.55277-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210511074137.33666-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson &lt;bjorn.andersson@linaro.org&gt;
Co-developed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Corey Minyard &lt;cminyard@mvista.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Sebastian Reichel &lt;sre@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt; # parisc
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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kernel.h is being used as a dump for all kinds of stuff for a long time.
Here is the attempt to start cleaning it up by splitting out panic and
oops helpers.

There are several purposes of doing this:
- dropping dependency in bug.h
- dropping a loop by moving out panic_notifier.h
- unload kernel.h from something which has its own domain

At the same time convert users tree-wide to use new headers, although for
the time being include new header back to kernel.h to avoid twisted
indirected includes for existing users.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: thread_info.h needs limits.h]
[andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com: ia64 fix]
  Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210520130557.55277-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210511074137.33666-1-andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko &lt;andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Bjorn Andersson &lt;bjorn.andersson@linaro.org&gt;
Co-developed-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport &lt;rppt@linux.ibm.com&gt;
Acked-by: Corey Minyard &lt;cminyard@mvista.com&gt;
Acked-by: Christian Brauner &lt;christian.brauner@ubuntu.com&gt;
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann &lt;arnd@arndb.de&gt;
Acked-by: Kees Cook &lt;keescook@chromium.org&gt;
Acked-by: Wei Liu &lt;wei.liu@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Rasmus Villemoes &lt;linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Acked-by: Sebastian Reichel &lt;sre@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Luis Chamberlain &lt;mcgrof@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Stephen Boyd &lt;sboyd@kernel.org&gt;
Acked-by: Thomas Bogendoerfer &lt;tsbogend@alpha.franken.de&gt;
Acked-by: Helge Deller &lt;deller@gmx.de&gt; # parisc
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branches 'bitmaprange.2021.05.10c', 'doc.2021.05.10c', 'fixes.2021.05.13a', 'kvfree_rcu.2021.05.10c', 'mmdumpobj.2021.05.10c', 'nocb.2021.05.12a', 'srcu.2021.05.12a', 'tasks.2021.05.18a' and 'torture.2021.05.10c' into HEAD</title>
<updated>2021-05-18T17:56:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-05-18T17:56:19+00:00</published>
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bitmaprange.2021.05.10c: Allow "all" for bitmap ranges.
doc.2021.05.10c: Documentation updates.
fixes.2021.05.13a: Miscellaneous fixes.
kvfree_rcu.2021.05.10c: kvfree_rcu() updates.
mmdumpobj.2021.05.10c: mem_dump_obj() updates.
nocb.2021.05.12a: RCU NOCB CPU updates, including limited deoffloading.
srcu.2021.05.12a: SRCU updates.
tasks.2021.05.18a: Tasks-RCU updates.
torture.2021.05.10c: Torture-test updates.
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bitmaprange.2021.05.10c: Allow "all" for bitmap ranges.
doc.2021.05.10c: Documentation updates.
fixes.2021.05.13a: Miscellaneous fixes.
kvfree_rcu.2021.05.10c: kvfree_rcu() updates.
mmdumpobj.2021.05.10c: mem_dump_obj() updates.
nocb.2021.05.12a: RCU NOCB CPU updates, including limited deoffloading.
srcu.2021.05.12a: SRCU updates.
tasks.2021.05.18a: Tasks-RCU updates.
torture.2021.05.10c: Torture-test updates.
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu-tasks: Make ksoftirqd provide RCU Tasks quiescent states</title>
<updated>2021-05-18T17:54:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-25T00:08:48+00:00</published>
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Heavy networking load can cause a CPU to execute continuously and
indefinitely within ksoftirqd, in which case there will be no voluntary
task switches and thus no RCU-tasks quiescent states.  This commit
therefore causes the exiting rcu_softirq_qs() to provide an RCU-tasks
quiescent state.

This of course means that __do_softirq() and its callers cannot be
invoked from within a tracing trampoline.

Reported-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
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Heavy networking load can cause a CPU to execute continuously and
indefinitely within ksoftirqd, in which case there will be no voluntary
task switches and thus no RCU-tasks quiescent states.  This commit
therefore causes the exiting rcu_softirq_qs() to provide an RCU-tasks
quiescent state.

This of course means that __do_softirq() and its callers cannot be
invoked from within a tracing trampoline.

Reported-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@redhat.com&gt;
Tested-by: Toke Høiland-Jørgensen &lt;toke@redhat.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Steven Rostedt &lt;rostedt@goodmis.org&gt;
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu &lt;mhiramat@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Improve comments describing RCU read-side critical sections</title>
<updated>2021-05-13T16:13:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-29T18:18:01+00:00</published>
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There are a number of places that call out the fact that preempt-disable
regions of code now act as RCU read-side critical sections, where
preempt-disable regions of code include irq-disable regions of code,
bh-disable regions of code, hardirq handlers, and NMI handlers.  However,
someone relying solely on (for example) the call_rcu() header comment
might well have no idea that preempt-disable regions of code have RCU
semantics.

This commit therefore updates the header comments for
call_rcu(), synchronize_rcu(), rcu_dereference_bh_check(), and
rcu_dereference_sched_check() to call out these new(ish) forms of RCU
readers.

Reported-by: Michel Lespinasse &lt;michel@lespinasse.org&gt;
[ paulmck: Apply Matthew Wilcox and Michel Lespinasse feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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There are a number of places that call out the fact that preempt-disable
regions of code now act as RCU read-side critical sections, where
preempt-disable regions of code include irq-disable regions of code,
bh-disable regions of code, hardirq handlers, and NMI handlers.  However,
someone relying solely on (for example) the call_rcu() header comment
might well have no idea that preempt-disable regions of code have RCU
semantics.

This commit therefore updates the header comments for
call_rcu(), synchronize_rcu(), rcu_dereference_bh_check(), and
rcu_dereference_sched_check() to call out these new(ish) forms of RCU
readers.

Reported-by: Michel Lespinasse &lt;michel@lespinasse.org&gt;
[ paulmck: Apply Matthew Wilcox and Michel Lespinasse feedback. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Fix various typos in comments</title>
<updated>2021-05-12T19:11:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Ingo Molnar</name>
<email>mingo@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-03-23T05:29:10+00:00</published>
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Fix ~12 single-word typos in RCU code comments.

[ paulmck: Apply feedback from Randy Dunlap. ]
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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Fix ~12 single-word typos in RCU code comments.

[ paulmck: Apply feedback from Randy Dunlap. ]
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;rdunlap@infradead.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar &lt;mingo@kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu/nocb: Prepare for fine-grained deferred wakeup</title>
<updated>2021-05-12T19:10:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Frederic Weisbecker</name>
<email>frederic@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-02-23T00:10:10+00:00</published>
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Tuning the deferred wakeup level must be done from a safe wakeup
point. Currently those sites are:

* -&gt;nocb_timer
* user/idle/guest entry
* CPU down
* softirq/rcuc

All of these sites perform the wake up for both RCU_NOCB_WAKE and
RCU_NOCB_WAKE_FORCE.

In order to merge -&gt;nocb_timer and -&gt;nocb_bypass_timer together, we plan
to add a new RCU_NOCB_WAKE_BYPASS that really should be deferred until
a timer fires so that we don't wake up the NOCB-gp kthread too early.

To prepare for that, this commit specifies the per-callsite wakeup
level/limit.

Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;jiangshanlai@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraju@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
[ paulmck: Fix non-NOCB rcu_nocb_need_deferred_wakeup() definition. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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Tuning the deferred wakeup level must be done from a safe wakeup
point. Currently those sites are:

* -&gt;nocb_timer
* user/idle/guest entry
* CPU down
* softirq/rcuc

All of these sites perform the wake up for both RCU_NOCB_WAKE and
RCU_NOCB_WAKE_FORCE.

In order to merge -&gt;nocb_timer and -&gt;nocb_bypass_timer together, we plan
to add a new RCU_NOCB_WAKE_BYPASS that really should be deferred until
a timer fires so that we don't wake up the NOCB-gp kthread too early.

To prepare for that, this commit specifies the per-callsite wakeup
level/limit.

Cc: Josh Triplett &lt;josh@joshtriplett.org&gt;
Cc: Lai Jiangshan &lt;jiangshanlai@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Joel Fernandes &lt;joel@joelfernandes.org&gt;
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay &lt;neeraju@codeaurora.org&gt;
Cc: Boqun Feng &lt;boqun.feng@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker &lt;frederic@kernel.org&gt;
[ paulmck: Fix non-NOCB rcu_nocb_need_deferred_wakeup() definition. ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Point to documentation of ordering guarantees</title>
<updated>2021-05-10T23:22:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-16T23:53:16+00:00</published>
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Add comments to synchronize_rcu() and friends that point to
Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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Add comments to synchronize_rcu() and friends that point to
Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Make rcu_gp_cleanup() be noinline for tracing</title>
<updated>2021-05-10T23:22:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-11T17:49:52+00:00</published>
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Although there are trace events for RCU grace periods, these are only
enabled in CONFIG_RCU_TRACE=y kernels.  This commit therefore marks
rcu_gp_cleanup() noinline in order to provide a function that can be
traced that is invoked near the end of each grace period.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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Although there are trace events for RCU grace periods, these are only
enabled in CONFIG_RCU_TRACE=y kernels.  This commit therefore marks
rcu_gp_cleanup() noinline in order to provide a function that can be
traced that is invoked near the end of each grace period.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>rcu: Make RCU priority boosting work on single-CPU rcu_node structures</title>
<updated>2021-05-10T23:22:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Paul E. McKenney</name>
<email>paulmck@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2021-04-06T03:42:09+00:00</published>
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When any CPU comes online, it checks to see if an RCU-boost kthread has
already been created for that CPU's leaf rcu_node structure, and if
not, it creates one.  Unfortunately, it also verifies that this leaf
rcu_node structure actually has at least one online CPU, and if not,
it declines to create the kthread.  Although this behavior makes sense
during early boot, especially on systems that claim far more CPUs than
they actually have, it makes no sense for the first CPU to come online
for a given rcu_node structure.  There is no point in checking because
we know there is a CPU on its way in.

The problem is that timing differences can cause this incoming CPU to not
yet be reflected in the various bit masks even at rcutree_online_cpu()
time, and there is no chance at rcutree_prepare_cpu() time.  Plus it
would be better to create the RCU-boost kthread at rcutree_prepare_cpu()
to handle the case where the CPU is involved in an RCU priority inversion
very shortly after it comes online.

This commit therefore moves the checking to rcu_prepare_kthreads(), which
is called only at early boot, when the check is appropriate.  In addition,
it makes rcutree_prepare_cpu() invoke rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(), which
no longer does any checking for online CPUs.

With this change, RCU priority boosting tests now pass for short rcutorture
runs, even with single-CPU leaf rcu_node structures.

Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Scott Wood &lt;swood@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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When any CPU comes online, it checks to see if an RCU-boost kthread has
already been created for that CPU's leaf rcu_node structure, and if
not, it creates one.  Unfortunately, it also verifies that this leaf
rcu_node structure actually has at least one online CPU, and if not,
it declines to create the kthread.  Although this behavior makes sense
during early boot, especially on systems that claim far more CPUs than
they actually have, it makes no sense for the first CPU to come online
for a given rcu_node structure.  There is no point in checking because
we know there is a CPU on its way in.

The problem is that timing differences can cause this incoming CPU to not
yet be reflected in the various bit masks even at rcutree_online_cpu()
time, and there is no chance at rcutree_prepare_cpu() time.  Plus it
would be better to create the RCU-boost kthread at rcutree_prepare_cpu()
to handle the case where the CPU is involved in an RCU priority inversion
very shortly after it comes online.

This commit therefore moves the checking to rcu_prepare_kthreads(), which
is called only at early boot, when the check is appropriate.  In addition,
it makes rcutree_prepare_cpu() invoke rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(), which
no longer does any checking for online CPUs.

With this change, RCU priority boosting tests now pass for short rcutorture
runs, even with single-CPU leaf rcu_node structures.

Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior &lt;bigeasy@linutronix.de&gt;
Cc: Scott Wood &lt;swood@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Thomas Gleixner &lt;tglx@linutronix.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney &lt;paulmck@kernel.org&gt;
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