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Date:   Tue, 23 Aug 2022 09:56:24 +0800
From:   Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com>
To:     Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
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        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
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        Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>,
        Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
        Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>,
        Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan 
        <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>,
        "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 06/10] rcu/hotplug: Make rcutree_dead_cpu() parallel
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On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 02:08:38PM -0400, Joel Fernandes wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 10:16 PM Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > In order to support parallel, rcu_state.n_online_cpus should be
> > atomic_dec()
> 
> What does Parallel mean? Is that some kexec terminology?
> 

'Parallel' means concurrent. It is not a kexec terminology, instead,
should be SMP.

Thanks,

	Pingfan


> Thanks,
> 
>  - Joel
> 
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Pingfan Liu <kernelfans@gmail.com>
> > Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <quic_neeraju@quicinc.com>
> > Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
> > Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
> > Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
> > Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
> > Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> > Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@arm.com>
> > Cc: "Peter Zijlstra
> > Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
> > Cc: Kuppuswamy Sathyanarayanan <sathyanarayanan.kuppuswamy@linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: "Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@zx2c4.com>
> > To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > To: rcu@vger.kernel.org
> > ---
> >  kernel/cpu.c      | 1 +
> >  kernel/rcu/tree.c | 3 ++-
> >  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/kernel/cpu.c b/kernel/cpu.c
> > index 1261c3f3be51..90debbe28e85 100644
> > --- a/kernel/cpu.c
> > +++ b/kernel/cpu.c
> > @@ -1872,6 +1872,7 @@ static struct cpuhp_step cpuhp_hp_states[] = {
> >                 .name                   = "RCU/tree:prepare",
> >                 .startup.single         = rcutree_prepare_cpu,
> >                 .teardown.single        = rcutree_dead_cpu,
> > +               .support_kexec_parallel = true,
> >         },
> >         /*
> >          * On the tear-down path, timers_dead_cpu() must be invoked
> > diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> > index 79aea7df4345..07d31e16c65e 100644
> > --- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> > +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
> > @@ -2168,7 +2168,8 @@ int rcutree_dead_cpu(unsigned int cpu)
> >         if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU))
> >                 return 0;
> >
> > -       WRITE_ONCE(rcu_state.n_online_cpus, rcu_state.n_online_cpus - 1);
> > +       /* Hot remove path allows parallel, while Hot add races against remove on lock */
> > +       atomic_dec((atomic_t *)&rcu_state.n_online_cpus);
> >         /* Adjust any no-longer-needed kthreads. */
> >         rcu_boost_kthread_setaffinity(rnp, -1);
> >         // Stop-machine done, so allow nohz_full to disable tick.
> > --
> > 2.31.1
> >