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Paul E. McKenney authored
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:
Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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