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Commit b3bb02fe authored by Frederic Weisbecker's avatar Frederic Weisbecker Committed by Paul E. McKenney
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rcu/nocb: Make rcu_core() callbacks acceleration (de-)offloading safe



When callbacks are offloaded, the NOCB kthreads handle the callbacks
progression on behalf of rcu_core().

However during the (de-)offloading process, the kthread may not be
entirely up to the task. As a result some callbacks grace period
sequence number may remain stale for a while because rcu_core() won't
take care of them either.

Fix this with forcing callbacks acceleration from rcu_core() as long
as the offloading process isn't complete.

Reported-and-tested-by: default avatarValentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Tested-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <valentin.schneider@arm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org>
Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <urezki@gmail.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
parent 24ee940d
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