As of:
29494be71a ("rcu,cleanup: simplify the code when cpu is dying")
RCU adopts callbacks from the dying CPU in its CPU_DYING notifier,
which means that any callbacks posted by later CPU_DYING notifiers
are ignored until the CPU comes back online.
A WARN_ON_ONCE() was added to __call_rcu() by:
e560140008 ("rcu: Simplify offline processing")
to check for this condition. Although this condition did not trigger
(at least as far as I know) during -next testing, it did recently
trigger in mainline:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/2/34
What is needed longer term is for RCU's CPU_DEAD notifier to adopt any
callbacks that were posted by CPU_DYING notifiers, however, the Linux
kernel has been running with this sort of thing happening for quite
some time. So the only thing that qualifies as a regression is the
WARN_ON_ONCE(), which this commit removes.
Making RCU's CPU_DEAD notifier adopt callbacks posted by CPU_DYING
notifiers is a topic for the 3.5 release of the Linux kernel.
Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Paul E. McKenney
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