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The only thing that prevented an rdp leader from being de-offloaded was the nocb_bypass_timer that used to lock the nocb_lock of the rdp leader. If an rdp gets de-offloaded, it will subtlely ignore rcu_nocb_lock() calls and do its job in the timer unsafely. Worse yet: If it gets re-offloaded in the middle of the timer, rcu_nocb_unlock() would try to unlock, leaving it imbalanced. Now that the nocb_bypass_timer doesn't use the nocb_lock anymore, de-offloading the rdp leader is now safe. This commit therefore allows the rdp leader to be de-offloaded. Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@gmail.com> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraju@codeaurora.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.