On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 05:48:56PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > On Fri, Apr 02, 2021 at 01:47:02AM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > > When an ssp has already started a grace period and queued an early work > > to flush after SRCU workqueues are created, we expect the ssp to be > > properly initialized already. So we can skip this step at this stage. > > > > Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> > > Cc: Boqun Feng <[email protected]> > > Cc: Lai Jiangshan <[email protected]> > > Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay <[email protected]> > > Cc: Josh Triplett <[email protected]> > > Cc: Joel Fernandes <[email protected]> > > Cc: Uladzislau Rezki <[email protected]> > > --- > > kernel/rcu/srcutree.c | 1 - > > 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) > > > > diff --git a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c > > index 036ff5499ad5..7197156418e4 100644 > > --- a/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c > > +++ b/kernel/rcu/srcutree.c > > @@ -1396,7 +1396,6 @@ void __init srcu_init(void) > > while (!list_empty(&srcu_boot_list)) { > > ssp = list_first_entry(&srcu_boot_list, struct srcu_struct, > > work.work.entry); > > - check_init_srcu_struct(ssp); > > You lost me on this one. What happens if the only pre-initialization > invocation on the statically allocated srcu_struct pointed to by ssp > was call_srcu()? I am not seeing how the initialization has already > happened in that case. > > What am I missing here?
call_srcu() -> __call_srcu() -> srcu_gp_start_if_needed() -> check_init_srcu_struct() ? Or is it me missing something?

