On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 05:34:18PM +0800, Menglong Dong wrote:
> migrate_disable() is called to disable migration in the kernel, and it is
> often used together with rcu_read_lock().
>
> However, with PREEMPT_RCU disabled, it's unnecessary, as rcu_read_lock()
> will always disable preemption, which will also disable migration.
>
> Introduce rcu_read_lock_dont_migrate() and rcu_read_unlock_migrate(),
> which will do the migration enable and disable only when !PREEMPT_RCU.
>
> Signed-off-by: Menglong Dong <[email protected]>
This works, but could be made much more compact with no performance
degradation. Please see below.
Thanx, Paul
> ---
> v2:
> - introduce rcu_read_lock_dont_migrate() instead of rcu_migrate_disable()
> ---
> include/linux/rcupdate.h | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> index 120536f4c6eb..8918b911911f 100644
> --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> +++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> @@ -962,6 +962,30 @@ static inline notrace void
> rcu_read_unlock_sched_notrace(void)
> preempt_enable_notrace();
> }
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU
> +static __always_inline void rcu_read_lock_dont_migrate(void)
> +{
Why not use IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU) to collapse the two sets of
definitions together?
> + migrate_disable();
> + rcu_read_lock();
> +}
> +
> +static inline void rcu_read_unlock_migrate(void)
> +{
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> + migrate_enable();
> +}
> +#else
> +static __always_inline void rcu_read_lock_dont_migrate(void)
> +{
> + rcu_read_lock();
> +}
> +
> +static inline void rcu_read_unlock_migrate(void)
> +{
> + rcu_read_unlock();
> +}
> +#endif
> +
> /**
> * RCU_INIT_POINTER() - initialize an RCU protected pointer
> * @p: The pointer to be initialized.
> --
> 2.50.1
>
