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    rcu: Remove dynticks false positives and RCU failures · c92b131b
    Paul E. McKenney authored
    
    
    Assertions in rcu_init_percpu_data() unknowingly relied on outgoing
    CPUs being turned off before reaching the idle loop.  Unfortunately,
    when running under kvm/qemu on x86, CPUs really can get to idle before
    begin shut off.  These CPUs are then born in dyntick-idle mode from an
    RCU perspective, which results in splats in rcu_init_percpu_data() and
    in RCU wrongly ignoring those CPUs despite them being active.  This in
    turn can cause RCU to end grace periods prematurely, potentially freeing
    up memory that the newly onlined CPUs were still using.  This is most
    decidedly not what we need to see in an RCU implementation.
    
    This commit therefore replaces the assertions in rcu_init_percpu_data()
    with code that forces RCU's dyntick-idle view of newly onlined CPUs to
    match reality.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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