From bfa00b4c4028f39357d16279ff0fddf550241593 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 09:54:10 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] rcu: Prevent offline CPUs from executing RCU core code

Earlier versions of RCU invoked the RCU core from the CPU_DYING notifier
in order to note a quiescent state for the outgoing CPU.  Because the
CPU is marked "offline" during the execution of the CPU_DYING notifiers,
the RCU core had to tolerate being invoked from an offline CPU.  However,
commit b1420f1c (Make rcu_barrier() less disruptive) left only tracing
code in the CPU_DYING notifier, so the RCU core need no longer execute
on offline CPUs.  This commit therefore enforces this restriction.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
---
 kernel/rcutree.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index f0c0c1b4b6d4..340a5f54b6af 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -1892,6 +1892,8 @@ static void rcu_process_callbacks(struct softirq_action *unused)
 {
 	struct rcu_state *rsp;
 
+	if (cpu_is_offline(smp_processor_id()))
+		return;
 	trace_rcu_utilization("Start RCU core");
 	for_each_rcu_flavor(rsp)
 		__rcu_process_callbacks(rsp);