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SubjectRe: [PATCH] RCU: Fix macro name CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_TRACE
Thank you very much,
I went through the wordsmithed version, it looks exquisite!

Thank you for your encouragement.
Cheers
Zhouyi

On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 12:16 PM Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2021 at 08:56:45AM +0800, zhouzhouyi@gmail.com wrote:
> > From: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
> >
> > Hi Paul,
> >
> > During my studying of RCU, I did a grep in the kernel source tree.
> > I found there are 3 places where the macro name CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_TRACE
> > should be CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU instead.
> >
> > Without memory fencing, the idle/userspace task inspection may not
> > be so accurate.
> >
> > Thanks for your constant encouragement for my studying.
> >
> > Best Wishes
> > Zhouyi
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
>
> Good eyes, and those could cause real bugs, so thank you!
>
> Could you please check the wordsmithed version below?
>
> Thanx, Paul
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> commit fdcf5524b64f2cc8e6201447644079d9f8d4c821
> Author: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue Jul 13 08:56:45 2021 +0800
>
> RCU: Fix macro name CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_TRACE
>
> This commit fixes several typos where CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_TRACE should
> instead be CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU. Among other things, these typos
> could cause CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB=y kernels to suffer from
> memory-ordering bugs that could result in false-positive quiescent
> states and too-short grace periods.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> index cfeb43bfc719..434d12fe2d4f 100644
> --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> +++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
> @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ void synchronize_rcu_tasks(void);
> # define synchronize_rcu_tasks synchronize_rcu
> # endif
>
> -# ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_TRACE
> +# ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU
> # define rcu_tasks_trace_qs(t) \
> do { \
> if (!likely(READ_ONCE((t)->trc_reader_checked)) && \
> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
> index 27b74352cccf..a8e3acead6f6 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
> @@ -1498,17 +1498,17 @@ static void noinstr rcu_dynticks_task_exit(void)
> /* Turn on heavyweight RCU tasks trace readers on idle/user entry. */
> static void rcu_dynticks_task_trace_enter(void)
> {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_TRACE
> +#ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU
> if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB))
> current->trc_reader_special.b.need_mb = true;
> -#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_TRACE */
> +#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU */
> }
>
> /* Turn off heavyweight RCU tasks trace readers on idle/user exit. */
> static void rcu_dynticks_task_trace_exit(void)
> {
> -#ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_TRACE
> +#ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU
> if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU_READ_MB))
> current->trc_reader_special.b.need_mb = false;
> -#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_RCU_TRACE */
> +#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_TRACE_RCU */
> }

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