Near the beginning of rcu_gp_init() is a per-rcu_node loop that waits
for CPU-hotplug operations that might have started before the new
grace period did. This commit adds a comment explaining that this
wait does not exclude CPU-hotplug operations.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
*/
WRITE_ONCE(rcu_state.gp_state, RCU_GP_ONOFF);
rcu_for_each_leaf_node(rnp) {
+ // Wait for CPU-hotplug operations that might have
+ // started before this grace period did.
smp_mb(); // Pair with barriers used when updating ->ofl_seq to odd values.
firstseq = READ_ONCE(rnp->ofl_seq);
if (firstseq & 0x1)