On Thu, Jun 27, 2019 at 04:07:46PM +0900, Byungchul Park wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I tested if the WARN_ON_ONCE() is fired with my box and it was ok.

Looks pretty safe to me and nice clean up!

Acked-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <[email protected]>

 - Joel

> 
> Thanks,
> Byungchul
> 
> Changes from v1
> -. WARN_ON_ONCE() on failing to create rcu_boost_kthread.
> -. Changed title and commit message a bit.
> 
> ---8<---
> From 7100fcf82202f063f70f45def208ea5198412f5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Byungchul Park <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 15:58:10 +0900
> Subject: [PATCH v2] rcu: Change return type of rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread()
> 
> The return value of rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread() is not used any
> longer. Change return type of that function from int to void.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <[email protected]>
> ---
>  kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 17 ++++++++---------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
> index 1102765..3c8444e 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
> +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h
> @@ -1131,7 +1131,7 @@ static void rcu_preempt_boost_start_gp(struct rcu_node 
> *rnp)
>   * already exist.  We only create this kthread for preemptible RCU.
>   * Returns zero if all is well, a negated errno otherwise.
>   */
> -static int rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(struct rcu_node *rnp)
> +static void rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(struct rcu_node *rnp)
>  {
>       int rnp_index = rnp - rcu_get_root();
>       unsigned long flags;
> @@ -1139,25 +1139,24 @@ static int rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(struct 
> rcu_node *rnp)
>       struct task_struct *t;
>  
>       if (!IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU))
> -             return 0;
> +             return;
>  
>       if (!rcu_scheduler_fully_active || rcu_rnp_online_cpus(rnp) == 0)
> -             return 0;
> +             return;
>  
>       rcu_state.boost = 1;
>       if (rnp->boost_kthread_task != NULL)
> -             return 0;
> +             return;
>       t = kthread_create(rcu_boost_kthread, (void *)rnp,
>                          "rcub/%d", rnp_index);
> -     if (IS_ERR(t))
> -             return PTR_ERR(t);
> +     if (WARN_ON_ONCE(IS_ERR(t)))
> +             return;
>       raw_spin_lock_irqsave_rcu_node(rnp, flags);
>       rnp->boost_kthread_task = t;
>       raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore_rcu_node(rnp, flags);
>       sp.sched_priority = kthread_prio;
>       sched_setscheduler_nocheck(t, SCHED_FIFO, &sp);
>       wake_up_process(t); /* get to TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE quickly. */
> -     return 0;
>  }
>  
>  static void rcu_cpu_kthread_setup(unsigned int cpu)
> @@ -1265,7 +1264,7 @@ static void __init rcu_spawn_boost_kthreads(void)
>       if (WARN_ONCE(smpboot_register_percpu_thread(&rcu_cpu_thread_spec), 
> "%s: Could not start rcub kthread, OOM is now expected behavior\n", __func__))
>               return;
>       rcu_for_each_leaf_node(rnp)
> -             (void)rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(rnp);
> +             rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(rnp);
>  }
>  
>  static void rcu_prepare_kthreads(int cpu)
> @@ -1275,7 +1274,7 @@ static void rcu_prepare_kthreads(int cpu)
>  
>       /* Fire up the incoming CPU's kthread and leaf rcu_node kthread. */
>       if (rcu_scheduler_fully_active)
> -             (void)rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(rnp);
> +             rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(rnp);
>  }
>  
>  #else /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST */
> -- 
> 1.9.1
> 

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