On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:50:02AM +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
> According to the comment above rcu_cpu_has_callbacks(): "If there are
> no callbacks, all of them are deemed to be lazy".
> 
> So when both 'hc' and 'al' are false, '*all_lazy' should be true, not
> false.

If there are no callbacks, what must the value of "al" be at this
point in the code?  Given this, what is the effect of your patch?

                                                        Thanx, Paul

> Signed-off-by: Chen Gang <gang.c...@asianux.com>
> ---
>  kernel/rcutree.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
> index 5b53a89..9ee9565 100644
> --- a/kernel/rcutree.c
> +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
> @@ -2725,7 +2725,7 @@ static int rcu_cpu_has_callbacks(int cpu, bool 
> *all_lazy)
>                       hc = true;
>       }
>       if (all_lazy)
> -             *all_lazy = al;
> +             *all_lazy = !hc ? true : al;
>       return hc;
>  }
> 
> -- 
> 1.7.7.6
> 

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