rcu: Remove rcu_needs_cpu_flush() to avoid false quiescent states

The purpose of rcu_needs_cpu_flush() was to iterate on pushing the
current grace period in order to help the current CPU enter dyntick-idle
mode.  However, this can result in failures if the CPU starts entering
dyntick-idle mode, but then backs out.  In this case, the call to
rcu_pending() from rcu_needs_cpu_flush() might end up announcing a
non-existing quiescent state.

This commit therefore removes rcu_needs_cpu_flush() in favor of letting
the dyntick-idle machinery at the end of the softirq handler push the
loop along via its call to rcu_pending().

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 25 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
index b4cbe5bf2326..4b9b9f8a4184 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
@@ -1948,15 +1948,6 @@ int rcu_needs_cpu(int cpu)
 	return rcu_needs_cpu_quick_check(cpu);
 }
 
-/*
- * Check to see if we need to continue a callback-flush operations to
- * allow the last CPU to enter dyntick-idle mode.  But fast dyntick-idle
- * entry is not configured, so we never do need to.
- */
-static void rcu_needs_cpu_flush(void)
-{
-}
-
 #else /* #if !defined(CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ) */
 
 #define RCU_NEEDS_CPU_FLUSHES 5
@@ -2032,20 +2023,4 @@ int rcu_needs_cpu(int cpu)
 	return c;
 }
 
-/*
- * Check to see if we need to continue a callback-flush operations to
- * allow the last CPU to enter dyntick-idle mode.
- */
-static void rcu_needs_cpu_flush(void)
-{
-	int cpu = smp_processor_id();
-	unsigned long flags;
-
-	if (per_cpu(rcu_dyntick_drain, cpu) <= 0)
-		return;
-	local_irq_save(flags);
-	(void)rcu_needs_cpu(cpu);
-	local_irq_restore(flags);
-}
-
 #endif /* #else #if !defined(CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ) */