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Tree RCU guarantees that every online CPU has a memory barrier between any given grace period and any of that CPU's RCU read-side sections that must be ordered against that grace period. Since RCU doesn't always know where read-side critical sections are, the actual implementation guarantees order against prior and subsequent non-idle non-offline code, whether in an RCU read-side critical section or not. As a result, there does not need to be a memory barrier at the end of synchronize_rcu() and friends because the ordering internal to the grace period has ordered every CPU's post-grace-period execution against each CPU's pre-grace-period execution, again for all non-idle online CPUs. In contrast, SRCU can have non-idle online CPUs that are completely uninvolved in a given SRCU grace period, for example, a CPU that never runs any SRCU read-side critical sections and took no part in the grace-period processing. It is in theory possible for a given synchronize_srcu()'s wakeup to be delivered to a CPU that was completely uninvolved in the prior SRCU grace period, which could mean that the code following that synchronize_srcu() would end up being unordered with respect to both the grace period and any pre-existing SRCU read-side critical sections. This commit therefore adds an smp_mb() to the end of __synchronize_srcu(), which prevents this scenario from occurring. Reported-by: Lance Roy <ldr709@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Lance Roy <ldr709@gmail.com> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 4.12.x
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