From: Paul E. McKenney Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 03:13:54 +0000 (-0800) Subject: sched: Replace synchronize_sched() with synchronize_rcu() X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b290ebcf7bc4638b38c413f192963f4b74e45b7b;p=linux.git sched: Replace synchronize_sched() with synchronize_rcu() Now that synchronize_rcu() waits for preempt-disable regions of code as well as RCU read-side critical sections, synchronize_sched() can be replaced by synchronize_rcu(), in fact, synchronize_sched() is now completely equivalent to synchronize_rcu(). This commit therefore replaces synchronize_sched() with synchronize_rcu() so that synchronize_sched() can eventually be removed entirely. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra --- diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq.c index 22bd8980f32f8..835671f0f9170 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq.c +++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq.c @@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(cpufreq_add_update_util_hook); * * Clear the update_util_data pointer for the given CPU. * - * Callers must use RCU-sched callbacks to free any memory that might be - * accessed via the old update_util_data pointer or invoke synchronize_sched() + * Callers must use RCU callbacks to free any memory that might be + * accessed via the old update_util_data pointer or invoke synchronize_rcu() * right after this function to avoid use-after-free. */ void cpufreq_remove_update_util_hook(int cpu) diff --git a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c index 033ec7c45f13f..2efe629425be2 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c +++ b/kernel/sched/cpufreq_schedutil.c @@ -859,7 +859,7 @@ static void sugov_stop(struct cpufreq_policy *policy) for_each_cpu(cpu, policy->cpus) cpufreq_remove_update_util_hook(cpu); - synchronize_sched(); + synchronize_rcu(); if (!policy->fast_switch_enabled) { irq_work_sync(&sg_policy->irq_work);