mainlining shenanigans
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The cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced() function was added because NVME used WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueues and SRCU did not, which meant that NVME workqueues waiting on SRCU workqueues could result in deadlocks during low-memory conditions. However, SRCU now also has WQ_MEM_RECLAIM workqueues, so there is no longer a potential for deadlock. Furthermore, it turns out to be extremely hard to use cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced() correctly due to the fact that SRCU callback invocation accesses the srcu_struct structure's per-CPU data area just after callbacks are invoked. Therefore, the usual practice of using srcu_barrier() to wait for callbacks to be invoked before invoking cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced() fails because SRCU's callback-invocation workqueue handler might be delayed, which can result in cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced() being invoked (and thus freeing the per-CPU data) before the SRCU's callback-invocation workqueue handler is finished using that per-CPU data. Nor is this a theoretical problem: KASAN emitted use-after-free warnings because of this problem on actual runs. In short, NVME can now safely invoke cleanup_srcu_struct(), which avoids the use-after-free scenario. And cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced() is quite difficult to use safely. This commit therefore removes cleanup_srcu_struct_quiesced(), switching its sole user back to cleanup_srcu_struct(). This effectively reverts the following pair of commits: |
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