y callbacks posted by later CPU_DYING notifiers are ignored until the CPU comes back online. A WARN_ON_ONCE() was added to __call_rcu() by: e56014000816 ("rcu: Simplify offline processing") to check for this condition. Although this condition did not trigger (at least as far as I know) during -next testing, it did recently trigger in mainline: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/4/2/34 What is needed longer term is for RCU's CPU_DEAD notifier to adopt any callbacks that were posted by CPU_DYING notifiers, however, the Linux kernel has been running with this sort of thing happening for quite some time. So the only thing that qualifies as a regression is the WARN_ON_ONCE(), which this commit removes. Making RCU's CPU_DEAD notifier adopt callbacks posted by CPU_DYING notifiers is a topic for the 3.5 release of the Linux kernel. Reported-by: Sergey Senozhatsky Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney £Âí7œ+x