diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 2c7afe491c45..396abe0e0d01 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -1214,13 +1214,28 @@ static int rcu_implicit_dynticks_qs(struct rcu_data *rdp)
 		return 1;
 	}
 
-	/* If waiting too long on an offline CPU, complain. */
-	if (!(rdp->grpmask & rcu_rnp_online_cpus(rnp)) &&
-	    time_after(jiffies, rcu_state.gp_start + HZ)) {
+	/*
+	 * Complain if a CPU that is considered to be offline from RCU's
+	 * perspective has not yet reported a quiescent state.  After all,
+	 * the offline CPU should have reported a quiescent state during
+	 * the CPU-offline process, or, failing that, by rcu_gp_init()
+	 * if it ran concurrently with either the CPU going offline or the
+	 * last task on a leaf rcu_node structure exiting its RCU read-side
+	 * critical section while all CPUs corresponding to that structure
+	 * are offline.  This added warning detects bugs in any of these
+	 * code paths.
+	 *
+	 * The rcu_node structure's ->lock is held here, which excludes
+	 * the relevant portions the CPU-hotplug code, the grace-period
+	 * initialization code, and the rcu_read_unlock() code paths.
+	 *
+	 * For more detail, please refer to the "Hotplug CPU" section
+	 * of RCU's Requirements documentation.
+	 */
+	if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!(rdp->grpmask & rcu_rnp_online_cpus(rnp)))) {
 		bool onl;
 		struct rcu_node *rnp1;
 
-		WARN_ON(1);  /* Offline CPUs are supposed to report QS! */
 		pr_info("%s: grp: %d-%d level: %d ->gp_seq %ld ->completedqs %ld\n",
 			__func__, rnp->grplo, rnp->grphi, rnp->level,
 			(long)rnp->gp_seq, (long)rnp->completedqs);