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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2011-08-20 18:29:32 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2011-09-28 21:38:48 -0700 |
| commit | e90c53d3e238dd0b7b02964370e8fece1778df96 (patch) | |
| tree | 23e5b8623c2c37bd8a4656c66266209872f80701 /kernel/rcutree.h | |
| parent | 5b61b0baa9e80289c53413e573befc5790a04ac7 (diff) | |
| download | linux-e90c53d3e238dd0b7b02964370e8fece1778df96.tar.bz2 | |
rcu: Remove rcu_needs_cpu_flush() to avoid false quiescent states
The purpose of rcu_needs_cpu_flush() was to iterate on pushing the
current grace period in order to help the current CPU enter dyntick-idle
mode. However, this can result in failures if the CPU starts entering
dyntick-idle mode, but then backs out. In this case, the call to
rcu_pending() from rcu_needs_cpu_flush() might end up announcing a
non-existing quiescent state.
This commit therefore removes rcu_needs_cpu_flush() in favor of letting
the dyntick-idle machinery at the end of the softirq handler push the
loop along via its call to rcu_pending().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcutree.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcutree.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h index f509f728f9fb..849ce9ec51fe 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.h +++ b/kernel/rcutree.h @@ -458,7 +458,6 @@ static int rcu_preempt_needs_cpu(int cpu); static void __cpuinit rcu_preempt_init_percpu_data(int cpu); static void rcu_preempt_send_cbs_to_online(void); static void __init __rcu_init_preempt(void); -static void rcu_needs_cpu_flush(void); static void rcu_initiate_boost(struct rcu_node *rnp, unsigned long flags); static void rcu_preempt_boost_start_gp(struct rcu_node *rnp); static void invoke_rcu_callbacks_kthread(void); |