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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2009-11-10 13:37:22 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-11-10 22:48:50 +0100
commitc64ac3ce06558e534aec62b1fadeb0a3f111dac1 (patch)
treefaee8cf2d5cb47aeac4999a1e2163491a8e03734 /kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
parent4bcfe055030d9e953945def3864f7e6997b27782 (diff)
downloadlinux-c64ac3ce06558e534aec62b1fadeb0a3f111dac1.tar.bz2
rcu: Simplify association of quiescent states with grace periods
The rdp->passed_quiesc_completed fields are used to properly associate the recorded quiescent state with a grace period. It is OK to wrongly associate a given quiescent state with a preceding grace period, but it is fatal to associate a given quiescent state with a grace period that begins after the quiescent state occurred. Grace periods are numbered, and the following fields track them: o ->gpnum is the number of the grace period currently in progress, or the number of the last grace period to complete if no grace period is currently in progress. o ->completed is the number of the last grace period to have completed. These two fields are equal if there is no grace period in progress, otherwise ->gpnum is one greater than ->completed. But the rdp->passed_quiesc_completed field compared against ->completed, and if equal, the quiescent state is presumed to count against the current grace period. The earlier code copied rdp->completed to rdp->passed_quiesc_completed, which has been made to work, but is error-prone. In contrast, copying one less than rdp->gpnum is guaranteed safe, because rdp->gpnum is not incremented until after the start of the corresponding grace period. At the end of the grace period, when ->completed has incremented, then any quiescent periods recorded previously will be discarded. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <12578890421011-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcutree_plugin.h')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcutree_plugin.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
index c03edf766357..52075da70549 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
+++ b/kernel/rcutree_plugin.h
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_batches_completed);
static void rcu_preempt_qs(int cpu)
{
struct rcu_data *rdp = &per_cpu(rcu_preempt_data, cpu);
- rdp->passed_quiesc_completed = rdp->completed;
+ rdp->passed_quiesc_completed = rdp->gpnum - 1;
barrier();
rdp->passed_quiesc = 1;
}