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authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2008-02-29 18:46:50 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-02-29 18:46:50 +0100
commit2232c2d8e0a6a31061dec311f3d1cf7624bc14f1 (patch)
tree1d90ec0b8bd4e3c154e386f005ef596ee25fa53f /kernel/time
parentc0f4133b8f70769bc8dda977feb9a29109d6ccca (diff)
downloadlinux-2232c2d8e0a6a31061dec311f3d1cf7624bc14f1.tar.bz2
rcu: add support for dynamic ticks and preempt rcu
The PREEMPT-RCU can get stuck if a CPU goes idle and NO_HZ is set. The idle CPU will not progress the RCU through its grace period and a synchronize_rcu my get stuck. Without this patch I have a box that will not boot when PREEMPT_RCU and NO_HZ are set. That same box boots fine with this patch. This patch comes from the -rt kernel where it has been tested for several months. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time')
-rw-r--r--kernel/time/tick-sched.c3
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
index fa9bb73dbdb4..2968298f8f36 100644
--- a/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
+++ b/kernel/time/tick-sched.c
@@ -282,6 +282,7 @@ void tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick(void)
ts->idle_tick = ts->sched_timer.expires;
ts->tick_stopped = 1;
ts->idle_jiffies = last_jiffies;
+ rcu_enter_nohz();
}
/*
@@ -375,6 +376,8 @@ void tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick(void)
return;
}
+ rcu_exit_nohz();
+
/* Update jiffies first */
select_nohz_load_balancer(0);
now = ktime_get();