rcu: Make force_quiescent_state() start grace period if needed
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 4 Jan 2010 23:09:09 +0000 (15:09 -0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Wed, 13 Jan 2010 08:06:05 +0000 (09:06 +0100)
commit46a1e34eda805501a8b32f26394faa435149f6d1
tree56359434e348fce6ffc8701fb4948dee1cb4c91f
parent45f014c52eef022873b19d6a20eb0ec9668f2b09
rcu: Make force_quiescent_state() start grace period if needed

Grace periods cannot be started while force_quiescent_state() is
active.  This is OK in that the affected CPUs will try again
later, but it does induce needless grace-period delays.  This
patch causes rcu_start_gp() to record a failed attempt to start
a grace period. When force_quiescent_state() prepares to return,
it then starts the grace period if there was such a failed
attempt.

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
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Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: dhowells@redhat.com
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
kernel/rcutree.c
kernel/rcutree.h