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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2009-11-13 19:51:39 -0800
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-11-14 10:31:42 +0100
commit2f51f9884f6a36b0fe9636d5a1937e5cbd25723b (patch)
tree0505e111a9714b2bd022322f76e6c4de26861107 /kernel
parent560d4bc0df9a5e63b980432282d8c2bd3559ec74 (diff)
rcu: Eliminate __rcu_pending() false positives
Now that there are both ->gpnum and ->completed fields in the rcu_node structure, __rcu_pending() should check rdp->gpnum and rdp->completed against rnp->gpnum and rdp->completed, respectively, instead of the prior comparison against the rcu_state fields rsp->gpnum and rsp->completed. Given the old comparison, __rcu_pending() could return 1, resulting in a needless raise_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ). This useless work would happen if RCU responded to a scheduling-clock interrupt after the rcu_state fields had been updated, but before the rcu_node fields had been updated. Changing the comparison from the rcu_state fields to the rcu_node fields prevents this useless work from happening. 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: <12581706991966-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcutree.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index 24bbf2ce0605..9b36d6d7fb97 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -1403,6 +1403,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(call_rcu_bh);
*/
static int __rcu_pending(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_data *rdp)
{
+ struct rcu_node *rnp = rdp->mynode;
+
rdp->n_rcu_pending++;
/* Check for CPU stalls, if enabled. */
@@ -1427,13 +1429,13 @@ static int __rcu_pending(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_data *rdp)
}
/* Has another RCU grace period completed? */
- if (ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->completed) != rdp->completed) { /* outside lock */
+ if (ACCESS_ONCE(rnp->completed) != rdp->completed) { /* outside lock */
rdp->n_rp_gp_completed++;
return 1;
}
/* Has a new RCU grace period started? */
- if (ACCESS_ONCE(rsp->gpnum) != rdp->gpnum) { /* outside lock */
+ if (ACCESS_ONCE(rnp->gpnum) != rdp->gpnum) { /* outside lock */
rdp->n_rp_gp_started++;
return 1;
}