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authorLi Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-09-19 08:52:32 -0700
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-09-23 07:42:52 -0700
commit22a767269a767b3ee91e4aaea353ac6bec6a912d (patch)
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parent58fac09566bb48592a09ef0fe0c7dbefa0cd2109 (diff)
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rcu: Move TINY_RCU quiescent state out of extended quiescent state
TINY_RCU's rcu_idle_enter_common() invokes rcu_sched_qs() in order
to inform the RCU core of the quiescent state implied by idle entry.
Of course, idle is also an extended quiescent state, so that the call
to rcu_sched_qs() speeds up RCU's invoking of any callbacks that might
be queued.  This speed-up is important when entering into dyntick-idle
mode -- if there are no further scheduling-clock interrupts, the callbacks
might never be invoked, which could result in a system hang.

However, processing callbacks does event tracing, which in turn
implies RCU read-side critical sections, which are illegal in extended
quiescent states.  This patch therefore moves the call to rcu_sched_qs()
so that it precedes the point at which we inform lockdep that RCU has
entered an extended quiescent state.

Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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