Re: [PATCH 2/4 v2] nohz: Split extended quiescent state handlingfrom nohz switch

[Hans-Christian Egtvedt]

On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 05:20 +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> It is assumed that rcu won't be used once we switch to tickless
> mode and until we restart the tick. However this is not always
> true, as in x86-64 where we dereference the idle notifiers after
> the tick is stopped.
> 
> To prepare for fixing this, split the tickless mode switching and
> RCU extended quiescent state logics.
> Make tick_nohz_stop/restart_sched_tick() RCU agnostic but provide
> a new pair of APIs tick_nohz_enter/exit_idle() that keep the
> old behaviour by handling both the nohz mode and RCU extended
> quiescent states, then convert every archs to use these.
> 
> Archs that want to switch to extended QS to some custom points
> can do it later by using tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick() and
> rcu_enter_nohz() seperately.
> 
> v2: Remove rcu_exit_nohz() from tick_nohz_restart_sched_tick()
> 
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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>  arch/avr32/kernel/process.c            |    4 +-

For the AVR32 related bits

Acked-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@xxxxxxxxx>

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Hans-Christian Egtvedt

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