From 2bbb6817c0ac1b5f2a68d720f364f98eeb1ac4fd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 16:01:00 +0200 Subject: nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop 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, add two new APIs: tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() and tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu(). If no use of RCU is made in the idle loop between tick_nohz_enter_idle() and tick_nohz_exit_idle() calls, the arch must instead call the new *_norcu() version such that the arch doesn't need to call rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit(). Otherwise the arch must call tick_nohz_enter_idle() and tick_nohz_exit_idle() and also call explicitly: - rcu_idle_enter() after its last use of RCU before the CPU is put to sleep. - rcu_idle_exit() before the first use of RCU after the CPU is woken up. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Mike Frysinger Cc: Guan Xuetao Cc: David Miller Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt Cc: Ralf Baechle Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Russell King Cc: Paul Mackerras Cc: Heiko Carstens Cc: Paul Mundt Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c') diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c index 878572f70ac5..2e782a36d8f2 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c @@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ void cpu_idle(void) set_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG); while (1) { - tick_nohz_idle_enter(); + tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu(); while (!need_resched() && !cpu_should_die()) { ppc64_runlatch_off(); @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ void cpu_idle(void) HMT_medium(); ppc64_runlatch_on(); - tick_nohz_idle_exit(); + tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu(); preempt_enable_no_resched(); if (cpu_should_die()) cpu_die(); -- cgit v1.2.3