From 07079d5357a4d53c2b13126c4a38fb40e6e04966 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 15:09:02 -0800 Subject: rcu: Prohibit starting new grace periods while forcing quiescent states Reduce the number and variety of race conditions by prohibiting the start of a new grace period while force_quiescent_state() is active. A new fqs_active flag in the rcu_state structure is used to trace whether or not force_quiescent_state() is active, and this new flag is tested by rcu_start_gp(). If the CPU that closed out the last grace period needs another grace period, this new grace period may be delayed up to one scheduling-clock tick, but it will eventually get started. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 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: <126264655052-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- kernel/rcutree.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/rcutree.h') diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h index d2a0046f63b2..dc386a7c634f 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.h +++ b/kernel/rcutree.h @@ -277,6 +277,8 @@ struct rcu_state { u8 signaled ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp; /* Force QS state. */ + u8 fqs_active; /* force_quiescent_state() */ + /* is running. */ long gpnum; /* Current gp number. */ long completed; /* # of last completed gp. */ -- cgit v1.2.3