linux/arch
Frederic Weisbecker 2bbb6817c0 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 <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:31:36 -08:00
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alpha Merge branch 'modsplit-Oct31_2011' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux 2011-11-06 19:44:47 -08:00
arm nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop 2011-12-11 10:31:36 -08:00
avr32 nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop 2011-12-11 10:31:36 -08:00
blackfin nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop 2011-12-11 10:31:36 -08:00
cris net: Fix references to deleted NET_ETHERNET Kconfig setting. 2011-11-09 19:26:53 -05:00
frv kgdb: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack() 2011-10-31 17:30:56 -07:00
h8300 Merge branch 'gpio/next' of git://git.secretlab.ca/git/linux-2.6 2011-10-29 07:27:45 -07:00
hexagon Hexagon: Add basic stacktrace functionality for Hexagon architecture. 2011-11-01 07:34:21 -07:00
ia64 Merge branch 'upstream/xen-settime' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jeremy/xen 2011-11-06 20:15:05 -08:00
m32r Merge branch 'trivial' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mmarek/kbuild 2011-11-06 18:54:53 -08:00
m68k m68k: Wire up process_vm_{read,write}v 2011-12-06 20:37:58 +01:00
microblaze nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop 2011-12-11 10:31:36 -08:00
mips nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop 2011-12-11 10:31:36 -08:00
mn10300 kgdb: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack() 2011-10-31 17:30:56 -07:00
openrisc nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop 2011-12-11 10:31:36 -08:00
parisc parisc: Add export.h to files needing EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE 2011-10-31 19:31:00 -04:00
powerpc nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop 2011-12-11 10:31:36 -08:00
s390 nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop 2011-12-11 10:31:36 -08:00
score score: drop unused Kconfig symbols 2011-10-31 23:39:51 +01:00
sh nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop 2011-12-11 10:31:36 -08:00
sparc nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop 2011-12-11 10:31:36 -08:00
tile nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop 2011-12-11 10:31:36 -08:00
um nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop 2011-12-11 10:31:36 -08:00
unicore32 nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop 2011-12-11 10:31:36 -08:00
x86 nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop 2011-12-11 10:31:36 -08:00
xtensa Merge branch 'timers-core-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2011-10-26 17:15:03 +02:00
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Kconfig Add Kconfig option ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 2011-08-03 11:12:37 -04:00