linux/arch/x86
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
..
boot doc: fix broken references 2011-09-27 18:08:04 +02:00
configs iommu: Rename the DMAR and INTR_REMAP config options 2011-09-21 10:22:03 +02:00
crypto 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
ia32 Cross Memory Attach 2011-10-31 17:30:44 -07:00
include/asm x86, efi: Calling __pa() with an ioremap()ed address is invalid 2011-12-09 08:32:26 +01:00
kernel nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop 2011-12-11 10:31:36 -08:00
kvm KVM: VMX: Check for automatic switch msr table overflow 2011-11-17 16:28:09 +02:00
lguest lguest: add export.h to lguest files for THIS_MODULE/EXPORT_SYMBOL 2011-10-31 19:32:13 -04:00
lib x86: Fix insn decoder for longer instruction 2011-10-10 09:05:51 +02:00
math-emu
mm thp: add compound tail page _mapcount when mapped 2011-12-09 07:50:28 -08:00
net net: filter: Just In Time compiler for x86-64 2011-04-27 23:05:08 -07:00
oprofile Merge branch 'urgent' of git://amd64.org/linux/rric into perf/urgent 2011-11-15 11:03:30 +01:00
pci x86: Fix files explicitly requiring export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE 2011-10-31 19:30:35 -04:00
platform x86, efi: Calling __pa() with an ioremap()ed address is invalid 2011-12-09 08:32:26 +01:00
power x86: Fix files explicitly requiring export.h for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE 2011-10-31 19:30:35 -04:00
tools
um fix braino in um patchset (mea culpa) 2011-11-21 12:10:21 -08:00
vdso Merge branch 'x86-cpu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip 2011-10-28 05:03:12 -07:00
video x86: fix up files really needing to include module.h 2011-10-31 19:30:36 -04:00
xen xen/pm_idle: Make pm_idle be default_idle under Xen. 2011-12-03 10:49:58 -08:00
.gitignore
Kbuild net: filter: Just In Time compiler for x86-64 2011-04-27 23:05:08 -07:00
Kconfig x86/intel_mid: Kconfig select fix 2011-12-06 14:40:50 +01:00
Kconfig.cpu x86: Add support for cmpxchg_double 2011-06-25 12:17:32 -07:00
Kconfig.debug doc: fix broken references 2011-09-27 18:08:04 +02:00
Makefile
Makefile.um um: take arch/um/sys-x86 to arch/x86/um 2011-11-02 14:15:05 +01:00
Makefile_32.cpu x86, cpu: Move AMD Elan Kconfig under "Processor family" 2011-04-08 13:01:25 -07:00