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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org> | 2012-02-02 15:42:04 -0800 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2012-02-21 09:06:13 -0800 |
| commit | 8a2ecf474d3ee8dd5d001490349e422cec52f39f (patch) | |
| tree | aa706d632a059dd10d9305cc6abbea5889a839d9 /include/linux/rcupdate.h | |
| parent | 29e37d814188ac8d60f2120583704d3ef6d634b4 (diff) | |
rcu: Add RCU_NONIDLE() for idle-loop RCU read-side critical sections
RCU, RCU-bh, and RCU-sched read-side critical sections are forbidden
in the inner idle loop, that is, between the rcu_idle_enter() and the
rcu_idle_exit() -- RCU will happily ignore any such read-side critical
sections. However, things like powertop need tracepoints in the inner
idle loop.
This commit therefore provides an RCU_NONIDLE() macro that can be used to
wrap code in the idle loop that requires RCU read-side critical sections.
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Acked-by: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/rcupdate.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/rcupdate.h | 27 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h index 6ee663c8745..937217425c4 100644 --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h +++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h @@ -190,6 +190,33 @@ extern void rcu_idle_exit(void); extern void rcu_irq_enter(void); extern void rcu_irq_exit(void); +/** + * RCU_NONIDLE - Indicate idle-loop code that needs RCU readers + * @a: Code that RCU needs to pay attention to. + * + * RCU, RCU-bh, and RCU-sched read-side critical sections are forbidden + * in the inner idle loop, that is, between the rcu_idle_enter() and + * the rcu_idle_exit() -- RCU will happily ignore any such read-side + * critical sections. However, things like powertop need tracepoints + * in the inner idle loop. + * + * This macro provides the way out: RCU_NONIDLE(do_something_with_RCU()) + * will tell RCU that it needs to pay attending, invoke its argument + * (in this example, a call to the do_something_with_RCU() function), + * and then tell RCU to go back to ignoring this CPU. It is permissible + * to nest RCU_NONIDLE() wrappers, but the nesting level is currently + * quite limited. If deeper nesting is required, it will be necessary + * to adjust DYNTICK_TASK_NESTING_VALUE accordingly. + * + * This macro may be used from process-level code only. + */ +#define RCU_NONIDLE(a) \ + do { \ + rcu_idle_exit(); \ + do { a; } while (0); \ + rcu_idle_enter(); \ + } while (0) + /* * Infrastructure to implement the synchronize_() primitives in * TREE_RCU and rcu_barrier_() primitives in TINY_RCU. |