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| author | Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> | 2012-01-09 14:29:15 (GMT) |
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| committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2012-01-11 00:54:20 (GMT) |
| commit | a5ccfee05a439b803640e94584056204501db31c (patch) | |
| tree | 2545bab092fe62924d5ccba8920c137b1e771ba6 /arch/powerpc/kernel | |
| parent | 7b3480f8b701170c046e1ed362946f5f0d005e13 (diff) | |
| download | linux-a5ccfee05a439b803640e94584056204501db31c.tar.xz | |
powerpc: Fix RCU idle and hcall tracing
Tracepoints should not be called inside an rcu_idle_enter/rcu_idle_exit
region. Since pSeries calls H_CEDE in the idle loop, we were violating
this rule.
commit a7b152d5342c (powerpc: Tell RCU about idle after hcall tracing)
tried to work around it by delaying the rcu_idle_enter until after we
called the hcall tracepoint, but there are a number of issues with it.
The hcall tracepoint trampoline code is called conditionally when the
tracepoint is enabled. If the tracepoint is not enabled we never call
rcu_idle_enter. The idle_uses_rcu check was also done at compile time
which breaks multiplatform builds.
The simple fix is to avoid tracing H_CEDE and rely on other tracepoints
and the hypervisor dispatch trace log to work out if we called H_CEDE.
This fixes a hang during boot on pSeries.
Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/powerpc/kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c index 7c66ce13..0a48bf5 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/idle.c @@ -50,12 +50,6 @@ static int __init powersave_off(char *arg) } __setup("powersave=off", powersave_off); -#if defined(CONFIG_PPC_PSERIES) && defined(CONFIG_TRACEPOINTS) -static const bool idle_uses_rcu = 1; -#else -static const bool idle_uses_rcu; -#endif - /* * The body of the idle task. */ @@ -67,8 +61,7 @@ void cpu_idle(void) set_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG); while (1) { tick_nohz_idle_enter(); - if (!idle_uses_rcu) - rcu_idle_enter(); + rcu_idle_enter(); while (!need_resched() && !cpu_should_die()) { ppc64_runlatch_off(); @@ -106,8 +99,7 @@ void cpu_idle(void) HMT_medium(); ppc64_runlatch_on(); - if (!idle_uses_rcu) - rcu_idle_exit(); + rcu_idle_exit(); tick_nohz_idle_exit(); preempt_enable_no_resched(); if (cpu_should_die()) |