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authorPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>2012-02-02 23:42:04 (GMT)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-02-21 17:06:13 (GMT)
commit8a2ecf474d3ee8dd5d001490349e422cec52f39f (patch)
treeaa706d632a059dd10d9305cc6abbea5889a839d9 /kernel/rcutree.c
parent29e37d814188ac8d60f2120583704d3ef6d634b4 (diff)
downloadlinux-8a2ecf474d3ee8dd5d001490349e422cec52f39f.tar.xz
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 'kernel/rcutree.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcutree.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index 92b4776..eacc10b 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -402,6 +402,7 @@ void rcu_idle_enter(void)
rcu_idle_enter_common(rdtp, oldval);
local_irq_restore(flags);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_idle_enter);
/**
* rcu_irq_exit - inform RCU that current CPU is exiting irq towards idle
@@ -493,6 +494,7 @@ void rcu_idle_exit(void)
rcu_idle_exit_common(rdtp, oldval);
local_irq_restore(flags);
}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_idle_exit);
/**
* rcu_irq_enter - inform RCU that current CPU is entering irq away from idle