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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2010-02-25 22:06:47 (GMT)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2010-02-26 07:20:46 (GMT)
commitd9f1bb6ad7fc53c406706f47858dd5ff030b14a3 (patch)
tree4af519d68b396e372e6a5afbb5e968de3bacd123 /kernel/rcutree.c
parent056ba4a9bea5f32781a36b797c562fb731e5eaa6 (diff)
downloadlinux-d9f1bb6ad7fc53c406706f47858dd5ff030b14a3.tar.xz
rcu: Make rcu_read_lock_sched_held() take boot time into account
Before the scheduler starts, all tasks are non-preemptible by definition. So, during that time, rcu_read_lock_sched_held() needs to always return "true". This patch makes that be so. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1267135607-7056-2-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcutree.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcutree.c19
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index 525d398..335bfe4 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@
#include <linux/cpu.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/time.h>
-#include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
#include "rcutree.h"
@@ -81,9 +80,6 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rcu_data, rcu_sched_data);
struct rcu_state rcu_bh_state = RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER(rcu_bh_state);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rcu_data, rcu_bh_data);
-static int rcu_scheduler_active __read_mostly;
-
-
/*
* Return true if an RCU grace period is in progress. The ACCESS_ONCE()s
* permit this function to be invoked without holding the root rcu_node
@@ -1565,21 +1561,6 @@ static int rcu_needs_cpu_quick_check(int cpu)
rcu_preempt_needs_cpu(cpu);
}
-/*
- * This function is invoked towards the end of the scheduler's initialization
- * process. Before this is called, the idle task might contain
- * RCU read-side critical sections (during which time, this idle
- * task is booting the system). After this function is called, the
- * idle tasks are prohibited from containing RCU read-side critical
- * sections.
- */
-void rcu_scheduler_starting(void)
-{
- WARN_ON(num_online_cpus() != 1);
- WARN_ON(nr_context_switches() > 0);
- rcu_scheduler_active = 1;
-}
-
static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rcu_head, rcu_barrier_head) = {NULL};
static atomic_t rcu_barrier_cpu_count;
static DEFINE_MUTEX(rcu_barrier_mutex);