rcu: add support for dynamic ticks and preempt rcu

The PREEMPT-RCU can get stuck if a CPU goes idle and NO_HZ is set. The
idle CPU will not progress the RCU through its grace period and a
synchronize_rcu my get stuck. Without this patch I have a box that will
not boot when PREEMPT_RCU and NO_HZ are set. That same box boots fine
with this patch.

This patch comes from the -rt kernel where it has been tested for
several months.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
This commit is contained in:
Steven Rostedt
2008-02-29 18:46:50 +01:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent c0f4133b8f
commit 2232c2d8e0
6 changed files with 259 additions and 4 deletions

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@@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ void irq_exit(void)
/* Make sure that timer wheel updates are propagated */
if (!in_interrupt() && idle_cpu(smp_processor_id()) && !need_resched())
tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick();
rcu_irq_exit();
#endif
preempt_enable_no_resched();
}