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rcu: Add RCU_NONIDLE() for idle-loop RCU read-side critical sections

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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>
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Paul E. McKenney
2012-02-02 15:42:04 -08:00
committed by Paul E. McKenney
parent 29e37d8141
commit 8a2ecf474d
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@ -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