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authorJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>2011-07-23 21:09:03 +0400
committerJames Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>2011-07-23 21:09:03 +0400
commit87045b033a62777337ae4aa62834876da09b5fb5 (patch)
tree26aefd28e436668ff906e42b1e0d75c056e33e01 /kernel/rcutree.c
parent0d83ab65ff1b54ce8b6cd172285cf71a38c4cceb (diff)
parentbfe159a51203c15d23cb3158fffdc25ec4b4dda1 (diff)
Merge branch 'scsi-fixes'
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcutree.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcutree.c26
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index 7e59ffb3d0b..ba06207b1dd 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -84,9 +84,32 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rcu_data, rcu_bh_data);
static struct rcu_state *rcu_state;
+/*
+ * The rcu_scheduler_active variable transitions from zero to one just
+ * before the first task is spawned. So when this variable is zero, RCU
+ * can assume that there is but one task, allowing RCU to (for example)
+ * optimized synchronize_sched() to a simple barrier(). When this variable
+ * is one, RCU must actually do all the hard work required to detect real
+ * grace periods. This variable is also used to suppress boot-time false
+ * positives from lockdep-RCU error checking.
+ */
int rcu_scheduler_active __read_mostly;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_scheduler_active);
+/*
+ * The rcu_scheduler_fully_active variable transitions from zero to one
+ * during the early_initcall() processing, which is after the scheduler
+ * is capable of creating new tasks. So RCU processing (for example,
+ * creating tasks for RCU priority boosting) must be delayed until after
+ * rcu_scheduler_fully_active transitions from zero to one. We also
+ * currently delay invocation of any RCU callbacks until after this point.
+ *
+ * It might later prove better for people registering RCU callbacks during
+ * early boot to take responsibility for these callbacks, but one step at
+ * a time.
+ */
+static int rcu_scheduler_fully_active __read_mostly;
+
#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST
/*
@@ -98,7 +121,6 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, rcu_cpu_kthread_status);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, rcu_cpu_kthread_cpu);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(unsigned int, rcu_cpu_kthread_loops);
DEFINE_PER_CPU(char, rcu_cpu_has_work);
-static char rcu_kthreads_spawnable;
#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_BOOST */
@@ -1467,6 +1489,8 @@ static void rcu_process_callbacks(struct softirq_action *unused)
*/
static void invoke_rcu_callbacks(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_data *rdp)
{
+ if (unlikely(!ACCESS_ONCE(rcu_scheduler_fully_active)))
+ return;
if (likely(!rsp->boost)) {
rcu_do_batch(rsp, rdp);
return;