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authorJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2011-01-10 09:46:24 +1100
committerJames Morris <jmorris@namei.org>2011-01-10 09:46:24 +1100
commitd2e7ad19229f982fc1eb731827d82ceac90abfb3 (patch)
tree98a3741b4d4b27a48b3c7ea9babe331e539416a8 /kernel/srcu.c
parentd03a5d888fb688c832d470b749acc5ed38e0bc1d (diff)
parent0c21e3aaf6ae85bee804a325aa29c325209180fd (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into next
Conflicts: security/smack/smack_lsm.c Verified and added fix by Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Ok'd by Casey Schaufler <casey@schaufler-ca.com> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/srcu.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/srcu.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/srcu.c b/kernel/srcu.c
index c71e0750053..98d8c1e80ed 100644
--- a/kernel/srcu.c
+++ b/kernel/srcu.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/smp.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/srcu.h>
static int init_srcu_struct_fields(struct srcu_struct *sp)
@@ -203,9 +204,14 @@ static void __synchronize_srcu(struct srcu_struct *sp, void (*sync_func)(void))
* all srcu_read_lock() calls using the old counters have completed.
* Their corresponding critical sections might well be still
* executing, but the srcu_read_lock() primitives themselves
- * will have finished executing.
+ * will have finished executing. We initially give readers
+ * an arbitrarily chosen 10 microseconds to get out of their
+ * SRCU read-side critical sections, then loop waiting 1/HZ
+ * seconds per iteration.
*/
+ if (srcu_readers_active_idx(sp, idx))
+ udelay(CONFIG_SRCU_SYNCHRONIZE_DELAY);
while (srcu_readers_active_idx(sp, idx))
schedule_timeout_interruptible(1);