From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758344Ab1EANWs (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 May 2011 09:22:48 -0400 Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:53886 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756306Ab1EANWa (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 May 2011 09:22:30 -0400 From: "Paul E. McKenney" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: mingo@elte.hu, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca, josh@joshtriplett.org, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, darren@dvhart.com, patches@linaro.org, "Paul E. McKenney" Subject: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 32/86] rcu: prevent call_rcu() from diving into rcu core if irqs disabled Date: Sun, 1 May 2011 06:21:12 -0700 Message-Id: <1304256126-26015-32-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.3.2 In-Reply-To: <20110501132142.GA25494@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <20110501132142.GA25494@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This commit marks a first step towards making call_rcu() have real-time behavior. If irqs are disabled, don't dive into the RCU core. Later on, this new early exit will wake up the per-CPU kthread, which first must be modified to handle the cases involving callback storms. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney --- kernel/rcutree.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c index 963b4b1..a6fc20d 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c @@ -1839,6 +1839,13 @@ __call_rcu(struct rcu_head *head, void (*func)(struct rcu_head *rcu), /* Add the callback to our list. */ *rdp->nxttail[RCU_NEXT_TAIL] = head; rdp->nxttail[RCU_NEXT_TAIL] = &head->next; + rdp->qlen++; + + /* If interrupts were disabled, don't dive into RCU core. */ + if (irqs_disabled_flags(flags)) { + local_irq_restore(flags); + return; + } /* * Force the grace period if too many callbacks or too long waiting. @@ -1847,7 +1854,7 @@ __call_rcu(struct rcu_head *head, void (*func)(struct rcu_head *rcu), * invoking force_quiescent_state() if the newly enqueued callback * is the only one waiting for a grace period to complete. */ - if (unlikely(++rdp->qlen > rdp->qlen_last_fqs_check + qhimark)) { + if (unlikely(rdp->qlen > rdp->qlen_last_fqs_check + qhimark)) { /* Are we ignoring a completed grace period? */ rcu_process_gp_end(rsp, rdp); -- 1.7.3.2