Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 21/26] m68k: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop

Josh Triplett
2012-09-01T00:02:53Z

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 02:05:38PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
>
> In the old times, the whole idle task was considered
> as an RCU quiescent state. But as RCU became more and
> more successful overtime, some RCU read side critical
> section have been added even in the code of some
> architectures idle tasks, for tracing for example.
>
> So nowadays, rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() must
> be called by the architecture to tell RCU about the part
> in the idle loop that doesn't make use of rcu read side
> critical sections, typically the part that puts the CPU
> in low power mode.
>
> This is necessary for RCU to find the quiescent states in
> idle in order to complete grace periods.
>
> Add this missing pair of calls in the m68k's idle loop.
>
> Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: m68k <linux-m68k@lists.linux-m68k.org>
> Cc: 3.2.x.. <stable@vger.kernel.org>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>

> arch/m68k/kernel/process.c | 3 +++
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/m68k/kernel/process.c b/arch/m68k/kernel/process.c
> index c488e3c..ac2892e 100644
> --- a/arch/m68k/kernel/process.c
> +++ b/arch/m68k/kernel/process.c
> @@ -25,6 +25,7 @@
> #include <linux/reboot.h>
> #include <linux/init_task.h>
> #include <linux/mqueue.h>
> +#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
>
> #include <asm/uaccess.h>
> #include <asm/traps.h>
> @@ -75,8 +76,10 @@ void cpu_idle(void)
> {
> /* endless idle loop with no priority at all */
> while (1) {
> + rcu_idle_enter();
> while (!need_resched())
> idle();
> + rcu_idle_exit();
> schedule_preempt_disabled();
> }
> }
> --
> 1.7.8
>