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authorLai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>2012-02-22 13:29:06 -0800
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2012-04-30 10:48:20 -0700
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rcu: Increment upper bit only for srcu_read_lock()
The purpose of the upper bit of SRCU's per-CPU counters is to guarantee that no reasonable series of srcu_read_lock() and srcu_read_unlock() operations can return the value of the counter to its original value. This guarantee is require only after the index has been switched to the other set of counters, so at most one srcu_read_lock() can affect a given CPU's counter. The number of srcu_read_unlock() operations on a given counter is limited to the number of tasks in the system, which given the Linux kernel's current structure is limited to far less than 2^30 on 32-bit systems and far less than 2^62 on 64-bit systems. (Something about a limited number of bytes in the kernel's address space.) Therefore, if srcu_read_lock() increments the upper bits, then srcu_read_unlock() need not do so. In this case, an srcu_read_lock() and an srcu_read_unlock() will flip the lower bit of the upper field of the counter. An unreasonably large additional number of srcu_read_unlock() operations would be required to return the counter to its initial value, thus preserving the guarantee. This commit takes this approach, which further allows it to shrink the size of the upper field to one bit, making the number of srcu_read_unlock() operations required to return the counter to its initial value even more unreasonable than before. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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