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author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2010-01-04 15:09:06 -0800 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-01-13 09:06:03 +0100 |
commit | 0f10dc826646134dce3e5751512b87d30f3903e4 (patch) | |
tree | 6d377b3714889a0ab148166a33105b3be14be0c1 /kernel/rcutree.h | |
parent | eb1ba45f1e7f6e626fefc063b340c7cbec9bd8c7 (diff) | |
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rcu: Eliminate rcu_process_dyntick() return value
Because a new grace period cannot start while we are executing
within the force_quiescent_state() function's switch statement,
if any test within that switch statement or within any function
called from that switch statement shows that the current grace
period has ended, we can safely re-do that test any time before
we leave the switch statement. This means that we no longer
need a return value from rcu_process_dyntick(), as we can simply
invoke rcu_gp_in_progress() to check whether the old grace
period has finished -- there is no longer any need to worry
about whether or not a new grace period has been started.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org
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Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
Cc: peterz@infradead.org
Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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