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* generic: reduce stack pressure in sched_affinityMike Travis2008-04-191-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * Modify sched_affinity functions to pass cpumask_t variables by reference instead of by value. * Use new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function. Depends on: [sched-devel]: sched: add new set_cpus_allowed_ptr function Cc: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Cliff Wickman <cpw@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Mike Travis <travis@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* rcupreempt: remove never-migrates assumption from rcu_process_callbacks()Paul E. McKenney2008-02-291-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes a potentially invalid access to a per-CPU variable in rcu_process_callbacks(). This per-CPU access needs to be done in such a way as to guarantee that the code using it cannot move to some other CPU before all uses of the value accessed have completed. Even though this code is currently only invoked from softirq context, which currrently cannot migrate to some other CPU, life would be better if this code did not silently make such an assumption. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* rcupreempt: fix hibernate/resume in presence of PREEMPT_RCU and hotplugPaul E. McKenney2008-02-291-1/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This fixes a oops encountered when doing hibernate/resume in presence of PREEMPT_RCU. The problem was that the code failed to disable preemption when accessing a per-CPU variable. This is OK when called from code that already has preemption disabled, but such is not the case from the suspend/resume code path. Reported-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Tested-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* rcu: add support for dynamic ticks and preempt rcuSteven Rostedt2008-02-291-4/+220
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The PREEMPT-RCU can get stuck if a CPU goes idle and NO_HZ is set. The idle CPU will not progress the RCU through its grace period and a synchronize_rcu my get stuck. Without this patch I have a box that will not boot when PREEMPT_RCU and NO_HZ are set. That same box boots fine with this patch. This patch comes from the -rt kernel where it has been tested for several months. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Preempt-RCU: CPU Hotplug handlingPaul E. McKenney2008-01-251-5/+142
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch allows preemptible RCU to tolerate CPU-hotplug operations. It accomplishes this by maintaining a local copy of a map of online CPUs, which it accesses under its own lock. Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* Preempt-RCU: implementationPaul E. McKenney2008-01-251-0/+816
This patch implements a new version of RCU which allows its read-side critical sections to be preempted. It uses a set of counter pairs to keep track of the read-side critical sections and flips them when all tasks exit read-side critical section. The details of this implementation can be found in this paper - http://www.rdrop.com/users/paulmck/RCU/OLSrtRCU.2006.08.11a.pdf and the article- http://lwn.net/Articles/253651/ This patch was developed as a part of the -rt kernel development and meant to provide better latencies when read-side critical sections of RCU don't disable preemption. As a consequence of keeping track of RCU readers, the readers have a slight overhead (optimizations in the paper). This implementation co-exists with the "classic" RCU implementations and can be switched to at compiler. Also includes RCU tracing summarized in debugfs. [ akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes on non-preempt architectures ] Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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