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2009-10-26rcu: Add synchronize_srcu_expedited()Paul E. McKenney1-23/+51
This patch creates a synchronize_srcu_expedited() that uses synchronize_sched_expedited() where synchronize_srcu() uses synchronize_sched(). The synchronize_srcu() and synchronize_srcu_expedited() functions become one-liners that pass synchronize_sched() or synchronize_sched_expedited(), repectively, to a new __synchronize_srcu() function. While in the file, move the EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL()s to immediately follow the corresponding functions. Requested-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Tested-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com Cc: avi@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <12565226354038-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-02-06make srcu_readers_active() staticAdrian Bunk1-2/+1
Make the needlessly global srcu_readers_active() static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2006-10-04[PATCH] SRCU: report out-of-memory errorsAlan Stern1-2/+3
Currently the init_srcu_struct() routine has no way to report out-of-memory errors. This patch (as761) makes it return -ENOMEM when the per-cpu data allocation fails. The patch also makes srcu_init_notifier_head() report a BUG if a notifier head can't be initialized. Perhaps it should return -ENOMEM instead, but in the most likely cases where this might occur I don't think any recovery is possible. Notifier chains generally are not created dynamically. [akpm@osdl.org: avoid statement-with-side-effect in macro] Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-04[PATCH] srcu-3: RCU variant permitting read-side blockingPaul E. McKenney1-0/+257
Updated patch adding a variant of RCU that permits sleeping in read-side critical sections. SRCU is as follows: o Each use of SRCU creates its own srcu_struct, and each srcu_struct has its own set of grace periods. This is critical, as it prevents one subsystem with a blocking reader from holding up SRCU grace periods for other subsystems. o The SRCU primitives (srcu_read_lock(), srcu_read_unlock(), and synchronize_srcu()) all take a pointer to a srcu_struct. o The SRCU primitives must be called from process context. o srcu_read_lock() returns an int that must be passed to the matching srcu_read_unlock(). Realtime RCU avoids the need for this by storing the state in the task struct, but SRCU needs to allow a given code path to pass through multiple SRCU domains -- storing state in the task struct would therefore require either arbitrary space in the task struct or arbitrary limits on SRCU nesting. So I kicked the state-storage problem up to the caller. Of course, it is not permitted to call synchronize_srcu() while in an SRCU read-side critical section. o There is no call_srcu(). It would not be hard to implement one, but it seems like too easy a way to OOM the system. (Hey, we have enough trouble with call_rcu(), which does -not- permit readers to sleep!!!) So, if you want it, please tell me why... [josht@us.ibm.com: sparse notation] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>