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ia64: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop
authorPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:22:13 +0000 (13:22 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:38:53 +0000 (05:38 +0900)
commitc5a3f2e9981b6da91e70765d0a958a0ac9d14a53
treec00efcbe4b71e8967042105348b76480fd485e73
parentd59316ee086133955a993855655b24925c0e6b05
ia64: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop

commit 93482f4ef1093f5961a63359a34612183d6beea0 upstream.

Traditionally, the entire idle task served as an RCU quiescent state.
But when RCU read side critical sections started appearing within the
idle loop, this traditional strategy became untenable.  The fix was to
create new RCU APIs named rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit(), which
must be called by each architecture's idle loop so that RCU can tell
when it is safe to ignore a given idle CPU.

Unfortunately, this fix was never applied to ia64, a shortcoming remedied
by this commit.

Reported by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
arch/ia64/kernel/process.c