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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-01-06 10:06:26 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-01-06 10:06:26 -0800
commit2af49b6058d857fa5b476db642d4452bf5833ecd (patch)
treedbce19fe5db5c34294a911baedd2e91bb897b9ce /kernel/srcu.c
parentb08b27213384d1bd6eda04a2b6f788b4cdee0f34 (diff)
parent394f4528c523d88daabd50f883a8d6b164075555 (diff)
Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: rcu: remove unused __list_for_each_rcu() macro rculist: fix borked __list_for_each_rcu() macro rcu: reduce __call_rcu()-induced contention on rcu_node structures rcu: limit rcu_node leaf-level fanout rcu: fine-tune grace-period begin/end checks rcu: Keep gpnum and completed fields synchronized rcu: Stop chasing QS if another CPU did it for us rcu: increase synchronize_sched_expedited() batching rcu: Make synchronize_srcu_expedited() fast if running readers rcu: fix race condition in synchronize_sched_expedited() rcu: update documentation/comments for Lai's adoption patch rcu,cleanup: simplify the code when cpu is dying rcu,cleanup: move synchronize_sched_expedited() out of sched.c rcu: get rid of obsolete "classic" names in TREE_RCU tracing rcu: Distinguish between boosting and boosted rcu: document TINY_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU tracing. rcu: add tracing for TINY_RCU and TINY_PREEMPT_RCU rcu: priority boosting for TINY_PREEMPT_RCU rcu: move TINY_RCU from softirq to kthread rcu: add priority-inversion testing to rcutorture
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/srcu.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/srcu.c8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/srcu.c b/kernel/srcu.c
index c71e07500536..98d8c1e80edb 100644
--- a/kernel/srcu.c
+++ b/kernel/srcu.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
#include <linux/sched.h>
#include <linux/smp.h>
+#include <linux/delay.h>
#include <linux/srcu.h>
static int init_srcu_struct_fields(struct srcu_struct *sp)
@@ -203,9 +204,14 @@ static void __synchronize_srcu(struct srcu_struct *sp, void (*sync_func)(void))
* all srcu_read_lock() calls using the old counters have completed.
* Their corresponding critical sections might well be still
* executing, but the srcu_read_lock() primitives themselves
- * will have finished executing.
+ * will have finished executing. We initially give readers
+ * an arbitrarily chosen 10 microseconds to get out of their
+ * SRCU read-side critical sections, then loop waiting 1/HZ
+ * seconds per iteration.
*/
+ if (srcu_readers_active_idx(sp, idx))
+ udelay(CONFIG_SRCU_SYNCHRONIZE_DELAY);
while (srcu_readers_active_idx(sp, idx))
schedule_timeout_interruptible(1);