THIS PATCH FOR REVIEW ONLY IT'S UNTESTED!!!!!! Ill test on Monday if
no-one has done it by then.
There is a problem with the current implementation of stop_hz_timer in
arch/i386/kernel/time-xen.c where the hz timer can be stopped on a CPU
which has RCU callbacks pending.
This patch backports a new RCU API created to fix this problem for the
s390 implementation of stop_hz_timer and also updates the time-xen.c
implementation of stop_hz_timer to call the new API.
Signed-off-by: Harry Butterworth <butterwo@xxxxxxxxxx>
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diff -r 8c64169a05d3 -r 8ef455f268b3
linux-2.6-xen-sparse/arch/i386/kernel/time-xen.c
--- a/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/arch/i386/kernel/time-xen.c Thu Jun 8 08:52:04 2006
+++ b/linux-2.6-xen-sparse/arch/i386/kernel/time-xen.c Fri Jun 9 19:47:18 2006
@@ -978,12 +978,19 @@
unsigned int cpu = smp_processor_id();
unsigned long j;
- /* We must do this /before/ checking rcu_pending(). */
cpu_set(cpu, nohz_cpu_mask);
+
+ /* See matching smp_mb in rcu_start_batch in rcupdate.c. These mbs */
+ /* ensure that if __rcu_pending (nested in rcu_needs_cpu) fetches a */
+ /* value of rcp->cur that matches rdp->quiescbatch and allows us to */
+ /* stop the hz timer then the cpumasks created for subsequent values */
+ /* of cur in rcu_start_batch are guaranteed to pick up the updated */
+ /* nohz_cpu_mask and so will not depend on this cpu. */
+
smp_mb();
/* Leave ourselves in 'tick mode' if rcu or softirq pending. */
- if (rcu_pending(cpu) || local_softirq_pending()) {
+ if (rcu_needs_cpu(cpu) || local_softirq_pending()) {
cpu_clear(cpu, nohz_cpu_mask);
j = jiffies + 1;
} else {
diff -r 8c64169a05d3 -r 8ef455f268b3 patches/linux-2.6.16.13/rcu_needs_cpu.patch
--- /dev/null Thu Jun 8 08:52:04 2006
+++ b/patches/linux-2.6.16.13/rcu_needs_cpu.patch Fri Jun 9 19:47:18 2006
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+--- ../pristine-linux-2.6.16.13/kernel/rcupdate.c 2006-05-02
22:38:44.000000000 +0100
++++ ./kernel/rcupdate.c 2006-06-09 20:27:45.000000000 +0100
+@@ -485,6 +485,20 @@ int rcu_pending(int cpu)
+ __rcu_pending(&rcu_bh_ctrlblk, &per_cpu(rcu_bh_data, cpu));
+ }
+
++/*
++ * Check to see if any future RCU-related work will need to be done
++ * by the current CPU, even if none need be done immediately, returning
++ * 1 if so. This function is part of the RCU implementation; it is -not-
++ * an exported member of the RCU API.
++ */
++int rcu_needs_cpu(int cpu)
++{
++ struct rcu_data *rdp = &per_cpu(rcu_data, cpu);
++ struct rcu_data *rdp_bh = &per_cpu(rcu_bh_data, cpu);
++
++ return (!!rdp->curlist || !!rdp_bh->curlist || rcu_pending(cpu));
++}
++
+ void rcu_check_callbacks(int cpu, int user)
+ {
+ if (user ||
+--- ../pristine-linux-2.6.16.13/include/linux/rcupdate.h 2006-05-02 22:38:44.000000000 +0100
++++ ./include/linux/rcupdate.h 2006-06-09 20:28:57.000000000 +0100
+@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ static inline void rcu_bh_qsctr_inc(int
+ }
+
+ extern int rcu_pending(int cpu);
++extern int rcu_needs_cpu(int cpu);
+
+ /**
+ * rcu_read_lock - mark the beginning of an RCU read-side critical section.
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