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authorSteven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>2008-02-29 18:46:50 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-02-29 18:46:50 +0100
commit2232c2d8e0a6a31061dec311f3d1cf7624bc14f1 (patch)
tree1d90ec0b8bd4e3c154e386f005ef596ee25fa53f /kernel/softirq.c
parentMerge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/alsa-fix-2.6 (diff)
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rcu: add support for dynamic ticks and preempt rcu
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/softirq.c')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index 5b3aea5f471e..31e9f2a47928 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ void irq_exit(void)
/* Make sure that timer wheel updates are propagated */
if (!in_interrupt() && idle_cpu(smp_processor_id()) && !need_resched())
tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick();
+ rcu_irq_exit();
#endif
preempt_enable_no_resched();
}