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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2014-08-04 17:43:50 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2014-09-07 16:27:30 -0700 |
| commit | 176f8f7a52cc6d09d686f0d900abda6942a52fbb (patch) | |
| tree | bd3d6a8f21e576a94d1e1812c5c5317f62d1c96d /include/linux/init_task.h | |
| parent | 84a8f446ffd70c2799a96268aaa4d47c22a83ff0 (diff) | |
rcu: Make TASKS_RCU handle nohz_full= CPUs
Currently TASKS_RCU would ignore a CPU running a task in nohz_full=
usermode execution. There would be neither a context switch nor a
scheduling-clock interrupt to tell TASKS_RCU that the task in question
had passed through a quiescent state. The grace period would therefore
extend indefinitely. This commit therefore makes RCU's dyntick-idle
subsystem record the task_struct structure of the task that is running
in dyntick-idle mode on each CPU. The TASKS_RCU grace period can
then access this information and record a quiescent state on
behalf of any CPU running in dyntick-idle usermode.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/init_task.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/init_task.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/init_task.h b/include/linux/init_task.h index dffd9258ee60..03b274873b06 100644 --- a/include/linux/init_task.h +++ b/include/linux/init_task.h @@ -121,7 +121,8 @@ extern struct group_info init_groups; #define INIT_TASK_RCU_TASKS(tsk) \ .rcu_tasks_holdout = false, \ .rcu_tasks_holdout_list = \ - LIST_HEAD_INIT(tsk.rcu_tasks_holdout_list), + LIST_HEAD_INIT(tsk.rcu_tasks_holdout_list), \ + .rcu_tasks_idle_cpu = -1, #else #define INIT_TASK_RCU_TASKS(tsk) #endif |