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xtensa: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Wed, 22 Aug 2012 15:27:34 +0000 (17:27 +0200)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:27:49 +0000 (16:27 -0700)
commitce27ede7539a6a8a840ccee1c71357348bf1fc7c
treecb6b4bceab45b0cefce0f6d5673d9d139905a856
parented773fa61e12cda0fbfdd653803bf3dfe7f5eb63
xtensa: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop

In the old times, the whole idle task was considered
as an RCU quiescent state. But as RCU became more and
more successful overtime, some RCU read side critical
section have been added even in the code of some
architectures idle tasks, for tracing for example.

So nowadays, rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() must
be called by the architecture to tell RCU about the part
in the idle loop that doesn't make use of rcu read side
critical sections, typically the part that puts the CPU
in low power mode.

This is necessary for RCU to find the quiescent states in
idle in order to complete grace periods.

Add this missing pair of calls in the xtensa's idle loop.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.3+
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
arch/xtensa/kernel/process.c