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score: 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 23:27:48 +0000 (16:27 -0700)
commited773fa61e12cda0fbfdd653803bf3dfe7f5eb63
treee706522c169bb3ebbf1a2a15c869b50fbbf6118e
parent05e9c23dbadd399c288383ed5663ad2a39acf1c5
score: 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 scores's idle loop.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Chen Liqin <liqin.chen@sunplusct.com>
Cc: Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>
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/score/kernel/process.c