From: Paul E. McKenney Date: Mon, 5 Jan 2009 04:30:06 +0000 (-0800) Subject: rcu: fix rcutree grace-period-latency bug on small systems X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c12172c0251761c54260376eb29a5f6547495580;p=linux-beck.git rcu: fix rcutree grace-period-latency bug on small systems Impact: fix delays during bootup Kudos to Andi Kleen for finding a grace-period-latency problem! The problem was that the special-case code for small machines never updated the ->signaled field to indicate that grace-period initialization had completed, which prevented force_quiescent_state() from ever expediting grace periods. This problem resulted in grace periods extending for more than 20 seconds. Not subtle. I introduced this bug during my inspection process when I fixed a race between grace-period initialization and force_quiescent_state() execution. The following patch properly updates the ->signaled field for the "small"-system case (no more than 32 CPUs for 32-bit kernels and no more than 64 CPUs for 64-bit kernels). Reported-by: Andi Kleen Tested-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c index a342b032112c..88d921c5c449 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c @@ -572,6 +572,7 @@ rcu_start_gp(struct rcu_state *rsp, unsigned long flags) /* Special-case the common single-level case. */ if (NUM_RCU_NODES == 1) { rnp->qsmask = rnp->qsmaskinit; + rsp->signaled = RCU_SIGNAL_INIT; /* force_quiescent_state OK. */ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rnp->lock, flags); return; }