From 9479911d5fa869e4330ac290b247db9fdd49e68e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:27:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] alpha: 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 Alpha's idle loop. Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Richard Henderson Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky Cc: Matt Turner Cc: alpha Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Michael Cree Cc: Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett --- arch/alpha/kernel/process.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c index eac5e0169348..eb9558ce7efd 100644 --- a/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -54,9 +55,11 @@ cpu_idle(void) /* FIXME -- EV6 and LCA45 know how to power down the CPU. */ + rcu_idle_enter(); while (!need_resched()) cpu_relax(); + rcu_idle_exit(); schedule_preempt_disabled(); } } -- 2.39.5