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author | Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> | 2019-04-25 19:50:55 +0300 |
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committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com> | 2019-05-28 19:05:23 +0300 |
commit | 89da3b94bb97417ca2c5b0ce3a28643819030247 (patch) | |
tree | 3a494bdabb013141bbb60f7380b5a0f64d23872b /Documentation/RCU | |
parent | 3f2947b78151ec938dc06aea4ba0e11e56becdff (diff) | |
download | linux-89da3b94bb97417ca2c5b0ce3a28643819030247.tar.xz |
rcu/sync: Simplify the state machine
With this patch rcu_sync has a single state variable and the transition rules
become really simple:
GP_IDLE - owned by the first rcu_sync_enter() which moves it to
GP_ENTER - owned by rcu-callback which moves it to
GP_PASSED - owned by the last rcu_sync_exit() which moves it to
GP_EXIT - and this is the only "nontrivial" state.
rcu-callback moves it back to GP_IDLE unless another enter()
comes before a GP pass.
If rcu-callback is invoked before the next rcu_sync_exit() it
must see gp_count incremented by that enter() and set GP_PASSED.
Otherwise, if the next rcu_sync_exit() wins the race, it will
move it to
GP_REPLAY - owned by rcu-callback which moves it to GP_EXIT
Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
[ paulmck: While here, apply READ_ONCE() and WRITE_ONCE() to ->gp_state. ]
[ paulmck: Tweaks to make htmldocs happy. (Reported by kbuild test robot.) ]
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.ibm.com>
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