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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2012-06-05 03:42:35 +0400
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2012-09-26 17:44:01 +0400
commit19dd1591fc379f1d89f39cd99cbbe97433baa3c3 (patch)
tree9c298c4c0f38e68f53c2e4a13080fbec1282953f /include/linux/rcupdate.h
parentadf5091e6ccaa02905e7a28f9ff44f46c7f4c230 (diff)
downloadlinux-19dd1591fc379f1d89f39cd99cbbe97433baa3c3.tar.xz
rcu: New rcu_user_enter_after_irq() and rcu_user_exit_after_irq() APIs
In some cases, it is necessary to enter or exit userspace-RCU-idle mode from an interrupt handler, for example, if some other CPU sends this CPU a resched IPI. In this case, the current CPU would enter the IPI handler in userspace-RCU-idle mode, but would need to exit the IPI handler after having exited that mode. To allow this to work, this commit adds two new APIs to TREE_RCU: - rcu_user_enter_after_irq(). This must be called from an interrupt between rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit(). After the irq calls rcu_irq_exit(), the irq handler will return into an RCU extended quiescent state. In theory, this interrupt is never a nested interrupt, but in practice it might interrupt softirq, which looks to RCU like a nested interrupt. - rcu_user_exit_after_irq(). This must be called from a non-nesting interrupt, interrupting an RCU extended quiescent state, also between rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit(). After the irq calls rcu_irq_exit(), the irq handler will return in an RCU non-quiescent state. [ Combined with "Allow calls to rcu_exit_user_irq from nesting irqs." ] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/rcupdate.h')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index d8b20bfd4795..f818dd165b44 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -193,6 +193,8 @@ extern void rcu_irq_enter(void);
extern void rcu_irq_exit(void);
extern void rcu_user_enter(void);
extern void rcu_user_exit(void);
+extern void rcu_user_enter_after_irq(void);
+extern void rcu_user_exit_after_irq(void);
extern void exit_rcu(void);
/**