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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu/tiny.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcu/tiny.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tiny.c b/kernel/rcu/tiny.c index dbee6bea6726..60071817d939 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tiny.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/tiny.c @@ -139,8 +139,10 @@ static __latent_entropy void rcu_process_callbacks(struct softirq_action *unused /* * Wait for a grace period to elapse. But it is illegal to invoke * synchronize_rcu() from within an RCU read-side critical section. - * Therefore, any legal call to synchronize_rcu() is a quiescent - * state, and so on a UP system, synchronize_rcu() need do nothing. + * Therefore, any legal call to synchronize_rcu() is a quiescent state, + * and so on a UP system, synchronize_rcu() need do nothing, other than + * let the polled APIs know that another grace period elapsed. + * * (But Lai Jiangshan points out the benefits of doing might_sleep() * to reduce latency.) * @@ -152,6 +154,7 @@ void synchronize_rcu(void) lock_is_held(&rcu_lock_map) || lock_is_held(&rcu_sched_lock_map), "Illegal synchronize_rcu() in RCU read-side critical section"); + WRITE_ONCE(rcu_ctrlblk.gp_seq, rcu_ctrlblk.gp_seq + 2); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(synchronize_rcu); |