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Date:	Tue, 21 Oct 2008 16:47:53 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: [git pull] core fixes


Linus,

Please pull the latest core-fixes-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip.git core-fixes-for-linus

Note that the shortlog below seems to show a merge artifact - the 
following two commits are already upstream:

 3baf63a: m32r: fix build due to notify_cpu_starting() change
 463baa8: powerpc: fix linux-next build failure

this is because the merge-base of this tree is 2e532d68a2, while your 
tree that merges this is fresher.

I did not want to merge to your latest, to not create an unnecessary 
merge commit. But i could not find a way either how to generate a proper 
shortlog either. Did i do some mistake somewhere in the workflow that 
created this situation? The tree is fine, you should see this when you 
pull:

 $ git merge core-fixes-for-linus
 Merge made by recursive.
  include/linux/profile.h |    7 +++++++
  kernel/rcupdate.c       |   19 ++++++++++---------
  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

 $ gll linus..
 1420dfb: Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' into tmp.tmp
 5f86515: rcupdate: fix bug of rcu_barrier*()
 8cf7d36: profiling: fix !procfs build
 52f4f32: Merge branch 'linus' into core/urgent

i think it's that 52f4f32 merge commit that created this?

 Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
Ingo Molnar (2):
      m32r: fix build due to notify_cpu_starting() change
      profiling: fix !procfs build

Lai Jiangshan (1):
      rcupdate: fix bug of rcu_barrier*()

Stephen Rothwell (1):
      powerpc: fix linux-next build failure


 arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c      |    1 +
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h |    6 +++++-
 include/linux/profile.h         |    7 +++++++
 kernel/rcupdate.c               |   19 ++++++++++---------
 4 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c b/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c
index fc29948..39cb6da 100644
--- a/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c
+++ b/arch/m32r/kernel/smpboot.c
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
  */
 
 #include <linux/module.h>
+#include <linux/cpu.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
index 64e1445..5ac51e6 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
@@ -10,9 +10,13 @@
  * 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
  */
 
+#ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
+#include <linux/types.h>
+#else
+#include <asm/types.h>
+#endif
 #include <asm/asm-compat.h>
 #include <asm/kdump.h>
-#include <asm/types.h>
 
 /*
  * On PPC32 page size is 4K. For PPC64 we support either 4K or 64K software
diff --git a/include/linux/profile.h b/include/linux/profile.h
index 5700450..e3eca85 100644
--- a/include/linux/profile.h
+++ b/include/linux/profile.h
@@ -37,7 +37,14 @@ extern int prof_on __read_mostly;
 /* init basic kernel profiler */
 int profile_init(void);
 int profile_setup(char *str);
+#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
 int create_proc_profile(void);
+#else
+static inline int create_proc_profile(void)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+#endif
 void profile_tick(int type);
 
 /*
diff --git a/kernel/rcupdate.c b/kernel/rcupdate.c
index 467d594..ad63af8 100644
--- a/kernel/rcupdate.c
+++ b/kernel/rcupdate.c
@@ -119,18 +119,19 @@ static void _rcu_barrier(enum rcu_barrier type)
 	/* Take cpucontrol mutex to protect against CPU hotplug */
 	mutex_lock(&rcu_barrier_mutex);
 	init_completion(&rcu_barrier_completion);
-	atomic_set(&rcu_barrier_cpu_count, 0);
 	/*
-	 * The queueing of callbacks in all CPUs must be atomic with
-	 * respect to RCU, otherwise one CPU may queue a callback,
-	 * wait for a grace period, decrement barrier count and call
-	 * complete(), while other CPUs have not yet queued anything.
-	 * So, we need to make sure that grace periods cannot complete
-	 * until all the callbacks are queued.
+	 * Initialize rcu_barrier_cpu_count to 1, then invoke
+	 * rcu_barrier_func() on each CPU, so that each CPU also has
+	 * incremented rcu_barrier_cpu_count.  Only then is it safe to
+	 * decrement rcu_barrier_cpu_count -- otherwise the first CPU
+	 * might complete its grace period before all of the other CPUs
+	 * did their increment, causing this function to return too
+	 * early.
 	 */
-	rcu_read_lock();
+	atomic_set(&rcu_barrier_cpu_count, 1);
 	on_each_cpu(rcu_barrier_func, (void *)type, 1);
-	rcu_read_unlock();
+	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&rcu_barrier_cpu_count))
+		complete(&rcu_barrier_completion);
 	wait_for_completion(&rcu_barrier_completion);
 	mutex_unlock(&rcu_barrier_mutex);
 }
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