linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] RCU updates for v2.6.30

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Message-ID: <20090331124315.GA6658@elte.hu>
Date:	Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:43:15 +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>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ibm.com>
Subject: [GIT PULL] RCU updates for v2.6.30

Linus,

Please pull the latest rcu-for-linus git tree from:

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

A quiet RCU cycle. No known regressions.

 Thanks,

	Ingo

------------------>
Lai Jiangshan (1):
      rcu: rcu_barrier VS cpu_hotplug: Ensure callbacks in dead cpu are migrated to online cpu


 kernel/rcupdate.c |   44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcupdate.c b/kernel/rcupdate.c
index cae8a05..2c7b845 100644
--- a/kernel/rcupdate.c
+++ b/kernel/rcupdate.c
@@ -122,6 +122,8 @@ static void rcu_barrier_func(void *type)
 	}
 }
 
+static inline void wait_migrated_callbacks(void);
+
 /*
  * Orchestrate the specified type of RCU barrier, waiting for all
  * RCU callbacks of the specified type to complete.
@@ -147,6 +149,7 @@ static void _rcu_barrier(enum rcu_barrier type)
 		complete(&rcu_barrier_completion);
 	wait_for_completion(&rcu_barrier_completion);
 	mutex_unlock(&rcu_barrier_mutex);
+	wait_migrated_callbacks();
 }
 
 /**
@@ -176,9 +179,50 @@ void rcu_barrier_sched(void)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_barrier_sched);
 
+static atomic_t rcu_migrate_type_count = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
+static struct rcu_head rcu_migrate_head[3];
+static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(rcu_migrate_wq);
+
+static void rcu_migrate_callback(struct rcu_head *notused)
+{
+	if (atomic_dec_and_test(&rcu_migrate_type_count))
+		wake_up(&rcu_migrate_wq);
+}
+
+static inline void wait_migrated_callbacks(void)
+{
+	wait_event(rcu_migrate_wq, !atomic_read(&rcu_migrate_type_count));
+}
+
+static int __cpuinit rcu_barrier_cpu_hotplug(struct notifier_block *self,
+		unsigned long action, void *hcpu)
+{
+	if (action == CPU_DYING) {
+		/*
+		 * preempt_disable() in on_each_cpu() prevents stop_machine(),
+		 * so when "on_each_cpu(rcu_barrier_func, (void *)type, 1);"
+		 * returns, all online cpus have queued rcu_barrier_func(),
+		 * and the dead cpu(if it exist) queues rcu_migrate_callback()s.
+		 *
+		 * These callbacks ensure _rcu_barrier() waits for all
+		 * RCU callbacks of the specified type to complete.
+		 */
+		atomic_set(&rcu_migrate_type_count, 3);
+		call_rcu_bh(rcu_migrate_head, rcu_migrate_callback);
+		call_rcu_sched(rcu_migrate_head + 1, rcu_migrate_callback);
+		call_rcu(rcu_migrate_head + 2, rcu_migrate_callback);
+	} else if (action == CPU_POST_DEAD) {
+		/* rcu_migrate_head is protected by cpu_add_remove_lock */
+		wait_migrated_callbacks();
+	}
+
+	return NOTIFY_OK;
+}
+
 void __init rcu_init(void)
 {
 	__rcu_init();
+	hotcpu_notifier(rcu_barrier_cpu_hotplug, 0);
 }
 
 void rcu_scheduler_starting(void)
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