linux-kernel - [PATCH 0/3] nohz: Convert tick dependency mask to atomic

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Message-Id: <1458830281-4255-1-git-send-email-fweisbec@gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 24 Mar 2016 15:37:58 +0100
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Cc:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH 0/3] nohz: Convert tick dependency mask to atomic_t

As per Linus suggestion, lets convert the tick dependency mask to
atomic_t. Introduce atomic_fetch_or() and confine fetch_or() back to
scheduler guts.

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/linux-dynticks.git
	timers/nohz

HEAD: 7b7e5da5733f58668181077ec394a718e08c392c

Thanks,
	Frederic
---

Frederic Weisbecker (3):
      atomic: Introduce atomic_fetch_or
      nohz: Convert tick dependency mask to atomic_t
      Revert "atomic: Export fetch_or()"


 include/linux/atomic.h   | 34 +++++++++++++--------------
 include/linux/sched.h    |  4 ++--
 kernel/sched/core.c      | 18 ++++++++++++++
 kernel/time/tick-sched.c | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
 kernel/time/tick-sched.h |  2 +-
 5 files changed, 68 insertions(+), 51 deletions(-)