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rcu: Move TINY_RCU quiescent state out of extended quiescent state 

TINY_RCU's rcu_idle_enter_common() invokes rcu_sched_qs() in order
to inform the RCU core of the quiescent state implied by idle entry.
Of course, idle is also an extended quiescent state, so that the call
to rcu_sched_qs() speeds up RCU's invoking of any callbacks that might
be queued.  This speed-up is important when entering into dyntick-idle
mode -- if there are no further scheduling-clock interrupts, the callbacks
might never be invoked, which could result in a system hang.

However, processing callbacks does event tracing, which in turn
implies RCU read-side critical sections, which are illegal in extended
quiescent states.  This patch therefore moves the call to rcu_sched_qs()
so that it precedes the point at which we inform lockdep that RCU has
entered an extended quiescent state.

Signed-off-by: Li Zhong <zhong@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Li Zhong 2012-09-19 08:52:32 -07:00 committed by Paul E. McKenney
parent 58fac09566
commit 22a767269a
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@ -75,9 +75,9 @@ static void rcu_idle_enter_common(long long newval)
current->pid, current->comm,
idle->pid, idle->comm); /* must be idle task! */
}
rcu_sched_qs(0); /* implies rcu_bh_qsctr_inc(0) */
barrier();
rcu_dynticks_nesting = newval;
rcu_sched_qs(0); /* implies rcu_bh_qsctr_inc(0) */
}
/*