On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 12:54:46AM +0530, Dipankar Sarma wrote:
> 
> 
> Fix rcu_barrier() to work properly in preemptive kernel environment.
> Also, the ordering of callback must be preserved while moving
> callbacks to another CPU during CPU hotplug.

Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

> Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
> 
> 
> 
> diff -puN kernel/rcuclassic.c~rcu-fix-barriers kernel/rcuclassic.c
> --- linux-2.6.20-rc3-mm1-rcu/kernel/rcuclassic.c~rcu-fix-barriers     
> 2007-01-15 15:36:47.000000000 +0530
> +++ linux-2.6.20-rc3-mm1-rcu-dipankar/kernel/rcuclassic.c     2007-01-15 
> 15:36:47.000000000 +0530
> @@ -350,9 +350,9 @@ static void __rcu_offline_cpu(struct rcu
>       if (rcp->cur != rcp->completed)
>               cpu_quiet(rdp->cpu, rcp);
>       spin_unlock_bh(&rcp->lock);
> +     rcu_move_batch(this_rdp, rdp->donelist, rdp->donetail);
>       rcu_move_batch(this_rdp, rdp->curlist, rdp->curtail);
>       rcu_move_batch(this_rdp, rdp->nxtlist, rdp->nxttail);
> -     rcu_move_batch(this_rdp, rdp->donelist, rdp->donetail);
>  }
> 
>  static void rcu_offline_cpu(int cpu)
> diff -puN kernel/rcupdate.c~rcu-fix-barriers kernel/rcupdate.c
> --- linux-2.6.20-rc3-mm1-rcu/kernel/rcupdate.c~rcu-fix-barriers       
> 2007-01-15 15:36:47.000000000 +0530
> +++ linux-2.6.20-rc3-mm1-rcu-dipankar/kernel/rcupdate.c       2007-01-15 
> 15:36:47.000000000 +0530
> @@ -117,7 +117,18 @@ void rcu_barrier(void)
>       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
> +      * haven't yet queued anything. So, we need to make sure
> +      * that no grace period happens until all the callbacks
> +      * are queued.
> +      */
> +     rcu_read_lock();
>       on_each_cpu(rcu_barrier_func, NULL, 0, 1);
> +     rcu_read_unlock();
>       wait_for_completion(&rcu_barrier_completion);
>       mutex_unlock(&rcu_barrier_mutex);
>  }
> 
> _
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