This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
h8300: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
h8300-add-missing-rcu-idle-apis-on-idle-loop.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>From b2fe1430d4115c74d007c825cb9dc3317f28bb16 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:27:34 +0200
Subject: h8300: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop
From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
commit b2fe1430d4115c74d007c825cb9dc3317f28bb16 upstream.
In the old times, the whole idle task was considered
as an RCU quiescent state. But as RCU became more and
more successful overtime, some RCU read side critical
section have been added even in the code of some
architectures idle tasks, for tracing for example.
So nowadays, rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() must
be called by the architecture to tell RCU about the part
in the idle loop that doesn't make use of rcu read side
critical sections, typically the part that puts the CPU
in low power mode.
This is necessary for RCU to find the quiescent states in
idle in order to complete grace periods.
Add this missing pair of calls in the h8300's idle loop.
Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweis...@gmail.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ys...@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org>
---
arch/h8300/kernel/process.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/arch/h8300/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/h8300/kernel/process.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
#include <linux/reboot.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/traps.h>
@@ -78,8 +79,10 @@ void (*idle)(void) = default_idle;
void cpu_idle(void)
{
while (1) {
+ rcu_idle_enter();
while (!need_resched())
idle();
+ rcu_idle_exit();
schedule_preempt_disabled();
}
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from fweis...@gmail.com are
queue-3.4/frv-add-missing-rcu-idle-apis-on-idle-loop.patch
queue-3.4/cris-add-missing-rcu-idle-apis-on-idle-loop.patch
queue-3.4/m68k-add-missing-rcu-idle-apis-on-idle-loop.patch
queue-3.4/alpha-add-missing-rcu-idle-apis-on-idle-loop.patch
queue-3.4/h8300-add-missing-rcu-idle-apis-on-idle-loop.patch
queue-3.4/parisc-add-missing-rcu-idle-apis-on-idle-loop.patch
queue-3.4/m32r-add-missing-rcu-idle-apis-on-idle-loop.patch
queue-3.4/score-add-missing-rcu-idle-apis-on-idle-loop.patch
queue-3.4/mn10300-add-missing-rcu-idle-apis-on-idle-loop.patch
queue-3.4/xtensa-add-missing-rcu-idle-apis-on-idle-loop.patch
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