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srcu: Remove checks preventing idle CPUs from calling srcu_read_lock() 

SRCU has its own statemachine and no longer relies on normal RCU.
Its read-side critical section can now be used by an offline CPU, so this
commit removes the check and the comments, reverting the SRCU portion
of ff195cb6 (rcu: Warn when srcu_read_lock() is used in an extended
quiescent state).

It also makes the codes match the comments in whatisRCU.txt:

g.	Do you need read-side critical sections that are respected
	even though they are in the middle of the idle loop, during
	user-mode execution, or on an offlined CPU?  If so, SRCU is the
	only choice that will work for you.

[ paulmck: There is at least one remaining issue, namely use of lockdep
	   with tracing enabled. ]

Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Lai Jiangshan 2012-11-29 16:46:06 +08:00 committed by Paul E. McKenney
parent 3bc97a782c
commit 511a0868be
1 changed files with 3 additions and 18 deletions
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include/linux/srcu.h
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@ -151,25 +151,14 @@ void srcu_barrier(struct srcu_struct *sp);
* Checks debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled() to prevent false positives during boot
* and while lockdep is disabled.
*
* Note that if the CPU is in the idle loop from an RCU point of view
* (ie: that we are in the section between rcu_idle_enter() and
* rcu_idle_exit()) then srcu_read_lock_held() returns false even if
* the CPU did an srcu_read_lock(). The reason for this is that RCU
* ignores CPUs that are in such a section, considering these as in
* extended quiescent state, so such a CPU is effectively never in an
* RCU read-side critical section regardless of what RCU primitives it
* invokes. This state of affairs is required --- we need to keep an
* RCU-free window in idle where the CPU may possibly enter into low
* power mode. This way we can notice an extended quiescent state to
* other CPUs that started a grace period. Otherwise we would delay any
* grace period as long as we run in the idle task.
* Note that SRCU is based on its own statemachine and it doesn't
* relies on normal RCU, it can be called from the CPU which
* is in the idle loop from an RCU point of view or offline.
*/
static inline int srcu_read_lock_held(struct srcu_struct *sp)
{
if (!debug_lockdep_rcu_enabled())
return 1;
if (rcu_is_cpu_idle())
return 0;
return lock_is_held(&sp->dep_map);
}
@ -231,8 +220,6 @@ static inline int srcu_read_lock(struct srcu_struct *sp) __acquires(sp)
int retval = __srcu_read_lock(sp);
rcu_lock_acquire(&(sp)->dep_map);
rcu_lockdep_assert(!rcu_is_cpu_idle(),
"srcu_read_lock() used illegally while idle");
return retval;
}
@ -246,8 +233,6 @@ static inline int srcu_read_lock(struct srcu_struct *sp) __acquires(sp)
static inline void srcu_read_unlock(struct srcu_struct *sp, int idx)
__releases(sp)
{
rcu_lockdep_assert(!rcu_is_cpu_idle(),
"srcu_read_unlock() used illegally while idle");
rcu_lock_release(&(sp)->dep_map);
__srcu_read_unlock(sp, idx);
}