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[PATCH] rcu_process_callbacks: don't cli() while testing ->nxtlist

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__rcu_process_callbacks() disables interrupts to protect itself from
call_rcu() which adds new entries to ->nxtlist.

However we can check "->nxtlist != NULL" with interrupts enabled, we can't
get "false positives" because call_rcu() can only change this condition
from 0 to 1.

Tested with rcutorture.ko.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Acked-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Oleg Nesterov 2006-03-24 03:15:50 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent cba9f33d13
commit caa9ee771d
1 changed files with 2 additions and 3 deletions
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kernel/rcupdate.c
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@ -416,8 +416,8 @@ static void __rcu_process_callbacks(struct rcu_ctrlblk *rcp,
rdp->curtail = &rdp->curlist;
}
local_irq_disable();
if (rdp->nxtlist && !rdp->curlist) {
local_irq_disable();
rdp->curlist = rdp->nxtlist;
rdp->curtail = rdp->nxttail;
rdp->nxtlist = NULL;
@ -442,9 +442,8 @@ static void __rcu_process_callbacks(struct rcu_ctrlblk *rcp,
rcu_start_batch(rcp);
spin_unlock(&rcp->lock);
}
} else {
local_irq_enable();
}
rcu_check_quiescent_state(rcp, rdp);
if (rdp->donelist)
rcu_do_batch(rdp);