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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2009-09-08 18:54:36 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-09-17 18:04:54 -0400
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tree0e7ed4d9d11ae707cc3b4e1e9d511a6d78e9e29d /Documentation/networking/tms380tr.txt
parentde55a8958f6e3ef5ce5f0971b80bd44bfcac7cf1 (diff)
rcu: Need to update rnp->gpnum if preemptable RCU is to be reliable
Without this patch, tasks preempted in RCU read-side critical sections can fail to block the grace period, given that rnp->gpnum is used to determine which rnp->blocked_tasks[] element the preempted task is enqueued on. Before the patch, rnp->gpnum is always zero, so preempted tasks are always enqueued on rnp->blocked_tasks[0], which is correct only when the current CPU has not checked into the current grace period and the grace-period number is even, or, similarly, if the current CPU -has- checked into the current grace period and the grace-period number is odd. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org LKML-Reference: <12524504771622-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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