rcu: add support for dynamic ticks and preempt rcu

The PREEMPT-RCU can get stuck if a CPU goes idle and NO_HZ is set. The
idle CPU will not progress the RCU through its grace period and a
synchronize_rcu my get stuck. Without this patch I have a box that will
not boot when PREEMPT_RCU and NO_HZ are set. That same box boots fine
with this patch.

This patch comes from the -rt kernel where it has been tested for
several months.

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/softirq.c b/kernel/softirq.c
index 5b3aea5f471e..31e9f2a47928 100644
--- a/kernel/softirq.c
+++ b/kernel/softirq.c
@@ -313,6 +313,7 @@ void irq_exit(void)
         /* Make sure that timer wheel updates are propagated */
         if (!in_interrupt() && idle_cpu(smp_processor_id()) && !need_resched())
                 tick_nohz_stop_sched_tick();
+        rcu_irq_exit();
 #endif
         preempt_enable_no_resched();
 }