linux-stable.git/include/linux/rcupdate.h, branch linux-2.6.18.y

[PATCH] rcu: Add lock annotations to RCU locking primitives

2006-06-30T18:25:39+00:00

Add __acquire annotations to rcu_read_lock and rcu_read_lock_bh, and add
__release annotations to rcu_read_unlock and rcu_read_unlock_bh.  This
allows sparse to detect improperly paired calls to these functions.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett 
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] rcutorture: add call_rcu_bh() operations

2006-06-28T00:32:40+00:00

Add operations for the call_rcu_bh() variant of RCU.  Also add an
rcu_batches_completed_bh() function, which is needed by rcutorture.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Make RCU API inaccessible to non-GPL Linux kernel modules

2006-06-23T14:43:07+00:00

Remove synchronize_kernel() (deprecated 2-APR-2005 in
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/3/11) and makes the RCU API inaccessible to
non-GPL Linux kernel modules (as was announced more than one year ago in
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/3/8).  Tested on x86 and ppc64.

Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] RCU: introduce rcu_needs_cpu() interface

2006-05-15T18:20:55+00:00

With "Paul E. McKenney" 

Introduce rcu_needs_cpu() interface.  This can be used to tell if there
will be a new rcu batch on a cpu soon by looking at the curlist pointer.
This can be used to avoid to enter a tickless idle state where the cpu
would miss that a new batch is ready when rcu_start_batch would be called
on a different cpu.

Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens 
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] kernel/rcupdate.c: make two structs static

2006-03-23T15:38:17+00:00

This patch makes two needlessly global structs static.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] rcu batch tuning

2006-03-08T22:14:01+00:00

This patch adds new tunables for RCU queue and finished batches.  There are
two types of controls - number of completed RCU updates invoked in a batch
(blimit) and monitoring for high rate of incoming RCUs on a cpu (qhimark,
qlowmark).

By default, the per-cpu batch limit is set to a small value.  If the input
RCU rate exceeds the high watermark, we do two things - force quiescent
state on all cpus and set the batch limit of the CPU to INTMAX.  Setting
batch limit to INTMAX forces all finished RCUs to be processed in one shot.
 If we have more than INTMAX RCUs queued up, then we have bigger problems
anyway.  Once the incoming queued RCUs fall below the low watermark, the
batch limit is set to the default.

Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma 
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" 
Cc: "David S. Miller" 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Fix comment to synchronize_sched()

2006-02-03T16:32:09+00:00

Fix to broken comment to synchronize_rcu() noted by Keith Owens.  Also add
sentence noting that synchronize_sched() and synchronize_rcu() are not
necessarily identical.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Cc: Keith Owens 
Cc: Stephen Hemminger 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] rcu: join rcu_ctrlblk and rcu_state

2006-01-10T16:42:50+00:00

This patch moves rcu_state into the rcu_ctrlblk. I think there
are no reasons why we should have 2 different variables to control
rcu state. Every user of rcu_state has also "rcu_ctrlblk *rcp" in
the parameter list.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] rcu: uninline __rcu_pending()

2006-01-09T17:35:44+00:00

__rcu_pending() is rather fat and called twice from rcu_pending().

rcu_pending() has multiple callers, and not that small too.

This patch uninlines both of them.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov 
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Change maxaligned_in_smp alignemnt macros to internodealigned_in_smp macros

2006-01-09T04:13:38+00:00

____cacheline_maxaligned_in_smp is currently used to align critical structures
and avoid false sharing.  It uses per-arch L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX and people find
L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX useless.

However, we have been using ____cacheline_maxaligned_in_smp to align
structures on the internode cacheline size.  As per Andi's suggestion,
following patch kills ____cacheline_maxaligned_in_smp and introduces
INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT, which defaults to L1_CACHE_SHIFT for all arches.
Arches needing L3/Internode cacheline alignment can define
INTERNODE_CACHE_SHIFT in the arch asm/cache.h.  Patch replaces
____cacheline_maxaligned_in_smp with ____cacheline_internodealigned_in_smp

With this patch, L1_CACHE_SHIFT_MAX can be killed

Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai 
Signed-off-by: Shai Fultheim 
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds