From 8a2ecf474d3ee8dd5d001490349e422cec52f39f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2012 15:42:04 -0800 Subject: rcu: Add RCU_NONIDLE() for idle-loop RCU read-side critical sections RCU, RCU-bh, and RCU-sched read-side critical sections are forbidden in the inner idle loop, that is, between the rcu_idle_enter() and the rcu_idle_exit() -- RCU will happily ignore any such read-side critical sections. However, things like powertop need tracepoints in the inner idle loop. This commit therefore provides an RCU_NONIDLE() macro that can be used to wrap code in the idle loop that requires RCU read-side critical sections. Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett Acked-by: Deepthi Dharwar --- kernel/rcutree.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/rcutree.c') diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c index 92b47760edf3..eacc10b03531 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.c +++ b/kernel/rcutree.c @@ -402,6 +402,7 @@ void rcu_idle_enter(void) rcu_idle_enter_common(rdtp, oldval); local_irq_restore(flags); } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_idle_enter); /** * rcu_irq_exit - inform RCU that current CPU is exiting irq towards idle @@ -493,6 +494,7 @@ void rcu_idle_exit(void) rcu_idle_exit_common(rdtp, oldval); local_irq_restore(flags); } +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(rcu_idle_exit); /** * rcu_irq_enter - inform RCU that current CPU is entering irq away from idle -- cgit v1.2.1