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    rcu: Track idleness independent of idle tasks · 9b2e4f18
    Paul E. McKenney authored
    Earlier versions of RCU used the scheduling-clock tick to detect idleness
    by checking for the idle task, but handled idleness differently for
    CONFIG_NO_HZ=y.  But there are now a number of uses of RCU read-side
    critical sections in the idle task, for example, for tracing.  A more
    fine-grained detection of idleness is therefore required.
    
    This commit presses the old dyntick-idle code into full-time service,
    so that rcu_idle_enter(), previously known as rcu_enter_nohz(), is
    always invoked at the beginning of an idle loop iteration.  Similarly,
    rcu_idle_exit(), previously known as rcu_exit_nohz(), is always invoked
    at the end of an idle-loop iteration.  This allows the idle task to
    use RCU everywhere except between consecutive rcu_idle_enter() and
    rcu_idle_exit() calls, in turn allowing architecture maintainers to
    specify exactly where in the idle loop that RCU may be used.
    
    Because some of the userspace upcall uses can result in what looks
    to RCU like half of an interrupt, it is not possible to expect that
    the irq_enter() and irq_exit() hooks will give exact counts.  This
    patch therefore expands the ->dynticks_nesting counter to 64 bits
    and uses two separate bitfields to count process/idle transitions
    and interrupt entry/exit transitions.  It is presumed that userspace
    upcalls do not happen in the idle loop or from usermode execution
    (though usermode might do a system call that results in an upcall).
    The counter is hard-reset on each process/idle transition, which
    avoids the interrupt entry/exit error from accumulating.  Overflow
    is avoided by the 64-bitness of the ->dyntick_nesting counter.
    
    This commit also adds warnings if a non-idle task asks RCU to enter
    idle state (and these checks will need some adjustment before applying
    Frederic's OS-jitter patches (http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/10/7/246
    
    ).
    In addition, validation of ->dynticks and ->dynticks_nesting is added.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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