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rcu: Remove _rcu_barrier() dependency on __stop_machine()

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Currently, _rcu_barrier() relies on preempt_disable() to prevent
any CPU from going offline, which in turn depends on CPU hotplug's
use of __stop_machine().

This patch therefore makes _rcu_barrier() use get_online_cpus() to
block CPU-hotplug operations.  This has the added benefit of removing
the need for _rcu_barrier() to adopt callbacks:  Because CPU-hotplug
operations are excluded, there can be no callbacks to adopt.  This
commit simplifies the code accordingly.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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Paul E. McKenney 2012-08-02 17:43:50 -07:00 • committed by Paul E. McKenney
parent a10d206ef1
commit 1331e7a1bb
3 changed files with 13 additions and 77 deletions
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@ -398,9 +398,6 @@ struct rcu_state {
struct rcu_head **orphan_donetail; /* Tail of above. */
long qlen_lazy; /* Number of lazy callbacks. */
long qlen; /* Total number of callbacks. */
struct task_struct *rcu_barrier_in_progress;
/* Task doing rcu_barrier(), */
/* or NULL if no barrier. */
struct mutex barrier_mutex; /* Guards barrier fields. */
atomic_t barrier_cpu_count; /* # CPUs waiting on. */
struct completion barrier_completion; /* Wake at barrier end. */