From: Paul E. McKenney Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 03:51:39 +0000 (-0800) Subject: rcu: Eliminate __rcu_pending() false positives X-Git-Tag: v2.6.33-rc1~405^2~7 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2f51f9884f6a36b0fe9636d5a1937e5cbd25723b;p=pandora-kernel.git rcu: Eliminate __rcu_pending() false positives Now that there are both ->gpnum and ->completed fields in the rcu_node structure, __rcu_pending() should check rdp->gpnum and rdp->completed against rnp->gpnum and rdp->completed, respectively, instead of the prior comparison against the rcu_state fields rsp->gpnum and rsp->completed. Given the old comparison, __rcu_pending() could return 1, resulting in a needless raise_softirq(RCU_SOFTIRQ). This useless work would happen if RCU responded to a scheduling-clock interrupt after the rcu_state fields had been updated, but before the rcu_node fields had been updated. Changing the comparison from the rcu_state fields to the rcu_node fields prevents this useless work from happening. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <12581706991966-git-send-email-> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed