kernel_optimize_test/arch/avr32
Frederic Weisbecker 2bbb6817c0 nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop
It is assumed that rcu won't be used once we switch to tickless
mode and until we restart the tick. However this is not always
true, as in x86-64 where we dereference the idle notifiers after
the tick is stopped.

To prepare for fixing this, add two new APIs:
tick_nohz_idle_enter_norcu() and tick_nohz_idle_exit_norcu().

If no use of RCU is made in the idle loop between
tick_nohz_enter_idle() and tick_nohz_exit_idle() calls, the arch
must instead call the new *_norcu() version such that the arch doesn't
need to call rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit().

Otherwise the arch must call tick_nohz_enter_idle() and
tick_nohz_exit_idle() and also call explicitly:

- rcu_idle_enter() after its last use of RCU before the CPU is put
to sleep.
- rcu_idle_exit() before the first use of RCU after the CPU is woken
up.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Cc: Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hans-christian.egtvedt@atmel.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2011-12-11 10:31:36 -08:00
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boards mtd: ATMEL, AVR32: inline nand partition table access 2011-09-11 15:01:57 +03:00
boot avr32: remove .note.gnu.build-id section when making vmlinux.bin 2008-12-17 11:44:10 +01:00
configs rtc: fix build warnings in defconfigs 2011-06-15 20:04:02 -07:00
include/asm atomic: cleanup asm-generic atomic*.h inclusion 2011-07-26 16:49:47 -07:00
kernel nohz: Allow rcu extended quiescent state handling seperately from tick stop 2011-12-11 10:31:36 -08:00
lib asm-generic: rename generic little-endian bitops functions 2011-03-23 19:46:11 -07:00
mach-at32ap Merge git://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6 2011-11-07 09:11:16 -08:00
mm avr32: add export.h to arch/avr32 for EXPORT_SYMBOL/THIS_MODULE 2011-10-31 19:30:59 -04:00
oprofile Add kernel support for oprofile callgraphs on AVR32 2008-09-22 09:51:01 +02:00
Kconfig Add Kconfig option ARCH_HAVE_NMI_SAFE_CMPXCHG 2011-08-03 11:12:37 -04:00
Kconfig.debug
Makefile kbuild: allow assignment to {A,C,LD}FLAGS_MODULE on the command line 2010-08-03 14:09:45 +02:00