rcu: Improve grace-period start logic

This commit improves grace-period start logic by checking ->gp_flags
under the lock and by issuing a warning if a grace period is already
in progress.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit is contained in:
Paul E. McKenney 2013-08-08 18:27:52 -07:00
parent 272b98c645
commit f7be820939

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@ -1297,7 +1297,7 @@ static void note_gp_changes(struct rcu_state *rsp, struct rcu_data *rdp)
}
/*
* Initialize a new grace period.
* Initialize a new grace period. Return 0 if no grace period required.
*/
static int rcu_gp_init(struct rcu_state *rsp)
{
@ -1306,10 +1306,18 @@ static int rcu_gp_init(struct rcu_state *rsp)
rcu_bind_gp_kthread();
raw_spin_lock_irq(&rnp->lock);
if (rsp->gp_flags == 0) {
/* Spurious wakeup, tell caller to go back to sleep. */
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&rnp->lock);
return 0;
}
rsp->gp_flags = 0; /* Clear all flags: New grace period. */
if (rcu_gp_in_progress(rsp)) {
/* Grace period already in progress, don't start another. */
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(rcu_gp_in_progress(rsp))) {
/*
* Grace period already in progress, don't start another.
* Not supposed to be able to happen.
*/
raw_spin_unlock_irq(&rnp->lock);
return 0;
}
@ -1474,8 +1482,7 @@ static int __noreturn rcu_gp_kthread(void *arg)
wait_event_interruptible(rsp->gp_wq,
rsp->gp_flags &
RCU_GP_FLAG_INIT);
if ((rsp->gp_flags & RCU_GP_FLAG_INIT) &&
rcu_gp_init(rsp))
if (rcu_gp_init(rsp))
break;
cond_resched();
flush_signals(current);