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Paul E. McKenney 2403e8044f rcu: Make normal polling GP be more precise about sequence numbers
Currently, poll_state_synchronize_rcu() uses rcu_seq_done() to check
whether the specified grace period has completed.  However, rcu_seq_done()
does a simple comparison that reserves have of the sequence-number space
for uncompleted grace periods.  This has the unfortunate side-effect
of not handling sequence-number wrap gracefully.  Of course, one can
argue that if someone has already waited for half of the full range of
grace periods, they can wait for the other half, but why wait at all in
this case?

This commit therefore creates a rcu_seq_done_exact() that counts as
uncompleted only the two grace periods during which the sequence number
might have been handed out, while still being uncompleted.  This way,
if sequence-number wrap happens to hit that range, at most two additional
grace periods need be waited for.

This commit is in preparation for polled expedited grace periods.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220121142454.1994916-1-bfoster@redhat.com/
Link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RNKWW9jQyfjxw2E8dsXVTdvZYh0HnYeSHDKog9jhdN8/edit?usp=sharing
Cc: Brian Foster <bfoster@redhat.com>
Cc: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
2022-06-20 09:21:50 -07:00
arch X86 updates: 2022-06-19 09:58:28 -05:00
block block/bfq: Enable I/O statistics 2022-06-16 16:59:28 -06:00
certs certs: fix and refactor CONFIG_SYSTEM_BLACKLIST_HASH_LIST build 2022-06-15 21:52:32 +03:00
crypto crypto: memneq - move into lib/ 2022-06-12 14:51:51 +08:00
Documentation A set of interrupt subsystem updates: 2022-06-19 09:45:16 -05:00
drivers A set of interrupt subsystem updates: 2022-06-19 09:45:16 -05:00
fs Fixes for 5.19-rc3: 2022-06-19 09:24:49 -05:00
include Build tool updates: 2022-06-19 09:54:16 -05:00
init gcc-12: disable '-Warray-bounds' universally for now 2022-06-09 10:11:12 -07:00
ipc These changes update the ipc sysctls so that they are fundamentally 2022-06-03 15:54:57 -07:00
kernel rcu: Make normal polling GP be more precise about sequence numbers 2022-06-20 09:21:50 -07:00
lib Build tool updates: 2022-06-19 09:54:16 -05:00
LICENSES LICENSES/LGPL-2.1: Add LGPL-2.1-or-later as valid identifiers 2021-12-16 14:33:10 +01:00
mm Merge tag 'fs_for_v5.19-rc3' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jack/linux-fs 2022-06-17 10:09:24 -07:00
net NFS Client Fixes for Linux 5.19-rc 2022-06-17 15:17:57 -05:00
samples drm for 5.19-rc1 2022-05-25 16:18:27 -07:00
scripts Build tool updates: 2022-06-19 09:54:16 -05:00
security selinux: free contexts previously transferred in selinux_add_opt() 2022-06-15 21:20:45 -04:00
sound sound fixes for 5.19-rc2 2022-06-10 10:20:57 -07:00
tools Build tool updates: 2022-06-19 09:54:16 -05:00
usr Not a lot of material this cycle. Many singleton patches against various 2022-05-27 11:22:03 -07:00
virt KVM: x86: disable preemption around the call to kvm_arch_vcpu_{un|}blocking 2022-06-09 10:52:20 -04:00
.clang-format clang-format: Fix space after for_each macros 2022-05-20 19:27:16 +02:00
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.gitignore kbuild: split the second line of *.mod into *.usyms 2022-05-08 03:16:59 +09:00
.mailmap Hot fixes for 5.19-rc1. 2022-06-05 17:05:38 -07:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: replace a Microchip AT91 maintainer 2022-02-09 11:30:01 +01:00
Kbuild kbuild: rename hostprogs-y/always to hostprogs/always-y 2020-02-04 01:53:07 +09:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS rectifications and a few minor driver fixes 2022-06-19 09:35:09 -05:00
Makefile Linux 5.19-rc3 2022-06-19 15:06:47 -05:00
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