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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/20] powerpc: Use call_rcu_sched() for pagetables
From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
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On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 16:16 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> plain text document attachment (powerpc-pgtable-call_rcu_sched.patch)
> PowerPC relies on IRQ-disable to guard against RCU quiecent states,
> use the appropriate RCU call version.
> 
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

So as per discussions with Paul Mck, that should be correct,
thus

Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>

> ---
>  arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
> +++ linux-2.6/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c
> @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ static void pte_free_rcu_callback(struct
>  
>  static void pte_free_submit(struct pte_freelist_batch *batch)
>  {
> -	call_rcu(&batch->rcu, pte_free_rcu_callback);
> +	call_rcu_sched(&batch->rcu, pte_free_rcu_callback);
>  }
>  
>  void pgtable_free_tlb(struct mmu_gather *tlb, void *table, unsigned shift)
> 
> 
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