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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca,
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	patches@linaro.org, "Paul E. McKenney" <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
	Trinabh Gupta <g.trinabh@gmail.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
	Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 3/3] cpuidle: Inform RCU of read-side critical sections
Date: Thu,  2 Feb 2012 17:12:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1328231568-2971-3-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1328231568-2971-1-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>

The cpuidle_idle_call() function is invoked in the inner idle loop,
after the call to rcu_idle_enter() and before the call to rcu_idle_exit().
This means that RCU is ignoring the CPU at this point.  Unfortunately,
cpuidle_idle_call() nevertheless contains tracepoints (important ones
used by powertop) that expect RCU to be paying attention.  The consequences
of using RCU read-side critical sections on CPUs that RCU is ignoring
can be severe, including random corruption of random memory.

Therefore, this commit uses the new RCU_NONIDLE() macro to let RCU
do its job with respect to the tracepoints.

Suggested-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Trinabh Gupta <g.trinabh@gmail.com>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Deepthi Dharwar <deepthi@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
---
 drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c |   12 ++++++++----
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
index 59f4261..cd8a553 100644
--- a/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
+++ b/drivers/cpuidle/cpuidle.c
@@ -94,13 +94,17 @@ int cpuidle_idle_call(void)
 
 	target_state = &drv->states[next_state];
 
-	trace_power_start(POWER_CSTATE, next_state, dev->cpu);
-	trace_cpu_idle(next_state, dev->cpu);
+	RCU_NONIDLE(
+		trace_power_start(POWER_CSTATE, next_state, dev->cpu);
+		trace_cpu_idle(next_state, dev->cpu)
+	);
 
 	entered_state = target_state->enter(dev, drv, next_state);
 
-	trace_power_end(dev->cpu);
-	trace_cpu_idle(PWR_EVENT_EXIT, dev->cpu);
+	RCU_NONIDLE(
+		trace_power_end(dev->cpu);
+		trace_cpu_idle(PWR_EVENT_EXIT, dev->cpu);
+	);
 
 	if (entered_state >= 0) {
 		/* Update cpuidle counters */
-- 
1.7.8


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-02-03  1:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-03  1:12 [PATCH RFC 0/3] Fix cpuidle_idle_call() RCU usage Paul E. McKenney
2012-02-03  1:12 ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 1/3] rcu: Allow nesting of rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() Paul E. McKenney
2012-02-03  1:12   ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 2/3] rcu: Add RCU_NONIDLE() for idle-loop RCU read-side critical sections Paul E. McKenney
2012-02-03  1:12   ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2012-02-03 11:02     ` [PATCH RFC tip/core/rcu 3/3] cpuidle: Inform RCU of " Deepthi Dharwar
2012-02-03  2:43 ` [PATCH RFC 0/3] Fix cpuidle_idle_call() RCU usage Josh Triplett

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