[PATCH 01/10] alpha: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop

[Frederic Weisbecker]

In the old times, the whole idle task was considered
as an RCU quiescent state. But as RCU became more and
more successful overtime, some RCU read side critical
section have been added even in the code of some
architectures idle tasks, for tracing for example.

So nowadays, rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() must
be called by the architecture to tell RCU about the part
in the idle loop that doesn't make use of rcu read side
critical sections, typically the part that puts the CPU
in low power mode.

This is necessary for RCU to find the quiescent states in
idle in order to complete grace periods.

Add this missing pair of calls in the Alpha's idle loop.

Reported-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: alpha <linux-alpha@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: 3.2.x.. <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/alpha/kernel/process.c |    6 +++++-
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c b/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
index 153d3fc..2ebf7b5 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/process.c
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
 #include <linux/tty.h>
 #include <linux/console.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
 
 #include <asm/reg.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -50,13 +51,16 @@ cpu_idle(void)
 {
 	set_thread_flag(TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG);
 
+	preempt_disable();
 	while (1) {
 		/* FIXME -- EV6 and LCA45 know how to power down
 		   the CPU.  */
 
+		rcu_idle_enter();
 		while (!need_resched())
 			cpu_relax();
-		schedule();
+		rcu_idle_exit();
+		schedule_preempt_disabled();
 	}
 }
 
-- 
1.7.5.4

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