From 19dd1591fc379f1d89f39cd99cbbe97433baa3c3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 16:42:35 -0700 Subject: rcu: New rcu_user_enter_after_irq() and rcu_user_exit_after_irq() APIs In some cases, it is necessary to enter or exit userspace-RCU-idle mode from an interrupt handler, for example, if some other CPU sends this CPU a resched IPI. In this case, the current CPU would enter the IPI handler in userspace-RCU-idle mode, but would need to exit the IPI handler after having exited that mode. To allow this to work, this commit adds two new APIs to TREE_RCU: - rcu_user_enter_after_irq(). This must be called from an interrupt between rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit(). After the irq calls rcu_irq_exit(), the irq handler will return into an RCU extended quiescent state. In theory, this interrupt is never a nested interrupt, but in practice it might interrupt softirq, which looks to RCU like a nested interrupt. - rcu_user_exit_after_irq(). This must be called from a non-nesting interrupt, interrupting an RCU extended quiescent state, also between rcu_irq_enter() and rcu_irq_exit(). After the irq calls rcu_irq_exit(), the irq handler will return in an RCU non-quiescent state. [ Combined with "Allow calls to rcu_exit_user_irq from nesting irqs." ] Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett --- include/linux/rcupdate.h | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/rcupdate.h') diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h index d8b20bfd4795..f818dd165b44 100644 --- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h +++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h @@ -193,6 +193,8 @@ extern void rcu_irq_enter(void); extern void rcu_irq_exit(void); extern void rcu_user_enter(void); extern void rcu_user_exit(void); +extern void rcu_user_enter_after_irq(void); +extern void rcu_user_exit_after_irq(void); extern void exit_rcu(void); /** -- cgit v1.2.3