linux/kernel/rcupdate.c, branch v2.6.18.7

[PATCH] rcu_do_batch: make ->qlen decrement irq safe

2006-09-13T14:32:14Z

rcu_do_batch() decrements rdp->qlen with irqs enabled. This is not good, it can also be modified by call_rcu() from interrupt. Decrement ->qlen once with irqs disabled, after a main loop. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Dipankar Sarma Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] cpu hotplug: replace devinit* with cpuinit* for cpu notifications

2006-07-31T20:28:39Z

Few of the callback functions and notifier blocks that are associated with cpu notifications incorrectly have __devinit and __devinitdata. They should be __cpuinit and __cpuinitdata instead. It makes no functional difference but wastes text area when CONFIG_HOTPLUG is enabled and CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is not. This patch fixes all those instances. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman Cc: Ashok Raj Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] lockdep: locking init debugging improvement

2006-07-03T22:27:02Z

Locking init improvement: - introduce and use __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED for array initializations, to pass in the name string of locks, used by debugging Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] cpu hotplug: revert initdata patch submitted for 2.6.17

2006-06-28T00:32:41Z

This patch reverts notifier_block changes made in 2.6.17 Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman Cc: Ashok Raj Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] cpu hotplug: revert init patch submitted for 2.6.17

2006-06-28T00:32:40Z

In 2.6.17, there was a problem with cpu_notifiers and XFS. I provided a band-aid solution to solve that problem. In the process, i undid all the changes you both were making to ensure that these notifiers were available only at init time (unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined). We deferred the real fix to 2.6.18. Here is a set of patches that fixes the XFS problem cleanly and makes the cpu notifiers available only at init time (unless CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined). If CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is defined then cpu notifiers are available at run time. This patch reverts the notifier_call changes made in 2.6.17 Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman Cc: Ashok Raj Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] rcutorture: add call_rcu_bh() operations

2006-06-28T00:32:40Z

Add operations for the call_rcu_bh() variant of RCU. Also add an rcu_batches_completed_bh() function, which is needed by rcutorture. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Make RCU API inaccessible to non-GPL Linux kernel modules

2006-06-23T14:43:07Z

Remove synchronize_kernel() (deprecated 2-APR-2005 in http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/3/11) and makes the RCU API inaccessible to non-GPL Linux kernel modules (as was announced more than one year ago in http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/3/8). Tested on x86 and ppc64. Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] RCU: introduce rcu_needs_cpu() interface

2006-05-15T18:20:55Z

With "Paul E. McKenney" Introduce rcu_needs_cpu() interface. This can be used to tell if there will be a new rcu batch on a cpu soon by looking at the curlist pointer. This can be used to avoid to enter a tickless idle state where the cpu would miss that a new batch is ready when rcu_start_batch would be called on a different cpu. Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Remove devinit and cpuinit from notifier_call definitions

2006-04-26T15:30:03Z

Few of the notifier_chain_register() callers use __init in the definition of notifier_call. It is incorrect as the function definition should be available after the initializations (they do not unregister them during initializations). This patch fixes all such usages to _not_ have the notifier_call __init section. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] Remove __devinitdata from notifier block definitions

2006-04-26T15:27:50Z

Few of the notifier_chain_register() callers use __devinitdata in the definition of notifier_block data structure. It is incorrect as the data structure should be available after the initializations (they do not unregister them during initializations). This was leading to an oops when notifier_chain_register() call is invoked for those callback chains after initialization. This patch fixes all such usages to _not_ have the notifier_block data structure in the init data section. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds