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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-10-03 14:43:40 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-11-27 08:42:03 -0800 |
| commit | 51a1fd30f13090be7750fed86cf3728afaf4e394 (patch) | |
| tree | 346dbd94f1ec39ed399403112a12698e33ee1dc3 /kernel/rcu/rcu.h | |
| parent | 58721f5da4bcd5187566f4159a4fc88f70bf74f6 (diff) | |
rcu: Make ->dynticks_nesting be a simple counter
Now that ->dynticks_nesting counts only process-level dyntick-idle
entry and exit, there is no need for the elaborate segmented counter
with its guard fields and overflow checking. This commit therefore
makes ->dynticks_nesting be a simple counter.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu/rcu.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcu/rcu.h | 27 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 26 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcu.h b/kernel/rcu/rcu.h index f4a411964c41..afe0559d1867 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/rcu.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/rcu.h @@ -30,32 +30,7 @@ #define RCU_TRACE(stmt) #endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TRACE */ -/* - * Process-level increment to ->dynticks_nesting field. This allows for - * architectures that use half-interrupts and half-exceptions from - * process context. - * - * DYNTICK_TASK_NEST_MASK defines a field of width DYNTICK_TASK_NEST_WIDTH - * that counts the number of process-based reasons why RCU cannot - * consider the corresponding CPU to be idle, and DYNTICK_TASK_NEST_VALUE - * is the value used to increment or decrement this field. - * - * The rest of the bits could in principle be used to count interrupts, - * but this would mean that a negative-one value in the interrupt - * field could incorrectly zero out the DYNTICK_TASK_NEST_MASK field. - * We therefore provide a two-bit guard field defined by DYNTICK_TASK_MASK - * that is set to DYNTICK_TASK_FLAG upon initial exit from idle. - * The DYNTICK_TASK_EXIT_IDLE value is thus the combined value used upon - * initial exit from idle. - */ -#define DYNTICK_TASK_NEST_WIDTH 7 -#define DYNTICK_TASK_NEST_VALUE ((LLONG_MAX >> DYNTICK_TASK_NEST_WIDTH) + 1) -#define DYNTICK_TASK_NEST_MASK (LLONG_MAX - DYNTICK_TASK_NEST_VALUE + 1) -#define DYNTICK_TASK_FLAG ((DYNTICK_TASK_NEST_VALUE / 8) * 2) -#define DYNTICK_TASK_MASK ((DYNTICK_TASK_NEST_VALUE / 8) * 3) -#define DYNTICK_TASK_EXIT_IDLE (DYNTICK_TASK_NEST_VALUE + \ - DYNTICK_TASK_FLAG) - +/* Offset to allow for unmatched rcu_irq_{enter,exit}(). */ #define DYNTICK_IRQ_NONIDLE ((INT_MAX / 2) + 1) |