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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-01-03 20:29:57 -0800
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2016-03-31 13:34:50 -0700
commit8c7c4829a81c1838f18c12ce5a3a5c29a08bf0a8 (patch)
tree0d06174a9f214fb1eb96919d48c490c0fae0db1c /kernel/rcu/tree.h
parentfcfd0a237bfcf0c314005007e9d76e55a25e2bad (diff)
rcu: Awaken grace-period kthread if too long since FQS
Recent kernels can fail to awaken the grace-period kthread for quiescent-state forcing. This commit is a crude hack that does a wakeup if a scheduling-clock interrupt sees that it has been too long since force-quiescent-state (FQS) processing. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu/tree.h')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/tree.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.h b/kernel/rcu/tree.h
index df668c0f9e64..34d3973f7223 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.h
@@ -513,6 +513,8 @@ struct rcu_state {
unsigned long jiffies_force_qs; /* Time at which to invoke */
/* force_quiescent_state(). */
+ unsigned long jiffies_kick_kthreads; /* Time at which to kick */
+ /* kthreads, if configured. */
unsigned long n_force_qs; /* Number of calls to */
/* force_quiescent_state(). */
unsigned long n_force_qs_lh; /* ~Number of calls leaving */