Preempt-RCU: fix rcu_barrier for preemptive environment.
Fix rcu_barrier() to work properly in preemptive kernel environment.
Also, the ordering of callback must be preserved while moving
callbacks to another CPU during CPU hotplug.
Signed-off-by: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/kernel/rcupdate.c b/kernel/rcupdate.c
index 0ccd009..760dfc2 100644
--- a/kernel/rcupdate.c
+++ b/kernel/rcupdate.c
@@ -115,7 +115,17 @@
mutex_lock(&rcu_barrier_mutex);
init_completion(&rcu_barrier_completion);
atomic_set(&rcu_barrier_cpu_count, 0);
+ /*
+ * The queueing of callbacks in all CPUs must be atomic with
+ * respect to RCU, otherwise one CPU may queue a callback,
+ * wait for a grace period, decrement barrier count and call
+ * complete(), while other CPUs have not yet queued anything.
+ * So, we need to make sure that grace periods cannot complete
+ * until all the callbacks are queued.
+ */
+ rcu_read_lock();
on_each_cpu(rcu_barrier_func, NULL, 0, 1);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
wait_for_completion(&rcu_barrier_completion);
mutex_unlock(&rcu_barrier_mutex);
}