linux/include
Lai Jiangshan b52ce066c5 rcu: Implement a variant of Peter's SRCU algorithm
This commit implements a variant of Peter's algorithm, which may be found
at https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/2/1/119.

o	Make the checking lock-free to enable parallel checking.
	Parallel checking is required when (1) the original checking
	task is preempted for a long time, (2) sychronize_srcu_expedited()
	starts during an ongoing SRCU grace period, or (3) we wish to
	avoid acquiring a lock.

o	Since the checking is lock-free, we avoid a mutex in state machine
	for call_srcu().

o	Remove the SRCU_REF_MASK and remove the coupling with the flipping.
	This might allow us to remove the preempt_disable() in future
	versions, though such removal will need great care because it
	rescinds the one-old-reader-per-CPU guarantee.

o	Remove a smp_mb(), simplify the comments and make the smp_mb() pairs
	more intuitive.

Inspired-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2012-04-30 10:48:22 -07:00
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acpi Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux 2012-03-30 16:45:39 -07:00
asm-generic asm-generic: add linux/types.h to cmpxchg.h 2012-04-02 14:41:27 -07:00
crypto crypto: user - Fix lookup of algorithms with IV generator 2012-03-29 19:52:47 +08:00
drm Merge branch 'exynos-drm-fixes' of git://git.infradead.org/users/kmpark/linux-samsung into drm-intel-fixes 2012-04-12 17:42:01 +01:00
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