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rcu: Abstract dynticks extended quiescent state enter/exit operations
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 2 Nov 2016 21:23:30 +0000 (14:23 -0700)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Mon, 23 Jan 2017 19:42:43 +0000 (11:42 -0800)
commit2625d469baeef3aabdfe122572e00c517e2d9451
tree2b417dfd5f7f7ba6e9e347e4ac04cdd7a5a2f7a9
parent8b2f63ab05eb233b2b396e133889ce3d1d30d944
rcu: Abstract dynticks extended quiescent state enter/exit operations

This commit is the third step towards full abstraction of all accesses
to the ->dynticks counter, implementing the previously open-coded atomic
add of 1 and entry checks in a new rcu_dynticks_eqs_enter() function, and
the same but with exit checks in a new rcu_dynticks_eqs_exit() function.
This abstraction will ease changes to the ->dynticks counter operation.

Note that this commit gets rid of the smp_mb__before_atomic() and the
smp_mb__after_atomic() calls that were previously present.  The reason
that this is OK from a memory-ordering perspective is that the atomic
operation is now atomic_add_return(), which, as a value-returning atomic,
guarantees full ordering.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
[ paulmck: Fixed RCU_TRACE() statements added by this commit. ]
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
kernel/rcu/tree.c