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Paul E. McKenney
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This commit pushes the grace-period-end checks further down into rcu_dump_cpu_stacks(), and also uses lockless checks coupled with finer-grained locking. The result is that the current leaf rcu_node structure's ->lock is acquired only if a stack backtrace might be needed from the current CPU, and is held across only that CPU's backtrace. As a result, if there are no stalled CPUs associated with a given rcu_node structure, then its ->lock will not be acquired at all. On large systems, it is usually (though not always) the case that a small number of CPUs are stalling the current grace period, which means that the ->lock need be acquired only for a small fraction of the rcu_node structures. [ paulmck: Apply Dan Carpenter feedback. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
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