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    rcu: fix rcutree grace-period-latency bug on small systems · c12172c0
    Paul E. McKenney authored
    Impact: fix delays during bootup
    
    Kudos to Andi Kleen for finding a grace-period-latency problem!  The
    problem was that the special-case code for small machines never updated
    the ->signaled field to indicate that grace-period initialization had
    completed, which prevented force_quiescent_state() from ever expediting
    grace periods.  This problem resulted in grace periods extending for more
    than 20 seconds.  Not subtle.  I introduced this bug during my inspection
    process when I fixed a race between grace-period initialization and
    force_quiescent_state() execution.
    
    The following patch properly updates the ->signaled field for the
    "small"-system case (no more than 32 CPUs for 32-bit kernels and no more
    than 64 CPUs for 64-bit kernels).
    Reported-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
    Tested-by: default avatarAndi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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