Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel...

* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  rcupdate: fix bug of rcu_barrier*()
  profiling: fix !procfs build

Fixed trivial conflicts in 'include/linux/profile.h'

diff --git a/kernel/rcupdate.c b/kernel/rcupdate.c
index 467d5940f62406c35ab64fb7c4c88b1556154fa0..ad63af8b25218f562729d868293285ce3433cff8 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/rcupdate.c
+++ b/kernel/rcupdate.c
@@ -119,18 +119,19 @@ static void _rcu_barrier(enum rcu_barrier type)
        /* Take cpucontrol mutex to protect against CPU hotplug */
        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.
+        * Initialize rcu_barrier_cpu_count to 1, then invoke
+        * rcu_barrier_func() on each CPU, so that each CPU also has
+        * incremented rcu_barrier_cpu_count.  Only then is it safe to
+        * decrement rcu_barrier_cpu_count -- otherwise the first CPU
+        * might complete its grace period before all of the other CPUs
+        * did their increment, causing this function to return too
+        * early.
         */
-       rcu_read_lock();
+       atomic_set(&rcu_barrier_cpu_count, 1);
        on_each_cpu(rcu_barrier_func, (void *)type, 1);
-       rcu_read_unlock();
+       if (atomic_dec_and_test(&rcu_barrier_cpu_count))
+               complete(&rcu_barrier_completion);
        wait_for_completion(&rcu_barrier_completion);
        mutex_unlock(&rcu_barrier_mutex);
 }