rcu: Remove local_irq_disable() in rcu_preempt_note_context_switch()
The rcu_preempt_note_context_switch() function is on a scheduling fast
path, so it would be good to avoid disabling irqs. The reason that irqs
are disabled is to synchronize process-level and irq-handler access to
the task_struct ->rcu_read_unlock_special bitmask. This commit therefore
makes ->rcu_read_unlock_special instead be a union of bools with a short
allowing single-access checks in RCU's __rcu_read_unlock(). This results
in the process-level and irq-handler accesses being simple loads and
stores, so that irqs need no longer be disabled. This commit therefore
removes the irq disabling from rcu_preempt_note_context_switch().
Reported-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/update.c b/kernel/rcu/update.c
index 9487b48..6fb9115 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/update.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/update.c
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
barrier(); /* critical section before exit code. */
t->rcu_read_lock_nesting = INT_MIN;
barrier(); /* assign before ->rcu_read_unlock_special load */
- if (unlikely(ACCESS_ONCE(t->rcu_read_unlock_special)))
+ if (unlikely(ACCESS_ONCE(t->rcu_read_unlock_special.s)))
rcu_read_unlock_special(t);
barrier(); /* ->rcu_read_unlock_special load before assign */
t->rcu_read_lock_nesting = 0;
