Patch "parisc: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop" has been added to the 3.6-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

parisc: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop

to the 3.6-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
parisc-add-missing-rcu-idle-apis-on-idle-loop.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.6 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:27:34 +0200
Subject: parisc: Add missing RCU idle APIs on idle loop

From: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>

commit fbe752188d5589e7fcbb8e79824e560f77dccc92 upstream.

In the old times, the whole idle task was considered as an RCU quiescent state. But as RCU became more and more successful overtime, some RCU read side critical section have been added even in the code of some architectures idle tasks, for tracing for example.

So nowadays, rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit() must be called by the architecture to tell RCU about the part in the idle loop that doesn't make use of rcu read side critical sections, typically the part that puts the CPU in low power mode.

This is necessary for RCU to find the quiescent states in idle in order to complete grace periods.

Add this missing pair of calls in the parisc's idle loop.

---
 arch/parisc/kernel/process.c |    3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
 #include <linux/unistd.h>
 #include <linux/kallsyms.h>
 #include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
 
 #include <asm/io.h>
 #include <asm/asm-offsets.h>

@@ -69,8 +70,10 @@ void cpu_idle(void)
 
 	/* endless idle loop with no priority at all */
 	while (1) {
+		rcu_idle_enter();
 		while (!need_resched())
 			barrier();
+		rcu_idle_exit();
 		schedule_preempt_disabled();
 		check_pgt_cache();
 	}

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.6/frv-add-missing-rcu-idle-apis-on-idle-loop.patch queue-3.6/cris-add-missing-rcu-idle-apis-on-idle-loop.patch queue-3.6/m68k-add-missing-rcu-idle-apis-on-idle-loop.patch queue-3.6/alpha-add-missing-rcu-idle-apis-on-idle-loop.patch queue-3.6/h8300-add-missing-rcu-idle-apis-on-idle-loop.patch queue-3.6/parisc-add-missing-rcu-idle-apis-on-idle-loop.patch queue-3.6/m32r-add-missing-rcu-idle-apis-on-idle-loop.patch queue-3.6/score-add-missing-rcu-idle-apis-on-idle-loop.patch queue-3.6/mn10300-add-missing-rcu-idle-apis-on-idle-loop.patch queue-3.6/xtensa-add-missing-rcu-idle-apis-on-idle-loop.patch