ial-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: Andi Kleen Tested-by: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar 2D¥ó’9x