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rcu: Warn when rcu_read_lock() is used in extended quiescent state
authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Fri, 7 Oct 2011 16:22:02 +0000 (18:22 +0200)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:31:31 +0000 (10:31 -0800)
commit00f49e5729af602deb559b0cf293a00b625e8636
tree3e3d5162d8a62bf6aa91b546f5760512637e6cf6
parent0464e937485f15d2add78e3b0f498469f4e6600d
rcu: Warn when rcu_read_lock() is used in extended quiescent state

We are currently able to detect uses of rcu_dereference_check() inside
extended quiescent states (such as the RCU-free window in idle).
But rcu_read_lock() and friends can be used without rcu_dereference(),
so that the earlier commit checking for use of rcu_dereference() and
friends while in RCU idle mode miss some error conditions.  This commit
therefore adds extended quiescent state checking to rcu_read_lock() and
friends.

Uses of RCU from within RCU-idle mode are totally ignored by
RCU, hence the importance of these checks.

Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
include/linux/rcupdate.h