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rcu: Prevent offline CPUs from executing RCU core code
authorPaul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Thu, 21 Jun 2012 16:54:10 +0000 (09:54 -0700)
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Wed, 5 Sep 2012 18:56:20 +0000 (11:56 -0700)
commita5cdc1c841e92f421ac5ccb50105aa8c36e2bb0e
tree14244c6bc5250e6c6c89efff29f7d3203c224231
parentd6bb5a6bee5186f8f1428002691a63d292563444
rcu: Prevent offline CPUs from executing RCU core code

Earlier versions of RCU invoked the RCU core from the CPU_DYING notifier
in order to note a quiescent state for the outgoing CPU.  Because the
CPU is marked "offline" during the execution of the CPU_DYING notifiers,
the RCU core had to tolerate being invoked from an offline CPU.  However,
commit b1420f1c (Make rcu_barrier() less disruptive) left only tracing
code in the CPU_DYING notifier, so the RCU core need no longer execute
on offline CPUs.  This commit therefore enforces this restriction.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
kernel/rcutree.c