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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-01-06 08:02:40 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-01-06 08:02:40 -0800
commit423d091dfe58d3109d84c408810a7cfa82f6f184 (patch)
tree43c4385d1dc7219582f924d42db1f3e203a577bd /kernel/lockdep.c
parent1483b3823542c9721eddf09a077af1e02ac96b50 (diff)
parent919b83452b2e7c1dbced0456015508b4b9585db3 (diff)
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Merge branch 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip
* 'core-rcu-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip: (64 commits)
  cpu: Export cpu_up()
  rcu: Apply ACCESS_ONCE() to rcu_boost() return value
  Revert "rcu: Permit rt_mutex_unlock() with irqs disabled"
  docs: Additional LWN links to RCU API
  rcu: Augment rcu_batch_end tracing for idle and callback state
  rcu: Add rcutorture tests for srcu_read_lock_raw()
  rcu: Make rcutorture test for hotpluggability before offlining CPUs
  driver-core/cpu: Expose hotpluggability to the rest of the kernel
  rcu: Remove redundant rcu_cpu_stall_suppress declaration
  rcu: Adaptive dyntick-idle preparation
  rcu: Keep invoking callbacks if CPU otherwise idle
  rcu: Irq nesting is always 0 on rcu_enter_idle_common
  rcu: Don't check irq nesting from rcu idle entry/exit
  rcu: Permit dyntick-idle with callbacks pending
  rcu: Document same-context read-side constraints
  rcu: Identify dyntick-idle CPUs on first force_quiescent_state() pass
  rcu: Remove dynticks false positives and RCU failures
  rcu: Reduce latency of rcu_prepare_for_idle()
  rcu: Eliminate RCU_FAST_NO_HZ grace-period hang
  rcu: Avoid needlessly IPIing CPUs at GP end
  ...
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diff --git a/kernel/lockdep.c b/kernel/lockdep.c
index e69d633d6aa6..8fb755132322 100644
--- a/kernel/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/lockdep.c
@@ -4181,6 +4181,28 @@ void lockdep_rcu_suspicious(const char *file, const int line, const char *s)
 	printk("%s:%d %s!\n", file, line, s);
 	printk("\nother info that might help us debug this:\n\n");
 	printk("\nrcu_scheduler_active = %d, debug_locks = %d\n", rcu_scheduler_active, debug_locks);
+
+	/*
+	 * If a CPU is in the RCU-free window in idle (ie: in the section
+	 * between rcu_idle_enter() and rcu_idle_exit(), then RCU
+	 * considers that CPU to be in an "extended quiescent state",
+	 * which means that RCU will be completely ignoring that CPU.
+	 * Therefore, rcu_read_lock() and friends have absolutely no
+	 * effect on a CPU running in that state. In other words, even if
+	 * such an RCU-idle CPU has called rcu_read_lock(), RCU might well
+	 * delete data structures out from under it.  RCU really has no
+	 * choice here: we need to keep an RCU-free window in idle where
+	 * the CPU may possibly enter into low power mode. This way we can
+	 * notice an extended quiescent state to other CPUs that started a grace
+	 * period. Otherwise we would delay any grace period as long as we run
+	 * in the idle task.
+	 *
+	 * So complain bitterly if someone does call rcu_read_lock(),
+	 * rcu_read_lock_bh() and so on from extended quiescent states.
+	 */
+	if (rcu_is_cpu_idle())
+		printk("RCU used illegally from extended quiescent state!\n");
+
 	lockdep_print_held_locks(curr);
 	printk("\nstack backtrace:\n");
 	dump_stack();