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| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h index 86772c95ed0a..4152816dd29f 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h +++ b/kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h @@ -932,10 +932,13 @@ static notrace bool rcu_preempt_need_deferred_qs(struct task_struct *t) return false; } -// Except that we do need to respond to a request by an expedited grace -// period for a quiescent state from this CPU. Note that requests from -// tasks are handled when removing the task from the blocked-tasks list -// below. +// Except that we do need to respond to a request by an expedited +// grace period for a quiescent state from this CPU. Note that in +// non-preemptible kernels, there can be no context switches within RCU +// read-side critical sections, which in turn means that the leaf rcu_node +// structure's blocked-tasks list is always empty. is therefore no need to +// actually check it. Instead, a quiescent state from this CPU suffices, +// and this function is only called from such a quiescent state. notrace void rcu_preempt_deferred_qs(struct task_struct *t) { struct rcu_data *rdp = this_cpu_ptr(&rcu_data); |