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authorPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>2011-03-17 08:44:08 +0100
committerPaul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>2011-03-17 08:44:08 +0100
commit1d2a1959fe534279cf37aba20b08c24c20840e52 (patch)
tree67c0b9aa7fe22a44bf0b4af88947799203eb8f67 /kernel/rcupdate.c
parentsh: update sh7757lcr_defconfig (diff)
parentMerge branch 'mnt_devname' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/v... (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into sh-latest
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcupdate.c b/kernel/rcupdate.c
index a23a57a976d1..f3240e987928 100644
--- a/kernel/rcupdate.c
+++ b/kernel/rcupdate.c
@@ -214,11 +214,12 @@ static int rcuhead_fixup_free(void *addr, enum debug_obj_state state)
* Ensure that queued callbacks are all executed.
* If we detect that we are nested in a RCU read-side critical
* section, we should simply fail, otherwise we would deadlock.
+ * Note that the machinery to reliably determine whether
+ * or not we are in an RCU read-side critical section
+ * exists only in the preemptible RCU implementations
+ * (TINY_PREEMPT_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU), which is why
+ * DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD is disallowed if !PREEMPT.
*/
-#ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT
- WARN_ON(1);
- return 0;
-#else
if (rcu_preempt_depth() != 0 || preempt_count() != 0 ||
irqs_disabled()) {
WARN_ON(1);
@@ -229,7 +230,6 @@ static int rcuhead_fixup_free(void *addr, enum debug_obj_state state)
rcu_barrier_bh();
debug_object_free(head, &rcuhead_debug_descr);
return 1;
-#endif
default:
return 0;
}