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Now that RCU flavors have been consolidated, an RCU-preempt rcu_read_unlock() in an interrupt or softirq handler cannot possibly end the RCU read-side critical section. Consider the old vulnerability involving rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() being invoked within such a handler that interrupted an extended RCU read-side critical section, in which a wakeup might be invoked with a scheduler lock held. Because rcu_read_unlock_special() no longer does wakeups in such situations, it is no longer necessary for rcu_preempt_deferred_qs() to set the nesting level negative. This commit therefore removes this recursion-protection code from rcu_preempt_deferred_qs(). [ paulmck: Fix typo in commit log per Steve Rostedt. ] Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@linux.alibaba.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.