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| author | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2023-03-20 18:37:51 +0100 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> | 2023-05-11 13:42:04 -0700 |
| commit | 7a3cc29136960c45eff362a7304dd4f6eaf34cdd (patch) | |
| tree | 20b1359c43622b865fa2752187ddd4e5fd791d67 /Documentation/RCU | |
| parent | 1da82598cfc22f43fb0a3bd47774f7e886cc8b62 (diff) | |
rcu: Remove RCU_NONIDLE()
Since there are now exactly _zero_ users of RCU_NONIDLE(), make it go
away before someone else decides to (ab)use it.
[ paulmck: Remove extraneous whitespace. ]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RCU')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst | 36 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst | 1 |
2 files changed, 1 insertions, 36 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst index 49387d823619..f3b605285a87 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst +++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.rst @@ -2071,41 +2071,7 @@ call. Because RCU avoids interrupting idle CPUs, it is illegal to execute an RCU read-side critical section on an idle CPU. (Kernels built with -``CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y`` will splat if you try it.) The RCU_NONIDLE() -macro and ``_rcuidle`` event tracing is provided to work around this -restriction. In addition, rcu_is_watching() may be used to test -whether or not it is currently legal to run RCU read-side critical -sections on this CPU. I learned of the need for diagnostics on the one -hand and RCU_NONIDLE() on the other while inspecting idle-loop code. -Steven Rostedt supplied ``_rcuidle`` event tracing, which is used quite -heavily in the idle loop. However, there are some restrictions on the -code placed within RCU_NONIDLE(): - -#. Blocking is prohibited. In practice, this is not a serious - restriction given that idle tasks are prohibited from blocking to - begin with. -#. Although nesting RCU_NONIDLE() is permitted, they cannot nest - indefinitely deeply. However, given that they can be nested on the - order of a million deep, even on 32-bit systems, this should not be a - serious restriction. This nesting limit would probably be reached - long after the compiler OOMed or the stack overflowed. -#. Any code path that enters RCU_NONIDLE() must sequence out of that - same RCU_NONIDLE(). For example, the following is grossly - illegal: - - :: - - 1 RCU_NONIDLE({ - 2 do_something(); - 3 goto bad_idea; /* BUG!!! */ - 4 do_something_else();}); - 5 bad_idea: - - - It is just as illegal to transfer control into the middle of - RCU_NONIDLE()'s argument. Yes, in theory, you could transfer in - as long as you also transferred out, but in practice you could also - expect to get sharply worded review comments. +``CONFIG_PROVE_RCU=y`` will splat if you try it.) It is similarly socially unacceptable to interrupt an ``nohz_full`` CPU running in userspace. RCU must therefore track ``nohz_full`` userspace diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst index 8eddef28d3a1..e488c8e557a9 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst +++ b/Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.rst @@ -1117,7 +1117,6 @@ All: lockdep-checked RCU utility APIs:: RCU_LOCKDEP_WARN rcu_sleep_check - RCU_NONIDLE All: Unchecked RCU-protected pointer access:: |