From cc6783f788d8fe8b23ec6fc2762f5e8c9a418eee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Paul E. McKenney" Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 17:39:49 -0700 Subject: rcu: Is it safe to enter an RCU read-side critical section? There is currently no way for kernel code to determine whether it is safe to enter an RCU read-side critical section, in other words, whether or not RCU is paying attention to the currently running CPU. Given the large and increasing quantity of code shared by the idle loop and non-idle code, the this shortcoming is becoming increasingly painful. This commit therefore adds __rcu_is_watching(), which returns true if it is safe to enter an RCU read-side critical section on the currently running CPU. This function is quite fast, using only a __this_cpu_read(). However, the caller must disable preemption. Reported-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett --- include/linux/rcutiny.h | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'include/linux/rcutiny.h') diff --git a/include/linux/rcutiny.h b/include/linux/rcutiny.h index e31005ee339e..bee665964878 100644 --- a/include/linux/rcutiny.h +++ b/include/linux/rcutiny.h @@ -132,4 +132,13 @@ static inline void rcu_scheduler_starting(void) } #endif /* #else #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC */ +#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TRACE + +static inline bool __rcu_is_watching(void) +{ + return !rcu_is_cpu_idle(); +} + +#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_TRACE */ + #endif /* __LINUX_RCUTINY_H */ -- cgit v1.2.3