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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2018-06-22 06:22:20 -0700 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2018-08-29 08:54:14 -0700 |
| commit | e77cb32558a7bd0e996b7e203158a7fbf1a663fb (patch) | |
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doc: Add design documentation on interruption of NMI handlers
Make Requirements.html talk about how NMI handlers can take what appear
to RCU to be normal interrupts.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html | 11 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html index 49690228b1c6..089a8e8faac1 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html +++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html @@ -2275,6 +2275,17 @@ he also kindly surprised me with <a href="https://lkml.kernel.org/g/CALCETrXSY9JpW3uE6H8WYk81sg56qasA2aqmjMPsq5dOtzso=g@mail.gmail.com">an algorithm</a> that meets this requirement. +<p> +Furthermore, NMI handlers can be interrupted by what appear to RCU +to be normal interrupts. +One way that this can happen is for code that directly invokes +<tt>rcu_irq_enter()</tt> and </tt>rcu_irq_exit()</tt> to be called +from an NMI handler. +This astonishing fact of life prompted the current code structure, +which has <tt>rcu_irq_enter()</tt> invoking <tt>rcu_nmi_enter()</tt> +and <tt>rcu_irq_exit()</tt> invoking <tt>rcu_nmi_exit()</tt>. +And yes, I also learned of this requirement the hard way. + <h3><a name="Loadable Modules">Loadable Modules</a></h3> <p> |