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    rcu: Detect illegal rcu dereference in extended quiescent state · e6b80a3b
    Frederic Weisbecker authored
    Report that none of the rcu read lock maps are held while in an RCU
    extended quiescent state (the section between rcu_idle_enter()
    and rcu_idle_exit()). This helps detect any use of rcu_dereference()
    and friends from within the section in idle where RCU is not allowed.
    
    This way we can guarantee an extended quiescent window where the CPU
    can be put in dyntick idle mode or can simply aoid to be part of any
    global grace period completion while in the idle loop.
    
    Uses of RCU from such mode are totally ignored by RCU, hence the
    importance of these checks.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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