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    rcu: Make kernel-mode nohz_full CPUs invoke the RCU core processing · dd7dafd1
    Paul E. McKenney authored
    If a nohz_full CPU is idle or executing in userspace, it makes good sense
    to keep it out of RCU core processing.  After all, the RCU grace-period
    kthread can see its quiescent states and all of its callbacks are
    offloaded, so there is nothing for RCU core processing to do.
    
    However, if a nohz_full CPU is executing in kernel space, the RCU
    grace-period kthread cannot do anything for it, so such a CPU must report
    its own quiescent states.  This commit therefore makes nohz_full CPUs
    skip RCU core processing only if the scheduler-clock interrupt caught
    them in idle or in userspace.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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