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    rcu: Create rcutree plugins to handle hotplug CPU for multi-level trees · dd5d19ba
    Paul E. McKenney authored
    
    
    When offlining CPUs from a multi-level tree, there is the
    possibility of offlining the last CPU from a given node when
    there are preempted RCU read-side critical sections that
    started life on one of the CPUs on that node.
    
    In this case, the corresponding tasks will be enqueued via the
    task_struct's rcu_node_entry list_head onto one of the
    rcu_node's blocked_tasks[] lists.  These tasks need to be moved
    somewhere else so that they will prevent the current grace
    period from ending. That somewhere is the root rcu_node.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com
    Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com
    Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
    Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca
    Cc: josht@linux.vnet.ibm.com
    Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com
    Cc: niv@us.ibm.com
    Cc: peterz@infradead.org
    Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org
    LKML-Reference: <20090827215816.GA30472@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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