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    sched: Teach might_sleep() about preemptible RCU · 234da7bc
    Frederic Weisbecker authored
    
    
    In practice, it is harmless to voluntarily sleep in a
    rcu_read_lock() section if we are running under preempt rcu, but
    it is illegal if we build a kernel running non-preemptable rcu.
    
    Currently, might_sleep() doesn't notice sleepable operations
    under rcu_read_lock() sections if we are running under
    preemptable rcu because preempt_count() is left untouched after
    rcu_read_lock() in this case. But we want developers who test
    their changes under such config to notice the "sleeping while
    atomic" issues.
    
    So we add rcu_read_lock_nesting to prempt_count() in
    might_sleep() checks.
    
    [ v2: Handle rcu-tiny ]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    LKML-Reference: <1260991265-8451-1-git-send-regression-fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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