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commit 18f08e758f34e6dfe0668bee51bd2af7adacf381 upstream. Currently, trc_inspect_reader() treats a task exiting its RCU Tasks Trace read-side critical section the same as being within that critical section. However, this can fail because that task might have already checked its .need_qs field, which means that it might never decrement the all-important trc_n_readers_need_end counter. Of course, for that to happen, the task would need to never again execute an RCU Tasks Trace read-side critical section, but this really could happen if the system's last trampoline was removed. Note that exit from such a critical section cannot be treated as a quiescent state due to the possibility of nested critical sections. This means that if trc_inspect_reader() sees a negative nesting value, it must set up to try again later. This commit therefore ignores tasks that are exiting their RCU Tasks Trace read-side critical sections so that they will be rechecked later. [ paulmck: Apply feedback from Neeraj Upadhyay and Boqun Feng. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.