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-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c14
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c b/kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c
index e49fbe901cfc..16a8cf02eee9 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace_benchmark.c
@@ -153,10 +153,18 @@ static int benchmark_event_kthread(void *arg)
trace_do_benchmark();
/*
- * We don't go to sleep, but let others
- * run as well.
+ * We don't go to sleep, but let others run as well.
+ * This is bascially a "yield()" to let any task that
+ * wants to run, schedule in, but if the CPU is idle,
+ * we'll keep burning cycles.
+ *
+ * Note the _rcu_qs() version of cond_resched() will
+ * notify synchronize_rcu_tasks() that this thread has
+ * passed a quiescent state for rcu_tasks. Otherwise
+ * this thread will never voluntarily schedule which would
+ * block synchronize_rcu_tasks() indefinitely.
*/
- cond_resched();
+ cond_resched_rcu_qs();
}
return 0;
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