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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-03-05 21:48:31 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2009-03-05 21:48:50 +0100
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Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/core
Conflicts: arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap_64.h Semantic merge: arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/include/linux/rcupreempt.h b/include/linux/rcupreempt.h
index 3e05c09b54a2..74304b4538d8 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupreempt.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupreempt.h
@@ -142,4 +142,19 @@ static inline void rcu_exit_nohz(void)
#define rcu_exit_nohz() do { } while (0)
#endif /* CONFIG_NO_HZ */
+/*
+ * A context switch is a grace period for rcupreempt synchronize_rcu()
+ * only during early boot, before the scheduler has been initialized.
+ * So, how the heck do we get a context switch? Well, if the caller
+ * invokes synchronize_rcu(), they are willing to accept a context
+ * switch, so we simply pretend that one happened.
+ *
+ * After boot, there might be a blocked or preempted task in an RCU
+ * read-side critical section, so we cannot then take the fastpath.
+ */
+static inline int rcu_blocking_is_gp(void)
+{
+ return num_online_cpus() == 1 && !rcu_scheduler_active;
+}
+
#endif /* __LINUX_RCUPREEMPT_H */
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