From: Paul E. McKenney Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:53:08 +0000 (-0800) Subject: rcu: Make task_subsys_state() RCU-lockdep checks handle boot-time use X-Git-Tag: v2.6.34-rc2~51^2~14 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=1883c79a57a5fe25309007590cccb1b2782c41b2;p=pandora-kernel.git rcu: Make task_subsys_state() RCU-lockdep checks handle boot-time use It is apparently legal to invoke task_subsys_state() without RCU protection during early boot time. After all, there are no concurrent tasks, so there can be no grace periods completing concurrently. But this does need an Acked-by from the cgroups folks. Located-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Cc: laijs@cn.fujitsu.com Cc: dipankar@in.ibm.com Cc: mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca Cc: josh@joshtriplett.org Cc: dvhltc@us.ibm.com Cc: niv@us.ibm.com Cc: peterz@infradead.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Cc: dhowells@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <1267311188-16603-2-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- Reading git-diff-tree failed