rcu: Make task_subsys_state() RCU-lockdep checks handle boot-time use
authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Sat, 27 Feb 2010 22:53:08 +0000 (14:53 -0800)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:17:42 +0000 (09:17 +0100)
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 <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
include/linux/cgroup.h

index c9bbcb2..a73e1ce 100644 (file)
@@ -489,6 +489,7 @@ static inline struct cgroup_subsys_state *task_subsys_state(
 {
        return rcu_dereference_check(task->cgroups->subsys[subsys_id],
                                     rcu_read_lock_held() ||
+                                    !rcu_scheduler_active ||
                                     cgroup_lock_is_held());
 }