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authorDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>2011-05-24 00:06:26 -0700
committerDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>2011-05-24 00:06:26 -0700
commitb73077eb03f510a84b102fb97640e595a958403c (patch)
tree8b639000418e2756bf6baece4e00e07d2534bccc /kernel/rcupdate.c
parent28350e330cfab46b60a1dbf763b678d859f9f3d9 (diff)
parent9d2e173644bb5c42ff1b280fbdda3f195a7cf1f7 (diff)
Merge branch 'next' into for-linus
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcupdate.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcupdate.c10
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcupdate.c b/kernel/rcupdate.c
index a23a57a976d1..f3240e987928 100644
--- a/kernel/rcupdate.c
+++ b/kernel/rcupdate.c
@@ -214,11 +214,12 @@ static int rcuhead_fixup_free(void *addr, enum debug_obj_state state)
* Ensure that queued callbacks are all executed.
* If we detect that we are nested in a RCU read-side critical
* section, we should simply fail, otherwise we would deadlock.
+ * Note that the machinery to reliably determine whether
+ * or not we are in an RCU read-side critical section
+ * exists only in the preemptible RCU implementations
+ * (TINY_PREEMPT_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU), which is why
+ * DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD is disallowed if !PREEMPT.
*/
-#ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT
- WARN_ON(1);
- return 0;
-#else
if (rcu_preempt_depth() != 0 || preempt_count() != 0 ||
irqs_disabled()) {
WARN_ON(1);
@@ -229,7 +230,6 @@ static int rcuhead_fixup_free(void *addr, enum debug_obj_state state)
rcu_barrier_bh();
debug_object_free(head, &rcuhead_debug_descr);
return 1;
-#endif
default:
return 0;
}