From c5d900bf676b1e2a61c44483932c8088651bbb4e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frederic Weisbecker Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 20:26:31 +0200 Subject: rcu: Allow rcu_user_enter()/exit() to nest Allow calls to rcu_user_enter() even if we are already in userspace (as seen by RCU) and allow calls to rcu_user_exit() even if we are already in the kernel. This makes the APIs more flexible to be called from architectures. Exception entries for example won't need to know if they come from userspace before calling rcu_user_exit(). Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Avi Kivity Cc: Chris Metcalf Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Geoff Levand Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef Cc: Hakan Akkan Cc: H. Peter Anvin Cc: Ingo Molnar Cc: Josh Triplett Cc: Kevin Hilman Cc: Max Krasnyansky Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Stephen Hemminger Cc: Steven Rostedt Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich Cc: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett --- kernel/rcutree.h | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel/rcutree.h') diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h index 7576fd4d8ce6..10cc2f9f8433 100644 --- a/kernel/rcutree.h +++ b/kernel/rcutree.h @@ -102,6 +102,9 @@ struct rcu_dynticks { /* idle-period nonlazy_posted snapshot. */ int tick_nohz_enabled_snap; /* Previously seen value from sysfs. */ #endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_RCU_FAST_NO_HZ */ +#ifdef CONFIG_RCU_USER_QS + bool in_user; /* Is the CPU in userland from RCU POV? */ +#endif }; /* RCU's kthread states for tracing. */ -- cgit v1.2.3