rcu: Make rcu_read_lock_sched_held() take boot time into account

Before the scheduler starts, all tasks are non-preemptible by
definition. So, during that time, rcu_read_lock_sched_held()
needs to always return "true".  This patch makes that be so.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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: <1267135607-7056-2-git-send-email-paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 19 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.c b/kernel/rcutree.c
index 525d39810616..335bfe4f0076 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.c
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <linux/time.h>
-#include <linux/kernel_stat.h>
 
 #include "rcutree.h"
 
@@ -81,9 +80,6 @@ DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rcu_data, rcu_sched_data);
 struct rcu_state rcu_bh_state = RCU_STATE_INITIALIZER(rcu_bh_state);
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rcu_data, rcu_bh_data);
 
-static int rcu_scheduler_active __read_mostly;
-
-
 /*
  * Return true if an RCU grace period is in progress.  The ACCESS_ONCE()s
  * permit this function to be invoked without holding the root rcu_node
@@ -1565,21 +1561,6 @@ static int rcu_needs_cpu_quick_check(int cpu)
                rcu_preempt_needs_cpu(cpu);
 }
 
-/*
- * This function is invoked towards the end of the scheduler's initialization
- * process.  Before this is called, the idle task might contain
- * RCU read-side critical sections (during which time, this idle
- * task is booting the system).  After this function is called, the
- * idle tasks are prohibited from containing RCU read-side critical
- * sections.
- */
-void rcu_scheduler_starting(void)
-{
-        WARN_ON(num_online_cpus() != 1);
-        WARN_ON(nr_context_switches() > 0);
-        rcu_scheduler_active = 1;
-}
-
 static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct rcu_head, rcu_barrier_head) = {NULL};
 static atomic_t rcu_barrier_cpu_count;
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(rcu_barrier_mutex);