rcu: permit rcu_read_unlock() to be called while holding runqueue locks

Avoid calling into the scheduler while holding core RCU locks.  This
allows rcu_read_unlock() to be called while holding the runqueue locks,
but only as long as there was no chance of the RCU read-side critical
section having been preempted.  (Otherwise, if RCU priority boosting
is enabled, rcu_read_unlock() might call into the scheduler in order to
unboost itself, which might allows self-deadlock on the runqueue locks
within the scheduler.)

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul.mckenney@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcutree.h b/kernel/rcutree.h
index a6a97171dac6..93d4a1c2e88b 100644
--- a/kernel/rcutree.h
+++ b/kernel/rcutree.h
@@ -444,15 +444,12 @@ static void rcu_preempt_send_cbs_to_online(void);
 static void __init __rcu_init_preempt(void);
 static void rcu_needs_cpu_flush(void);
 static void __init rcu_init_boost_waitqueue(struct rcu_node *rnp);
-static void rcu_initiate_boost(struct rcu_node *rnp);
+static void rcu_initiate_boost(struct rcu_node *rnp, unsigned long flags);
 static void rcu_boost_kthread_setaffinity(struct rcu_node *rnp,
                                           cpumask_var_t cm);
 static void rcu_preempt_boost_start_gp(struct rcu_node *rnp);
 static int __cpuinit rcu_spawn_one_boost_kthread(struct rcu_state *rsp,
                                                  struct rcu_node *rnp,
                                                  int rnp_index);
-#ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU
-static void rcu_stop_boost_kthread(struct rcu_node *rnp);
-#endif /* #ifdef CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU */
 
 #endif /* #ifndef RCU_TREE_NONCORE */