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rcu: Restore checks for blocking in RCU read-side critical sections

Long ago, using TREE_RCU with PREEMPT would result in "scheduling while atomic" diagnostics if you blocked in an RCU read-side critical section. However, PREEMPT now implies TREE_PREEMPT_RCU, which defeats this diagnostic. This commit therefore adds a replacement diagnostic based on PROVE_RCU. Because rcu_lockdep_assert() and lockdep_rcu_dereference() are now being used for things that have nothing to do with rcu_dereference(), rename lockdep_rcu_dereference() to lockdep_rcu_suspicious() and add a third argument that is a string indicating what is suspicious. This third argument is passed in from a new third argument to rcu_lockdep_assert(). Update all calls to rcu_lockdep_assert() to add an informative third argument. Also, add a pair of rcu_lockdep_assert() calls from within rcu_note_context_switch(), one complaining if a context switch occurs in an RCU-bh read-side critical section and another complaining if a context switch occurs in an RCU-sched read-side critical section. These are present only if the PROVE_RCU kernel parameter is enabled. Finally, fix some checkpatch whitespace complaints in lockdep.c. Again, you must enable PROVE_RCU to see these new diagnostics. But you are enabling PROVE_RCU to check out new RCU uses in any case, aren't you?

Paul E. McKenney committed 15 years ago

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@@ -418,7 +418,9 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(pid_task); · 417 unmodified lines
418418 */
419419 struct task_struct *find_task_by_pid_ns(pid_t nr, struct pid_namespace *ns)
420420 {
421− rcu_lockdep_assert(rcu_read_lock_held());
421+ rcu_lockdep_assert(rcu_read_lock_held(),
422+ "find_task_by_pid_ns() needs rcu_read_lock()"
423+ " protection");
422424 return pid_task(find_pid_ns(nr, ns), PIDTYPE_PID);
423425 }
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