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[PATCH v2 03/14] notifiers: Assert that RCU is watching in notify_die

From Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH v2 03/14] notifiers: Assert that RCU is watching in notify_die
Date 2015-06-18 21:20 +0200
Message-ID <pCNvX-Pk-7@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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Low-level arch entries often call notify_die, and it's easy for arch
code to fail to exit an RCU quiescent state first.  Assert that
we're not quiescent in notify_die.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/notifier.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/notifier.c b/kernel/notifier.c
index ae9fc7cc360e..980e4330fb59 100644
--- a/kernel/notifier.c
+++ b/kernel/notifier.c
@@ -544,6 +544,8 @@ int notrace notify_die(enum die_val val, const char *str,
 		.signr	= sig,
 
 	};
+	rcu_lockdep_assert(rcu_is_watching(),
+			   "notify_die called but RCU thinks we're quiescent");
 	return atomic_notifier_call_chain(&die_chain, val, &args);
 }
 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(notify_die);
-- 
2.4.3

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[PATCH v2 03/14] notifiers: Assert that RCU is watching in notify_die Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> - 2015-06-18 21:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH v2 03/14] notifiers: Assert that RCU is watching in  notify_die Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> - 2015-06-22 13:40 +0200

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