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authorAnkur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>2024-12-13 07:06:54 +0300
committerBoqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>2025-02-05 18:01:55 +0300
commit2c00e1199c060880a215b0d2b495b7738e8c69d7 (patch)
treedd7994fb7888ddff5abebae6382531bc6fa9c624
parent4dca1af414fb1f27c3350a65820cb0b91178e8fe (diff)
downloadlinux-2c00e1199c060880a215b0d2b495b7738e8c69d7.tar.xz
sched: update __cond_resched comment about RCU quiescent states
Update comment in __cond_resched() clarifying how urgently needed quiescent state are provided. Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>
-rw-r--r--kernel/sched/core.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/sched/core.c b/kernel/sched/core.c
index 165c90ba64ea..d328707626e3 100644
--- a/kernel/sched/core.c
+++ b/kernel/sched/core.c
@@ -7289,7 +7289,7 @@ int __sched __cond_resched(void)
return 1;
}
/*
- * In preemptible kernels, ->rcu_read_lock_nesting tells the tick
+ * In PREEMPT_RCU kernels, ->rcu_read_lock_nesting tells the tick
* whether the current CPU is in an RCU read-side critical section,
* so the tick can report quiescent states even for CPUs looping
* in kernel context. In contrast, in non-preemptible kernels,
@@ -7298,6 +7298,8 @@ int __sched __cond_resched(void)
* RCU quiescent state. Therefore, the following code causes
* cond_resched() to report a quiescent state, but only when RCU
* is in urgent need of one.
+ * A third case, preemptible, but non-PREEMPT_RCU provides for
+ * urgently needed quiescent states via rcu_flavor_sched_clock_irq().
*/
#ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU
rcu_all_qs();