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Commit e74f4c45 authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney Committed by Ingo Molnar
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rcu: Make hot-unplugged CPU relinquish its own RCU callbacks



The current interaction between RCU and CPU hotplug requires that
RCU block in CPU notifiers waiting for callbacks to drain.

This can be greatly simplified by having each CPU relinquish its
own callbacks, and for both _rcu_barrier() and CPU_DEAD notifiers
to adopt all callbacks that were previously relinquished.

This change also eliminates the possibility of certain types of
hangs due to the previous practice of waiting for callbacks to be
invoked from within CPU notifiers.  If you don't every wait, you
cannot hang.

Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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