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From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: rcu@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com,
	rostedt@goodmis.org, "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>,
	Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH rcu 2/6] rcu: Clarify rcu_is_watching() kernel-doc comment
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2023 11:03:13 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230717180317.1097590-2-paulmck@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6127192c-da9b-4599-9738-6e8f92e6c75c@paulmck-laptop>

Make it clear that this function always returns either true or false
without other planned failure modes.

Reported-by: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
---
 kernel/rcu/tree.c | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/rcu/tree.c b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
index 1449cb69a0e0..fae9b4e29c93 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/tree.c
+++ b/kernel/rcu/tree.c
@@ -679,10 +679,14 @@ static void rcu_disable_urgency_upon_qs(struct rcu_data *rdp)
 /**
  * rcu_is_watching - see if RCU thinks that the current CPU is not idle
  *
- * Return true if RCU is watching the running CPU, which means that this
- * CPU can safely enter RCU read-side critical sections.  In other words,
- * if the current CPU is not in its idle loop or is in an interrupt or
- * NMI handler, return true.
+ * Return @true if RCU is watching the running CPU and @false otherwise.
+ * An @true return means that this CPU can safely enter RCU read-side
+ * critical sections.
+ *
+ * More specifically, if the current CPU is not deep within its idle
+ * loop, return @true.  Note that rcu_is_watching() will return @true if
+ * invoked from an interrupt or NMI handler, even if that interrupt or
+ * NMI interrupted the CPU while it was deep within its idle loop.
  *
  * Make notrace because it can be called by the internal functions of
  * ftrace, and making this notrace removes unnecessary recursion calls.
-- 
2.40.1


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-07-17 18:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-17 18:03 [PATCH rcu 0/6] Miscellaneous fixes for v6.6 Paul E. McKenney
2023-07-17 18:03 ` [PATCH rcu 1/6] rcu: Update synchronize_rcu_mult() comment for call_rcu_hurry() Paul E. McKenney
2023-07-18 12:59   ` Joel Fernandes
2023-07-17 18:03 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2023-07-18 12:52   ` [PATCH rcu 2/6] rcu: Clarify rcu_is_watching() kernel-doc comment Joel Fernandes
2023-07-18 18:12     ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-07-19  1:56       ` Joel Fernandes
2023-07-19 20:38         ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-07-17 18:03 ` [PATCH rcu 3/6] srcu,notifier: Remove #ifdefs in favor of SRCU Tiny srcu_usage Paul E. McKenney
2023-07-17 18:09   ` Linus Torvalds
2023-07-17 18:16     ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-07-17 18:03 ` [PATCH rcu 4/6] rcu: Mark __rcu_irq_enter_check_tick() ->rcu_urgent_qs load Paul E. McKenney
2023-07-18 12:58   ` Joel Fernandes
2023-07-17 18:03 ` [PATCH rcu 5/6] rcu: Make the rcu_nocb_poll boot parameter usable via boot config Paul E. McKenney
2023-07-18 13:46   ` Joel Fernandes
2023-07-17 18:03 ` [PATCH rcu 6/6] rcu: Use WRITE_ONCE() for assignments to ->next for rculist_nulls Paul E. McKenney
2023-07-18 13:49   ` Joel Fernandes
2023-07-18 14:48     ` Alan Huang
2023-07-18 18:32       ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-07-19  1:48         ` Joel Fernandes
2023-07-19 18:20           ` Paul E. McKenney
2023-07-19 19:17             ` Alan Huang
2023-07-19 20:02               ` Paul E. McKenney

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