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An expedited grace period can be stalled by a nohz_full CPU looping in kernel context. This possibility is currently handled by some carefully crafted checks in rcu_read_unlock_special() that enlist help from ksoftirqd when permitted by the scheduler. However, it is exactly these checks that require the scheduler avoid holding any of its rq or pi locks across rcu_read_unlock() without also having held them across the entire RCU read-side critical section. It would therefore be very nice if expedited grace periods could handle nohz_full CPUs looping in kernel context without such checks. This commit therefore adds code to the expedited grace period's wait and cleanup code that forces the scheduler-clock interrupt on for CPUs that fail to quickly supply a quiescent state. "Quickly" is currently a hard-coded single-jiffy delay. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
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