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Using the NMI-unsafe reader API from within an NMI handler is very likely to be buggy for three reasons: 1) NMIs aren't strictly re-entrant (a pending nested NMI will execute at the end of the current one) so it should be fine to use a non-atomic increment here. However, breakpoints can still interrupt NMIs and if a breakpoint callback has a reader on that same ssp, a racy increment can happen. 2) If the only reader site for a given srcu_struct structure is in an NMI handler, then RCU should be used instead of SRCU. 3) Because of the previous reason (2), an srcu_struct structure having an SRCU read side critical section in an NMI handler is likely to have another one from a task context. For all these reasons, warn if an NMI-unsafe reader API is used from an NMI handler. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Joel Fernandes (Google) <joel@joelfernandes.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.