Commit-ID:  e727c7d7a11e109849582e9165d54b254eb181d7
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/e727c7d7a11e109849582e9165d54b254eb181d7
Author:     Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri, 3 Jul 2015 12:44:22 -0700
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 10:59:04 +0200

notifiers, RCU: Assert that RCU is watching in notify_die()

Low-level arch entries often call notify_die(), and it's easy for
arch code to fail to exit an RCU quiescent state first.  Assert
that we're not quiescent in notify_die().

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
Cc: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Link: 
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1f5fe6c23d5b432a23267102f2d72b787d80fdd8.1435952415.git.l...@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
---
 kernel/notifier.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/kernel/notifier.c b/kernel/notifier.c
index ae9fc7c..980e433 100644
--- a/kernel/notifier.c
+++ b/kernel/notifier.c
@@ -544,6 +544,8 @@ int notrace notify_die(enum die_val val, const char *str,
                .signr  = sig,
 
        };
+       rcu_lockdep_assert(rcu_is_watching(),
+                          "notify_die called but RCU thinks we're quiescent");
        return atomic_notifier_call_chain(&die_chain, val, &args);
 }
 NOKPROBE_SYMBOL(notify_die);
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