Re: [tip:core/rcu] rcu: Make task_subsys_state() RCU-lockdep checks handle boot-time use

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On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:59 AM, tip-bot for Paul E. McKenney
<paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Commit-ID:  1883c79a57a5fe25309007590cccb1b2782c41b2
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/1883c79a57a5fe25309007590cccb1b2782c41b2
> Author:     Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> AuthorDate: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:53:08 -0800
> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> CommitDate: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 09:17:42 +0100
>
> rcu: Make task_subsys_state() RCU-lockdep checks handle boot-time use
>
> It is apparently legal to invoke task_subsys_state() without RCU
> protection during early boot time.  After all, there are no
> concurrent tasks, so there can be no grace periods completing
> concurrently.
>
> But this does need an Acked-by from the cgroups folks.
>
> Located-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks.

Paul
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