Hello, On Thu, 2 May 2013, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > Only the new cond_resched_rcu() macro provides > > PREEMPT_ACTIVE flag to skip the rcu_preempt_sleep_check() > > call. The old macros provide locked=0 as you noticed. Does it > > answer your question or I'm missing something? > > PREEMPT_ACTIVE's value is usually 0x10000000. Did it change > since 3.9? If not, rcu_sleep_check(preempt_offset & PREEMPT_ACTIVE) > is the same as rcu_sleep_check(0). Yes, the different platforms use different bit, that is why I mentioned about my failed attempt at changing hardirq.h. PREEMPT_ACTIVE is always != 0. But I don't understand what do you mean by 'preempt_offset & PREEMPT_ACTIVE' being always 0. It is always 0 for cond_resched(), cond_resched_lock() and cond_resched_softirq(), not for cond_resched_rcu(): (PREEMPT_ACTIVE | PREEMPT_RCU_OFFSET) & PREEMPT_ACTIVE should give PREEMPT_ACTIVE, not 0. We have 2 cases in rcu_sleep_check() for the if: 1. !(PREEMPT_ACTIVE) => FALSE for cond_resched_rcu 2. !(0) => TRUE for other cond_resched_* macros On x86 the code is: __might_sleep: pushl %ebp # testl $268435456, %ecx #, preempt_offset ... jne .L240 #, // rcu_lock_map checked when PREEMPT_ACTIVE is missing .L240: // rcu_bh_lock_map checked Regards -- Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lvs-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html