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    rcu: Make hot-unplugged CPU relinquish its own RCU callbacks · e74f4c45
    Paul E. McKenney authored
    The current interaction between RCU and CPU hotplug requires that
    RCU block in CPU notifiers waiting for callbacks to drain.
    
    This can be greatly simplified by having each CPU relinquish its
    own callbacks, and for both _rcu_barrier() and CPU_DEAD notifiers
    to adopt all callbacks that were previously relinquished.
    
    This change also eliminates the possibility of certain types of
    hangs due to the previous practice of waiting for callbacks to be
    invoked from within CPU notifiers.  If you don't every wait, you
    cannot hang.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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