Commit 0c7d10e4 authored by Paul E. McKenney's avatar Paul E. McKenney

documentation: Emphasize the call_rcu() is illegal from idle

Although call_rcu()'s fastpath works just fine on an idle CPU,
some branches of the slowpath invoke the scheduler, which uses
RCU.  Therefore, this commit emphasizes the fact that call_rcu()
must not be invoked from an idle CPU.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
parent 5413e24c
......@@ -1650,7 +1650,7 @@ situations where neither <tt>synchronize_rcu()</tt> nor
including within preempt-disable code, <tt>local_bh_disable()</tt> code,
interrupt-disable code, and interrupt handlers.
However, even <tt>call_rcu()</tt> is illegal within NMI handlers
and from offline CPUs.
and from idle and offline CPUs.
The callback function (<tt>remove_gp_cb()</tt> in this case) will be
executed within softirq (software interrupt) environment within the
Linux kernel,
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