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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@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Paul E. McKenney 15 years ago
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include/linux/cgroup.h

@@ -489,6 +489,7 @@ static inline struct cgroup_subsys_state *task_subsys_state(
 {
 	return rcu_dereference_check(task->cgroups->subsys[subsys_id],
 				     rcu_read_lock_held() ||
+				     !rcu_scheduler_active ||
 				     cgroup_lock_is_held());
 }