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    rcu: Allow rcu_user_enter()/exit() to nest · c5d900bf
    Frederic Weisbecker authored
    Allow calls to rcu_user_enter() even if we are already
    in userspace (as seen by RCU) and allow calls to rcu_user_exit()
    even if we are already in the kernel.
    
    This makes the APIs more flexible to be called from architectures.
    Exception entries for example won't need to know if they come from
    userspace before calling rcu_user_exit().
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
    Cc: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@kernel.org>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
    Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
    Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
    Cc: Geoff Levand <geoff@infradead.org>
    Cc: Gilad Ben Yossef <gilad@benyossef.com>
    Cc: Hakan Akkan <hakanakkan@gmail.com>
    Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
    Cc: Kevin Hilman <khilman@ti.com>
    Cc: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
    Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
    Cc: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <thebigcorporation@gmail.com>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarJosh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
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