There is already a blanket statement about no member of RCU's API being legal from an offline CPU, but add an explicit note where it states that it is illegal to invoke call_rcu() from an NMI handler.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paul...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html | 3 ++- Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.htmlx | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html index 2a56031bfdd4..01e12b86e81f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html +++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.html @@ -1354,7 +1354,8 @@ situations where neither <tt>synchronize_rcu()</tt> nor <tt>synchronize_rcu_expedited()</tt> would be legal, 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. +However, even <tt>call_rcu()</tt> is illegal within NMI handlers +and from 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, diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.htmlx b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.htmlx index 98da30ca84c4..3355f1f9384c 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.htmlx +++ b/Documentation/RCU/Design/Requirements/Requirements.htmlx @@ -1513,7 +1513,8 @@ situations where neither <tt>synchronize_rcu()</tt> nor <tt>synchronize_rcu_expedited()</tt> would be legal, 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. +However, even <tt>call_rcu()</tt> is illegal within NMI handlers +and from 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, -- 2.5.2
