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@@ -23,12 +23,10 @@ o A CPU looping with preemption disabled. This condition can
o A CPU looping with bottom halves disabled. This condition can
result in RCU-sched and RCU-bh stalls.
-o For !CONFIG_PREEMPT kernels, a CPU looping anywhere in the
- kernel without invoking schedule(). Note that cond_resched()
- does not necessarily prevent RCU CPU stall warnings. Therefore,
- if the looping in the kernel is really expected and desirable
- behavior, you might need to replace some of the cond_resched()
- calls with calls to cond_resched_rcu_qs().
+o For !CONFIG_PREEMPT kernels, a CPU looping anywhere in the kernel
+ without invoking schedule(). If the looping in the kernel is
+ really expected and desirable behavior, you might need to add
+ some calls to cond_resched().
o Booting Linux using a console connection that is too slow to
keep up with the boot-time console-message rate. For example,