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Date:   Fri, 11 Mar 2022 17:02:39 +0100
From:   Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
To:     "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/19] rcu/context-tracking: Move RCU-dynticks internal
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 12:07:05PM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 02, 2022 at 04:48:05PM +0100, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > Move the core RCU eqs/dynticks functions to context tracking so that
> > we can later merge all that code within context tracking.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <frederic@kernel.org>
> 
> I am not sure that you want rcu_dynticks_task_enter() and friends in
> context tracking, but I have no objection to them living there.  ;-)

I initially tried to keep them in RCU headers but their use of "current"
would imply a circular dependency with sched.h.

Not much appealing alternatives could be:

* macrofying them
* uninline them and keep in RCU

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