Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 into sh-latest

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/rcupdate.c b/kernel/rcupdate.c
index a23a57a976d1..f3240e987928 100644
--- a/kernel/rcupdate.c
+++ b/kernel/rcupdate.c
@@ -214,11 +214,12 @@ static int rcuhead_fixup_free(void *addr, enum debug_obj_state state)
 		 * Ensure that queued callbacks are all executed.
 		 * If we detect that we are nested in a RCU read-side critical
 		 * section, we should simply fail, otherwise we would deadlock.
+		 * Note that the machinery to reliably determine whether
+		 * or not we are in an RCU read-side critical section
+		 * exists only in the preemptible RCU implementations
+		 * (TINY_PREEMPT_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU), which is why
+		 * DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD is disallowed if !PREEMPT.
 		 */
-#ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT
-		WARN_ON(1);
-		return 0;
-#else
 		if (rcu_preempt_depth() != 0 || preempt_count() != 0 ||
 		    irqs_disabled()) {
 			WARN_ON(1);
@@ -229,7 +230,6 @@ static int rcuhead_fixup_free(void *addr, enum debug_obj_state state)
 		rcu_barrier_bh();
 		debug_object_free(head, &rcuhead_debug_descr);
 		return 1;
-#endif
 	default:
 		return 0;
 	}