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diff --git a/include/linux/rcupdate.h b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
index 82973738125..97cc8d6679b 100644
--- a/include/linux/rcupdate.h
+++ b/include/linux/rcupdate.h
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
#include <linux/debugobjects.h>
#include <linux/bug.h>
#include <linux/compiler.h>
+#include <linux/percpu.h>
#include <asm/barrier.h>
extern int rcu_expedited; /* for sysctl */
@@ -287,6 +288,41 @@ bool __rcu_is_watching(void);
#endif /* #if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC) || defined(CONFIG_RCU_TRACE) || defined(CONFIG_SMP) */
/*
+ * Hooks for cond_resched() and friends to avoid RCU CPU stall warnings.
+ */
+
+#define RCU_COND_RESCHED_LIM 256 /* ms vs. 100s of ms. */
+DECLARE_PER_CPU(int, rcu_cond_resched_count);
+void rcu_resched(void);
+
+/*
+ * Is it time to report RCU quiescent states?
+ *
+ * Note unsynchronized access to rcu_cond_resched_count. Yes, we might
+ * increment some random CPU's count, and possibly also load the result from
+ * yet another CPU's count. We might even clobber some other CPU's attempt
+ * to zero its counter. This is all OK because the goal is not precision,
+ * but rather reasonable amortization of rcu_note_context_switch() overhead
+ * and extremely high probability of avoiding RCU CPU stall warnings.
+ * Note that this function has to be preempted in just the wrong place,
+ * many thousands of times in a row, for anything bad to happen.
+ */
+static inline bool rcu_should_resched(void)
+{
+ return raw_cpu_inc_return(rcu_cond_resched_count) >=
+ RCU_COND_RESCHED_LIM;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Report quiscent states to RCU if it is time to do so.
+ */
+static inline void rcu_cond_resched(void)
+{
+ if (unlikely(rcu_should_resched()))
+ rcu_resched();
+}
+
+/*
* Infrastructure to implement the synchronize_() primitives in
* TREE_RCU and rcu_barrier_() primitives in TINY_RCU.
*/