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rcu: add comment saying why DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD depends on PREEMPT.

The build will break if you change the Kconfig to allow
DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD and !PREEMPT, so document the reasoning
near where the breakage would occur.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

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kernel/rcupdate.c
··· 214 214 * Ensure that queued callbacks are all executed. 215 215 * If we detect that we are nested in a RCU read-side critical 216 216 * section, we should simply fail, otherwise we would deadlock. 217 + * Note that the machinery to reliably determine whether 218 + * or not we are in an RCU read-side critical section 219 + * exists only in the preemptible RCU implementations 220 + * (TINY_PREEMPT_RCU and TREE_PREEMPT_RCU), which is why 221 + * DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD is disallowed if !PREEMPT. 217 222 */ 218 223 if (rcu_preempt_depth() != 0 || preempt_count() != 0 || 219 224 irqs_disabled()) {