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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-04-23 11:10:28 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2010-04-23 11:10:30 +0200 |
| commit | 70bce3ba77540ebe77b8c0e1ac38d281a23fbb5e (patch) | |
| tree | 34b09a49228f0949ff49dce66a433b0dfd83a2dc /Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt | |
| parent | perf: Fix perf probe build error (diff) | |
| parent | Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/gi... (diff) | |
| download | linux-70bce3ba77540ebe77b8c0e1ac38d281a23fbb5e.tar.xz linux-70bce3ba77540ebe77b8c0e1ac38d281a23fbb5e.zip | |
Merge branch 'linus' into perf/core
Merge reason: merge the latest fixes, update to latest -rc.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt index cbc180f90194..790d1a812376 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt @@ -260,7 +260,8 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome! The reason that it is permissible to use RCU list-traversal primitives when the update-side lock is held is that doing so can be quite helpful in reducing code bloat when common code is - shared between readers and updaters. + shared between readers and updaters. Additional primitives + are provided for this case, as discussed in lockdep.txt. 10. Conversely, if you are in an RCU read-side critical section, and you don't hold the appropriate update-side lock, you -must- @@ -344,8 +345,8 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome! requiring SRCU's read-side deadlock immunity or low read-side realtime latency. - Note that, rcu_assign_pointer() and rcu_dereference() relate to - SRCU just as they do to other forms of RCU. + Note that, rcu_assign_pointer() relates to SRCU just as they do + to other forms of RCU. 15. The whole point of call_rcu(), synchronize_rcu(), and friends is to wait until all pre-existing readers have finished before |