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| author | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2010-04-23 02:08:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2010-04-23 02:08:44 +0200 |
| commit | 6c9468e9eb1252eaefd94ce7f06e1be9b0b641b1 (patch) | |
| tree | 797676a336b050bfa1ef879377c07e541b9075d6 /Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt | |
| parent | UML: Fix compiler warning due to missing task_struct declaration (diff) | |
| parent | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6 (diff) | |
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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 |