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author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2011-07-08 18:07:35 +0200 |
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committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2011-09-29 06:38:25 +0200 |
commit | 8cd889cbb6dd13b47c2ea448a22c49c270ab94a2 (patch) | |
tree | e49f734b27182101af59a8fe52f1adb0ac24877d /Documentation/RCU/lockdep.txt | |
parent | rcu: Not necessary to pass rcu_read_lock_held() to rcu_dereference_protected() (diff) | |
download | linux-8cd889cbb6dd13b47c2ea448a22c49c270ab94a2.tar.xz linux-8cd889cbb6dd13b47c2ea448a22c49c270ab94a2.zip |
rcu: Update documentation for additional RCU lockdep functions
Add documentation for rcu_dereference_bh_check(),
rcu_dereference_sched_check(), srcu_dereference_check(), and
rcu_dereference_index_check().
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RCU/lockdep.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/lockdep.txt | 24 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/lockdep.txt b/Documentation/RCU/lockdep.txt index 4998c633e20a..a102d4b3724b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/lockdep.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/lockdep.txt @@ -32,9 +32,27 @@ checking of rcu_dereference() primitives: srcu_dereference(p, sp): Check for SRCU read-side critical section. rcu_dereference_check(p, c): - Use explicit check expression "c". This is useful in - code that is invoked by both readers and updaters. - rcu_dereference_raw(p) + Use explicit check expression "c" along with + rcu_read_lock_held(). This is useful in code that is + invoked by both RCU readers and updaters. + rcu_dereference_bh_check(p, c): + Use explicit check expression "c" along with + rcu_read_lock_bh_held(). This is useful in code that + is invoked by both RCU-bh readers and updaters. + rcu_dereference_sched_check(p, c): + Use explicit check expression "c" along with + rcu_read_lock_sched_held(). This is useful in code that + is invoked by both RCU-sched readers and updaters. + srcu_dereference_check(p, c): + Use explicit check expression "c" along with + srcu_read_lock_held()(). This is useful in code that + is invoked by both SRCU readers and updaters. + rcu_dereference_index_check(p, c): + Use explicit check expression "c", but the caller + must supply one of the rcu_read_lock_held() functions. + This is useful in code that uses RCU-protected arrays + that is invoked by both RCU readers and updaters. + rcu_dereference_raw(p): Don't check. (Use sparingly, if at all.) rcu_dereference_protected(p, c): Use explicit check expression "c", and omit all barriers |