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| author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2018-05-14 22:52:27 +0200 |
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| committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2018-07-13 00:39:15 +0200 |
| commit | 6f56f714db067056c80f5d71510118f82872e34c (patch) | |
| tree | 831ac61392c65e088ed1ae8856b5f42de30fcd8d /kernel/rcu/update.c | |
| parent | rcu: Use pr_fmt to prefix "rcu: " to logging output (diff) | |
| download | linux-6f56f714db067056c80f5d71510118f82872e34c.tar.xz linux-6f56f714db067056c80f5d71510118f82872e34c.zip | |
rcu: Improve RCU-tasks naming and comments
The naming and comments associated with some RCU-tasks code make
the faulty assumption that context switches due to cond_resched()
are voluntary. As several people pointed out, this is not the case.
This commit therefore updates function names and comments to better
reflect current reality.
Reported-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Reported-by: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Reported-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu/update.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/rcu/update.c | 27 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/update.c b/kernel/rcu/update.c index 4c230a60ece4..5783bdf86e5a 100644 --- a/kernel/rcu/update.c +++ b/kernel/rcu/update.c @@ -507,14 +507,15 @@ early_initcall(check_cpu_stall_init); #ifdef CONFIG_TASKS_RCU /* - * Simple variant of RCU whose quiescent states are voluntary context switch, - * user-space execution, and idle. As such, grace periods can take one good - * long time. There are no read-side primitives similar to rcu_read_lock() - * and rcu_read_unlock() because this implementation is intended to get - * the system into a safe state for some of the manipulations involved in - * tracing and the like. Finally, this implementation does not support - * high call_rcu_tasks() rates from multiple CPUs. If this is required, - * per-CPU callback lists will be needed. + * Simple variant of RCU whose quiescent states are voluntary context + * switch, cond_resched_rcu_qs(), user-space execution, and idle. + * As such, grace periods can take one good long time. There are no + * read-side primitives similar to rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock() + * because this implementation is intended to get the system into a safe + * state for some of the manipulations involved in tracing and the like. + * Finally, this implementation does not support high call_rcu_tasks() + * rates from multiple CPUs. If this is required, per-CPU callback lists + * will be needed. */ /* Global list of callbacks and associated lock. */ @@ -542,11 +543,11 @@ static struct task_struct *rcu_tasks_kthread_ptr; * period elapses, in other words after all currently executing RCU * read-side critical sections have completed. call_rcu_tasks() assumes * that the read-side critical sections end at a voluntary context - * switch (not a preemption!), entry into idle, or transition to usermode - * execution. As such, there are no read-side primitives analogous to - * rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock() because this primitive is intended - * to determine that all tasks have passed through a safe state, not so - * much for data-strcuture synchronization. + * switch (not a preemption!), cond_resched_rcu_qs(), entry into idle, + * or transition to usermode execution. As such, there are no read-side + * primitives analogous to rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock() because + * this primitive is intended to determine that all tasks have passed + * through a safe state, not so much for data-strcuture synchronization. * * See the description of call_rcu() for more detailed information on * memory ordering guarantees. |