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author | Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | 2010-04-29 07:36:24 (GMT) |
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committer | Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | 2010-04-29 07:36:24 (GMT) |
commit | 7407cf355fdf5500430be966dbbde84a27293bad (patch) | |
tree | 922861288ff38558ed721a79653f52b17b13bb95 /Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt | |
parent | 6a47dc1418682c83d603b491df1d048f73aa973e (diff) | |
parent | 79dba2eaa771c3173957eccfd288e0e0d12e4d3f (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.35
Conflicts:
fs/block_dev.c
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt index cbc180f..790d1a8 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 |