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author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2011-11-03 13:43:24 -0700 |
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committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2011-12-11 10:31:41 -0800 |
commit | 9ceae0e248fb553c702d51d5275167d462f4efd2 (patch) | |
tree | f7ac3ac7d70cea2bf1db11b4065a357d9dca9d30 /Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt | |
parent | 0c53dd8b31404c1d7fd15be8f065ebaec615a562 (diff) | |
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rcu: Add documentation for raw SRCU read-side primitives
Update various files in Documentation/RCU to reflect srcu_read_lock_raw()
and srcu_read_unlock_raw(). Credit to Peter Zijlstra for suggesting
use of the existing _raw suffix instead of the earlier bulkref names.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt index 0c134f8..bff2d8b 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt @@ -328,6 +328,12 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome! RCU rather than SRCU, because RCU is almost always faster and easier to use than is SRCU. + If you need to enter your read-side critical section in a + hardirq or exception handler, and then exit that same read-side + critical section in the task that was interrupted, then you need + to srcu_read_lock_raw() and srcu_read_unlock_raw(), which avoid + the lockdep checking that would otherwise this practice illegal. + Also unlike other forms of RCU, explicit initialization and cleanup is required via init_srcu_struct() and cleanup_srcu_struct(). These are passed a "struct srcu_struct" |