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authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@shinybook.infradead.org>2005-05-03 08:14:09 +0100
committerDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@shinybook.infradead.org>2005-05-03 08:14:09 +0100
commit27b030d58c8e72fc7a95187a791bd9406e350f02 (patch)
treeab3bab7f39a5ce5bab65578a7e08fa4dfdeb198c /kernel/rcupdate.c
parent79d20b14a0d651f15b0ef9a22b6cf12d284a6d38 (diff)
parent6628465e33ca694bd8fd5c3cf4eb7ff9177bc694 (diff)
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Merge with master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
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-rw-r--r--kernel/rcupdate.c22
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcupdate.c b/kernel/rcupdate.c
index d00eded..f436993 100644
--- a/kernel/rcupdate.c
+++ b/kernel/rcupdate.c
@@ -444,15 +444,18 @@ static void wakeme_after_rcu(struct rcu_head *head)
}
/**
- * synchronize_kernel - wait until a grace period has elapsed.
+ * synchronize_rcu - wait until a grace period has elapsed.
*
* Control will return to the caller some time after a full grace
* period has elapsed, in other words after all currently executing RCU
* read-side critical sections have completed. RCU read-side critical
* sections are delimited by rcu_read_lock() and rcu_read_unlock(),
* and may be nested.
+ *
+ * If your read-side code is not protected by rcu_read_lock(), do -not-
+ * use synchronize_rcu().
*/
-void synchronize_kernel(void)
+void synchronize_rcu(void)
{
struct rcu_synchronize rcu;
@@ -464,7 +467,16 @@ void synchronize_kernel(void)
wait_for_completion(&rcu.completion);
}
+/*
+ * Deprecated, use synchronize_rcu() or synchronize_sched() instead.
+ */
+void synchronize_kernel(void)
+{
+ synchronize_rcu();
+}
+
module_param(maxbatch, int, 0);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(call_rcu);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(call_rcu_bh);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(synchronize_kernel);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_rcu); /* WARNING: GPL-only in April 2006. */
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(call_rcu_bh); /* WARNING: GPL-only in April 2006. */
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(synchronize_rcu);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(synchronize_kernel); /* WARNING: GPL-only in April 2006. */
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