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| author | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2010-05-06 10:56:07 +1000 |
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| committer | James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> | 2010-05-06 10:56:07 +1000 |
| commit | 0ffbe2699cda6afbe08501098dff8a8c2fe6ae09 (patch) | |
| tree | 81b1a2305d16c873371b65c5a863c0268036cefe /Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt | |
| parent | 4e5d6f7ec3833c0da9cf34fa5c53c6058c5908b6 (diff) | |
| parent | 7ebd467551ed6ae200d7835a84bbda0dcadaa511 (diff) | |
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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt index cbc180f90194..790d1a812376 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 |