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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2018-07-07 18:12:26 -0700
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2018-08-30 16:03:33 -0700
commit7f87c036fea3c17eb6a6e4f4164c67aeb98710ea (patch)
treefa17d138e6655243b0d69ed90fc128510a28ce0a /kernel/rcu
parent8c1cf2da6f8af7f6b6e0e06d3a83115712cc04b8 (diff)
rcu: Clean up flavor-related definitions and comments in rcu.h
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/rcu')
-rw-r--r--kernel/rcu/rcu.h18
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/rcu/rcu.h b/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
index aa3dc08af4b3..5dec94509a7e 100644
--- a/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
+++ b/kernel/rcu/rcu.h
@@ -176,8 +176,9 @@ static inline unsigned long rcu_seq_diff(unsigned long new, unsigned long old)
/*
* debug_rcu_head_queue()/debug_rcu_head_unqueue() are used internally
- * by call_rcu() and rcu callback execution, and are therefore not part of the
- * RCU API. Leaving in rcupdate.h because they are used by all RCU flavors.
+ * by call_rcu() and rcu callback execution, and are therefore not part
+ * of the RCU API. These are in rcupdate.h because they are used by all
+ * RCU implementations.
*/
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD
@@ -328,7 +329,7 @@ static inline void rcu_init_levelspread(int *levelspread, const int *levelcnt)
}
}
-/* Returns first leaf rcu_node of the specified RCU flavor. */
+/* Returns a pointer to the first leaf rcu_node structure. */
#define rcu_first_leaf_node() (rcu_state.level[rcu_num_lvls - 1])
/* Is this rcu_node a leaf? */
@@ -339,7 +340,8 @@ static inline void rcu_init_levelspread(int *levelspread, const int *levelcnt)
/*
* Do a full breadth-first scan of the {s,}rcu_node structures for the
- * specified rcu_state structure.
+ * specified state structure (for SRCU) or the only rcu_state structure
+ * (for RCU).
*/
#define srcu_for_each_node_breadth_first(sp, rnp) \
for ((rnp) = &(sp)->node[0]; \
@@ -348,10 +350,10 @@ static inline void rcu_init_levelspread(int *levelspread, const int *levelcnt)
srcu_for_each_node_breadth_first(&rcu_state, rnp)
/*
- * Scan the leaves of the rcu_node hierarchy for the specified rcu_state
- * structure. Note that if there is a singleton rcu_node tree with but
- * one rcu_node structure, this loop -will- visit the rcu_node structure.
- * It is still a leaf node, even if it is also the root node.
+ * Scan the leaves of the rcu_node hierarchy for the rcu_state structure.
+ * Note that if there is a singleton rcu_node tree with but one rcu_node
+ * structure, this loop -will- visit the rcu_node structure. It is still
+ * a leaf node, even if it is also the root node.
*/
#define rcu_for_each_leaf_node(rnp) \
for ((rnp) = rcu_first_leaf_node(); \