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diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/rcubarrier.rst b/Documentation/RCU/rcubarrier.rst index 6da7f66da2a8..12a7b059654f 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/rcubarrier.rst +++ b/Documentation/RCU/rcubarrier.rst @@ -329,10 +329,7 @@ Answer: was first added back in 2005. This is because on_each_cpu() disables preemption, which acted as an RCU read-side critical section, thus preventing CPU 0's grace period from completing - until on_each_cpu() had dealt with all of the CPUs. However, - with the advent of preemptible RCU, rcu_barrier() no longer - waited on nonpreemptible regions of code in preemptible kernels, - that being the job of the new rcu_barrier_sched() function. + until on_each_cpu() had dealt with all of the CPUs. However, with the RCU flavor consolidation around v4.20, this possibility was once again ruled out, because the consolidated |