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authorPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-01-16 03:12:09 +0300
committerPaul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2017-04-12 18:23:40 +0300
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doc: Add mid-boot operation to expedited grace periods
This commit adds a description of how expedited grace periods operate during the mid-boot "dead zone", which starts when the scheduler spawns the first kthread and ends when all of RCU's kthreads have been spawned. In short, before mid-boot, synchronous grace periods can be a no-op. After the end of mid-boot, workqueues may be used. During mid-boot, the requesting task drivees the expedited grace period. For more detail, see https://lwn.net/Articles/716148/. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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