kernel/linux.git/Documentation/RCU/Design, branch v6.1.168

timers: Update the documentation to reflect on the new timer_shutdown() API

2025-10-29T13:04:32+00:00

[ Upstream commit a31323bef2b66455920d054b160c17d4240f8fd4 ] In order to make sure that a timer is not re-armed after it is stopped before freeing, a new shutdown state is added to the timer code. The API timer_shutdown_sync() and timer_shutdown() must be called before the object that holds the timer can be freed. Update the documentation to reflect this new workflow. [ tglx: Updated to the new semantics and updated the zh_CN version ] Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Tested-by: Guenter Roeck Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller Reviewed-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221110064147.712934793@goodmis.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123201625.375284489@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Jeongjun Park Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Documentation: Replace del_timer/del_timer_sync()

2025-10-29T13:04:32+00:00

[ Upstream commit 87bdd932e85881895d4720255b40ac28749c4e32 ] Adjust to the new preferred function names. Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Reviewed-by: Jacob Keller Reviewed-by: Anna-Maria Behnsen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221123201625.075320635@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Jeongjun Park Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

context_tracking: Take NMI eqs entrypoints over RCU

2022-07-05T20:32:59+00:00

The RCU dynticks counter is going to be merged into the context tracking subsystem. Prepare with moving the NMI extended quiescent states entrypoints to context tracking. For now those are dumb redirection to existing RCU calls. Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay Cc: Uladzislau Rezki Cc: Joel Fernandes Cc: Boqun Feng Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Xiongfeng Wang Cc: Yu Liao Cc: Phil Auld Cc: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Alex Belits Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne

context_tracking: Take IRQ eqs entrypoints over RCU

2022-07-05T20:32:59+00:00

The RCU dynticks counter is going to be merged into the context tracking subsystem. Prepare with moving the IRQ extended quiescent states entrypoints to context tracking. For now those are dumb redirection to existing RCU calls. [ paulmck: Apply Stephen Rothwell feedback from -next. ] [ paulmck: Apply Nathan Chancellor feedback. ] Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay Cc: Uladzislau Rezki Cc: Joel Fernandes Cc: Boqun Feng Cc: Nicolas Saenz Julienne Cc: Marcelo Tosatti Cc: Xiongfeng Wang Cc: Yu Liao Cc: Phil Auld Cc: Paul Gortmaker Cc: Alex Belits Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney Reviewed-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne Tested-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne

docs: Update RCU cross-references as suggested in doc-guide

2022-04-20T23:13:52+00:00

The RCU documentation contains old-style cross references which do not follow the best practices outlined in doc-guide/sphinx.rst. In addition, some of the cross references use URLs that should be replaced by pathnames. Update all of these cross references and adjust the surrounding words. Summary of changes: - out-of-date plaintext file names (*.txt) -> *.rst - references by :ref: tags -> path names of *.rst * use relative paths to .rst files under the RCU/ subdirectory * use abs paths of Documentation/xxx for other .rst files - references by URL under https://www.kernel.org/ -> paths of *.rst - adjust surrounding words of some of updated references. Note: The automarkup.py script interprets references via "*.txt" as if they were via "*.rst", so the *.txt -> *.rst changes should be regarded as cleanups rather than bug fixes. Cc: rcu@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Tested-by: Bagas Sanjaya Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

docs: Add documentation for rude and trace RCU flavors

2022-04-20T22:57:02+00:00

This commit belatedly adds documentation of Tasks Rude RCU and Tasks Trace RCU to RCU's requirements document. Tested-by: Bagas Sanjaya Reviewed-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

doc: RCU: Avoid 'Symbol' font-family in SVG figures

2021-12-01T01:23:14+00:00

On Ubuntu Focal, strings in some of SVG files under Documentation/RCU/Design can not be rendered properly when converted to PDF. Ubuntu releases since Focal and Debian bullseye have trouble with "Symbol" font-family in SVG files. As those strings are mostly API names such as "READ_ONCE()", "WRITE_ONCE(), "rcu_read_lock()", and so on, using a generic monospace font-family should be a good alternative. Substitute the font-family name by a simple sed pattern: 's/Symbol/monospace/g' Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcu: Fix undefined Kconfig macros

2021-09-13T23:32:46+00:00

Invoking scripts/checkkconfigsymbols.py in the Linux-kernel source tree located the following issues: 1. TREE_PREEMPT_RCU Referencing files: arch/sh/configs/sdk7786_defconfig It should now be CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU. Except that the CONFIG_PREEMPT=y in that same file implies CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y. Therefore, delete the CONFIG_TREE_PREEMPT_RCU=y line. The reason is as follows: In kernel/rcu/Kconfig, we have config PREEMPT_RCU bool default y if PREEMPTION https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt says, "The default value is only assigned to the config symbol if no other value was set by the user (via the input prompt above)." there is no prompt in config PREEMPT_RCU entry, so we are guaranteed to get CONFIG_PREEMPT_RCU=y when CONFIG_PREEMPT is present. 2. RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO Referencing files: arch/xtensa/configs/nommu_kc705_defconfig The old Kconfig option RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO was removed by commit 75c27f119b64 ("rcu: Remove CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_INFO"), and the kernel now acts as if this Kconfig option was unconditionally enabled. 3. RCU_NOCB_CPU_ALL Referencing files: Documentation/RCU/Design/Memory-Ordering/Tree-RCU-Memory-Ordering.rst This is an old snapshot of the code. I update this from the real rcu_prepare_for_idle() function in kernel/rcu/tree_plugin.h. This change was tested by invoking "make htmldocs". 4. RCU_TORTURE_TESTS Referencing files: kernel/rcu/rcutorture.c Forward-progress checking conflicts with CPU-stall testing, so we should complain at "modprobe rcutorture" when both are enabled. Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

rcu/doc: Add a quick quiz to explain further why we need smp_mb__after_unlock_lock()

2021-07-20T20:36:33+00:00

Add some missing critical pieces of explanation to understand the need for full memory barriers throughout the whole grace period state machine, thanks to Paul's explanations. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker Cc: Neeraj Upadhyay Cc: Joel Fernandes Cc: Uladzislau Rezki Cc: Boqun Feng [ paulmck: Adjust code block per Akira Yokosawa. ] Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney

Documentation/RCU: Fix nested inline markup

2021-07-20T20:36:33+00:00

To avoid the ``foo`` markup inside the `bar`__ hyperlink marker, use the "replace" directive [1]. This should restore the intended appearance of the link. Tested with sphinx versions 1.7.9 and 2.4.4. [1]: https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/directives.html#replace Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney