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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-04-21 11:50:39 +0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-04-21 11:50:39 +0400 |
| commit | e04997b13a2c2fc93af970fe95fd29a74db113e8 (patch) | |
| tree | a84ec3368edc3c2568a0d6acdfa0d0e50d8cacf7 /Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt | |
| parent | 6651ffc8e8bdd5fb4b7d1867c6cfebb4f309512c (diff) | |
| parent | 05ce7bfe547c9fa967d9cab6c37867a9cb6fb3fa (diff) | |
| download | linux-e04997b13a2c2fc93af970fe95fd29a74db113e8.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/
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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 |