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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-04-21 12:14:25 +0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-04-21 12:14:25 +0400 |
| commit | 87eb367003887cdc81a5d183efea227b5b488961 (patch) | |
| tree | 40f617e25a9364d573e3cd2189c9e7fa56c8a0fe /Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt | |
| parent | ccb7c7732e2ceb4e81a7806faf1670be9681ccd2 (diff) | |
| parent | 05d17608a69b3ae653ea5c9857283bef3439c733 (diff) | |
| download | linux-87eb367003887cdc81a5d183efea227b5b488961.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-6000.c
net/core/dev.c
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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 |