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author | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2013-03-13 03:54:14 +0400 |
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committer | Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2013-06-11 00:45:25 +0400 |
commit | 99f88919f8fa8a8b01b5306c59c9977b94604df8 (patch) | |
tree | 8e92937651258199944fed1ae2b612f0f693be00 /Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt | |
parent | efc151c33b971148894789dc7c5589dec46d4348 (diff) | |
download | linux-99f88919f8fa8a8b01b5306c59c9977b94604df8.tar.xz |
rcu: Remove srcu_read_lock_raw() and srcu_read_unlock_raw().
These interfaces never did get used, so this commit removes them,
their rcutorture tests, and documentation referencing them.
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt index 79e789b8b8ea..7703ec73a9bb 100644 --- a/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt +++ b/Documentation/RCU/checklist.txt @@ -354,12 +354,6 @@ over a rather long period of time, but improvements are always welcome! using RCU rather than SRCU, because RCU is almost always faster and easier to use than is SRCU. - If you need to enter your read-side critical section in a - hardirq or exception handler, and then exit that same read-side - critical section in the task that was interrupted, then you need - to srcu_read_lock_raw() and srcu_read_unlock_raw(), which avoid - the lockdep checking that would otherwise this practice illegal. - Also unlike other forms of RCU, explicit initialization and cleanup is required via init_srcu_struct() and cleanup_srcu_struct(). These are passed a "struct srcu_struct" |